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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 



American Biographical Directories 



District of Columbia 



CONCISE BIOGRAPHIES OF ITS PROMINENT AND REPRE- 
SENTATIVE CONTEMPORARY CITIZENS, AND 
VALUABLE STATISTICAL DATA 



1908-1909 



With an Historical Sketch 

By 
HON. HENRY B. F. MACFARLAND 

President of the Board of District Commissioners 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 

THE POTOMAC PRESS 

Publishers 

1908 



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Copyright 1908 
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From its inception this work has been carried forward on the highest 
plane. Great care was taken in the selection of the list of persons to be 
included, and every effort made to produce a volume of biographies that 
would include those residents of the District of Columbia who have done 
something worthy of more than passing notice. It will be found entirely 
free from personal puff and the paid "write-up" feature, giving the book 
a high value for accuracy and dignity. 

The list of biographies includes those prominent in the official, pro- 
fessional and industrial life of the District of Columbia. Every effort has 
ibeen made to invest the ibiographies with fullness of detail and accuracy 
in dates and names. The data has been secured from the most reliable 
sources — generally from personal interviews and the submission of a writ- 
ten list of questions. 

In addition to the more than four thousand biographies included, the 
Biographical Directory of the District of Columbia contains much other 
matter of both local and general interest. The authoritative historical 
sketch by Hon. Henry B. F. Macfarland, President of the Board of Dis- 
trict Commissioners, will be found of special value. 

This volume is the result of much painstaking research, though no 
doubt some imperfections will be found in it. But its publishers present 
it to the public with the feeling that it contains a wide range of valuable 
information, set down in an orderly manner, and heretofore included in 
no other publication devoted to the District of Columbia, 
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CONTENTS 



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Biographies Pape 

I Bowman. Alpheus Henry 4S 

' Boyd, John C 45 

Boyd, John P 48 

I Eoynton, Charles Augustus 48 

Boynton, Henry Van Ness 48 

Brackett, Gustavus Benson 48 

Braddock, Frank W 49 

Bradford, Ernest Wildsr 49 

Bradford, Gershom . 49 

Bradford, Morg-an. Jr 49 

Bradford, Royal Bird 49 

Bradley, Charles Smith 49 

Bradley, Thomas W 50 

Bradley. William O'Connell 50 

Braid, Andrew 50 

Brainard, David Legge 50 

Brainard, Erwin C 50 

Brandegee, Prank Bosworth 51 

Brandenburg, Edwin Charles 51 

Brandt, Edwin S 51 

Brannigan, Pelix 51 

Brantley, William Gordon 51 

Bratenahl. Georg-e C. F 51 

Breckenridge. Joseph Cabell 51 

Breckons, Joseph Allison 52 

Brennan, Patrick J 52 

Brewer, David Jo-siah 52 

Brice, Arthur Tilghman 52 

Brick. Abraham Lincoln 52 

Brickenstein, J. H 52 

Bride, Cotter T 52 

Bride. William Witthaft 63 

Briggs. Prank 53 

Briggs. Tjvman J b?t 

Briggs, Oliver H 53 

Bristol. Prank Milton 5t 

Eritton. Alexander 53 

Brook, Charles Edward 53 

Brodhead. J. Davis &3 

Brodie, Alexander Oswald 53 

Brodthage, Georg'e 54 

Bromwell, Charles S 54 

Broocks, Moses Lycurgus 54 

Brooke, Benjamin Hay^s 54 

Brooke, John Cooke 54 

Brooks, Alfred Hulse 54 

Brooks, Floyd Vernon 64 

Brooks, Franklin E 65 

Brosnan, John J 55 

Broussard. Robert P 55 

Brown, Charles W 5S 

Brown, Edgar 55 

Brown, Elmer Ellsworth 55 

Brown, Ernest William 65 

Brown, George Newland 5fi 

B'-own, Glenn 56 

Brown, Henry A 56 

Brown, Henry Billings 66 

Brown, iTustTis M 56 

Brown, Lorenzo Starr 56 

Brown, Neill S 57 

Brown, Norris 57 

Erowm, Robert W 57 

Brown. Stephen C 67 

Brown, Sterling- N 67 

Brown, S. Thomas 57 

Brown, Walter A 57 

Brown, W^ebster Everett 57 

Brown, William Wallace 57 

Browne, Aldis Birdsey 67 

Browne, C. A. Jr 67 

Browning, William J 5S 

Browning, William L 58 

Brownlow. Walter Preston 58 

Bruff. Lawrence L 68 

Brumbaugh. Gains Marcus 58 

Brumm, Charles Napoleon 68 

Brun, Constantine 59 

Brundidge, Stephen, Jr 59 

Bryan, Frederick Carlos 59 

Bryan, Joseph Hammond 69 

Bryan, Thomas Barbour 59 



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Bryce, James '69 

Bubb, John W 60 

Buchanan, Roberdeau 60 

Buck, George Machan 60 

Buckey, Edward L 60 

Buckman, Clarence B 60 

Buel, David Hillhouse 60 

Bukey, Van Hartness 60 

Bulkeley. Morgan Gardner 61 

Bundy, Charles S 61 

Burch. Sylvester R 61 

Burdett, Samuel Swinlin 61 

Burdette, Walter W 61 

Burdick. Allan Corey 61 

Burgess, George Farmer 61 

Burgess. George KimVail 62 

Burke, Charles Henry 62 

Burke. James Francis 62 

Burkett, Elmer Jacob 62 

Burkley, Cornelius A 62 

Burleigh. Edwin C 62 

Burleson. Albert Sidney 62 

Burnett, FVances Hodgson 62 

Burnett. John Lawson Brandon 63 

Eumham, Henry Eben 65 

Burnham, William Power 65 

Bums, James Austin 63 

Burr, Edward 63 

Burr. William Henry 63 

Burrell. Jeremiah Murray 64 

Burrows, Julius C 64 

Burt. Andrew S 64 

Burtis, Arthur 64 

Burton, George Hall , 64 

Burton, Hiram Rodney 64 

F;urton, Theodore E 65 

Burwell, William Turnbull 65 

Eusbey, L. White 65 

Busck, August 65 

Eushby, William R 65 

Bussey. Cyrus 65 

Eussius, Allen 65 

Butler, Charles Henry 65 

Butler, B. F 66 

Butler, John Gazzam 66 

Butler, John George , 66 

Butler, Marion 66 

Butler, Matthew Calbi aith 66 

Butler, Mounce Gore 67 

Eutler, Thomas S «V 

Butt. Archibald Willingham 67 

Butts, Edmund Luther 67 

Butts, Frank Graham 67 

Bynum, William D 67 

Byrd, Adam Monroe 67 

Byrne, Bernard Abort 68 

Byrne, Charles Christopher 68 

Byrnes, Edward M 68 

Cahill, Samuel (S. .1.) 68 

Calder. William M 68' 

Calderhead, William Alexander 68 

Calderon, Ignacio 68 

Caldwell, Ben Franklin 69 

Cale, Thomas 69 

Call, Lewis W 69 

Call. Patrick D 69 

Callahan, Daniel J 69 

Callahan, Edward W 69 

Callahan, John 69 

Callan, Thomas H.... 69 

Calvo. Joaquin Bornardo 69 

Cameron, Frank Kenneth 69 

Cammack, John 69 

Campbell, Charles Harrod 69 

Campbell, Prank L 70 

Campbell, Marius Robison 70 

Campbell, Philip Pitt 70 

Campbell, Richard K 71 

Campbell, William Wildman 71 

Candee, Helen Churchhill 71 

Cannon, Joseph Guernev 71 

Capers, John G 71 



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Biographies Paae 

Capps, Washington Lee 71 

Capron, Adin Ballon 71 

Carbo, Don Estebau Felipe 71 

Carbo, Don Luis Felipe .', 72 

Carbo, Igeniero Don Liuis Alberto!!.'!!' 72 

Card, Benjamin C 72 

Carey, Andrew J 72 

Carleton, Mark AUYed ! 72 

Carlisle, Calderon ' 79 

Carmack, Edward Ward !!.!!!! 72 

Carman, Ezra Ayers ' ' 72 

Carmody, Francis S '. . . . 72 

Carmody, John Doyla '!' " 72 

Carpenter, Frank George 73 

Carr, Eugene Asa ' 73 

Carr, William Phillips 73 

Carrington, Campbell ' " 70 

Carroll, D. J 73 

Carroll, Henry !.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 73 

Carroll, James 73 

Ci;rroll, Mitchell ! 74 

Carroll, William J '" 74 

Carry, Albert 74 

Carson, John Miller ! 74 

Carter, Thomas Henry .. . 74 

Carter, William G 7I 

Carter, William Harding !!!!'"' 75 

Carusi, Eugene 75 

Carver, Frank Noble. ... ! 7? 

Csry, William J « 

Casey, Silas !!!!!!!!!!! 75 

Casey, Thomas Lincoln !!!!!!!!! 75 

Cassel, Henry Bui d !!!!!!!! 75 

Casson, Hen ry !!!!!!!!' 7e 

Castle, Henry Anson.. !!! 76 

Caughy, W. S ' .■■"' 75 

Cauldwell, Frederick Wadswortti 7e 

Csulfield, Henry Stewart ! ! ! " 75 

Chaffee, Adna Romanzn " " 75 

Chamberlain, Eugene Tyler. ..!!!!! 76 

Chamberlain, Isaac T dearborn. . 77 

Chambers, David Abbott. ... 7-7 

Chambers, William L.ea 77 

Chambrun, Charles i-^e ! 77 

Champney, Elizabeth Williams..!.! 77 

Chance, Merritt O ' 77 

Chancellor, Charles WJlliam! !!!!!!!! 77 

Chancellor, William Estabrook. ..!..!!! ! 75 

Chandler, Ezekiel Samuel, Jr ' " 7s 

Chandler, John G ! ! ! ! 78 

Chandler, William Kainn !.!!!!!!!!!! 75 

Chaney, John Crawford 78 

Chaprn, Arthur A !!!! 79 

Cbapin, Frederick Emmons ! ! ! ! 73 

Chapman, lileasant Thomas 70 

Charlton, Paul !.!'!! 79 

Chase, George Sidney !!!!!!!!!!* 79 

Chase, Isaac McKim !..!!!!!!! 80 

Chase, Plimpton B '. . 80 

Chatard, Thomas Marean ! ! ! ! 80 

Chekib Bey, Mustapha ' " 80 

Cheney, James William ! 80 

Chesnut, Victor King " ' 80 

Chester-Colby, avritchell ! 80 

Chester, Robert A ' 81 

Chew, Nolen L !!" 81 

Chickering, John White !!!' 81 

Chilcott, Ellery Channing 81 

Childs, Thomas Spencer 81 

Chilton, Robert S., Jr ! ! ! ' si 

Chipman, G. Bowie ! ! ! ! ' 81 

Chittenden, Frank Hurlbut ! ! ! 81 

Chittenden, Hiram Martin ! . ! 81 

Choate, Warren Ragan ! ! ! * 82 

Church, Alonzo Webster 82 

Church, Charles B ' ! ! 82 

Church, Melville .'. 82 

Church, William A. H !!!!!!!!! 82 

Clabaugh, Harry Morris ! 83 

Clapham, Ashton G 83 

Clapp, Moses Edwin !..!!!! 83 

Clark. Allen Culling 83 



Biographies Page 

Clark, Alonzo Howard S3 



Clark, Appleton Prentiss, Jr. 
Clark, C. Charles.... 

Clark, Champ 

Clark, Charles Edgar. 
Clark, Clarence Don . 
Clark, Edgar Erastus. 



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Clark, Frank 

Clark, Isaac 

Clark, John Bullock 

Clark, Josephine Adelaide. 

Clark, Victor Selden.. 

Clark, William Andrews... 

Clark, William Thomas 

Clarke, Daniel B 

Clarke, Frank Wiggle.sworth 

Clarke, George Campoell 86 

C'.arke, James P 86 

Clcughton, R. E 86 

Clay, Alexander Stevens 86 

Clay, Cecil 86 

Clayton, Henry D '. 87 

C)< ments, Courtland Cushing 87 



Clements, Judson C. 

Clements, Ruth Syplicrd 

Clephane, Lewis Painter 

Clephane, W^alter Collins 

Cleveland, Synthia I-lioise 

Closson, Henry Whitney 

Clous, John Walter 

Clover, Richardson 

Cockran, William Bourke 

Cockrell, Francis Marion 

Cocks, William Willets 

Cede, William Henry 

Coffey, George Nelsori 

Coghlan, Joseph Buiock 

Cohen, Robert 

Coldren, Frederick G, 

Cole, Charles Cleaves 

Cole, Ralph D 

Cole, Theodore Lee 

Coleman, Charles V/ashinjiion. 

Coleman, William Macon 

Colman, Harry A. . . 

Comba, Richard 

Compton, Charles Elm ^r 

C'>mpton, William Norris 

Conliff, John Christopher 

Conner, James Perry 

Conrad, Holmes 

Conrad, Stephen 

Converse, George Albei'i 

Conway, John A 

Cook, Francis A 

Cook, George W 

Ccok, George Wythe 

Ccok, John J 

Cook, Overton Fuller 

Cooley, Alford Warnner 

Coolidge, Louis Arthur. 

Cooney, Michael 

Cooper, Allen Foster 

Ccoper, George S 

Cooper, Henry Allen 

Cooper, Philip Henry 

Ccoper, Sam Bronson 

Coppinger, John J. 

Cccjuillett, Daniel William 

Corbett, Lee Cleveland 

Corbin, Henry Clark 

Cctrdova, Don Salvador 

Corea, Luis Felipe 

Cornwell, S. G 

Cortelj'ou, George Bruce 

Cortes, Don Enrique 

Cosby, Frank Carvei 

Cosby, Spencer 

Cotton, Charles Stanhope 

Cotton, John Bradbury 

Couden, Albert Reynolds 



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HISTORICAL SKETCH 

of tlie 

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 

By 
HBNRY B. F. MACKARLAND 

President, Board cf District Commissioners. 



Captain John Smith discovered the present site of the City of Washington in June, 
1608, when he went up the Potomac as far as the Little Falls, the head of navigation 
even for such a small boat as his. He had fourteen companions, "a physician, six 
gentlemen, and seven laborers," and the party, the first white men who visited the 
present District of Columbia, were hospitably received by the native residents, Indians 
belonging to the Manahoacs and the Monacans. But Captain Smith came and went, 
and no settlement was made until long afterward. David Burns, that one of the nine- 
teen proprietors of the soil of Washington, who owned the present site of the White 
House and the Treasury, and south to the river and east to the present Interior 
Department, held under a patent to William Langworthy, dated the 5th of July, 1681, 
and there had been settlements before that time. 

It was in June, 1751, that the Province of Maryland granted the petition of the 
first inhabitants for the incorporation of the Town of Georgetown, supposed to have 
been named in honor of George II., the King of Great Britain. By that time the Indian 
settlements, which ran along the shores of the Potomac and up the Anacostia, then 
navigable above Bladensburg, had been gradually displaced by a very much smaller 
number of white settlements, which, like their predecessors, were chiefly fishing 
villages. But until the work of preparing the City of Wiashington for the Federal 
Government began, in 1790, the primitive forest that covered the beautiful amphithe- 
ater which is now the District of Columbia was almost as unbroken as when Captain 
John Smith's expedition came up from Chesapeake Bay, twelve years before the 
Pilgrim Fathers landed on Plymouth Rock. 

Georgetown, laid out originally in eighty equal lots on sixty acres of ground, had 
grown to be a town of about 2,000 inhabitants, a little smaller than the City of Alex- 
andria as it was then. George Washington, living at Mount Vernon, fifteen miles away, 
knew Georgetown almost as well as he knew Alexandria, and had looked down from 
its heights upon the unique beauty of the green hills and vales stretching to the 
Potomac River. Ha saw its advantages as the place for the National Capital long 
before the national capital was authorized, and while, when the time came he was 
given, at his own suggestion, a range of a hundred miles on the Potomac westward 
from the Aanacostia where to choose, there was little doubt that his first choice was 
that which he finally selected. 

That choice was not then generally popular, and even Washington's character did 
not save him from unjust criticism, and after his death the discontented legislators, 
who regretted giving up the comforts of Philadelphia for the discomforts of the new 
capital, and who did not care to assume the responsi'bilities of the government of 
the Federal District, iwere not always discreet in the language used in the effort 



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to undo TVhat Wasliington had done. But all attempts to set aside tiie results of the 
last ten years of his life, the work to which Washington gave more thought and 
attention than any other except the conduct of the Revolution and the construction 
of the Constitution, ultimately failed. Like all of "Washington's work, it had enduring 
quality, and could not be destroyed. It is significant that in this last undertaking 
Washington had the co-operation of Thomas Jefferson, founder of the rival school 

of politics. 

In the long and bitter struggle in Congress over the selection of a site for the 
Federal District, for which the Constitution had provided, after the unrequited and 
indignant soldiers of the Revolution had frightened Congress from Phladelphia to 
Princeton in 1783, and convinced it that the National Government must control the 
National Capital, it was Thomas Jefferson who, at his own dinner table, settled the 
matter and placed the National Capital on the Potomac. Afterwards he regretted that 
he had allowed Alexander Hamilton that night to induce him to influence the Virginia 
members to agree to vote for the assumption of the State revolutionary war debts by 
the National Government to please the North, in exchange for Northern votes for the 
Potomar rather than the Delaware site to please the South. He had builded better 
than he knew in this, as afterwards in the Louisiana Purchase, yet he deserves the 
credit of the results. 

Having thus brought to George Washington's power to place the Federal District on 
the Potomac, Jefferson aided him in placing it just where it is, and in preparing it for 
its future uses. No other public man, except Madison, took anything like the 
same interest taken by Washington, who looked upon the establishment of a perma- 
nent seat for the Government of the United States, to be controlled by it exclusively 
of the States, as one of the most important acts of his career. To Washington it was 
a symbol of perpetual union, which he foresaw made up of indestructive States indis- 
solubly united, when otJher men were wondering how soon and for what reasons the 
States would break the invisible bonds of their alliance. Jefferson and Madison did 
not view it quite in the same way, but they freely gave their advice and assistance to 
the greater Virginian. 

Planning for a nation of illimitable expansion and duration, with the spiritual 
vision of the seer and the scientific skill of the surveyor, George Washington fixed 
upon the most strategic and beautiful site in all the hundred-mile stretch of the 
Potomac where he was to choose. He proceeded to lay out a city whose magnificent 
proportions were in startling contrast with the comparatively small area, population, 
and wealth of the country and the weakness and poverty of the Government. It 
deserved all the ridicule poured upon it if the United States were not to remain united 
or if they were not to grow in territory and power. But it was only those who could 
see nothing but the day of small things that laughed at Washington's great plans for 
a great future. Jefferson, perhaps with some unconscious prescience of his own great 
expansion of the national territory, saw nothing ridiculous in it, but, on the contrary, 
contributed his practical wisdom, and all that he had learned in cities abroad, to make 
the plans more splendid. 

No capital in the world at that time could compare with the capital that Wash- 
ington planned, and all of them together furnished only suggestions. It is another 
proof of his extraordinary genius that a hundred years afterwards a commission of 
experts, the best that could be found in our country, after viewing all the great capitals 
of the world, could suggest no improvement upon the old plan of Washington. And 
the plan, it must always be remembered, was Washington's, although he had the advice 
of Jefferson and Madison, and utilized the technical skill of L'Enfant and Bllicott. 
Unfortunately, Washington did not live to see the National Government at work in the 
National Capital, for death carried him off untimely in 1799, the year before President 
Adams removed it from Philadelphia to Washington. But he had set the boundaries 



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of the ten miles square in a diamond-shape, resting on the southern end of his market- 
town of Alexandria. He had actually acquired over one-half of the land of the future 
City of Washington practically free of cost to the Government on the argument to the 
nineteen original proprietors that what they kept would be greatly increased in value. 
He had on the map marked out the unparalleled avenues, streets, and parks of the new 
Capital, and with money derived from the sale of part of the Government lots and 
from loans made hy Virginia and Maryland, had built the President's House, the old 
Capitol, and other buildings for the National Government. Every acre of it was sacred 
to his name. No wonder that by universal voice it was named the City of Washington, 
and after the commissioners appointed to prepare the Federal City had called it so, 
even though they had no express authority to name it or the Federal District, which 
also they named Columbia. 

When President Jefferson came to his simiple inauguration on the 4th of March, 
1801, he took up again his interest in the National Capital, iwhich never flagged during 
the eight years of his service. He showed it in many ways, as diverse, for example, 
as the planting of Lombardy poplars down Pennsylvania avenue and the acceptance 
of the presidency of the Board of Education of Washington. It was, of course, in the 
President's House, which was not called the White House until, in 1814, it was painted 
very white to cover the marks of its burning by the British, that Jefferson began, 
directed and consummated all the negotiations with France and Spain, and with our 
own Congress, which ended in the extension of the American sovereignty over the 
Louisiana Territory, the first great step in the westward march of the great republic. 

When Jefferson became President, in 1801, the National Capital looked very much 
as it did when, ten years before, Washington surveyed the unbroken forest site from 
Georgetown Heights. The two older cities of the Federal District — Georgetown in the 
northwest and Alexandria in the southwest — were unchanged, for the plans of Wash- 
ington covered only the Federal City, and nothing had been done under those plans 
beyond oipening Pennsylvania avenue and portions of a very few other streets, cutting 
down many noble trees, and erecting the new Federal buildings; speculators had built 
a few private structures for hotels and boarding-houses. The Federal City, from the 
hills surrounding the splendid amphitheater of the District, with the Potomac River 
glistening through it, was otherwise almost as wild as when Captain John Smith first 
visited it. The National Government had done nothing for the National Capital, because 
it had nothing to do it with. It was practically penniless. It came to the Federal 
District on the gifts of the original proprietors of the site of Washington, and on the 
loans from Virginia and Maryland. 

There is a curious delusion in many quarters that the National Government sup- 
ports the expense of the National Capital, and has always done so, and ignorant people 
sometimes say the inhabitants of the District of Columbia are, and always have been, 
mendicants, with respect to the National Government. Almost the reverse is the case. 
The National Government was literally a mendicant when it came to the District, and 
the inhabitants even contributed to the buildings in which it did its work. And then, 
for seventy-eight years, the National Government allowed, and, indeed, required, the 
comparatively few people paying taxes in the District to carry practically the whole 
burden of municipal expenditure. 

The making of the National Capital, which ought to have been from the beginning 
the task of all the people of the United States, was at the beginning im<posed upon 
the few residents of the District, and its maintenance, which ought to have been largely 
the v;ork of the whole country, was for more than three-qtiarters of a century prac- 
tically exacted of the people who had the fortune to live in the National Capital. At 
first the National Government, still almost experimental, burdened with the revolu- 
tionary debts and without money, representing a country drained by war and with 



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resources undeveloped, could do nothing else. But there is no excuse for the neglect 
of after years. Presidents, Senators, and Representatives repeatedly acknowledged 
the national obligation to the National Capital, and acknowledged the neglect of it. 
Official reports praised the public spirit of the District residents, deplored the stag- 
gering effect of their municipal burdens, and reproached Congress, tout, beyond adding 
to the buildings which had been given to it in 1800, or erecting new ones for its use, 
and providing an aqueduct to bring water for its needs, the National Government did 
practically nothing for the National Capital. The municipal improvements had to be 
made and the municipal services had to be maintained by the people who lived in 
Washington. The National Government, of course, did nothing in Georgetown or in 
Alexandria, and those municipalities had to bear all their expenses. By 1846 Alex- 
andria had become so dissatisfied that it brought about the retrocession by Congress 
to Virginia of the territory she had given for the District, leaving only the seventy 
square miles of land and water ceded by Maryland, including the whole breadth of 
the Potomac 

The chief explanation of the extraordinary treatment given the National Capital 
by the National Government through so many years, is that it was not regarded as 
settled beyond possibility of change that the seat of government would remain in the 
District of Golumbia. When it was established it was about the center of population 
of the United States, stretching then in a thin line from Maine to Georgia. But when 
Jefferson suddenly doubled the area of the United States, and the pioneer hosts poured 
over the Alleghanies to the winning of the West, a movement began for the removal 
of the National Capital to the West, where the center of population was soon to be. 
Even in 1814, when the British burned the WTiite House and the Capitol, this move- 
ment had (become so strong that the people of Washington, out of their comparative 
poverty, contributed largely to provide temporary quarters for the Government, lest 
in the excitement of the hour, and under the new argument that the Capital v/as too 
near the coast to be safe from foreign attack at any time, the National Gover I'ment 
mig'ht betake itself to the interior, as was strongly urged. As the population of the 
Western country increased, the difficulty of communication with the Federal District, 
on the extreme eastern edge of the country, became more and naore practical and 
impressive. 

If it had not been for the development of the railroad and the telegraph, the argu- 
ment arising from this difficulty might have become irresistible. 

As it was, the advocates of the removal of the Capital from Washington westward 
were hopeful until after the Civil War had ended forever any serious consideration of 
the proposition. In the fires of that great conflict, when the matchless armies of the 
North and South fought over Washington as the symbol of victory, the National Gov- 
ernment was welded to that home beyond the power to remove it. It was not so much 
the cost of the national buildings as it was the cost of the national war, especially in 
the best blood of the country, that made all talk of removal ridiculous after 1865, when 
the National Capital had become sacred through mighty sacrifices. 

All the while the people of Washington did their duty, and more than their duty, 
in unbuilding and maintaining the nation's city. They taxed themselves to the utmost, 
they went into debt to meet the inordinate demands upon them. They have never 
received due credit either from the National Government or the country at large for 
what they did in this respect during the first three-quarters of the last century. Instead 
of grateful acknowledgements, they have had too often sneers and reproaches. Yet, 
though they were not usually given the encouragment of praise, they kept right on 
with the same spirit which in every national war has made the District contribute 
more than its quota of volunteers for the army and navy. Nothing is further from the 
truth than the hackneyed slander constantly repeated even to this day that the inhab- 



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itants of the District are "grasping office-holders without civic pride or national patriot- 
ism." The officials and employes af the National Government now, when there are 
more than ever before, are about twenty-five thousand in number, or about one-twelfJJi 
of the population, and, since a large number of them are unmarried, they represent not 
more than seventy-five thousand people in their households, or, in all, less than one- 
third of the population. Moreover, they are exceptionally intelligent and well educated 
people, selected from among the best in the different States and Territories, represent- 
ative of the cream of our people, with all the virtues characteristic of Americans. 
Drawn as they are, chiefly from the outside of the great cities, they have more than 
the average of "civic pride and national patriotism." None but the ignorant or the 
malicious would bring such a railing accusation against them. 

But the majority of the people of the District of Columbia are not in the service 
of the National Government. Many of them have lived there always, and all, like the 
men and women in the national service, represent the best elements in the citizenship 
of the whole country. Nowhere in the world is there a better body of citizens, with 
more "civic pride and national patriotism," as the work they have done and the sacri- 
fices they have made for the nation's city and the nation itself abundantly testify. In 
one respect they have the advantage over the people of other places in the United 
States, in that they are not cursed by the baneful interference of partisan poli- 
tics in all their municipal affairs, so that they can well show civic pride as well 
as civic spirit. 

In 1800 the Maryland portion of the District was allowed the exercise of the 
franchise in the presidential election. This was the last time that anybody in the 
District voted for President. The suffrage was continued, however, until 1874 in munic- 
ipal affairs. 

At first the District of Columbia had no general executive government, nor was 
any given it by Congress until 1871, when a full territorial form of government, with 
a Go'.arnor, a Legislature, and a Delegate in Congress, was provided for it. Congress, 
ninder the quaint phrase of the Constitution, has the power to "exercise exclusive 
legislation" over the Federal District, but cannot practically exercise executive au- 
thority. It has had different executive agents. 

In 1801 it established a judiciary system for the District of Columbia as part of 
the Federal judiciary. But for seventy years Washington was governed by a Mayor 
and Councils, and Georgetown by a Mayor and Councils, while the rest of the territory 
of the District (except Alexandria, with its Mayor and Councils, and Alexandria County, 
with its county government, which, in 1841, had been retroceded to Virginia) hao o 
other executive authority except the levy court of Justices of the Peace. For the ^t 
decade the Mayor of Washington was appointed by the President of the United States. 
But after that, as in the case of the Mayors of Georgetown and Alexandria, these 
officers were elected by the qualified male voters. When the Civil War broke 
out Congress set up a metropolitan police department for the whole District of 
Columbia. 

But for a general District Government, we are indebted to General Grant, whose 
victories had saved the national life and had insured the permanence of the National 
Capital. Wlien he became President he took a new interest, like many other civil war 
veterans in the development of the City of Washington and stoutly supported Alexan- 
der R. Shepherd, the remarkable young native of Washington who was ambitious to 
carry out the long-neglected plans of George Washington for magnificent streets and 
avenues. Through Grant's support and that of Congress, in which Shepherd's political 
friends then had the majority, and the assistance of ther far-seeing and determined 
men, the territorial form of government was secured from Congress, and under its 
powers the plow of progress was literally driven in deep furrows along all the prin- 



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cipal highways of the city. The Goovernors, first Henry D. Cooke and then Alexander 
R. Shepherd, were appointed by President Grant, together with a Board of Public Works, 
of which Shepherd was the leading spirit, and which did the actual work of improve- 
ment. The voters elected the Assemlbly, die Delegates to Congress and other officers, 
and hy a majority approved the Shepherd policy. The cost of it was to he borne as 
the cost of all similar improvements on a smaller scale had been borne, by the people 
of Washington. 

The work was done in such a way that it could not be undone, all over the city, 
but hurriedly, and, therefore, roughly and expensively. There was the inevitable pro- 
test from many taxpayers who could not see its results for the burdens which it im- 
posed upon them, and, who, at the same time, were alarmed by the possibilities of ill- 
effects from universal manhood suffrage in the National Capital. They appealed to 
Congress, where the political majority in the House was changed, and, although rigid 
investigations found no fault in Governor Shepherd himself, the improvements were 
stopped, suffrage suspended, a change in the system of government was ordered, for 
the time heing, until a permanent form of government could be carefully framed, a 
temporary Board of Commissioners was to exercise executive authority in the District, 
and Henry T. Blow, of Missouri; William Dennison, of Ohio, and John H. Ketcham, of 
New York, wei'e appointed for that purpose. 

Congress, in preparing a permanent form of government, took into account the long 
and just complaint that the National Government had neglected the National Capital, 
together with the protests against the continuance of the electoral franchise, whici 
were strengthened hy the evident impracticahility of submitting the United States to 
the taxation of its property or to the appropriation of any of its funds hy a vote of the 
District taxpayers. It became evident that if the United States was to share with the 
District taxpayers the municipal expenses, it would have to exercise exclusively the 
power of taxation and the power of appropriation. A partnership between the United 
States and the District of Columbia was entered into on this basis and embodied in 
the act of June, 1878, "to provide a permanent form of government," called by the 
United States Supreme Court the "Constitution of the District of Columbia." 

This form of government has had thirty years of increasing and uninterrupted suc- 
cess. Under it not only the City of Washington, hut the entire District of Columbia, 
has remarkaJbly developed and advanced in every way. George Washington's plans for 
the Federal City have been largely carried out, and the principles of them have been 
applied to the surrounding territory of the District, with its smaller towns and villages. 
Every visitor to Washington will testify to its increasing prosperity and beauty, and 
those who have not seen it since the civil war days hardly recognize it. In many re- 
spects it is now the most attractive capital in the world, and it will have recognized 
and unsurpassable pre-eminence in this regard before many years are passed. Foreign- 
ers coming to Washington now unite in such enthusiastic praise as contrasts sharply 
with what foreigners recorded of their impressions in the earlier days. All agree that 
a wonderful transformation has been wrought. 

In this last quarter of a century the United States, besides erecting new and 
beautiful huildings of its own and assuming half of the obligations for the Shepherd 
improvements, has paid half of the municipal expenses of the District of Columbia, 
except those of the water department, which are paid entirely by the water takers, the 
National Government getting its water supply free. As the United States owns a 
little more than half of the land in the National Capital, its share ought to be at least 
a little more than half of the expenses. But half a loaf is so much ibeter than no bread 
that the present arrangement was very acceptable to the District taxpayers. 

The late Senator Hoar several years ago pointed out a more excellent way, how- 
ever, suggesting that, in all equity, the National Government should bear all the ex- 



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penses of the National Capital over and beyond the returns of what would be regarded 
as reasonable taxation anywhere else. Under this ideal plan the District taxpayers 
would contribute fair taxes, and whether they amounted to one-half or one-third of the 
amount needed, the United States would bear the rest of the necessary expenditure. 
Senator Hoar believed that the great majority of the intelligent people of the United 
States would approve his plan. He recognized the new interest which the people of 
the country take in the National Capital and their desire to have it developed and em- 
bellished, which has been especially manifest since the celehration of the centennial of 
the National Capital on December 12, 1900, when, for twenty-four hours, the National 
Government took a holiday and joined with the citizens of the District in a commemora- 
tion which furnished the only news from Washington that day and held the attention 
of the whole country. Every good American is proud of his country and proud of its 
capital, and wants to see the Capital in every way worthy of the ipower and glory of 
the country. 

The surrender of the suffrage under the permanent form of government of the 
District of Columhia is generally satisfactory to its people, who realize that they are 
'better off without partisan politics, since the municipal business is not affected by 
"bosses" or machines, corruption or blackmail, and is under the scrutiny and influence 
of a public opinion which cannot be deflected by political considerations All the news- 
papers are independent, the taxpayers are organized into representative and powerful 
associations, and criticism and suggestions are quickly heeded by the public servants, 
who cannot fall back either upon a partisan press or a political machine for protection, 
but who have every incentive to administer their trust honestly and efficiently. "Jns- 
titia omnibus" is the District's motto and its government's rule. There are some Dis- 
trict taxpayers, who, for sentimental or other reasons, would like to have the suffrage 
restored in the District, but they know that they can never have universal suffrage, 
and that it is extremely improtbable that suffrage in any form would be given, even if 
its advocates could agree among themselves as to the limitations that ought to be 
imposed. 

Congress is the legislature of the District of Columibia. Its executive government, 
under the Act of Congress of June, 1878, is a board of three Commissioners ap- 
pointed by the President of the United States, two from civil life, always of opposite 
politics, and one an engineer officer of the Army of high rank, to whom the board 
intrust the immediate direction of all engineering and construction work. The Com- 
missioners appoint practically all the other officers and employes of the District gov- 
ernment, and all serve under the direction of the Commissioners. The Commissioners 
have power from Congress to enact municipal legislation in the form of health, police, 
building, and other regulations. They represent the District, before Congress, where 
the commitees dealing with District affairs and making District appropriations confer 
with them as to all District measures, in all business with foreign governments and 
municipalities, or the States, Territories and municipalities of the United States. The 
President submits to them all bills relating to the District which have passed Congress 
before he passes upon them. 

The national life has been and is faithfully reflected in the National Capital. It has 
been not only the scene of the greatest political transactions in our history since the 
year 1800, but the meeting place of all the States, the special home of the Flag, the 
center of national sentiment, with undivided and uninterrupted allegiance to the National 
Government. Every President except Washington has done his work in the White 
House. Every Congress since the Fifth has done its work in the Capitol. There, too, 
John Marshall, greatest Chief Justice, made the United States a "more perfect Union," 
a nation by the authority of his reasoning, and there all his successors have carried 
out his principles in the Supreme Court, the greatest tribunal in the world. Here the 



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great captains of our armies and navies have had their headquarters, and here the 
directors and scientists of all the governmental service have planned and wrought. 
The memories of the great dead and their great deeds are everywhere here, and 
the greatest men of every State are on the roll of the residents of the District. 

The Capital has grown with the growth of the country, which could he seen here 
as nowhere else. It has been always national, and at the same time cosmopolitan. It 
has never had any other flag than the Stars and Stripes, or any other loyalty than to 
the United States. The national feeling in all its phases has heen constantly mani- 
fested here. Although it has had the distinction of heing the official home of the am- 
bassadors and ministers of all foreign governments, the place where all our treaties 
since 1800 have been signed and most of them negotiated, it has never been in any 
way under the domination of foreign influence. It has always been a typical American 
community of the best sort. It has raised to higher power the patriotism of every 
American who has visited it, and has helped him to think continually. 

The future of Washington is as secure as its past. It will be as the future of the 
Republic. It will grow as steadily as the nation, whose growth has been recorded in 
the expansion of its capital. There is no place whose progress can be more certainly 
foreseen. It is not likely that the District of Coloumbia will ever be enlarged except by 
the possible restoration of the thirty square miles on the south bank of the Potomac, 
which the United States gave back to Virginia on her petition in 1846, and which will 
be commercially and physically annexed to the District of Columbia, even if it is never 
politically restored. The City of Washington will expand, however, in every direction 
to the District line. Its march up the hills and rolling country surrounding the tide- 
water plain has been steady and will steadily continue until every square of ground 
designed for buildings in the District of Columbia is covered with permanent structures. 
The boundary of the old City of Washington will soon be removed, and the suburbs will 
rapidly spread until they meet in continuous lines of buildings. The population will 
grow in a larger proportion than in most other places. The increase will continue to 
be of a fine type. The civil service will continue to draw selected young men and 
women from all the 'States and Territories. More and more men of science and 
scholars of all departments -of learning will come here, where the presence of so 
many scientists and scholars and of great collections of material for research, includ- 
ing libraries and original manuscripts in governmental archives, make an increasing 
attraction. Institutions of learning, now bringing hundreds of pupils, will soon bring 
many thousands. The social life of the National Capital, although so varied, will 
become more important and interesting. The President and his Cabinet, the Suprem;3 
Court of the United States, the Senate and the House, the headquarters of the Army 
and of the Navy, will always give Washington distinction and peculiar atractiveness, 
and in a somewhat different way this is true of the ambassadors and ministers of 
foreign governments. The international character of the National Capital has in- 
creased since the United States became recognized as a world power, and took its place 
at the head of the council-table of the nations, and there will be a constantly-increas- 
ing number of visitors from foreign countries. Already famous as a "convention city,' 
Washington will become more and more attractive to conferences and conventions, 
national and international, and it will be the scene of great gatherings in the future. 
The national gallery of art, which should be at the National Capital, is sure to come, 
probably by the development of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. National cathedrals and 
churches will represent the religious life of the country. 

We are working upon right lines for the development and advancement of Wash- 
ington. The plans of George Washington applied only to the Federal City, but their 
principles will be applied to the whole District of Coolumbia. To that end we must pre- 
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parkways are provided, together with artistic memorial structures, such as the bridge 
across the Potomac to Arlington, in memory of the heroism of the civil war. The 
public architecture, including the selection of sites for public buildings, must be in 
accordance with the best principles. We shall see all the district south of Pennsylvania 
avenue from the White House to the Capitol a park full of beautiful buildings, and the 
north side of Pennsylvania avenue will also be improved so that it will be the most 
splendid boulevard in the world. This is typical of what is certain to come. Already 
with the unsurpassed natural situation, with the parks and the 85,000 trees scattered ail 
over the City of Washington, it has beauty not excelled anywhere, but fifty years from 
now, yes, and twenty-five years from now, unless some serious mistakes are made, 
there will be a far more beautiful Washington. 

But besides having a beautiful city, we want it to be the City Beautiful, in spiritual 
life. We want it to have the best laws and customs. We want it to be a reminder 
of the ideal of the Republic and an inspiration to patriotism, which we shall be glad 
to have foreigners see, and which, without invidious distinction, may well be called a 
model for capitals. Nothing can prevent its having a population of two millions, 
or an expansion of its buildings all over the District of Columbia, or an increase and 
extension of its physical beauty. But all this will amount to very little, if its interior 
life is not properly developed and beautified. In the fact that it is not and never can 
be primarily a commercial or manufacturing city, it has advantages in respect to 
its spiritual life, as in resipect to its physical life, and we may confidently hope that 
it may not be spoiled in either. 

Almost in the center of the original District of Columbia stands the Washington 
Monument, an unadorned shaft of stone higher than any other in the world, symbolic 
not only of the life of Ge.orge Washington, but of the city which he founded, rising 
far above the noise and dust, in strength and simplicity. Prom its windows, five 
hundred feet above the ground, one can see almost the entire District of Columbia 
without a glass. Athens or Rome was smaller when each ruled the world. But 
although the District has more people than any of six of the States — Delaware, Idaho, 
Montana, Wyoming, Utah and Nevada — and than any of the Territories, it is smaller 
than any other political division of the United States. The District does not stand for 
material riches, but it is rich in intellectual and spiritual wealth, in good government, 
good society, outward beauty and inward grace, noble memories, and glorious history. 
It stands, in strength and simplicity, for intellectual and spiritual achievement. Above 
the clamor of the market places and the whirl of sensuous pleasures, it reminds us 
constantly of men who were too busy to make money, too high-minded to spend it 
tomib at Mount Vernon, we recall how his ideals of republican freedom, his example 
as a Revolutionary patriot, brought a score of republics into being out of the mon- 
archical poossessions south of us, and how his teachings made the United States the 
protector and the friend of every one of them without making the United States the 
enemy of any other country. As we turn to the eastern windows, looking out beyond 
the hills of Maryland toward the Atlantic Ocean, we see the living influence of Wash- 
ington in the Republic of France, in the freedom which has spread through all Western 
Europe, in the democracy and liberty of the British Isles. At The Hague, "we see en- 
throned by the public opinions of civilized nations his teaching of international justice 
as the means of keeping the peace of the world — that doctrine which, by Washington's 
direction, John Jay embodied in the famous treaty with England, then denounced, now 
admired, the first treaty in which that principle was found. Far to the northward 
we see our sister State of Canada, self-governing, American in all but form and 
name, revering Washington and living out his deepest teachings. 

We can trace from this high point the way in which our own nation has been 
sordidly, and who gave to their country what others give to themselves. Its voice 



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summons the youth, of the country witli the irresistible call of duty to the unselfish life 
of patriotic endeavor. 

The calm height of the Washington Monument is a good place from which to 
see things in proper proportion as with the serene eye oi history. It is a place for 
optimism, not for pessimism. As we look westward up the picturesque Potomac, 
curving under the setting sunbeams, we remember that George Washington looked 
with the eye of faith from these heights to that promised land beyond the horizon, 
beyond the Alleghanies, which he wanted the United States to occupy, and we remem- 
ber how, slowly but surely, in spite of all diflaculties, the thought of that first great 
American expansionist has been carried out until American principles, representea by 
the American Flag, has been planted in the islands of the sea, in the uttermost parts 
of the earth, far beyond his farthest dream. Looking southward, towards his home and 
led through the wrongs and dangers that we have passed, even through the awful 
sufferings and sacrifices of the civil war, into larger opportunities, greater responsi- 
bilities, and a more splendid renown. It is a cure for discouragement to reflect at 
the top of the Washington Monument upon the progress of the nation of Washington 
under the inspiration of his principles and his career. 

Even though clouds cover the zenith, even though rain falls from their darkness, 
the sun shining over Arlington Heights, where we can see the graves of men who 
died that the Republic might live, arches the Capital with a splendid rainbow, the 
perpetual reminder of the promise of God. Taking a larger view of our country ana 
its relation to the world, facing the new occasions and their new duties, appreciating 
that we have been brought into unique leadership among the nations and with alien 
peoples, adding to our unsettled questions at home even greater questions abroad, we 
see clouds of darkness over us, and even the rain tailing upon us; but we also 
see shining through the rain the rays of the Sun of Righteousness turning the drops 
into the rainbow of the covenant of God, that those who obey shall be sustained, and 
we rememiber all the years of the right hand of the Most High. It is in this that 
our hope lies, as all our wisest men confess. Not by our might, not by our wisdom — 
no, "but my Spirit," saith the God of our fathers. Without him our efforts are but 
losing. With Him we may be sure of success. 

At every call to arms the men of America have flocked to its standard ani the 
women of America have sent them, all ready to give up everything for the Republic. 
It is harder to make this supreme sacrifice in time of peace than in time of war. But,» 
under the inspiration of Washington, who served no less nobly in peace than in 
war, we may resolve to live for our country as readily as we would die for her, and 
to follow in the way of the Divine commandment, that she may have the largest life, 
the greatest glory and honor. - 



CONTENTS 



Biographies 

Abbe, Cleveland 

Abbe, Cleveland, Jr 

Abbe, Truman 

Abbot, Charles Greeley 

Abbott, C. S., Jr 

Abert, Silvanus Thayer 

Abert, William Stone 

Abner, Edwin F 

Acheson, Ernest Francis 

Acheson, Mortimer H.. 

Acker, George N 

Acker, Walter H 

Acker, W. Bertrand 

Acker t, Charles H 

Adair, John A. M 

Adams, Bristow 

Adams, George Irving 

Adams, Hamilton 

Adams, Henry 

Adams, Henry Cullen 

Adams, James Barry 

Adams, Richard C 

Adams, Samuel Shugert 

Adamson, William Charles 

Addison, Arthur Dulaney 

Adee, Alvey Augustus 

Adler, Cyrus 

Adler, Maurice J 

Adler, Victor E 

Aiken, Wyatt 

Ailes, Milton Everett 

Ainsworth, Fred Crayton 

Albert, Charles Sumner.. 

Alden, Charles Henry 

Aldrich, Nelson Wilmarth 

Alexander, A. B 

Alexander, Arthur A 

Alexander, De Alva Stanwood. 

Alexander, Joshua W 

Alexander, William Clarke 

Alger, Russell Alexander 

Allee, James Frank 

Allen, Ames Lawrence 

Allen, Andrew Hussey 

Allen, Bennett A 

Allen, Charles Julius 

Allen, Edwin West 

Allen, Eugene Thomas 

Allen, Frederick Innes 

Allen, Harry J 

Allen, Henry Crosby 

Allen, James 

Allen, Walter C 

Allison, William Boyd 

Almeida, Don Arturo Padro Y. 

Alte, De 

Alvord, Elijah S 

Alvord, Henry Elijah 

Alvord, Thomas G 

Amaral, Sylvino Gurgel Do.... 

Amaters, Louis 

Ambrose, William E 

Ambrozy, Louis 

Ames, Butler 

Ames, John Griffith 

Anderson, George Lucius 

Anderson, Larz 

Anderson, Thomas H 

Andrews, Annulet 

Ai'drews, Eliphalet Frazer 

Andrews, George Lippitt 

Andrews. Ross P 



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Biographies Page 

Ardrews, W E 10 

Andrews, William H 10 

Andrus, John Emory 10 

Ankeny, Levy 10 

Ansberry, Timothy T 10 

Anthony, Susan B 10 

Aoki, Siuzo 11 

Appier, Charles William 11 

Arango, Don Jose Augustin 11 

Arbeely, Abraham Joseph il 

Archibald, James F. J 11 

Arenas De Lima, Luiz De 11 

Ai mislead, Peter, Jr 12 

Arms, John Taylor 12 

A', mstrong, Frank C 12 

A mold, John Sheridan 12 

Arnold, Joseph Addison 12 

Arosemena, C. C 13 

Arth, Charles Woodbury 13 

Arthur, William H 13 

Ash, Percy 13 

Ashbrook, William A 13 

Arhf ord, Snowden 13 

Ashley, George Hall 13 

Ashmead, William Harris 14 

Ashton, Joseph Hubley 14 

As-pinwall, John Abel 14 

Atkins, Joseph Leicester 14 

Atkinson, George Wesley 14 

Aubere, Jewell Howard la 

Averbach, Joseph 15 

Augur, Jacob Arnold 15 

Austin, Louis Winslow 15 

Austin, Oscar Phelps 15 

Babb, Cyi*us Gates 16 

Babbitt (Mrs.), Juliette M 16 

Babcock, John B 16 

Efjbcock, Joseph Weeks 19 

Babcock, William Henry is 

Babine, Alexis Vasili^vich 16 

Ba Che, Rene 16 

Bacon, Augustus Octavius 16 

Bacon, John Mosby 17 

Bacon, Robert 17 

Bagby, Edward Ben jamiti 17 

Bailey, Charles Brooks 17 

Bailey (Mrs.), Florence Merriam 17 

Bailey, George 17 

Bailey, Joseph Weldon 17 

Bailey, Vernon !<> 

Baily, Elisha 1 18 

Bain, Harry Foster 18 

Bain, Seneca Bray 18 

Baird, George William 18 

Baker, Asher Carter 18 

Baker, Daniel William 19 

Baker, Frank 19 

Baker, Isaac Oliver 19 

Ealch, Alfred William 19 

Baldwin, Frank Dwight 19 

Baldwin, Theodore A 19 

Baldwin, William D 20 

Ball, Carleton Roy 20 

Pall. Charles Albert 20 

Bnllinger, Richard Achilles 20 

Ealloch, George W 20 

Bancroft, Frederick 2i 

Bankhead, John Hollis 21 

Banks, Nathan 21 

Bannon, Henry Towne..., 21 

Bantz, Gideon C 21 

Barber, Amzi Lorenzo 21 



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C0NTE3NTS 



Biographies Page 

Karchfeld, Andrew Jackson 21 

Barclay, Charles F 22 

Barclay, Charles James 22 

Barker, Albert Smith 22 

Biirker, Ellen Blackmar 22 

Barker, Howard Hinea 23 

Barlow, John Whitney 22 

Barnard, Charles Arthur 23 

Esrnard, Edward Chester 23 

Barnard, Job 23 

Barnard, Ralph Putnam 23 

Barnes, Benjamin F 24 

Barnes, Noble Price 2i 

Barnette, William Jay 24 

Barney, Samuel S 24 

Barnum, Charlotte Cynthia 24 

Balrr, David 26 

Barr, Thomas Francis 25 

Barrett, Harrison D 25 

Barrett, Hiram M 25 

Barrett, John 25 

Barringer, John Walker 26 

Barry, Thomas Henry 26 

Bart, Charles M 26 

Bartholdt, Richard 26 

Bartlett, Charles Lafayette 26 

Bartlett, Frank W 26 

Bartlett, George A 26 

Barton, Clara 26 

Bartsoh, Paul 27 

Bashey, Frank Hinman 27 

Bass, George Arthur 27 

Bates, Alfred Elliott 27 

Bates, Arthur Laban 27 

Bstes, John Coalter 27 

Bauer, Louis Agricola 28 

Ba umgarten, ^Herman 28 

Baylor, James Bowen 28 

Bayly, William Hamilton 28 

Beach, Morgan Hawley 28 

Beal, Foster Ellenborough Lascelles 29 

Beal, Walter Henry 29 

Beale, Joseph G 29 

Beall, Jack 29 

Beall (Mrs.), Mary Stevens 29 

Beaman, William Major 29 

Bean, Barton A 29 

Bean, Tarleton Hoffman 30 

Beavan, Ambrose A 30 

Beck, Henry K 30 

Becker, George Ferdinand 30 

Becker, James B 30 

Bi-ckwith, Paul Edmond 30 

Bede, J. Adam ai 

Beidler, Jacob Atlee 31 

Bell, Alexander Graham 31 

Bell, Charles James 31 

Bell, George 31 

Bell, James Ftanklin 31 

Bell, James Lowrie 32 

Bell, James Montgomery 32 

Bell, Thomas Montgomery 32 

Beller, James W 32 

Belmont, Oliver Hazard Perry zz 

Belmont, Perry 32 

Belt, Edward Oliver '. ] . . 32 

Belt, William T 33 

BcnedW l, i^aymond Eli 33 

Bengoe ihea, Ramon 33 

Benham, Andrew Ellicott Kennedy 33 

Benjamin, Marcus 33 

Benjamin, Samuel Greene Wheeler 34 

Bennett, Charles Goodwin 34 

Bennett, Claude Nathaniel 34 

Bennett, Frank Marion 34 

Bennett, Joseph Bentley 35 

Bennett, William S 3j) 

Benson, Alfred W 35 

Benson, Ernest Sylvanius 35 

Bentley, Alexander Garner 35 

Bentley, Alexander J 36 

Benton, Frank 3i 



Biographies Page 

Berliner, Emile 36 

Bermann, Isidor Samuel Leopold 36 

Btrmudez, Pedro Requena 36 

Eernadou, John Baptiste 86 

Bernhardt, Wllhelm 36 

Berry, James H 36 

Eerryman, Clifford K 37 

Etthell, F. H 37 

Bethell, Union N 87 

Bctts, Philander, III .' 37 

Beveridge, Albert J 37 

Bey, Aziz 37 

Eey, Djelal Munif 37 

Beyer, Henry Gustav 37 

Bicknell, George Augustus 37 

B.'ddle, John 38 

Eien, Morris 38 

Bierce, Ambrose 38 

Eigelow, FVank Hagar 38 

Eigelow, John, Jr 39 

Eigelow, Willard Dell 39 

Billingsly, Oscar H 39 

Bmgham, Edward Franklin 39 

Bingham, Henry Harrison 39 

Bingham, Theodore Alfred 39 

E:ngham, William Theodore 39 

Bird, Charles 40 

Eirdsall, Benjamin P 40 

EJrney, Arthur Alexis 40 

Birney, William 40 

Eifebee, William H 40 

Bishop, Arthur Garnett 40 

Bishop, Joseph Buoklin 41 

Bishop, Roswell P 41 

Black, Henry Campbell 41 

Black, John Charles 41 

Black, William H 41 

Eiack, William Murray 41 

Blackburn, Edmund Spencer 41 

Blackburn, Joseph Clay Stiles 42 

Elackistone, Frank D.. 42 

EJair, Gist 42 

Blair, Henry Patterson 42 

Blair, Henry William 42 

Blanco, Antonio R 43 

Eleecker, John Van Benthuysen 43 

Bliss, Alonzo Ogilvie 43 

Bliss, Tasker Howard. .... 43 

Blount, Henry Fitch 43 

Blount (Mrs.), Lucia Eames 43 

Elout, Isaac L 43 

Blue, Victor 44 

Blumenberg, Milton W 44 

Elundon, Francis A 44 

Eiythe, Samuel George 44 

Boardman, R. H 44 

Boardman, William J 44 

Bogia, Ferdinand T 44 

Bolce, Harold 44 

Bolton, Henry Carrington 44 

Bonaparte, Charles Joseph 45 

Bond, Samuel Robert 45 

Bone, Scott C 45 

Bonsack, Charles Daniel 45 

B<<nsteel, Jay A 46 

Bonynge, Robert W 46 

Booker, Charles F 46 

Boone, Charles E 46 

Booth, Fenton 46 

Borah, William Edgar 46 

Bf.rden, William Cline 46 

Botkin, Alexander Campbell 46 

Bourne, Jonathan, Jr 46 

Boutell, Henry Shermnn 46 

Eovee, John Wesley 47 

Bowen, Frank H 47 

Bower, George Meade 47 

Bowerman, George Franklin 47 

Bowers, Eaton Jackson 47 

Bowersock, Justin DeWitt 47 

Bowie, Sydney Johnson 48 

Bowles, Shirley W 48 



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XIX. 



Biographies Page 

Couden, Henry Noble 96 

Coudrey, Harry M 96 

Coughlan, John D 96 

Coughlan, Michael \ 9fi 

Courtis, Frank 96 

Cousins, Robert G 97 

Coville, Frederick Vernon 97 

Cowles, William Sheffield 97 

Cowsill, Arthur 97 

Cox, William E 9/ 

Cox. William T 97 

Cox, William Van Zandt 97 

Crafts, Sarah J 97 

Crafts, Wilbur Fish 98 

Craig, William B 98 

Craigie, David Johnson 98 

Crampton, Charles Albert 98 

Crandall, Francis Asbury 98 

Crane, Augustus, Jr 98 

Crane, Winthrop Murray 99 

Cranford, H. Percy 99 

Cranford, Joseph H 99 

Cranston, Earl 9'j 

Cravens, W. B 99 

Crawford, John Wesiey 99 

Crawford, William Thomas 100 

Creel, Enrique C 100 

Crenshaw, Augustus P 100 

Cridler, Thomas Wilbur 100 

Crist, Harris McCabe 100 

Croffut, William Augustus 100 

Cromer, George Washington 101 

Cromwell, Bartlett Teff erson 101 

Crosby, Dick Jay 101 

Crosby, Oscar Terry 101 

Cross, Charles Whitman 101 

Cross, Samuel 101 

Crowell, John FrankMn 102 

Crowninshield, Arent Schuyler 102 

Crowninshield, Mary Bradford..., 102 

Crozier, William 102 

Cruger, Julie Grinnell 102 

Crumpacker, Edgar Dean 103 

Cryder, Mary Alsop 103 

Culberson, Charles A 103 

Cull, Judson T 103 

Cullom, Shelby Moore 103 

Cummings, George Totham 103 

Cummings, George McL.eai\ 104 

Cunningham, Andrew Chase 104 

Curley, Hugh H 104 

Currier, Charles Warren 104 

Currier, Frank Dunklec 104 

Curtis, Charles 104 

Curtis, William Eleroy 105 

Curtis, William Fullei* 105 

Ciishman, Allerton 3e;vard 105 

Cushman, Francis W 105 

Custis, George W. N 103 

Custis, J. B. Gregg 106 

Cutter, William Parker 106 

Daggett, Aaron S 106 

Daland, George G 106 

Dale, Thomas Henr.v 106 

Dales, Wilbur Fisk 107 

Dall, Caroline Healey 107 

Dall, William Healey 107 

Dateell, John 107 

Dancy, John Campbeil 107 

Daniel, John Warwick 107 

Darling (Mrs.), Flora Adams 108 

Darneille, Hopewell Hebb 108 

Darragh, Archibald Bard 108 

Darton, Nelson Horatio 108 

Darwin, Charles Carlyle 108 

Darwin, Gertrude Bascom 109 

Davenport, James \ 109 

Davenport, Richard Crahum 109 

Davenport, Willard Ooss 110 

Davey, Robert Charics 110 

Davidge, Charles Henry 110 

Davidson, H. Bradley 110 

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Davidson, James H. . . . 110 

Davidson, James Wood 110 

Davidson, John C Ill 

Davidson, Wilbur Ijeroy Ill 

Davis, Arthur Powell Ill 

Davis, Charles Edward Daw Baldwin... Ill 

Davis, Charles Henry Ill 

Davis, Charles Lukens 112 

Davis, Charles RussoU 112 

Davis, Eldred Griffith 112 

Davis, George Breckenridge 112 

Davis, George Whitefleld 113 

Davis, Henry Baum 113 

Davis, Henry Edgar 113 

Davis, Henry Gassaway 113 

Davis, Herman Stearns 113 

Davis, Jefferson 114 

Davis, John Chandler Bancroft 114 

Davis, Lewis Johnson 114 

Davis, Madison 114 

Davis, Thomas Beall 114 

Davis, Wirt 115 

Dawes, Beman Gates 115 

Dawson, Albert Foster 115 

Dawson, Edward M 115 

Day, Arthur Louis 115 

Day, Benjamin FranKlin 116 

Day, David Talbot 116 

Day, William A 116 

Day, William Rufus 116 

Dayton, James H 116 

Dean, Charles Ray 117 

Dearing, George T 117 

Dc Armond, David Albaugh 117 

Deeble, W. Riley 117 

Deemer, Ellas 117 

De Graw, Peter Voornees 117 

De Knight, Clarence Woods 118 

D<' Koven (Mrs.), Anna Farwell il8 

De Koven, Henry liOuis Reginald 118 

De Lacy, William Henry 118 

Delaney, Dennis 118 

De Laney, Matthew Augustus 118 

De Lashmutt, Thomas J 119 

Dempsey, Phineas Janney 119 

Denby, Charles , 119 

Denby, Edwin 119 

Denison, William 119 

Dennis, William Cullen 119 

Dennis, William Henry 120 

Denniston, Henry Martyn 120 

Denny, Frank Lee 120 

Dent, Alfred Barbour 120 

Dent, Louis Addison 120 

Denver, Matt R 121 

Depew, Chauncey Mitchell 121 

Derby, George McClellan 122 

De Russy, Isaac Denn'ston 122 

Des Planches, Edmondo Mayor 122 

Devine, John T 122 

De Vries. William Lovering 122 

Dewey, Frederick Perkins 122 

Dewey, George 123 

Dewey, Lyster Hoxie 123 

De Witt, Calvin 123 

Do Witt. H. Winifred 123 

Dick, Charles 123 

Dickema, G. J 124 

Dickins, Francis William 124 

Dickson, Frank Stoddard 124 

Diehl, Samuel Willauer Black 124 

Diller, Joseph Silas 124 

Dillingham. William Paul 124 

Dimmick, Eugene Dunimont 124 

Dinger, Henry Charles 12B 

Dixon, Joseph Moore 125 

Dixon, Lincoln 125 

Dixon, W. S 125 

Dodge, Arthur J 125 

Dodge, Charles RIch.ards 125 

Dodge. Francis S 126 

Dodgre, Martin 126 



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Dcdge, Pickering 126 

Doerman, J. E. A 12C 

Dole, Edmund P 126 

Dolliver, Jonathan Prentiss 127 

Dolliver (Mrs.), Ijojise Pearsons 127 

Donaldson, Robert B 127 

Donaldson, Robert Golden 127 

Doney, Carl Gregg- 127 

Donohue, John F 127 

Dorset, Marion 128 

Dorsey, Clarence Wilbur 128 

Dorsey, Ella Loraina 128 

Douglas, Albert 128 

Douglas, Charles A 129 

Douglas, Edward Morehouse 129 

Douglas, W. J 129 

Douglass, John Watkinson 129 

Dove, J. Maury 129 

Dove, "William M 129 

Dovener, Blackburn Barrett 129 

Dow, Allan Wade.... 130 

Downey, William F 130 

Downing, Robert L,.. 130 

Downing (Mrs.), Robert L 130 

Doyle, Burton T 130 

Doyle, John Thomas 131 

Drake, Thomas E 131 

Draper, William Franklin 131 

Draper, William H 131 

Drennan, Daniel 131 

Dresser, Solomon Robert 131 

Driscoll, Michael Edward 131 

Droop, Edward Frederick 131 

Drury, Peter A 132 

Dryden, John Fairflold 132 

Du Bois, Fred T 132 

Du Bois, James T... , 132 

Duckett, Marion 132 

Dudley, William wade 133 

Duell, Charles Hoilon 1 133 

Duffield, William Ward 133 

Dugan, Reuben A 133 

Duggan, Walter T 133 

Eulaney, Benjamin Lewis 133 

Dulany, H. Rozier 134 

Dunbar, Ulric Stonewsjl Jackson 134 

Dunlap, Andrew 134 

Dunlap, Irving Hall 134 

Dunlop, George Thomas 134 

Dunn, Arthur Wallace 135 

Dunn, Joseph 136 

Dunwell, Charles Tappan 135 

Dunwoody, Henry II. C 135 

Du Pont, Henry Algernon 136 

Durand, Edward Dan.?. 136 

Durey, Cyrus 136 

Duvall, Andrew Brown 136 

Dwight, John Wilbur 136 

Dyar, Harrison Gray 136 

Dyer, Alexander Brj-die 136 

Dyer, Francis John 136 

Dyer, George Leland . , 137 

Dyer, Nehemian Mayo 137 

Dyrenf orth, Robert St. George 137 

Eagan, Charles Patrick 13^ 

Earl, Charles 13S 

Earle, Charles T 138 

Easby-Smith, James .3 138 

Easterday, George T 138 

Easton, Thomas Chalmers 138 

Eaton, Joseph Gilei 138 

Eaton, Parley H 139 

Echols, John Warnock 139 

Edgerly, Webster 139 

Edgerly, Winfield Scott . , 139 

Edgerton, Charles Eugene. ..'. 139 

Edie, Guy L 139 

Edmonston, Samuel Hoston 139 

Edmonston, William iK 140 

Bdson, John Joy 140 

Edwards, Charles Gor.lon 140 

Edwards, Clarence Ransom 140 



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Edwards, Don Calvin 141 

Edwards, John H 141 

Edwards, William W.altbn 141 

Egan, Martin P 141 

Egan, Maurice Francis 141 

Eichelberger, William Snyder 141 

Eimbeck, William 142 

Eiseman, Louis 142 

Ekengren, A 142 

Eliot, John Llewellin 142 

Elkins, Stephen Benton 142 

Ellerbe, James Edwin 143 

Ellicott, John Morris 143 

Elliott, Charles Gleason 143 

Elliott, G. F 143 

Ellis, Edgar Clarence 144 

Ellis, William R '. 144 

Ellison, William McElf resh 144 

Ely, George Stetson 144 

Emig, Clayton Ely 144 

Emmons, Samuel Franklin 145 

Emory, Frederic 14B 

Emory, William Hemsley 145 

Endicott, Mordecai Thomas 145 

Englebright, W. F 145 

English, Merton A 146 

Entwistle, James 146 

Ernst, Oswald Herbert 146 

Esch, John Jacob 146 

Eustis, William Corcoran 146 

E\'ans, Albert 147 

Evans, Franck Taylor 147 

Evans, Paul Warrington 147 

Evans, Robley Dunglison 147 

Evans, Walter Harrison 147 

Evermann, Barton Warren 148 

Ewell, John Lewis 148 

Ewers, Ezra Philetus 149 

Fairbanks, Charles Warren 149 

Fairchild, David Grandison 143 

Fairchild, George W 150 

Fairfax, Charles Wilbur 150 

Fairfield, F W 150 

Falconio, Diomede 150 

Falls, Neilson 150 

Fardon, Abram P 150 

Faris, George Washington 150 

Farquhar, Edward 151 

Farquhar, Henry 151 

Farquhar, Norman Von Heldreich 151 

Fassett, Jacob Sloat 151 

I'avrot, George K 151 

Fawcett, Waldon 151 

Fay, Allan Bradshaw 151 

Fay, Edward Allen 152 

Fealy, Ignatius 152 

Fearn, Richard Lee 152 

Ferguson, Arthur Walsh 152 

Ferguson, Thomas Barker 152 

Ferguson, W. M 153 

Ferree, Newton 153 

Fessenden, Reginald Aubrey 153 

Fewkes, Jesse Walter 153 

Foulke, Charles Mather 153 

Fiallo, Don Arturo L 153 

Field, Orrin J 153 

Field, Scott 154 

Fifer, Joseh W 154 

Fimple, John H 154 

Fink, Edward X 154 

Finley, David Edward 154 

Finley, William Wilson 164 

Firemen, PetCr 154 

Fischer, Louis Albert 155 

Fishburn, Mosheim Boss 155 

Fisher, Albert Kenrick 155 

Fisher, Howard , 155 

Fisher, Robert Jones 155 

Fisher, Samuel Tucker 156 

Fiske, Asa Severance 156 

Fitch, Charles Hall 156 

Fitch, James E 156 



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Fitzgerald, John Joseph 156 

Flack, William Henry 157 

Flather, Henry H 157 

Flather, William J 157 

Fleming, Robert Isaac 157 

Fletcher, Alice Cunningham 157 

Fletcher, Loren 157 

Fletcher, Montgomery 158 

Fletcher, Robert 159 

Flint, PYank Putnam 159 

Fletcher, Robert 158 

Flmt, Fiank Putnam 158 

Flood, Henry Delaware 158 

Flower, Frank Abial 159 

FJoyd, John Charles 159 

Focht, Benjamin K 159 

Folger, William Mayhew 159 

Folsom, Moses 159 

Foraker, Joseph Benson 160 

Ford, John Donaldson 160 

Ford, Worthington Ciiauncey 160 

Fordney. Joseph Warren 160 

Foree, C. M 160 

Forman, Samuel Eagle 161 

Fornes, Charles V 161 

Forster, Rudolph 161 

Forsythe, Andrew Duiioar 161 

P'orsyth, George Alexander 161 

Forsyth, Robert B 161 

Fort, George 161 

Forwood, William Henry 161 

Foss, George Edmuni 162 

Fosse, Des Fortes De Lra 162 

Foster, David Johnsoa 162 

Foster, John Hopkins . 162 

P'oster, John Watson. 162 

Foster, Judith Ellen Horton 162 

Foster, Martin D 163 

Fc ster, Murphy J 163 

Foster, Percy Semple 163 

Foster, Romulus Adams 163 

Foulkrod, W. W 163 

I'owler, Charles NeweJl 164 

Fox, Albert F 164 

Fox, Edmund Kellev 164 

Fox, James J 164 

Frank, Royal Thaxtsr 164 

Frankenfleld, Harry Crawford 164 

P'ranklin, Samuel Rhoads 164 

Frantz, J. Luther 165 

Franzoni, Charles William 165 

Fraser, Daniel 165 

Frazier, James B 165 

Fremont, John Charles 165 

French, Burton Lee 165 

French (Miss), Frances Graham 166 

French, Owen Bert 166 

I'l isbie, Henry Samuel 16P 

Prisby, Edgar 166 

Fry, Henry Davidson 166 

Frye, William Pierfj;«; 167 

Fulkersn, Frank Ballard 167 

Fuller, Charles Eugone 167 

Fuller, L. M 167 

Fuller, Melville Weston 167 

Fuller, Myron Leslie 168 

F-uller, William E 168 

Fulton, Charles Wiliiam 168 

Fulton, Creed McTeer 168 

FHissell, Jacob 168 

Gaillard, David Du i-:ose 169 

Gaines, John Wesley 169 

Gaines, Joseph Hoit 169 

Gall, David Washington 169 

Gallagher, Charles Wesley 169 

Gallaudet, Edward Miner 170 

Gallen, Joseoh S 170 

Galliher, William T 170 

Gallinger, Jacob H 170 

Galloway, Beverly ""homas 171 

Gamble, Robert Jackson 171 

Gannett, Henry 171 



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Gans, Isaac 171 

Garber, Harvey Cable 171 

Gardner, Augustus Piabody 17i 

Gardner, Cornelius 172 

Gardner, Frank Duaue 172 

Gardner, John J 172 

Gardner, Washington. 172 

Gardner, ■William Henry 172 

Garfield, James Rudolph 173 

Garges, Daniel Edwarl 173 

Garlington, Ernest A.ibert 173 

Garner, Alexander C 173 

Garner, John Nance 173 

Garrett, Finis James 173 

Garriott, Edward Bennett 174 

Garrison, Carl Louise 174 

Garrison, John R 1V4 

Garver, Leonard 174 

Gasch, Herman 174 

Gatchell. William F 1^4 

Gates, Elmer : 174 

Gates, Lewis Edwards 175 

Gates, Merrill Edwards 176 

Gathmann, Louis 175 

Gatschet, Albert Samuel 1/5 

Geare, Randolph Iltyd 176 

Gearin, John M 175 

Geren, H. M 176 

Gerry, James L 176 

Gibbs, Harriet Aletna 176 

Gibson, George 176 

Gibson, Horatio Gates 176 

Giddings, William J 178 

Giffin, Esther Josselyn 176 

Gilbert, George Gilmcre 177 

Gilbert, Grove Karl 177 

Gilbert, James Eleazer 177 

Gilbert, John J 177 

Gilbert, Newton Whiting 177 

Gilhams, Clarence C 178 

Gill, John, Jr 178 

Gill, John M 178 

Gill, Theodore Nicholas 178 

Gillespie, George Lewis 178 

Gillespie, Oscar Willia m 178 

Gillett, Frederick Huntington 179 

Gilmore, John Curtis 179 

Girard, Alfred C 179 

Girard, Joseph B 179 

Girty, George H 179 

Gitt, David L 179 

Given, Harvey 179 

Given, Ralph 180 

Glass, Carter 180 

Glass, Henry 180 

Glazebrook, Larkin Wnite 180 

Gloaves, Albert 180 

Glenn, Edwin F 180 

Glennan, Arthur Henry 180 

Gliem, Christian P 181 

Glover, Charles Carroll 181 

Godoy, Don Jose F 181 

Godfrey, Edward Settle 181 

Godwin, Hannibal Lafayette 181 

Goebel, Herman Phil'p 181 

Goenner, Albert 182 

Goethals, George W 182 

Golden, Robert A 183 

GoWenberg, Moses ... 182 

Goldfogle, Henry M 182 

Gompers, Samuel 182 

Goode, John 182 

Goode, Richard Urquhart 183 

Goodwin, Russell Parker 183 

Gordon, David Stuart 183 

Gordon, Fulton R. . 183 

Gordon, George Washington 183 

Gordon, Henry Dai-ant 183 

Gordon, John 184 

Gordon, William A 184 

Gore, James I^oward 184 

Gc rham, George Congdon 184 



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Gould, Ashley Mulgrave 184 

Gculden, Jioseph A 184 

Graff, Joseph V 185 

Graffenried, Mary Clare de 185 

Graf man, R 185 

Graham, Andrew Butler 185 

Graham, E'dwin C 185 

Graham, Neil F 185 

Graham, William Harrison 18D 

Graham, William Russell 185 

Granger, Daniel Lamed Davis 185 

Grang-er, John Tileston 186 

Grannan, Charles P 186 

Grant, Alexander 186 

Grant, Frederick Dent 186 

Graves, Edward 187 

Graves, J. Harwood 187 

Greeley, Adolphus Washington 187 

Greeley, Arthur Philip 18V 

Green, Bernard Richardson 187 

Green, James Gilcnrist 188 

Green, James M 188 

Green, John 18S 

Greene, Edward Dee 188 

Greene, Henry Alexander 188 

Greene, Henry Fay 18a 

Greene, Samuel Harrison 189 

Greene, William Stsdtuan 189 

Greenleaf, Charles Ravenscroft i89 

Greenlees, D. Agncv/ 190 

Gregg, Alexander White 190 

Greist, Lewis Thomas 190 

Gresham (Mrs.), Fannie Williams 190 

Griffln, Appleton Prentiss Clark 190 

Griffin. John Joseph 190 

Griffith, Mionte 191 

Griffith, Samuel Henderson 191 

Griffiths, David 191 

Griggs, James Mathews 191 

Grimke, Francis James 191 

Gronna, Asle J 191 

Grose. Estella , 192 

Grosvenor, Charles Henry 192 

Grosvenor, Daniel Allen 192 

Grosvenor, Gilbert Hovey 192 

Gude, Adolphus 192 

Gude, William Frederick 193 

Gudgcr, James Madison, Jr 193 

Guerry, Homer 193 

Guggenheim, Simon 193 

Gunnell. Francis M 193 

Gurley (Mrs.), William B 193 

Gutherz, Carl 193 

Guthrie, Charles 194 

Guzman, Don PomponiO' 194 

Guzman, R. Garbiras 194 

Hackett, Frank Warren 194 

Hackett, Richard N 194 

Hackney, Thomas 194 

Haggott, Warren A 194 

Hagner, Alexander Burton 194 

Hagner, Randall H 194 

Hague, Arnold 19» 

Hahn, William 195 

Hains, Peter Conover 195 

Halderman, John A 195 

Hale, Edward Everi?tt 198 

Hale, Eugene 196 

Haie, Nathan Wesley 196 

Halford, Albert James 19b 

Halford, Elijah Walker 196 

Hall, Arthur Joseph 197 

Hall, Asaph 197 

Hall, Benjamin Mortimer 197 

tlall, John D Iy8 

Hall, Percival 198 

Hall, Philo 198 

Hall, Robert Henry 198 

Hall, William Logan 198 

Hall, William Preble 198 

Hallock, Charles 199 

Halstead, Albert 199 



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Halstead, Griffin 199 

Ham, William F 199 

Hamill, James A 199 

Hamilton, Daniel W 199 

Hamilton, Edward L 200 

Hamilton, Stanislaus Murray 200 

Pfamilton, William 200 

Hamilton, William Reeve 200 

Hamlin, Courtney W 200 

Hamlin, Frances Bacon 200 

Hamlin, Teunis Slingerland 201 

Hammond, J. C 201 

Hammond, Winfield f^ iOl 

Hanford, Charles Barnum 20i 

Hanf ord, Franklin 201 

Hansbrough, Henry Clay 202 

Hanson, James Christian Meinich 202 

Harding, J. E 202 

Hardwick, Thomas WHliam 202 

Hardy, Ruf us 202 

Harlan, James Shanklm 202 

Harlan, John Marshall .'. . . 202 

Harlan (Mrs.), John Marshall 203 

Harlin, Thomas S 2i>3 

Harmony, David Bultz 203 

Harper, Benjamin F 203 

Harper, Robert Newton 203 

Harries, George H 203 

Harrington, Purnell Frederick 203 

Harris, Cicero Willis 204 

Harris, Henry Tudor Brownell 204 

Harris, Rollin Arthur 204 

Harris, William Torrey 204 

Harrison, Charles Curtis 2oo 

Harrison, Francis Burton 205 

Harrison, Thomas 205 

Harrod, Benjamin Morgan 208 

Harshman, Walter Scott 205 

Hart, Alphonso 205 

Hart, William Henrj- Harrison 206 

Hartmann, Charles A 206 

Hartsuff , Albert 208 

Harvey, Albion K. Parris 206 

irarvey, Frederick Loviad 206 

Harvey, William Ed .vin 207 

Hasbrouck, Edwin Marble 20/ 

Hasbrouck, Henry Cornelius 207 

Haskell, Harry L 207 

Haskin, William Lawrence 207 

Haskins, Kittredge 208 

Hatch (Mrs.), Hannah M 208 

Hathaway, Forrest H 208 

Hatzfeldt-Wildenburg, Hermann Von 208 

Hauge, C 200 

Haugen, Gilbert N 208 

Haupt, Herman 208 

Havard, Valery 208 

Havenith, E 208 

Hawkins, Hamilton Smith 20S 

Hawley, John Mitchell 203 

Hawley, Willis Chatman 209 

Hay, Charles Edward, Jr 209 

Hay, Edwin Barrett 210 

Hay, James 210 

Hay, William Perry 210 

Hayden, Edward Everett 210 

Hayes, Arthur B 211 

Hayes, Charles Willard 211 

Hayes, Edward Mortimer 211 

Hayes, Everis Anson 211 

Hayes, John W 211 

Hayf ord, John Fillmore 211 

Haymerle, F 212 

Hays, Willet (Martin 212 

Haywood, John K 212 

Hazard, Daniel Lyman 212 

Hazen, ■V\''illiam P. 7 212 

Head, John Frazier 212 

Heald, John Creswell 213 

Heap, David Porter 213 

Hearne, Edward Warren 213 

Hearst, William Randolph 213 



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Heater, Robert E Z16 

Heaton, Augustus George 214 

Hedge, Thomas 214 

P.^eff ernan, Joseph i^ 214 

Heflin, James Thomas 214 

Heger, Anthony 214 

Heideman, Ivan 214 

Keiss, Austin Elmer 214 

Heistand, Henry Olcot Sheldon 2i5 

Heiston, Walter 215 

Heitman, Francis Bernaid 21b 

Heizmann, Charles L. 215 

Heller, Joseph Milton 215 

Helm, Harvey 216 

Helper, Hinton Rowan z,16 

Hemenway, James Alexander Zi6 

Hemphill, John Janies 216 

Hemphill, Joseph Newton 216 

Henderson, John Brooits 216 

Henderson, John Brooks, Jr 217 

Henderson, Mary Foote 217 

Henderson, William Georgei 218 

Hendrick, John Thilman 218 

Hengervar, Von Ladislaus Hengel- 

muieller 218 

Henning, George Custis 218 

Henning, George Neely 218 

Hennisee, Argalus Garey ^18 

Henry, Alfred Judson 219 

Henry, Edwin Stanton 219 

Henry, E. Stevens 219 

Henry, James Sharp 219 

Henry, John William 219 

Henry, Robert Lee 219 

Hensey, Alexander T.... 220 

Hensey, Thomas Gariet 220 

Henshaw, Henry Wetherbee 220 

Hepburn, William 1 cters 220 

Herbert, Hilary Abner 220 

Hermann, Binger 220 

Herndon, William 221 

Herrarte. Don Luis Toledo 221 

Herrell, John E 221 

Herrick, Samuel 221 

Herron, J. Whit 221 

Heurich, Christian 221 

Keyburn, Weldon Brin^on 221 

Heyl, Charles Heath 222 

Hey wood, Charles 222 

Hibbs, William B 222 

Hichborn, Philip 222 

Hickling, Daniel Per.^y 223 

Hicks, J. Addison 223 

Higgins, Edwin Werter 223 

Higginson, Francis John 223 

Hill, Ebenezer J 223 

Hill, Edwin Allston '. 224 

Hill, George Andrews 224 

Kill, George Griswold 224 

Hill, George William 224 

Hill, Joseph Adna L'25 

Hill, Robert Thomas 225 

Hill, William Alexander 225 

Hill, William Corcoran 225 

Hill, Wilson Shedric 225 

Hillebra*^, William Francis 226 

Hilyer, Andrew Franklin 226 

Hinch, J. A 226 

Hinckley, Robert '. 226 

Hinshaw, Edmund '-Toward 226 

Hitchcock, Albert i^pear 226 

Hitchcock, Ethan Allen 226 

Hitchcock, Frank Harris 227 

Hitchcock, Gilbert 2vl 227 

Hitz, John , 227 

Hoar, Rockwood '.'. 227 

Hcbson, Richmond Peaison 228 

Hodge, Frederick Webb... 228 

Kodges, Harry F. ...... ' 228 

Hodges, Harry Marsh . . .' 228 

Hodges, John Walter 22& 

Hodgins, Howard Lincoln 229 



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Hoes, Ros well Randall 229 

Hoff, William BainbriJge 230 

Hoge, William S ^^30 

Hogg, Herschel Millard 230 

Holaind, Rene J 230 

Holbrook. Theodore Lewis 230 

Holcombe, John Walker 231 

Hollander, Harry Herman 231 

Plollerith, Herman 231 

Holliday, Elias S 231 

irolm, Herman [Theodor 231 

Holmead, Charles Henry, Jr 232 

Holmes, Charles W'indell 232 

Holmes, George Kirby 232 

tlolmes, Joseph Austin 232 

Holmes, 011\-er Weoidell 232 

Holmes, William Henry 232 

Holton, William Shedd 233 

Holtzmann, Jennie Vv'eaver 233 

Hood, Charles Crook 233 

Hood, James Fran-ili ii 233 

Hooper, Louis Leverott 233 

Hopkins, Albert J 234 

Hopkins, Andrew Delmar 234 

Hopkins, Archibald 234 

Hopkins, Frank A . 235 

Hopkins, Thomas Snell 235 

Hornblower, Joseph Coerten 235 

Kosley, H. B 235 

Houck, William Joseph 235 

Hough, C. Royce 23b 

Hough, Geiorge Clinton 235 

Hough, Walter 235 

Hough, Williston Samuel 236 

Houston, William Cannon 23G 

Howard, Burton James 238 

Howard, Clement W 236 

Howard, Clifford 236 

Howard, Esme 237 

Howard, George 237 

Howard, James Q 237 

Howard, Leland Ossian 237 

Howard, William Marc-.ellus 237 

Howden, Frederick Bingham 238 

Howe, Charles E 238 

Howell, Benjamin Franklin 238 

Howell, Edwin Eu-iene.. 238 

Howell, John Adams 238 

Howell, Joseph 238 

Howland, Clarence li 238 

Howland, Paul 23S 

Howley, John P 238 

Howry, Charles Bowcn 239 

Iloxie, Richard L 239 

Hoxie (Mrs.), Vinnie Ream Z39 

Hoy t, Henry M 239 

Hoyt, John Wesley 239 

Hoyt, John William 240 

Hrdlicka, Ales 240 

Hubbard, Edward L. . 240 

Hubbard, Elbert Hamilton 240 

Hubbard, Jerome 240 

Hubbard, William Pallister 240 

Hubbell, Frederick Brooks 241 

Huff, George Frank'in 241 

Huggins, Eli Lundy 241 

Hughes, Aaron Konkic 241 

Hughes, James Anthony 242 

Hughes, Robert P 242 

Hughes, William 242 

Huidekoper, Frederic Wolters 242 

Huidekoper, Reginald Shippen 242 

Hull, Cordell 242 

Hull, John Albert Tiftin 242 

Hume, Thomas L 243 

Humphrey, Charles FreOerick 243 

Humphrey, William E 243 

Humphreys, Benjamin Grubb 243 

Hunt, C. B 243 

Hunt, Gailard 243 

Hunt, John Thomas 244 

Hunt, Reid 244 



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Hunt, William Chamberlin 244 

Hunter, Walter David 244 

Huntington, A. T 244 

Huntley, Elias DeWltt 244 

Hurst, Carlton Bailey 245 

Husmann, George C. F 245 

Husted, Glenn Edward 245 

Hutcheson, Grote 245 

Hutchins, Charles Thomas 245 

Hutchins, Francis ti 245 

Hutchins, Stilson 245 

Huxford, William P 246 

Huyck, Jesse "Van Ness 246 

Hyde, John 246 

Hyde, John McEwen 246 

Hyde, Thomas 247 

Hynson, Laurence Maxwell 247 

Kyvernat, Henry 247 

Irr.hof , Frederick 247 

Ingersoll, Royal Rodney 247 

Irelan, Charles Morris 247 

Ireland, Mary E 248 

Jackson, Aaron 248 

Jackson, Henry 248 

Jackson, Sheldon 245 

Jackson, V. B 248 

Jackson, Williom H 249 

Jacobs, Joshua W 249 

Jacobsen,. Charles 249 

James, A. D 249 

James, B. R 249 

James, Charles A 249 

James, Ollie M 249 

Jameson, John Franklin 249 

Janin, Violet Blair 250 

Jarvis, David Henry 250 

Jenkins, John James 250 

Jenkins, Ralph 250 

Jer.ks, John Edward 250 

Jcnness-Miller (Mrs.), Anna 250 

Jester, James G 200 

Jewell, Theodore Freling-iluysen 250 

Johns, Arthur Shaaff 251 

Johnson, Arnold B 251 

Johnson, Ben 251 

Johnson, Henry Lov/ry Emilius 251 

JiOhnson, Joseph Tabor 251 

Johnson, Joseph Travers.. 251 

Johnson, Philander Chase 252 

Johnson, Sylvanus Elihu 262 

Johnson, V. Baldwin . 252 

Johnson, William Go.idy^ar 252 

Johnston (Miss), Elizabeth Bryant 252 

Johnston (Mrs.), Frances Benjamin 25? 

Johnston, Henry A 253 

Johnston, James Marion 253 

Johnston, John A 253 

Johnston, Joseph Forney 253 

Jines, Claud C 253 

Jones, James E 253 

Jc-nes, James Kunbrough 254 

Jones, Myron Jermain 254 

Jones, Thomas Rockefeller 254 

Jones, Wesley L 254 

Jones, William Atkinson 254 

Jorss, Amandus Frederick 255 

Josephsson, Axel 255 

Joubert, Don Emilio Co 255 

Joyce, John Alexander 255 

Joyce, Maurice 255 

Judd, Sylvester Dwi?ht 255 

Judge, Henry A 255 

Judson, William Voorhees 255 

Jung, Franz August Richard 256 

Jusserand, Jean Adrien Antoine Jules.. 256 

Kahn, Julius 256 

Kalanianaole, Jonah Kuhio 256 

Karpeles, Herman Ij 256 

Kasson, Jiohn Adam 256 

Kauffmann, Rudolph 257 

KaufEmann, Samuel Hay 257 

KaufiEmann, "Victor. 2B7 



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Kaufman, D J 257 

Kautz, Albert : 257 

Kean, Jefferson Randolph 257 

Kean, John 25Tt 

Keane, Joseph H 258 

Kcbler, Lyman F 25Jj 

Keefer, Joseph Isadore 258 

Keif er, Joseph Warren 258 

Keim, De Benneville Randolph 258 

Keelty, T 259 

Keith, Arthur Harrison 259 

Keliher, John A 259 

Kelleher, John B 259 

Kellerman, Karl Frederic 259 

Kelley, James Douglas Jerrold 259 

Kellogg, William Pitt 259 

Kelly, James Kerr 260 

Kelly, James V 260 

Kcmeys, Edward... 260 

Kempff, Louis 260 

Kendall, Henry M 2b0 

Kendall, William Converse 260 

Kennedy, Charles A 260 

Kennedy, Crammond 260 

Kennedy, James 261 

K'tnnedy, John Lauderdale 261 

Kennedy, John Lewis 261 

Kennon (Mrs.), Britannia 261 

Kenny, Albert Seweil 261 

Ktnt, Alexander 261 

Kent, W. Seton 261 

Kenyon, Jacob Miller 262 

Kerby, William Joseoh 262 

Kern, Charles Everett 262 

Kerr, James 262 

Kerr, John B 262 

Kerr (Mrs.), William 263 

Kervick, Thomas J 263 

Ketcham, William Henry 263 

Kiggins, Frank M 263 

Kilbourne, Charles Evans 263 

Kimball, Amos Samuel 263 

Kimball, Arthur Ricnmond 263 

Kimball, Herbert Harvey 263 

Kimball, I. G 264 

Kimball, Sumner Increase 264 

Kimball, William Pr'iston 264 

Kimmel, William Alexander 264 

King, Albert Freeman Africanus 264 

King, George W 265 

King, Harry 265 

King, John Rigdon 265 

Kingsman, Richard 265 

Kinkaid, Moses P 265 

Kinnear, John B 265 

Kinsley, William "Wirt 265 

Kipp, George Washington 265 

Kirk, Hyland Blair 266 

Kirkpatrick, George D 266 

Kitchin, Claude 266 

Kitchin, William Walton 266 

Kittredge, Alfred Beard 266 

Klemm, Louis Richai'd 266 

Klepper, Frank B . 267 

Kline, Jacob 267 

Kline, Marcus C. L 26( 

Klock, Raymond Adams 267 

Kr.app, Charles Luman 267 

Knapp, Martin Augustine 267 

Kniffln, Gilbert Crawford 268 

Knight, Hervey 268 

Knopf, Philip 268 

Knowland, Joseph Russell 268 

Knowlton, Frank Hall 268 

Knox, Harry 269 

Knox, Philander Chase 269 

Knox, William S 269 

Kobbe, William A 269 

Kober, George Martin 269 

Koudacheff , Nicholas 269 

Kraemer, Charles.... 269 

Kroupensky 269 



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Biographies Page 

Krugg, James B 269 

Kubel, Stephen Joseph 269 

Kusterman, Gustav 270 

I^cey, John Fletcher 270 

Lackey, James B 270 

Lafaen, Daniel FranKlin 271 

Lafinur, Luis Melia^^ 271 

La Flesche, Francis 271 

La Follette, Robert Adarion 271 

Lagercrantz, Herman Ludwig Fabian de 2JT1 

Lamar, Edward H 271 

Lamar, Robert , 271 

I.a mar, William Bailoy 273 

Lamb, Daniel Smitn 272 

Lamb (Mrs.), Isabel Haslup 272 

Lamb, John 272 

Lambert, Tallmadge Augustine 272 

Lambert, Wilton J 2Y3 

Lamberton, Benjamin Pefter 273 

La Mothe, John D tli 

Lampton, James Janes 273 

Lander, Edward 273 

Lamson-Scribner, FranK.. 273 

Lander (Miss), Louisa 273 

Landis, Charles Beai'y 274 

Landis, Frederick , 274 

Landon, Hal D 274 

Lane, Clarence Bronson 274 

Lane, Franklin K 274 

Langenbeck, Karl 274 

Langfitt, 'William Campbell 2r4 

Langley, Charles Albion 275 

Langley, John Wesloy 275 

Langley, Samuel Pieipont 275 

Langworthy, Charles Ford 276 

Laning, Jay Ford 276 

Lansburgh, James 276 

Lantz, Franklin W. . . . , 276 

Lanza, Di Brolo Marquise Clara 276 

Larcombe, John Southay 276 

Larner, John Bell 277 

Larner, Robert Mai tin 277 

Larrinaga, Tulio Z77 

Lassiter, Francis Ri ves 277 

Latimer, Asbury Churchwell 278 

Law, Charles Blakeslee 278 

Lawrence, George i'elton 278 

Lawrence, James Paytoii Stuart 278 

L^ws, Samuel Spahr 278 

Lawshe, Abraham J^incom 27S 

Lawson, Huron WilUs 279 

Lawton, Louis Bowen 279 

Lay ton, Caleb R 279 

Lazelle, Henry Martyn 279 

Leach, Frank A .' 279 

Leadley, George W 279 

Leake, Eugene W 280 

Lebo, Thomas C 28i; 

Leckie, A. E. L 280 

Lederer, Philip 28U 

Lee, George Hyde 280 

Lee, Gordon 280 

Lee, Jesse Matlock 280 

Lee, Robert Edward, Jr 281 

Lee, Thomas Sim... 281 

Leetch, Frank P 281 

Le Fevre, Frank Jacob 281 

Legare, George S 281 

Legare, Hugh S 281 

Leger, Jacques Nicholas 281 

Leighton, Benjamin Farnsworth 281 

Leiter, Levi Zeigler 282 

Lejeune, John A 282 

Lemly, Henry Rowen 282 

Lemly, Samuel Conrad 283 

Lcnahan, Jiohn T 282 

Leonard, Bernard 282 

Leupp, Francis Ellington 282 

Leutze, Eugene C 283 

Lever, Asbury Fancis 283 

Lewis, Elijah Banks ' 283 

Lewis, Henry CiJarieton 283 



Biographies Page 

I;ewis, Herbert Cecil 283 

Leiber, G. Norman 284 

Lilley, George Leavetjs 284 

Lilley, Mial E 284 

I.,illie, Abraham Bniyn Hasbrouck 284 

Lima, d'Arenas de 284 

Lincoln (Mrs.), Jeanie Gould 284 

Lincoln, Sumner H 284 

Lindbergh, Charles A 284 

Lindgren, Waldemar 284 

Lindsay, George Henry 285 

Lindsay, Richard Herndon 285 

Linkins, George R. 285 

TJinkins, George W 285 

Linton, Irwin Breece 285 

Lipscomb, William P 285 

Lisner, Abraham 285 

Litchfield, Grace Denio 286 

Litsinger, J. E 286 

Littauer, Lucius Nathan 286 

Littell, Frank Bowers 286 

Little, George 286 

Little, John Sebastii.n 286 

Littlefield, Charles Edgar 28T 

Littlehales, George Washington 287 

Livermore, William R 287 

Livingston, Leonidas Felix 287 

Livingstone, Colin Ha'nilton 287 

Lloyd, Daniel Boone a57 

Lloyd, James Tilghman 28S 

Lockwood, Belva Ann Bennett 28S 

Lockwood, Mary Smith 289 

Lodge, Henry Cabot 289 

Lodor, Richard 289 

Loeb, Julius Tukachiner 289 

I/<..eb, William, Jr 290 

Lofton, William S 290 

Lof tus, Edward H 290 

Logan, Mary Simmerson Cunningham... 290 

Logan, Olive 290 

Lcmax, Lunsford Lindsay 291 

London, John H 291 

Long, Chester 1 291 

Longenecker, Edwin 291 

Lcngstreet, James 291 

Longworth, Nicholas 291 

Lord, Edwin Chesley Estes 292 

Lorimer, William 292 

Lothrop, Alvin M 292 

Loud, George Alvin 292 

Loudenslager, Henry Clay 292 

Levering, William C 292 

Low, A. Maurice 292 

Lowden, Frank Orren 293 

Lowe, John 293 

Lucas, Anthony Francis 293 

Luce, Stephen Bleechor 293 

Ludlow, NicoU 294 

Ludlow, Walter Wells 294 

Lu ebkert. Otto 29* 

Lung, George Augustus 294 

Lusk, James Loring. 294 

Lydecker, Garrett J. . 294 

Lyman, Catalena Yates Hamlin 294 

Lyman, Charles 295 

Lynn, R. Henry 295 

Lj-nn, William Lee 295 

Lyon, Henry Ware 295 

Lyon, Judson Whitl03ke . , 295 

Lyons, Timothy Aug istme 295 

McAboy, Theodore ?'ovin 296 

McArdle, Thomas Eugene 296 

McCall, Samuel Walker 296 

McCalla, Bowman H 296 

McCalla, Elizabeth Hazard Sargent 296 

McCammon, Joseph Kay 296 

McCarthy, Charles a 297 

McCarthy, Francis 29? 

McCarthy, John Jay 297 

McCauley, Charles Adams Boeke 297 

McCleary, James Thompson 297 

McClemand, Edward J >hn 297 



XXVI. 



CONTENTS 



Biographies Page 

McComas, Louis Emory iaS 

McCrea, TuUy 298 

McCreary, George DeardorfE Z9S 

McCreary, James Bennett 298 

McCuUough, George W 299 

McCumber, Porter James 299 

McDermott, Allen Liangdon 299 

IWcDermott, James j. 299 

McDonald, Eugene D. L 299 

McDonald, H. Boyer 299 

McDonald, H. Boyer 299 

McDowell, Alexander ^99 

McElroy, John 299 

McEnery, Samuel Do jglas 299 

McGavin, Charles SUO 

McGaw, John Evans 300 

McGee, Anita NewoomD 3uO 

McGee, Joseph P '. 300 

McGee, W. J 300 

McGill, J. Nota 300 

McGowan, John 301 

McGowan, Jonas Hartzell 301 

McGregor, John oUl 

McGregor, Thomas 301 

McGuffey, Margaret D 301 

McGuigan, Thomas E 301 

McGuire, Bird Segle 301 

McGuire, Frederick ii 302 

McGuire, Joseph D 302 

McHenry, John Gei«-er 302 

Mcllhenny, John A 302 

McKee, Fred bOi 

McKenna, Joseph 302 

McKenney, Frederick \Juncan 302 

McKenney, James Hall. o02 

McKenney, William A '. 302 

McKenzie, Alexander 302 

McKibbin, Chambers 303 

McKim, Randolph Harrison.- 303 

McKim, William Dun.-;an 303 

McKinlay, Duncan E 303 

McKinley, John William....... 504 

McKirbney, James 304 

McKinley, William TJrown 304 

McKinney, James 30 1 

McLachlan, James 304 

McLain, Frank Aluyander 304 

McLain, John Speed oo5 

McLaughlin, James S05 

McLaughlin, James B 3U5 

McLaughlin, Thomas N 305 

McLaurin, Anselm Jovcph 305 

McLean, John Roll 305 

McMillan, Alexander B' 306 

McMillan, Samuel 306 

McMorran, Henry 30b 

McNamara, Stuart 306 

McNary, William Sar siield 306 

McNeill, Robert Hayes ii06 

McNeir, William 306 

McNess, George T 307 

McPherson, William Lenhart 307 

McReynolds, James Clark 30? 

McRoberts, Charles Gregory 307 

MacArthur, Arthur 307 

MacDonald, Arthur 307 

Macey, James T 308 

Macf arland, Henry B. F 308 

Mackenzie, Alexander.... 308 

Mackenzie, Morris K '. 308 

Macksey, Charles B 308 

Macon, Robert Bruce 308 

Mac Veagh, Wayne . 305 

Madden, Edwin Chirles 309 

Madden, Martin B. . 309 

Madison, Ed. H ' 309 

Maedel, Julius A 309 

Magee, Charles L 309 

Magruder, George Lloyd 309 

Magruder, Julia 6±0 

Magulre, Joseph I. . . 310 

Mahon, Thaddeus Maclay 310 



Biographies Page 

Main (Mrs.), Charlotte Emerson 3iy 

Main. Herschel aio 

Malby, George R 310 

Mallery, Allen Whittaker 310 

, Mallon, Joseph C 310 

Mallory, Stephen Russell 310 

Maloney, Elbert Sev^r 311 

Mann, Benjamin Pickman 311 

Mann, James R 311 

Manney, Henry Newman 31 c 

Manning, Estelle Hempsted 311 

Mansfield, Henry Buckingnam 311 

Many, James W 31s 

Marbury, Charles Clagctt 312 

March, Peyton Conway 312 

Marchetti, Francis 312 

Mark, Augustus M. 312 

Markham, Edward M 312 

Marlatt, Charles Lest.-jr. 312 

Marmion, Robert Augustine 312 

Marr, James D ai3 

Marsh, William Johnston 313 

Marshall, James L 313 

Marshall, James M 313 

Marshall, Thomas Frank 313 

Marshall, Thomas Worth 313 

Martin, Artemas 31o 

Martin, Eben Wever 31i 

IMartin, George Curi.is an 

Martin, Thomas Staples 314 

Marvin, Charles Fr'jderick 314 

]y:iason, Beverly R 314 

Mason, Emily Virginia :ii4 

Mason, Newton E 316 

Mason, Otis Tuf ton 315 

Mason, William Madison 315 

Masters, Sam.uel J 315 

Matile, Lein; Albert. 315 

Matthes, Francois Bmile oi5 

Matthews, Edmund Oi ville 316 

Matthews, Washington 316 

Matthews, William Baynham 316 

Mattingly, William F 316 

Mauley, William 316 

Maury, William A 316 

Maus, Marion P 317 

May, Henry 317 

Maydwell, George E 317 

Mayfleld, Clifton 317 

Maynard, Harry Lee 317 

Mayo, Amory Dwight 317 

Mead, Elwood 317 

Mead, William Whitman SU 

Meador, Chastain Clark 318 

Means, Thomas Hebort 318 

Mearns, Edgar Alexander 318 

Mearns, William A 318 

Meem, Harry G SiJJ 

Mejla, Don Fredrico 318 

Meline, James Florant iJlB 

Melville, George Wallace 3i8 

Melvin, Alonzo D 319 

Mendenhall, Walter Curran 319 

Mendoza, Diego 319 

Menefee, Flournoy 319 

Menzel, Paul A 313 

Meredith, William Morton 319 

Meriwether, Colyer 320 

Merriam, Clinton Hart 320 

Ii'.erriam, William B usl? 320 

Merrill, George Perkins 320 

Merriman, George Benjamin 320 

Merritt, John A 321 

Merritt, 'Wesley 321 

Messenger, Lillian Rozell 321 

Metcalf, Victor Howard 321 

Metcalf, William Park 321 

Metzerott, John Hitz 322 

Metzgar, Charles Watson 322 

Meyer, Adolph 322 

Meyer, George V. L 322 

Michael, William Henry 322 



CONTEINTS 



XXVII. 



Biographies Page 

Michalek, Anthony 323 

Michener, Louis Theodore 323 

Mlddaugh, Ray E 323 

Miersch, Carl Alexaiaer Johannes 323 

Miles, Nelson Apple ton 323 

Millard, Joseph Hopkins 324 

Miller, Alexander Macomb 324 

Miller (Mrs.), Anna Jenness 324 

Miller, Emily Van Doran (Mrs. W. T.).. 324 

Miller, Francis 324 

Miller, Frederick Abercrombie 324 

Miller, Gerrit Smith, Jr 325 

Miller, James Monroe 325 

Miller, Joseph Nelson 325 

Miller, J. Preston 325 

Miller, Kelly 325 

Miller, Marcus P 325 

Miller, Melville Winans 328 

Miller, Merrill 326 

Miller, William L 326 

Millis, John 326 

Mills, Anson 326 

Mills, Samuel C 326 

Mills, Samuel Meyors 32Y 

Mills, Stephen C 327 

Miner, Charles Wri^Iit 327, 

Minor, Edward S 327 

Mitchell, Guy Elliott 32T 

Miyaoka, Tsune jiro 327 

Mitchell, Leander P 327 

Moale, Edward 328 

Mcffltt, Melville M 328 

Mohler, John Robblns 328 

Mohun, Barry 323 

Monaghan, James Charles 32s 

Moncheur, Baron Ludovic 328 

Mondell, Frank Wheeler 32S 

Money, Hernando De Soto 329 

Monroe (Mrs.), Harriet Earhart 329 

Mjonroe, Heirsey 329 

Montagna, Giulio Cesare 329 

Monteverde, Federica de 329 

Montgomery, Benjamin F 329 

Moody, William Henry 329 

Moon, John Austin 330 

Moon, Reuben Osborne 330 

Mooney, James 330 

Moore, Charles C 3^0 

Moore, David 330 

Moore, Edward Bruce 331 

MJoore, Francis 331 

Moore, George Thomas 331 

Moore, J. Gales 331 

Moore, J. Hampton 331 

Moore, John 331 

Moore, John Matthew 331 

Moore, Joseph Byron 332 

Mioore, Lewis Barster 332 

Moore, |Robeirt M 332 

Moore, Willis Luther 333 

Moran, Howard 332 

Mordecai, Alfred 332 

Moreno, Alfredo Baquerizo 332 

Morgan, Edwin Lee 332 

Morgan, Francis Patterson 333 

Morgan, James Dudley 33S 

Morgan, James Morns 338 

Morgan, John Tyler 33S 

Morgan-Jones, William M ".33 

Morhart, Charles C 333 

Morrell, Edward da V 333 

Morrell (Mrs.), Imogens Robinson 334 

Morris, Charles 334 

Morris, Martin Ferdinand 334 

Morrison, Frank 334 

Morrison, Joseph 334 

Morrow, James Binckley 334 

Morrow, Jay J 334 

Morse, Alexander Porter 334 

Morse, E. Aj 335 

Morteza (General Mirza Morteza Khan, 

Momtazel-Molk) 335 



Biographies Page 

Mosby, John Singleton 335 

Mcseley, Edward Augustus 335 

Moser, James Henry : 33o 

Moses, Brice J 336 

Moses, William Ed.s^ar 336 

Moses, William H 336 

Mott, Edward Marsha)!.. 330 

Mutt, T. Bentley 336 

Moulton, Hosea B 336 

Mouser, Grant Earl 33b 

Mudd, A. 1 337 

Mudd, Sydney Emanuel 337 

Mueiden, |Mathild;e 337 

Muhlenberg, J. C. 337 

Muir, Joseph J 33'.' 

Mullan, W. G. Reed 337 

M-uUowny, Alexander R 337 

Munoz, Jorge 337 

Munroe, Charles Edward 337 

Munsey, Frank Andrew.. 338 

Munson, Edward Iiyman 338 

Munson, Reginald Fairfax 338 

Murdock, Joseph Ba'Jard 338 

Murdock, Victor 338 

Murphy, Arthur Phi'iips 339 

Murphy, Dominic T 339 

Murphy, James W 339 

Murray, Arthur 339 

Murray, Lawrence O 339 

Murray, S. Reese ... 339 

Mussey, Ellen Spencer 339 

Myer, Walden 340 

Nabuco, Joaquim '• 340 

Kailor, Allison, Jr 340 

Nash (Mrs.), Caroline Louise Ryan 340 

Naylor, Henry R 340 

N( edham, Charles Willis* 340 

Needham, James Carson 341 

Neill, Charles P 341 

Nelson, Edward Wiil-ain 341 

Nelson, John Mandt 341 

Nelson, Knute 342 

Nevin, Robert Murphy 342 

Nevins, William M 342 

Nevitt, James Ramsey 342 

Newberry, Truman Jlandy 342 

Newcomb, Harry Tu»ner 342 

N ewootnb, Simon 343 

Newell, Frederick llaynes 343 

Newlands, Francis Ciiffith 344 

Newman, Stephen M 344 

Newton, James Thorn well 344 

Newton, Watson J 344 

Niblack, Albert Parker 344 

Nichols, Henry Hobart 344 

Nichols, J.ohn Benjamin 344 

Nicholls, Thomas David 34& 

Nixon, George S 345 

Nixon, Richard Benjamin 345 

Noble, Charles H 345 

Noble, Thomas Kimoall 345 

Nolan, John H 346 

Nolan, John J 346 

Nolan, Walter D 346 

Nordhoff-Jung, Soti'i Amalie 346 

Norman, William W 346 

Norment, C4i(arence Forbes' 346 

Norris, George William 347 

Norris, James L 347 

North, Simon Newton Dexter 347 

Northrop, Claudian c-: 347 

Ncrton, Charles Stuarr 347 

Nott, Charles Cooper 348 

Noy es, Crosby Stuart 348 

Noyes, Frank Brett . 348 

Noyes, Henry E 348 

Noyes, Isaac Pittman 348 

Noyes, Theodore WiiHams 349 

Noyes, Thomas Clarence 349 

Noyes, William Albert 349 

Nye, Francis 349 

Nye, Frank E 350 



xxvin. 



OQNTBNTIS 



Biographies Page 

Nye, Frank M. 350 

Nyman, Charles E. . 350 

Obaldia, Jose Dominiro de 350 

Cfcerholser, Harry Ciiurch 350 

OBrien, James M... 350 

O'Byrne, Don Gabriel 350 

O'Connell, Dennis J.'. 350 

O'Oonnell, John F 350 

O^Connell, Maurice D 351 

O'Connell, Patrick J 351 

Oftterdinger, Henry T 351 

Ogrden, Herbert Gouverneur 351 

Ogilvie, Robert Walter Findlater 351 

Ohl (Mrs.). J. Kingiley 351 

Ohl, Josiah Kingsley 351 

Olcott, Jacob Van Wchien 352 

Oliver, Robert Shaw.. 352 

Olmsted, Frederick i^ 352 

O'msted, Marlin Edgir 352 

Olmsted, Victor Hu^o 352 

OMalley, Mary 352 

O'Neil, Charles 352 

Orcutt, Warren H. 353 

O'Reilly, Robert Maitland 353 

Oime, William B 353 

Osborn, Albert 353 

Osborne, John Ball 353 

Osborn, Albert 353 

Osborne, John Ball 353 

O&g-ood, Wilfred Hudson 354 

Otis, Elwell Stephen 354 

Otjen, Theobold 354 

Gulahan, Richard Victor 364 

Cutwater, Theirion 354 

Ovens'hine, Samuel 355 

Overman, Lee Slater.,,. 355 

Overstreet, James Whetstone 355 

Overstreet, Jesse 355 

Oyster, James F 355 

Eacas, Don Jose Rose 355 

Pack, Harold J 355 

Padgett, Lemuel Phillips 358 

Page, James 35o 

Page, John H 356 

Page, Logan W 35t) 

Page, Robert Newton 356 

Page, Thomas Nelson 356 

Page, William Tyler 357 

Palmer, Aulick 357 

Palmer, Frank W^aylmd 357 

Palmer, Henry Wiloer. 357 

Palmer, Theodore Sherman 357 

i'ardo, Felipe 358 

Paris, Walter 358 

Parker, Daingerfleld . . 358 

I'arker, Edmund Southard 358 

Parker, Edward Wheeler 358 

iarker, George T 35S 

Parker, Harry B 359 

Parker, James 359 

Parker, John Henry 359 

Parker, Myron Mel.'ia 359 

Parker, Richard Wayne 359 

Parker, William H.... 360 

Parker, William W 360 

Parkinson, Alfred Carroll 360 

Parks, Wythe M 360 

Parris, Albion K 360 

Parry, Edmund Hm-iburt 360 

Parsons, Herbert 360 

Parsons, James L. . 360 

Parsons, Starr 360 

Pasos, Don Jose Ma;ia 360 

Pastor, Don Luis 360 

Patchin, Robert Halsey 361 

Patrick, George Edward 361 

Patterson, Charles Gordon 361 

Patterson (Mrs.), Flora Wambaugh 361 

Patterson, Gilbert Bro vn 361 

Patterson, James O' llanlon 361 

Patterson, John Henrj' 361 

Patterson, Malcolm Kice 363 



Biographies Page 

Patterson, Raymond Albert 362 

Patterson, Robert Wilson 362 

Patterson, Thomas MacDonatd 362 

Paul, Henry Martyn 363 

Payne, Eugene Beauhamais 363 

Payne, James G 363 

Payne, Sereno Ellsha 363 

Payne, William Knapp 363 

Paynter, Thomas H 363 

Peacock, Sarah Brooks 363 

Peacock, Victoria Garwooa 363 

Peacock, Virginia Tatnall 364 

Peale, Albert Char es 364 

Fearre, George Alexander 364 

Peary (Mrs.) Jssehine Dietaitsch 364 

ieary, Robert Edwin 364 

Pcckham, Rufus WiU'.^m 365 

Pederneiras, A. V., de 365 

Peelle, Stanton Cannold 365 

P'eelle, Stanton Judkins. 365 

Feirce, Herbert Henry Davis 365 

Pellew, Henry Edward 366 

Pelz, Paul Johannes 368 

Pendleton, Edwin Conway 366 

Penfield, William L 366 

Penney, Charles G 36b 

Pennington, Alexander Cummings Mc- 

AVhorter 367 

Pc-nnypacker, Galusha. . . 367 

Penrose, Boies 367 

1 copies, Christian Joy 367 

Pepper, Charles M 367 

Pepperman, Walter Leon 367 

Perham, Sidney 368 

Perkins, Charles Plum.mer 368 

Perkins, Frank Waliey 368 

Perkins, George Clement 368 

Perkins, James Breck 368 

Perry, Alexander James 369 

Perry, David 369 

Perry, Thomas 369 

Person, Robert S 369 

Peter, Arthur 369 

Peter, G. Freeland 369 

Peter, Walter Gibson 369 

Peters, Andrew J 369 

i'eters, Benjamin F 370 

Pettis, William M 3TU 

Pettit, James Summer 370 

Fettus, Edmund Winston .* 370 

Pevser, Julius 1 370 

Ptister, Carlo 370 

Phelps, Harry 370 

Phillips, Duncan Ci'nch 371 

Phillips, E. F 373 

Phillips, Herman A 371 

Phillips, William Fow^e Ravenel 371 

Pliipps, Frank Huntington 371 

Pickett (Mrs.), La S.iUe Corbell 3V1 

Pierce, Charles C 371 

Pierce, Ulysses Grant Baker 372 

Pierre, Carrie E 372 

Pieters, Adrian John 372 

Figman, George Wood 372 

Files, Samuel Henry 372 

Pillsbury, John Eiliotc 372 

Pina, Don Ramon 373 

Pinchback, Pinckney Benton Stewart.. 373 

Pinchot, Gifford 373 

Pinchot, James Wallace 373 

Piper, Charles Vancouver 374 

Pitzer, Alexander White 374 

Piatt, Thomas Collier 374 

Plummer, Frank Everett 374 

Peels, Henry Andrew 374 

Pollard. Charles Loids 375 

Pollard, Ernest M 375 

Pr.ole, John Hudson 375 

Portela, Don Epifanio 375 

Porter, Horace 375 

Porter, John Biddie 375 

Porter, Peter A 375 



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Biographies Page 

Piorter, Robert P 375 

Portner, Robert 376 

Post, Charles William 376 

Potter, Albert F 376 

Potter, William P 376 

Pou, Edward Willia m 376 

Powderly, Terence Vincent 376 

Powell, William Frar»<^ 377 

Powelson, Wilfred Van Nest 377 

Power, Frederick Dunglison 377 

Powers, Le Grand 377 

Powers, Llewellyn 377 

Pradt, Louis A 3/7 

Pratt, Harry Wadclsll 37S 

Pratt, John Francis- 37S 

Pratt, Le Gage 378 

Pray. Charles N 378 

Preble, Edward Alexander 378 

i^rentiss, Daniel Wcbsler 378 

Presoott, Samuel Jenness 378 

Prevost, George Alien Mallet 379 

Price, Abel F . .. 379 

Price, Butler D 379 

i'rice, Overton Westfeldt 379 

Price, Thomas Malcolm 379 

Primrose, Harrison 379 

Prince, George W - 379 

Piince, Howard L 380 

Prindle, Franklin Cogswell 380 

Proctor, Redfield 380 

Prosise, John L 380 

Picuty, Charles Azic 380 

Pryor, George M 380 

Fujo, Arsene P 381 

Pulido, Aug-usto F 381 

Fiilsif er. Pitman 381 

Pulsiter, Woodbury 381 

Purdy, Milton Dwight 381 

Purvis, Charles B 381 

Pury, A. De 381 

Putnam, George ilsckwell 381 

FOitnam, Herbert... 38;: 

Fyles, Richard A 382 

Quairtance, Altus Lacy 382 

Quesada, Gonzalo De 382 

Quigley, Stephen Hugh 38'.r 

Quinton, William 383 

Radcliffe, Wallace 383 

Rae, Charles Whitside 383 

Rainey, Henry T 383 

P.akemann, Herman Carl 383 

Ralston, Jackson H 384 

Eamage, Burr Jaraas 384 

Ramsay, Arthur T , 384 

Ramsay, Francis Munroe 384 

Eamsburgh, Jesse llouck 385 

Rand, Stephen J. 3S& 

Randall, George Morton 385 

Randell, Choice Bosv/eil 385 

Randle, Arthur Enmiett 386 

Randolph, Wallace P 386 

Randolph, Winslow H 386 

Ransdell, Daniel Mooie 386 

Ransdell, Joseph Kugeiie 386 

Ransom, Brayton Howard 386 

Ronsome, Frederick Leslie 386 

Rapley, W. H 387 

Ratanayapti, Phra 387 

Rathbun, Mary Jane 357 

Ralhbun, Richard 387 

Rauch, George W 387 

Pavenel, William de Cnastignier 387 

Rawles, Jacob Beokman 387 

Rawlings, Ben. M 388 

Raymond, Frank K 388 

P;«ymjond, George Lansing 388 

Rayner, Isidor 388 

Read, John Elliot 385 

Read, John J 389 

P.tad, William A 389 

Reamey, Lazarus Lowrey 389 

Reber, Samuel 389 



Biographies Pag»* 

Redfern, Samuel Ed'.vard 389 

Reed, Henry Albert 389 

l:eeder, William Augustus 389 

Reel. Estelle , '. 389 

Reeside, Frank P 390 

Reeside, Howard S ^ 390 

Reeve, Felix Alexander..! 390 

Reichmann, Carl 390 

Reid, Charles Chester 390 

Reid, George Croghan 390 

Reilly, James W 390 

Reiter, George Cook 391 

Remey, Geoi-ge Collier 391 

Reyburn, John Edgar 391 

Reyburn, Robert 391 

Reynolds, Elmer Robert 391 

Reynolds, James Burton 392 

Reynolds, John Merriman 392 

Rt.eem, Clarence B 39:< 

Ehees, William Jonos 393 

Rhinock, Joseph Lafayette 393 

Rhodes, Marion Edward 393 

Rice, Albert Gaiaes 393 

Rice, Edmund 393 

Rich, William Jarro.^ 394 

Richards, Janet Elizabeth 394 

Richards, Milton Valentine 394 

Richards, William Alford 394 

Richards, William Henry 39i 

Richards, William P »»» 

Richardson, Charles Williamson 39* 

Richardson, Francis As^bury 395 

Richardson, George Burr 395 

Richardson (Miss), Harriet 395 

Richafdson, Harry 39o 

Richardson, James D 395 

Richardson, James Julius 395 

Richardson, James Montgomery 39o 

Richardson, Joseph..,. 396 

flichardson, Willard Stowell 396 

Richardson, William 396 

Richmond, Charles Wallace 396 

Ridgely, William Barret 396 

Ridgway, Rlobert 396 

Riedl, Richard R 397 

Riggs, E. Francis 39V 

Riordan, Daniel J 397 

Rives, Zeno J 397 

E ixey, C. Jones 397 

P.ixey, John Franklin 397 

Rjxey, Presley Marion 397 

Rizer, Henry Clay 397 

Robb, Charles Henry 395 

1-. obe, Charles Frarkiin 398 

Roberts, Ellis Henry 395 

Roberts, Ernest W 398 

Roberts, George Evan 395 

Roberts (Henry), Chalmers 398 

Robertson, Beverly H 399 

Robertson, Samuel Matthews 399 

Robeson, Henry Bellows 39^ 

Robeson, William H 399 

Robie, Edward Dunham 399 

Robinson, Frank V 40o 

Robinson, Joseph Tar- 'or 400 

Robinson, William Callyhan 40O 

Robnett, John David 4(Jti 

Rochester, William Beatty 400 

Rcckwell, Julius Ensii-rn 401 

Rodenberg, William A 401 

Rodgers, Frederick 401 

Rodgers, Raymond P 401 

Re dney, George B 401 

Rodriguez, Jose Igracio 401 

Roelker, Charles R 401 

Rogers, Charles C 403 

Rogers, Charles C 403 

Rogers, Eustace B 402 

Rogers, Joseph Decatur 402 

Rogers, Richard Reid 402 

Rogers, Thomas E 402 

Rogers, William Pennock 402 



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CONTEINTS 



Biographies Page 

Koman, Frederick Ogle 402 

Eomeyn, Henry .' 402 

l\ommel, George M '. 402 

Roos'evelt, Edlith Kermit 40a 

Koosevelt, Theodore 403 

Root, Elihu 404 

Poorer, Sarah Tyson ..'. 404 

Rosa, Edward Bennett 404 

Pose, Joseph Nelson 40t 

Rosen, Baron 404 

Roseneau, Milton Joseph 404 

Rosensteel, Charles 405 

Ross, Worth G 401) 

Rossiter, William S .',.'. 40.5 

Rousseau, Henry H 405 

Rothermel, John H '. 405 

Rcwan, Andrew Summers 40F; 

Royaards, Willem Albert 405 

Kucker, Daniel HenrT- 405 

Iiucker, Louis H 40b 

Rucker, William Waller .' 406 

Riidd, Channing 4OG 

Rudolph, Cuno Hugo '. 406 

Ruggles, George i)avi,-l 40G 

Eunkle, Benjamin PJ.ilt. .... 406 

I'nppert, Jacob, Jr ! 407 

Ruppert, John Hcnrv . . 407 

Ri'ssell, Charles Well': .' ', 407 

Russell, Gordon 407 

Russell, Joseph J 407 

Pi;;ssell, Percy Hickx'.ng " 40S 

Pussell, William H 40S 

Rutherford, Robert Gednev 408 

Ryan, P. E. C ". 4US 

Ryan, Thomas 408 

Pyan, William Hem y .' ' 40s 

Sabbath, A. J 409 

, Sabin, Oliver C 409 

Sacks, George P '. 409 

Safford, George H '. 409 

Safford, Marjr Joanna 409 

Saks, Isadore 409 

Sample, James Anthony! 409 

Sampson, Archib'ald J 409 

Samson, George Cleinent 410 

Samuel, Edmund William 410 

Sands, Francis Preston Blair 410 

Sands, James Hoban. 411 

Sanford, Edward F 411 

Sanger. Joseph P 411 

Sanner, Franklin T 411 

Santander, Manuel do Preyre 411 

Santelmann, William H 411 

Sr.rgent, Frank Pierce...!! 413 

Sargent, Herbert Howland 412 

Satterlee, Hemry Yates 412 

Saul, B. F 413 

Paul, John Aloysius 41^ 

Saunders, Edward Watts 412 

Saimders, Lorin M 413 

Saunders, William H !! 413 

Sawtelle, Charles Greene 4l;-» 

Saxton, Ruius 413 

Soharf , Jacob 414 

Schick, John Michael 414 

Schiff, Albert Chrisiinn 414 

Schley, Winfield Scott 414 

Schmeckebier, Laurence Frederick 414 

Schmitt, V. F 414 

Schneebeli, Gustav Adolph .......... 4I4 

Schneider, Charles 415 

Schneider (Mrs.), Martha Lemon 415 

Schoenfeld, Hermann 415 

Schouler, John 415 

Schrader, Frank Charles 415 

Schrader, Frederick FraijKiln '. . 416 

Schroeder, Ernest C larles 416 

Schroeder, Henock 416 

Schroeder, Reginal3 416 

Schroeder, Beaton 416 

Schuldt, Gus A '. 415 

Schwan, Theodore 415 



Biographies Page 

Schwarz, Eugene Amandus 417 

Schwarz, George FrBderick 417 

Scidmore, Eliza Ruhamah 417 

Scofleld, Carl S 417 

Scofield, John C 417 

Scott, Charles Frederick 417 

Scott, George Winfield 417 

Scott, Hugh Lenox 418 

Scott, James Brown 418 

Scott, Nathan Bay 418 

Scroggy, Tiiomas Edmund 418 

Scully, James Wall 419 

Seabrook (Mrs.), Plioebe Katharine 

Hamilton 419 

Seaman, William Henry...... 419 

Searle, George Mary. ... , 419 

Searle, William D !! 420 

Seawall, Molly Elliott 420 

Scbree, Uriel 420 

Scckendorff, M. G 420 

See, Tliomas Jefferson Jackson 420 

Seibert, Edward Grant 421 

Selby, William 421 

SelfriJge, Thomas Oliver, Jr 427 

Stimmes, Charles W 42.1 

S.ensner, George Henry 421 

Serven, Abram Ralph 421 

Sewall, Frank 4Z2 

Sbackleford, Dorsey W ; 422 

Shaf ter, William Ruf i;s 422 

Shahan, Thomas Joseph 42" 

Shallenberger, William Shadrach 422 

Shanahan, Edmund Thomas 423 

Shands, Aurelius Rives tiZ 

Shannon, William E 42'> 

Sharpe, Alfred C 423 

Sh.arpe, Henry Granville 423 

Shartel, Cassius M 423 

Shaw, Edgar Dwight 424 

Shaw, Leslie Mortimer 424 

Shea, Daniel William 424 

Shedd, Samuel S 424 

Shelle v, William Cai lysle 424 

SI. epard, Seth 425 

Sheppard, Morris 425 

Sheridan, Michael Vincent 425 

Sherley, Swagar 425 

Sherman, James Schoolcraft 425 

Sherrard, Thomas Horrick 425 

Sherwood, Isaac ^^ 426 

Sherwood-Regan (Mr^), Emily L 426 

Shibley, George Henry 42c 

Shidy, Leland Per.-y 426 

Shiras, George, Xr 42B 

Shock, William Henry 425 

Shoemakeir, Albert Edvs in 426 

SI oemaker, Charles l'"iederick 427 

Shoemaker, Isaac E 4:j7 

Shoemaker, Louis Pierce 427 

Shonts, Theodore Ferry 427 

Shriver, John Shultz. 427 

Shute, Daniel Kerfoc 427 

Sibley, Joseph Crocker 428 

S.ddons, Frederick Lincoln 42s 

Sidwell, Thomas Wat'jon 428 

Siggers, Edward Gregory 428 

Sigsbee, Charles Dwight 428 

Simmons, Furnifold McLendel 429 

S'mon, Abram 429 

Simpson, John 429 

Smis, Edwin W 429 

Sims, Thetus Willretio 429 

Sinclair, Albert Lef twich 429 

Sinclair, William 430 

Skinner, Aaron Nichols 430 

£ kybak, O 430 

Slater, Charles Wasiiin.gton 430 

Slayden, James L 430 

Sleman, John B 430 

Sleman, John B., Jr 431 

Siemp, Campbell 431 

Sloane, Charles Swift 431 



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XXXI. 



Biographies Page 

Small, John Humphrey 431 

Smalley, George Washburn 431 

Smiley, Charles Wesley 431 

Smiley, Sarah France? 43] 

Smillie, Thomas W. 43-? 

Smith, Allen 43J 

fimith, Bartholomew F 432 

Smith, Carl F 432 

Smith, C. Ernest 432 

Smith, Clarence Bea-nan 432 

Smith, Claudius Ferdinand 433 

Smith, David Highbaufrh 433 

Smith, Edwin 433 

Smith, E Quincy 433 

Smith, Erwin F 433 

Smith, Francis H 434 

Smith, Francis Scott Key 434 

Smith, Franklin Guest 434 

Smith, George Otis 43* 

Smith, George W 435 

Smith, Herbert Augusline 435 

enjith, Herbert Knox 43b 

Smith, Herbert Scott 435 

Smith, Hugh McCormiok 43f> 

Smith, Isabel E 43>; 

Smith, Jacob Hurd 43f 

Smith, James Franci? 43a 

Smith, John Addison Baxter 436 

Smith, John Lewis . 4Sf! 

Smith, Joseph Adams 43'j 

Smith, Joseph Edmund 437 

Smith, Madison Rojwell 437 

Smith, Marcus Aurelius 437 

Smith, Rodney 437 

Smith, Roland Cotton 437 

Smith. Samuel William 437 

Smith, Sylvester Clark 437 

Smith, Thomas Alexa ider 437 

Smith, Thomas Wilson 43S 

Smith, Walter F 43S 

Smith, Walter Ingl&wood 435 

Smith, W. Hamilton 435 

Smith, William Alden 43S 

Smith, William M. 438 

Smith, William Orlando 438 

Smith, William Robert 439 

Smoot, Reed 439 

Smyser, Martin Luther.... 439 

Smyth, James A 439 

Srnyth, Thomas G 439 

Snapp, Howard Malcolm 439 

Sniffln, Culver T 439 

Srow, Albert Sydney 439 

Sr.ow, Chester Ammen 43h 

Snow, Alpheus Henry 440 

Snyder, Edgar Calleider. 440 

.Snyder, Simon 440 

Snyder, William Tayloe 440 

Solar, Vincente Del 440 

Solberg, Thorvald 44f 

Soleau, William L 440 

Somerville, William Morison 441 

Sommer, H. (^Henry) Otto 441 

Sontag, Charles F 441 

fcoule, John Hartley 441 

Scuthall, Robert Goodc... 441 

Southard, James Hardmg 441 

Southerland, William bTeinry Hudson.... 442 

Southgate, Edward M 442 

Southwick, George N 442 

Scuthworth, Emma D. E. N 442 

Sewers, Z. T 442 

Sparkman. Stephen M 4-j:: 

Spear, Ellis 442 

Speir, William Edwin .... 442 

Spencer, Arthur Coe 443 

Spencer, Joseph Willium Winthrop 443 

Spencer, Samuel 443 

Sperry, Nehemiah Day 443 

Spight, Thomas 444 

Spillman, William Tamper 444 

Spofford, Ainsworth Rand 444 



Biographies Page 

Spofford, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott 444 

Sponsler, Charles Fr.iderlck 444 

Spooner, John Coit 445 

Sprague, DeWitt 445 

Spurr, Josiah Edward 445 

Squier, George Owen 445 

Sioufe, Robert 445 

Stabler, James Pleasants 4iS 

Stadden, Corry Montague 44b" 

Stafford, Dennis Jos^yh 446 

Stafford, Wendell Phillips 446 

Srafford, William H 446 

Stanley, Augustus O v'/sley 446 

Stanley (Mrs.). Caroline Abbott 446 

Stanton, Timothy William 44T 

Staples, Orrin G 447 

Stcaley, Clarence I' 447 

Stealey, Orlando 447 

St eele-, Charles Stetson 447 

Sleele, Frank A 447 

Steenerson, Halvor •' . ■ • 447 

Steiger, George 447 

Stein, Robert 447 

Stejneger, Leonhard 445 

Stellwagen, Edward J 44S 

Sienzel, Lula Vinette 445 

Svephens, Francis Henry 445 

Stephens, John Hall 445 

Stephenson, Ambro.-'e H 448 

Stephenson, Isaac 44s 

Stephenson, Thomas P 449 

Sterling, James D 449 

Sterling, John A 449 

St ern, Louis 449 

Sternberg, George M; ler 449 

Slernburg, Baron Herman von Speck.. 449 

Sterrett, James MacBride 450 

Stetson, C. R 450 

Stevens. Alice Bartlett 450 

Stevens, Eugene Ensign 450 

Stevens, Frederick C 450 

Stevens, Frederick Clement 450 

Stevenson, Charles Hugh 451 

S'eveinson, Hugh T. 451 

Stevenson, Matilda Coxe (Mrs. James 

Stevenson) 451 

Stickney, Amos 451 

St idham, Harrison . . 451 

Stiles, Charles Wardell 452, 

Stillings, Charles Arthur 452 

Stirling, Yates 452 

Stockton, Charles Herbert 4b2 

Stockton, Louise 453 

Stockton, Marian E. (Mrs. Frank R.).. 453 

Stokes, Henry Newlin 453 

Stone, Charles P 453 

Stone, Isaac Scott 4o3 

Stone, William Joel 453 

Story. John P 454 

Stott, Charles G 454 

Slout, John Kennedy 454 

Strasburger, Joseph 454 

Stratton, Samuel Wesley 454 

Straus, Oscar S 45< 

Strauss, Joseph 455 

Street (Mrs.), Daniel B 455 

Streets, T. H 455 

Strider, Luke C 455 

Strong, Edward TrasK 455 

Stuart, Alexander T 455 

Stuart. James E 455 

Stuntz, Stephen Conrad 455 

Siurgiss, George C 455 

Sturtevant, Charles Lyon 455 

Sudworth, George Hishop 456 

Sullivan, John Andrew 456 

Sullivan, Joseph Da;'Jel 456 

Sullivan, Thomas J 456 

Sullivan, William C 456 

Sulloway. Cyrus Adams 456 

Sulzer, William 456 

Summers, John E 456 



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CONTENTS 



Biographies Page 

Si mner, Edwin V'ose 45T 

Sumner, George "Watson 457 

Sumner, Samuel Storrow 457 

Suter, Charles Russell 458 

Sutherland, George 458 

button, John R 455 

Sv/aine, J. Ed 455 

Swartzell, George W. F 455 

Sweet, Owen J 455 

Swem, Edmond Hez 455 

Swenson, Laurits S. . 46S 

Swett, Otis D 459 

Swift, William 453 

Swinburne, William Thomas 459 

Swinderen, Jonkeer Reneke de Marees 

van 459 

Swingle, Walter Tennyson 459 

Swisher, Charles Clinr.on 459 

Swope, John A 460 

Swormstedt, John S 460 

Sylvester, Richard 460 

Syme, Conrad Hunt 460 

Sj monds, Frederick .V ar tin 461 

Symons, Thomas William 461 

Taber, Alva S 461 

Taff, Joseph Alexander 461 

Taft, William Howard 461 

Taggart, Hugh T 462 

Tait, J. Selwyn 462 

Talbott, Joshua Frederick C 462 

Talcott, Edmund M. 462 

Taliaferro, James Pip«r Am 

Tanaka, Kunishige 463 

Taniguchi, Naomi 46S 

Taplin, Horatio N 463 

Tappan, Benjamin 46S 

Tappan, Myron Augustus 463 

Tassin, Wirt 463 

Taussig, Edward Da\'id... 463 

Tawney, James A '. 464 

Taylor, Anson ;S 464 

Taylor, Asher Clayton 461 

Taylor, Boyd 464 

Taylor (Miss), Charlotte Bryson 464 

Taylor, David Watsoa 464 

Taylor, Edward Livingston 465 

Taylor, George Washington 465 

Taylor, Hannis 465 

'1 aylor, Henry Clay 465 

'''aylor, Horace A 466 

Taylor, James Knox.. 465 

Taylor, J. Murray... 466 

Taylor, John Rodgers Meigs 466 

Taylor (Miss), Mary vmlay 466 

Taylor, Robert Love 466 

Taylor, Stark B 468 

Taylor, Thomas 46B 

Taylor, William Alton 466 

Tfele, Ray Palmer 467 

Teller, Henry Moore 46? 

Temple, Edward Lowe 467 

Terrell, Robert Heberton 467 

Terry, Silas Wright 468 

Tnirkield, Wilbur Patterson 468 

Thoby, Perceval 46S 

Thomas, Ammi Amery 468 

Thomas, Charles Mitchell 468 

Thomas, Charles Randolph 465 

Tromas, Cyrus 46S 

Thomas, Edward H 46J 

Thomas, John B 469 

Thomas, William Aubrey 469 

1'h'ompson, Almon Harris 469 

Thompson, Berenice Kelley 469 

Thompson, Charles Willis 470 

Thompson, Enoch Magruder 470 

Thompson, Gilbert 470 

Thompson, H. Owen 470 

Thompson, James i">avid 470 

Thompson, John G 471 

Thompson, John Miltor. 471 

Thompson, Mills 471 



Biographies Page 

Thompson, W. Taliaferro ■^71 

1 horon. Ward 471 

'J'horp, Edwin H 471 

TJiurston, Ernest Lawton 471 

Thurston (Mrs.), Ida T. (Marion 

Thorne) 471 

Thurston, John Mellen 471 

Tiemey, Michael V 471 

Tilford, Joseph G 472 

Tilley, Benjamin Franklin 472 

Tillman, Benjamin Ryan 472 

Timme, Ernst G 472 

Tmdall, William 473 

Tirrell, Charles Quir.cy 473 

TJtcomb, John Wheelock 473 

Titcomb, William Parsons 473 

Tittmann, Otto Hilgard... 473 

Todd, Henry Davis 474 

Tompkins, Charles H 474 

Topham, James S 474 

Torbert, John Bryant 474 

Touville, William E 474 

Towne, Charles Arnette 474 

Townsend, Charles E 475 

Townsend, Charles 47'5 

Ttwnsend, Curtis McDDnald 475 

Townsend, Edwin F. 475 

Townsend, George Alfred ("Gath") 475 

Tracewell, Robert J 475 

Tracy, William W 475 

Train, Charles J 475 

Travers, Arthur M 475 

Treat, Charles H 478 

Trimble, South 476 

Trinkaus, Charles J 476 

True, Alfred Charles 476 

True, Frederick William 476 

True, Rodney Howard 477 

True, Theodore Edmona 477 

Truesdell, George 477 

Truitt, Benjamin P 477 

Tszchi, Chow 477 

Tucker, Charles Cowles 477 

Tucker, Evan H 475 

Tupper, James B. T 478 

Turner, William R . 475 

1 weedy, Frank 4(8 

Twohey, John Theodore 475 

Tyler, Richard Wolsey 478 

Tyndall, William Thomas 478 

Tyson, George Emory 478 

Lhler, George 479 

LJke, Titus 479 

Underwood, Oscar W 479 

Updegraff, Milton 479 

Upshur, John Henry 479 

L rell, Michael Emmet 479 

Vale, Josiah M 480 

\ ance, William Reynolds 480 

Van Deman, Henry Elfas 480 

Vanderbilt, George Washington 480 

Van Devanter, Willis 481 

Van Duzer, Clarence Dunn 481 

Van Duzer, Lewis Sayre 451 

Van Dyke, Edmund W 481 

Van Dyne, Frederick 481 

Van Home, William M 482 

Van Ness, Eugene Montgomery 452 

Van Orsdel, Josiah A 482 

Van Reypen, William Knickerbocker. . . 482 

Van Schaick, John, Jr 482 

Van Wickle, William P 482 

"Van Winkle, Marshall 483 

Varadhara, Phya Akharaj 483 

"\'aughan, George TuUy 483 

Vaughan, Thomas Wayland 483 

Veditz, Charles William Augustus 485 

Veitch, Fletcher P 484 

Vera, Don Virgilio xVtoreno 484 

Verbrycke, J. Russell . 484 

\ermilya, James H 484 

Vernon, Leroy Tudor 484 



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XXXIII. 



Biographies Page 

Vernon, William T.. 484 

Vincent, Thomas McCurdy 484 

Vogel, Leo 485 

Volstead, Andrew J 48o 

Vose, William Preston 485 

Very, Samuel Williams 485 

Vreeland, Edward Butterfield 483 

Vrooman, Charles iH. 485 

V/achter, Frank CharJes 48& 

Wade, James F 48B 

W^ade, Margaret 486 

Wadsworth, Herbert 486 

Wadsworth, James Walcott 486 

Wainwright, Dallas Bache 486 

Wainwright, Richard 486 

Waite, Merton Benway 487 

Walcott, Charles Doolittle 48? 

Waldo, George E 45< 

Wales, George Russell 487 

Walker, Asa 487 

Walker, Cornelius . tt87 

M'alker, John Grimes 487 

Walker, John T 488 

Walker, Percy Hargraves 488 

Walker, Richard Alfred 488 

Walker, Samuel H 488 

Walker-Martinez, Don Joaquin 485 

Wallace, Robert Minor 48S 

Wallace, Rush R 489 

"Vv allace, William M 489 

Walsh, John Edgar 489 

Walsh, Thomas A 489 

Walsh, Thomas F 489 

Walson, George 490 

Walter, George William 490 

Walters, Harris Ames hq 

Walton, Clifford, Stovena 490 

Wanger, Irving Price 49u 

Ward, Henry Clay 490 

Warder, Robert Bov/ne 490 

Warman, Frederick Conover 490 

Warman, Philip Creveling 491 

Warner, Brainard H 491 

Warner, Vespasian 491 

Warner, Wlllard F 492 

Warner, William 492 

V.'arren, Francis Eniroy 4a2 

Warren, George A 492 

Washburn^ Charles Grenfill 492 

Waters, Campbell Easter 493 

Waters, Joseph G. . . , 493 

Watkins, John Elfretn 493 

Watkins, John Thomas 493 

Watmough, James Horatio 4a4 

Watson, Eugene Winslow 494 

Watson, James Eli 494 

Watson, John Crittenden 494 

Wead, Charles Kasson 494 

Weaver, Aaron Ward 495 

Webb, Edwin Yates 495 

Webber, Amos Richard 495 

Webber, Herbert John 495 

Weber, George W 495 

Webster, Francis MarioTi 436 

Weed, Walter Harvdy 496 

Weeks, George H 496 

Weeks, John Wingate 498 

Weems, Capell L 497 

W'eightman, Richard Coxe 497 

Veisse, Charles H 497 

■V\'elborn, John 497 

Weller, Charles Frederick 497 

Weller (Mrs.), Eugenia Winston 497 

Weller, Francis Repetti 497 

Weller, Joseph Ignatius 498 

Weller, Michael Ignatius 498 

Wellman, Walter 498 

Wells, Almond B 498 

Wells, Walter Augustus 495 

Werber, Gustavus 499 

Wessells, Henry Walton, Jr 499 

Vv'^est, Henry Litchfield 499 



Biographies Page 

West, Max 499 

Westgate, John Mintoa t99 

Westinghouse, Geor-je 500 

Weston, John Francis !)00 

AVetmore, George Peabody 500 

Wetmore, James A 500 

Weyl, Max 500 

Wharton, Charles S 500 

Wheelan, James NichJlas BOl 

Wheeler, Nelson P 501 

Whelpley, James Davenport 501 

Whelpley, James W 501 

Wherry, William M 501 

Whitaker, Jesse Hadley 601 

"U hi taker, Louis Prei'ost 501 

White, Charles Abialhar 502 

White, Charles E 502 

White, David «>"2 

White, Edward Douglass 502 

White, George Henrj' 602 

White, George W 502 

White, Oscar Williams 602 

W hite, William Alanson 503 

Whiting, William Heiry 603 

Whitney, Fred Brown 503 

Whitney, Henry Howard 604 

Whitney, Joseph N 504 

Whitney, Milton 50« 

Whitside, Samuel Marmaduke 604 

Whittlesey, Bliphalet 504 

Whitwell, Sanford N 604 

Whyte, William Pinkney 505 

Wilbur, William Allen 505 

Wilcox, Earley Vernon 50S 

Wilcox, Timothy E. 505 

Wilcox, "Walter Dwi^ht 505 

Wilde, George Francis Faxon 60b 

Wiley, Aricsto Appling 506 

Wiley, Harvey Washington 506 

Wiley, William HaisLed 506 

Wilkens, Henry E 500 

Wilkie, John Elbert 607 

V.'ilkins, Beriah 507 

Wiikins, John F 507 

Wilkinson, Ernest 507 

Wilkinson, Oscar 507 

Willard, Henry A. 507 

Willbanks, Alexander A oOR 

Willcox, Walter Francis 50S 

Willett, William, Jr 605 

W illiams, C. Arthur 60S 

Williams, Charles P 508 

"VV illiams, Constant 608 

Williams, F. S. 509 

Williams, Gardner Frederick 609 

Williams, George Burchell 509 

Williams, Henry E 509 

Williams, James Monroe 509 

Williams, John Sharp 510 

V\^illiams, Louis S 610 

Williams, Richard P 610 

Williams, Thomas D 610 

"Williamson, John Newton 610 

Williamson, Landon Cabell 510 

Williamson, Thorn 510 

W illige, J. Louis 511 

Willis, Bailey 511 

Willis, H. Parker 511 

Williston, Edward Bancroft 512 

Wilson, Albert A 512 

Wilson, Charles Irving UlS 

Wilson, George P. . . . 512 

"V\''ilson, Herbert Michael . .'. 512 

Wilson, Huntington 512 

Wilson, James 512 

Wilson, James Ormcnd 512 

Wilson, Jesse B 512 

"V\'ilson, Jesse E , 513 

Wilson, Jesse Henry 51u 

Wilson, John Moulder 513 

Wilson, Nathaniel 513 

Wilson, William Bauchop 513 



XXXIV. 



CONTEINIT'S 



Biographies Page 

Wilson, William Warfield 514 

W^imer, James B 514 

Winbigler, Charles Fremont .'.'.' 514 

Winston, Isaac ; 514 

Winston, Nancie Otis '. 514 

Wint, Theodore Jonathan 514 

Winter, M. A 515 

Wintlirop, Beekman 515 

Wise, John C 515 

Wise, William Clinton 515 

MHseman, Daniel K 515 

Wisser, John Philip 515 

Wolf, Harry B , 515 

Wolf, Simon 515 

M'ood, Charles E '. . 516 

Wood, Court Foster 516 

Wood (Mrs.), Edith Ehner 516 

Wood, Ernest E 516 

Wood, Henry Clay 516 

Wood, Ira W 516 

Wood, James Harvey 517 

Wood, James Perry 517 

Wood, Leonard ' 517 

Wood, Spencer Shepai d 517 

Woodard, Henry F 518 

Woodbury, Ellen Carolina De Quincy... 51S 

Woodbury, L«vi 51g 

Woodruff, Benjamin 518 

Woods, Albert Frederick 518 

Woods (Mrs.), Bertlia Gerneaux Davis. 518 

Woods, Elliott 51g 

Woodward, George A 519 

Woodward, Robert Simpson 5ig 

Woodward, Samuel Walter si9 

Woodward, Sherman Melville 519 

Woodward, Thomas Pursell 519 

Woodward, William Cieignton 520 

Woodyard, Harry Chapman 520 

Worthington, Augustus S 520 

Wright, Abner King 520 

Wright, Daniel Thow 520 

Wright, John Allen Collier 520 

Wright, John R 521 

Wright, John Vines 5i!l 

Wright, Marcus Joseph 521 

Wright, Robert L 521 

Wrightson, Sidney Lloyd 521 

Wylie, Andrew 522 



Biographies Page 

M yman. Bayard 5^2 

Wyman, Howard S 522 

Wyman, Walter 522 

Wynne Robert J 523 

Yanes, Francisco J 523 

Yan-ow, Harry Crecy 523 

Yellott, Robert Edward Lee 523 

Yoemans, James D 523 

Yerkes, John W 523 

Yoachan, Don Alberto 523 

Young, H. Olin . . '. 523 

Young, James Rankin 524 

Young, Lucien S)24 

Young, Samuel Baldwin Marks 524 

Zahm, Albert Francis 524 

Zalles, Don Jorge E 525 

Zavalia, Don Carlos E 52t) 

Ztnor, William T 525 

ADDENDA 

Abbot, Frederick Vaughan 525 

Abbot, Willis J 526 

Alexander, Charles T 525 

Anthony, Daniel Read, Jr 525 

Barnitz, Albert 526 

Benedict, James Everard 526 

Berry, Robert Mallory 526 

Bolton, Benjamin Meade 526 

Bristow, Joseph Little 526 

Itryan, William James 52(j 

Burnett, Swan Moses 527 

Carlin, Charles Creighton 527 

Ca rter, Charles D 527 

Clieveland, Treadwell, Jr 827 

Cook, Henry C 52 < 

Cook, Joel 527 

Cooper, Charles Lawrence 528 

Craig, Joseph Edgar 528 

Davenport, James Sanford 528 

Dennett, (Frederick 529 

Dinwiddle, Edwin Courtland 529 

Ferris, Scott 529 

Flower, Frank Abial 529 

Fulton, Elmer Lincoln 529 

Gore, Thomas Pryor 530 

Owen, Robert Latham, Jr 530 

Slemp, Campbell Bascom 530 



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The District of Columbia 531 

Leading Officials of the District of Co- 
lumbia Government 531 

Places of Interest and Hours of Visiting. 533 

Constitution of the United States 537 

Amendments to the Constitution 542 

Declaration of Independence 545 

The Thirteen Original States and Present 
States of the Union and When Ad- 
mitted 547 

The Territories 548 

The Monroe Doctrine 548 

Presidents of the United States 549 

Vice Presidents of the United States 550 

Speakers of the United States House of 

Representatives 550 

Governors of the States and Territories.. 551 
The United States Senate, Sixtieth Oon- 

\ gress 552 

Members of the House of Representatives 
of the United States and Their Places 

of Residence, Sixtieth Congress 553 

Representatives Under Each Apportion- 
ment 56] 

United States Government Officials With 

Amount of Their Salaries 562 



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Courts of the District of Columbia 565 

Justices of the United States Supreme 

Court 568 

Foreign Embassies and Legations in 

Washington 569 

Leading Members of United States Diplo- 
matic Consular Service 572 

Military Divisions and Departments 573 

The United States Army 574 

Army Pay Table 575 

United States Naval Organization 575 

United States Navy Pay Table 576 

Leading Officers of the N»vy 577 

Civil Service 577 

Passport Regulations 578 

Naturalization Laws 580 

Panama Canal 581 

National Parks 582 

Patent Laws 582 

Copyright Laws 583 

Rhodes Scholarship 584 

Carnegie Institution 585 

Mt. Vernon Ladies' Association...^ 585 

Newspapers Represented in Washington. 586 
Newspapers Represented in Washington. 586 



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ABBE, CLEVELAND, Meteorologist, was 
borr in New York City on December 3, 1838, 
Fon of George Waldo Abbe, a merchant and 
philanthropist; educated in the public schools 
and the College of the City of New York. 
He studied astronomy under Brunnow, at 
Ann Arbor, Mich., and B. A. Gould, at Cam- 
bridge, Mass.; resided, 1865-66, at Nicholas 
Central Observatory, Poulkova, near St. 
Petersburg, Russia, and was aide in United 
States Coast Survey, 1860-67, and In the 
United States Naval Observatory, 1867-68; 
director of the Cincinnati Observatory from 
1£68 to 1873, at which place be inaugurated 
daily weather reports for the Cincinnati 
Chamber of Commerce, which led to tha 
United States Government taking up the 
idea; was meteorologist in the United States 
Signal Service from 1871 to 1891, and is 
still meteorologist of the United States 
Weather Bureau. He is editor of the 
Monthly Weather Review; professor in 
Columbian University and a lecturer in Johns 
Hopkins University. He is the author of 
many publications in his line of science. On 
May 10, 1870, he married Frances Martha 
Neal at Cincinnati, Ohio. Residence: 2017 
I street, n.w. 

ABBE, CLEVELAND, JR., Scientist, was 
born in Washington, D. C, March 25, 1872; 
son of Cleveland and Frances Martha (Neal) 
Abbe. Attended Harvard University, gradu- 
ating in 1894; took post-graduate course 
at Johns Hopkins University, taking the de- 
grees of M. A. and Ph. D. He was profes- 
sor of Natural Sciences in the Winthrop Nor- 
mal and Industrial College of South Caro- 
lina, 1889 to 1900, and attended the University 
of Vienna, 1901-03. Member of the Geological 
Society of America, American Institute, and 
Mining Engineers. He has written notes 
on the Cuspate Capes of the Carolina coast, 
proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural 
History, and the Physiography of Maryland. 
Residence: 2017 I street, n.w. 

ABBE, TRUMAN, Physician, was born in 
Washington, D. C, November 1, 1873, son 
of Cleveland and Frances M. Abbe. He was 
educated in the public schools of Washing- 
ton, and Harvard University, graduating A. 
B., 1895. Shortly thereafter he entered the 
Medical Department of Columbia University, 
from which he received the degree of M. D. 
He spent six months at the University of 
Berlin, and then two and a half years In 
hospitals in New York City. He taught 
physiology and surgery during the years 
1902-05 at the Georgetown Medical School, 



and from 1905 to the present In George 
Washington Medical School. He has prac- 
ticed medicine in Washington, D. C, since 
1902. He is a member or the Cosmos and 
University Clubs. He married Ethel W. 
Brown April 22, 1905. Address: 1539 I 
street, n.w. 

ABBOT, CHARLES GREELEY, Astro- 
physicist, was born at Wilton, N H., May 
31, 1872, son of Harris and Caroline Ann 
(Greeley) Abbot. He attended Phillips And- 
over Academy, 1890, and graduated from 
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
in 1894, with a post-graduate course in phys- 
ics leading to the degree of Master of 
Science, 1895. He was an assistant at the 
Smithsonian Astrophysical Obesrvatori% 
June-December, 1895, and aid acting In 
charge of same to July, 1906, when he was 
appointed acting director. Became director 
March 10, 1907. He conducted expeditions 
to observe the total solar eclipses of May 
28, 1900, and May 18, 1901, and is author 
of numerous articles on apparatus, methods, 
and results of solar research. He is a fel- 
low of the American Association for the 
Advancement of Science, a member of the 
American Astronomical and Astrophysical 
Society, the Washington Academy of Sciences 
and the Washington Philosophical Society. 
Residence: 36 Q street, n.e. Office: Smith- 
sonian Institution. 

ABBOTT, C. S., JR., Episcopal clergyman, 
assistant rector of the Chapel of the Goo3 
Shepherd. Residence: 509 I street, n.e. 

ABERT,. SILVANUS. THAYER,, civil 
engineer, was born at Philadelphia, Penn., 
July 22, 1828. Attended Princeton Univer- 
sity, and entered the United States Govern- 
ment service in 1848, and was active in 
canal construction. He was on the sitaff of 
Generals Banks and "Meade during the Civil 
War; was interested In river surveys for 
The Columbian Government soon after the 
ending of the war. Again entered the serv- 
ice of the United States Government in 1873, 
and took charge of the Geological Division 
from Washington to North Carolina. He has 
published many engineering reports. Ad- 
dress: Metropolitan Club. 

ABERT, WILLIAM STONE, lawyer, was 
born in Mt. Pleasant, Washington, D. C, 
Julj 27 1845, son of Lieutenant-Colonel 
James W. and Jane Lenthall (Stone) Abert. 
Attended the public schools of Washing- 
ton; graduated from Princeton, 1865, A. M., 



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and the Cincinnati Law School. LL. B., 1868; 
compiled with judicial decisions, all statute 
laws in force in the District of Columbia, by 
appointment of the Supreme Court of the 
district under authority of an act of Con- 
gress. Member of the Cosmos, University, 
aiid Azetec Clubs, and also the Columbia His- 
torical Society, and Sons of the Revolution. 
Married Nannie L. Hamilton, at Lonesville, 
Ky., October 5, 1875. Address: 408 Fifth 
street, n.w. 

ABNER, EDWARD F., President of the 
Aoner Drury Brewing Company, was born 
in Cologne, Germany, July 26, 1864. He 
attended the public schools of his native 
tcwn, and was graduated from the Apostel 
Gymnasium, of the same city. After finish- 
ing his education he took up the banking 
business in Cologne, where he acquired a 
knowledge of banking and business in gen- 
eral. He came to Washington in 1885. In 
18S7 he returned to Germany to manage nis 
paternal estate, his father having died. He 
returned to Washington again in 1890, when 
he became interested in the National Capital 
Brewing Company. After serving as secre- 
tary and treasurer of this company for 
se\en years, he bought the Albert Brewing 
Company, and, with Peter A. Drury, formed 
the Abner-Drury Brewing Company, being 
piesident and secretary of this company at 
the present time. He is prominently identi- 
ed with many leading business enterprises 
of the city; chairman of the Brewers' Com- 
mittee which comprises all local brewers. 
He married Mathilde Vorlander of Wash- 
ington in 1896. Residence: 1812 G street, n.w. 

ACHESON, ERNEST FRANCIS, editor, 
congressman, was born in Washington, Pa., 
September 19, 1855; was educated in Wash- 
ington & Jefferson College. Ke became edi- 
tor of the Washington (Pa.) Observer in 
1879; was a delegate to the Republi^a.i 
National Conventions of 1884 and 1896, .ind 
has been elected to all Congresses since the 
Fifty- third Congress as a RepuDlican from 
the Twenty-fourth Pennsylvania District. 
Legal address: Washington, Pa. Washingtan 
address: House of Representatives. 

ACHESON, MORTIMER H., man of affair?, 
was born in Columbus, Ohio, July 12, 1862, 
son of Thomas and Catherine (Hooker) 
Acheson. He was educated in the comnrm 
schools of Connecticut, after which he en- 
gaged in the provision business in Hartford, 
Conn. Afterwards he went lo New York 
ar.d entered the stock brokerage business. 
He came to Washington in 1888 as an agent 
of the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Com- 
pany, in which capacity he remained until 
he became a member of Littlefield, Alvord 
& Co., in 1893. Residence: Regent Hotel. 
Office: Colorado Building. 

ACKER, GEORGE N., physician, was born 
October 5, 1852, in Washington, D. C, son 
of Nicholas Acker, and was graduated froiii 
the Medical Department of Columbia Uni- 
versity, 1874. He is clinical professor of 
medicines and diseases of children at the 



George Washington University Medical Col- 
lege He is a member of the Medical Asso- 
ciation, the Medical Society, and the Gynae- 
cological and Obstetric Societi.is of Washing, 
ton, of the American Medical Association, 
the American Pediatric, and American 
Microscopic Societies, the An.:hropological 
Society and the Washington Academy of 
Sciences. Residence: 913 Sixteenth street, n.w. 

ACKER, WALTER H., lawyer, was born 
in Washington, D. C, in October, 1859. He 
was educated at the Emerson Institute, and 
later entered Princton University, graduating 
in 1882. After graduation he returned to tha 
city; took up the study of law under H. O. 
Claughton, and entered tne law school of 
the National University, from which institu- 
tion he graduated in 1885, and admitted to 
the bar the same year. He began practice 
in Washington, and has since made a spe- 
cialty of real estate law, the investment of 
funds and the management of estates. He 
is a large property holder in the District; 
a director in the Potomac Insurance Com- 
pany, and a number of other business enter, 
prises. He is a member of the Lebanon 
Lodge, No. 7, and the Board of Trade, Cham- 
ber of Commerce, and University Club. He 
married Mary Reinicker, daughter or Will- 
iam J. Reinicker, of Baliimore, Md., in 1883. 
Residence: 1657 Park street, n.w. Office: 
1420 F street, n.w. 

ACKER, W. BERTRAND, Chief of Patents 
and Miscellaneous Division, Department of 
the Interior. Residence: 1732 Fifteenth 
street, n.w. Office: Interior Department. 

ACKERT, CHARLES H., railway official, 
was born in Duchess County, N. Y., Febru- 
ary 19, 1856. He began railway service as 
a telegraph operator in 1872, and has filled 
various positions, becoming gt neral manager 
of the Iowa Central Railway 1888-93, and of 
tht Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway 1893-90. 
He was president and general manager of 
the same road and of the Chicago, Lake 
Shore & Eastern Railway 1899-1901; gen- 
eral manager of the Mobile & Ohio Rail- 
way 1901-02, and fourth vice-president of 
the Southern Railway since April, 1905. 
Office: 1300 Pennsylvania avenue. 

ADAIR, JOHN A. M., Congressman. In 
November, 1906, he was elected a member 
of the Sixtieth Congress from the Eighth 
Indiana District as a Democrat. Legal resi- 
dence: Portland, Ind. Washington address: 
House of Representatives. 

ADAMS, BR I STOW, editor, illustrator, 
chief of Section of Distribution, Foreat 
Service, United States Department of Agri- 
culture, was born in Washington, D. C, 
on November 11, 1875 son of Crawford Cad- 
Vi'alader and Ada Gertrude (Harrison) 
Adams. After obtaining his preparatory 
education in the public and private schools 
of Washington and Philadelphia, he entered 
Stanford University, from which he was 
graduated A. B. in 1900; took special art 
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Arc, Philadelphia, and the Corcoran Art 
School in Washing-ton. On April 23, 1902, 
he married Luella Isabel Farmer of Elmira, 
Cal. Their children are: Eleanor, born June 
13. 1903; Gertrude, born December 19, 1904, 
and Everett Wallace, born November 20, 
1906. He has been associate editor of the 
P&ithfinder; associate editor of Forestry and 
Lrigation; managing editor of Washington 
Life and American Spectator, and has con- 
tributed numerous articles and stories to 
magazines. He has made cover designs for 
Country Life in America and other leading 
magazines and for books, and designed a 
series of college athletic posters. During 
1S97 and 1898 he was artist ror the Berintj 
Sea Fur Seal Commision, illustrating four 
volumes of Government reports from sketches 
m.ade from seal life on the Pribylof Islands. 
At Stanford University he founded the 
Chaparral, the first permanent college comic 
in the West. In 1906 and 1907 was secretary- 
treasurer Stanford Restoration Fund, for re- 
storing buildings injured by earthquakes of 
April 18, 1906. He is a member of the All 
Souls' Unitarian Church; of the Unitarian 
Club, and the National Society of the Fine 
Arts of Washington, and or the Armstrong 
Association of New York. With his wife, 
he planned his own home, and personally 
designed and executed the interior finishing 
ana decorations. Residence: 2307 Soutn 
Dakota avenue. Office: United States For- 
est Service. 

ADAMS. GEORGE IRVING, geologist, born 

at Lena, 111., August 17, 1870, son of Howard 
Brooks and Ruth Ann (Harris) Adams. He 
was educated at the Kansas State Normal 
Schcol, University of Kansas, Princeton Uni- 
versity, and the University of Munich, Ger- 
many. He received the degree of Doctor 
of Science (Sc. D.) from Princeton, 189o. 
He served as instructor in natural sciences 
in the Kansas State Normal School, and. since 
1900, has been field assisant in the United 
States Geological Survey. He Is a mem- 
ber of the Geological Society of America and 
the American Institute of Mining Engineers. 
He has contributed many articles to various 
scientific publications. Address: U. S. Geo- 
logical Survey. 

ADAMS, HAMILTON, merchant, was born 
In 1858, and started in the periodical business 
at the age of eleven with nis Drotner Brad- 
ley Adams, then at the head of the business 
in this city. He was well known as a choir 
singer, and on that account in 1884 accepted 
a position with the John A. McCauU Opera, 
Company, and began his stage career at the 
McCaull Opera House, Philadelphia, in 1885. 
In 1887 he joined the New York Casino Com- 
pany; he played with several first-class com- 
panies until 1898, when he returned to Wash- 
ington to again emter business. He is a 
Shriner, and stands high in Masonry. Res- 
idence: 923 P street, n.w. Office: Ninth and 
G streets, n.w. 

ADAMS, HENRY, author, historian, was 
born in Boston, Mass., February 16, 1838; 
son of Charles Francis ana Abigail (Brooks) 



Adams. He was graduated from Harvard 
University in 1858, and in 1861 became pri- 
vate secretary to his father, who was then 
U. S. Minister to England. On his return, 
in 1870, he was appointed assistant profes- 
sor of history at Harvard, and held that chair 
until 1877. While there he also edited the 
North American Review. He is also the 
author of many books, historical and crit- 
ical, his principal work being the History 
of the United States, which appeared in 
nine volumes. Among his other works are: 
Essays in Anglo-Saxon Law; History of 
Jefferson's Administrations; Writings of 
Albert Gallatin; Life of John Randolph, and 
a number of important pamphlets on civil 
service reform, historical tendencies, and 
finance. He received the degree of LL. D. 
from W^estern Reserve University, in 1892. 
Address: 1603 H street, n.w. 

ADAMS, HENRY CULLEN, promoter. 
Congressman, was born in Verona, Oneida 
County, New York, November 28, 1850, and 
was educated at the Albion Academy and 
the University of Wisconsin. He was a 
member of the Wisconsin State Assembly 
from 1883 to 1887; State Superintendent of 
Public Property from 1884 to 1890, and was 
Dairy and Food Commissioner of Wiscon- 
sin from 1894 to 1902. For several years he 
gave much of his attention to dairying and 
fruit growing; his present business is real 
ei^tate. He was elected to the Fifty-eighth 
and Fifty-ninth Congresses on the Repub- 
lican ticket. He married Anna B. Norton 
of Madison, Wis., October 15, 1878. Wash- 
ii:gton address: The Richmond. Home: 
Madison, Wis. 

ADAMS, JAMES BARRY, Assistant For- 
e-ster, in charge of the Division of Opera- 
tions of the Forest Service, U. S. Depart- 
ment of Agriculture. Residence: Gaithers- 
burg, Md. Office: Atlantic Building. 

ADAMS. RICHARD C, lawyer, represent- 
ative the Delaware Indians. Residence: 1701 
Park Road n.w. Office: Bond Building. 

ADAMS, SAMUEL SHUGERT, physician, 
was born in Washington, D. C, July 12, 1853, 
son of George Roszell and Mary Ann Adams. 
Attended West Virginia University, gradu- 
ating in 1875; received the degree of A. M. 
1878; graduated in medicine at Georgetown 
University in 1879, and began the practice 
oi medicine in the District of Columbia. Ha 
liasi lectured in the medical schools of 
Georgetown University, National University, 
and Columbian Universi.ty, and at present 
holds the chair of Theory and Practice of 
Medicine and Diseases of Children in George- 
town University. He has been attendin.? 
physician to the Children's Hospital, Gar- 
f.' ic Memorial Hospital, consulting physician 
Sibley Hospital, Georgetown University Hos- 
pital, and Washington Hospital for Found- 
lings, and consulting physician for the Wom- 
an's Hospital and Dispensary. He has con- 
tributed a number of articles to the lead- 
ing medical journals of the country. He is 
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Clubs. On April 30, 1890, he married Lida 
Winslow Hollister. Residence: 1 Dupont 
Circle, n.w. 

ADAMSON, WILLIAM CHARLES, lawyer, 
Congressman, was born in Bowdon, Ga., 
August 13, 1854; spent his youth working 
on the farm and hauling goods between 
Atlanta and Bowdon. He attended Bowdon 
College, graduating in 1874, A. B., and the 
degree of A. M. was conferred a few years 
later. He began reading law with Hon. 
Sampson W. Harris, and was admitted to 
the bar October, 1876, at Carrollton Ga., and 
has been practicing in the Circuit and 
Supreme Courts of the State, and the Fed- 
eral Courts. He was Judge of the City 
Court, and attorney for the city of Car- 
rollton for a number of years. Was a presi- 
dential elector in 1892, and has been a mem- 
bei of the House of Representatives con- 
tinuously since the Fifty-fourth Congress. 
He was married to Minna Reese at Carroll- 
ton, Ga., January 29, 1885. Legal residence: 
Carrollton, Ga. Washington address: House 
of Representatives. 

ADDISON, ARTHUR DULANEY, real 
estate, was born in Prince George County, 
Maryland, April 24, 1852; son of Anthony 
and May J. (Thompson) Addison. He was 
educated at the Charloitte Hall Academy, and 
later at Wright's School, in this city. After 
leaving school he assisted his father in the 
management of his farm, returning to 
Washington a few years later to accept an 
appointment in the Surgeon-General's office. 
This connection he retained for twelve years. 
He resigned from the War Department and 
formed a partnership in the real estate busi- 
ness with John S. Larcombe, under the name 
of Addison & Larcombe. After several years 
of successful business they dissolved part- 
nership, Mr. Addison continuing the business 
alone. He conducts also an insurance busi- 
ness, representing several of the leading na- 
tional companies, and is a director of the 
Union Trust and Storage Company. He is 
a member of the Metropolitan Club. He 
married Caroline H. Steele, of Washington, 
several years ago. Residence: 2009 Q street, 
n.w. Office: 808 .Seventeenth street, n.w. 

ADEE. ALVEY AUGUSTUS. Second As- 
sistant Secretary of State, was born in Asto- 
ria. N. Y., November 27, 1842; son of Augus- 
tus A. Adee, Fleet Surgeon, U. S. N. He 
was appointed Secretary of the Legation at 
Madrid September 9, 1870; Chief of the 
Diplomatic Bureau June 11, 1878; Third 
Assistant Secretary of State July 18, 
1882, and Second Assistant Secreta-y 
of State on August 3, 1886. Was 
present ait the signing of peace proto- 
cols between the United States and Spain. 
Was appointed Secretary of State to fill 
vacancy September 17-29, 1898, and Acting 
Secretary of State during the critical period 
of ithe Chinese troubles. August-September, 
1900. Residence: 1019 Fifteenth street, n.w. 
Office: Department of State. 

ADLER, CYRUS, Assistant Secretary 



Smithsonian Institution, archaeologist, was 
born in Van Buren, Ark., September 1.1, 1863. 
He was graduated from the University of 
Pennsylvania in 1883, and received the de- 
gree of Ph. D. from Johns Hopkins Univer- 
sity, where he subsequently was associate 
in Semitic languages. He was librarian of 
the Smithsonian Institution from 1892 to 
1905; is curator of historic archaeology and 
of historic religions in the United States 
National Museum; was special commissioner 
of the World's Columbian Exposition to 
Turkey, Egypt, Algiers, Morocco and other 
countries in 1890, and was the United States 
Government's delegate to the international 
conference called to catalogue all scientific 
literature, 1898. He is president of 'the 
American Jewish Historical Society; was 
president of the Board of Directors of the 
Jewish Theological Seminary of America; 
member of the American Philoisophical Soci- 
ety; has written many articles on oriental 
archaeology, Semitic philology, bibliography, 
American Jewish history, etc., and was one 
of the editors of the Jewish encyclopedia. 
End discovered and edited the so-called Jef- 
ferson Bible. In 1898 he published (with 
Allen Ramsey), Told in a Coffee House: a 
Book of Turkish Tales. Address: The 
Mendota. 

ADLER, MAURICE J., merchant, vice- 
president Farmers' & Mechanics' National 
Bank of Georgetown. Residence: 3125 P 
street, n.w. Business address: 3148 M 
street, n.w. 

ADLER, VICTOR E., merchant, was born 
in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1865, and October 28, 
1884, opened a clothing store on Seventh 
street, in Washington, dealing in all kinds 
of men's furnishing goods, and building up 
a very successful business. Residence: 1205 
Tenth street, n.w. Business address: 927 
Seventh street, n.w. 

AIKEN, WYATT, Congressman, was born 
in Abbeville County, South Carolina, on De- 
cember 14, 1863; oon of D. Wyatt and Vir- 
ginia Carolina Aiken. Attended the common 
schools at Cokesbury, S. C, and Washing- 
ton, D. C. when there with his father, who 
was a Congressman from the Third South 
Carolina District for ten years, and was an 
official court sitenographer nineteen years. 
He served with the First South Carolina 
Infantry in the Spanish-American War. He 
is a Mason, a member of the Odd Fellows, 
Red Men, and Knights of Pythias; is a Dem- 
ocrat, and has been a delegate to several 
State conventions; was elected to the Fifty- 
eighth, re-elected to the Fifty-ninth and 
S.xtieth Congresses. Is married and has four 
children. Legal residence: Abbeville, S. C. 
Washington address: House of Representa- 
tives. 

AILES. MILTON EVERETT, banker, was 
born in Shelby County, Ohio, on August 19, 
1S67. He was educated in the public schools 
of Sidney, Ohio, and entered the Govern- 
ment service at Washington when eighteen 
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After a few years in the service he took 
up the study of law at the National Uni- 
versity Law School, graduated, and was 
admitted to the Washington bar in 1890. 
ITe became law clerk of the Miscellaneous 
Division of his old department, and was sub- 
sequently transferred to the Customs Bureau, 
where he remained for several years. H.3 
was appointed private secretary to Assist- 
ant Secretary of the Treasury Wike during 
McKinley's first term, and when Mr. Van- 
derlip was made Assistant Secretary he be- 
came private secretary to the Secretary of 
the Treasury. Upon the resignation of Mr. 
Vanderlip he was appointed the latter's suc- 
ce.'-sor, and was at the time considered the 
youngest man who ever held such a posi- 
tion in the departmental service. He re- 
signed from the Treasury Department in 
1903, to become vice-president of the Rigg;5 
National Bank. He is a member of the 
National Geographic Society and the Wash- 
ington Economic Society. On November 25, 
1891, he married Mary E. Gowans. Resi- 
dence: 1307 Clifton street. Office: Riggs 
National Bank. 

AINSWORTH, FRED CRAYTON, Briga- 
dier-General, U. S. A., was born at Wood- 
stock, Vt., September 11, 1852. He received 
appointment as First Lieutenant and Assist- 
ant Surgeon-General in the United States 
Ai-my November 10, 1874; was advanced to 
Major and Surgeon February 27, 1901; ap- 
pointed Chief Recorder of the Pension Office 
March 2, 1899; made important reforms in 
business methods of the War Department; 
revised and introduced index record card 
systems, by which all records have been re- 
produced in such a way as to make the full 
history of any soldier immediately available. 
The adoption of this system has created a 
saving of from $500,000 to $600,000 per 
annum. Address: War Department. 

ALBERT, CHARLES SUMNER, journalist, 
was born in Union County, Indiana, July 16, 
1858. He obtained his education at Dublin, 
Ind., and early began his career as a news- 
paper reporter. He was successively man- 
ager of the Press News Association; travel- 
ing correspondent, and night editor of the 
United Press for several years. He has been 
in newspaper work in Washington for more 
than ten years, and is at present Washington 
correspondent for the New York World. He 
married Miss Fletcher, of Washington, May 
22, 1895. liesidence: 2548 University place. 
Office: Wyatt Building. 

ALDEN. CHARLES HENRY, Brigadier- 
General, U. S. A. (retired), was born at 
Philadelphia, April 28, 1836. He was gradu- 
ated from Brown University in 1856, and 
the Philadelphia Medical College in 1858, and 
was made M. D. by the University of Penn- 
sylvania in 1901. He is an ex-president of 
the Army Medical School; the Association 
of Military Surgeons of the United States; 
Corresponding Fellow of the New York 
Academy of Medicine; member of the Amer- 
ican Public Health Asociation, the American 



Medical Association, the American Climatic 
Association, and the American Academy of 
Medicine, and the Militsiry Order of the 
Loyal Legion, of Indian Wars and of the 
Spanish-American War. He married Kather- 
ine Russell Lincoln October 25, 1864. Ad- 
dress: War Department. 

ALDRICH, NELSON WILMARTH, U. S. 

Senator, was born at Foster, R. I., Novem- 
ber 6, 1841, and received an academic edu- 
cation. Was president of the Providence 
Common Council, 1871-73; member of the 
Rhode Island General Assembly, 1875-76, and 
during the latter year was Speaker; mem- 
ber of the U. S. House of Representatives 
during the Forty-sixth and Forty-sevenih 
Congresses, and has been U. S. Senator from 
October 11, 1881, to the present time, suc- 
ceeding General A. E. Burnslde. In politics 
ho is a Republican. Legal residence: Provi- 
dence, R. I. Washington residence: The 
Arlington. 

ALEXANDER, A. B., in charge of the Divls- 
ion of Statistics and Methods in the Bureau 
of Fisheries, U. S. Department of Commerce 
and Labor. Residence: 404 Sixth stret, s.e. 
Office: Sixth and B streets, s.w. 

ALEXANDER, ARTHUR A., lawyer. 
Residence: Florence Court. Office: Cen- 
tury Buildinar. 

ALEXANDER, DE ALVA STANWOOD, 

lawyer. Congressman, was born July 17, 
1S46, at Richmond, Maine. Entered the army 
at fifteen and served three years as a pri- 
vate soldier. He prepared for college at 
Edward Little Instiitute, Auburn, Maine, and 
in 1870 was graduated from Bowdoin Col- 
lege, of which he is now an overseer; stud- 
ied law and practiced at Indianapolis with 
Stanton & Peelle, now of the United States 
Court of Claims. He was a delegate to the 
National Republican Convention in 1872; 
Secretary of the Indiana Republican Con- 
vention, 1874-78, and in 1881 was Fifth Audi- 
tor of the Treasury Department, and served 
one term as Commander of the Department 
of the Potomac, Grand Army of the Repub- 
lic. He entered into law practice with 
James A. Roberts, Comptroller of the State 
of 'New York, 1889-93; was U. S. Attorney 
for the Northern District of New York, and 
in 1906 published his Political History of the 
State of New York (two volumes) ; he was 
elected to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty- 
seventh, Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, and has 
been re-elected to the Sixtieth, Congresses, 
from the Thirty-sixth New York District, 
Republican. Legal residence: Buffalo, N. Y. 
Washington address: House of Representa- 
tives. 

ALEXANDER, JOSUAH W., Congress- 
man. In November, 1906, he was elected to 
the Sixtieth Congress from the Third Mis- 
souri Congressional District on the Demo- 
cratic ticket. Legal residence: Gallatin, 
Missouri. Washington address: House of 
Representatives. 



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ALEXANDER, WILLIAM CLARKE, cler- 
gyman, was born in Lewistown, Mifflin 
County, Pennsylvania, on September 6, 1850, 
son of Robert Hervey and Matilda (Milliken) 
Alexander. He was educated in the public 
schools and the Columbia (Pa.) Classical 
Institute, graduatingr in 1870, after which 
he attended Lafayette College, graduating in 
1873, with the degree of B. A., and was grad- 
uated from the Princeton Theological Sem- 
inary in 1876. The same year the degree 
oH M. A. was conferred upon him by Lafay- 
ette College and the degree of Doctor of 
Divinity by the same institution in 189J. 
F. om 1876 to 1880 he was pastor of th3 
Presbyterian Church at Pequea, Pa.; 1880-89, 
at Middletown, Del.; 1889-93, at Matawan, 
N. J., since when he has been pastor of tha 
West Street Presbyterian Church in Wash- 
ington. He is a member of the Phi Kappa 
Psi college fraternity, and in politics is a 
Republican. On June 1, 1876, he married 
Mary C. Reese, of Phillipsburg, N. J., to 
which union have been born three children. 
Residence: 3121 P street, n.w. 

ALGER, RUSSELL ALEXANDER, for- 
merly U. S. Senator and Secretary of Wai, 
waf born in Lafayette, Ohio, February 27, 
1836. He was admitted to the bar of Ohio 
in March, 1859 (received the degree of LL.D . 
from Hillsdale College); removed in Decem- 
ber of that year to Grand Rapids, Mich. He 
has been extensively engaged in the lumber 
business since 1866. He was Captain in the 
Second Michigan Regiment, 1861; Colonel 
ol the Fifth Michigan Cavalry, June 11, 1863, 
and was brevetted Major-General June 11, 
1865, for gallant and meritorious service 
during the war, having participated in sixty- 
six battles and skirmishes. He was elected 
Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army ol 
the Republic in 1889; was a delegate to the 
Republican National Convention in 1894, and 
chosen Governor of Michigan in the same 
year, declining renomination. In 1888 he was 
a candidate for the presidential nomination 
at the Republican National Convention in 
Chicago, and was first elector-at-large of 
his State. He was Secretary of War under 
Piesident McKinley, resigning in 1899, and 
on September 27, 1902, was appointed U. S. 
Senator from Michigan, and elected by the 
Legislature in 1903. He died in 1906. Legal 
residence: Detroit, Mich. Late Washington 
retidence: 1401 Sixteenth stieet. 

ALLEE, JAMES FRANK, merchant, U. S. 
Senator, was born in Dover, Delaware, in 
1857, and has always resided at his birth- 
place, where he learned the trade of jeweler 
and watchmaker under his farner, whom he 
succeeded in business, which he still con- 
ducts. He was elected to the State Senate 
on the Union Repubhcan ticket in 1898-1902; 
was elected to the U. S. Senate March 2, 
1903, to fill a vacancy that had existed since 
1901. His present term of office will expire 
March 3, 1907. He is president of the Bay 
State Gas Company and the Staten Island 
Brick Company. Married Lizzie Stevens 
January 18, 1882. Washington address: The 
Portland. Legal residence: Dover, Del. 

ALLEN, AMES LAWRENCE, lawyer. Con- 



gressman, was born in Waterboro, York 
County, Maine, March 17, 1837. He was edu- 
cated in the common schools and Whites- 
town Seminary, at Whitestown, N. Y.; later 
emered the Sophomore cliss, Bowdoln Col- 
lege, in 1857, graduating in 1860; attended 
the Columbian Law School, in Washington, 
D. C, and was admitted to the bar in York 
County, Maine, in 1866. He was elected 
Clerk of the Court of York County in 1870, 
and re-elected three times, and served tvvelV'3 
years, until 1883; was clerk of the Judi- 
ciary Committee of the House of Represent- 
atives, 1883-84, and special examiner in the 
Pension Bureau, 1884-5. He was a member 
of the Maine Legislature in 1886-7, and pri- 
vate secretary to Speaker Reed during the 
Fifty- first, Fifty-fourth and Fifty- fifth Con- 
gresses, and a delegate-at-large from Maine 
to the Republican National Convention a: 
St. Louis in 1896, and was a member of the 
Committee on Resolutions. He was elected 
to the Fifty-sixth Congress November, 1899, 
to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation 
of Hon. T. B. Reed, and has been re-elected 
to subsequent Congresses. Washington ad- 
dress: The Roland. Legal residence: Alfred, 
Maine. 

ALLEN, ANDREW HUSSEY, Chief, Bu- 
reau Rolls and Library, U. S. Department 
of State, was born in New York City, De- 
cember 6, 1855, son of Julian and Mary 
Abbey (Hussey), rAllen. Attended Phillips- 
Andover Academy, 1871-74; Harvard, A. B., 
1878; one year at the Columbia (N. Y.) Law 
School. He is the author of many books, 
among them being A Documentary History 
of the Constitution of the United States. 
Member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon college 
fraternity. Hasty Pudding Club (Harvard), 
and the University Club, Washingon. He 
is a member of the Protestant Episcopal 
Church, and does not identify himself with 
any political party. Unmarried. Residence: 
1500 Vermont avenue, n.w. Office: State De- 
partment. 

ALLEN, BENNETT A., Grand Commander 
of the Knights Templar of the District of 
Columbia, was born in Ohio, and at three 
years of age went with his parents to Sc. 
George, Kansas. In 1883 he entered the 
Treasury Department, being promoted to 
chief of division in the office of the Auditor 
of the Post-Offlce Department. At one time 
he directed the affairs of three separate 
Masonic bodies, and was chairman of the 
Columbia Commandery Fair Commission. 
Residence: 1901 Fourth street, n.w. Office: 
Post-Offlce Department. 

ALLEN, CHARLES JULIUS, army officer, 
was born at Buffalo, N. Y., January 31, 1840, 
son of Charles H. and Melissa M. (Kissam> 
Allen. He was graduated from the U. S. 
Military Academy in 1864; promoted to the 
rank of Brigadier-General, U. S. A., Janu- 
ary 22, 1904, and was retired after forty 
years' service. He served in the Civil War 
in the Military Division of West Mississippi 
and Louisiana; was brevetted Captain for 
meritorious services at the capture of Forts 
Gaines and Morgan, 1864; brevetted Major, 
U. S. A., for gallant and meritorious services 



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during the Mobile campaign, and in othtjr 
services to tiie close of the war. He was 
Chief Engineer of the Army of Observa- 
tion on the Rio Grande, Texas, June-August, 
1S65. He was in charge of the defenses of 
Washington during the Spanish War, and 
chairman of the Board of Officers of Corps 
or' Engineers for 'Vhe Memo.ial Bridge across 
the Potomac at Washington. He is a mem- 
ber of the Military Order of Loyal Legion. 
Address: War Department. 

ALLEN, EDWIN WEST, scientist, was 
borr at Amherst, Mass., October 28, 186-1. 
Hi was graduated from Massachusetts Agri- 
cultural college in 1885, ar)d also pursue:] 
studies at the Boston University and at the 
University of Gottingen, Germany. He is 
the author of many papers on agricultural 
chemistry, and on the work of agricultural 
experiment stations, and editor of the Expe- 
riment Station Record, published by the 
United States Department of Agriculture. 
Address: 1725 Riggs place. 

ALLEN, EUGENE THOMAS, chemist, was 

born at Athol, Worcester County, Massachu- 
setts, on April 2, 1864, son of Frederick and 
Harriet (Thomas) Allen. His earliest ances- 
tor in America was William Bradford, Gov- 
ernor of Plymouth Colony. Attended Am- 
herst College; graduated 1SS7; four years' 
post-graduate work at Johns Hopkins and 
two years at Harvard, securing the degree 
Ph. D. at the former. He was acting pro- 
fessor of chemis'.ry in the University of 
Colorado 1892-93 and professor of chemistry 
in the Missouri State School of Mines, 1895- 
1901; United States Geological Survey 
Chemical Geologist 1901-7; chemist in tha 
Carnegie Geophysical Laboratory 1907. Has 
published reports of a number of r searches, 
chiefly in inorganic and mineral chemistry. 
Member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon college 
fraternity, and the Washington Chemical 
Society, of which he was president, 1904-5 
Ma.ried Harriet E. Doughty August 26, 189o. 
Residence: 1348 Euclid street. 

ALLEN, FREDERICK INNES, patent 
lawyer, was born at Auburn, N. Y., Janu- 
ary 19, 1859, son of William A. Allen. Ha 
prepared for college in the Auburn public 
schools and Phillips-Andover Academy, and 
was graduated from Yale Scientific School, 
1879, at which time he won his class prize 
in mineralogy. After graduation he took up 
the study of law, and was admitted to the 
bar at Auburn, N. Y., in 1'6S2. He was ap- 
pointed United States Commissioner of Pat- 
ents in 1901. He has lectured on patent law 
ill George Washington University for several 
years. He married Cornelia Margaret 
Seward, daughter of General William H. 
Seward, at Auburn, N. Y., June 3, 1884. 
Address: The Patent Office. 

ALLEN, HARRY J., dental surgeon. Office: 
Colorado Building. 

ALLEN, HENRY CROSBY, lawyer. Con- 
gressman, was born in Patterson, New Jer- 
sey, May 13, 1872. Graduated from Yale Uni- 
versity in 1893 with the degree of A. B.,, 



and from the New York Law School in 18j5 
with the degree of LL. B. He adopted law 
as a profession and has been practicing sinc-a 
he was admitted to the bar at Patterson, N, 
J. Was elected to the Fifty-ninth Congress 
on the Republican ticket. He is unmarried 
ai'd resides at Little Falls, N. J. Washing- 
ton address: House of Representatives. 

ALLEN, JAMES, Brigadler-Gene.-a;, U. S. 
A., Chief Signal Officer, War Departmenr. 
Residence: The Normandie. Ollice: War 
Department. 

ALLEN, WALTER C, Electrical Engineer 
of the District of Columbia. Residence: 3307 
Newark street, n.w. Office: District Build- 
ing. 

ALLISON, WILLIAM BOYD, lawyer, U. S. 
Senator, was born on a farm near Ashland, 
Ohio, March 2, 1829. Educated at Allegheny 
College, Pennsylvania, and Western Reserve 
College, at Cleveland, Ohio. After gradua- 
tion he took up the practice of law in Ohio, 
removing to the State of Iowa in 1857. At 
the outbreak of the Civil War the Governor 
summoned him to his staff, with the rank 
of Colonel, to aid in the organization and 
equipment of the Iowa troops for the field. 
Four regiments were recruited under his 
leadership, and had their renaezvous at a 
camp established at Dubuque. He was 
forced to resign from the Governor's staff 
ov.ing to illness caused by exposure in camp 
In 1862 he was elected to the House of Rep- 
resentatives from the Third District of Iowa 
by a very large majority. Took his seat ia 
Congress March 4, 1863, at a critical period 
of our history. Since that time he has had 
a voice in most of our important legisla- 
tion Was three times elected to the Hous3 
of Representatives, serving until 1871, whe'i 
he declined a renomination. Within a year 
after his retirement from Congress he waa 
elected to the United States Senate to suc- 
ceed Senator Harlan. He has been a mem- 
ber of the Senate ever since. His sixth term 
will expire March 4, 1909. He has served 
knger in this capacity than any other Sen- 
ator in the history of our country. He has 
served on the important committees of the 
Senate so long that he has p»-obably a bet- 
ter knowledge of the machinery ana varied 
operations of the Government than a'^j other 
man in the Senate. Was urged to accept 
the position of Secretary of th^ Treasury 
under Presidents Garfield and Farri.--,on, but 
he declined, preferring to represent his Stata 
in the Senate. He was frequently mentioned 
as a candidate for the presidency, and was 
strongly supported for the office by his own 
Slate at three nai-.ional conventions. Married 
Annie Carter, daughter of Daniel Carter, 
of Ashland, Ohio, 1854, who died at Dubuque, 
Iowa, in 1860; his second marriage was lo 
Mary Nealley, of Burlington, Iowa, in 1873, 
who was an adopted daughter of Senator 
Grimes; she died in August. 18S3. Wash- 
ington address: The Portland. Home: 
Dubuque, Iowa. 

ALMEIDA, DON ARTURO PADRO Y, 

First S cretary and Cha ge d Affaires Cuban 
Embassy. Residence: The Wyoming. 



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ALTE, DE, Envoy Extraordinary and Min- 
ister Plenipotentiary from Portugal to tlie 
United States. Address: 1423 I street, n.w. 

ALVORD, ELIJAH S., of the firm of Lit- 
tlt^field, Alvord & Co., was born at Indian- 
apolis, Ind., in 1866. He attended tiie public 
schols of his native city and finished a course 
at the Russell Military Academy, in New 
Haven, Conn. Soon after leaving New Haven 
he engaged in the provision buesiness and 
traveled for two years. He came to Wash- 
ing ion in 1887 and engaged in the express 
business, and later consolidated his busi- 
ness with that of L. A. Littlefield, under the 
name of Littlefield, Alvord & Co., now one 
of the leading transfer companies of the city. 
Residence: 2110 G street, n.w. Office: Colo- 
rado Building. 

ALVORD, HENRY ELIJAH, scientist, ed- 
ucator, was born in Greenfield, Mass., March 
11, 1841, son of Daniel Wells and Caroline 
Matilda (Clapp) Alvord, and descendant of 
Alexander Alvord, who died in Northamp- 
ton, Mass., in 1683. He was educated in 
the public schools of Greenfield, Mass., and 
at Norwich University, Vermont, graduat- 
ing from the latter in 1863. After gradua- 
tion he entered the Union Army, and by 
regular promotions reached the rank of 
Major in the volunteer service, and later be- 
came Captain in the regular army. During 
18G5-6 he was superintendent of Freedman's 
Schools in Virginia and South Carolina. He 
served in the Southwest during the Indian 
troubles, in 1866-9. He was professor of 
military science in the Massachusetts Agri- 
cultural College, 1869-71. After resigning 
from the regular army he engaged in stoclv 
and dairy farming near Fairfax, Va.; be- 
came United States Indian Commissioner, 
1S72, and served until 1873, and was teacher 
in Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Mass., 
from 1873-81. He was general manager of 
the Houghton Experimental Farm, at Moun- 
tainville. N. Y., 1881-85, and edited its pub- 
lications; was president of the Maryland 
Agricultural College in 1887, and director of 
the Maryland Agricultural Experiment Sta- 
tion until 1892. He was president of the 
Agricultural and Mechanical College of Okla- 
homa, 1894, and, in 1895, was professor of 
agriculture in New Hampsfhire College. 
During the latter year he organized the dairy 
division of the United States Department 
of Agriculture, and was appointed its chief. 
Ho married Martha Scott Swink September 
6. 1866. He was an official representative of 
the United States Government at the World's 
Fair in St. Louis, and died in that city 
October 1, 1904. 

ALVORD, THOMAS G., journalist, was 
born in Syracuse, N. Y., on November 2, 
1856. He began his career on the New Yorlc 
Herald in 1879, as general-work reporter. 
Six years later he was sent to Albany as 
legislative correspondent, and became State 
political correspondent, attending State and 
national political conventions, finally suc- 
ceeding to the post of chief political writer. 
After serving as editor of the Evening Tel- 
egram, he assumed charge of the Washing- 
ton Bureau of the Herald, resigning to be- 



come editor of the Washington Evening 
News, subsequently acting as correspondenr. 
of the New York World, spending some time 
in Cuba as war correspondent in the Cuban- 
Spanish War. In 1897 he became chief clerk 
of the Congressional Library, under John 
Russell Young, and after eight years' service 
resigned to return to the New York Herald 
as its West Indian correspondent, with head- 
quarters at Havana, Cuba. 

AMARAL, SYLVINO GURGEL DO, Coun- 
selor and Charge d'Affaires, Brazilian Em- 
bassy. Residence: The Portland. 

AMATERS, LOUIS, educator. He is now 
professor of fine arts as applied to archi- 
tecture at Columbian (now George Wash- 
ington) University. Residence: 1717 Nine- 
teenth street, n.w. 

AMBROSE, WILLIAM E., lawyer. Resi- 
dence: 314 A stret, s.e. Office: 458 Louisi- 
ana avenue, n.w. 

AMBROZY, LOUIS, Counselor of Legation 
and Charge d'Affaires, Austria-Hungarian 
Embassy. Address: 2319 Ontario road, n.w. 

AMES, BUTLER, mechanical and electrical 
engineer. Congressman, was born in Lowell, 
Mass., in 1871, a grandson of Major-General 
Benjamin F. Butler, and a son of Major- 
General Adelbert Ames. He was educated 
in the Lowell schools and Phillips-Exeter 
Academy, graduating in 1890; he was grad- 
uated from the United States Military Acad- 
emy, at West Point, in 1894; resigned from 
the United States Army after appoinment 
for the purpose of taking a post-graduate 
course at the Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology, graduating in 1896, as a mechan- 
ical and electrical engineer. Was an agent 
of the Wamesit Power Company, of Lowell, 
Mass.; joined the Light Battery A, Massa- 
chusetts Volunteer Militia, in 1895; acted as 
its instructor, and was made Lieutenant 
in 1896; resigned at the outbreak of the 
Spanish-American War, and was made Lieu- 
tenant and Adjutant of the Sixth Massa- 
chusetts Volunteers. At Camp Alger he was 
appointed Acting Engineer of the Secon<i 
Army Corps, under General Graham; he 
went from Charleston to Cuba and Porto 
Rico under General Miles; was promoted Lo 
Lieutenant-Colonel in his regiment, and was 
Civil Administrator of Arecibo District of 
Porto Rico until November, 1898. He has 
been a member of ithe City Council of Lowell, 
Mass., and was a member of the Massachu- 
setts State Legislature three years, 1897-98- 
99. He was elected to the Fifty-eighth and 
re-elected to the Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth 
Congresses from the Fifth Massachusetts 
District on the Republican ticket. Unmar- 
ried. Washington residence: Stoneleigh 
Court. Home: Lowell, Mass. 

AMES, JOHN GRIFFITH, clergyman, was 
born at East Dorset, Vt., December 11, 1834, 
son of Benjamin and Lydia (Griffith) Ames. 
He was graduated from Williams College, 
Mass., in 1858, and the Theological Seminary 
of Ohio, in 1863. Shortly thereafter he was 
made a deacon in the Protestant Episcopal 



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Church, and ordained priest in 1864. He 
became rector of the Church of the Redeemer, 
a; Morristown, N. J., in 1864, and Christ 
Church Springfield, Ohio, in 1867. He wa? 
head of the House of Evangelists, in New 
York, 1870-73. Since 1874 he has been Super- 
intendent of Documents in the Department 
of the Interior. He is the author of many 
newspaper articles; reports regarding pub- 
lications of the United States Government; 
check lists of public documents, and compre- 
hensive index to publications of the United 
States Government, 1881-93. He married 
Elizabeth Delano, at Mt. Vernon, Ohio, Octo- 
ber 4, 1864. Address: 1122 Vermont ave- 
nue, n.w. 

ANDERSON, GEORGE LUCIUS, army 
ofticer, was born at Delafield, Wis., April 
9, 1849, son of Archibald A. and Clarisa B. 
(Clark) Anderson. He was graduated from 
Lawrence University, Wisconsin, 1870; from 
West Point in 1874; United States Artil- 
lery School in 1876, and the Naval War Col- 
lege in 1897. On June 17, 1874, he was ap- 
pointed Second Lieutenant; November 11, 
1881, First Lieutenant in the Fourth Artil- 
lery; promoted to Captain in the Seventh 
Artillery in 1898, and Major in the United 
States Corps in 1902. He served in the 
various departments of the army; was pro- 
fessor of mathematics at West Point, and 
was an instructor of electricity and sub- 
marine mines in the United States Artillery 
School, at Fort Monroe, for six years. In 
1897 he was connected with the United 
States Embassy at St. Petersburg as mili- 
itary attache. He is the author of several 
books, among them being: Hand Book for 
United States Electricians in the Manage- 
ment and Care of the Machinery of Sea 
Coast Fortifications, and Instructions in 
Electricity for Noncommissioned Officers. He 
is unamrried. Address: War Department. 

ANDERSON, LARZ, formerly secretary of 
the American Embassy at London and Rome, 
was born in Paris, France, on August 15, 
1866, while his parents were traveling abroad. 
He is a son of the late General Nicholas 
Longworth and Elizabeth Coles (Kilgour) 
Anderson, of Cincinnati. Among his ances- 
tors who rendered distinguished service to 
the country were General Richard Anderson, 
who served in the Revolution as an aide 
on General Lafayette's staff, and General 
Anderson, who rendered distinguished serv- 
ice at the siege of Fort Sumter, and Captain 
Ciark, of ahe Lewis and Clark expedition. 
After obtaining his preparatory education at 
Phillips-Exeter Academy and other Ameri- 
can and European schools, he entered Har- 
vard University, from which he was gradu- 
ated with honors in 1888. After graduating 
from college he traveled extensively, studied 
law, particularly international law, and in 
1891 was appointed by the President secre- 
tary of the Legation at London, under Mr. 
Lincoln. When the mission was advanced to 
an embassy, under Mr. Bayard, he remainea, 
and was, in 1894, promoted by President 
Cleveland to First Secretary of the Embassy 
at Rome, under Wayne McVeagh, and fre- 
quently acted as Charge d'Affaires, resign- 
ing in 1897. At the outbreak of the Spanish 



War Mr. Anderson volunteered, and was ap- 
pointed Captain and Assistant Adjutant- 
General, and served during hostilities as 
Acting Adjutant-General of the Second 
Division of Second Army Corps on the staff 
of General Davis. He inherits the Eaglo 
of the Society of the Cincinnati from Gen- 
eral Richard Anderson and the Loyal Legion 
from his father, and became a member of thj 
Society of the Spanish War by his own serv- 
ice. He is a member of the Alibi, Country, 
Army and Navy, Metropolitan, and Chevy 
Chase Clubs. In 1897 he married Isabel 
Weld Perkins, daughter of the late Commo- 
dore Perkins, U. S. N. Wasnington residence: 
2118 Massachusetts avenue. Country resi- 
dence: (Weld) Brookline, Mass. 

ANDERSON, THOMAS H., jurist, was 
bcrn at Belmont, Ohio, June 6, 1848, son of 
John and Amelia (Dallas) Anderson. He 
was educated in the public schools and at 
Mt. Union College, Ohio. After graduation 
from college he taught in the schools of 
Belmont and Guernsey Counties, Ohio; was 
made principal of the Cambridge (Ohio) 
High School, and remained there until ad- 
mitted to the bar, in 1871. He practiced law 
at Cambridge, Ohio, from 1871 to 1889; was 
Consul-General and resident United States 
Minister to Bolivia during 1889-90; United 
States Minister to the same country from 
1890-99, and was appointed United States 
District Attorney at Washington, D. C, De- 
cember, 1899, holding that position untU 
April 1, 1901, when he received the appoint- 
ment of Associate Justice of the Supremo 
Court of the District of Columbia. In Octo- 
ber, 1879, he married Laura B. Augusitine, 
of Addison, Penn. Residence: The Port- 
land. 

ANDREWS, ANNULET (Mrs. J. Kingslev 
Olil), author, was born in Washington, Ga., 
December 29, 1866, the daughter of Dr. 
Henry F. Andrews, and the granddaughter 
or Judge Garnett Andrews, who was for a 
number of years one of the leading jurists 
of the South. She has been a prolific writer 
of poetry and witicisms for such publica- 
tions as Puck, Judge, and Life, and a reg- 
ular contributer to the Century, Harper's, 
Munsey's and other magaines. For a num- 
ber of years she was edtior of the Woman'^ 
Department and a general writer for the 
Atlanta Constitution. In 1889 She married 
Mr. J. Kingsley Ohl. Residence: Cleveland 
Park. 

ANDREWS, ELIPHALET FRAZER, artist, 
was born in Steubenville, Ohio, June 11, 
1835, and was graduated from Marietta Col- 
lege in 1853. He went to Europe as a pupil 
of Knaus and Bonnat, and also attended 
Dusselford Academy; director of the Corco- 
ran School of Art for a number of years. 
Address: 1232 Sixteenth street, n.w. 

ANDREWS, GEORGE LIPPITT, army 
officer, was born at Providence, R. I., April 
22, 1828, son of George and Cornelia Au- 
gusta (Lippitt) Andrews. He was elected 
Captain of the Second Company of National 
Guard of Missouri, 1861, and his commission 
was refused by the Governor for his loyalty 



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to the United States Government. He be- 
came Major of the Seventeenth United States 
Infantry May 14, 1861 and Lieutenant Col- 
onel of the Thirteenth United States In- 
fantry October 14, 1864; Colonel of the 
Twenty-fifth Infantry January 1, 1871; Brig- 
adier-General, U. S. A., retired, April 23, 
1904. He was wounded and had a horse 
killed under him at the battle of Wilson's 
Creek, Missouri, August 10, 1861. He was 
v/ith the Army of the Potomac, IS62-63; 
organized and recruited the Seventeenth and 
Thirteenth Regiments of Infantry, U. S. A., 
1863-68, and, in the Indian country west of 
the Mississippi for twenty-six years; was 
Superintendent of Indian Affairs for Ari- 
zona, 1869-70. He is a member of the Sons 
of the American Revolution, Society of Amer- 
ican Wars; member and ex-Commander of 
District of Columbia Commandery of the 
Lcyal Legion, and a director of the Wash- 
ington Sanitary Improvement Company, and 
member of the Metropolitan Club, of Wash- 
ington, D. C. Residence: 2400 Columbia 
road. 

ANDREWS, ROSS P., President and Gen- 
eral Manager of the R. P. Andrews Paper 
Company, wholesale dealers in paper and sta- 
ticnery, was born in Warren County, Penn., 
in 1864, son of James Andrews and grand- 
son of one of the oldest pioneers of Western 
Pennsylvania. He was educated in the pub- 
lic schools and entered upon a business 
career very early in life. He has been inter- 
ested in the paper industry in some capac- 
ity since a mere youth. For a number of 
years he was a traveling salesman for large 
paper houses, his business being confined 
mostly to the South. He is the founder of 
the R. P. Andrews Paper Company, the 
laigest wholesale paper house south of New 
York. He has been very active in th.3 
"Greater Washington" movement, and is 
vice-president of the Jobbers' and Shippers' 
Association. He is considered one of the 
city's leading business men, and is a mem- 
ber of the different Masonic orders. He is 
president of the District of Columbia branch 
of the Traveling Men's Protective Associa- 
tion of America, and is a director of the 
Washington Chamber of Commerce. Resi- 
dence: 1503 Twenty-eighth street, n.w. 
Office: 627 Louisiana avenue, n.w. 

ANDREWS, W. E., Auditor for the United 

States Treasury Department. Residence: 
1J23 Fairmont street, n.w. Office: Treasury 
Department. 

ANDREWS, WILLIAM H., Delegate to 
Congress from New Mexico, was born in 
Youngsville, Warren County, Penn., Janu- 
ary 14, 1842, and was educated in the public 
schools, afterwards engaging in farming and 
mercantile pursuits. He was chairman of 
the Republican State Committee of Penn- 
sylvania in 1889 and 1890; has been a mem- 
ber of the State Senate and a member of the 
House of Repres ntatives of Pennsylvania; 
was a member of the Territorial Council of 
New Mexico, 1903-4, and has been president 
of the Santa Fe Central Railway Company. 
He is a Republican and was elected a Dele- 
gate to ithe Fifty-ninth Congress. He is mar- 



ried, and resides at The Shoreman while in 
Washington. Home: Santa Fe, New Mex- 
ico. 

ANDRUS, JOHN EMORY, manufacturer, 
Congressman, was born in Pleasantville, 
West Chester County, New York, February 
16, 1841, and prepared for college at Char- 
lotteville Seminary, Schoharie County, New 
York. Attended Wesleyan University, at 
Middletown, Conn., being graduated in 1862, 
with the degree of A. B. He afterwards taugiit 
school in New Jersey for a few years, and 
then engaged in the manufacture of medical 
preparations near New York; he is presi- 
dent of the New York Pharmaceutical Asso- 
ciation and of the Palisade Manufacturing 
Company, and treasurer of the Arlingtoa 
Chemical Company. He is trustee of Wes- 
leyan University, and has been Mayor of 
Yonkers, N. Y. He was elected to the Fifty- 
ninth Congress and re-elected to the Sixtieth 
from the Nineteenth New York District on 
Lhe Republican ticket. Washington residence: 
The Arlington. Home: Yonkers, N. Y. 

AN KEN Y, LEVY, banker. United States 
Senator was born near St. Joseph, Mo., Au- 
gust 1, 1844, and when very young he moved 
with his parents across the plains to Ore- 
gon, locating near Portland, at which place 
ho was educated in the public schools. In 
early youth he was engaged in the trans- 
portation business with his father, and was 
agent for the Wells-Fargo Express Com- 
pany, and later engaged in the mercantile 
business in Lewiston, Idaho. He became 
Mayor of Lewiston. Later he moved to 
Walla Walla, Wash., where he engaged in 
the banking business, becoming president of 
seven banks in Washington and Oregon; 
been a member of the Walla Walla City 
Council, and was chairman of the State 
delegation to the Republican National Con- 
vention held at Philadedelphia in 1900. He 
v/as appointed a member of the American 
Exposition Commission from Washington, 
and was made its chairman. Defeated for 
the United States Senate in 1895 and 1899; 
was elected as a member of the Republican 
National Committee from the State of Wash- 
ington in 1894. He was elected to the United 
States Senate from the State of Washington 
in January, 1903, to succeed George Turner, 
who was a Democrat. He has always been 
a staunch Democrat. He married Jennio 
Nesmith, daughter of Senator James W. 
Nesmith, of Oregon, October 2, 1867. Wash- 
ington address: The Highlands. Home: Walla 
Walla, Wash. 

ANSBERRY, TIMOTHY T., Congressman. 
He was elected a member of the Sixtieth 
Congress from the Fifth Ohio Congressional 
District in November, 1906, as a Democrat. 
Legal residence: Defiance, Ohio. Washing- 
ton address: House of Representatives. 

ANTHONY, SUSAN B., social and political 
reformer, was born on February 15, 1820. 
She is the last, and perhaps the greatest, if 
the little band of famous women who started 
the Equal Rights movement in 1848, and 
whose adherents now practically surroun.i 
the entire globe. She has been the most 
criticised, caricatured and reviled woman in 



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America, and the most successful in promot- 
ing the reforms unceasingly advocated by 
her. She, for a time, possessed the largest 
collection of books relating to women in ex- 
istence. After the completion of her auto- 
biography and the last volume of the History 
of Woman Suffrage, she placed the entire 
collection in charge of the Library of Con- 
gress, many of the volumes becoming auto- 
graph inscriptions of great value. She was 
unmarried. She died in 1906. 

AOKI, SIUZO, Ambassador Extraordinary 
and Plenipotentiary from Japan to the 
United States. Residence: 1321 K street, 
n.w. 

APPLER, CHARLES WILLIAM, dental 
surgeon, was born in Baltimore, Md., on 
February 18, 1859, son of Dr. David and 
Elizabeth Appier. He was educated in the 
public schools of Baltimore, later taking a 
business course at the Spencerian and 
Flynn's schools, in Washington, after which 
hi entered the Dental Department of the 
Columbian (now George Washington) Uni- 
versity, and was graduated with the degree 
of D. D. S. in 1893, with highest honors. 
Fiom 1896 to 1897 he was vice-president of 
the Alumni Association of Columbian Uni- 
versity. Appointed a member of the Board 
of Dental Examiners for the District of 
Columbia in 1897, and president of the same 
in 1899 and 1900, and in 1899 was elected 
president of the District of Columbia Den- 
tal Society. He is a member of the Con- 
gregational Church, the National Dental 
Association, District of Columbia Dental 
Society, Washington Dental Club, and 
Alumni Association of George Washington 
University. Residence: 3103 Mt. Pleasant 
street. Office: 926 Farragut square. 

ARANGO, DON JOSE AUGUSTIN, Envoy 
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary 
from Panama to the United States. Address: 
The Highlands. 

ARBEELY, ABRAHAM JOSEPH, physi- 
cian surgeon and dentist, was born on the 
sti-eet called Straight, in Damascus, Syria, 
1852. He was graduated from the Medical 
College of the Protestant University in Bei- 
root, in 1872, and from the Imperial Medical 
Ccllege, at Constantinople, in 1874, and as i 
dentist from the National University of the 
District of Columbia in 1902. He represented 
the Ottoman Government on the Commission 
of Inquiry into the causes and character of 
the Asiatic cholera, and served with the 
staff of physicians in fighting the cholera 
In three epidemics in Syria, and subse- 
quently his formula for its treatment and 
prophylactic measures were adopted in the 
Turkish empire. He was a founder and 
president of the Syrian-Greek Orthodox 
Church and its benevolent society in th>^ 
cit> of New York, also a founder and pub- 
lisher of Kawkal America (Star of Amer- 
ica), the first Arabic newspaper in America, 
published in New York. He is the author 
of many books, among 'them being the fol- 
lowing: Self-Teaching Manual of the 
Arabic and English Languages; Supple- 
mental Key to the Arabic Language, and the 
Arabic - English Pocket Dictionaries. Ho 



has also contributed many articles on medi- 
cine and science to leading papers and peri- 
odicals in Arabic and English. In 1885 he 
married Anna Mary La Fetra, of Warrea 
County, Ohio. Residence: American Univer- 
sity Park. 

ARCHIBALD, JAMES F. J., war corre- 
spondent, was born in New York City, Sep- 
tember 22, 1871, son of Dr. F. A. and Mar- 
tha Washington (Jewell) Archibald. He was 
graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan Univer- 
sity in 1888, and shortly thereafter began 
his cireer as a war correspondent In the 
China-Japanese War. He was with Gen- 
i>ral Miles during the labor riots and through 
the Sioux and Apache campaigns, and dur- 
ing the Spanish-American War was aide-de- 
camp to the Fifth Army Corps, serving 
throughout the Santiago campaign. During 
his campaign he was shot through the lefc 
arm. He was in the Chippewa campaign, 
on Leech Lake, and arranged the surrender 
of the hostile Indians. In 1899 he was with 
the British army in the Soudan, and witn 
the Boers in the South African War until 
the occupation of Pretoria, where he was 
wounded. During the Matos revolution in 
Venezuela he followed events with Castro's 
army In 1898 he was made made an hon- 
orary member of the American Red Cross; 
Distinguished Service Order of U. S. A., in 
1899; Society of the Army of Santiago; 
Order of Pretoria; Spanish Order of Merit; 
Order of Bolivar, etc. He has been the war 
correspondent of many of the leading papers 
of the United States and England. He is 
the author of a number of books, among 
them being: Blue Shirt and Khaki, and 
Tales From the Trenches. Address: The 
Wyoming. 

ARENAS DE LIMA, LUIZ DE, diplomat, 
was born in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1863. After 
finishing his preliminary education in his 
native city he pursued special courses in 
international law, political economy and lit- 
erature, he being the author of several dis- 
sertations published in the reviews and 
books of history and international law. In 
1895 he entered the diplomatic service as 
attache of the Portuguese Legation in Lon- 
don, and has been appointed to remain in 
the service of the Minister of Foreign 
Afi"airs in the Department of State in Lis- 
bon. He served as secretary of the legation 
at Rio Janeiro in 1898, later becoming 
CLi.rge d'Affaires in Brazil. In 1901 he was 
transferred to the legation in Vienna, an-I 
later Paris, where he remained until 1903, 
when he became Charge d'Affaires at St. 
Petersburg, and again, in 1904-5, was con- 
nected with the Paris legation as its sec- 
retary. He served, in 1906, in the Depart- 
ment of State of Foreign Affairs in Lisbon, 
since when he has been Charge d'Affaires 
in Washington. He is a Knight Commander 
of the Royal Order of Christ of Portugal, 
Legion d'Honneur of France, Charles III. in 
Spain, Danebrog in Denmark, St. Anne of 
Russia, Crown of Siam, etc. He is a mem- 
ber of the Catholic Church, and married 
Dona Sophia de Almeida da Gama, of Lis- 
bon, who is a daughter of the late Hon. 
Counselor de Almeida, Lord Master of tha 



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Mordomia-Mor of the Royal Court in Lis- 
bon. Address: Portuguese Legation, Wash- 
ington. Address in Lisbon: Marquis das 
Minas' Palace. 

ARMISTEAD, PETER, JR., surgeon, was 
born in Georgetown, D. C, November 30, 
1870, son of Dr. Peter ana Martha Custia 
(Kinnon) Armistead. Commodore Beverly 
Kinnon, an ancestor, was killed on the 
U. S. S. Princeton on February 28, 1844. He 
was educated at Rittenhouse Academy, 
Washington, and in the preparatory depart- 
ment of Columbian University. He is a mem- 
ber of the Society of Colonial Wars and the 
Sens of the Revolution. On April 25, 1894, 
he was married to Anna Wright Williams, 
to which union has been born one child. 
Residence: 1818 Q street, n.w. 

ARMS, JOHN TAYLOR, real estate, was 
born in Lansingburgh, N. Y., in 1846. In 
early youth he entered the importing depart- 
ment of the A. T. Stewart (now John Wan- 
amaker's), in New York. He resigned from 
this position to enter the employ of S. B. 
Chittenden & Co., of the same city, and 
afterwards engaging in the banking busi- 
ness for a short time. His health failing, 
he retired, subsequently came to Washing- 
ton, secured an appointment in the Treas- 
ury Department under the first Civil Serv- 
ice Rules. Here he remained for two years, 
when he resigned to engage in the real es- 
tate business. In 1886 he was elected a 
member of the Washington Stock Exchange, 
and has since been one of its most active 
members. In 1897 he was chosen its pres- 
ident. ' He was a member of the banking 
firm of W. B. Hibbs & Co.; one of the 
oiganizers of the Lincoln Fire Insurance 
Company in 1890, and became its president 
in 1891. His efforts were Instrumental in 
bringing about Its consolidation with the 
Potomac Fire Insurance Company. He was 
interested in the consolidation of the Real 
Estate and Columbia Title Insurance Com- 
pany. At present he is a member of th-^ 
firm of Arms & Drury, real estate, which 
was established in 1874 and is a director of 
the National Metropolitan Bank. He mar- 
ried Kate Corcoran Watkins, of Baltimore, 
in 1879. Residence: 2007 Massachusetts ave- 
nue, n.w. Office: 1311 G street, n.w. 

ARMSTRONG, FRANK C, army officer, 
was born at Choctaw Agency, Indian Ter- 
ritory, in 1835, son of Frank W. and Annie 
M. (Millard), Armstrong. He was educated 
a.t Holy Cross College, Worcester, Mass. In 
1854 he made a trip across Texas from Cor- 
pus Christi to El Paso, during which, for 
bravery in an encounter with the Indians, 
ho was appointed Lieutenant of the Second 
United States Dragoons, who were serving 
in Texas, Kansas and Nebraska. He served 
in this capacity until 1857, when he went to 
Utah with General Albert Sidney Johnson. 
He joined the Confederate Army in 1861; 
was appointed Adjutant-General under Gen- 
era! McCulloch, in Arkansas. General McCul- 
loch dying soon after, he was appolnteu 
Major, and soon after was elected Colonel 
of the Third Louisiana Infantry. He organ- 
i;:ed cavalry commands under orders from 
General Bragg, and, Resides, participated 



in a number of general engagements in 
Mississippi and Alabama, attacked and cap- 
tured the Federal camp at Courtland, Ala. 
Soon after his appointment as Brigadier- 
General he was assigned to comm.ands 
under Van Doran, and later under Forrest. 
He commanded a brigade during the Ten- 
nessee campaign and on retrisai to Chatta- 
nooga, took an important part in the 
battles at Chickamauga. Under General 
Joseph Wheeler he campaigned in Georgia, 
and served until the fall of Atlanta. Since 
the Civil War he has been engaged in the 
Overland Mail Service; has been an In- 
dian Inspector, and was for a few years 
Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs. 
In recent years he has been interested in 
mining in ithe Southwest. Address: 1912 
Sunderland place. 

ARNOLD, JOHN SHERIDAN, physician, 

was born in Port Trevorton, Snyder County, 
Penn., on December 4, 1865, son of 
John Carvel and Mary A. Arnold. Lieuten- 
ant Joseph Brititon, of the Fifth Pennsyl- 
vania Regiment, under George Washington, 
in the Revolutionary War, was his great- 
greatgrandfather, and he is related to the 
Carvel family of Revolutionary fame of the 
eastern shores of Maryland, also Betsy Rosa, 
the designer of the American flag. Attended 
the public schools at Port Trevorton and the 
McAlisterville Miliitary Academy. Was grad- 
uated from the Baltimore College of Physi- 
cians and Surgeons, 1896. He has been 
Medical Inspector of the Washington Public 
Schools since 1903. Member of the Penn- 
sylvania Club, Order of Maccabees, Order 
of Iroquois, Sons of Veterans, and the "Six- 
teeners" Association of Pennsylvania. Con- 
tributed to many of the leading medical 
journals. Unmarried. Residence: 24 Sec- 
ond street, n.e. 

ARNOLD, JOSEPH ADDISON,, editor, 
and Assistant Chief, Division of Publica- 
tions, Department of Agriculture, was born 
at Columbus, Bartholomew County, Indiana, 
December 22, 1857, son of George Washing- 
ton and Laura Christian (Fawcett) Arnold. 
Ho was educated in the common schools and 
was graduated with the scientific honors of 
his class from Indiana University in 1873, 
with the degree of B. S. He learned the 
trade of a printer, beginning newspaper 
work in 1878; from 1880 to 1885 was editor 
and proprietor of the Daily and Weekly Dem- 
ocrat (Columbus, Ind.); removed to Wash- 
ington in 1885, and fom then until 1891 was 
employed in the Government Printing Office. 
In the latiter year he was appointed an as- 
sistant in the Division of Records and Edit- 
ing of the Department of Agriculture, and 
later became editor and assistant chief of 
the Division of Publications. In 1892 Mr. 
Arnold represented the Department at the 
Atlanta Exposition; he received a special 
diploma from the Exposition for his 
services in this connection. He is a mem- 
ber of the Board of Labor Employment in 
the Department of Agriculture; was for 
years representative of the Department of 
Agriculture on the Examining Board of the 
United States Civil Service Commission, and 
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Work and Official Gazette (subcommittee of 
the Commission on Department Methods, or 
the so-called "Keep Commission"). Mr. 
Arnold is a member of the Beta Theta Pi 
fraternity and the Masons; he is a Presby- 
terian by religion, and in politics a Repub- 
lican. On December 7, 1881, he married 
Harriet Amanda Arwine. Residence: 134 
Sixth street, n.e. 

AROSEMENA, C. C, First Secretary, Le- 
gation of Panama. Address: The High- 
lands. 

ARTH, CHARLES WOODBURY, lawyer, 
was born in Washington, D. C, on Novem- 
ber 11, 1879, son of Benjamin and Cath- 
arine Arth. After obtaining his prepara- 
tory education in the public schools of 
Washington he entered the law department 
of Georgetown University, from which he 
was graduated LL. B. in 1903 and LL. M. 
in 1904. He is a member of the Delta Chi 
legal fraternity (being a charter member 
of the Georgetown chapter), and the Na- 
tional Geographic Society. Unmarried. 
Residence: 2928 P street, n.w. Office: 
Corcoran Building. 

ARTHUR, WILLIAM H., Attending Sur- 
geon, United States Soldiers' Home, Major 
Medical Department of General Hospiitai, 

j Washington Barracks. Address: Washing- 

I ton Barracks. 

ASH, PERCY, architect, was born In 
Philadelphia, Penn., November 5, 1866, a 
son of John Dorsey and Caroline Virginia 
(McGrath) Ash. Mr. Ash (senior) was con- 
nected with the First National Bank of 
' Philadelphia, and served in the Civil War 
with the Keystone Battery, of Philadelphia, 
, as Lieutenant of the battery (now Battery 
I A); was killed while serving his State in 
( the riots of Pititsburg of 1877. His earliest 
ancestor, Captain Henry Ash, came to Amer- 
I ica in 1750, and located in Philadelphia. 
Percy Ash was educated in the public 
I schools of Philadelphia and the University 
1 of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1886, B. S. 
] and C. E. Afterwards he made a special 
I study of architecture in the leading acad- 
emies of Europe; was instructor of draw- 
ing at the Franklin Institute of Philadel- 
i phia, and was designer in the office of the 
Government Supervising Architect, resign- 
I ing in 1904. While in the Supervising Archi- 
tect's office he designed the Government and 
Fish Commission buildings for the St. Louis 
World's Fair. He is now professor in charge 
I of the Division of Architecture in George 
Washington University. Member of the 
Cos-mos Club and the Alpha Tau Omega 
college fraternity, and many architectural 
societies of the country. Married Josephine 
Wharton Barrington June 1, 1901. Residence: 
1620 Riggs place, n.w. 

ASHBROOK, WILLIAM A., editor. Con- 
gressman, was born on a farm near Johns- 
town, Licking County, Ohio, on July 1, 1867, 
son of William and Lucy Ashbrook. He was 
educated in the district schools, and when 
seventeen years of age started a paper in 



Johnstown known as the Johnstown Inde- 
pendent, which he has since published. For 
four years he has been secretary of the 
National Editorial Association of the United 
States, and is largely interested in numer- 
ous financial enterprises, for ten years serv- 
ing as cashier of three banks. He served 
as postmaster under Cleveland, and in 1905 
he entered politics for the first time, being 
elected a member of the Seventy-seventh 
Ohio General Assembly. In 1906 he was 
elected to Congress from the Seventeenth 
Ohio District on the Democratic ticket, de- 
feating Judge Smyser, Democrat, who was 
running for re-election. He is a Thirty- 
second degree Mason, a Shriner, Elk, Knight 
of Pythias, Odd Fellow, Woodman, Eagle, 
etc. On December 24, 1889, he married Jen- 
nie B. Willison. Legal residence: Johns- 
town, Ohio. Washington address: House 
of Representatives. 

ASHFORD, SNOWDEN, architect. In- 
spector of Buildings, was born in Wash- 
ington January 1, 1866. He is a son of 
Mahlon Ashford, of Virginia, president of 
the First Title Insurance Company, of Wash- 
ington. He was educated at Rittenhouse 
Academy, the Christian Brothers' Roman 
Catholic School, and Lehigh Preparatory 
School, at Bethlehem, Penn. Subsequemtlv 
he took a course in civil engineering in 
I/ehigh University, and later was graduated 
from Lafayette College, after which he took 
up architecture as a profession. Returning 
to Washington, he entered The office of A. 
B. Mullett, ex-Supervising Architect in the 
Treasury Department. He worked two years 
on the plans for the Congressional Library, 
after which he spent some time in West 
Virginia in the building business. Return- 
ing to Washington again, in 1902, he formed 
a partnership with Howard Sill. In 1895 
he was appointed Assistant Inspector of 
Buildings in the District, and revised the 
building regulations in the city in 1900. He 
prepared plans and specifications for school 
and many other municipal buildings in the 
city. In 1901 he was promoted to the posi- 
tion of Inspector of Buildings, to succeed 
the late John B. Brady. He is a member 
of the American Institute of Architects, and 
the Meridian, University, Chevy Chase, and 
Century Clubs of Washington, and a mem- 
ber of the Sigma Chi and the Theta Nu 
Epsilon college fraternities. He married 
Miss Crichton, of Berkeley Springs, W. Va., 
on November 16, 1901. Residence: 1508 
Twenty-first street, n.w. Office: District 
Building. 

ASHLEY, GEORGE HALL, geologist, was 
born at Rochester, N. Y., August 9, 1866. He 
was graduated from Cornell University, and 
the degrees of M. A. and Ph. D. were con- 
ferred by Leland Stanford University in 
1894. He was paleontologist, Rochester, 
1889-91; Assistant Geologist, Geological 
Survey of Arkansas, 1891-94; Assistant 
State Geologist of Indiana, 1896-1900; Pro- 
fessor of Biology and Geology, College of 
Charleson, 1900-03; teaching, California, 1904- 
06. Since 1904 he has been geologist in the 



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United States Geological Survey. He is a 
member of the Geological Society of Amer- 
ica, American Asociation for the Advance- 
ment of Science, and American Institute jf 
Mining Engineers. He married, July 11, 
1895, Mary E. Martin, of Buffalo, N. Y. 
Ofllce: Geological Survey. 

ASHMEAD, WILLIAM HARRIS, Assistant 
Curator, National Museum, was born in 
Philadelphia September 19, 1855, son of Cap- 
tair; Albert S. and Elizabeth (Graham) Ash- 
mead. He was educated in the private and 
public schools of Philadelphia. Early in life 
ho entered the publishing house of J. B. Lip- 
pincott Company, of Philadelphia. Some 
years later he went to Jacksonville, Fla., 
and, with his brother, published an agricul- 
trral vve3kly and a daily newspaper. He 
edited the scientific department of the 
weekly, interested himself chiefly in the 
investigations of injurious insects, and later 
was appointed a special field entomologist for 
the Uni;ed States Department of Agricul- 
ture. He was entomologist at the Florida 
State Agricultural College in 1888, and, at 
thr same time, was made an Assistant In- 
vestiga:or of the United States Department 
of Agriculture. In 1889 he went to Berlin, 
Germany, for special study, and upon his 
return resumed his connection with the 
Department of Agriculture. He is a mem- 
ber of many iJading scientific societies, 
among them being the Washington Biolog- 
ical Society, the American Entomological 
Society, etc. He is the author of many bul- 
letins on injurious insects, and has contrib- 
uted to many of the leading magazines and 
journals of the country on scientific sub- 
jects. He married Harriet Holmes, at Phila- 
delphia, in 1878. At the present time he 
holds the position of Assistant Curator in 
the Division of Insects of the National 
Museum. Residence: 1807 Belmont avenue. 
Office: The National Museum. 

ASHTON, JOSEPH HUBLEY, lawyer, was 
born in Philadelphia March 11, 1836, son of 
Daniel R. and Elizabeth Josiah (Marsh) 
Ashton. He was graduated from the Uni- 
versity of Pennsylvania in 1854, and began 
the study of law in the offices of William 
B. Reed and St. George Tucker Campbell, 
in Philadelphia. He was admitted to the 
Philadelphia bar in 1858. From 1861-64 he 
uas- United States District Attorney for the 
Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and, 1864- 
69. Assistant Attorney General of the United 
States. He was Acting Attorney General 
of the United S.ates during July, 1865, and 
1S68; agent and counsel for the United 
States for the International Commission 
under the Claims Convention with Mexico 
of 1868; professor in the Law Departmeiu 
of Georgetown University from 1870-74, and 
was counsel for Vice-Admiral Porter and 
the mortar flotilla in the cases of the cap- 
ture by Admiral Farragut's fleet at New 
Orleans, May, 1862. In 1880 he was a special 
law delegate to the International Sanitary 
Conference in Washington; was counsel for 
ithe Government before the Venezuelan 
Claims Commission under the treaties of 
1885 and 1888, and was counsel for the Chi- 



nese In cases under Chinese Exclusion Laws 
before the United States Supreme Cjurt, 
1890-97. He is the ediior of several volumes 
of Opinions on the Attorneys General of 
the United States, and is one of the found- 
ers of the American Bar Association. He 
married Hannah R. Wakema.i, at New Yor.'t, 
October 11, 1864, who died at Washington, 
D. C. March 14, 1907, leaving one child, a 
daughter, the wife of Clarence R. Wilson, 
of Washington. Residence: 1780 Massa- 
chusetts avenue. Office: Pacific Building 

ASPINWALL, JOHN ABEL, clergyman, 
was born in New York City January 8, JS40, 
son of William H. and Anna Lloyd (Breck> 
Aspinwall. His father was president for 
many years of the Pacific Mail Steamship 
Company, and built the Panama Railroad. 
John A. was educated at the Theological 
S minary at Gambler, Ohio; was ordained 
deacon in the Episcopal Church by Bishop 
Eedell in 1864, and priesi by Bishop Horatio 
Potter in 1865. He was for twenty-one year.s 
rector of Christ Church, Bay Ridge, Long 
Island, where he was extremely successful in 
increasing the membership and erecting a 
parish hall, till he was forced to resign from 
overwork. After three years' rest he organ- 
ized, and was elected to the rectorship of, 
St. Thomas' Parish, Washington, D. C, 
which he held for eleven years, 1891-1902, 
during which time he built 'the present dig- 
nified and beautiful structure. After resign- 
ing again, from ill-health and overwork, he 
was made rector emeritus April 17, 1903. 
Residenc: 17 Dupont circle. 

ATKINS, JOSEPH LEICESTER, lawyer. 
Residence: 3318 Mount Pleasant street, n.w. 
Office: Washington Loan and Trust Build- 
ing. 

ATKINSON, GEORGE WESLEY, juris:, 
waj born in Kanawha County, Virginia (now 
West Virginia), on June 29, 1845, son of 
James and Miriam (Rader) Atkinson. After 
obtaining his preliminary education in pub- 
lic and private schools, he entered the Ohio 
Wesleyan University, from which institu- 
tion he was graduated in 1870, with the 
degree of A. B., later receiving the A. M. 
degree, pro merito. He took a post-graduate 
course at Mt. Union (Ohio) College, receiv- 
ing the degree of Ph. D. In 1876 Asbury 
University (Indiana) conferred upon him the 
degree of A. M., and the degree of LL. D. 
was conferred by Grant University (Ten- 
riessee), and also by the University of 
Nashville in 1890; D. C. L. by the West 
Virginia University, 1897; LL. D. by Ohio 
Wesleyan University, 1905. He was also 
graduated from the Law Department of 
Howard University, with the degree of 
LL. B. He was admitted to the bar in 1875 
in the State of West Virginia, and from 1881 
to 1885 he served as Uniied States Marshal 
of West Virginia; member of Congress, 
1888 to 1890; Governor of West Virginia, 
1897 to 1901; United States Attorney, 1901 
to 1905, and since April 15, 1905, he has been 
an Associate Justice of the United States 
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anci 1888 he was a delegate to the General 
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church. He is the author of several books, 
the more prominent among them being: His- 
tory of Kanawha; Wesn Vi ginia Pulpit, M. 
E Church; After the Moonshiners; Reve- 
nue Digest; Don't, or Negative Chips From 
Blocks of Living Truths; A. B, C of the 
Tariff; Prominent Men of West Virginia; 
Psychology Simplified, etc. He is promi- 
nent in Masonic affairs, and is an Odd Fel- 
low and Knight of Pythias. He is a mem- 
ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and 
in politics is a Republican. He has been 
twice married, first, in 1868, to Ellen Eagan, 
of Charleston, W. Va., and, second, in 1897, 
to Mrs. Myra H. Camden, of Clarksburg, 
W. Va., and is the father of five children. 
Residence: 1600 Thirteenth street, n.w. 
Office: U. S. Court of Claims. 

AUBERE, JEWELL HOWARD, journalist, 
was born in Havana, Mason County, Illinois, 
a son of Louis and Maggie M. (Buck) 
Aubere, and was educated in the public 
schools of his native town. Entered the 
newspaper business immediately after com- 
pk'tJng his common school education, and 
was employed on various papers. Since 1900 
he has been Washington correspondent for 
It'hp St. Louis Globe-Democrat; staff corre- 
spondent of that paper for five years before 
coming to Washington, in which position 
he "covered" the floods along the Mississippi 
River, mining riots in the bituminous coal 
fields, and other unusual and sensational 
events in the States where the Globe- 
Democrat circulates; went to Cuba as a 
war correspondent during the Spanish- 
American War. Each summer he travels 
"through the West, writing descriptive and 
political letters; has been in charge of State 
aijd National political conventions, and cov- 
ered the Portsmouth Peace Conference for 
his paper. Married Estelle Marie Urben 
September 29, 1900. Residence: n.5fi3 Elev- 
enth street. Office: 34 Wyatt Building. 

AUERBACH, JOSEPH, merchant, was 
born in Germany in 1851, and came to 
America when seventeen years old. He 
learned the men's furnishing goods business, 
and in November, 1877, opened a store under 
the name of Auerbach & Bro. He is a 
Thirty-second degree Masun, a Shriner, and 
a member of the Scottish Rite. Residence: 
811 L street, n.w. Business address, 623 
Pennsylvania avenue, n.w. 

AUGUR, JACOB ARNOLD, army officer, 
was born at Fort Niagara, N. Y., August 
21, 1849, son of General Christopher C. and 
Jane Elizabeth (Arnold) Augur. He was 
graduated from the United States iVTilitarv 
Academy, 1869. He was Captain Fifth Cav- 
alry, June 14, 1879; Colonel Tenth Cavalry, 
June 9, 1902, and served on the frontier 
until 1880, serving wiith the Republican 
River expedition, 1869, and engaged in tho 
Ute expedition, 1879. He was instructor at 
the United States Military Academy, 188:{- 
87; Infantry and Cavalry School, 1887-89, 



and served in the Philippines, 1899-1901, 
campaigning in Central and Southern Luzon. 
He married, at Georgetown, D. C, Novem- 
ber 14, 1872, Katherine D. Dodge. Address: 
War Department. 

AUSTIN, LOUIS WINSLOW, physicist, 
was born at Oswell, Vermont, October 30, 
1S67, son of Professor L. A. and Mary Louise 
("I'aft) Austin. He was graduated from Mid- 
dlcbury (Vt.) College, 1889, and was a stu- 
dent at Strasburg University, 1889-93, ani 
a fellow of Clark University, 1890-91. He 
was assistant professor at the University 
of Wisconsin, 1893-1901; in German Govern- 
ment service, 1902-04; at the Bureau of 
Standards at Washington since 1904. He 
is a member of the Deutsche Physikalische 
Ga&sellschaft, American Physical Society. 
Author Physical Measurement (1896), and 
has been a contributor to German, English 
and American scientific journals. He mar- 
ried, at La Crosse, Wis., August 16, 1898, 
Laura A. Osborne. Residence: Cleveland 
Park, D. C. Office: Bureau of Standards. 

AUSTIN, OSCAR PHELPS, Chief of the 
Bureau of Statistics, Department of Com- 
merce of Labor, was born in Illinois. At 
the age of twelve years he moved with his 
parents to Nebraska, where he remained 
until manhood; obtained his education in 
thu educational institutions of those States; 
engaged in newspaper wriMng, and was con- 
tin uouslj' engaged in work of that character 
until his appointment as Chief of the Bu- 
reau of Statistics, May 9, 1898. After serv- 
ing as reporter, correspondent and editor of 
leaching daily papers in Chicago and Cincin- 
nati, he removed to Washington in 1881, and 
has since made this his home. Was Wash- 
ington correspondent and editorial writer 
for newspapers in New York, Chicago and 
other cities. Participated in the literary and 
statistical work of the Republican National 
Committee in the presidential campaigns of 
1892 and 1896. After a study of the finan- 
cial and commercial statistics of the United 
States and the world, made during his resi- 
dence in Washington, followed his appoint- 
ment as Chief of the Bureau of Statistics. 
Is the author of Uncle Sam's Secrets; Uncle 
Sam's Soldiers; Uncle Sam's Children; 
Territorial Expansion of the United State.-?, 
and other publications for the instruction 
of the youth in naitiona] and international 
aftairs; also of Official Monagraphs; Com- 
mercial China in 1900; Commercial Japan; 
Commercial Africa; Russia and the Tran.s- 
Siberian Railway; American Commerce, 
and many others. Secretary of the National 
Geographic Society, and member of the 
American Association for the Advancement 
of Science, American Academy of Political 
and Social Science, American Economic 
Association, International Colonial Insti- 
tute, etc. Associate editor of the National 
Geographic Magazine; lecturer on commerce 
in George Washington University. Resi- 
dence: 1620 Massachusetts avenue, n.w. 
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BABB, CYRUS GATES, civil engineer, 
Was born at Portland, Maine, June 18, 1867, 
son of C5'rus K. Babb. He was graduated 
from the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 
nology in 1890. From 1895 to 1902 he 
served as hydrographer in the United States 
Gpological Survey. Since that time he has 
been an engineer in the United States 
Reclamation Service. He is a member of 
the National Geographic Society, the Amer- 
ican Society of Civil Engineers, and the 
Cosmos Club. Mr Babb has contributed 
largely to scientific and technical journals. 
Re.sidence: 1118 Rhode Island avenue, n.w. 
Office: U. S. Reclamation Service. 

BABBITT (MRS.) JULIETTE M., author- 
ess, was born in Hancock County, Illinois, 
daughter of Joseph and Susanne Younger. 
During the period of 1879-1891 she was 
Washington representative and correspond- 
ent of the New York Mirror, and occupied 
the same position for the New York Home 
Journal, 1888-1900, and Boston Ideas. She 
is the author of a large number of short 
stories, novels, articles, etc. Mrs. Babbitt 
is a member of the League of American 
Penwomen, and has held the following posi- 
tions in the organization: Librarian (1898- 
1900), vice-president (1900-01), president 
(1901-02), historian and chairman of the 
Board of Directors (1902-03). She married 
Charles Henry Babbitt, at Magnolia, Iowa, 
December 19, 1863. Address: 933 Massa- 
chusetts avenue. 

BABCOCK, JOHN B., soldier, was born 
in Louisiana, February 7, 1843. He entered 
the United States Army as Sergeant of the 
New York StaJte Militia in 1862, serving 
with distinction throughout the Civil War, 
and being brevetted Captain and Major dur- 
ing the Civil War, and Lieutenant-Colonel 
in Indian wars in ithe West. He was ap- 
pointed Second Lieutenant in 1862; made 
First Lieutenant, 1863; Captain, 1864; 
Major, January 1, 1865. He resigned July 
2"\ 1865. In 1867 he was appointed Second 
Lieutenant Regular Army; promoted to 
First Lieutenant, 1868; Lieutenant Colonel, 
1901, and Brigadier General, August 8, 1903, 
being retired at that time on his own re- 
quest. His service covers thirty years, in- 
cluding campaigns through the Civil War 
and afterwards in combaJts with Sioux, 
Cheyennes and Apaches in the West. Ad- 
dress: War Department. 

BABCOCK, JOSEPH WEEKS, Congress- 
man, was born at Swanton, Vermont, March 
6,, 1850; removed to Iowa in 1855, and thence 
to Necedah, Wis., where he was engaged 
for many years in the manufacture of lum- 
-ber. He was twice elected to the Wiscon- 
sin Assembly; chairman of the National 
R<-publican Congress onal Committer, 1894- 
1904; was a delegate-at-large to the 
National Republican Convention of 1904, 
and is the Wisconsin member of the 
National Republican Committee. Durin? 
the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-ninth Congresses 
h«^ wa3 chairman of the Committee on the 



District of Columbia, and a meanber of the 
Committee on Ways and Means in the Fifty- 
sixth and Fifty-ninth Congresses. Washing- 
ton address: 1 B street, n.w. Legal resi- 
dence: Necedah, Wis. 

BABCOCK, WILLIAM HENRY, lawyer, 
was born at St. Louis, Mo., January 1, 1849, 
son of Welles J. and Catherine S. Babcock. 
He was educated at the schools in New York 
and Washington, and received the degree 
of LL. B. in 1869 from Columbia (now 
(George Washington) University. He is an 
attorney-at-law and solicitor of paJtents, and 
has been Assiistant Examiner in the U. S. 
Patent Office. He is the author of the fol- 
lowing novels: The Tower of Wye; Keat 
FoPt Manor; Clan of the Chariots; An 
Invention of the Enemy, and Cypress Beach; 
also two volumes of poems, a short history 
of The Two Last Centuries of Britain, and 
several monographs on ethnological and an- 
thropological subjects. He has been twice 
married, the first time in 1874, to Anne J. 
Earle, the second time, Mrs. Gertrude Lee 
Mahood, in 1897. Residence: Ridge road, 
near Georgetown, D. C. Office: 604 F 
street, n.w. 

BABINE, ALEXIS VASILIEVICH, libra- 
rian, was born in Elatma, Russia, son of 
Vasili Pavlovich and Anna (Stepanovna) 
Btibine. He was educated in his native town 
and at Cornell University, from which insti- 
tution he was graduated, A. B., 1892, and 
A. M., 1894. He has served as assistant in 
the Cornell University library; librarian, 
Indiana University Library; associate libra- 
rian, Stanford University, and is at the pres- 
ent time an assistant in the Catalogue Di- 
vision of the Library of Congress. He is the 
author of The Yudin Library, Krasnoiarsk 
(Eastern Siberia), which appeared in 1905. 
The famous Yudin collection of Russian 
b.<cks was purchased by the Library of Con- 
gress in 1906 through Mr. Babine, who, as 
agent of the Library, made two trips to 
Siberia. In 1903-04 Mr. Babine spent sev- 
eral months in Europe under the auspices 
of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, 
collecting material for its Handbook lo. 
Learned Societies of the World. He is ^ 
mfmber of the American Library Asocia- 
tlon, American Historical Association, amf 
the University Club of Washington. Unmar.^' 
ried. Residence: 124 Third stret, n.e. Office: 
Library of Congress. 

BACHE, RENE, author, magazine writer,' 
vas born in Philadelphia, son of R. Meade 
Bache, and attended Harvard and Yale Uni- 
versities, however, without graduation. Since 
1S89 he has been engaged in journalistib 
wcrk. Residence: 1823 Q street, n.w. 

BACON, AUGUSTUS OCTAVIUS, lawyer. 
United States Senator, was born in Bryan 
County, Georgia, October 20, 1839, and re- 
ceived a High School education in Liberty 
anc^ Troup Counties, in 1859 graduating froin 
the University of Georgia, and from the Law 
Department in 1860. He s«erved in the Con- 



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federate Army during the Civil War, and in 

1866 resumed the study of law and began 

practice at Macon, Ga. He was president 

' of the State Dpmocratic Convention in 1880; 

• In 1871 was elected to the Georgia House 

• or Representatives, where he served for four- 
teen yeais, being for two years Speaker pro 
tempore, and for eight years Spealter. He 
was. elected to the U. S. Senate in 1894, and 
ro-elected in 1900. He has been for a num- 
•be of years a trustee of the University of 
Georgia. Legal residence: Macon, Ga. Wash- 

• irgton address: U. S. Senate. 

j BACON, JOHN MOSBY, Brigadier-Gen- 
I leral, U. S. A. (retired), was born in Ken- 
1 tucky, April 17, 1844. He enlisted in tlie 
I E.eventh Kentucky Cavalry (Union Army>; 
I v;as promoted to First Lieutenant, Fourth 
Kentucky Cavalry, in 1863; Captain, a month 
Idler in the same year; Major, in 1864. Oa 
July 28, 1866, he was made Captain, U. S. A., 
Cavalry Branch; promoted to Major April 
H 1884; Lieutenant-Colonel, April 7, 1893; 
j Coionel, June 29, 1897. For gallantry at the 
siege of Resaca, Ga., in 1867, he was brevet- 
tec Major, and again Lieutenant-Colonel 
; (regular army), for gallant services against 
the Indians in Texas, in 1890. At the time 
of the Spanish-American War he was made 
Brigadier-General, United States Volunteers, 
and placed in command of the Department of 
( Dakota; quelled Chippewa outbreak of 1898, 
and was later ordered to Cuba for duty. 
He was retired in 1902. Address: War De- 
partment. 

BACON, ROBERT, banker. Assistant Sec- 
retary of State. He was graduated from 
' Harvard University and entered the bank- 
! in^ business. He is a member of the firm 
of J. P. Morgan & Co., and has large finan- 
I cial interests, and is a director in a large 
number of institutions, financial and other- 
v;ise. He was appointed Assistant Secretary 
I of State October 1, 1905. He is a member 
1 of the Racquet, Tuxedo, Riding, Lawyers'. 
I and Union Clubs, and of the New England 
Society. Residence: 1333 Sixteenth stree', 
n.w. Oflice: State Department. 

BAGBY, EDWARD BENJAMIN, clergy- 
, :nan, was born in Virginia, September 29, 
'i '865, son of Captain Alexander Flett and 
j Fannie Singleton (Walker) Bagby. His 
father distinguished himself in service at 
.he Battle of the Crater in the Civil War. 
He was educated at Kentucky University, 
the College of the Bible, and the Yale Divin- 
ity School, graduating from the latter in 
1890, and receiving the degree of Master o? 
1 Arts from the former. He was founder of 
' the Ninth Street Christian Church, and has 
'b(en its pastor since 1891, which now num- 
br-rs 1,100 members; Chaplain of the House 
of Representatives during the Fifty-third 
Congress. He has been Washington corre.- 
spondent of the Christian Standard, and a 
contributor to the Christian Endeavor World; 
has written lectures on Uncle Rastus and The 
Ideal Woman. A member of the Yale Alumn' 
[Association. On June 20, 1893, he married 
Jennie Grimes, and five children have been 
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born to them, of whom four are living. Resi- 
dence: 917 Maryland avenue, n.e. 

BAILEY, CHARLES BROOKS, vice-presi- 
dent the Columbia National Bank. Resi- 
dence: 1424 Belmont street. 

BAILEY, FLORENCE MERRIAM (MRS.), 

ornithologist, authoress, was born at Locust 
Grove, N. Y., August 8, 1863, daughter of 
Ilcn. Clinton L. Merriam. She was educated 
ai" Smith College, graduating in 1866. She 
is the author of a large number of hand- 
bocks on birds; Handbook of Birds of the 
Western United States; Birds of Village and 
F?eld, etc. She is a member of the Americaa 
Ornithologists' Union, and the Biological 
Society of Washington. She was married to 
Vernon Bailey. Residence: 1834 Kaloramo 
avenue. 

BAILEY, GEORGE, clergyman, was born 
in Wellington, Durham County, England, on 
August 7, 1867, son of John and Elizabeth 
(Brass) Bailey. He is a descendant of Sir 
Thomas Brass, of the English Army, and 
Dr. Richard Bailey, a noted writer and edu- 
cator. He was educated at Firth College 
and Ranmoor Theological College, at Shef- 
field, England, from which institution he was 
graduated in 1892, and after an examination 
received a Ph. D. degree in 1902. In 1906 
he received the degree of D. D. from Frank- 
lin (Ohio) College. From 1892-98 he was 
pastor of the First Presbyterian Church at 
Bioken Bow, Nebraska, and was presideni 
of Westminster College, at Salt Lake City, 
Utah, from 1898-1905. Since 'March 1, 1905, 
he has been pastor of the Western Presby- 
terian Church in Washington, and was mod- 
erator of the Presbytery of Washington City, 
1906. He has written a number of articles 
that have appeared in the Missionary Review 
of the World, The Pulpit, The Preacher s 
Helper, etc. He is a member of the Council 
of Seventy, Religious Education Association, 
the Royal Highlanders, and a trustee of 
Westminster College. In May, 1895. he was 
admitted to the bar in the State of Nebraska, 
and was commissioner to the General Assem- 
bly of the Presbyterian Church, at Winona, 
Ind., in 1897. He has traveled extensively 
in America, France, Italy, Switzerland, and 
the British Isles. On June 27, 1892, he mar- 
ried Matilda Sandland, of Hanley, England, 
of which union have been born three chil- 
dren. Residence: 2109 G street, n.w. 

BAILEY, JOSEPH WELDON, lawyer, U. 

5. Senator from Texas, was born near Crystal 
Springs, Copiah County, Mississippi, Octobei" 

6, 1863. He was educated in the public 
schools of Crystal Springs, at the University 
of Mississippi, University of Virginia, and 
Cumberland University, Tenn., from the law 
department of which latter he was gradu- 
ated with the degree of LL. B. He was 
admitted to the bar of Mississippi in 1883; 
gained early distinction as a public speaker, 
and served as a district elector on the 
Cleveland and Hendricks ticket in 1884. In 
the following year he removed to Gaines- 
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of law at his present home. In 1888 he 
served as elector for his State-at-large on 
the Democratic ticket; was elected to tha 
Fifty-second Congress in 1890, and re- 
elected to the Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty- 
fifth, and Fifty-sixth Congresses. On the 
organiation of the Fifty-fifth Congress he 
was made the Democratic nominee for 
Speaker of the House of Representatives, 
an5 chosen minority member of the Com- 
mittee on Rules. On January 23, 1901, he 
was elected to the Senate for the term be- 
ginning March 4 of that year, and was re- 
elected in 1907. He is a member of the 
Senate Cnmmittee on Canadian Relations, 
Census, Finance, Fisheries, Irrigation, Priv- 
ileges and Elections, Revision of the Laws 
of the United States, and Interoceanic 
Canals. He married Ellen Murray, and has 
two sons. Legal address: Gainesville, Texas. 
Washington address: U. S. Senate. 

BAILEY, VERNON, biologist, naturalist, 
was born at Manchester, Michigan, June 21, 
1S63; received a common school education, 
and later was graduated from the University 
or Michigan and Columbian (now George 
Washington) University. He is the author 
of a large number of biological books and 
pamphlets, including Mammals of the Dis- 
trict of Columbia; Pocket Gophers of the 
Mississippi Valley; Spermophiles of the 
Mississippi Valley, etc. At the present time 
he is Chief Field Naturalist of the United 
Slates Biological Survey. He married Flor- 
ence Augusta Merriam. Residence: 1834 
Kalorama road. Office: U. S. Department 
of Agriculture. 

BAILY, ELISHA I., Brigadier-General, 
U. S. A. (retired), physician and surgeon, 
was born in Pennsylvania, November 14, 
1824. In 1847 he was appointed First Lieu- 
tenant and Assistant Surgeon, United States 
Army; made Captain and Assistant Surgeon, 
1852; Major and Surgeon, 1861. On Novem- 
be'' 14, 1888, he was retired, later being ad- 
vanced to the grade of Brigadier-General 
by the act of April 23, 1904. He is a Mexi- 
can War veteran, also survivor of the Civil 
War. Address: War Department. 

BAIN, HARRY FOSTER, geologist, was 
born at Seymour, Indiana, November 2, 1872. 
He was graduated from Moore's Hill College 
in 1890; from the University of Chicago (Ph. 
D.), 1897; graduate student Johns Hopkins 
University, 1891-93. He served as an assist- 
ant on the Iowa Geological Survey, 1893-95; 
w'ls .Assistant Iowa State Geologist. 1895- 
1900; manager mines, Idaho Springs and 
Cripple Creek, Colorado, 1901-03, and geolo- 
gist. United States Geological Survey, since 
1903. He was a lecturer on economic 
geology, at the University of Iowa in 1897, 
and the University of Chicago, 1901-04. Since 
1905 he has been a director of the Illinois 
Gf^clogical Survey. He is a member of the 
North of England Institute of Mining and 
Mechanical Engineers, a fellow of the Geo- 
logical Society of America, and is the author 
of numerous monographs, and a frequent 
contributor to technical journals. On Decem- 



ber 1, 1902, he married Mary Wright. Resi- 
dence: Champagne, 111. Office: U. S. Geo- 
logical Survey. 

BAIN, SENECA BRAY, physician, was 
born in Gatesville, Coryell County, Texas, 
oi February 10, 1874, son of Seneca McNeill 
and Annie M. Bain. He obtained his pre- 
liminary education in the Willis Male and 
Female College and High School, at Willis, 
Texas, 1890; Trinity (Texas) Normal School, 
1891, and in 1898 was graduated from the 
National University, in Washington, with 
the' degree of D. D. S., and M. D. the fol- 
lowing year. Before entering medical col- 
lege he taught in the public schools for one 
year in Texas, and served as a Government 
cierk ten years, and is now actively engaged 
in the practice of his profession. From 1899- 
1905 he served as special agent for the 
Bureau of Labor. He is a member of the 
National Union, Royal Arcanum, American 
Medical Association, Medical Association of 
the District of Columbia, Medical Society 
of the District of Columbia, American Elec- 
trj-Therapeutic Association, and an honor- 
ary member of the National Capital Denta' 
Association. On September 20, 1900, he mar- 
ried Rosalind Moore, of Washington. Resi- 
dence: 421 H street, n.e. 

BAIRD, GEORGE WILLIAM, Brigadier- 
General, U. S. A., was born at Milford, Con^ 
necticut, December 13, 1839, son of Jonar 
Newton and Minerva (Gunn) Baird. He wa.s 
graduated from the Hopkins Grammai 
School, at New Haven, in 1859; received 
his diploma from Yale in 1863. He entered 
the army as a private at the time of the 
Civil War, in 1862; was made Colonel of 
colored troops in 1864, and served through-' 
out the war. He entered the regular army 
May 11, 1866, as a Second Lieutenant; was 
promoted to First Lieutenant in 1867, and 
from this date until 1878 served with great 
distinction in 'the Indian warfare in the 
West, twice being recommended for brevets, 
and receiving a medal of honor for "most 
distinguished gallantry in action against 
hostile Nez Perce Indians at Bear Pav/ 
Mountain, Montana, September 30, 1877,' 
where he was twice wounded severely. On 
June 23, 1879, was promoted to Major and 
Paymaster, United States Army; mad'i 
Lii'utenant-Colonel and Deputy Paymaster- 
General, 1899, and Brigadier-General anr» 
Chief Disbursing Officer, Paymaster-Gener 
al's Office, February 19, 1903. He has serve- 
as Chief Disbursing Officer since 1899. H^ 
has contributed a number of articles to cur 
rent magazines. Address: War Depart- 
ment. 

BAKER, ASHER CARTER, United States 
Navy, was born in New Jersey. He gradu- 
ated from the United States Naval Academy 
in 1871, and served on board a number of 
vessels; also for three years was connected 
with the deep-sea invostigitions of th..* 
United States Fish Commission. He Wd,3 
commissioner to Mexico for the Columb'aii 
Exposition, and superintendent of 'h' 
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vision of that Exposition. He was connected 
with the Transportation Exhibits Deparc- 
ment of the Paris Exposition, on behalf of 
the American Commissioners, and a mem- 
ber of several sections of the International 
Jury of Awards of the same. He served as 
Assistant Chief of the Department of Trans- 
portation, Louisiana Purchase Exposition. 
He was decorated with the Order of the 
Lfgion of Honor by France. Address: Navy 
Department. 

BAKER, DANIEL WILLIAIVl, lawyer, was 
born at Calvert College, Nevada, October 4, 
1S67, the son of Andrew H. Baker, tho 
founder of Calvert College, and mathemat- 
ical professor at Mt. St. Mary's College 
(Maryland), where 'he was educated. He wa;-- 
made LL. B. by Georgetown Law School in 
1892, and LL. M. in 1893; admitted to the 
bar of the Supreme Court of the District 
of Columbia October 10, 1892, and in 189/ 
Mt. St. Mary's College conferred upon him 
the degree of A. M., honoris causa. He wa.s 
A.^'sistant United States District Attorney 
for the Distric of Columbia for about a year, 
and January 1, 1901, enered into partner- 
ship with Wilton J. Lambert. He is a lec- 
turer in the law department of Georgetown 
University on the laws of real estate and 
evidence, and conducts a course of prac- 
tical legal exercises in the post-graduate 
course of that university. He is at present 
United States District Attorney for the Dis- 
trict of Columbia, having been appointed 
February 1, 1905, and a member of the law 
firm of Baker, Sheehy & Hngan. Residence: 
Germantown, Md. Office: City Hall. Private 
office: Colorado Building. 

BAKER, FRANK, anatomist, is a son of 
Thomas C. and Sybil S. (Weed) Baker. He 
was graduated from the National Medical 
School, Columbian University, 1880. He has 
been a professor of anatomy at the George- 
town University since 1883, and superintend- 
ent of the National Zoological Park. He Is 
a fellow of the American Association for 
the Advancement of Science; secretary of 
ifhe Washington Academy of Sciences; mem- 
ber of the American Naturalists, Associa- 
tion of American Anatomists, American 
Anthropological Society, Biological Society 
of Washington, National Geographic Society, 
and Sons of the American Revolution. Ho 
has contributed to the Standard Dictionary, 
a'ld the International Cyclopedia. He is a 
member of he Cosmos Club. He married, 
at Sedgwick, Maine, September 13, 1873, May 
E. Cole. Residence: 1728 Columbia road. 
Office: Zoo Park. 

BAKER, ISAAC OLIVER, clergyman, was 
bcrn in Greensburg, Westmoreland, Pennsyl- 
vania, June 20, 1854, son of Charles G. and 
Hannah M. (Poole) Baker. He was gradu- 
ated A. B. and A. M. from Thiel College, 
Greenville, Pa., and later the Theological 
Seminary at Philadelphia, Pa. From 1881 
to 1906 he was pastor of the Lutheran 
;Memorial Church at Erie, Pa., during which 
'ime he assisted in erecting six or eight 
churches and establishing five new Lutheran 
congregations. From 1890-97 he was presi- 



dent of the Erie Conference; trustee of 
Thiel College from 1890-99, and since 1903 
he has been pastor of the Lutheran Church 
of the Atonement in Washington, being the 
organizer of that congregation. In politics 
he is a Republican. On July 3, 1884, he mar- 
ried Minna Riede, of Erie, Pa., to which 
union have been born two children. Resi- 
dence: 62 Rhode Island avenue, n.w, 

BALCH, ALFRED WILLIAM, Assistant 
Surgeon, U. S. N., was born at East Sagi- 
naw, Mich., August 27, 1873, son of Henry 
C. and Altie H. (Brooks) Balch. He attended 
the public schools at Leominster, Mass., anl 
graduated in 1894 from the Massachusetts 
College of Pharmacy, and, in 1898, from thj 
Harvard Medical School. He served for a 
time as assistamt professor of pha.macy and 
was instructor in pharmacology at the Har- 
vard Medical School. At present he is a 
Past Assistant Surgeon of the United States 
Navy; instructor in the Navy Medical 
School, since 1904. He is a member of the 
American Chemical Society, American Med- 
ical Association, American Association of 
Pathologists and Bacteriologists, and the 
American Association for the Advancement 
of Science. On February 7, 1906, he married 
Lucile Manning. Residence: The Ontario. 

BALDWIN, FRANK DWIGHT, Brigadier- 
General, U. S. A., was born in Manchester, 
Michigan, June 26, 1842, son of Francis 
Leonard and Betsy Ann (Richards) Baldwin. 
Ho was educated in the public schools of 
Constantine, Mich., and at Hillsdale College. 
During the Civil War he served as a Sec- 
ond Lieutenant in the Michigan Horse 
Guards; was promoted to First Lieutenant 
of Infantry August 12, 1862; made Captain 
January 23, 1864; mustered out of the vol- 
unteer army June 10, 1865. He became suc- 
cessively Second and First Lieutenant of 
Ihe regular army during 1866; made Cap- 
tain March 20, 1879; Major, April 26, 1898;- 
Lieutenant-Colonel, July 26, 1901; Brigadier- 
General, June 9, 1902. He was twice brevet- 
ted (Captain and Major) for gallantry in 
action against Indians in Texas and Mon- 
tana, and received a medal of honor for 
distinguished bravery in battle at Peacn 
Tree, Georgia, July 20, 1864, and a second 
medal for like gallantry in ac.ion against 
Indians in Texas, November 8, 1874. General 
Baldwin commanded the first body of civil- 
ized troops that reached the southern shor^e 
of Lake Lanao, in the Island of Mindanao, 
Piiilippines, and further distinguished him- 
self in the battle of Byian, when he com- 
manded the American troops. He was mar- 
ried, January 10, 1867, to Alice Blackwood. 
Address: War Department. 

BALDWIN, THEODORE A., Brigadier- 
General, U. S. v., was born in New Jersey, 
and entered the army on May 3, 1862, as a 
private, serving until 1865 as a private and 
Quartermaster Sergeant. He then became a 
First Lieutenant; was promoted to Captain 
July 23, 1865; made Major October 5, 1887; 
Lieutenant-Colonel December 11, 1896; Col- 
onel May 6, 1899. During the Spanish- 
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General of Volunteers, and at the close o£ 
the war, on December 31, 1898, was mus- 
tered out of service. Address: War Depart- 
ment. 

BALDWIN, WILLIAM D., patent lawyer, 
senior member of the firm of Baldwin & 
Wight; secretary and treasurer of the Len- 
tliall Home for Widows, was born in Frank- 
lin, Tenn., September 30, 1834, son of Henry 
Baldwin, for many years an examiner in th>3 
United States Patent Office, and grandson 
of Henry Baldwin, formerly Associate Jus- 
tice of the United States Supreme Court. 
Hif. early education was obtained in the pri- 
vate schools of Tennessee and Washington, 
removing to the latter city with his parents 
in 1851. In 1856, after a short commercial 
experience in New York City and Washing- 
ton, he entered the patent law office of Peter 
H. Watson, remaining until 1859, when he 
started a business of hia uwn as a patent 
solicitor. He was admitted to the bar of the 
Supreme Court of the District of Columbia 
in 1863, and to that of the Supreme Court 
of 'the United States in 1869. At the out- 
break of the Civil War, in 1861, he served 
for a short time as a private in the Union 
Army, being honorably discharged at the 
expiration of his service From 1863 to 1868 
he was engaged in business with his father, 
the latter dying in 1868. In 1874 the firm 
of Baldwin, Hopkins & Peyton was organ- 
ized, which firm continued in business until 
1888, when the firm of Baldwin, Davidson 
& Wight was founded. He is the author of 
a dissertation on patents, published period- 
ically in the Washington Patentee, about 
1886, but never completed; co-editor with 
Mr. Woodbury Lowery of Baldwin & Low- 
ery's Patent Digest, and Volume 25 of Myer'.« 
Federal Decisions, published in 1886. Resi- 
dence: The Cordova. Office: 25 Grant 
place, n.w. 

BALL, CARLETON ROY, agronomist in 
sorghum investigations, United States De- 
partment of Agriculture, was born at 
Little Rock, Lyon County, Iowa, June 12, 
1873, son of Leroy A. and Mary A. (Mans- 
field) Ball. His father was a farmer, 
teacher and banker. He attended the pub- 
lic schools and the Lamars Normal School, 
graduating in 1896 from the Iowa State Col- 
lege of Agriculture, with the degree of 
B. Sc; in 1889 he received the degree of 
M. Sc, after a post-graduate course. He 
was assistant in botany, Iowa State College, 
in 1895; assistant botanist, Iowa Agricultural 
Experiment Station, 1896; assis.:ant agrostol- 
ogist, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 1899; 
agronomist in sorghum investigations, 190r>. 
Ke is the author of various bulletins relating 
to agrostology and botany, and since 1904 
the superintendent of the First Congrega- 
tional Sunday School. He is a fellow of 
'the Iowa Academy of Science; a member 
of the Iowa Park and Forestry Association; 
Botanical Society of America; Botanical 
Society of Washington; Biological Society 
of Washington; Washington Biologists' 
Field Club; Wild Flower Preservation Soci- 
ety of America, and fellow of the American 
Association for the Advancement of Science. 



He married Bertha F. Steward June 14, 1904* 
Republican. Address: 117 W street, n.w. 

BALL, CHARLES ALBERT, .physician, 
was born in Alexandria County, Virginia, 
on January 24, 1851, son of Robert and Eliz- 
abeth A. Ball. His preliminary education 
was obtained in the public schools of Wash- 
ington and Bryant & Stratton Business Col- 
lege, after which he entered the medical de- 
partment of Columbian (now George Wash- 
ington) University, being graduated in 1877. 
From 1871-74 he served as Lieutenant in the 
National Guard of the District of Columbia. 
Since his graduation in medicine he has 
practiced his profession in Washington, and 
from 1893 to 1899 was engaged as a pension 
examining surgeon. He favors the Metho- 
dist Church, and in politics is a Democrat. 
He is a member of the National Geographic 
Society. Unmarried. Residence: 233 G 
street, n.w. 

BALLINGER, RICHARD ACHILLES, 

Com.missioner of the General Land Office, 
was born at Boonesboro, Iowa, July 9, 1858, 
son of Richard H. an^ Mary E. Ballinger, 
and was graduated from Williams College, 
Massachusetts, in 1884. He practiced law in 
the State of Washington; was United States 
Court Commissioner, 1890-92; later Judge of 
the Superior Court, Jefferson County, Wash- 
ington, and Mayor of Seattle. Has written 
on community property (1895); Annotated 
Cedes and Statutes of Washington (1897). 
He is a member of the University and Ranier 
Clubs, and of the Military Order of the Loyal 
Legion. He married, October 26, 1886, Julia 
A. Bradley. Address: General Land Office. 

BALLOCH, GEORGE W., army oflScer, 
was born at Claremount, N. H., December 3, 
1825, son of George W. and Amanda (West) 
Balloch, of Scottish descent. He studied at 
the New England Seminary, Windsor, Vt., 
and was for nearly three years a student 
ac Norwich University, Norwich, Vt., teach- 
ing school in the winter vacations and work- 
ing on a farm in the summer. In the spring 
of 1847 he joined the engineer corps of the 
Su:twan Railroad, where he remained until 
1850, then becoming station agent for the 
Boston and Maine Railroad at Wakefield, 
Mass., in 1856, becoming agent for the Great 
Falls and Conway Railroad at Great Falls, 
N. H. In 1858 he went into the drug and 
grocery business with George Moose; was 
Ti-wn Clerk of Summersworth, N. H., 185V- 
5'.), and the first Police Justice. At the out- 
break of the Civil War he became First 
Lieutenant in the Fifth New Hampshire 
Regiment; Commissary of Subsistence in 
1861 and 1862 in General O. O. Howard's 
Brigade in the Army of the Potomac, and 
when General Howard was made Commander 
of the Eleventh Army Corps, he became Chief 
Con missary with the rank of Colonel; par- 
ticipated in the battles of Second Bull Run, 
Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, 
and Gettysburg. In 1864 he was Commis- 
sary of General Hooker's Twentieth Corps; 
was in Sherman's March to the Sea, and 
shared in the grand review at Washington 
at the close of the war. He was later ap- 



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pointed Distributlngr Officer of the Freed- 
men's Bureau, under General Howard, and 
was for three years Superintendent of 
Streets under the Board of Public Works 
In Washington. He was brevetted Colonel 
and Brigadier-General for meritorious serv- 
ices, and has taken the Thirty- third degree 
in the Scottish Rite Masons. He now con- 
ducts a claims, patent and insurance bus'- 
ness. In April, 1849, he married Ma: tha 
Jane Palmer, of Charlestown, N. H., who 
diea March 3, 1900, and he has three living 
children. Residence: 2445 Brightwood ave- 
nue. Office: 1006 F street, n.w. 

BANCROFT, FREDERICK, historian, econ- 

on'ist, was born at Galesburg, Illinois, Octo- 
ber 30, 1860. He was graduated from Am- 
herst in 1882; in 1885 received the degree 
of Ph. D. from Columbia and in 1901 that 
of LL. D. from Knox College. After a study 
of law and political science at Columbia, he 
pursued a course in history, political econ- 
omy and diplomacy at Goettingen, Berlin; 
also at Freiburg (Baden), and in Ecole 
des Science Politiques, Paris. During 1883 
he was a lecturer on political history of the 
Civil War and the reconstruction period, at 
Amherst. From 1888 to 1892, served as 
Chief of the Bureau of Rolls and Library, 
Department of State. He has lectured con- 
siderably, and for a time was lecturer at 
Columbia, Johns Hopkins, and Chicago Uni- 
versities. In 1900 he was a delegate to the 
Paris Congress of Historians. Professor 
Bancroft is the author of a number of works 
on political economy and allied subjects, as 
well as histories of special periods in Amer- 
ican history. Life of William H. Seward; 
The Negro in Politics; A History of the 
Confederates, etc. Residence: 1700 H street, 



BANKHEAD, JOHN HOLLIS, farmer, U. 
S. Senator, was born in Moscow, Marion 
(now Lamar) County, Alabama, September 
13, 1842, and is a self-educated man. He 
was wounded three times while serving in 
the Confederate Army in the Civil War. He 
represented Marion County in the General 
Assembly, 1865 to 1867; was a member of 
the State Senate, 1876-77, and of the Stata 
House of Representatives, 1880-81. From 
1881 until 1885 he was warden of the Ala- 
bama- penitentiary. He was elected to the 
Fiftieth Congress, and was re-elected to each 
succeeding Congress, including the Fifty- 
ninth, and in July, 1907, he was elected to 
fill out the unexpired term of Hon. John 
Tyler Morgan in the United States Senate. 
Democrat. Legal residence: Fayette, Ala. 
Washington address: U. S. Senate. 

BANKS, NATHAN, entomologist, was 
born at Roslyn, New York, April 13, 1868, 
sor of D. G. and Maria (Hawxhurst) Banks. 
He was graduated from Cornell in 1SS9, and 
In 1890, with the degree of M. S. Mr. Bank'^ 
is a frequent contributor to entomological 
and scientific periodicals and is one of the 
authorities in this country on such mat- 
ters He has been Assistant Entomologist 
of the United States Department of Agri- 
culture since 1900. He is a well-known col- 



lector, and has the largest collection of 
Arachnida and Neuroptera in this country 
He is a member of the New York Entomo- 
logical Society, the Entomological Society of 
Washington, the Association of Economic 
Entomologists, and the Sigma Chi collegj 
fraternity; is an associate in the Academy 
of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. Polit- 
ically he is a Prohibitionist. On June 2, 
1897, he married Mary A. LuGar. Residence. 
East Falls Church, Virginia. Office: U. S. 
Department of Agriculture. 

BANNON, HENRY TOWNE, lawyer, Con- 
gressman, was born near Portsmouth, Ohio, 
June 5, 1867, and attended the city schools 
of his native town, and, from 1885 to 1886, 
the Ohio State University. He was gradu- 
ated from the University of Michigan in 
1889, and was admitted to the bar in 1891, 
Ho served as Prosecuting Attorney of Scioto 
County, Ohio, from 1897 to 1902. He was 
elected to the Fifty-ninth Congress, and re- 
elected to the Sixtieth, from the Tenth Ohio 
Distriot. In 1893 he married Jessie Damarin. 
Republican. Legal residence: Portsmouth, 
Ohio. Washington address: House of Rep- 
refc'entatives. 

BANTZ, GIDEON C, Deputy Assistant 
Treasurer of the United States. Residence: 
2230 Q street, n.w. Office: Treasury Depart- 
ment. 

BARBER, AMZI LORENZO, educator and 
real estate b:oker, was born at Saxton's River, 
Vermont, June 22, 1843, son of Rev. Doolittle 
Barber. He was invited by General O. O. 
Howard, head of the Freedman's Bureau, 
to take charge of the normal department of 
Howard University, in Washington, and was 
later professor of natural philosophy there, 
resigning in 1872 to engage in the real 
estate business in Washington. In 1878 ne 
became interested in the laying of Trinidad 
sheet asphalt pavements, and introduced it 
into many cities of the United States and 
Europe, and later became interested in the 
manufacture of locomobiles. In 1875-76 he 
took the course of lectures in the law de- 
partment of Columbian (now George Wash- 
ington) University, and is now a director 
of the Washington Loan and Trust Com- 
pany. He is a fellow of the American Soci- 
ety of Civil Engineers, and a member of the 
Society of Arts of London, Royal Thames 
Yacht Club of London, Metropolitan, Uni- 
versity, Republican, New York Yacht, and 
Atlantic Clubs of New York, the American 
Geographical, New England, and Ohio Soci- 
eties of New York, the Metropolitan Museum 
of Art, and the American Museum of Natural 
History. In 1868 he was married to Celia 
M. Bradley, of Geneva, Ohio, who died in 
1870, and in 1871 he married Julia Louise 
Langdon, daughter of J. LeDroict Langdon, 
of Belmont, N. Y. Residence: Belmont, 
Clifton street, between Thirteenth and Four- 
teenth, n.w. 

BARCHFELD, ANDREW JACKSON, phy- 
sician. Congressman, was born in Pittsburg, 
Penn., May 18, 1863, and educated in the 
public schools and Pittsburg Central High 



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School. He was graduated from the Jeffer- 
son Medical Collesre, Philadelphia, in 1884. 
He was elected a School Director in Pitts- 
burg, 1885; served as a member of the 
Common Council of that city, 1886-87. He 
is a member of the Pittsburg South Side 
Medical Society, the Allegheny County Med- 
ical Society, the Pennsylvania State Medical 
Society, and the National Medical Associa- 
tion; he is president of the Board of Direct- 
ors, South Side Hospital, and a member of 
the staff. He was elected to the Fifty-nintn 
and re-elected to the Sixtieth Congresses 
from the Thirty-second Pennsylvania Dis- 
trict. Republican. Legal residence: Pitts- 
burg, Penn. Washington address. House 
of Representatives. 

BARCLAY, CHARLES F., Congressman. 
In November, 1906, he was elected a mem- 
ber of the Sixtieth Congress from the 
Twenty - first Pennsylvania Congressional 
District on the Republican ticket. Legal 
residence: Sinnema'honing, Penn. Washing- 
ton address: House of Representatives. 



BARCLAY, CHARLES JAMES, Rear Ad- 
miral, U. S. N., was born in Pennsylvania, 
and entered the United States Naval Acad- 
emy in 1860, graduating in 1863. He became 
f,n Ensign in October of ihe latter year; was 
promoted to Master November 10, 1866; 
made Lieutenant February 21, 1867; Lieu- 
tenant-Commander March 12, 1868. On 
October 1, 1896, he became Captain, an J 
commanded the U. S. S. Amphitrite during 
the period of the Spanish-American War, in 
1901 being ordered to the Boston Navy 
Yard. On June 1, 1903, he was made Com- 
mnndant of the Puget Sound Navy Yard, 
and on September 11, 1903, commissioned 
Rear Admiral. Address: Navy Department. 

BARKER, ALBERT SMITH, Rear Ad- 
miral, U. S. N., was born in Massachusuts, 
son of Josiah B. Barker. He was graduated 
from the United States Naval Academy in 
1861, and served on the U. S. frigate Mis- 
sissippi from 1861 to 1863, being with that 
vessel, and later with the Monongahela, on 
thf. occasion of the capture of New Orleans, 
and when the frigate was destroyed in at- 
tempting the passage at Fort Hudson. In 
1862 he was promoted to Ensign; made 
Lieutenant February 22, 1864; Lieutenant- 
Commander July 25, 1866; Commander Md'Ch 
2S, 1877; Captain May 5, 1892, and Rear 
Admiral October 10, 1899. At the beginnin,^ 
of the Spanish-American War was on Board 
the Strategy, later commanding the cruiser 
Newark, until August, 1898, and the Ore- 
gon from August, 1898, to June, 1899. He 
relieved Admiral Dewey temporarily as com- 
mander of the Special Service Squadron at 
Manila in May, 1899. From October, 189;t. 
until July, 1900, he served as commandant 
of the Norfolk Navy Yard, and from Juiy 
17, 1900, until April 1, 1903, was commandant 
of the New York Navy Yard. Since that time 
he has been commandant of the North Atlan- 
tic fleet. In 1894 he married Ellen Blackmar 
Maxwell. Address: Navy Department. 



BARKER, ELLEN BLACKMAR, (Ellen 
Blackmar Maxwell), authoress, was born at 
West Springfield, Penn., daughter of John 
Simmons and Rebecca M. Blackmar, editor 
at Edinboro, Pa. She is the author of The 
Bii?hop's Convesion; Three Old Maids in 
Hawaii, and The Way of Fire." She mar- 
ried, first, 1S79, Rev. Allen J. iMaxwell, whc 
died at Lucknow, India, 1890, and, second. 
Captain Albert S. Barker, U. S. N. Address: 
Care Admiral A. S. Barker, Navy Depart- 
ment. 

BARKER, HOWARD HINES, physician, 
was born in Washington, D. C., Septem- 
ber 13, 1848, son of James William and 
Sarah Ann Rozelle (Hines) Barker. He was 
educated at the Union Academy, Everett 
Irstitute, and Columbian (now George 
Washington) University. He was gradu- 
ated from the Medical Department of 
Georgetown University in 1870, and received, 
in 1890, the degree of LL. D. from the 
National University. From 1871 to 1875 he 
was demonstrator and lecturer on anatomy 
at Georgetown University, and since 1884 
has been professor of obstetrics and gyne- 
cology, and dean of the Medical Department 
of the National University. In 1871 he was 
resident physician of the Columbian Hos- 
pital for Women; 1872 to l'887, in charge of 
the diseases of women and children at the 
Emergency Hospital. He was formerly one 
of the consulting physicians at the Eastern 
Dispensary and Casualty Hospital, and one 
of the surgeons at the Sibley Memorial 
Hospital. He is medical examiner of the 
Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company. He 
is a member of the Medical Society of the 
District of Columbia; charter member of the 
Washington Obstetrical and Gynecological 
Society; the Clinico-Pathological Society; 
the Therapeutic Society of the District of 
Columbia, and the Amerian Therapeuti2 
Society. He is ex-president of the America! 
Association of the District, and of the 
American Therapeutic Society, and a mem- 
ber of the American Medical Association. 
On September 12, 1872, he married Fannie 
Rozelle Wilson. Residence: 1116 H street, 
n.w. 

BARLOW, JOHN WHITNEY, Brigadier- 
General, U. S. A. (retired), was born in 
Perry, Wyoming County, New York, Jun"! 
26, 1838, son of Nehemiah and Orinda (Steel) 
Barlow. He obtained his early education in 
the public schools and at an academy, gradu- 
ating, in 1861, from the United States Mili- 
tary Academy. On May 6, 1861, he was ap- 
pointed a Second Lieutenant of Artillery; 
in 1862 he was transferred to the Topo- 
graphic Engineers Corps, after being bre- 
vetted Captain for gallant and meritorious 
services on May 27, 1862. In 1863 he wiS 
attached to the Engineer Corps, becoming 
Captain in July, 1863. He was twice further 
brevetted. Major and Lieutenant-Colonel, 
respectively, during the Atlanta campaign, 
July 22, 1864, and before Nashville, Tenn., 
March 13, 1865. He has a disJnguished Civil 
W^ar record, being recommended on one occa- 
sion for a medal of honor for signal bra- 



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very. He was attached to the Artillery, 
Topographic and Engineer Corps, and while 
in the latter branch had charge of the con- 
stiuotion, etc., of various important fortiflca- 
'tions during the Civil War. On April 23, 
1S69, he was promoted to Major; made 
Lieutenant-Colonel on March 19, 1884; 
Colonel May 10, 1895, and Brigadier-General 
and Chief of Engineers until May 3, 1901, 
when he was retired at his own request. 
He has had charge of the building of a large 
number of fortifications throughout the coun- 
try; made harbor improvements on Lake 
Champlain, Chicago; New London, Conn.; 
Milwaukee, Wis.; Chattanooga and Nash- 
ville, Tenn. He made the original explora- 
tions in the Mississippi River headwaters 
country, and in the territory now included 
in the Yellowstone National Park. From 1892 
tj 1896 he served as senior United States 
Commissioner in marking the boundary line 
between Mexico and the United States. He 
is a member of the Military Service Institu- 
tion of the United States, companion of the 
Loyal Legion, member Society of the Army 
of the Potomac, and of the Cumberland and 
the Tennessee. He is also a member of the 
Army and Navy, the New York Athletic, 
and the National Arts Clubs. In religion 
he is an Episcopalian, and in politics a Re- 
publican. He has been twice married, first, 
on December 26, 1861, to Hessie McNaugh- 
ton Birnie, and, second, on September 17, 
1902, to Alice Stanton Turner. Address: 
New London, Conn., or War Department, 
Washington, D. C. 

BARNARD, CHARLES ARTHUR, lawyer, 
was born in Washington, D. C, March 22, 
1S80, son of Job and Florence (Putnam) 
Barnard. He was graduated from Harvard, 
A. B., in 1902, and LL. B. in 1904. While at 
Harvard he was a member of the Hasiy 
Pudding Club; member of the University 
Club in Washington. He is a member of 
the Swedenborgian Church, and in politics 
is a Republican. Unmarried. Residence: 
1306 Rhode Island avenue. Office: Century 
Building. 

BARNARD, EDWARD CHESTER, geo- 
grapher, was born in New York City No- 
vember 13, 1863, son of Owen Howard and 
Anne Eliza (Lenney) Barnard. His father 
was a business man of marked energy and 
capacity. Edward Chester Barnard attended 
public and private schools, and for three 
years the College of the City of New York; 
in 1884 he received the degree of Engineer 
of Mines from the School of Mines, Colum- 
bia College. He has for a number of years 
been engaged in making topographic maps 
for the United States Geological Survey, his 
work including the mapping of Alaska, the 
fixing of the boundary line between the 
United States and Canada west of the 
Rockies. At present. Geographer United 
States Geological Survey in Rocky Mountain 
Division. He is a member of the Cosmos 
Club, the National Geographic Society, and 
the American Forestry Association. On 
March 31, 1904, he married Virginia Town- 
send Grover (died March, 1906). Office: U. S. 
Geological Survey. 



BARNARD, JOB, lawyer, judge, was bo. n 
in Jackson Township, Porter County, Indian, i, 
June 8, 1844, son of William and Sally 
(Williams) Barnard. His father was i 
farmer, firm and temperate in character, and 
just, sincere and kind in disposition. HU 
earliest paternal ancestor in America was 
Thomas Barnard, of Salisbury and Ames- 
bury, Mass., and many of his forebears 
were distinguished New Englanders. Job 
Barnard attended the public school of his 
district until 1859; then the Valparaiso 
(Indiana) Male and Female College until 
1862, when he left to serve in the army 
during the Civil War. In 1865 he was mus- 
tered out of the army as First Sergeant of 
Company K, Seventy-third Indiana Volunteer 
Infantry, and immediately entered upon a 
law course at the University of Michigan, 
where he was graduated in 1867. Forty 
years later (on June 20, 1907,) his alma 
mater conferred upon him the honorary 
degree of LL. D. He filled a number of 
offices at Crown Point, Ind., where he prac- 
ticed law until June, 1873; was School Trus- 
tee, Assistant Assessor of Internal Revenue, 
and Notary Public. He was instrumental in 
having Crown Point incorporated as a town, 
anc". served as its first Clerk, Treasurer, 
Assessor, and Marshal. Later he was Assist- 
ar.t Clerk of the Court for three years, anii 
a School Trustee in this district for a num- 
ber of years. Since October 1, 1899, he has 
been an Associate Justice of the Supreme 
Court of the District of Columbia, having 
been appointed by President McKinley to 
succeed Justice Walter S. Cox. He is a 
member of the Cosmos, University, and 
Columbia Golf Clubs. He is a member of 
the New Church (Swedenborgian), beinir 
president of the Washington Society and 
vice-president of the General Convention 
of the New Jerusalem in the United States 
and Canada. He is president of the Board 
of Trustees of Howard University, and the 
Audubon Society of the District of Colum- 
bia, and a member of the Society of Colo- 
nial Wars, and of the Society of the Army 
of the Cumberland, and the G. A. R. In 
politics he is a Republican. On September 
25, 1867, he married Florence A. Putnam, 
daughter of Worthy Putnam, a member of 
the historic family to which Generals Israel 
and Rufus Putnam belonged. Residence: 
1306 Rhode Island avenue. Office: U. S. 
Court House. 

BARNARD, RALPH PUTNAM, lawver, 
was born at Crown Point, Lake County, 
Indiana, August 14, 1868, son of Job and 
Florence Aurora (Putnam) Barnard. His 
father was a Sergeant in the Seventy-third 
Indiana Volunteers during the Civil Wa.", 
a fair and just man, with a love of nature, 
and is at present a Justice of the Supremo 
Court of the District of Columbia. Thomas 
Barnard, the earliest ancestor of the fam- 
ily, settled in Nantucket about 1650. Gen- 
eral Rufus Putnam and Captain Samuel Sin- 
clair, both ancestors of his mother's fam- 
ily, were Revolutionary War veterans. He 
r-^moved from Indiana to Washington in 
1873, and was educated in the District of 
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Lehigh University in Professor J. "W. Hunt's 
Preparatory School, on Four-and-one-half 
street. He was graduated from Lehigh 
University in 1889, with the degree of C. B.; 
from Georgetown University in 1892 he re- 
ceived the degree of LL. B., and in 1893 that 
. of LL. M. He has been a member of the 
law firm of Barnard & Johnson since 1899. 
Prior 'to that time he was employed by the 
State of Massachusetts on its town-bound- 
ary survey (1889-1890), and from February 
1, 1890, to November 1, 1899, was with the 
Equitable Co-operative Building Associa- 
tion. At present he is secretary of the 
Washington Society of New Jerusalem, and 
treasurer of the Maryland Association of 
New Jerusalem, he being a member of that 
church. He is a member of the Phi Delta 
Theta fraternity, and formerly president of 
his fraternity alumni club in Washington; 
is the secretary of the University Club, and 
formerly president of the Southern Lehigh 
Club. He is treasurer of the Law Reporter 
Printing Company, and a director in the 
Belle Be Bottle Company. During the 
Spanish-American War he was a paymas- 
ter's clerk, stationed at New York. In poli- 
tics he is a Republican. He is a member 
of the Capital Club, Board of Trade, Bar 
Association, Bachelors' Tennis Club. Ho 
was married at Chicago, on August 24, 1892, 
to Phebe Emma McG-ill. They have two 
children, Katherine, born May 5, 1898, and 
Job, born May 1, 1906. Residence: 1011 O 
street, n.w. Office: Columbian Building. 

BARNES, BENJAMIN F., Postmaster, 
was born at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, De- 
cember 3, 1868, son of Benjamin H. (of 
New York) and Orena (Higgins) Barnes 
(of Maine). He was educated in the public 
schools of New Jersey and the law depart- 
ment of Georgetown University, where he 
graduated in 1895 with the degree of LL.B. 
In October, 1887, he was appointed clerk In 
the Post-office Department, through com- 
petitive examination; was made private 
secretary to the First Assistant Postmaster 
General September, 1889, and later private 
secretary to the Chief Post-office Inspector, 
and Fourth Assistant Postmaster General. 
For several years he was secretary to Hon. 
James S. Clarkson. In January, 1898, he 
was appointed stenographer at the White 
House; was made executive clerk July 1, 
1898; and on May 1, 1900, made assistant 
secretary to the President, which position 
he held through the terms of McKinley and 
Roosevelt, until July, 1906, when he was 
made postmaster at Washington, D. C, by 
presidential appointment. He was married, 
on October 18, 1892, to Emily Freeh. Resi- 
dence: 48 R street, n.e. Office: Post-office 
Building. 

BARNES, NOBLE PRICE, physician and 
surgeon, was born at Killbuck, Holmes 
County, Ohio, August 16, 1871, son of E. P. 
and Sarah M. Barnes. His father was a 
physician. He attended the public schools 
in Ohio, and was graduated from the 
iMillersburg High School in 1889. In 1893 
he was graduated, magna cum laude, from 



the Baltimore Medical College, receiving the 
degree of M. D., and the gold medal offered 
by the college. Dr. Barnes has been pedia- 
trician, Eastern Dispensary and Casualty 
Hospital; physician to Tubercular Dispen- 
sary; professor materia medica and thera- 
peutics at the National University until 
1904, and since then with the medical depart- 
ment of George Washington University. Ha 
sierved as surgeon, with the rank of First 
Lieutenant, with Light Battery A, D. C. 
N. G. He is the author of a number of 
medical papers and articles; president of 
the Therapeutic Society of the District of 
Columbia; secretary of the American Thera- 
peutic Society, and a member of many 
other prominent medical and scientific socie- 
ties. On September 15, 1897, he married 
Isabel Cameron McGregor. Residence: 212 
Maryland avenue. 

BARNETTE, WILLIAM JAY, Captain, U. 
S. N., was born at Morrisville, Madison 
County, New York, February 2, 1847, son 
of Dr. Milton and Caroline (Shepherd) 
Barnette. He was educated in the public 
schools of his native town, 1852-1859, and at 
the Oneida Seminary, 1859-1862, and was 
graduated from the United States Naval 
Academy in 1868. He served with the Asiatic 
fleet as a Midshipman, 1868; was promoited, 
successively, to Ensign (in 1869), Master (in 
1870), Lieutenant (in 1872), Lieutenant- 
Commander (in 1894) Commander (March 
3, 1899), and Captain (October 11, 1903). 
He was a m'ember of the General Board of 
the Navy, 1902-1904; a member of the Joint 
Board of the Army and Navy, 1903-1904. 
Since June, 1904, he has been in command 
of the United States battleship Kentucky. 
On November 29, 1877, he married Evelyn 
G. Hutchins. He is a Republican in poli- 
tics, and a member of the following clubs: 
University (of New York), University of 
Philadelphia), Metropolitan, Rittenhouse. 
Address: Navy Department. 

BARNEY, SAMUEL S., Judge of the 
Ur-ited States Court of Claims, was born 
in Hartford, Wisconsin, on January 31, 1846. 
He was educated at Lombard University, 
Galesburg, 111., and taught four years in the 
high schools of his native town, after which 
h'3 took up the study of law, and was ad- 
mitted to the bar in 1873, when he began 
practice at West Bend, Wis.; served as 
superintendent of the Washington County 
(Wis.) schools from 1876 to 1880. In 1884 
he was a Republican candidate for Con- 
gress; a delegate to the National Repub- 
lican Convention in the same year, and from 
1895 to 1903 represented the Fifth Wiscon- 
sin District in the United States Congresa, 
smce when he has been a Judge in the 
United States Court of Claims. Legal resi- 
dence: West B'end, Wis. Washington resi- 
dence: The Champlain. Office: Pennsylva- 
nia avenue and Seventeenth street. 

BARNUM, CHARLOTTE CYNTHIA, 

mathematician, editor, teacher, was born 
May 17, 1860, at Phillipston, Worcester 
County, Massachusetts, daughter of Rev. 



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Samuel Weed and Charlotte (Betts) Bar- 
num. She attended the Hillhouse High 
School, New Haven, Conn., 1872-76; Vas- 
sar College, 1877-81 graduating with the de- 
gree of B. A. in 1881) ; Johns Hopkins Uni- 
versity, 1890-92; Yale University, 1892-95 
(receiving the degree of Ph. D.). She taught 
at Stamford and New Haven, Conn., and at 
Smith and Carl'eton Colleges; was assist- 
ant editor of Webster's International Dic- 
tionary; computer for Yale Observatory, 
Dana's Mineralogy, the Massachusetts Mu- 
tual Life Insurance Company, the Fidelity 
Mutual Life Insurance Company, the United 
States Naval Observatory, and the Coast and 
Geodetic Survey. She is a member of the 
American Mathematical Society, the Asso- 
ciation of Collegiate Alumnae, the National 
Geographic Society, and a fellow of the 
American Association for the Advancement 
of Science. She has contributed to period- 
icals. In religion she is a Congregationalist. 
Office: Coast and Geodetic Survey. 



BARR, DAVID, clergyman, was born in 
Abingdon, Washington County, Virginia, on 
August 26, 1843, Son of Rev. Dr. George Ray 
and Sarah (Rodefer) Barr. After obtaining 
hi.^ preparatory education in the high 
schools of his native town, he entered the 
Theological Seminary of Virginia, from 
which institution he was graduated in 1870. 
During the Civil War he served as private 
in the Confederate Army throughout the 
v;ar. For nine years he has been rector 
of Takoma Parish, District of Columbia and 
Maryland, Protestant Episopal Church. Ha 
is a Mason and Knight Templar, and in poli- 
tics a Democrat. On February 6, 1873, he 
married Jane Eliza Whittle, of Buchanan, 
Va., ao which union have been born five chil- 
dren, three of whom are living. Residence: 
The Berkshire, 1412 Chapin street. 



BARR, THOMAS FRANCIS, Brigadier- 
General, U. S. A., retired, was born at West 
Camb.idge (now Arlington), Miass., November 
18, 1837, son of Thomas and Jean Barr. Ha 
was educated at Lowell, Mass., studied law 
and was admitted to practice in 1859. In 
1861 he entered the Civil Service in Wash- 
ington, D. C, but resigned in 1864, and be- 
gan the practice of law in Washington. On 
February 26, 1865, he was appointed Major 
and Judge-Advocate of Volunteers, and in 
1S67 was transferred to the regular army. 
On July 5, 1884, he was appointed Lieuten- 
ant-Colonel and Deputy Judge-Advocate- 
General: was made Colonel and Assistant 
Judge Advocate-General August 3, 1895. On 
Ma> 21, 1901, he became Brigadier-General 
and Judge Advocate-General, retiring from 
the service May 22, 1901. He was a Com- 
missioner of the United States Military 
Prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, 1873- 
94. and served as military secretary to Sec- 
retaries of War Ramsey, Lincoln, Endicott 
and Proctor. He has been Judge-Advocate 
in many notable and important court-ma: tial 
cases. He married Julia Minot Chase on 
September 9, 1863. Residence: Boston. 
Mass. 



BARRETT, HARRISON D., lecturer, presi- 
dent National Spiritualists' Association, wau 
born at Canaan, Maine, April 26, 1863, son of 
Levi P. and Lucetta J. (Merrow) Barrett. 
He attended the Canaan High School, Bloom- 
field Academy, the Lewiston High School, 
ana was graduated from Meadville (Penn.) 
Theological School in 1889. He taught 
school for seven years, being principal of 
the Spartansburg High School the last three 
years in this field of effort. For seven years 
he was chairman of the Cassadaga Lake 
Free Association, and since 1893 has been 
president of the National Spiritualists' Asso- 
ciation. He has written several books deal- 
ing with his religious belief, and has lec- 
tured extensively throughout America. He 
was editor of the Banner of Light from 1897 
to 1904. He has taken an active interest in 
politics, and has often been named by the 
Democratic party as its candidate for im- 
portant positions. He married Marguerite 
CofCyn October 13, 1897. Residence: Canaan, 
Maine. Office: 600 Pennsylvania avenue, 
s.e., Washington, D. C. 



BARRETT, HIRAM M., in charge of the 
sinking fund, office of the Treasurer of the 
United States. Residence: 3226 N street, 
n.w. Office: U. S. Treasury Department. 



BARRETT, JOHN, diplomatist, journalist, 
was born at Grafton, Vt., November 28, 1866, 
son of Charles and Caroline (Sanford) Bar- 
rett. He was graduated from Worcester 
Academy, Worcester, Mass., in 1884, then at- 
tended Vanderbilt University, Nashville, 
Tenn., and in 1889 was graduated from Dart- 
mouth College. For a time he was a teacher 
ai: Hopkins Academy, Oakland, Cal., and 
then became assistant editor of the Statis- 
tician, and after that served on the editorial 
stafL of a number of San Francisco, Tacoma 
and Seattle newspapers. From 1891 to 1894 
he was assistant editor of the Portland 
(Oregon) Telegram. From the latter date 
until 1898 he was United States Minister 
to Siam, and during his term of office was 
instrumental in settling, by arbitration, 
claims aggregating $3,000,000, and secured 
tii3 most authoritative interpretation of the 
foreign extra-territorial jurisdiction of Asi- 
atic countries. He undertook a number of 
special diplomatic and commercial investi- 
gations of Asiatic countries for the United 
Slates; was a war correspondent in the 
Philippines during 1898-99. He was a pleni- 
potentiary to the International Conference 
of American Republics at Mexico City, 1901- 
02; Commissioner-General of Foreign Affairs 
lat the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 1902- 
03. He served as American Minister to 
Argentina, 1903-04, and in the same capacity 
to Panama, 1904-05; Minister to Colombia, 
1905-06, since when he has been Director 
of the Bureau of American Republics. He 
has contributed largely to magazines and 
periodicals. He is a member of the Uni- 
versitj' Clubs of Washington and San Fran- 
cisco, and the Lotus Club of New York. 
Residence: The Connecticut. Office: 2 Jack- 
son place, n.w. 



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BARRINGER, JOHN WALKER, Brigadier- 
General, U. S. A. (reared), was born near 
Shelbyville, Ky., July 9, 1832, son of Josian 
and Paulina (Elliott) Barringer. He was 
graduated from the United States Military 
Academy in 1856, and entered the army as 
a Second Lieutenant; in 1861 he was pro- 
moted to First Lieutenant, and brevetted 
Captain for gallantry at Bull Run, and later 
in the year made Captain in the Subsistence 
Department. He served as Lieutenant- 
Colonel of "Volunteers, 1863 to 1865, and was 
brevetted Colonel and Brigadier-General for 
meritorious services during the war. In 
1875 he became Major in the Subsistence 
Department of the regular army; was made 
Lieutenant-Colonel, and Assistant Commis- 
sary General March 12, 1892; Colonel Octo- 
ber 8, 1894, and retired on June 1, 1896. By 
the act of April 23, 1904, he was further 
promoted to Brigadier-General. He is, the 
author of Legislative History of the Sub- 
sistence Department of the United States 
Army, 1775-1876. He married Sarah F. 
Wright on March 4, 1863. Address: 202 
West One Hundred and Third street. New 
York, N. Y., or care War Department. 

BARRY, THOMAS HENRY, .Brigadier- 
General, U. S. A., was born in New York 
City October 13, 1855, son of David and 
Margaret (Dimond) Barry. He was educated 
in the public schools of his native city and 
in the College of the City of New York, 
in 1877 graduating from the United States 
Military Academy. He served as Second 
Lieutenant, 1877 to 1882; First Lieutenant, 
1882 to 1891; Captain, 1891 to 1897; was 
made Major and Assistant Adjutant-General 
January 29, 1897. On June 22, 1898, he be- 
came Lieutenant-Colonel of Volunteers, be- 
ing transferred, with the same rank, to the 
regular army in 1900. He served with the 
Chinese Relief Expedition and in the Phil- 
ippines as a Brigadier-General, U. S. V., 
until 1901, then he became Colonel, U. S. A. 
He. was Adjutant-General of the Eightn 
Army Corps and of the Department of the 
Pacific from 1898 to 1900, and Chief of Staff 
for the Division of the Philippines, 1900 to 
1901. On August 18, 1903, he became Briga- 
dier-General. Address: War Department. 

BART, CHARLES M., Catholic clergj^man. 
pastor of St. Theresa's Church. Residence: 
44 Washington street, Anacostia, D. C. 

BARTHOLDT, RICHARD, journalist. Con- 
gressman, was born in Germany November 
22, 1855, and came to America when a boy. 
H?. received a classical education and learned 
the printer's trade, later entering the journal- 
istic field. He was connected with several 
Eastern papers as a reporter, legislative 
correspondent, and editor, and at the time 
of his election to Congress was editor-in- 
chief of the St. Louis Tribune. He was 
elected to the Board of Public Schools of 
St. Louis in 1891, becoming president. He 
has been a Representative since the Fifty- 
third Congress from the Tenth Missouri 
District. Republican. Legal residence: St. 
Louis, Mo. Washington address: House of 
Representatives. 



BARTLETT, CHARLES LAFAYETTE, 

lawyer. Congressman, was born at Monti- 
cello, Jasper County, Georgia, January 31, 
1853. He was educated at the schools of 
Monticello, University of Georgia, and the 
University of Virginia, graduating from the 
former institution in 1870, and in law from 
the latter in 1872, immediately being admit- 
ted to the bar. He removed to Macon, Ga., 
in 1875, and in 1877 was elected Prosecuting 
Attorney for the Macon Judicial Court, 
serving in that capacity until 1881. He 
served as a member of the Georgia House 
of Representatives, 1882-83 and 1884-85, and 
was elected to the State Senate in 1888 and 
1889. He was elected Judge of the Superior 
Court of the Macon Circuit January 1, 1893; 
resigned June 1, 1894. He was elected to the 
Fifty-fourth Congress from the Sixth Con- 
gressional Districit, and has served in subse- 
quent Congresses. Legal residence: Macon, 
Ga. Washington Address: House of Repre- 
sentatives. 

BARTLETT, FRANK W., Lieutenant- 
Commander, U. S. N., was born at Boston, 
Mass., in 1856, son of James W. and Acsah 
Bartlett. He was graduated from the United 
States Naval Academy in 1878; was ap- 
pointed Assistant Engineer June 20, 1880. 
In 1890 he was made Past Assistant Engi- 
neer; promoted to Chief Engineer Septem- 
ber 19, 1898; made Lieutenant March 3, 1899, 
and Lieutenant-Commander April 14, 1901. 
His article. Repair Ships, was awarded a 
prize by the Journal of tne American Soci- 
ety of Naval Engineers in 1902. He is also 
the author of Mechanical Drawing. On Jan- 
uary 3, 1883, he married Hattie Owen. Ad- 
dress: Navy Department. 

BARTLETT, GEORGE A., Congressman. 
In November, 1906, he was elected Repre- 
sentative-at-Large from Nevada as a Dem- 
ocrat. Legal residence: Tonopah, Nev. 
Washington address: House of Represent- 
atives. 

BARTON, CLARA, philanthropist, founder 
of the National Red Cross Society of the 
United States, was born in Oxford, Mass., 
in 1821, daughter of Captain Stephen and 
Sally (Stone) Barton. She was graduated 
from the Clinton Liberal Institute, in New 
York, and taught school for ten years, organ- 
izing the public school system of Bordentown, 
New Jersey. During the Civil War she did 
relief work on the battlefields, and prosecuted 
an organized search for missing men, for 
which purpose Congress voted an appro- 
priation of $15,000. In 1865 she laid out the 
giounds of the Andersonville National Cem- 
etery, and in 1870 associated herself with 
the International Red Cross Society, and 
served through the entire Franco-Prussian 
War, and in 1882 was instrumental in secur- 
ing the adoption of the Treaty of Geneva. 
She represented this country in international 
relief conferences at Geneva (1882), Carles- 
ruhe (1887), Rome (1892), Vienna (1897), and 
St. Pe.ersburg (1903). She was founder of 
the Red Cross Society in the United States, 
and its president from 1881 to 1904. She 
personally superintended the distribution of 



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relief at the lime of the Jo'hnstown flood 
(1S89), the famine in Russia (1893), the 
A?"menian massacre (1898), and, at the re- 
quest of President McKinley, superintended 
relief worlc in Cuba during the Spanish- 
American War, and was herself on many 
battlefields. She conducted the relief at 
Galveston afier the flood of 1900. Since 
1905 she has been president of the National 
First Aid Association. She has been deco- 
rated by, or holds memorials from Germany, 
Baden, Austria, Servia, Turkey, Armenia, 
Switzerland, Spain and Russia. She is tne 
author ot a number of publications, prin- 
cipally on the subject of relief work and 
concerning the Red Cross Society. Resi- 
dence: Glen Echo, Maryland. 

BARTSCH, PAUL, zoologist, was born in 
Luntschendorff, Selisia, Germany, on Au- 
gust 14, 1871. He was graduated from the 
Burlington (Iowa) High School in 1893, the 
State University of Iowa, B. S., 1896; M. S., 
1899, and. Ph. D., 1905. He is an Assistani 
Curator in the United States National 
Museum; professor of zoology in George 
Washington University, and director of 
hi.>-iology and physiology laboratories in 
the medical department of Howard Univer- 
sity. From 1896 to 1905 he was an aide in 
the United States National Museum, and 
was made assistant curator in 1905. He 
is the author of a number of bulletins on 
natural history topics that have been issued 
by the Smithsonian Institution. He is a 
member of the Academy of Sciences, Biolog- 
ical Society, Botanical Society, Microscop- 
ical Society, Micrological Society, and Audu- 
bon Society, all of Washington; a fellow 
of the American Association for the Ad- 
vancement of Science, and a member of the 
Ornithology Union, Iowa Academy of 
Science, and the Malcological Society of 
Germany, and the Cosmos Club of Wash- 
ington. On June 22, 1902, he married Signe 
C. Gjerdvum, of Washington. Residence: 
817 T street, n.w. Office: Smithsonian In- 
stitution. 

BASHEY, FRANK HINMAN, Territorial 
Delegate from Alaska to Congress, was born 
on April 20, 1875, in Lake City, Wabash 
County, Minnesota. He obtained his edu- 
cation in the public schools of Minneapolis, 
and went to Alaska in February, 1898, where 
he engaged in mining. On August 14, 1906, 
he was elected a delegate to the Fifty-ninth 
Congress from the Territory of Alaska as 
a Democrat. On August 10, 1904 he mar- 
ried Edna Bodgett, of Ballard, Wash. Legal 
residence: Nome, Alaska. Washington ad- 
dress: House of Representatives. 

BASS, GEORGE ARTHUR, business man- 
ager Washington Hydraulic - Press Brick 
Company, was born in Kankakee County, 
lUmois, August 16, 1864. He was educated 
In the Chicago public schools, and was grad- 
uated from 'the Northwestern University in 
1888. He came to Washington in 1895, and 
has been general manager of the Washing- 
ton Hydraulic-Press Brick Company for sev- 
eral years. He married, on November 16, 



1898, Lltella Ebert, of Denver, Col. Resi- 
dence: 2112 Nineteenth street, n.w.. Busi- 
ness address: Colorado Building. 

BATES, ALFRED ELLIOTT, Brigadier- 
General, retired,, formerly Paymaster- 
General, U. S. A., was born at Monroe, 
Mich., July 15, 1840, son of Alfred G. and 
B. Ann Bates. He received his education 
in the public schools of his native town 
and at the Canandaigua Academy, Canan- 
daigua, New York (1853-54, 1856-57), and 
was graduated from the United States Mili- 
tary Academy. He served in the cavalry 
branch of the army as Second Lieutenant. 
1865 to 1875, doing service in the West. 
From 1869 to 1873 he served as cavalry in- 
structor at West Point; for five years ho 
acted as Paymaster of the Department of 
Texas; for two years in a similar capacity 
for the Department of Dakota, and later 
similarly for the Departments of Washing- 
ton (four years), Dakota (four years). New 
York (four years), and San Francisco (four 
years). From 1897 to 1899 he was military 
attache at the Court of St. James. Begin- 
ning May, 1899, he served as Acting Pay- 
master-General, and on January 12, 1904, 
was Brigadier-General and Paymaster, re- 
tiring on January 14 of the same year. He 
is a member of the Metropoliaan Club. On 
December 1, 1875, he married Caroline Mc- 
Corkle. Residence: 1775 N street, n.w. 

BATES, ARTHUR LABAN, lawyer. Con- 
gressman, was born at Meadville, Penn., 
June 6, 1859, son of Samuel P. and S. Jose- 
phine Bates. He was graduated from the 
Allegheny College in 1880; admitted to the 
ba'- in 1882, and has practised law since that 
time. He was City Solicitor of Meadville, 
1889-96. He was elected to the Fifty- 
seventh Congress, and has served since 
that time. Republican. Legal residence: 
Meadville, Penn. Washington address: 
House of Representatives. 

BATES, JOHN COALTER, Lieutenant- 
General, U. S. A. (retired), was born on a 
farm in St. Charles County, Missouri, August 
23, 1842, son of Edward Bates, a lawyer, 
District Attorney, Judge, member of Con- 
gress, and, from 1861 to 1864, United States 
Attorney General. John Bates attended the 
public schools and Washington University 
at St. Louis, Mo.; from the latter institu- 
tion, however, he did not graduate; He 
entered the United States Army in 1861, as 
Lieutenant in the Eleventh Infantry, and 
since that time has passed through all suc- 
cessive commissioned grades to Lieutenant- 
General. He served throughout the CivU 
War as a staff officer with General Meade, 
and for thirty years fougnt against Indians 
in the West. At the outbreak of the Span- 
ish-American War he was made Brigadier- 
General of Volunteers, and placed in com- 
mand of the Department of Santa Clara; 
in 1899 becoming Major-General of Volun- 
teers and Military Governor, Department it 
Santa Clara, and, In the same year, of Cien- 
fuegos, Cuba. In April, 1899, he was ordered 
to the Philippines, where he later com- 



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manded the First Division of the Eighth 
Army Corps and the Department of South- 
ern Luzon during the campaign againrit 
Philippine Insurgents. In 1903 he received 
the honorary degree of LL. D. from Wash- 
ington University, St. Louis, Mo. Address- 
War Department. 

BAUER, LOUIS AGRICOLA, Director, De- 
partment Terrestrial Miagnetism, Carnegie In- 
stitution, Washington, D. C, was born In 
Cincinnati, Ohio,- January 26, 1865, son of 
Ludwig Bauer, a merchant tailor. He was 
educated in the public schools of Cincin- 
nati, and was graduated, with the degree of 
C. E., in 1888, and M. S. in 1894, boith from 
the University of Cincinnati. In 1895 he 
was graduated from the University of Ber- 
lin with the degree of Ph. D. He was com- 
puter, U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, 1887- 
92; docent mathematieal physics, Univer- 
sily of Chicago, 1895; instructor in geophys- 
ics, 1896; assistant professor of mathemat- 
ics and mathematical physics. University of 
Cincinnati, 1897-99; chief Division Terres- 
trial Magnetism and inspector magnetic 
work, U. S. Coast Survey, 1899-1907; director 
Department Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie 
Institution of Washington, since 1904; chief 
Division Terrestrial Magnetism, Maryland 
Geological Survey, 1896-99; astronomer and 
magnetician West Boundary Survey of 
Maryland, 1897; lecturer on terrestrial mag- 
netism, Johns Hopkins University since 
1899; editor Terres'trial Magnetism and 
Atmospheric Electrieity since 1896. He is 
a fellow of the American Association for the 
Adavncement of Science, and a correspond- 
ing member of the Gottingen Royal Academy 
of Sciences; also a member of the following 
American societies and international com- 
mittees: Physical Society, Astronomical 
and Astrophysical Society, -National Geo- 
graphic Society, Association of American 
Geographers, Washington Academy of 
Sciences, Washington Philosophical Soci- 
ety, Sociedad Scientifica Antonio Alzate, of 
Mexico; Permanent Committee on Terres- 
tr'al Magn tism and Atmospheric Electric- 
ity of the International Meteorological Con- 
ference, Committee on Terrestrial Magnet- 
ism of the International Association of 
Academies; Cosmos Club, and Sigma Chi 
college fraterni'ty. In religion he is a Uni- 
tarian. He married Adelia Prances Doolit- 
tle on April 15, 1891. Residence: The Onta- 
rio. Office: Department Terrestrial Mag- 
netism, Carnegie Institution. 

BAUMGARTEN, HERMAN, merchant, was 
born in Hanover, Germany, in 1849, son of 
Sc-lig Baumgarten, who brought him to Bal- 
timore, Md., when three years old. He was 
graduated from Knapp's Institute, Balti- 
more, in 1863, and in 1868 entered into busi- 
ness with his father and brother, under the 
name of S. Baumgarten & Sons, removing 
to Washington in 1871 and engaging in the 
rubber stamp business. He is a Thirty- 
second degree Mason and a charter mem- 
ber of Arminus Lodge, No. 25, and of the 
Capital Chapter. Residence: 466 Massachu- 
setts avenue, n.w. Business address: 414 
Tenith sitreet, n.w. 



BAYLOR, JAMES BOWEN, civil engineer, 
magnetician, hydrographer, was born at 
Mirador, Albemarle County, "Virginia, May 
30 1849, son of Dr. John Roy and Anne 
(Bowen) Baylor. He attended a privte school 
in Virginia and the Virginia Military School 
(serving during the Civil War with the corp.s 
o£ cadets from this institution), later gradu- 
ating from the University of Virginia with 
the degrees of B. S. and C. E. in 1872. He 
also received the degree of LL. D. from Bay- 
lor University in 1903. After a competitiva 
examination in 1874 he was appointed an 
aide in the Coast and Geodetic Survey, and 
during his service there made a magnetic 
survey of North Carolina. Since that time 
he has been magnetic field officer of th3 
Survey, and has conducted surveys of the 
earth's magnetism in nearly every State anJ 
Territory of the United States, and done 
astronomical, geographic, hydrographic and 
geodetic work for the Government. He sur- 
veyed the oyster beds of Virginia and Lou- 
isiana during the period 1889-94; was bound- 
ary engineer of Virginia, and commissioner 
of the United States Supreme Court to de- 
termine the boundary of Virginia and Ten- 
nessee, and engineer on the Pennsylvania- 
New York boundary line. He is the author 
of a large number of monographs and 
pamphlets which have been published by the 
Coast and Geodetic Survey. He is a mem- 
ber of the Society of Cincinnati, National 
Gtograp'hic Society, Philosophical Society of 
Washington, and the Cosmos Club. He was 
married, on January 5, 1881, to Ellen C. 
Bruce, who has since died. Residence: New- 
market, Milford Post-office, Virginia. Office: 
Coast and Geodetic Survey. 

BAYLY, WILLIAM HAMILTON, lawyer, 
Chief Clerk of the Pension Office, was born 
near Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylva- 
nia, on March 5, 1850, son of Joseph Tate 
and Harriet (Hamilton) Bayly. He was grad- 
uated from Pennsylvania College, at Gettys- 
burg, Pa., in June, 1870, and received the 
degrees of A. B. and A. M. for post-graduate 
work at that institution. From 1873 to 1882 
he was engaged in the practice of law, since 
when he has been in the Government serv- 
ice. In 1880 he was Chief Burgess of Gettys- 
burg, Pa., and Borough Treasurer of the 
same city in 1881. He is a member of the 
Sons of the American Revolution, and in 
politics a Republican. On December 10, 
1S86, he married Mary F. Kuhns, of Can- 
ton, Ohio, to which union has been born a 
son. Residence: 2125 N street, n.w. Office: 
Pension Bureau. 

BEACH, MORGAN HAWLEY, District 

Atto.ney, was born at Sandy Spring, Mary- 
land, September 20, 1861, son of Samuel Fer- 
guson and Elizabeth (Morgan) Beach. After 
attending the Episcopal High School at 
Alexandria, Va., he entered Yale College, and 
graduated with honors in the class of 1892, 
and was philosophical oration man at grad- 
uation, and a member of the Phi Beta Kappa 
Society and secretary of the Yale Navy and 
coxswain of his class "eight." Later he was 
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and, in 1885, was admitted to practice be- 
fore the Supreme Court of the District of 
Columbia. He was appointed assistant to 
the Attorney General November 15, 1902, 
and January 20, 1903, was commissioned 
District Attorney for the District of Colum- 
bia. On December 25, 1895, he married Eliz- 
abe'th Grayson, daughter of George Carter, 
of Oatlands, Va., and four children have been 
born to them. Residence: 1626 Nineteenth 
street, n.w. Office: Colorado Building. 

BEAL, FOSTER ELLENBOROUGH LAS- 
CELLES, biologist, ornithologist, naturalist, 
was born at South Groton (now Ayer), Mas- 
sachusetts, January 9, 1940, son of Jacob 
Foster Beal. He was graduated from the 
Massaehuseitts Institute of Technology in 
1871. From 1874 to 1875 he served as assist- 
aui professor of mathematics at the United 
States Naval Academy, and from 1876 to 
1883 was connected with the Iowa Agricul- 
tural College as professor of civil engineer- 
ing (1876-82); acting professor of zoology 
(1879-82); professor of geology (1883). From 
1898 to 1901 he served as assistan't biologibt 
in the Biological Survey of the United 
States Department of Agriculture, and since 
1902 has been economic ornithologist in the 
same department. He is ithe author of .^ 
number of publications on economic orni- 
thology. Residence:: Berwyn, Maryland. 
Office: Department of Agriculture. 

BEAL, WALTER HENRY, agricultural 
chemist, writer and editor, was bom near 
Old Church, Virginia, December 9, 1867, son 
of John and Charlotte C. Beal. He was 
graduated, with the degrees of A. B., and 
M. E., from the Virginia Polytechnic Insti- 
tute, Blacksburg, Virginia, in 1886, after a 
special chemistry course. In 1887-91 he was 
assistant chemist to the Massachusetts 
Agricultural Experiment Station, at Am- 
herst. He is now chief of the editorial 
division of the office of experiment stations. 
United States Department of Agriculture. 
For a number of years past 'he has been 
both a contributor to and editor of a large 
number of the publications of the office of 
experiment stations; is editor of the Depart- 
ment of the Experiment Stations Record, 
treating of meteorology, soils, and fertilizer.^, 
and of the series of bi-monthly farmers' bul- 
letins known as Experiment Station Work. 
He is a member of the American Chemical 
Society, American Association for Advance- 
ment of Science, the Cosmos, University, and 
Dumbarton Clubs. Unmarried. Residence* 
1923 Biltmore street, n.w. Office: Depart- 
ment of Agriculture. 

BEALE, JOSEPH G., Congressman. He 
was elected a member of the Sixtieth Con- 
gress from the Twenty-seventh Pennsylva- 
nia Congressional District in November, 
1906, on the Republican ticket. Legal resi- 
dence: Leechburg, Penn. Washington ad- 
dress: House of Representatives. 

BEALL, JACK, lawyer. Congressman, was 
born in Ellis County, Texas, October 25, 1866, 
son of Richard and Adelaide (Pierce) Beall, 
both pioneer Texas settlers, and Kentuck- 



ians. He was raised on a farm and attended 
the public schools. He taught school in 
1884 and 1885; in 1886 entered the literary 
department of the University of Texas, and 
in 1889 the law department of the same 
institution, graduating from the latter in 
1890. he has been practising law since that 
date. He was a member of the Texas Legis- 
lature for three years, and a State Senator 
for four years. He has been a Represent- 
ative from the Fifth Texas District since 
th-^ Fifty-eig*hth Congress. He was married, 
in 1898, to Patricia Martin. Democrat. 
Legal residence: Waxahachie, Texas. Wash- 
ington address: House of Representatives. 

BEALL, MARY STEVENS (MRS.) au- 
thoress, lecturer, was born in Philadelphia, 
the daughter of James and Georgiana 
(Haines) Stevens. Her father was a whole- 
sa,le merchant, a scrupulously honorable. 
God-fearing man. The earliest ancestor of 
the family in America, William Steven.5, 
settled with his family at Patuxent, Calvert 
County, Maryland, in 1651. The subject if 
this sketch was educated in the Philadelphia 
schools. She is an honor graduate of th?. 
Girls' High and Normal School of that city. 
She has written a number of short storie.4 
for current magazines, and has d^ne much 
historical work. She has been secretary of 
the Columbia Historical Society since 1894. 
She is engaged at present in preparing a 
series of lectures on Shakespearean plays. 
In religion she is an Episcopalian. Her hus- 
band is Alexander Evans Beall. Residence: 
1643 Wisconsin avenue, n.w. 

BEAMAN, WILLIAM MAJOR, topographer, 
was born at Annapolis, Maryland, February 
20. 1867, son of Navy Pay Director George 
W. Beaman. He was educated in the public 
schools. Trinity Military Institute, Tivoii, 
New York, and Rugby Academy and De- 
Lancey School, Philadelphia, Penn.; Chaun- 
cey Hall School, Boston, Mass., and gradu- 
ated from the Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology, where he pursued special stud- 
ies in civil and topographic engineering. He 
entered the United States Geological Survey 
in 1889 as topographer, and at various times 
has had charge of that department's field 
work in Maine, Colorado, Connecticut, North 
Carolina, Georgia, New York, Tennessee, Ala- 
bama, Texas, Delaware and Maryland. He 
is a member of the National Geographif; 
Society, Geological Society of Washington, 
American Forestry Association, and Cosmos 
Club. In his work at the Geological Survey 
he has published numerous topographic 
maps. He married Mary S. Parker on April 
15, 1895. Residence: The Cordova. Office: 
U. S. Geological Survey. 

BEAN, BARTON A., ichthyologist, was 
born at Bainbridge, Penn., May 21, 1860, 
son of George B. Bean. He was educated 
in an academy at Smyrna, Del., and at the 
Normal Sdhool at Millersville, Penn., and 
pursued special studies in ichthyology. He has 
been Assistant Curator of Fishes, United 
States National Museum, since January 4, 
1881. He is the author of a number oj 



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books, Government publications, monographs 
ai'c; pamphlets on fishes and icthyology, and 
a contributor to hunting and fishing period- 
icals. He married Lida Berry Skeen, of 
Columbia, Penn. Residence: 312 Riggs 
place, n.e. Office: U. S. National Museum. 

BEAN, TARLETON HOFFMAN, ichthyol- 
ogist and fish culturist, was born at Bain- 
bridge, Penn., October 8, 1846, son of George 
and Mary (Smith) Bean. He was gradu- 
ated from the State Normal School, Millers- 
ville, Penn., in 1866; from the Columbian 
(now George Washington) University in 
1876, and also received the degree of M. S. 
from Indiana University, conferred in 188,?. 
From 1878 till 1886 he was editor of the 
publications of the United States National 
Museum; editor of reports and bulletins jf 
the United States Fish Commission, 1889-92; 
assistant in charge of fish culture. United 
States Fish Commission, 1892-95. From 1880 
till 1895 he served as Curator of the Depart- 
ment of Fishes of the National Museum, 
ar.d from that time until 1898 was director 
of the New York Aquarium; Acting Curator 
of Fishes, American Museum of Natural 
History, of New York, in 1897. He repre- 
sented the Fish Commission at the World's 
Columbian Exposition in 1893, and at the 
Atlanta Exposition in 1895; served as di- 
rector of the Department of Forestry and 
Fisheries of he United States exhibit at the 
Paris Exposition of 1900. He was chief of 
the Departments of Fish and Game and For- 
estry at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 
1902-05; field representative in Bermuda of 
the Field Museum of Chicago in 1905; Stato 
fish cuMurist of New York, 1906. He is th'j 
author and co-author of a number of pub- 
lications relating to fish and fisheries. He 
is a member of the American Forestry 
Association, American Fisheries Society, 
Biological Society of Washington, Dani-sh 
Fisheries Society, and of the Cosmos Cluh 
of Washington, and the Arctic Club of New 
York. He is a Chevalier of the Legion of 
Honor of Fra'nce, and has the decorations 
of the Red Eagle, Germany, and of the Ris- 
ing Sun, Japan. On January 1, 1878, he 
married Laurebre H. Van Hook. Residence. 
1001 G street, n.w. Office: 1 Madison ave- 
nue, New York. 

BEAVAN, AMBROSE A., Catholic clergy- 
man, assistant rector of tlie Church of the 
Immaculate Conception. Residence: 1315 
Eighth street, n.w. 

BECK, HENRY K., lawyer, was born in 
Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio, on Au- 
gust 18, 1868, son of George W. and Sarah 
(Kammerer) Beck. He was educated in the 
public schools and at Georgetown Univer- 
sity, receiving the degree from the latter 
institution of LL. B., 1895, and, LL. M., 1896. 
In 1895 he was admitted to the bar of the 
District of Columbia, since when he has 
been actively engaged in the practice of 
his profession. He first came to Washing- 
ton in 1890; was for several years engaged 
in the real estate business, and served on 
•the Inaugural Committees of 1893, 1897 anl 
J.901, He is a Thirty-second degree Mason, 



and a member of all Masonic bodies. He 
is a member of the Lutheran Church, and 
in politics is a Republican, and has takeu 
part in a number of the leading campaigns, 
although never held an office himself. Un- 
married. Residence: Brookland, D. C. 
Office: Century Building. 

BECKER, GEORGE FERDINAND, geolo- 
gist, was born in New York City, January 
5, 1847, son of Alexander Christian and 
Sarah Cary (Tuckerman) Becker. He was 
graduated from Harvard University in 1868, 
with the degree of B. A.; from Heidelburg 
in 1869, with the degree of Ph. D., and 
passed the final examination of the Royal 
School of Mines of Berlin in 1871. From 
1875 to 1879 he was instructor in minina: 
and metallurgy at the University of Califor- 
nia; has been United States Geologist-in- 
Cliarge since 1879. He visited South Africa 
in 1896 to examine the gold and diamond 
mines of Africa, and was detailed as geol- 
ogist with the United States Army in the 
Philippines, 1898-99. For services on this 
'trip he received a military medal from the 
State of Montana. He is now in charge 
of the division of chemical and physical 
research. United States Geological Survey, 
and geophysicist in the Carnegie Institution. 
He is a member of the National Academy 
of Natural Sciences; Washington Academy 
of Sciences; Ame.ican Philosophical 
Society; Geological Society of America; 
American Institute of Mining Engineers: 
honorary member Transvaal Chamber of 
Mines, and of the Geological Society jf 
South Africa, and belongs to the Metropoli- 
tan and Chevy Chase Clubs. He is the au- 
thor of a large number of publications, pri- 
va>te and governmental, on the geology of 
gold, silver and mercury, as well as geo- 
physics and chemistry. On February 11, 
1902, he married Florence Serpell Deakins. 
Residence: 1700 Rhode Island avenue, n.w. 
Office: U. S. Geological Survey. 

BECKER, JAMES B. (S. J.), Catholic cler- 
gyman, treasurer of Georgetown University. 
Address: The Georgetown University. 

BECKWITH, PAUL EDMOND, civil ar 1 
mining engineer, was born in St. Louis, 
Mo., on September 22, 1848, son of Freder- 
ick W. and TuUia C. (Paul) Beckwith. He 
was educated in St. Louis, Mo., and in Ger- 
many. During 1875 and 1876 he was United 
States Indian Agent, and since then has 
b en assistant curator in the Division of 
History, United States National Museum. 
He is the author of a number of bulletins 
that have been issued by the Government, 
among them being, Beckwith's The Creoles 
of St. Louis; Military Annals of St. Louis; 
American Indian Peace Medals; Dances jf 
the Sioux Indians, etc. He is a fellow of 
the American Association for the Advance- 
ment of Science; member of the Anthro- 
pology Society, Naturalisit Society, Society 
of Museum Experts, Sons of the American 
Revolution, etc. Unmarried. Residence: 
1445 R street, n.w. Ofl5ce: U. S. National 
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BEDE, J. ADAM, journalist. Congress- 
man, was born on a farm in Lorain County, 
Ohio, In 1S56, and was educated In the pub- 
lic schools of that State. For a time he 
taught school, later acquiring the printer's 
trade. He engaged in newspaper work as 
a profession, and lived in many of the West- 
ern and Southern States. For a time h3 
was engaged in reportorial work in Wash- 
ington, D. C. In 1894 he was appointed 
Uni'ted &:ates Marshal for his district in 
Minnesota. He was elected to the Fifty- 
eighth Congress and re-elected to the Fifty- 
I ninth and Sixtieth. Supported Grover 
' Cleveland in ISSS and 1892, but has other- 
wise always been a Republican. Legal resi- 
dence: Pine City, Minn. Washington ad- 
I dress: House of Representatives. 

BEIDLER, JACOB ATLEE, Congressman, 
wa** born near Valley Forge, Chester County, 
Pennsylvania, November 2, 1852. He repre- 
sented the Twentieth Ohio District in the 
Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth and Fifty-nintn 
Congresses. Republican. Legal residence. 
Cleveland, Ohio. Washington address: 
House of Representatives. 

BELL, ALEXANDER GRAHAM, inventor, 
scientist, was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, 
March 3, 1847, son of Alexander Melville 
Bell, 'the inventor of "Bell's Visible Speech." 
When twenty-flve years of age he took up 
his residence in Boston, Mass., where he 
became professor of vocal physiology in Bos- 
ton University, and, as assistant to his 
father, carried to a high degree of perfec- 
tion in America 'the method of enablin;? 
the deaf and dumb 'to annunciate intelli- 
gently words and sounds which they them- 
selves had never heard. He was educated 
at Edinburgh and in London universities, 
and the degrees of LL. D. and Ph. D. and 
D D. have been conferred by several Euro- 
pean and American universities. He is the 
inventor of the telephone, for which a patent 
was granted February 14, 1876; also many 
^ )ther inventions are accredited to him, 
• imong them being: The photophone, induc- 
tion balance, and the telephone probe for 
painless deduction of bullets in 'the human 
body. For the latter the University of 
Heidelberg, Germany, awarded him an hon- 
orary M. D. at its three hundredth anniver- 
sary. In 1883, with C. A. Bell and Sumner 
Taintor, he invented the graphophone. In 
1S80 he was awarded the Volta Prix by 
the French Government, and in 1902 a 
medal by the London Society of Fine Arts. 
Hi; is ex-president of the Ame:ican Associa- 
tion to Promote Teaching of Speech to the 
Deaf, and National Geographic Society; 
regent of the Smithsonian Institution; mem- 
ber of the National Academy of Sciences, 
and other scientific organizations. He is an 
officer of the French Legion of Honor, and 
founder of the Volta Bureau. He is the 
author of numerous scientific and educational 
papers. In 1877 he married Mabel Gardiner 
Hubbard. Residence: 1331 Connecticut ave- 
nue, n.w. 

BELL, CHARLES JAMES, banker, was 
born in Dublin, Ireland, April 12, 1858, son 



of David Charles and Ellen A. Bell. He was 
educated at Wesleyan College, Dublin, Ire- 
land. He is the senior member of the firm 
of Bell & Co., bankers; president of the 
American Security and Trust Company; di- 
rector in a large number of corporaiions. He 
was chairman of the McKinley Inaugural 
Committee; is president of the Board of 
Education; 'trustee of the Public Library. 
Politically he is a Republican, and in re- 
ligion an Episcopalian. He is a member of 
the Metropolitan, Cosmos, and Chevy Chase 
Clubs. On April 23, 1887, he married Grace 
Hubbard. Residence: 1327 Connecticut ave- 
nue. Office: Fifteenth street and New 
York avenue, n.w 

BELL, GEORGE, Colonel, U. S. A. (re- 
tired), was born in Hagerstown, Maryland, 
in 1828, son of William Duffleld Bell. He 
was graduated from 'the United States Mil- 
itary Academy in 1853, and served previous 
to the Civil War in various Indian cam- 
paigns in the West, and against the Semi- 
noles in the South. During the Civil War 
he served in the commissary departme/it witii 
ihe Army of the Potomac, and was in charge 
of the sub-depots of the commissary depart- 
ments at Washington and Alexandria. He 
was for a time chief commissary of several 
departments, and the sub-depot ait New Yo k. 
He has been brevetted Major, Lieutenant- 
Colonel and Brigadier-General, the latter on 
April 9, 1865. He was retired as a Colonel, 
U. S. A. Residence: 1909 G street, n.w. 

BELL, JAMES FRANKLIN, Brigadier- 
General, U. S. A., was born at Shelbyville. 
Kentucky, January 9, 1856, son of Joha 
Wilson and Sarah Margaret Venable 
(Allen) Bell. He received a prelim- 
inary education in the common schools 
of Shelbyville, and in 1878, was grad- 
uated from the United S'tates Military 
Academy, serving from that time until 1894 
in various Indian campaigns in the West. 
He was Adjutant of his regiment and sec- 
retary of the Cavalry and Light Artillery 
School, 1891-94, and later aide to General 
J. W. Forsy:h. He served through the 
Spanish-American War, and served in the 
Philippines, and was promoted to Captain 
in March, 1899, and Colonel of Volunteers in 
July of the same year, when he organized 
the Thirty-sixth United States Volunteers 
in the Philippine Islands. He commanded 
this regiment until December, 1899, receiving 
a medal of honor for conspicuous gallantry 
near Porac, P. I. On December 5, 1899, 
he was made Brigadier-General of Volun- 
teers, and commanded a brigade and a dis- 
trict in Northern Luzon until July, 1900. 
From that time he was Provost Marshal 
of Manila until February, 1901, when he 
became Brigadier-General of the regular 
army and given in charge of the First Dis- 
trict of the Department of Northern Luzon. 
He returned to the United States in 1903, 
and since then has been commandant of the 
Infantry and Cavalry School and Staff Col- 
lege, and later Chief of Staff. He married 
Sarah Buford on January 5, 1881. Address; 
War Department- 



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BELL, JAMES LOWRIE, ex-superintend- 
ent of Railroad Mail Service, was born In 
Reading, Penn., on June 20, 1839, son of 
Samuel and Louise (Bowman) Bell. He was 
educated in the schools of his native town 
and at New Haven, Conn. He saw military 
service in the Civil War, taking part in the 
battle of Gettysburg. He was at one time 
general traffic manager of the Reading Rail- 
road; superintendent of the Railroad Mail 
Service under President Harrison, and sec- 
ond assistant under President Cleveland. In 
1S96 he became general manager of the Cen- 
tra! Railroad of New Jersey, but is now re- 
tired from active business. He is a Mason, 
a member of 'the Union League Club of 
Philadelphia, G. A. R., and in politics a 
Republican. On June 21, 1875, he married 
Laura Gilbert Brook?, to which union have 
been born three children, two of whom are 
living. Residence: 2210 Massachusetts ave- 
nue. 

BELL, JAMES MONTGOMERY, Briga- 
dier-General, U. S. A. (retired), was born 
a- Williamsburg, Penn., October 1, 1837, son 
of William Bell, and graduated from the 
Wittenberg College, Springfield, Ohio, in 
1S62 (with the degree of A. M.). He entered 
the Union Army at the time of the Civil 
War as a Second Lieutenant of Volunteers; 
became Captain, 1863, and Second Lieuten- 
ant, United States Regular Army (cavalry 
branch) in 1866. He was brevetted First 
Lieutenant and Captain for gallant and meri- 
torious services at the Battle of the Wil- 
derness, and later Major and Lieutenant- 
Cclonel for services against the Indians in 
■the West. He became First Lieutenant in 
18C7: Captain in 1876; Major, May 25, 1896: 
Lieutenant-Colonel, January 10, 1900; Colo- 
nel of Volunteers March 24, 1901; Brigadier- 
General of Volunteers, 1901. On September 
17, 1901, he was transf-^rred to the regu- 
lar army as Brigadier-General, and retired 
in October of the same year. His services 
in the army includes the entire Civil War, 
many Indian campaigns in ithe West, the 
Spanish-American War, and the Philippine 
insurrection. In the Philippines he was the 
commander of various departments in sev- 
eral provinces. He married Emily Mc- 
Hones on March 2, 1872. Address; War De- 
partment. 

BELL, THOMAS MONTGOMERY, mer- 
chant, Congressman, was born in Nachoo- 
chec Valley, White County, Georgia, March 
17, 1861, and was educated in the common 
schools of the county and ithe Southern 
Business College at Atlanta, Ga. For sev- 
eral years he was connected with many large 
wholesale business houses in Atlanta, Ga., 
and Baltimore, Md. He served as Clerk of 
the Superior Court of Hall County, Geor- 
gia, 1S98-1904; elected ito the Fifty-ninth 
and re-elected to the Sixtieth Congresses 
as Representative from the Ninth Georgia 
District. Democrat. Legal residence: Gains- 
ville, Ga. Washington address: House of 
Represemtatives. 

BELLER, JAMES W., lawyer, was born 
in Washington, D. C, on May 10, 1877, son 



of Charles E. and Ella V. Seller. He was 
educated in the public schools of Washing- 
ton and George Washington University, and 
was graduated from the law department of 
the latter insti'tution in 1905, with the de- 
gree of LL. B., being honor man of his 
class, and received the Parker Prize of $100 
in gold for having obtained the highest ave- 
rage of any member during the three years' 
course. He is a member of the Mt. Pleas- 
art Congregational Church, the Kappa Alpha 
college fraiternity, F. A. A. M., and in poll- i 
tics is a Democrat. On December 31, 1904, ' 
he married Katherine L. Tonmey, of Wash- | 
ington. Residence: 1431 Monroe street, n.w. 1 
Office: Fendall Building. 

BELMONT, OLIVER HAZARD PERRY, 

banker, was born in New York City Novem- 
ber 12, 1858, son of August and Caroline 
(Slidell) Belmont. His father was a man of 
vast wealth; the New York agent of the 
Roithschilds; a native of the Rhenish Pala- 
tinate; the founder of his family in Amer- 
ica; United States Minister to The Hague, 
and for twelve years chairman of the Dem- 
ocratic National Committee. The subject 
of this sketch was educated at the United 
Staites Naval Academy, and saw active serv- 
ice for some time, on the Kearsarge and 
other vessels. In 1900 he was elected a 
Democratic Representative to Congress 
from the Thirteenth District of New York. 
At the outbreak of the Spanish War he 
offered to build and equip for the Govern- 
ment within ninety days a dynampte torpedo 
gunboat. On January 11, 1896, he married 
Alva, Smith. Residences: New York City, 
Newport, R. I., land Washington, D. C. 

BELMONT, PERRY, lawyer, was born In 
New York City December 28, 1851, son of 
tiie late August Belmont. He was gradu- 
ated from Harvard Universi'ty in 1872: 
Columbia (New York) Law School in 1876. 
and practised law until 1881. He was a 
member of Congress, 1880-87, and chairman 
of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 1885- 
87. He was United States Minister to Spain 
1887-88; is a stockholder in the Interbor- 
ough Rapid Transit Company, New York; 
member of the New York Chamber of Com- 
merce. He is a member of the Knicker- 
bocker, University, New York Yacht, Army 
and Navy, Jockey, Turf and Field, and 
Coaching Clubs. He married, in 1889, Jes- 
sie Robbins. Residence: 1301 Sixteenth 
street. 

BELT, EDWARD OLIVER, physician and 
surgeon, was born at Rock Hall, near Dick- 
erson, Frederick County, Maryland, May 19, 
1861, son of John Lloyd and Sarah Eleanor 
(McGill) Belt. His father was a farmer, a 
man of the highest integrity, industry and 
sobriety. Hon. William Burgess, an ances- 
tor of the family, brought a colony to 
Maryland and founded the town of South 
River. He was laiter a member of the State 
Council, Deputy Governor, Justice of the 
High Provincial Court, and General of the 
military forces of the province. Edward O. 
Belt attended the public schools of Fred- 



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erick and Montgomery Counties, Frederick 
College, and the University of Maryland, 
fiom which latter institution he was gradu- 
ated in 1886, wi'th the degree of M. D. Ho 
later pursued post-graduate courses at 
Johns Hopkins University, and the Uni- 
versity of Vienna. He was the originator 
and one of the organizers of the Episcopal 
Eye, Ear and Throait Hospital, and was phy- 
sician and surgeon and executive offlcer to 
that institution. He was also opthalmolo- 
gist and otologist to Freedmen's Hospital, 
and to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad; 
also consulting opthalmologist to the Fred- 
erick Ci'ty and the Emergency Hospitals at 
Frederick, Md. ; was also professor of opthal- 
mology and otology at Howard University. 
He was a member of the University Club, 
Sons of the Revolution, of the Board of 
Managers of the Medical Society of the 
District of Columbia; ex-president of the 
Society of Opthalmologists and Otologists of 
the District of Columbia. He was a Demo- 
crat; in religion, a Protestant Episcopalian. 
On May 18, 1899, he married Emily Walker 
Ncrvell. Dr. Belt, with his two little sons, 
Edward McGill BeLt and Sinclair Belt, ages 
six and seven years, lost their lives in the 
rairoad wreck at Terra Cotta, D. C, Decem- 
ber 30, 1906. Late residence:* The Farraguf. 

BELT, WILLIAM T., Chief of the District 
of Columbia Fire Department. He has spent 
his entire life in fighting fires and protect- 
ing property interests and human life at the 
National Capital. The present fire organ- 
ization went into operation in 1864, and he 
left it in 1869, returning again as private 
in 1879. He was foreman in 1886, assist- 
ant chief, by act of Congress, in 1888, and 
was made chief July 1, 1903. Residence; 
233 North Capitol street. 

BENEDICT, RAYMOND ELI, forester, 

was born in Buda, Burean County, Illinois, 
on September 19, 1878, son of Miller S. and 
Anna M. (Harris) Benedict. After receiv- 
ing his preparatory education in the Crete 
(Nebraska) public schools he attended the 
University of Nebraska, leaving in junior 
year. He has served as horticulturist at 
•the Nebraska Experiment Station, and forest 
a&sistant and inspector in the Forest Serv- 
ice, at the present time being in charge of 
District No. 4 as forest inspector In the 
United States Forest Service. He is a 
member of the Phi Kappa Psi College fra- 
ternity, and the Century Club of Washing- 
iton. Address: U. S. Forest Service. 

BENGOECHEA, RAMON, Secretary Em- 
bassy of Guatemala. Address: Legation of 
Guatemala. 

BENHAM, ANDREW ELLICOTT KEN- 
NEDY, naval offlcer, was born at Staten 
Island, New York, April 10, 1832. He wa.^ 
warranted Midshipman November 24, 1847, 
and first served in the East Indies. In 1852 
he was attached to the Saranac, and in 1853 
attended the Naval Academy. He was pro- 
moted Past Midshipman June 10, 1853; Lieu- 
tenant September 16, 1855, and served on tha 
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St. Marys, in the Pacific Squadron, until 
1857; on the Coast Survey and Paraguay 
Expedition, 1858-59; and In 1860 was at- 
tached to the Crusader, of the home squad- 
ron. He took part in the battle of Port 
Royal, on the Bienville, and in 1862 was 
prcmoced to Lieutenant-Commander. He 
commanded the gunboat Penobscot, in the 
Western Gulf Blockading Squadron. After 
duty at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, he waa 
detailed to the Susquehanna, In 1S67; was 
promoted Commander, June 9, 1867, and saw 
duty as lighthouse inspector; Commander 
of the monitor Canonicus, and afterward oi" 
the Sanjus. In 1878 he became Captain, and 
was placed in command of the Richmond, 
on the Asiatic Station, and was then as- 
signed to duty at the Portsmouth Navy 
Yard, and later to the command of the 
lighthouse district of New York. In 1885 
he was made Commodore, and commanded 
the Mare Island Navy Yard, California. 
Upon his promotion 'to Rear Admiral, in 
1890, he was assigned to the command of 
the East India Squadron, and, in 1894, of 
the South Atlantic Station, but ithe special 
duty of towing the Columbus Caravels 
from Spain to Havana prevented him from 
reaching his sta'tion, and Admiral Stanton 
had charge in Brazilian waters. He was 
then sent to take command at Rio de 
Janeiro, when his course in protectintj 
American interests was approved. He was 
retired April 10, 1894, and at 'tiie outbreak 
of the war with Spain, in 1898, he was 
Prize Commissioner for the State of Geor- 
gia. Address: Navy Department. 

BENJAMIN, MARCUS, editor, United 
States National Museum, was born in 
San Francisco, Cal., on January 17, 1857, 
son of Edmund Burke and Sarah (Mitchell) 
Benjamin. He was educated at the Col- 
lege of the City of New York and Colum- 
bia. (N. Y.) University, graduating In the 
chemical course with the degree of Ph. B. 
In 1878. After four years in business, he 
became, In 1882, editor of the American 
Pharmacist, and later of Its successor, Tht> 
Weekly Drug News; chemist In United 
States Laboratory in Appraiser's Store, 1883; 
Sanitary Engineer, New York City Board 
of Health, 1885; lecturer on chemistry. New 
York Woman's Medical College, 1886; wrote 
articles on mineral paints and mineral re- 
sources of the United States, 1882-85; con- 
tribu'tor to Appleton's Annual Cyclopedia, 
188ir to 1902; on editorial staffs Cyclopedia 
of American Biography, 1886-88; Standard 
Dictionary, 1891-94; Johnson's Universal 
Cyclopedia, 1895; Encyclopaedic Dictionary, 
1S96; American Educator, 1897; Interna- 
tional Year Book, 1899-1902; New Interna- 
tional Encyclopedia, 1900-03; editor Apple- 
ton's Dictionary, 1890; Handbook of Win- 
ter Resorts, 1890-96; Handbook of Summer 
Resorts, 1891-97; General Guide of the 
United States, and Canadian Guide Book: 
also of revised edition of Picturesque Amer- 
ica, 1894; May Time — A Collection of 
Poems, 1889; i Some Noted Paintings by 
Artists of To-hay, and Washington During 
Wartime, 1903;/ translator of Bertholefs 



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Explosive Materials, 1883. Since 1896 editor 
oi proceedings, bulletins and annual reports 
United States National Museum. Contrib- 
utor to Scientific American, Popular Science 
Monthly, The Chautauquan, and other pop- 
ular magazines. Author of Braddocli's Roclc, 
a Study in Local History, 1899; Memoir jf 
Rear Admiral Francis Asbury Roe, 1903; 
A Memorial of John Henry Boner, 1905; 
John Bidvvell, Pioneer, a Sketch of His 
Career, 1906, etc. Member Jury of Awards', 
World's Columbian, 1893; Tennessee Cen- 
tennial, 1897; Trans-Mississippi, 1898; Pan- 
American, 1901; South Carolina Interstate. 
1902, and Louisiana Purchase Expositions, 
1904; United States Assay Commission, 
1896, 1899, 1904 and 1906. Was secretary of 
the Section of Technical Chemistry, Inter- 
national Congress of Arts and Sciences, SI. 
Lcuis, 1904; life fellow London Chemical 
Society and of the American Association for 
the Advancement of Science (vice-president, 
1899, local secretary Washington meeting, 
1903), member of the American Chemical 
Society, Society Chemical Industry, National 
Geographic Society, Sigma Chi college fra- 
ternity, etc. President of the Society of the 
War of 1812 in the District of Columbia 
(vice-president-general of the General Soci- 
ety); secretary of the Society of the Sons 
of the Revolution in the District of Colum- 
bia, and governor of the Society of Colonial 
Wars in the District of Columbia; honorary 
member of the Ladies' Hermitage Associa- 
tion, and of the Wachovia Historical Soci- 
ety of North Carolina. He received honorary 
degrees of A. M., Lafayette College, 1888; 
Ph. D. from the University of Nashville, 1889, 
and Sc. D. from the Western University of 
Pennsylvania in 1904. Member of the Au- 
thors' Club, New Yorlt, and the Cosmos Club, 
of Washington. On June 16, 1892, he mar- 
ried Carolyn Gilbert, daughter of J. Loring 
Gilbert, of New York City. Residence: 170n 
Q street, n.w. Office: U. S. National 
Museum. 

BENJAMIN, SAMUEL GREENE WHEEL- 
ER, artist, author, was born in Argos, 
Greece, February 13, 1837, son of Ameri- 
can Missionary Nathan Benjamin and Mary 
Gladding (Wheeler) Benjamin, poet. He is 
a descendant of distinguished Revolutionary 
War stock. He studied at home and at the 
English College at Smyrna, Turkey, and wa.s 
graduated from Williams in 1859. He con- 
tributed marine illustrations during the Cri- 
mean War to the London Illustrated News. 
Ho was assistant librarian at the New York 
State Library, 1861-64, and during the Civil 
War assisted in the hospitals, later studying 
law and art. He also spent several years at 
sea, studying navigation. He was the first 
American Minister to Persia (1883-85); pre- 
pared code for the legation; president Re- 
publican Club, of Richmond County, New 
York, campaign of 1891. In 1870 he opened 
a studio in Boston; received honorable 
mention in 1881 for painting, and occupies 
a d'«tinguished position among American 
artists. He was formerly art editor of the 
America department of the Magazine of 
Art, and later of the New York Mail. His 



art work includes principally marine sub- 
jects. He is a member of the Phi Bet.i 
Kappa, Sons of the Revolution, Boston Art 
Club. National Geographic Society; vice- 
president of the Society of American Au- 
thors, etc. He is the author of a large num- 
ber of books, including poems, ti.-<^ion, travel, 
adventure, and works on art and history. 
Contributor to Atlantic, Harper's, Century, 
London Art Journal, and numerous other 
periodicals. He "has been twice married, in 
1S6? to Clara Stowell, who died in 1880, and 
on November 16, 1882, to Fannie Nichols 
Weed. Residence: 2015 Nineteenth street, 
n.w. (summer), Charlotte, Vermont. 

BENNETT, CHARLES GOODWIN, Secre- 
tary United States Senate, was born on 
December 11, 1863, in Brooklyn, N. Y. He 
is a lawyer, holding the degree of LL. B., 
and from 1895 to 1899 was a member of the 
House of Representatives from the Fifth 
New York District. In politics he is a Re- 
publican. He has been Secretary of the 
Senate since January 29, 1900. He is a 
member of the Metropolitan, Chevy Chase, 
Union League (of Brooklyn, New York) 
Clubs. Office: U. S. Senate. 

BENNETT, CLAUDE NATHANIEL. 

founder and manager of the Congres- 
sional Information Bureau, was born in 
Thomson, Georgia, November 29, 1866, son 
of Nathaniel J. and Eugenia (Pearce) Ben- 
nett. Thrown on his own resources at the 
age of fourteen, he alternated work with 
attendance at school, and in 1888 graduated 
with distinction from Emory College, Ox- 
ford, Ga. He entered journalism on the 
staff of the Atlanta Journal, and three years 
later became its Washington correspondent, 
and also contributed special articles from 
Washington to many newspapers and maga- 
zines. He was private secretary to Hon. 
Hoke Smith, formerly Secretary of the Inte- 
rior, and was appointed by President Cleve- 
land to special commissions to the Indians 
in several Western States. In 1897 he re- 
signed from Government service and organ- 
ized the Congressional Information Bureau, 
a unique institution, that prepares to order 
for members of Congress any desired data, 
keeps clients throughout this country and 
abroad advised concerning affairs at Wash- 
ington, and furnishes information on all 
national subjects. He is a member of the 
University Club, the New York Reform Club, 
the Washington Alumni Club of Phi Delta 
Theta, the National Geographic Society, and 
of the Sons of the American Revolution. Un- 
married. Residence: 1814 K street. Office: 
Bond Building. 

BENNETT, FRANK MARION, Lieutenant- 
Commander, U. S. N., was born at Marcel- 
lus, Michigan, May 7, 1857, son of William 
P. and Lovisa (Brokaw) Bennett. He was 
graduated from the United States Naval 
Academy in 1879; became Assistant Engi- 
neer June 10, 1881; Passed Assistant Engi- 
neer April 24, 1892. On March 3, 1899, he 
became Lieutenant, and on December 28, 
1901, a Lieutenant- Commander. At present 



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ho is executive officer of the U. S. S. Topeka. 
He is the author of several publications, re- 
lating principally to the engineering tech- 
nology of the navy, and is a member of the 
Army and Navy Club, of New York, and 
th'j Army and Navy Club, of Washington. 
In June, 1893, he married Mary Henderson 
Eastman. Residence: Cassopolis, Michigan. 
Aadress: Navy Department. 

BENNETT, JOSEPH BENTLEY, lawyer. 
Congressman, was born on a farm in Greenup 
County, Kentucky, April 21, 1859; educated 
in the common schools of his county and 
at Greenup Academy. He taught school in 
hir- native county for a time, later studying 
law. He was admitted to the bar in 1878; 
elected County Judge of Greenup County in 
1894, holding the office until 1904, when he 
was elected Representative to Congress 
from the Ninth Kentucky District; re- 
elected to the Sixtieth Congress. Republican. 
Residence: Greenup, Ky. Washington ad- 
dress: House of Representatives. 

BENNETT, WILLIAM S., lawyer. Con- 
gressman, was born at Port Jervis, Orange 
County, New York, November 9, 1870, and 
was graduated from the Port Jervis Acad- 
emy in 1889, and from the Albany Law 
School in 1892, receiving the degree of LL. B. 
He was admitted to the bar in 1892 and, sub- 
sequently, to practice in the Circuit Couit 
of the United States. He had some journal- 
istic experience on the staff of the Port 
Jervis Gazette, but since his admission tj 
the bar has been engaged soldy in the prac- 
tice of his profession, and has resided In 
New York City since 1893. In 1892 and 1893 
he was official reporter of the Orange County 
Board of Supervisors; member of the New 
Y'ork Assembly during 1901 and 1902, and 
Justice of the Municipal Court of New York 
City in 1903. He was elected to the Fifty- 
ninth Congress as a Representative from 
the Seventeenth District, and re-elected to 
the Sixtieth Congress. He is a Republican 
in politics, and in religion a Presbyterian, 
and an elder of his church. On June 30, 1896. 
he married Gertrude Witschief. Legal resi- 
dence: New York City. Washington address* 
House of Representatives. 

BENSON, ALFRED W., lawyer. United 
States Senator, was born in Chautauqua 
County, New York, July 15, 1843, and at- 
tei ded school at Jamestown and Randolph. 
In 1862 he enlisted as a private in the One 
Hundred and Fifty-fourth New York Vol- 
unteers, rising to the rank of Major dur- 
j ing the Civil War, and being severely 
I wounded at Chancellorsville. Subsequently 
f he was admitted to the bar at Buffalo, N. 
Y., and in 1869 removed to Ottawa, Kansas. 
He served in the Kansas Senate for four 
years, two terms as Mayor of Ottawa, and 
as District Judge for twelve years. He be-. 
j came United St3.tes Senator on June 11, 
1['06, filling the vacancy caused by the resig- 
nation of Hon. Joseph R. Benton, for the term 
1 expiring January 29, 1907. He is a Repub- 
^Ilcan. Legal residence: Ottawa, Kansas. 
Washington address: Cochran. 



BENSON, ERNEST SYLVANIUS, Gen- 
eral Auditor, Isthmian Canal Affairs and 
Panama Railroad Company since April 27, 
1905, was born in Worcester, Mass., May 
25, 1855, son of Sylvanius H. and Lauretta 
Victoria (Howard) Benson. He was edu- 
cated in ithe high schools of Blackstone, 
Mass., and the Deane Academy, at Franklin, 
Mass. Following the footsteps of his father, 
he, when sixteen years of age, adopted rail- 
roading as his line of business, accepting 
a position with the Chicago, Burlington ani 
Quincy Railroad, where he remained until 
1874; chief clerk in the auditor's office of 
the Chicago and Paducah Railroad from 1874 
to 1880. He served as traveling auditor for 
the Wabash, St. Louis ana Pacific Railroad 
from 1880 to 1885; from 1885 lo 1888, cash- 
ier of the same road at Chicago; auditor, 
Indiana, Illinois and Iowa Railroad, 1883; 
auditor, Iowa Central Railroad for five years. 
In July, 1904, he was solicited by the receiver 
of the Oregon Railway and Navigation Com- 
pany to help, as general auditor, to straighten 
out the tangled affairs of that corporation, 
\n which capacity he organized for the re- 
ceiver an accounting department, and, after 
*.hR sale of the property, filled the positions 
)£ auditor and general auditor for the reor- 
ganized company until November 1. 1904. 
During this period Mr. Benson also officiated 
as general auditor of the Portland and 
\siatic Steamship Company. On November 
I, 1904, he was transferred to the Southern 
Pacific lines east of El Paso, Texas. He is 
a member of the Episcopal Church, tho 
University Club, and stands high in Masonry, 
and in politics is a Republican. On May 
29, 1875, he married Josephine Stonehocker, 
of St eator, 111., to which union have been 
born itwo children, both now deceased. Res- 
idence: lFi2'^ New Hampshire avenue. Office: 
Mills Building. 

' BENTLEY, ALEXANDER GARNER, law- 
yer, was born in Washington, D. C, Octo- 
ber 6, 1875, son of Alexander J. and Mary 
Catharine Eentley. Hi? father is Examiner 
of Titles, Department of Justice, and served 
as a Second Lieutenant in the Mexican 
War with the Second Ohio Volunteers. He 
v/ai graduated from Yale University in 1896, 
with the degree of B. A., and. in 1899, re- 
ceived the degree of M. A., after a post- 
graduate course at the same university. In 
1&98 he was graduated from Columbian 
(now George Washington) University with 
the degree of LL. B.. and since 1899 has 
been a practicing attorney-at-law In Wash- 
irgton. He is a member of the Phi Beta 
Kappa Society, the legal fraternity of Phi 
Delta Phi, and of the University Club. He 
was married. May 10, 1905, to Marie Eury- 
dico Miller. Residence: 1116 Ninth stree', 
n.w. Office: Columbian Building. 

BENTLEY, ALEXANDER J., Examiner .^f 
Titles, Department of Justice. Residence: 
nifi Ni"th street, n.w. Office: Department 
of Justice. 

BENTON. FRANK, entnmologi^t. apicui- 
tural expert, was born at Coldwater, Branch 
County, Michigan, July 5, 1852, son of Cory- 
don Philemon and Phoebe Ann (Baldwin) 



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Benton. H'.s father was editor of 'the 
Branch County Gazette, and Assessoi* 
of Internal Revenue under Presidents 
Lincoln .and Grant. He attended tha 
Michigan Agricultural College during 1870 
and 1871; University of Tennessee, 1875-76. 
In 1879 he received the degree of B. S. from 
the first named institution, and that of M. S. 
in 1886. He also pursued special study at 
the University of Athens, 1883, and the Uni- 
versity of Munich, 1884-85. During 1870-73 
he taught in the public schools of Michigan; 
was instructor in apiculture at the Uni- 
versity of Tennessee, 1875-76; principal of 
ithe Michigan public schools, 1877-78; in- 
structor in French and mathematics at Ger- 
man-American Seminary, Detroit, 1878-79; 
instructor in French at Michigan Agricul- 
tural College, 1878-79. In 1880 he made an 
investigation of the honey bees of Europe, 
Africa and Asia, and in 1891 was special 
agent and investigator of the United States 
Department of Agriculture; in 1901 becom- 
ing agent in charge of the apiarian investi- 
gations of that department. He is the author 
of The Honey Bee, an apicultural handbook, 
and inventor of the queen mailing cage and 
numierous apicultural appliances. He has 
produced several new and improved varie- 
ties of honey bees by cross-breeding, and 
discovered many hitherto unknown facts 
regarding bees. In 1883 he received the 
Prussian state medal at Frankfort-on-Main; 
at the Pari? Exposition in 1900 he received 
a silver medal, with diploma; in 1901, at 
the Pan-American Exposition, two diplomas, 
and many other premiums and honors. In 
politics he is a Republican; a member of the 
Entomological Society of Washington (cor- 
re.-i'onding secretary, 1894-95); American 
Association for the Advancement of Science, 
and National Geographic Society. On De- 
cember 17, 1879, he married Hattie M. 
Wheeler. Residence: 925 N street, n.w. 
Office: Department of Agriculture. 

BERLINER, EMILE, inventor, was born 
in Hanover, Germany, May 20, 1851, son of 
Samuel and Sally (Friedman) Berliner. H2 
was graduated from the Samson School, 
Wolfenbuttel, in 1865; came to the United 
Sta'tes in 1870, devoted himself later ti 
mechanics and electricity, and from 1879 to 
1S82 was chief Instrument inspector of the 
Bell Telephone Company at Boston, Mass. 
In 1877 he invented the loose-contact tele- 
phone transmitter, or microphone; was the 
first to use, and in 1878 patented, an induc- 
tion coil in connection with transmitters, 
discovered that a loose contact will act as 
a telephone receiver, and was the patentee 
of several other valuable 'telephonic inven- 
tions. In 1887 he invented the gramophone, 
the first talking machine which utilized a 
groove of even depth and varying direction, 
and in which the record groove not only 
vibrated, but propelled the stylus across the 
r-^cord. For this invention Franklin Insti- 
tute, of Philadelphia, awarded him the John 
Scott medal. He is the author of a book 
entitled Conclusions, and of a number of 
scientific papers and pamphlets, and is an 
ocasional lecturer on .scientific subjects. 
Member of Franklin Institute, Philadelphia. 
He married Cora H. Adler. of Washington, 
In 1881. Address: 1458 Columbia road, n.w. 



BERMANN, ISIDOR SAMUEL LEOPOLD, 

physician, is a member of the Washington 
Academy of Sciences, and the Washington 
Medical Society. Residence: The Plaza. 

BERMUDEZ, PEDRO REQUENA, First 
Secretary of the Legation of Uruguay at 
Washington, was born in Montevideo, Uru- 
guay, on July 10, 1875, son of Dolores de 
(Requena) Bermudez. His prelitninary eflu- 
cation was obtained in the Montevideo High 
School, after which he attended the Univer- 
sity of Montevideo. He has served as Cap- 
tain of the Uruguayan National Guard. He 
is a member of the Roman Catholic Church, 
and unmarried. Address: Uruguayan Lega- 
ition. 

BERNADOU, JOHN BAPTISTE, Lieuten- 
ant-Commander, U. S. N., was born in Penn- 
sylvania in 1858, son of George W. ana 
Helen (Hay) Bernadou. He entered the 
United States Naval Academy in 1876, be- 
coming a Midshipman in 1882; Ensign, 
March 3, 1883; Ensign (senior grade), June 
26, 1884; Junior Lieutenant, July 1, 1892; 
Lieutenant, June, 1896; Lieutenant-Com- 
mander, February 9, 1902. During the Span- 
ish-American War he commanded the tor- 
pedo boat Winslow, and was wounded off 
Matanzas, Cuba. He is now acting as ex- 
ecutive officer of the U. S. battleship Kear- 
sarge. Lieutenant Bernadou is an authority 
on powder, and is the author of a number 
of authoritative publications on smokeless 
powders. He is a frequent contributor to 
naval and technical magazines. Home: 
Winslow, New Jersey. Address: Navy De- 
partment. 

BERNHARDT, WILHELM, linguist, 
teacher, author, was born at Halle, 
Germany, and graduated from the Uni- 
versity of Leipzig with the degree of Ph. 
D., in 1877. He served as a soldier during 
itho Franco-German War, 1870-71, and came 
to the United States in 1881. He was a pro- 
fessor of German, Latin and Greek in the 
Summer School of Languages, Burlington, 
Vt., and at Amherst, Mass., and Oswego, 
N. Y. ; was director of German in the Wash- 
ingon High Schools, 1882-96. He is the au- 
thor of a number of publications on the 
German language and literature, and trans- 
lator of several novels from the German. 
Unmarried. Address: P. O. Box 2205. 

BERRY, JAMES H., lawyer, U. S. Sera- 
tor, was born in Jackson County, Alabama, 
May 15, 1841, and received a limited educa.- 
tion at a private school at Berryville, Ark., 
whither the family removed in 1848. He 
studied law and in 1866 was admitted to the 
bar. He served in the Confederate Army, 
entering as a Second Lieutenant in 1861, 
and was wounded at the battle of Corintn. 
Miss., in 1862. In 1866 he was elected to the 
Arkansas Legislature, serving as Speaker of 
the House during the session of 1874. He 
was president of the Democratic State Con- 
vention in 1876; elected Judge of the Cir» 
cuit Court in 1878. and elected Governor in 
1882. He became U. S. Senator in 1885, and 
was re-elected in 1889. 1895 and 1901. Legal 
residence:: Bentonville, Ark. Washington 
address: U. S. Senate. 



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BERRYMAN, CLIFFORD K., cartoonist, 
was born at Versailles, Ky., April 2, IStiJ. 
son of James T. and Sallie C. Berryman 
He attended the country schools and was 
graduated from Professor Henry's School 
for Boys at Versailles, Ky., in 1886. Irli 1886 
he secured a position as draughtsman in the 
United States Patent Office; began cartoon 
work in 1891, becoming cartoonist for the 
Washington Post at the time of the death 
of his predecessor, George Y. Coffin. He 
(l;as never talten an art course. In Febru- 
ary, 1907, he became cartoonist for the 
Washington Evening Star. On July 5, 1893, 
ha married Kate G. Durfee. Residence: 1751 
Erie street, n.wr. Office: Evening Star. 

BETH ELL, F. H., general manager of the 
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Com- 
pany. Residence: The Mendota. Office: 722 
Twelfth street, n.w. 

BETHELL, UNION N., president of "the 
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Com- 
pany. Address: 722 Twelfth street, n.w. 

BETTS, PHILANDER, III., assistant 
professor electrical engineering, George 
Washington University, and consulting 
engineer, was born in Nyack, Rockland 
County, New York, on May 28, 1868, son 
of Philander, Jr., and Sarah (Demarest) 
Betts, his father having been a waterworks 
engineer and contractor. David D. Demar- 
est, an ancestor, was leader of one of the 
parties of Hollanders who settled in Harlem 
in 1663, and Thomas Bet:s, another ancestor, 
was one of the first settlers of Danbury, 
Conn., in 1639. He was graduated from Rut- 
gers College, New Brunswick, N. J., B. S. 
(in electricity), 1891; M. S., 1894, and from 
Cclumbian (now George Washington) Uni- 
versity, E. E., in 1903. He was identified in 
responsible capacities with electric railway 
construction in Philadelphia durmg the early 
days, having had part charge of the con- 
struction of the first electric road in thai 
city; in Newark, N. J., etc. At the pres- 
ent time, in addition to being an instructor 
at George Washington University, he is con- 
sulting engineer for the Washington Railway 
and Electric Company; for the city of Alex- 
andria, Va. ; the Potomac Electric Powei 
Company; Smithsonian Institution, and 
other corporations. He has made extensive 
investigations in matters affecting operation 
of power systems in factories and power 
equipment of street railways. He is a mem- 
ber of the Presbyterian Church, a Thirty- 
second degree Mason, a member of the Beta 
Theta Pi college fraternity, American Insti- 
tute of Electrical Engineers (secretary of 
Washington section), Illuminating Engineer- 
ing Society, National Electric Light Associ- 
ation, University Club, and, in politics, is a 
Republican, at the present time being vice- 
president of the New Jersey Republican 
Club of Washington. On November 19, 1896, 
he married Nannie Bell Hammer, of Pitts- 
burg, Penn., to which union has been born 
a son. Residence: The Oakland. Office; 
Metropolitan Bank Building. 

BEVERIDGE, ALBERT J., lawyer, U. S. 
Senator, was born on a farm in Highland 
County, Ohio, October 6 1862, and obtained 



his education in the common and high 
schools of Sullivan County, Illint)is, whither 
his family moved after the war. As a boy 
he endured many hardships; at twelve years 
of age he was forced to work on the farm 
ito support himself and assist his parents; 
at fourteen he was a railroad laborer, and 
a logger and teamster at fifteen. He read 
law in the office- of Senator McDonald, and 
was graduated from DePauw University, at 
Greencastle, Ind., in 1885; being admitted 
ite the bar in 1886. For a time he was asso- 
ciated with the law firm of McDonald & 
Butler, later entering practice under his own 
name. In 1899 he was elected as U. S. Sen- 
ator from Indiana; was re-elected in 1905. 
He is a Republican. Legal residence: Indi- 
anapolis, Ind. Washington address: The 
Portland. 

BEY, AZIZ, Lieutenant-Colonel and Alde- 
de-Camp of His Imperial Majesty, Military 
Attache, Turkish Embassy. Address: Turk- 
ish Legation. 

BEY, DJELAL MUNIF, First Secretary, 
Turkish Legation. Address: Turkish Lega- 
tion. 

BEYER, HENRY GUSTAV, Medical In^ 
spector, U. S. N., was born in Saxony, Octo- 
ber 28, 1850, son of Carl and Wilhelmine 
(Scheibe) Beyer. He was educated in the 
public schools and at Hohenstein Ernstthal 
until 1864, then he continued with private 
instruction in the classics until 1866; next 
studied pharmacy, chemistry, botany, and 
medicine until 1869. In 1876 he received 
the degree of M. D. from Bellevue Hospital 
Medical College, New York; that of M. R. 
C. S. in London, in 1881; Ph. D., Johns 
Hopkins, in 1887. On May 19, 1876, he 
was appointed an Assistant Surgeon in the 
United States Navy; was made Past Assist- 
ant Surgeon April 30, 1880; Surgeon, May 
19, 1893; Medical Inspector, 1905. He nas 
served on a number of vessels in the United 
States Navy, and pursued special duty for 
the department at various places. Since 
1!>04 he has been professor of hygiene at 
the Naval Medical School in this city; also 
a lecturer on naval hygiene at the War 
College, Newport, R. I. He was a member 
of the special commission which visited 
England and Germany in 1903 and 1904 to 
examine barracks. He is a member of the 
American Physiological Society, Boston Soci- 
ety Medical Sciences, National Society for 
the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis, 
American Public Health Association, Ameri- 
can Association of Pathologists and Bacte- 
riologists, a companion of the Order of For- 
eign Wars, and a member of the Metropoli- 
tan, University, St. Botolph (Boston) Clubs. 
He is a member of the Lutheran Church, 
and, in politics, a Republican. Legal ad- 
dress: Portland Maine. Washington ad- 
dress: The Albany. 

BICKNELL, GEORGE AUGUSTUS, Cap- 
tain, U. S. N., was born at Batsto, New 
Jersey, May 15, 1846, son of George A. and 
Elizabeth Haskins (Richards) Bicknell. He 
received his preliminary education in the 
public schools, and served as a First Lieu- 
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Civil War. In December, 1861, he was made 
Actmg Midshipman. He later entered the 
United States Naval Academy, and was 
graduated in 1866. He also was at the Naval 
Torpedo School, 1874 and 1896, and the 
United States Naval War College, 1896 and 
1900. He was with the Asiatic fleet on the 
occasion of the opening of the Japanese ports 
of Kobe and Osaka. He became Ensign 
April, 1868; Master, March, 1869; Lieuten- 
ant, March 21, 1870; Lieutenant-Commander, 
May, 1886; Commander, January 6, 1896, 
and. Captain, May 12, 1901. During the 
Spanish-American War he commanded the 
U. S. S. Niagara; from 1902-04 was Com- 
mandant of the Naval Station at Key West, 
Fla.; since then has been in command of 
the U. S. battleship Texas. He is a life 
member of the Naval Institute, a member of 
thc> Army and Navy Clubs of Washington 
and New Yorlc. In religion he is an Episco- 
palian, and, in politics, a Democrat. Ad- 
dress: Navy Department. 

BIDOLE, JOHN, Ex-engineer-Commissloner 
of the Disarict of Columbia, Engineer-Major, 
U. S. A., was born at Detroit, Mich., Feb- 
ruary 2, 1859, son of William S. and Susan 
D. (Odgen) Biddle. He was graduated from 
the United States Military Academy in 1881, 
commissioned First Lieutenant in 1883; Cap- 
tain in 1892; Major, 1901, and Lieutenant- 
Colonel, 1907. From 1891 to 1898 he was 
in charge of river and harbor work at 
Nashville, Tenn. ; during the Spanish- 
American War he served as Lieutenant- 
Colonel and Chief Engineer of Volunteers. 
He served for a time in Porto Rico and 
Cuba after the war, and in the Philippines 
from 1899 to 1901. From November of that 
year to May 1, 1907, he was Commissioner 
of the District of Columbia. He is a mem- 
ber of the American Society of Civil Engi- 
neers, the Engineer Assoclaition of the 
South, Archaeological Society of America, 
Society of War of 1812, Society of Foreign 
Wars, Society of Ca abac, and ahe Metrj- 
politan and Chevy Chase Clubs. He is un- 
married. Now located at San Francisco, Cil. 

BIEN, MORRIS, civil engineer, lawyer. 
Supervising Engineer, United States Reclam- 
ation Service, was born in New York City, 
Apri' 17, 1859, son of Joseph and Theresa 
(Leipoldt) Bien. He was educated in the 
common schools of San Francisco. In 1879 
he received the dpgree of Ph. B. from thvi 
University of California; George Washing- 
Ington University, LL. B., 1895; National 
University, Washington, D. C, LL. M., 1!<9(>. 
He was in the Geological Survey, 1879-1893, 
and the General Land Office, 1893 to 1902 
Since that time he has been with the United 
States Reclamation Service as supervising 
engineer in charge of land and legal mat- 
ters. Since 1893 he has examined and re- 
ported on all irrigation legislation consid- 
ered by the Department of the Interior, and 
was in charge of irrigation and railroad 
right of way matters in the General Land 
Office, 1893-1902. Auditor of the general 
State Code of Irrigation Law, which has 
been adopted as a whole in North and South 
Dakoita and Okla'homa, and in part in sev- 
eral other Western Siba'tes. He is a mem- 



ber of the National Geographic Society and 
the University Club. On March 25. 188o, 
hj married Lilla V. Hart. Residence: 1130 
Lament street, n.w. Office: U. S. Reclama- 
tion Service. 

BIERCE, AMBROSE, author, was born in 
Ohio, in 1842, and served as an officer dur- 
ing the Civil War, being brevetted Major 
for distinguished services. He located in 
California in 1866, and went to London in 
1S72, in the meantime wriang frequent con- 
tributions for newspapers. La'ter he re- 
turned to California and became editor of 
the Argonaut and the Wasp. He has writ- 
ten a number of books and contributed 
largely to newspapers and magazines. His 
books include: Cobwebs From an Empty 
Skull; The Monk and tne Hangman's 
Daughter (co-author); Black Beetles in 
Amber; Can Such Things Be? In the 
Midst of Life; Fantastic Fables; Shapes 
of Clay. Address: Army and Navy Club. 

BIGELOW, FRANK HAGAR, clergyman, 
ai;ire»nO'mer, meteorologist, was born at Con- 
cord, Mass., August 28, 1851, son of Fran- 
ci.- Edwin and Ann (Hagar) Bigelow. His 
father was a blacksmith and farmer, man of 
patience, industry, and guod temper. John 
AJden was one of che family's first ances- 
tors in this country. He attended the schools 
of Concord and Boston from 1867 to 1869, 
then entered Harvard College, from which 
institution he was graduated in 1873, with 
the degree of A. B. In 1877 he entered the 
Episcopal Theological School, and was grad- 
uated, in 1880, with the degree of B. D. He 
has received the degree of A. M. (History;, 
after post-graduate course at Harvard, and, 
in 1898, George Washington University con- 
ferred upon him the honorary degree of 
L. H. D. During the period of 1873 to 1876, 
and, later, f;om 1882 to 1884, he was assist- 
anc astronomer at the Argentine National 
Observatory, Cordoba, Argentine Republic. 
From 1876 to 1877 he was assistant in the 
United States Naval Observatory; assistant 
in the Nautical Almanac, 1889-91; professor 
of mathematics and astronomy, Racine Col- 
lege, Wisconsin, 1884-89; professor of mete- 
orology. United States Weather Bureau, since 
1891; professor of astrophysics, George 
Washington University, since 1894. He was 
a member of the United States eclipse expe- 
ditions of 1889, 1900 and 1905; is a member 
International Cloud Commission; the Solar 
Physics Commission, and of the Conference 
Board on Evaporation at the Salton Sea, 
California; author of more than one hun- 
dred scientific monograpns, papers and 
pamphlets. He is a cle.gyman of the Pro- 
testant Episcopal Church; has served as 
rector of St. Paul's Church, Natick, Mass., 
1S80-81; chaplain of the Taylor Orphan 
Asylum, Racine, Wis., 1884-89, and since 1891 
has been assistant minister of St. John's 
Church in Washington. In politics he is a, 
Republican. Librarian of the Cosmos Club, 
historian of the Sons of the RevolutioTi, 
member of the Philosophical Society (for- 
merly president), Washington Academy, 
American Association for the Advancement 
of Science, the National Geographic Society, 
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October 6, 1881, he married Mary Ellen 
Spalding. Residence: 1625 Massachusetts 
avenue. 

BIGELOW, JOHN, JR., educator. Major. U. 
S A. (retired), was born in New York City 
May 12, 1854, son of Hon. John Bigelovv. 
Jc'hn Bigelovv, the earliest ancestor of the 
family in America, died at Watertown, Mass., 
in 1703. He attended school at Paris, Bonn- 
on-the-Rhine, Providence, R. I., and Ber- 
lin, and studied at the Berlin University ana 
ar. the Mining Academy, Freiberg, Saxony. 
He entered the United States Military Acad- 
emy, graduating therefrom in 1877, becom- 
ing Lieutenant in the Tenth U. S. Cavalry, 
and later Captain in the same regiment. Ht^ 
was wounded at San Juan Hill during the 
Spanish-American War. In 1903 he was pro- 
moted to Major of the Ninth U. S. Cavalry, 
and in 1904 retired from active service. On 
February 13, 1906, he returned to active duty, 
and was attached to ahe organized militia 
Oi the State of Massachusetts. Since Feb- 
ruary 1, 1905, he has been professor of Frencli 
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technol- 
ogy. He is the author of Principles of 
Strategy; Mars-la-Tour and Gravelotte; 
Reminiscences of the Santiago Campaign, 
etc. In politics he is a Democrat. He is 
a member of the Technology Club, New 
England Modern Language Association, 
Modern Language Association of America, 
and Military Historical Society of Massa- 
chusetts. He married Mary B. Dallam. Res- 
idence: 62 Mt. Vernon street, Boston, Mass. 

BIGELOW, WILLARD DELL, chemist, was 
born at Gardner, Kansas, May 31, 1866, son 
of William I. and Jennie Lytle Bigelow. He 
was graduated from Amherst College in 
1889. He was assistant professor of chem- 
istry at the Oregon State College, 1889-90: 
instructor in chemistry in the Washington 
High Schools, 1890-91. Since July 1, 1891, 
ho has been a chemist in the United States 
Dfpartment of Agriculture; now serving as 
chief of the Division of Foods. From 1893 
tJ 1898 he was professor of chemistry at 
the National University. He is the author 
of a number of governmental documents on 
food and the adulteration of foodstuffs. On 
April 9. 1896, he mar led Nancy .M. Nf^'^hic. 
Rfsidence: 1445 Girard street, n.w. OfHce: 
Department of Agriculture. 

BILLINGSLY, OSCAR H., .real estate 
broker. Residence: Falls Church, Virginia. 
Office: 615 Fourteenth street, n.w. 

BINGHAM, EDWARD FRANKLIN, law- 
j-er. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court 
of the District of Columbia, was born at 
West Concord, Vermont, August 13, 1828, 
and educa:ed in Vormont schools nnd at 
Marietta College, Ohio. In May, 1850, he 
was admitted to the bar in Ohio, and from 
that time until 1861 practiced law in Mc- 
Arthur, Ohio; from 1861 to 1863 he prac- 
ticed at Columbus, Ohio; was Prosecuting 
Atiorney of Vinton County, Ohio, 1850-55: 
niember of the Ohio State Legislature, 1856- 
57, Solicitor of the city of Columbus, 1867- 
71. He became Judge of the Oomni-m Pl^as 
and District Courts In the Fifth Ohio Judi- 



cial District In 1873, serving there until 
his appointment, in 1887, as Chief Justice 
of the Supreme Court of the District i»l 
Columbia. He retired, under the United 
States Statute, on the 30th day of April, 
1903, having served sixteen years, and be- 
ing seventy-five years of age. He has been 
twice married, on November 21, 1850, to 
Susannah F. Gunning, who died August 2, 
1856, and to Melinda Caperion Patton on 
August 8, 1888. He is a Democrat. Resi- 
dence: The Grafton Hotel. 

BINGHAM, HENRY HARRISON, lawyer, 
soldier. Congressman, was born in Phila- 
delphia, Penn., December 4, 1841, and grai- 
uated from Jefferson College in 1862, with 
the degrees of A. B. and A. M. He also 
holds the degree of LL. D. from Washington 
and Jefferson College He began •th'? 
study of law, but discontinued it at the 
time of the Civil War, entering the Union 
Army as a Lieutenant of Volunteers. He 
was wounded at Gettysburg, Spottsylvania, 
and Farmville, and was mustered out of 
service in 1866, after having been brevetted 
for distinguished services as Major, Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel, Colonel, and Brigadier-Gen- 
eral, and receiving the medal of honor for 
gallantry. He was postmaster of Philadel- 
phia, 1867-72, and, on the last named date, 
Clerk of the Courts of Oyer and Terminer 
and Quarter Sessions of the Peace, County 
of Philadelphia. He has represented the 
First Pennsylvania District in Congress since 
the Forty-sixth Congress. Republican. Legal 
residence: Philadelphia, Penn. Washington 
address: House of Representatives. 

BINGHAM, THEODORE ALFRED, Briga- 
dier-General, U. S. A. (retired), was bori 
at Andover, Tolland County, (bonnecticut, 
May 14, 1858, son of Joel F. and Susan 
(Grew), Bingham. He was graduated from 
th<- United States Military Academy in 1879, 
and also holds the degree of A. M., received 
from Yale University in 1896. He was com- 
missioned Second Lieutenant in June, 1879; 
became First Lieutenant in June, 1881; com- 
missioned Captain July 2, 1889; promoted 
to Major in the Engineer Corps on July 5, 
1898. He was military attache of the United 
States Legation at Berlin from 1890 to 1892, 
and served in a similar capacity at Rome. 
1S92-94. He was made officer in charge of 
Public Buildings and Grounds, Washington, 
D. C, with rank of Colonel, March 9, 1897, 
which posi'tion he held until May, 1903; then 
he was placed in charge of the engineer- 
ing district embraced by Lake Ontario and 
Lake Erie. From 1903 to 1904 he was light- 
house engineer of the Tenth Lighthouse 
District. He was made Brigadier-General 
on July 11, 1904, and retired from active 
service. He is a member of the Metropoli- 
tan Club of Washington, and the Chester 
Yacht Club, of Chester, Nova Scotia. On 
Dt cember 15, 1881, he married Lucile Rutn- 
erfurd. Address: War Department. 

BINGHAM, WILLIAM THEODORE, edi- 
tor, Washington Bureau of the New York 
Sun. was born near Binghampton, N. Y., 
in 1867, son of William E. Bingham. He re- 
ceived a high school education; was private 



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secretary to Vice-President Levi P. Morton 
ia 1893, and lield the championship of the 
American Whist League, 1892-93. He has 
been actively engaged in journalism for 
many years. Residence: 927 Farragut 
Square. Office: 723 Fifteenth street. 

BIRD, CHARLES, Brigadier-General, U. 
S. A. (retired), was born in Delaware in 
1838, and entered the Union Army in 1861 
as a First Lieutenant. Being mustered out, 
with his regiment, in the same year, he again 
entered the service, as a Second Lieutenant, 
in 1862; became First Lieutenant on Octo- 
ber 2, 1862; Captain, March 15, 1863; Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel, September 3, 1864, and. Col- 
onel, May 30, 1865. On March 2 1867, he 
was brevetted First Lieutenant and Captain, 
regular army, for gallantry at Spottsylvania, 
and, later, Lieutenant-Colonel for gallantry 
at Petersburg, Virginia. Being mustered out 
ot" the volunteer service in 1866, he was ap- 
pointed to the regular army as a Second 
Lieutenant; was promoted to First Lieu- 
tenant in 1867; commissioned Captain and 
Assistant Quartermaster, March 14, 1882; 
made Major and Quartermaster, January 14, 
1895; promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel and 
Assistant Quartermaster-General, February 
2, 1901. During the Spanish-American War 
he was made Chief Quartermaster of Vol- 
unteers, with the rank, first, of Lieutenant- 
Colonel, later. Colonel. He became Brigadier- 
General of Volunteers January 3, 1901, and 
was transferred to the regular army, with 
the same rank, on April 16, 1902. He was 
retired on June 17, 1902. Residence: 2019 N 
street, n.w. 

BIRDSALL, BENJAMIN P., lawyer. Con- 
gressman, was born at Weyauwega, Wiscon- 
sin, October 26, 1858, and was educated in 
the common schools of Iowa and at the 
Iowa State Universiity. He was admitted 
to the bar in 1878; served as District Judge 
of Iowa 1893 to 1900. He was elected to the 
Fifty-eighth Congress, and was re-elected 
to ithe Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth. He has 
been twice married; his first wife. Bertha 
H. Schultz, died in 1886; in 1888 he married 
Belle Johnson. Republican. Legal residence: 
Clarion, Iowa. Washington address: House 
of Representatives. 

BIRNEY, ARTHUR ALEXIS, lawyer, was 
born in Paris, France, May 28, 1852, son of 
William and Catherine (Hoffman) Birney. 
His father was a lawyer, characterized by 
■resolution, energy and literary ability. He 
v/as brevetted Major-General of Volunteers 
for his services in the Civil War. Arthur 
A. Birney was educated in the public schools 
of Cleveland, Ohio, and took a professional 
course at the University of Michigan, grad- 
uating in 1873. He was Assistant United 
States Attorney from 1874 to 1878; United 
Slates Attorney for the District of Colum- 
bia from February, 1893, to February. 1S97; 
professor in the law department of Howard 
University from 1879 to the present date. 
He has been attorney for the Washingt'.>n 
Market Company for the past twenty-five 
years. He is a member of the Unlversiy 
Club, Past Master of Pentalpha Lodge, F. A. 
A. M., and a member of the Phi Delta Phi 



college fraternity. In religion he is a mem- 
ber of the Protestant Episcopal Church; in 
politics a Republican. On November 3, 1875, 
he married Helen T. Conway. Residence: 
1516 Twenty-second street, n.w. Office: 602 
Eleventh street, n.w. 

BIRNEY, WILLIAM, lawyer, was born in 
Madison County, Alabama, May 28, 1819, son 
of James Gilespie Birney. In 1848, while 
studying law in Paris, he took part in the 
revolution of that time. By competitive ex- 
amination he was selected as professor of 
English literature in the college of Bourges 
France. He returned to the United States 
at the beginning of the Civil War and en- 
li.=;ted in the Union Army as a private. Dur- 
ing the war he rose to brevet Major-General, 
becoming commander of a division, 1863-65. 
He has practised law in the District oZ 
Columbia since 1874; from that date until 
1877 was counsel for the District. He is 
the author of Life and Times of James G. 
Birney; Plea for Civil and Religious Lib- 
erty, etc. In 1845 he married Catherine 
Hoffman. Residence: 1606 Seventeemh 
street, n.w. 

BISBEE, WILLIAM H., Brigadier-General, 
U. S. A. (retired), was born in Rhode Island 
in January, 1840. He enlisted in the army 
in 1861, and was appointed Second Lieuten- 
ant on June 9, 1862, becoming First Lieuten- 
ant on December 31 of the same year. Ha 
was twice wounded during the Civil War, 
and served throughout the struggle, in vari- 
ous campaigns and under several Generals. 
On December 21, 1866, he was commissioned 
Captain; during the Chicago riots of 1877 
he acted as Adjutant-General of the United 
States troops. He has seen long service on 
the Western frontier, and was the designer 
and builder of Fort Philip Kearney, in 
Dakota, in 1866. He was commissioned 
M^or on May 18, 1893; commanded the 
United States troops in the Debs riots and 
Commonwealers' outbreaks in Ogden, Utah, 
and Pocatello, Idaho; also the battalion sent 
to quell the Bannock Indian disturbances 
at Jackson's Hole. On May 4, 1897, he be- 
came Lieutenant-Colonel, and during the 
Spanish-American War commanded a regi- 
m.ent in the Santiago campaign. After tha 
war he was given charge Ox the payment 
of the appropriation of $3,000,000 to the 
Cuban army. He became Colonel of the 
Thirteenth Infantry in 1899, and served in 
the Philippines, 1899-1902, commanding a 
troublesome sub-district. He became Briga- 
djer-General, U S. A., October 2, 1901, and 
commanded all troops to the north of Manila 
on the island of Luzon. He was retired a 
year later. He is a member of the Loyal 
Legion, Sons of the American Revolution, 
Army of the Cumberland, Society Sanitiago 
de Cuba. Address: War Department. 

BISHOP ARTHUR GARNETT, lawyer, 
was born in Washington, D. C, January :;, 
1S75, son of Varden R. and Emma F. Bishop. 
He was educated in the public schools of 
Washington, graduating from the High 
School. He was graduated from the law 
department of Georgeitown University in 
1898, and received the degree of LL. M. after 



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a post-graduate course. He is a lawyer, and 
ai present director of the Lawyers' Titlo 
and Guaranty Insurance Company of th<3 
District of Columbia. In religion he is a 
member of the Disciples of Christ, and also 
a member of the F. A. A. M. On September 
17, 1901, he was married to Dorothy Hughes. 
Residence: 229 Eighth street, n.e. Office: 
412 Fifth street, n.w. 

I BISHOP, JOSEPH BUCKLIN, Secretary 
of ithe Isthmian Canal Commission. Resi- 
dence: The Highlands. Office: Mills Build- 

I ing. 

i BISHOP, ROSWELL P., lawyer, Congress- 
I man, was born at Sidney, Delaware County, 
iNew York, January 6, 1843, and until the 
outbreak of the Civil War worked on a 
farm. He enlisted as a private in the Forty- 
■third New York Volunteer Infantry, and lost 
hi.' right arm in 1862, later being mustered 
out of the army. Subsequently he attended 
^ Unadilla Academy, Cooperstown Seminary, 
i and Walton Academy, New York, and after- 
wards taught school for several years. He 
studied at ithe University of Michigan from 
1S6S to 1872, and later began the practice u£ 
law at Ludington, Mich. He became Prose- 
cuting Attorney of Mason Counly, Michigan, 
in 1876, and was re-elec:ed in 1878 and 1884; 
was selected a member of ithe State Legis- 
lature in 1882 and 1892. He has been a 
Representative in Congress from the Ninth 
Michigan District since the Fifty-fourth Con- 
gress. Republican. Legal residence: Lud- 
ington, Mich. Washington address: House 
of Representatives. 

BLACK, HENRY CAMPBELL, author, 
lawyer, was born at Ossining, New Y''ork, 
October 17, 1860, son of Rev. John Henry 
and Caroline (Campbell) Black. He was 
graduated from Trinity College, Hartford, 
Conn., in 1880; also holds the degree of 
A. M., conferred in 1887; studied law in 
Lj coming County, Pennsylvania, and was 
admitted to the bar in 1883. For a time 
lie practiced at Williamsport, Penn., and St. 
Paul, Minn.; removed to Washington, D. C, 
in 1888, and since then has given his time 
t"j legal literature. He has written a num- 
ber of authoritative publications on legal 
questions, and the various aspects of cer- 
tain phases of the law; is a frequent con- 
tributor to legal periodicals, and has writ- 
ten the law portion of a number of encyclo- 
pedias. He is a member of the National 
Geographical Society and the Cosmos Club 
Unmarried. Address: 2516 Fourteenth 
street, n.w. 

BLACK, JOHN CHARLES, soldier, lawyer, 
was born at Lexington, Miss., January 27, 
1839, and educated in the common schoo.s 
oi Danville, 111., and at Wabash College, 
Crawfordsville, Ind., where he received the 
degree of M. A.; he also holds the degree 
of LL. D. from Knox College. He served 
di;ring the Civil War in the Union Army, 
rising from private to brevet Brigadier- 
General of Volunteers. He was Commis- 
sioner of Pen-<ions, 1885-89; member of Con- 
gress from Illinois, 1893-95; United States 
Attorney for .the Northern District, 1895-9^. 



Since January, 1904 he has been president 
of the United States Civil Service Commis- 
sion. He is a member of the Military Order 
of the Loyal Legion of ine United States, 
and was commander of the State of Illinois; 
he was also Commander-in-Chief of the 
Grand Army of the Republic, 1903-04. On 
September 28, 1867, he married Adaline Ij. 
Griggs (three children survive them, John, 
Grace and Helen). Residence: 1717 S street, 
n.w. Office: U. S. Civil Service Commis- 
sion. 

BLACK, WILLIAM H., clergyman, pastor 
of Ithe Northwest Methodist Episcopal 
Church. Residence: 1130 Fifth street, n.w. 

BLACK, WILLIAM MURRAY, Engineer 
Officer, U. S. A., was born at Lancaster, 
Penn., December 8, 1855, son of James and 
Ehza (Murray) Black. He was educated at 
Franklin and Marshall College, in Pennsyl- 
vania, 1870-73, and graduated from the 
United States Military Academy in 1877. 
He has served in all grades, from Second 
Lieutenant to Major in the Corps of Engi- 
neers, U. S. A., and during the Spanish- 
American War served as Lieutenant-Colonel 
and Chief Engineer of Volunteers. He was 
assistant in practical military engineering 
at .the United States Military Academy; later, 
instructor in civil engineering at the United 
States Engineer School, Willets Point, N. Y. 
From 1895 to 1897 he was assistant in charge 
of fortifications in 'the office of the Chief 
Engineer of the Army, and from 1897 to 
1898 Commissioner of the District of Colum- 
bia. During his services at the time of the 
Spanish-American War he was chief engi- 
neer of the Porto Rico campaign, chief engi- 
neer of the Department of Havana, and later, 
fiom 1900 to April, 1901, chief engineer of the 
Division of Cuba. He was placed in charge 
oi the Engineer School of Application of tho 
Army and of the Third Battalion of Engi- 
neers in 1902, serving until 1903, at the same 
•time being in charge of the Washington Bar- 
racks. He was connected with the Isthmian 
Canal Commission from April, 1903, to July, 
1904; since that time has been in charge 
of the river and harbor improvements and 
fortifications in Maine. General Black has 
long been engaged on work of harbor ani 
river improvements and in the work of forti- 
fications. He is a member of the Military 
Order of Foreign Wars of the United States 
and of the American Society of Civil Engi- 
neers, and the author of a number of articles, 
books and essays on engineering, private, 
municipal and governmental. His essay on 
ithe South Atlantic Coast was awarded a prize 
by the American Society of Civil Engineers 
in 1893. He has been twice married, in 1877, 
to Daisy Peyton, daughter of Captain George 
H. Derbi', U. S. A. ("John Phoenix"), and, in 
1891, to Gerfrude Totten, daughter of Com- 
mander William M. Gamble, U. S. N. Ad- 
dress: War Department. 

BLACKBURN, EDMUND SPENCER, law- 
yer. Congressman, was born in Watauga 
County, North Carolina, September 22, 186S, 
and was educated in the common schools and 
academies of his native State. He studied 
law and was admitted to the bar in 1890; 



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Reading Clerk of the North Carolina Sen- 
ate, 1894-95; Representative in the Legis- 
lature, 1896-97, and Speaker pro tempore. 
In 1898 he was appointed United States 
Attorney. He served as a member of the 
Fifty-seventh and Fifty-ninth Congresses 
from the Eighth North Carolina District. 
On December 18, 1902, he married Louise 
Le Vaun Parker, of Washington, D. C. Re- 
publican. Legal residence: Wilkesboro, N. 
C. Washington address: House of Repre- 
sentatives. 

BLACKBURN, JOSEPH CLAY STILES, 

lawyer, U. S. Senator, was born In Wood- 
ford County, Kentucky, October 1, 1838; 
was educated at Sayres Institute, Frankfor', 
Ky., and at Centre College, Danville, Ky., 
whence he gradua. f d in 1857. He studied lav/ 
with George B. Kincaid, at Lexington, and 
waf: admitted to 'the bar in 1858 In 1881 
he entered the Confederate Army, and served 
throughout the Civil War, resuming the 
practice of law in 1865. He was elected :■.) 
thj State Legislature of Kentucky in ,1871 
and 1873; was elected to the House of Rep- 
resentatives for the Forty-fourth Congress, 
remaining there until 1885, when he was 
elecited Senator. He is a Democrat. Legal 
residence: Versailles, Ky. Washington ad- 
dress: U. S. Senate. 

BLACKISTONE, FRANK D., lawyer, was 
born in Milestown, St. Mary's County, Mary- 
land, on January 31, 1867, son of Zacharlah 
I>. and Nannie (Shanks) Blackistone. He is 
a direct descendant of Nathaniel Blackistone, 
v;ho was a Royal Governor of the Colony 
of Maryland He was educated in the pub- 
lic schools of Maryland and Washington, 
later serving as a clerk in the General Land 
Office of the Interior Department, subse- 
quently studying law, and was graduated 
from ..he Georgevown College of Law, B. B. L., 
1894 He is a member of the Episcop-il 
Church and the University Club. On August 
8. 1892, he married Marie Florence Lake, of 
\'\'ashjngton. to which union have been born 
two children, a boy and a girl. Residence: 
601 Founth street, n.w. Office: Colorado 
Building. 

BLAIR, GIST, lawyer, was born in Wash- 
ington, D. C, on September 10, 1860, son 
oi Montgomery and Mary Elizabeth (Wood- 
bury) Blair. His father served as Postmas- 
ter Genera] In President Abraham Lincoln's 
Cabinet, and Levi Woodbury, his mother's 
father, of New Hampshire, was a Justice 
oC the Supreme Court of the Undted States 
at the time of his death. Among his ance.i- 
"tors who rendered distinguished service to 
•the country were: James Blair, great- 
grandfather. Attorney General of Kentucky, 
and John Blair, his great-great-grandfather, 
who was vice-president and professor Df 
Princeton University. After completing his 
preparatory education he entered Princeton 
University, from which he was graduated 
with the class of 1880, after which he entered 
Columbian (now George Washington) Uni- 
versity Law School, from which he was grad- 
uated LL. B. in 1882. He was admitted lO 
.the practice of his profession in St. Loul5, 
where he practiced from 1883 to 1897, since 



when he has resided in Washington. From 
February, 1897, to January, 1902, he was 
assistant trust officer of the National Safe 
Deposit Savings and Trust Company. While 
in St. Louis he served as vice-president of 
•the public school board In 1892, and presi- 
dent of the same in 1893, and was largely 
identified with several public movements In 
that city, one of which was for the establish- 
inent of the absolute freedom of the public, 
library there. He was the executive chair- 
man of the committee holding the election 
vvhlch declared in favor of and established 
as free this institution in that city. In 1904 
he was an alternate delegate-at-large for 
Maryland to the Republican National Con- 
vention; in the same year was a candidate 
for the office of State's Attorney of Mont- 
gomery, Maryland. He served as postmaster 
ar Silver Spring, Maryland, for several years, 
and, as such, introduced rural free delivery. 
He is a member of .the Protestant Episcopai 
Church, K. F. R. Society of Washington, Met- 
ropolitan, Alibi, Country, and Chevy Chaoft 
Cubs of Washington, and the University 
Club of New York, and, in politics, is a 
Republican. Unmarried. Residence: Silver 
Spring, Md., and 1712 H street, n.w. Office: 
Corcoran Building. 

BLAIR, HENRY PATTERSON, lawyer, 
was born at Plymouth, Grafton County, New 
Hampshire, December 8, 1867, son of Henry 
William and Eliza (Nelson) Blair. His father 
v,as a lawyer, member of the State Legisla- 
ture in both isranches. Prosecuting Attorney, 
U S. Congressman, and Senator. He at- 
tended ithe public schools of the District .if 
Columbia and Rittenhouse Academy, of this 
city, graduating in 1889 with the degree of 
A. B from Dartmouth, after study at Philips- 
Exeter. In 1892 he was graduated, with the 
degree of LL. B., from the law department 
of Columbian (now George Washington) Uni- 
vei-sity. In 1905 he became Assistant Cor- 
poration Counsel of the District of Columbia. 
In 1900 he became a professor of law at 
Gtcrge Washington University, and has been 
senior member of the firm of Blair & Thorn 
since 1896. He is a member of the Alpna 
Delta Phi, Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Delta 
Phi fraternities; Casque and Gauntlet, senior 
society of Dartmouth; Columbia Historical 
Society, and on the Membership Committea 
of the University Club. In religion he is an 
Episcopalian; in poli'tics, a Republican. Un- 
married. Residence: 213 East Capitol street. 
Office: Colorado Building. 

BLAIR, HENRY WILLIAM, lawyer, was 
born at Campton, New Hampshire, December 
6. 1834, son of William Henry and Loulso 
(Baker) Blair. He received the degree of 
A. M. from Dartmouth College, and was ad- 
mitted to the New Hampshire bar in 185'J. 
He served during the Civil War in all grades 
from Captain to Colonel of New Hampshire 
\olunteers, being twice wounded. In 1865 
he became a member of the New Hampshire 
Legislature; from 1867 to 1868 was a memoer 
of the State Senate. He was elected to Con- 
gress in 1875, serving until 1879, and again 
from 1893 to 1895. He was United State.s 
Senator, 1879-91. During his career in Con- 
gress he was very active in its work, a,ai 



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■the author of a large number of its acts. 
Since leaving Congress he has practised lau". 
Author of the Temperance Movement, an.i 
the Future of the Temperance Reform. Hf 
v/as married on December 20, 1859, to Eliza 
Nelson. Republican. Residence: 1410 Twen- 
tieth street, n.w. Office: Colorado Building. 

BLANCO, ANTONIO R., Counselor, Colom- 
bian Legation. Address: 1312 Twenty-first 
stieet. 

BLEECKER, JOHN VAN BENTHUYSEN, 

Captain, U. S. N., was born at Glen Cove, 
New York, Augusit 16, 1847, son of Navy 
Paymaster John V. B. and Rosalie (Lynch) 
Bleecker. He was graduated from the Unit<^d 
States Naval Academy in 1867; was made 
Plnsign in 1868; promoted to Master in 1870; 
commissioned, successively. Lieutenant in 
1S71, Lieutenant-Commander, June 30, 1891; 
Commander, December 8, 1897, and, Captain, 
Juni 3, 1902. His periods of shore se vice 
were spent principally at the United States 
Torpedo Station; from 1877 to 1878 he wars 
connected with the Washington Navy Yard; 
attached to the Naval Academy 1878-81, a.n\ 
sti-ved from 1887 to 1888 as inspector of 
steel for new cruisers. He was connected 
with the Boston Navy Yard, 1893-96; with 
the Navy War College at the Navy Yard, 
Puget Sound, Washington, since November, 
lli02. Address: Navy Department, Wash- 
ington, D. C, or Players' Club, New York 
City. 

BLISS, ALONZO OGILVIE, President 
Alonzo Bliss Company, was born in New 
York State in 1845, son of Horace and Debo- 
rah C. (Samson) Bliss. He was educated at 
Cortland (N. Y.) Academy; served three 
years in the Tenth New York Cavalry, under 
Kilpatrick, participating in over thirty en- 
gagements. He later conducted a drug store 
ir. Richmond, Va., and, in 18S8, came to 
Washington, starting the business of pro- 
prietary medicines. His firm, the Alonzo 
Fliss Company, operates offices and plants 
in Washington, Kansas City, Chicago, San 
Francisco, Montreal, London and Kadina, 
South Australia. He is a large property 
oivner, owning the Driscoll, Asto.ia, Penhurs'., 
Kingman and LeGrande apartment houset!. 
and the Bliss Building. He is prominent 'n 
Grand Army circles, and is a charter mem- 
ber of Canby Lodge, No. 520, Pennsylvania, 
F and A. M., and of the Washington Board 
of Trade. He has traveled extensively iii 
Europe. In 1867 he married Emma C. King- 
man, to which union there have been bor>i 
fcur children. Residence: The Driscoil. 
Cfl^ice: 35 B street, n.w. 

BLISS, TASKER HOWARD, Brigadier- 
General, U. S. A., was born at Lewisburg, 
Pennsylvania, December 31, 1853, son or 
George Ripley and Mary A. B. Bliss. He 
attended the Lewisburg Academy, 1867-69, 
and finished his sophomore year in the Lew- 
i.sburg (now Bucknell) University, then en- 
tering the United States Military Academy, 
from which he was graduajted in 1875. In 
1884 he was graduated f;om the United 
States Artillery School. He served in tho 
First United States Artillery, 1875-92, ani 



was Adjutant of the Artillery School, 1884- 
85. In 1884 he was appointed by the Pres- 
ident on the board to report on the military 
value of the interior waterways of the United 
States; was made professor of military 
science at the United States Naval War Col- 
lege, 1885-88; served as aide-de-camp to 
General Schofield, and as inspector of rifle 
practice, 1888-95. In 1892 he was trans- 
f(-rred to the Subsistence Department of th.5 
Army; from 1895 to 1897, served on special 
duty with the Secretary of War, and wa."? 
military attache of the United States Lega- 
tion at Madrid from 1897 until the declara- 
tion of war between Spain and the United 
States. He served through the Porto Riio 
campaign as chief of staff, and in Cuba, first 
a? a member of the board to select camp 
sites for American troops, and, second, as 
Collector of Customs for the Port of Havana, 
and Chief of the Cubart Customs Service, 
from 1898 to 1902. On July 21, 1902, he wa^ 
appointed a member of the Army War Col- 
lege Board, and, in November of the same 
year, was sent to Cuba as a special envoy 
of the United States to negotiate a treaty of 
reciprocity. Since August 15, 1903, he has 
been president of the Army War College. 
On May 24, 1882, he married Eleanora E. 
Anderson. Address: War Department. 

BLOUNT, HENRY FITCH, Vice-president 
American Surety and Trust Company, was 
born in Ontario County, New York, May 1, 
1829, son of Walter and Rebecca (Ripley) 
Blount. He was graduated from the com- 
mon schools, and at the age of twenty re- 
moved to the West and engaged in business, 
principally manufacturing. He returned to 
Washington in 1888, after several years 
abroad, and has since resided here; now 
retired from active business. He is a vice- 
president and trustee of the National 
Reform School; vice-president of the Board 
of Trustees of the Emergency Hospital, and 
a member of the Cosmos Club, Sons of the 
American Revolution, Archaeological Insti- 
tote of America, Philosophical Society, Geo- 
logical Society, American Association for ths 
Aovancement of Science, Historical Sociecy 
oi Washington, and a life member of the 
National Economic Association, and on 'the 
Board of Managers of the National Geo- 
giaphic Society. In politics he is a Repub- 
lican, and in religious belief a Unitarian. On 
Augusit 2, 1864, he married Lucia Augusta 
Eames. Residence: "The Oaks," 3101 R 
street, n.w. 

BLOUNT, LUCIA EAMES (Mrs.), was 
born at Kalamazoo, Mich., daughter of Lorett 
ar.d Lucy Celia (Morgan) Eames, and edu- 
cated at Kalamazoo College. She has been a 
t'lustee of the Industria: Home School, and 
president of the District Federation or 
Women's Clubs. She is interested in philan- 
tliropic work, and a member of clubs. In 
religion she is a Unitarian. On August 2, 
1864, she married Henry Fitch Blount. Resi- 
dence. "The Oaks," 3101 R street. 

BLOUT, ISAAC L., President of the 
Washington Hebrew Congregation, was born 
ai Cassel, Germany, Janua y 15, 1837. He 
was educaJted there in the ordinary braacheji, 



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•and also in music. In 1853 he came to 
America and spent six months in Balti- 
more, and then taugha music foir seven or 
eight years in Georgia, Alabama, Tennes- 
see, and Florida. In 1861 he came to Wash- 
ington and opened a millinery bu.siness, 
which he still conducts. He has for eight 
years been president of the Hebrew Congre- 
gation; twelve years president of the United 
Hebrew Charities, and has also been secre- 
tary of Rebecca Lodge for thirty years. Ad- 
dress: 710 Seventh street, n.w. 

BLUE, VICTOR, Lieutenant, U. S. N., was 
bcri. in North Carolina, December 6, 1865. 
He was graduated from the United States 
Naval Acade-my in 1887. After serving the 
intermediate grades from Ensign, he became 
liieutenant in 1899. He was on duty at the 
Naval Academy from September, 1896 to 
the outbreak of the Spanish-American War, 
when he was ordered to ithe Suwanee. He 
performed important services during the 
blockade of Cervera's fleet at Havana, and 
was later p aced in command of the captured 
gunboat Alvarado, taking part in the en- 
gagement off Manzanilla on August 12, 1898. 
H'> was Flag Lieutenant for Rear Admiral 
Kempff during the disturbances in Northern 
China in 1900; served in the Philippines for 
a time, and, from 1902 to 1904, was Flag 
Lieutenant of the Asiatic fleet. He married 
Eleanor Fooite Stuart on October 17, 1899, 
Acidress: Navy Department. 

BLUMENBERG, MILTON W., Official Re- 
porter of the United States Senate. Resi- 
dence: The Portland. Office: U. S. Sen- 
ate. 

BLUNDON. FRANCIS A., build r, was 
born in Loudoun County, Virginia, April 14, 
1S67, son of John V. and Fannie (Nolan) 
B undon. He was educated in the public 
schools; served as apprentice and journey- 
man in carpentry for about eight years; ten 
years ago entered into business as a builder. 
He has erected about 700 houses in Wash- 
ington, many of them fine residences and 
places of business. He built for Joseph R. 
Portner the Virginia Flats, the first ever 
erected in Washington. On January 5, 1893, 
he married Mamie Schenable, of Washington, 
and they have 'two children. Residence: 100 
\V" street, n.w. Office: 1220 G street, n.w. 

BLYTHE, SAMUEL GEORGE, journalist, 
was bo.n at Geneseo, New York, May 19. 
1868, and educated at the Geneseo State Nor- 
ma' School He enteired journalistic antj 
newspaper work, and from 1893 to 1896 wa.-s 
managing editor of the Buffalo Express. 
From 1897 to 1898 he was editor-in-chief of 
the Buffa o Courier and Enquirer, and during 
the campaign of 1898 was in charge of the 
Republican State Committee's literary bu- 
reau. In 1899 he became managing edito.' 
of the Cosmopolitan Magazine, and later 
became chief Washington correspondent of 
the New York World. He is a member of 
the Gridiron Club and Columbia Golf Club. 
On September 19, 1888, he married Carolyn 
Hamilton Oakes. Residence: 1509 Thir- 
teenth street, n.w. Office: 1345 Pennsylva- 
nia avenue. 



BOARDMAN, R. H., Captain and Superin- 
tendent of the Metropolitan Police Detect- 
ive Corps of the District of Columbia. Resi- 
dence: 1218 M street, n.c Office: Detect- 
ive Bureau, 470 Louisiana avenue, n.w. 

BOARDMAN, WILLIAM J., President Cen- 
ti'al Dispensary and Emergency Hospital. 
Residence: 1801 P sitreet, n.w. 

BOGIA, FERDINAND T., Commander of 
Logan Regiment, No. 2, Union Veterans' 
Union, was born at Newcastle, Delaware, 
September 15, 1841. He served two enlist- 
ments in Company G, Second Pennsylvania 
Regiment, participating in the engagemeni-s 
of Second Bull Run, Sou'th Mountain, Antie- 
tam, Fredericksburg, Spottsylvania Court 
House, and Bristow Station, and was with 
Grant in the Wilderness fights. He returned, 
in 1864, to his home in Delaware, and re- 
moved, in ithe early seventies, to Washing- 
ton, where he has since resided. He has 
been for many years in charge of the bindery 
division of the Government Printing Office. 
He has given much time to the cause jf 
fraterna' commandership. He was Past 
Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias, and 
has maintained active membership in that 
a!-.sociation for almost forty years. He was 
also one of the organizers of the National 
Brotherhood of Bookbinders. Residence: 2109 
First street, n.w. Office: Government Print- 
ing Office. 

BOLCE, HAROLD, special writer, was 
born near Haywards, California, February 7, 
1868, and was a special student at the Oak- 
land (Cal.) High School, and later at the 
University of Ca ifornia. He served on the 
editorial staff of a number of Western new.s- 
papers, and from 1898 to 1899 was with a 
number of New York dailies, becoming, in 
1900, Washington correspondent for the Sat- 
urday Evening Post. In 1904 he was com- 
missioned by the Booklovers' (now Apple- 
ton's) Magazine to prepare a series of articles 
on the Pacific countries, and later in the year 
undertook an investigation of the problems 
in trade in the Pacific, at the request of 
the United States Government. He is now 
manager of the Press Clipping Bureau of the 
United States Treasury. In 1895 he married 
Irma Beth Cline. Residence: The Ethelhurjs'. 
Office: Treasury Department. 

BOLTON, HENRY CARRINGTON, chem- 
ise, was born in New York City, June 28, 
1843, son of Jackson and Anna (North) Bol- 
ton. He was graduated from Co umbia (N. 
Y.) College in 1862; studied one year in lab- 
oratories in Paris; two years in Berlin and 
Gottingen, and took the Ph. D. degree 
at Georgia University, Gottingen. He trav- 
eled over North America in 1867, and in 1868 
opened a laboratory in New York City for 
private research and instruction. He was 
assistant in analytical chemistry at the 
Columbia School of Mines; in charge of 
tliG laboratory of quanti'tative analysis, 1872- 
77, professor of chemistry at Trinity Co- 
lege; Hartford, Conn., 1877-87; U. S. Assay 
Commissioner, 1885, and assisted Henry Mor- 
ten, of the Stevens Institute, in publishing 
the results of his investlsfationa in 1&73. H« 



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was elected vice-president of the American 
Association for the Advancement of Science 
ir 1882. He was a member of the Lyceum 
of National History, New Yoric City, in 1867, 
was the secretary, 1876-92, and vice-presi- 
dent, 1892-93; president, 1893, of the New 
Iforli Academy of Sciences. He was general 
secretary and vice-president of the Ameri- 
can Association for ithe Advancement of 
Science; was one of the founders of the 
American Folk-lore Society in 1887; returned 
to New York in 1892; was elected non- 
resident professor of the history of chemis- 
try in Columbian University (D. C.) .the 
same year, and, in 1893, delivered a course of 
n:ne lectures there. He is the author of 
The Book of the Ba ance of Wisdom (1876); 
Application of Organic Acids to the Exam- 
ination of Minerals (1877-83); The Student's 
Guide on Quantitative Analysis (1882); An 
Account of the Progress of Chemistry (four 
volumes, 1883-89); The Counting-out Rhymes 
of Children, a Study in Folk-lore (1888); 
Contributions of Alchemy in Numismatics 
(1S90); A Splect Bibliog aphy of Chemistry, 
1492 to 1892 (1893); The Porta Magica, 
Rome (1895); The Smithsonian Institution, 
I'.s Origin, Growth and Activities (1896), and, 
Bad Features of the Periodicals (1896). He 
also edited Scientific Correspondence, Ninety- 
seven Letters Addressed ito Josiah Wedge- 
wood, Sir Joseph Banks, etc, (1892). Resi- 
dence: 1519 K street, n.w. 

BONAPARTE, CHARLES JOSEPH, At- 
torney-General, was born at Ba timore, Md., 
June 9, 1851, the son of Jerome Napoleon 
ard Susan May (Williams) Bonaparte, and 
grandson of Jerome Bonaparte, brother jt 
the Emperor Napoleon, who married Eliza- 
beth Patiterson, of Baltimore. He was grad- 
uated from Harvard College in 1871, an 3 
from Harvard Law School in 1874; admitted 
•to the bar of Maryland the same year, and 
has since been engaged in the practice it 
law. He was appointed by President Roose- 
veit Secretary of the Navy July 1, 1905, and 
Attorney-General December 12, 1906. He has 
been a firm advocate of clean politics and 
civil service reform, being an original mem- 
ber of the National Civil Service Reform 
League, organized some twenty-four years 
ago. He was for twelve years an overseer 
at Harvard College; is one of the trustees 
of the Catholic University of America; a 
tius.tee of Enoch Pratt Free Library of Bal- 
timo're, and president of ithe National Munic- 
ipal League. He was married, in 1875, to , 
Ellen Channing Day, and has no children. 
Rtsidence: The Portland. Offlce: Depart- 
ment of Justice. 

BOND, SAMUEL ROBERT, lawyer, was 
born November 22, 1832, at Ipswick. Mass. 
Graduated in IS'iS from Dartmouth College, 
and received the degrees of A. B. and A. M., 
having 'taught school during the winters of 
his preparatory and college courses. Upon 
graduation he went to Tennessee, wnere n- 
\\as principal of an academy one year, and 
professor in a co lege the next, meanwhile 
having studied law and been admitted to the 
bar. In 1857 he went (to St. Paul, Minn., and 
practised his profession; was City Attorney 
In 1860-61. In 1862 he crossed the plains 



as an ofHcer of an expedition sent by the 
Secretary of War to conduct and proaect 
from Indians a party of emigrants to the 
n^-wly discovered gold fields of Idaho. From 
Fort Abercrombie, on the Red River of the 
North, the expediition, with Indian and 
French half-breeds as guides, made its way 
over a trackless wilderness where the buffalo 
rramed to the headwaters of the Missouri, 
v/here, having discovered gold in paying 
quantity, the emigramts remained, while the 
ofticers proceeded to Fort Wa la Walla and 
San Francisco, thence via the Isthmus and 
Panama to New York, arriving in Januari', 
1863. While the expedition was traversing 
ithe Sioux country that tribe was absent on 
the war path, committing depredations on 
the Minnesota and Iowa frontiers. From 
New York Mr. Bond proceeded to Washing- 
ton, prepared the journal of the expedi'tion, 
which was published among executive doo- 
urrents, and wrote a hand-book, published 
in New York, on The Gold Fields of Idaho, 
and the Routes to Them. He was a clerk 
in the Treasury Department for itwo years, 
then resigned, and has since practised law. 
successfully and continuously except 186S 
and 1869 during which time he was Water 
Register, and served as a member of the Dis- 
tricit Legislature in 1872-73. He has been 
a member of the American Bar Association 
since 1882; has ong been active in Masonic 
matters', especially the movement for the 
erection of the new Temple, corner s'tone of 
V'liich was laid June 8, 1907, and has been 
Grand High Priesit of this jurisdiction. H-i 
is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa and 
iX.'pha Delta Phi college fraternities; of the 
Cosmos Club and the National Geographic 
Society. In November, 1864, he married Mary 
-Adeline Hunt, daughter of Ebenezer Hunt, 
M. D., of Danvers, Mass. Has no children. 
Residence: 13 Iowa Circle. Office: 321 John 
Marshall Place. 

BONE SCOTT C, ediitor and publisher, 
was born in Shelby County, Indiana, Febru- 
ary 15, 1860, beginning newspaper work at 
tljp age of sixteen as local correspondent of 
Cmcinnati, Indianapolis and Chicago papers. 
In 1881 he was located at Indianapolis, and 
was employed on the local press there for 
seven years as reporter, city editor, and polit- 
ical writer, acquiring an all-round newspaper 
training. In July, 1898, he became telegraph 
editor of the Washington Post, later becoming 
itJ news and managing editor. For many 
years he was closely associa^ted in the edi- 
torial direction of the paper, and in 1906 
he :eft it and founded the Washington Her- 
ald. On June 15, 1887, he married Mary 
Worth, and six children have been born to 
them. Residence: 1537 P street, n.w. Offlce: 
73.1 Fifteenth street, n.w. 

BONSACK, CHARLES DANIEL, clergy- 
man, was born in Westminster, Carroll 
County, Maryland, on March 11, 1870, son 
of David D. and Katherine Bonsack. He was 
educated in the public schools of Maryland, 
and later attended Bridgewater (Va.) Col- 
lege, but his CO lege education was some- 
what inter upted and he did not complete the 
course. Since April, 1906, he has been pastor 
of the Brethren Church in Washington, D. 



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C. Before being called to take charge of 
the church of which he is now pastor, he 
spent eight years in evangelistic work. He 
is a member of the General Missionary and 
Tract Commiitee of the Brethren Church, 
with headquarters at Elgin, 111. On Decem- 
ber 16, 1891, he married Ida A. Trostle, of 
GcttysbuTg, Penn., 'to which union have been 
born Ave children. Residence: 116 Fiftn 
street, s.e. 

BONSTEEL, JAY A., scientist, in charge 
of sol s survey work in 'the Bureau of Soi'..;, 
U. S. Department of Agriculture. Residence: 
1416 Chapin street, n.w. Offlce: Department 
of Agriculture. 

BONYNGE, ROBERT W., lawyer, Con- 
gressman, was born in New York City. Sep- 
tember 8, 1863, and was educated in the 
public schools of that city, graduating in 
188L from the College of the City of New York 
and from the Coumbia College (N. Y.) Law 
School, 1885. He was admitted .:o the bar 1885, 
and, in 1888, removed to Denver, Col., where 
he has since been practicing law. He served 
in the Colorado Legis ature, 1893-94; elected 
Representative from the Colorado District 
in 1902, and has been re-elected for succeed- 
ing te. ms. He is a Republican. Legal resi- 
d'^n-'e: Denver, Coh Washington address: 
Hotel Cairo. 

BOOKER, CHARLES F., Congressman. In 
November, 1906, he was elected a member 
of the Sixtieth Congress from the Fourth 
Congressional District of Missouri. In poli- 
tics he is a Democrat. Legal residence: 
Savannah, Mo. Washington address: House 
of Representatives. 

BOONE, CHARLES E., Catholic clergy- 
man, assistant rector of the Church of the 
Holy Comforter. Residence: No. 1 Four- 
teenth street, s.e. 

BOOTH, FENTON, Judge of the United 
Sitates Court of Claims. Residence: 2115 
Bancroft Place. Offlce: Pennsylvania ave- 
nue and Seventeenth street, n.w. 

BORAH, WILLIAM EDGAR, lawyer, U. 
S. Senator, was born at Fairfield, 111., Jun'3 
29, 1865, son of William N. and Eliza Borah. 
He was educated in the public schools of 
^''airfield and the Southern Illinois Academy, 
at Enfield, 111., subsequently entering the 
University of Kansas. Upon being admit- 
ted to the bar, in September, 1889, he began 
the practice of his profession at Boise, Idaho. 
Ho was elected to the U. S. Senate to suc- 
ceed Senator Fred T. Dubois, a Democrat, 
whose term expired March 3, 1907. He mar- 
ried Mamie McConnell, at Boise, Idaho, April 
21, 1895. In politics he is a Republican. 
Legal residence: Boise, Idaho. Washington 
address: U. S. Senate. 

BORDEN, WILLIAM CLINE, physician, 
surgeon. Major, U. S. A., was born at Water- 
town, Jefferson County, New York, Mai 1'^, 
1858, son of Daniel J. and Mary L. (Cline) 
Borden. He was educated In the common 
schools and attended 'the Adams Col egiate 
Institute, Adams, New York; was graduated 



in 1883 from the medical department of 
Columbian (now George Washington) Uni- 
versity. In the same year he was appointed 
Assistant Surgeon in the United States 
At my, with the rank of First Lieutenant; 
in 1888 he was promoted to Captain; in 189*?, 
Major and Surgeon. During the Spanish- 
American War he was in charge of the Army 
General Hospital at Key West, Fla., and 
later commanded the sick-transport Shinne- 
ccck, finally assuming charge of the Army 
General Hospital at Washington. He has 
served as professor of military surgery at 
the Army Medical School, professor of surgi- 
cal pathology and military surgery, George 
town University; visiting surgeon, U. S. 
Government Asy um for the Insane. He is 
the authOT of The Use of Ro ntgen Rays in 
tJ:o War With Spain; also of Military Sur- 
gery, the prize essay in 1900 submitted to 
the Association of Military Surgeons of the 
United States. He has also written many 
other monographs and papers. He is a mem- 
bei of the Medical Society of the District 
of Columbia, Medical Society George Wasn- 
ington University, Asociation of Military Sur- 
geons of the United States, Sons of the 
American Revolution, an honorary member 
of the Medical and Surgica' Society of the 
District of Columbia, and of the Minnesota 
Academy of Medicine. On October 23, 1883, 
he married Jennie E. Adams. Address, care 
Surgeon General, U. S. Army. 

BOTKIN, ALEXANDER CAMPBELL, law- 

yer, was born at Madison, Wisconsin, Octo- 
ber 13, 1842, and was graduated from tho 
Dniversity of Wisconsin, with the degre.3 
of A. B., and also from the Albany (N. Y.) 
Law School. In 1904 he received the degree 
of LL. D. from the University of Wiscon- 
sin. He served as United States Marshal 
of Montana from 1878 to 1885; Lieutenant- 
Governor of Montana, 1893-97. In 1897 he 
was appointed a member of the commission 
which had in charge the revision and cod- 
ification of the criminal and penal aws of 
the United States, in 1898 becoming chair- 
n;an of the board. On June 11, 1872, he mar- 
ried Harriet E. Sherman. Legal address: 
Helena, Mont. Washington residence: 1311 
K street, n.w. Office: Bond Building. 

BOURNE, JONATHAN, JR., U. S. Sena- 
tor. He was elected to succeed Senator John 
M. Gearln in the United States Senate, 
whose term expired March 3, 1907. In poli- 
tics he is a Republican. Legal residence; 
Portland, Oregon. Washington address: U. 
S. Senate. 

BOUTELL, HENRY SHERMAN, lawyer. 
Congressman, was born in Boston, Mas.^., 
March 14, 1856, and removed to Chicago 
in 1863. He was graduated from the North- 
western University in 1874, and in 1876 from 
Harvard University, in 1877 receiving tho 
degree of A. M. from Harvard, after a course 
in constitutional history and international 
law, and in 1879 'received the degree of A. 
M. from Northwestern. In 1904 he received 
the honorary degree of LL. D. from North- 
western University. He was admitted tJ 
the II inois bar in 1879, and to that of the 
United States Supreme Court in 1885. In 



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1S84 he was elected a member of the Illi- 
nois General Assembly, and has served as a 
Representative from the Ninth Illinois Dis- 
trici since the Fifty-fifth Congress. He i3 
a trustoe c' Northwestern University; for- 
n^.er president of the Phi Beta Kappa Soci- 
ety of Northwestern University; twice 
president of th? Illinois Sons of the Amer- 
ican Revo ution: twice president of the Har- 
v.ird Club of Chicago, and of the University 
C'ub of the same city. He is a Republican. 
I,^g-al residence: Chicago, 111. Washington 
at:dress: The Highlands. 

BOVEE, JOHN WESLEY, physician, gyne- 
cologist, was born at Clayton, Jefferson 
County, New York, December 31, 1861, soa 
of Wil lam Henry and Sarah Elizabeth 
(Roat) Bovee. He was educated in the pub- 
lic and high schools and by private tutors, 
later studying in the medical department 
'f Columbian (now George Washington) 
l.'niverslty. He was a member of the house 
ilaff of the Children's Hospital and of the 
Columbian Hospital, 1884-88; was visiting 
.^urgeon to the Washington Asy um, 1889-97; 
surgeon to the Columbia Hospital, 1891 ti 
the present time; gynecologist to Provi- 
dence Hospital since 1891, and to Georgt 
Washington University since its opening; 
-foimerly was an attending and is now a con- 
sulting physician to St. Ann's Infant Asy- 
lUm; is professor of gynecology at George 
Washington University. He is the chairman 
of the section on gynecology and obstetrics 
of the American Medica Association, an''! 
a member of the American Urological Asso- 
ciation, of the Washington Academy of 
Sciences, of the Mississippi Valley Medical 
.^.sjsociation. Medical Society of the District 
of Columbia, ex-prepldent of the Medical 
an'^ Surgical Society of the District of 
Columbia. He also is an ex-president of 
the Washington Obstetrical and Gyneco- 
logical Society, and of the Southern Surgical 
and Gynecological Association; fellow of the 
American Gynecologica Society, and hon- 
orary member of the Medial Society of Vir 
ginia. He is a member of the Board jf 
Trustees of the Reform School for Girls if 
the District of Columbia, and consulting 
gynecologist to St. Elizabeth's Hospital for 
tiio Insane. He has contributed a number 
of artic es to medical journals, and was edi 
tor and collaborator of Bovee's Practice of 
Gynecology. He is a Republican; a member 
of the Blue Ridge Rod and Gun Club, Cosmos 
and University Clubs, and, in religion, a 
P'-esbyterian. Residence: The Rochambeau, 
815 Connecticut p"enue. 

BOWEN, FRANK H., Chief Clerk of the 
Department of Commerce and Labor, was 
born at North Adams, Mass., in 1867. He 
■was educated at Springfie d, Mass., and f)r 
fifteen years conducted a typewriter busi- 
ness and was traveling salesman, then Civ'l 
Service clerk in the Springfield Armory. 
After serving as clerk to the General Super- 
haendent of Education of the Philippine 
Islands, he entered the Department of Com- 
merce and Labor, where he has risen to the 
post of chief c erk. Residence: 1500 New- 
ton street. Office: Department of Commerce 
:and Labor. 



BOWER, GEORGE MEADE, United 
States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, 
since February 14, 1898, was born at Ger- 
rardstown. West Virginia, September 13, 
1863, son of John S. and Mary E. (Stump) 
Bowers. He was educated at the High 
School at Martinsburg, W. Va., and under 
private tutors for two years. In 1887 he was 
a member of the West Virginia Legislature; 
supervisor of United States Census for We.«t 
Virginia, 1890, and a delegate to the Repub- 
lican National Convention held at Minne- 
apo is in 1892. He was a member, and the 
treasurer, of the Board of World's Fair 
Commissioners for West Virginia, and, from 
1902 to 1903, was president of the American 
Fisheries Society. On November 18, 1884, 
ho married Bessie C. Gray, at Hagerstown, 
Md. Legal residence: Martinsburg, W. Va. 
Office: U. S. Fish Commission. 

BOWERMAN, GEORGE FRANKLIN, 

Librarian of the Public Library of the 
District of Columbia, was born at Farming- 
ton, N. Y., September 8, 1868, son of J. R. 
and Anna M. Bowerman. He was educated 
at the University of Rochester, N. Y., re- 
ceiving the degree of A. B. from that i'nsti- 
tr.tion in 1892, and at the New York State 
Library School, Albany, N. Y., where ho 
received the degree of B. L. S., in 1895. 
He was connected with the Reynolds 
Library, Rochester, N. Y., and the New 
York State Lib:ary until 1898. For the next 
three years he engaged in editorial work 
on the New York Tribune and with Dodd, 
Mead & Co. Early in 1901 he became libra- 
rian of the Wi mington (Del.) Institute Free 
Library, and, in 1904, came to Washington 
as librarian of the District Public Library. 
He is a member of the Ame:ican Library 
Association (its treasurer, 1906-07), ana 
president for 1906 and 1907 of the District 
of Columbia Library Association. He has 
also been president of the Library Depart- 
meni: of the Religious Education .Association. 
He is a frequent contributor to professional 
journals. He is a member of the Cosmos 
Cub, Literary Society of Washington. 
National Geographic Society, Nationa Soci- 
ety of Fine Arts, and the Federal School- 
men's Club. On June 13, 1901, he marled 
S«rah N. Graham. Residence: The Ontario. 
Office: Public Library. 

BOWERS, EATON JACKSON, lawyer. 
Congressman, was born at Canton, Miss., 
June 17, 1865. At the age of seventeen 
he was admitted to the bar in his natlvfl 
county, where he practiced until 1884, when 
he removed to Bay St. Louis. In 1896 he 
was elected to the State Senate, in 1900 
to the State House of Representatives, 
where he served until elected fo 'tho Fifty- 
eig'hth Congress. He v/as re-elected to the 
Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Congresses. Dem- 
ocrat. Legal residence: Bay St. Louis, 
Miss. Washington address: House of Rep- 
resentatives. 

E20WERS0CK, JUSTIN DeWITT. law- 
yer. Congressman, was born in Columbi- 
ana County, Ohio, September 19, 1842. In 
1S77 he removed from Iowa City to Law- 
rence ,Kansas, and entered business as a 



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manufacturer and banker, building the dam 
across the Kansas River. He has been 
tv/ice Mayor of Lawrence; member of tha 
Kansas Legislature from 1887 to 1895, serv- 
ing in both houses. He has been a Repre- 
sentative in Congress from the Second Kan- 
sas District since the Fifty-sixth Congress. 
In 1866 he married Mary Gower. Repub- 
lican. Legal residence: Lawrence, Kansaj. 
"Washington address: House of Representa- 
tives. 

BOWIE, SYDNEY JOHNSON, lawver, 
Congressman, was born in Ta ladega, Ala- 
brma, July 26, 1S65. He .attended school until 
sixteen, and was graduated from the Uni- 
versity of Alabama in 1885; was admitted 
to the bar in the same year, and has since 
been practising law. He was City Clerk 'jf 
Talladega, 1885-86; Alderman in 1891; six 
years a member of the State Democratic 
Executive Committee; is a member of the 
legislative committee of the Commercial 
Club of Alabama, and assisted in the prepa- 
ration and passage through the Legislatura 
of a bill to provide for holding a constitu- 
tional convention in Alabama. Later he 
was made chairman of the Democratic 
Executive Committee having charge of the 
ratification of the measure adopted in Cal- 
houn County. He was e ected to the Fifty- 
seventh, Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Con- 
gresses. On April 29, 1891, he married Annie 
Foster Etheridge. Democrat. Legal resi- 
dence: Anniston, Ala. Washington address: 
House of Representatives. 

BOWLES, SHIRLEY W., (D. D. S.), 
President of the District of Columbia 
Dental Society. Residence: The Bruns- 
wick. Office: 825 Vermont avenue, n. w. 

BOWMAN, ALPHEUS HENRY, Brigadier- 
General, U. S. A. (retired), was born in 
Loudon County, Virginia, February 28, 1842, 
son of Henry A. and Martha K. (Polk) Bow- 
man. He was educated at Newark Academy, 
Newark, De .; Delaware College and at the 
Chester Military Academy, Chester, Penn. 
He entered the Volunteer Army in 1861; 
became Captain of the Ninth Infantry i'l 
1S66, and, successively. Major, Lieutenant- 
Cclonel, Colonel, and Brigadier-General of 
Infantry, being retired August 13, 1903. 
During the Civil War he served with the 
Army of the Potomac in the Pennsylvania 
Vo unteers, later in the regular army, and 
commanded companies during the war. After 
the close of the Civil War he saw service 
with the regular army in .the West, and 
later in the Spanish-American War and the 
Philippine campaigns. He is a member of 
the Loyal Legion, Sons of the American Rev- 
olution, Society of Colonial Wars, Military 
Service Institution of the United States, and 
Nationa' Geographic Society. He is also 
a member of the Reform Club of New York, 
and the Army and Navy Club of Washing- 
ton; an Episcopalian in religion. On Janu- 
ary 12, 1898, he married Lillie J. Bartlett. 
Address: War Department. 

BOYD, JOHN C, Medical Director of the 
Nsval Medical Schoo' and the Naval Hos- 
pital. Residence: 1836 Sixteenth street, n.w. 
Office: Twenty-third and E streets, n.w. 



BOYD, JOHN F., Congressman. He waa 
elected a member of the Sixtieth Congress 
from the Third Congressional District of 
Nebraska on the Republican ticket. Legal 
residence: Neligh, Neb. Washington address: 
House of Representatives. 

BOYNTON, CHARLES AUGUSTUS, 

Superintendent of the Southern Division 
of the Associated Press, was born at 
West Stockbridge, Mass., on September 30, 
1S36, son of Rev. Charles B. and Maria 
(Van Buskirk) Boynton. He removed to 
Cincinnati during his early youth and at- 
tended the public schools and Woodward 
College, and later Knox Co lege, at Gales- 
burg, 111. He first took up newspaper work 
on the Christig^n Nation, which was edited 
by his father, and in 1870 entered the serv- 
ica of the Western Associated Press as New 
York agent, and in 1894 was appointei 
superintendent of the Southern Division of 
the Associated Press. He is a charter mem- 
ber of the Gridiron Club of Washington, 
and a member of the Loyal Legion and tho 
Sons of the American Revolution. On Octo- 
ber 25, 1866, he married Maretta Hudson.' 
Residence: 1357 Girard street, n.w. Office: 
Evening Star Building. 

BOYNTON, HENRY VAN NESS, army 
oflicer, journalisit, and President of the 
Board of Education, was born Ju y 22, 1835, 
at West Stockbridge, Mass., the son of 
Charles Brandon and Maria (Van Buskirk) 
Bcynton. He was educated at Woodvrard 
College, Cincinnati, and the Kentucky Mil- 
itary Instituite. He joined the Thirty-fifth 
Ol.io Regiment as Major, later promoted to 
Lieutenant-Colonel. At Chickamauga he 
commanded four regiments in the first re- 
pulse of the Confederates at Snodgrass Hill. 
He was severe y wounded at the storming 
of Missionary Ridge, and for his gallantry 
v/as brevetted Brigadier-General, afterward 
receiving the Congressional medal of honor. 
On June 17, 1898, he was on duty at Camp 
Thomas, Georgia, and was in command there 
when the war ceased. He originated the 
pjan for the Chickamauga and Chattanooga 
National Military Park, and has been chair- 
man of its commission since 1897. He was 
a member of the Rock Creek Park Commis- 
sion, and was, until late y, president of th3 
Board of Education. He was for one term 
president of the Gridiron Club; member of 
the Phi Delta Theta college fraternity; Mil- 
itary Order of Loyal Legion; Military His- 
torical Society of Massachusetts; Sou'thern 
Historical Society; Sons of the American 
Revolution, and was vice-president of the 
District of Columbia Society for one year. 
On June 1, 1871, he married Helen, daughter 
of .the late Timothy Battelle Mason, of Cin- 
cinnati. He died at Atlantic City June 3, 
1905. Late residence: 1321 R street, n.w. 

BRACKETT, GUSTAVUS BENSON, hor- 
ticulturist, pomologist, was born at Unity, 
Maine, March 24, 1827, son of Reuben and 
Eliabeth S. Brackett. He was educated in 
the pub ic schools of Cincinnati, Ohio, 1838- 
41, and at an academy at Denmark, Iowa, 
1841-47. He served during the Civil War 
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after the war acted as Lieutenant-Colonel 
for the Iowa State Militia. He was a com- 
missioner in charge of Iowa exhibits at the 
Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, 1876; 
I'^nited States Commissioner to the Paris 
Exposition in 1878, and delegate-at-larga 
from Iowa to the National Cotton Exposi- 
tion, New Or eans, 1S85. He represented the 
pomological division of the United States 
Department of Agriculture at the World's 
Columbian Exposition in 1893, and served 
on the Jury of Awards on horticultural sub- 
jects. He was for two years secretary and 
for four years president of the Iowa Stace 
Horticultural Society. At the Paris Expo- 
sition in 1900 he served as horticultura' ex- 
pert to the United States Commissioners, 
and was also member of the International 
Jury of Awards. He was for two years sec- 
retary of the American Pomological Society. 
He is now chief of the Division of Pomology 
of the United States Department of Agri- 
culture. On November 14, 1849, he married 
Anna Housiton. Residence: 1010 I street, 
n.w. Office: U. S. Department of Agricul- 
ture. 

BRADDOCK, FRANK W., Adjuster of the 
Mint. U. S. Treasury Department. Residence: 
1313 Fourtenth street, n.w. Office: Treas- 
ury Department. 



BRADFORD, ERNEST WILDER, patent 
lawyer, was born at Mattawamkeag, Penob- 
scot County, Maine, May 3, 1862, son of 
Charles Gama iel and Mary (Prentiss) 
Bradford. A descendant of William Brad- 
ford, second Governor of Plymouth Col- 
ony, and other distinguished pioneers. Left 
an orphan at five years of age, he lived with 
relatives on a farm at Winslow, Maine, until 
he was seventeen, since which time he has 
niade his own way in life. He obtained hi-5 
education by attending the pub ic schools 
at Winslow and Oak Grove Seminary, at 
Vassalboro, Maine, from which he was grad- 
uated in the spring of 1882. In the spring 
of 1882 he went to Indianapolis, Ind., and 
entered the patent law office of an elder 
brother, and in the fall of the same year 
ertered the Central Law School of Indiana, 
from which he was graduated in April, 1883,- 
number two in a class of about twenty, after 
completing a two years' course of study in 
one school year. He continued in his broth- 
er's employ in charge of a branch office in 
Washington until the spring of 1887, when 
he bought a half interest in the business 
and became junior member of the firm of 
C. & E. W. Bradford. In 1893 he located 
permanently in Washington, and sold out 
his partnership interest with his brother, 
since which time he has been a one in the 
practice of his profession. He is a member 
of the bar of the Supreme Court of the 
United States, and of the bar of many of 
the United States Circuit and State Supreme 
Courts. He is a Republican, an active 
worker in the I. O. O. F., being Past Grand 
Master of the District of Columbia, and sec- 
retary of the General Military Council, and 
Past Master, I. O. O. F. He is also sec- 
retary of the Society of Mayflower Descend- 
ants in the District of Columbia. Unmar- 
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ried. Office: Washington Loan and Trust 
Building. 

BRADFORD, GERSHOM, Inspector of 
Charts in the Coast and Geodetic Survey, 
United States Department of Commerce and 
Labor. Residence: 213 C street, s.e. Office: 
New Jersey avenue and B street, s.e. 

BRADFORD, MORGAN, JR., Principal of 
Bradford's Detective Agency, was born in 
Washington, D. C, August 13, 1865. He 
estab ished his detective agency in 1885, 
and has had charge of many important 
cases; appointed by Secretary of War as 
chief of special detectives for duty at 
Fortress Monroe during the term of the 
J&mestown Exposition. Married, February 
1, 1893, Clara M. Springer, to which union 
one child has been born. Residence: 3002 
Eleventh street, n.w. Office: Suite 224 Colo- 
rado Building. 

BRADFORD, ROYAL BIRD, Rear Admiral, 
U. S. N., was born at Turner, Maine, Julj' 
22. 1844, son of Phillips and Mary Brett 
(Bird) Bradford. He was graduated from 
the United States Naval Academy in 1865, 
standing third in a class of fifty-four. He 
became Ensign in 1866; Master, 1868; Lieu- 
itenant, 1869; Lieutenant-Commander, No- 
vember 30, 1878; Commander, March 2*;, 
1SS9; Captain, March 3, 1899; Rear Admiral, 
November 23, 1904. He has served on a 
number of United States vessels, and his 
shore duties have included service at the 
Nava! Torpedo Station, Newport, Rhode 
Island, where he was instructor, and on the 
beard for the preparation of new naval regu- 
la,'tions, also for the organization of the new 
Naval Department of Electricity, and of the 
General Board of War Plans. He was naval 
attache to the Paris Peace Commissioners, 
and is now in command of the Third Squad- 
ron of the North Atlantic fleet. In 1875 
he married Harriet S. Engs. Residence: 
1522 P street, n.w. Office: Navy Depart- 
ment. 

BRADLEY, CHARLES SMITH, Treasurer 
Franklin Insurance Company, was born in 
Washington, D. C, son of Chairles and Cath- 
erine (Coy e) Bradley. Mr. Bradley, senior, 
was cashier of the National Bank of tin 
Republic and secretary of the Franklin In- 
surance company until his death, in 1881. A 
number of the family ancestors rendered 
the country gallant services during Revolu- 
tionary times; Abraham Bradley was a 
Captain in the RevolU'tionary War, and 
Abraham Brad ey, Jr., his son, and grand- 
father of the subject of this sketch, served 
as Judge in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, 
and was First Assistant Postmaster General 
of the United States from 1799 to 1829. 
Charles S. Bradley was educated in the 
private schools of Washington, Indiana Uni- 
versity and Columbian College, in Washing- 
ton. He left col ege before graduation to 
become a Captain's clerk on the United 
Slates frigate Potomac, serving froTn Juno, 
1861, to November, 1862; in Commissary- 
General's office, 1863 and 1864. From 1866 
'to 1872 he was employed as a bookkeeper 
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Washington; bookeeper for Preston & 
Kean, Chicago, 1872 to 1873; assistant 
cashier National Bank of the Republic, 1874 
to 1S81; cashier, 1881 to 1897, when the 
bfink was consolidated with the National 
Metropolitan Bank; treasurer Union Trust 
and Storage Company, 1900 to 1904. He is 
a member of the Presbyterian Church, the 
Beta Theta Pi college fraternity, Geograpn- 
Ical Society, American Forestry Association, 
Columbia Historical Society, Sons of the 
American Revolution, and is secretary ->( 
the Columbian Institution for Deaf and 
Dumb; in politics is a Republican. Unmar- 
ried. Residence: 1722 N street, n.w. Office: 
411 Tenth street, n.w. 

BRADLEY, THOMAS W., soldier. Con- 
gressman, was born on April 6, 1844. He 
entered the Union Army as a private at the 
time of the Civil War, and was later awarded 
the- Congressional medal of honor for gal- 
lantry, and brevetted Major, United States 
Voluniteers. He was wounded three times 
during the war. He was a member of the 
New York Legislature, and has been a Rep- 
resentative in Congress from the Twentieth 
New York District since the Fifty-eighth 
Ccngress. He is a member of the New York 
Chattanooga-Gettysburg Battlefields Com- 
mission. Republican. Legal residence: Wa - 
den. New York. Washington address: House 
of Representatives. 

BRADLEY, WILLIAM O'CONNELL, law- 
yer, was born near Lancaster, Kentucky, 
March 18, 1841. son of Robert M. and Ellen 
(Totten) Bradley. At the age of fourteen 
h^ joined the Union Army, first as Recruit- 
In^' Officer in Pulaski County, and later a's 
private soldier at Louisville. His father 
secured his release, and he entered his aw 
office, and at the age of seventeen, by spe- 
cial act of the General Assembly, he was 
licensed to practise. He entered politics in 
1869, and in 1870 was elected Prosecuting 
Attorney. In 1872 and 1876 he was an un- 
successful candidate for the Forty-fourtii 
end Fo' ty-fifth Congresses. In 1884 Presi- 
dent Arthur selected him to prosecute the 
"Star Route" cases, but 'the Attorney-General 
denied a full prosecution, and he withdrew. 
In 1887 he was nominated by the Repub leans 
for Governor of Kentucky. During this cam- 
paign he charged corruption in the State 
Government, resulting in 'the discovery of 
a defalcation of $247,000. In 1895 he was 
again nominated for Governor, this time by 
acclamation, and was elected, the first Re- 
publican ever elected Governor of Kentucky. 
Ho served in every Republican National 
Cf-nvention for more than twenty years as 
delegate or delegate-at-large, and was 
elected several times as Nationa' Commit- 
teeman and as National Executive Commit- 
teeman. He seconded the nomination of 
General Grant at the Chicago conveii- 
tirn in 1880, and won renown at tho 
Chicago Convention in 1884 by deliv- 
ering a speech which defeated the 
proposed rule to cut down the basis 
of Southern representation. He was twice 
given the complimentary vote of his party 
for United States Senator, once while ineli- 
gible on account of his youth. In 1896 was 



a prominent candidate for the presidency 
before the St. Louis convention; declined 
■tht office of Senator In 1897, and the ap- 
pointment as United States Minister tj 
Korea in 1899. He was married, July 11, 
1S67, to Margaret Duncan. Residence: 1007 
Miassachusetts avenue, n.e. 

BRAID, ANDREW, geodetist, was born In 
K:rkca dy, Scotland, December 20, 1846, and 
come to the United States with his parents 
In 1847. He was graduated from the Phila- 
delphia High School, with the degree of 
A. M., in 1865, and, since 1869, has been en- 
gaged in coast survey work. For four years 
he was in charge of the instrument division 
of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, for six 
years executive officer, later, assistant in 
charge of the office. He was officer in charge 
of the division of standard weights and 
measures, 1895-99. Since that time he has 
been assistant in charge of the United 
States Coast and Geodetic Survey. He has 
edited most of the publications of that branch 
of the Government service. Residence: The 
Columbia. Office: Coast and Geodeiic Sur- 
vey. 

BRAINARD, DAVID LEGGE, Lieutenant- 
Colonel, Deputy Commissary-General, U. S. 
A., was born at Norway, Herkimer County, 
New York, December 21. 1856. After attend- 
ing the State Normal School at Cortland, N. 
Y, he entered the United States Army as a 
private on September 18, 1876. He partic- 
ipated in the several Indian campaigns from 
1S77 to 1878, under General Miles, as a Ser- 
gfant, being wounded in the battle of Litt e 
Muddy Creek, Montana. He was attached 
10 the Howgate Arctic Exploring Expedition, 
1880; in 1881 he joined the Lady Franklin 
Bay Arctic Expedition, serving thus for 
three years. He was associated with the 
late Liutenant Lockwood in Artie explora- 
tions, and one of the seven survivors 
of that expedition. Shortly afterward 
he was transfc red to the Signal Serv- 
ice for 'special distinguished services," and 
later commissioned Second Lieutenant of 
Cavalry; was promoted to First Lieutenant 
in 1893; advanced to Captain of Subsistence 
Department, 1896, and made Lieutenant- 
Co onel of Volunteers, Subsistence Depart- 
ment, in 1898. He served in the Philippines 
cir. Chief Commissary of all military forces, 
also on the staffs of Generals Merrltt anl 
Otis. In November, 1898, he became Colonel 
of Volunteers. Subsistence Department, and 
on February 12, 1900, was transferred to th.3 
regular army as Major. On August 28, 1905, 
he became Lieutenant-Colonel, D. C. G., 
U. S. A. He is a fel ow of the American 
Geographic Society, member of the Nationsl 
Geographic Society, Arctic Club, Explorer:?' 
Club. The Royal Geographic Society in 1885 
av.arded him the Back Grant, "for special 
services in connection with his work of ex- 
ploration in the Arctic regions." Address: 
Army Building, New York, N. Y., or War 
Department. 

BRAINARD, ERWIN C, real estate, was 
bi.rn in Syracuse, N. Y., September 12, 1863, 
and removed to Washington with his parents 
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Emerson Institute he was for a few years 
a member of the Chicago Board of Trade, 
and then returned to Washington to enter 
the real estate business. Residence: Chevy 
Chase, Mary and. Office: 1410 G street, h.w. 

BRANDEGEE, FRANK BOSWORTH, 

lawyer, United States Senator, was born 
In New London, Conn., July 8, 1864, the son 
of Augustus and Nancy Christina (Bosworth'> 
Brandegee. He is descended from Revolu- 
tionary stock of French lineage. His father 
was one of the foremost lawyers of the Con- 
necticut bar, and for a number of years rep- 
resented his district in Congress. Prank B. 
Brandegee was graduated from Yale Uni- 
versity in 1885, was admitted to the bar of 
New London Connty in 1888, and has since 
practised hi? profession in New London, 
Conn., as a member of the law firm of 
Brandegee, Noyes & Brennan. In 1888 his 
public career began as Representative from 
New London in the General Assembly of 
Connecticut, and the following year he was 
elected Corporation Counse of New London, 
v/hich office he held continuously, with the 
exception of two years, until 1902. He was 
elected Speaker of the Connecticut House of 
Representatives in 1899. In 1902 he was 
elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress, to fill 
a vacancy, and was re-elected to the Fifty- 
eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses. He was 
a delegate to the Republican National Con- 
ventions of 1888, 1892, 1900 and 1904, in 
v/hich latter year he was chairman of tha 
de egation. In the same year he was presi- 
dent of the Republican State Convention of 
Connecticut. On May 9, 1905, he was elected 
United States Senator from Connecticut, to 
fill the unexpired term of the late Orville 
H. Piatt. In 'the House of Representatives he 
served as a member of the Committee on 
Naval Affairs, and is at present chairman 
of the Senate Committee on Forest Reserva- 
tions and Protection of Game. He is a 
member of the Metropolitan Club of Wash- 
ington. D. C; University Club of New York; 
Hartford Club, of Hartford, Conn.; Arcanum, 
of Meriden; Union League and Graduates' 
Cubs, of New Haven, and the Thames Club, 
of New London. Legal residence: New Lou- 
den, Conn. Washington address: 1521 K 
street, n.w. 

BRANDENBURG, EDWIN CHARLES, 

lawyer, was born in Washington, D. C. 
May 19, 1865, son of Frederick W. and 
Ger'trude E. Brandenburg. He attended ths 
public schools of Washington from 1871 to 
1S83; studied law at Columbian (now 
George Washington) University, and grad- 
uated with the degree of LL. B. in 1890, 
and 'the following year received the degree 
of LL. M. from the same university. From 
1S83 to 1888 he was in the Signal Corps 
of the United States Army, on detail with 
the United States Weather Bureau, during 
Khe last two years of which he was stationeo 
at St. Pau , Minn., in charge of the Minne- 
sota State Weather Service; from 1889 to 
1905 he was connected with the Department 
of Justice, and resigned his position as spe- 
cial Uni'ted States Attorney in June, 1905. 
He is engaged in the private practice of law; 
professor of procedure in bankruptcy and 



insolvency at George Washington University, 
and is the author of Brandenburg on Bank- 
ruptcy; Digest of Bankruptcy Decisions, 
etc. He is a Mason and Past Master )f 
Hiram Lodge, and a member of Phi Delta 
Phi legal fraterni'ty. In June, 1891, he mar- 
ried Emma B. Go-odacre. Residence: 1824 
Calvert street. Office: Fendall Building. 

BRANDT, EDWIN S., Chief C erk of the 
Bureau of Ordnance, Navy Department, was 
born in Washington in 1862, and was edu- 
cated in the public schools. He entered the 
Treasury Department when four'teen years 
old to learn the eng.'avlng business; trans- 
ferred to the Bureau of Ordnance in 1882, 
and, in January, 1898, became its chief clerk 
V'hile in the Government employ for thirty- 
ore years, but two years of that time 
has been in the Navy Department. Resi- 
dence: 1518 Corcoran street. Office: Bureau 
of Ordnance. 

BRANNIGAN, FELIX, Assistant Attorney, 
Department of Justice. Residence: The 
Huntington. Office: Department of Jus- 
tice. 

BRANTLEY, WILLIAM GORDON, lawyer, 
Congressman, was born in Blackshear, Pierce 
County, Georgia, September 18, 1860, and 
was educated in the common schools, with 
two years at 'the University of Georgia. 
After law studv, he was admitted to the 
bar in 1881. In 1884-85 he represented Pierce 
Crunty in the Georgia House of Represent- 
atives; State Senator, 1886-87; Prosecut- 
ing Attorney of Brunswick Circuit, 188S, 
1S92 and 1896. He removed to Brunswick, 
Georgia, in 1889, and was elected to tho 
Fifty-fifth Congress, and each succeeding 
one. Democrat. Legal residence: Bruns- 
wick, Ga. Washington address: House of 
Representatives. 

BRATENAHL, GEORGE C. F., Episcopal 
clergyman, rector of St. Alban's Chap;l and 
in charge of St. David's Cathedral Mission. 
Address: St. Alban's, Wisconsin avenue and 
Wocdley Lane, n.w. 

BRECKENRIDGE, JOSEPH CABELL, 

Brigadier-General, U. S. A., was born at 
Baltimore, Md., January 14, 1842, son jf 
Rev. Robert Jefferson Breckenridge. He 
was educated at Center Col ege, Kentucky, 
and the University of Virginia. He entered 
tliC Union Army in 1861, became an officer 
of volunteers, and later, for gallantry at 
Mill Springs, Kj'., was given a commission 
in the regular army. He served, success- 
ively, al commissioned grades, becoming 
Major in 1881; Brigadier-General in 1889; 
Major-Gen©- al (of volunieers) in 1898. He 
commanded the separate army at Chicka- 
niauga in 1898, and later saw service in the 
Santiago campaign. He was made Major- 
General of the regular army on February 
IS. 1893. He is president general of tho 
National Society of the Sons of the Amer- 
ican Revo ution; vice-president of the Soci- 
ety of the Army of the Cumberland, and of 
the Society of the Army of the Tennessee. 
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the Loyal Legion, the Military Order of the 
Foreign Wars of the United S-tates, Naval 
anci Military Order of the Spanish-American 
AVar, Society of the Army of Santiago de 
Cuba, and vice-commander-general of the 
Society of American Wars. He was mar- 
ried, on July 20, 1868, to Louise Ludlow Dud- 
ley. Residence: The Portner. Office: War 
Department. 

BRECKONS, JOSEPH ALLISON, journa'- 
ini, was born at St. Clair, Pennsylvania. 
Ncvember 27, 1857, son of Edward Robsjn 
and Mary Elizabeth Breckons. He was edu- 
cated at Kewanee, Illinois, 1864-69; St. 
CJair, Penn., 1871-73. From 1884 to 1893 ne 
was publisher of the Cheyenne (Wyoming) 
Daily Leader; was Wyoming correspondent 
of the New York Sun, Chicago Record, San 
Francisco Call, Omaha Bee, Sa t Lake 
Tribune, Denver Republican, and other news- 
papers from 1894 to 1900. In 1899 he estab- 
lished the Wyoming Industrial Journal, and 
since 1900 has been Washington correspona- 
ent for a number of Western daily news- 
papers. He is the author of a number of 
books and monographs, principally on the 
subject of irrigation, land aws, etc.. In th-j 
Wes't. Republican. Residence: 1751 Will- 
ard street, n.w. Office: 1417 G street, n.w. 

I 

BRENNAN, PATRICK J., President of the 
Brennan Construction Company. Residence. 
1327 Tw nty-first street, n.vv. Office: Foot of 
Thi;ty-first street, n.e. 

BREWER, DAVID JOSIAH, Associate 
Justice of the United States Supreme Cout, 
was born in Smyrna, Asia Minor, June 20, 
1837, son of Rev. Josiah and Amelia A. 
(Field) Brewer, who was a daughter of Rev. 
David Dudley Field. She, wi'th her younger 
bro'iher, Stephen J. Field, accompanied h^r 
husband to Turkey as a missionary in 1830, 
and David J. was there born and brought 
to this country in the autumn of 1838. He 
v/as graduated from Daniel H. Chase'.s 
schoo in Middletown Conn, in 1851; was 
a student in Wesleyan University, 1851-54, 
and was graduated from Yale College in 
1856. He then studied law in the office 
of his uncle, David Dudley Field, in New 
York, 1856-57, and was graduated from the 
Albany (N. Y.) Law School in 1858. In his 
law practice in Leavenworth, Kansas, he 
gained high rank, and was made United 
States Commissioner of the Circuit Court 
in 1861; Judge of the Probate and Criminal 
Courts of Leavenworth County, 1863-64, and 
of the First District of Kansas, 1865-69; 
District Attorney for Leavenworth Countv, 
18G9-70, and Judge of the Supreme Court 
of Kansas, 1870-84. He was appointed by 
Presidrnt Arthur, Judge of the United States 
Circuit Court for the Eighth Circuit in 1884, 
and served five years, and by President 
Hairison, Associate Justice of the Supremi-. 
Court of the United States, to succeed Jus- 
tire Stanley Miatthevvs, taking his seat on 
January 6, 1890. While on the Supreme 
bench of Kansas he handed down the de- 
cision that women were eligible to the office 
of County Superintendent of Public Schools, 
and another, sustaining the right of mar- 
ried women to money possessed by them 



a: the time of marriage, and to all money 
earned by them thereafter. As United States 
Circuit Judge he entered the decree sustain- 
ing the Maxwel land grant, the largest pri- 
Vcite grant sustainer"". in the United States. 
W^hile at Leavenworth he was Supe:intend- 
en- of Public Schools and president of the 
Slate Teachers' Association. He married 
Louise R. Landon, of Burlington, Vt., on 
October 3, 1861, who died April 3, 1898, and, 
on June 5, 1901, he married Emma M. Mott, 
of Washlng'ton, D. C. Residence: 1923 Six- 
teenth street, n.w. 

BRICE, ARTHUR TILGHMAN, bank 
cashier, was born at Columbus, Georgi-d, 
in 1850, son of Richard Tilghman and Julia 
Frances (Schoff) Brice He was graduated 
from the Co umbia Law School, and In 1867 
entered the office of W. W. Corcoran, an,l 
a&sisted in managing his vast estate until 
hii death, in 1888, when he entered the bank- 
ing house of Riggs & Co., and, July 1, 1896, 
he became cashier of the Riggs National 
Bank. On December 30, 1891, he married 
j£<ne Frances Pendleton, and of this union 
there are three living children. Residence: 
1711 M street, n.w. Office: Riggs National 
Bank. 

BRICK, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, lawyer, 
Congressman, was born in St. Joseph 
County, Indiana, May 27, 1860, and was edu- 
cated in the common schools of his county, 
later attending the South Bend High School 
and Cornell, Yale and Michigan Universities. 
He was graduated from the law department 
of the latter institution in 1883, and imme- 
diately took up the practice of law at Soutn 
Bend. In 1886 he was eleoted prosecutor 
for the counties of St. Joseph and Laporte, 
ana was elected to the Fifty-sixth and all 
succeeding Congresses. Republican. Legal 
residence: Sou'th Bend, Ind. Washington 
address: House of Representatives. 

BRICKENSTEIN, J. H., E»amlner-in- 
Chief, Patent Office. Residence: 1603 Nine- 
teenth street, n.w. Office: U. S. Patent 
Office. 

BRIDE, COTTER T., retired real estate 
dealer, was born in Monanville, County Cork, 
Ireland, July 30, 1846. His grandfather was 
one of eight brothers who came over to Ire- 
land from Scot and in 1802 with the Duke 
of Devonshire, one of the brothers marry- 
ing the sister of Blennerhasset. His mother 
was a McCarthy-Moore, whose ancestors 
built Blarney and Drishane Castles. In the 
Sixteenth century they were confiscated by 
the British Government. He came to Amer- 
ica in 1866 and engaged in the plumbing 
business in Chicago and Peoria, 111., remov- 
ing la'ter to Washington, where he has since 
resided. In 1890 he entered into the real 
estate business, and is now vice-president 
of the Newport News and Hampton Tite 
and Guarantee Company. He is the national 
treasurer of the American Anti - Trust 
I/eague, and in 1900 was chosen delegate to 
the Kansas City National Democratic Con- 
vention. In 1876 he married Louise Witthaft, 
and two children have been born to them. 
Residence: 131 B Street, s.e. 



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BRIDE, WILLIAM WITTHAFT, lawyer, 
was born in Washington, D. C, on Septem- 
ber 9, 1881, son of Cotter T. ana Louise 
(Witthaft) Bride. His early education was 
obtained in the common schools, after which 
h<' attended St. John's College, graduating 
in 1899; George^town University (law), 1904; 
University of Nebraska, 1905, where he re- 
ceived 'the degree of LL. M. He is active y 
engaged in the practice of law in Wash- 
ington, being attorney for the Fourteenth- 
street Savings Bank, McNamara Paving and 
Construction Company, and o'ther leading 
curporations. He is a member of the Delta 
Chi legal fraternity, Sigma Chi and Theta 
Nu Epsilon college fraternities, the Kaprian 
Club of Georgetown University, and the 
University Club. In po i'tics he is a Demo- 
crat, and he is a member of the Roman 
Catholic Church. On March 14, 1905, he 
married Lula Mae Fairbanks, a niece of 
Vice-President Fairbanks, of Mansfield, 111., 
to which union have been corn two children. 
Residence: 303 B street, s.e. Offlce: Colum- 
bian Building, 

BRIGGS, FRANK O., U. S. Senator. He 
W'3i<v- elected to succeed John Fairfield Dry- 
den in the U. S. Senate from New Jersey, 
whose term expired March 3, 1907. In pol- 
itics 'he is a Republican. Legal residence: 
Trenton, N. J. Washington address: U. S. 
Senate. 

I BRIGGS, LYMAN J., chemist, physicist, 
was born at Assyria, Barry County, Michi- 
gan, May 7, 1874, son of Chauncey L. and 

\ Isabel a (McKelvey) Briggs. He was grad- 
uated from the Michigan Agricultural Col- 
lege, with the degree of B. S., in 1893; from 
the University of Michigan, with that if 
M. S., in 1895; from Johns Hopkins, with 
the degree of Ph. D., in 1901. During his 
college courses he specialized in chemistry, 
physics, physical chemistry, mathematics, 
and mechanics. He has been in charge of 
the Physical Laboratory Division, Bureau of 
Soi s. United States Department of Agri- 
culture, since 1896. He is a member of aho 
American Physical Society, American Associ- 
ation for the Advancement of Science, Philo- 
sophical Society of Washington, and has 
written considerably for governmental doc- 
uments and technical periodicals. On De- 
cember 23, 1896, he married Katherine E. 
Cook. Residence: 3451 Mt. Pleasant street. 
Offlce: Bureau of Soils, Department of Agri- 
cu ture. 

BRIGGS, OLIVER H., Chief Clerk of the 
Post-office Department, was born in Maine 
in 1851, and is president of the Maine Asso- 
ciation in Washington. He was appointed 
to 'the Government service from Georgia, 
where he liver for a time. For ten years 
he was cashier of the Chief Inspector's office, 
and then confidential clerk to the Chief 
Inspector of the Post-office Department. 
Residence: 622 C street, n.e. Office: Post- 
otHce Department. 

BRISTOL, FRANK MILTON, clergyman, 
was born in Orleans County, New York, 
January 4, 1851, and received his early edu- 



cation in the public schools at Kankakee, 
Rpckford and Galena, I linols, graduating in 
1877 from the Northwestern University with 
the degrees of A. M. and D. B. He was 
pa.stor of a number of Chicago churches: 
later pastor of a church at Evanston, 111., 
and for several years has been pastor of 
the Metropolitan Me'thodist Episcopal Church 
of Washington. He was three times chosen 
as a member of the General Conference of 
thh Methodist Episcopal Church. He is the 
author of Providential Epochs; The Minis- 
try of Art; Shakespeare and America, etc. 
In 1878 he married Ne lie Frisbie. Residence: 
330 C street, n.w. 

BRITTON, ALEXANDER, lawyer, was 
born in the District of Columbia January 1, 
1S67, the son of Alexander Thompson and 
'Mary Britton. He was graduated from 
Princeton University and Columbian Law 
School (the latter in 1888), and was admit- 
ted to practise in the Supreme Court of the 
United States, where he is now an active 
practitioner. He is a member of the Prince- 
ton Alumni Association, Princeton Club of 
New York, Blue Ridge Rod and Gun Club, 
"Nationa Geographic Society, Capital, Met- 
ropolitan, University, Chevy Chase and the 
Columbia Golf Clubs. In 1889 he married 
Louise S. Reed, and two daughters have been 
born to them. Residence: 1836 S street, 
n.w. Offlce: 1419 F street, n.w. 

BROCK, CHARLES EDWARD, patent 
lawyer, was born in Washington, D. C, 
on December 1, 1867, son of William G and 
Mary F. Brock. He was educated iri the 
Washington public schools; was graduated 
from the high school in 1885, and from the 
Nationa University Law School in 1892. 
On December 19, 1892, he was admitted to 
practise before the Supreme Court of the 
District of Columbia; Court of Appeals 5f 
the District of Columbia October 1, 1894, 
and the Supreme Court of the United States 
on November 18, 1901. He is a member of 
St. Thomas' Episcopal Church. On Octo- 
ber 30, 1895, he married Mary L. Brookr», 
of Maryland. Residence: The Portner. 
Office: 918 P street, n.w. 

BRODHEAD, J. DAVIS, Congressman. In 
November, 1906, he was elected a member of 
■ihe Sixtieth Congress from the Twenty-sixth 
Pennsylvania Congr ssional District. In pol- 
itics he is a Democrat. Legal residence: 
South Bethlehem, Penn. Washington ad- 
dress: House of Representatives. 

BRODIE, ALEXANDER OSWALD, for- 
merly Lieutenant-Colonel United States 
Volunteers, Governor of Arizona, was born 
at Edwards, Lawrence County, New York, 
November 13, 1849, son of Joseph and Mar- 
garet (Brown) Brodie. He was educated in 
the public schoo s and by a private incjr, 
graduating from St. Lawrence University in 
1S65, and from the United States Military 
Academy in the same year. He was ap- 
pointed a Second Lieutenant in the cavalry 
on June 15, 1870; promoted to First Lieu- 
tenant in 1875, and resigned in 1877. He 
served in the Indian warfare on 'the West- 



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em frontier during his early army career; 
from 1878 to 1882 engaged in the cattle busi- 
ness in Kansas, and, from 1882 to 1887, In 
mining in Dakota and Arizona. He was 
chief engineer of the Water Storage Com- 
mii-sion, Walnut Grove, Arizona, 1887-1890; 
civil and mining engineer at Prescott, Ari- 
zona, 1893-94; County Recorder, Yarap.ii 
County, 1893-94, chief engineer and super- 
intendent Walnut Grove Water Storage 
Company since 1889. At the outbreak of 
the Spanish-American War he became Major 
o"; the Rough Riders, organizing the Ari- 
zona contingent and served with the regi- 
ment at Tampa and in Cuba; during the 
bc.ttle at Las Guasimas having 'the command 
of the left flank, and being wounded during 
tht-. action. From June unti August of 189S 
he was in the hospital and on sick leave, 
later being commissioned Lieutenant-Colo- 
nel, and musitered out with his regiment in 
Stptember, 1898. He was a candidate for 
Congress from Arizona same year, and be- 
came Governor of the Territory on July 1, 
1902. Since January 26, 1902, he has been 
Major, U. S. A., and stationed at the Record 
and Pension OtTice. He is a member of the 
Technical Society of the PaciHc Coast, vice- 
president of the Association of Civil Engi- 
neers of Arizona, and of the Historical Soci- 
etj' of Arizona Pioneers. On December 15, 
1892, he married Louise Han:on. Address: 
Care War Department. 

BRODTHAGE, GEORGE, clergyman, pas- 
tor of St. John's Lutheran Church. Resi- 
dence: 320 Four-and-a-Half street, n.w. 

BROMWELL, CHARLES S., Captain En- 
gineer Corps, U. S. A., was born at New- 
perl. Kentucky, May 1, 1869, son of Hon. 
J. H. and Elizabeth (Summers) Bromwell. 
Ho was educated in the public and hign 
schools of Cincinna'ti, Ohio, and was grad- 
uated from the United States Military Acad- 
emy in 1890, also in 1893 from the United 
States Engineer School of Application. He 
v/as appointed a Second Lieutenant in thv^ 
Engineer Corps in 1890; became First Lieu- 
tenant in 1895, and Captain on February 2, 
1901. He has had charge of various public 
works and engineering prob ems throughout 
the country, and is now Superintendent of 
Public Buildings and Grounds of the District 
of Columbia, and military aide to the Pres- 
id.en't, with the temporary rank of Colonel. 
He is a member of the Metropolitan, Armv 
and Navy, and Chevy Chase Clubs. On June 
1^ 1896, he married Letitia G. Scott. Resi- 
dence: 1608 New Hampshire avenue, n.w. 
Office: Lemon Building. 

BROOCKS, MOSES LYCURGUS, lawyer. 
Congressman, was born on a farm near San 
Augustine, Texas, November 1, 1864, and 
T/as reared there, being educated in the 
ommon schoo s. He was graduated in 
1891, with the degree of LL. B., from tha 
University of Texas. About this time he 
removed to Beaumont, Texas, and, in 1892, 
v/as elected a member of the Texas Legis- 
lature; in 1896 elected District Attorney 
of the First Judicial District of Texas He 
was elected to the Fifty-ninth Congress. 
Unmarried, Democrat, Legal residence: San 



Augustine. Texas. Washing'ion address: 
House of Representatives. 

BROOKE, BENJAMIN HAYES, Assistant 
Paymaster, U. S. N., was born at Radnor, 
Deiy.ware County, Pennsylvania, on April 14, 
ISSO, son of L wis T. and Anne Bartram 
(Gale) Brooke. His education was received 
in the Pennsylvania College and the Univer- 
sity of Texas, graduating from the latter in- 
stitution with the class of 1902. H? was en- 
gaged in newspaper work on the Galveston 
Tribune and the New York Journal, and latev 
Wi3.« in 't'he real estate business in Philadel- 
phia. During the Porto Rico campaign he 
served with t'he Fi.st Troop, P'hiladelphia 
City Cavalry, and later was appointed Assist- 
ant Paymaster, U. S. N., with the rank of 
Ensign. In religious belief he is an Episco- 
palian, a Republican in politics, and 'a mem- 
ber of the Phi Kappa Psi college fraternity. 
In 1901 he married Mary G. Love, of Phila- 
delp'hia, Penn. One child has been born to 
the union. Add ess: Naval Station, Hawaii, 
or the Navy Department. 

BROOKE, JOHN COOKE, lawyer, was 
born in Culpeper, Virginia, on February 17, 
1881, son of J. Ambler and Elizabeth B. 
(Green) Brooke. He is a descendant of 
George Mason, the statesman; Francis T. 
Brooke, who was president of the Supreme 
Court of Appeas.of Virginia, and John W. 
Green, who was a Judge of the same court. 
In 1901 he was graduated from the Virginia 
Polytechnic Institute, with the degree of B. 
S.; Georgetown University Law School, 
LL. B., 1905, and George Washington Law 
School, LL. M., 1906. He has served as 
Commissioner in Chancery for Culpeper 
County, Virginia, and in August, 1905, vfAS 
appointed from the position of law clerk 
register to a clerkship in the Classiflcati.m 
Division of the Post-office Department. Ha 
Is a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity, 
and, in politics, a Democrat. Unmarried. 
Residence: 820 Sixth street, n.w. Office: 
Fendal Building. 

BROOKS, ALFRED HULSE, geologist, 
mineralogist, was born at Ann Arbor, Mich- 
igan, July 18, 1871, son of Major T, B. 
Bj-ooks. He studied in Germany during 1890 
and 1891, and was graduated from Harvard 
in 1894, after which he pursued post-gradu- 
ate study in Paris. He became assistant 
geologist of the United States Geological 
Survey after this study, and during tho 
period 1898-1903 was engaged in geological 
and exploratory work in A aska, in 1902 
becoming geologist in charge of the Division 
of Alaskan Mineral Resources. He is tha 
author of various reports, monographs and 
governmental documents. On Feb.uary 22, 
1903, he married Mabel W. Baker. Resi- 
dence: The Ontario. Office: U. S. Geolog- 
ical Survey. 

BROOKS, FLOYD VERNON, physician, 
chief surgeon Chesapeake Beach Railway, 
was born in Newark, New Jersey, on Janu- 
ary 25, 1856, son of James J. and Maria 
Biooks, his father once serving as chief of 
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States Treasury Department. After obtain- 
ing his preparatory education in the Phila- 
de phia public schools, he entered the Jef- 
ferson Medical College, in the same city, 
and was gradua;ted M. D. in 1S77. He is a 
member of the Medical Association of the 
District of Columbia, and the Medical Soci- 
ety of the District of Columbia. He is a 
member of the Calvary Baptist Church; 
I<afaytte Lodge, No. 19. F. A. A. M.; KnighTs 
of Pythias, etc. Republican. On Septem- 
ber 29, 1880, he married Ada Florence Ash, 
of Evans City, Penn., to which union have 
been born four chi dren, all of which arrs 
i living. Residence: 465 Florida avenue, n.w. 
Office: Bond Building. 

! BROOKS, FRANKLIN E., laviryer, Con- 
giessman, was born at Sturbridge, Worces- 
cer County, Massachusetts, November 19, 
1860, son of Eli T. and Anna Elizabeth 
Brooks. He was graduated from Brown 
{ Universiity, wit'h the degree of A. B., in 
I 1883; in 1889 he received the degree of 
' A. M. from the same institution. He studied 
law in the aw school of Brown University 
! and in the office of B. F. Broolis, of Bos- 
' 'ten, Mass. After his college courses, he 
I taught in the public schools of New England 
for several years. In 1888 he was admitted 
j to the Suffolk County, Massachusetts, bar; 
I in 1892 he removed to Colorado on account 
of il -health, and resumed the praotice of 
law at Colorado Springs. He has been a 
member of the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth 
Congresses. He has been Governor of the 
Colorado Chapter of the Order of Colonial 
TVars; is a member of the Denver Club, of 
Denver; the El Paso Club, of Colorado 
Springs, and of ithe University Clubs in 
Denver, Washington and Boston. Republi- 
can. On June 3, 1901, he married Sara 
Brainard Coolidge. Legal residence: Colo- 
rado Springs, Col. Washington address: 
Hcuse of Representatives. 

BROSNAN, JOHN J., President of The 
P'ovidencti Relief Association of the Dis- 
trict of Columbia. Residence: 629 New Jer- 
sey avenue, n.w. 

BROUSSARD, ROBERT F., lawyer. Con- 
gressman, was born near New Iberia, Lou- 
isiana, August 17, 1864. He attended George- 
town University, Washing:on, D. C, and 
was graduated from the law schoo of the 
Tulane University, at New Orleans, in 1889. 
Since that time he has been practising law 
in New Iberia. He has been a member of 
tJ^e House of Representaitives since the 
Fifty-fifth Congress. Democrat. Legal resi- 
dence: New Iberia, Louisiana. Washington 
address: House of Representatives. 

BROWN, CHARLES W., physician and 
surgeon, was bo' n in Wyalusing, Bradford 
County, Penn., on October 11, 1846, son of 
Daniel Warren and Catharine (Kii.g) Brown. 
He was educated in the common schoo s of 
Pennsylvania, Geneva College (Penn.) and 
Lung Island (N. Y.) College, and was grad- 
uated from the medical department of the 
latter in 1871. He has served as Treasurer 
cf Mansfield, Penn.; trustee of the State 
Normal School, Fifth Pennsylvania District; 



surgeon to State Reformatory at Elmira, N. 
y ; surgeon for the Delaware and Lacka- 
wanna Railroad; secretary and presideu't 
of the New York State Medical Association 
(Third District branch), and for several 
years has been practising his profession in 
Washington. He has been examining sur- 
geon for the Travelers' Insurance Company 
in Washington; president of the Frank H. 
Thomas Company, and, since 1892, has been 
lecturer on surgery in the Naitional Deacon- 
ess' Training School and Sibley Memorial 
Hospital. He is the author of a number 
of papers on medical subjects that have been 
read before medical societies and published 
in the leading medical journals. He is a 
Thirty-second degree Mason, and a meni- 
ber of all Masonic orders; a member of the 
Pennsy vania State Medical Society, Medical 
A-Psociation of the District of Columbia, Med- 
ieal Society of the District of Columbia, etc. 
Hf is a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, and, in politics, a Republican. On 
January 1, 1866, he married Mary E. Ellioi'.t, 
of Mansfield, Penn., to which union have been 
bcrn two daughters, one of whom is living 
(Mrs. G. M. Brumbaugh). Residence: 1411 
K street, n.w. 

BROWN, EDGAR, botanist. In charge of 
Grain Standardization or the Bureau of 
Plant Industry, United States Department 
of Agriculture. Residence: 1915 Calvert 
street. Office: Repartment of Agriculture. 

BROWN, ELMER ELLSWORTH, Com- 
missioner of Education since 1906, was boru 
in Kiantone, Chautauqua County, New 
York, on August 28, 1861, son of Russell 
McCrary and Electa (Sherman) Brown. Il'3 
was graduated from the Illinois State Nor- 
mal University, 1881; University of Michi- 
gan, 1889, and studied in German universi- 
■ties during 1889 and 1890, and received a 
Pn. D. from University of Hal e-Wittenberg, 
Prussia. From 1881 to 1884 he was prin- 
cipal of the public schools at Belvidere, 111.: 
a.stistant State secretary, Y. M. C. A. of 
Illinois from 1884 to 1887; principal of the 
high school at Jackson, Mich., 1890-91. He 
was assistant professor of science and arc 
of teaching in the University of Michigan, 
1891-92; associate professor, University of 
California, 1892-93; professor at the same 
institution from 1893 to 1906. He is tho 
author of The Making of Our Middle 
Schools (1903); Origin of American Siatd 
Uiiiversities (1905), and is the author of 
many monographs and articles that have 
appeared in magazines. He is a member 
of the National Council of Education (presi- 
dent 1905-07); International Congress of 
Arts and Sciences, St. Louis, 1907; Fellow- 
American Association for the Advancement 
of Science, 1906. On June 29, 1889, he mar- 
ried Fanny F. Eddy, of Detroit, Mich. Office: 
Bureau of Education. 

BROWN, ERNEST WILLIAM, chemist, 
vvar born in New Haven, Connecticut, on 
January 14, 1878, son of W Harris and Mary 
(Downey) Brown. He was graduated from 
the Hopkins Grammar School, New Haven, 
Conn., in 1894; Yale University, Ph. B., 
1897, and, Ph. D., 1900; George Washing- 



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ton University, 'M. D., 1906. He has served 
as physicological chemist in t'iie Bureau of 
Animal Industry, and is at present con- 
nected witli itlie Bureau of Cliemistry of tha 
Department of Agriculture; a so physiolog- 
ical chemist assistant at George Washington 
University. He is the author of a number 
of bulletins and monographs of a scientific 
nature that have been published by the Gov- 
ernment. He is a member of the Phi Sigma 
Kappa college frajternity, American Chem- 
ical Society, Society of Biological Chemists, 
University C ub, and, in politics, is a Re- 
publican. Unmarried. Residence: 1310 
Girard street, n.w. Office: Bureau of Chem- 
istry, U. S. Department of Agriculture. 

BROWN, GEORGE NEWLAND, lawyer, 
V/as born at Huntington, Massachusetts, in 
1859, son of Hiram and Mary E. Brown. He 
was educated in the public schools of Elm- 
v/ood, Illinois, and at the National Univer- 
sity, of Was'hing-ton, D. C. In 1896 he was 
admitted to ithe bar, and from that time 
until 1901 practised law in Chicago. Since 
1901 he has been assistant attorney for the 
Interior Department. He married Emma K. 
Co';lson November 26, 1896. Residence: 304 
Ninth street, n.w. Office: Interior Depart- 
ment. 

BROWN, GLENN, architect, was born in 
Fauquier County, Virginia, September 13, 
1854, son of Bedford Brown and grandson 
of Bedford Brown, United States Senator 
from North Carolina. He attended Wash- 
ington and Lee University, and took a spe- 
cial architectural course at the Massachu- 
setts Institute of Technology. Since 1878 
ho has practised architecture in Washington, 
Virginia and Maryland. He is a fellow, sec- 
retary and treasurer and director of the 
Anserican Institute of Architects, corre- 
sponding member of the Societe Centrale 
des Architectes Francais of Paris, and of 
Ithe Society of Architects, Antwerp; sec- 
retary of the Public Art League of the 
United States; honorary corresponding 
member of the Royal Institute of British 
Architeat's; member of the Cosmos Club. 
Author, Water Closets (1884); Healthv 
Foundation for Houses (1885); Trap 
S.VDhonage (1885); History of nhe U. ,S. 
Capiitol (1900); Papers on Improvement of 
Washington City (1901), and is the editor 
of European and Japanese Gardens (1902), 
and Proceedings of the American Institute 
of Architects (1899-1905). He married, Feb- 
rciary 1, 1876, Mary E.la Chapman, of Staun- 
ton. Va. Residence: 1925 Eye street, n.w. 
Business address: 806 Seventeenth street. 

BROWN, HENRY A., clergyman. In tho 
summer of 1898 he was commissioned chap- 
lain of the "Rough Riders' " Regiment, com- 
n)anded by Colonel Leonard Wood, of which 
Theodore Roosevelt was Lieutenant-Colonel, 
and served during the Spanish War in Cuba. 
In 1896 he was ordered to the chaplaincy of 
'die Eleventh United States Artillery, to suc- 
ceed Chaplain Charles C. Pierce, and has 
been stationed with that regiment at Fort 
Myer, Va., since that time. Address: Fort 
Myer, Virginia. 



BROWN, HENRY BILLINGS, Associate 
Justice of the United States Supreme Court 
since December 23, 1890, was born at South 
Lee, Massachusetts, March 2, 1836. He was 
graduated from Yale College in 1856, and 
studied law privately, later attending !aw 
leriures at Harvard and Yale, being admit- 
itod to the bar in 1860. He holds the degree 
o? LL. D. from the University of Michigan, 
1SS7, and Yale University, 190L In 1861 
he was appointed Deputy Marshal of the 
United States, and subsequently United 
Slates Attorney for it'he Eastern District of 
Michigan. In 1868 he became Judge of the 
State Circuit Court of Wayne County, Mich- 
igan, which position he occupied only for a 
fev/ months, leaving to resume law practice. 
In 1875 he was appointed Disitrict Judge 
for the Eastern District of Michigan by 
President Grant. He compiled Brown's 
Admiralty Reports. On July 13, 1864, he 
married Carolina Pitts, who has since died. 
Residence: 1720 Sixteenth street, n.w. 



BROWN, JUSTUS M., Brigadier-General, 
U. S. A. (retired), was born in Ohio, Decem- 
b?i 8, 1840, and graduated, with the degree 
of M. D., from the University of Pennsyl- 
vania in 1862. He was appointed a First 
Lieutenant and Assistant Surgeon in the 
Army on July 11, 1862; was commissioned 
Captain and Assistant Surgeon in 1866; pro- 
mo<ted to Major and Surgeon, 1881; Lieuten- 
ant and Deputy Surgeon-Genera , 1895; Col- 
onel and Assistant Surgeon-General, Febru- 
ary 5, 1901, and retired, at his own request, 
on February 13, 1903, later being made a 
Brigadier-General, in consequence of the Act 
of April 23, 1904. He was brevetted Captain 
and Major for distinguished services during 
the Civil War. His iterm of service suc- 
ceeding the war was largely in the West. 
Address: Care War Department. 

BROWN, LORENZO STARR, general 
agent of the Southern Railway, was born 
in Newton County, Georgia, September 19, 
1847. He was educated in the county schoo a 
of 'that State, and at the age of fifteen en- 
listed in the Sixty-fourth Georgia Regiment, 
C. S. A., being color-bearer of his regiment 
at Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court 
House, April 9, 1865. In 1872 he was ap- 
pointed ticket agent of 'the Western Railway 
of Alaibama at Opelika, Ala.; in 1873 ho 
was appointed lost- car agent of the Balti- 
more and Ohio Railroad at Ba timore, Md.; 
in 1875 he was made general Southern pas- 
senger agent of the BaRimore and Ohio 
Railroad; in 1877, general traveling agent 
of the Norfolk and Western Raili^oad at 
Lynchburg, Va.; 1882, to the same position 
with the Richmond and Danville Rai way. 
In 1883 he became general freight and pas- 
senger agent of the Georgia Pacific Railway 
ac Atlanta, and in 1885 assumed his present 
position. He is a member of the Confeder- 
ate Veterans' Association, and of the Na- 
tional Geographic Society, and was ap- 
pointed Colonel on the staff of Governor W. H. 
Atkinson, of Georgia. In 1873 he was mar- 
ried, at Opelika, Ala., to Mary Ruth McDan- 
iel, of Tuscaloosa, Ala., to which union was 
born three sons, all deceased. Residence: 



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The Sterling-, 1915 Calvert street. Office: 705 
Fifteenth street, n.w. 

BROWN, NEILL S., Vice-president R. P. 
Andrews Paper Company, was Dorn In Nash- 
ville, Tenn., son of Neill S. Brown, who was 
Reading Clerk of the House of Represent- 
atives from 1878 to 1889. He was educated 
in the schools of Nashvi le, Tenn., and at 
Georgetown University. Residence: 1415 
Chapin street, n.w. Office: 627 Louisiana 
avenue, n.w. 

BROWN, NORRIS, U. S. Senator. He 
entered upon his services .as United States 
Senator from Nebraska on March 4, 1907. 
succeeding Joseph Hopkins Millard. In pol- 
itics he is a Republican. Legal residence: 
Kearney, Neb. Washington address: U. 3. 
Senate. 

I BROWN, ROBERT W., (M. D.), President 
I National Benefit Association. Residence: 
I 1737 Eleventh street, n.w. 

i BROWN, STEPHEN C, Registrar of the 
' National Museum. Residence: 305 New Jer- 
sey avenue, s.e. Office: U. S. National 

Museum. 

I 

BROWN, STERLING N., minister, lecturer, 
was born in Roane County, Tennessee, No- 
vember 21, 1858. His mother was born and 
reared in slavery, yet Sterling Brown at- 
tended the first free school ever taught in 
i his county. He entered Fisk University, 
Niishville, Tenn., in 1875, working his way 
through the institution. He graduated ixi 
1SS5, and took 'the degree of A. M. in 1891; 
the degree of D. D. was conferred upon him 
in 1906 by Howard University. He is also 
a graduate of Ober in Theological Seminary, 
with the degree of B. D. He was ordained 
in 1885. His pastorates have included the 
ML Zion Congregational Church, Cleveland, 
Ohio, 1885-89; Plymouth Congrreyational 
'Church, Washington, D. C, 1889-97, and since 
then pas-tor of the Lincoln Temple Congre- 
gational Church in this city. For many 
years he has been a lecturer at Howard 
University, and was for three years a mem- 
ber of the District Board of Education. Ad- 
dress: Linco n Temple. 

BROWN, S. THOIVlAS,President Farmers' 
and Mechanics, Bank, and President of the 
Arlington Fire Insurance Company. Resi- 
dence: 2903 P street, n.w. 

BROWN, WALTER A., real estate, was 
born in Washington, November 25, 1866; 
was president of his class at Swarthmore 
College, Pennsylvania, and business manager 
of two college magazines. In January, 1891, 
he opened, in Washington, a real estate office. 
Hf- is president of the Board of Fire Under- 
writers, and a director of the Commercial 
Nationa Bank, and of the National Uni.ja 
Fire Insurance Company. He is a Mystic 
Shriner, a Scottish Rite Mason, and Past 
Grand Master of Washington Lodge, I. O. 
O. F. Residence: 1669 Park road, n.w. 
Office: 624 Fourteenth street, n.w. 



BROWN, WEBSTER EVERETT, Con- 

grtssmian, was born in Madison County, New 
York, on July 16, 1851. In 1857 he removed 
v,-)th his parents to Wisconsin, where ho 
lived on a farm until seventeen years o? 
age. His primary education was recsived 
in the public schools of Portage County, 
later taking preparatory studies at Law- 
rence University, Appleton, Wis. He took a 
biisiness course at the Spancerian Business 
College, Milwaukee, and, in 1870, entered the 
University of Wisconsin, at Madison, gradu- 
ating with the class of 1874. He served twu 
tetms as Mayor of the city of Rhinelander, 
and has also served as a member of the 
School Board. He was elected a member of 
the Pifty-seventli, Fifty-eighth and Fifty- 
ninth Congresses, on the Republican ticket. 
On December 26, 1877, he mar; led Juliet D. 
Meyer, also a graduate of the University of 
Wisconsin. Legal residence: Rhinelander. 
Wis. Washington address: House of Rep- 
resentatives. 

BROWN, WILLIAM WALLACE, lawyer. 
Government official, was born at Summer 
Hill, New York, April 22, 1836, son of Ras- 
selas Wilcox and Mary (Brownell) Brown. 
He was graduated from Alfred University 
hi 1861; served during the Civil War with 
the New York Volunteers and Pennsylva- 
nia Rifles, 1861-65, and was admitted to 
the Pennsylvania bar in 1866. He became 
District Attorney of McKean County, Penn- 
sjlvania, in 1867; served as Representative 
in the State Legislature. 1872-76, and was 
Republican Representative in the Forty- 
eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses, 1883-87. 
He received the degree of LL. D. from Alfred 
Universi'ty in 1886. He was Auditor of the 
United States War Department, 1897-99; of 
the Navy Department, 1899 to June 1, 1907, 
and was appointed Assistant Attorney- 
General June 1, 1907. Residence: The 
Dewey. Office: 1415 H street, n.w. 

BROWNE, ALOIS BIRDSEY, lawyer, waa 
born in Washington, D. C, December 11, 1857, 
■the son of Jerome and Mary E. (Padget')' 
Browne, and was graduated from Columbian 
(i;ow George Washington) University in 
1S79. In 1882 he entered the firm of Britton 
& Gray, and has since engaged in aotiva 
practice. He is a director of the At antic 
and Pacific Building Companies; trustee ot 
•the American University, of Washington, 
and the Woman's College, of Baltimore; 
director of the Washington Hospi'tal for 
Foundlings; trustee of Foundry Methodist 
Church; member of the Columbian His- 
torical Society, American Geographic Soci- 
ety, and the Columbian University Alumni 
Association. He is a member of the Cos- 
mos, University, and Chevy Chase Clubs, 
and of the Lawyers' Club, New York City. 
Republican. On December 1, 1880, he mar- 
ried Mary B. Delahay, and seven children 
have been born to them, all of whom are 
living. Residence: 1528 P street, n.w. Office: 
1419 F street, n.w. 

BROWNE, C. A. JR., chemist, in charge 
of Sugar Laboratory of the Bureau of Chem- 



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Is-try, United State? Department of Agricul- 
ture. Residence: 937 Twenty-third street, 
r.w. Office: Department of Agriculture. 

BROWNING, WILLIAM J., Chief Clerk of 
the House of Representatives. Residence: 
146 Erst Capitol street. Office: House of 
Representatives. 

BROWNING, WILLIAM L., lawyer, was 
born in Washington, D. C, on March 13, 
1S79, son of Livingston and Mary M. (Evans) 
Browning. After ob:aining his pre iminary 
education in the public schools of Maryland 
he entered the National Law School in 
Washington, and was graduated in 1S99, with 
the degree of LL. B., and from George Wash- 
ington University in 1900, with the degree of 
LL M. On August 30, 1900, he was admi'tted 
tJ the bar of the District of Columbia. From 
1900-04 he served as a clerk in the War 
Department. On December 23, 1901, he mar- 
ried Rose W. Marcy, of Muncy, Penn., to 
which union have been born two children. 
•Residence: Cleveland Park, D. C. Office: 41G 
Fifth street, n.w. 

BROWNLOW, WALTER PRESTON, jour- 

na ist. Congressman, was born a>t Abingdon, 
\irginia, and attenr'ed the common schools 
for three years. Left dependent upon his 
own resources through the death of his 
father, he has supported himself since his 
tenth year. He served an apprenticeship as 
a tinner, and also as a locomotive enginee.', 
working at both trades for several years. 
Ill 1876 he became reporter on the Knox- 
viilo (Tenn.) Whig and Chronicle, and later 
in the same year purchased the Jonesbor) 
Herald and Tribune, becoming its editor. 
Ho was appointed postmaster at JonesborD, 
Ttnn., in 1881, later in the same year resign- 
ing to become doorkeeper of the United 
States House of Representatives. He was 
chairman of the Republican State Execu- 
tive Committee, 1898-99, and has been a 
member of Congress since the Pifty-flfrh 
Congiess. He is a member of the Board of 
Managers for the National Soldiers' Home 
for Disabled Volunteer So diers. He ha-s 
been active in polit'cs in his State for a 
number of years, and served as delegate to 
the various Republican conventions, both 
n&itional and State. Republican. Legal res- 
idence: Jonesboro, Tenn. Washington ad- 
dress : House of Representatives. 

BRUFF, LAWRENCE L., Captain, U. S. 
A , was graduated from the United State.s 
Military Academy in 1876, and was appointed 
a Second Lieutenant in the Artil ery Corps 
ithft same year. On October 30, 1879, no 
became First Lieutenant of ordnance, and 
was commissioned Captain on June 15, 1890. 
During 1891-1902 he was instructor in ord- 
n&nceat the United States Military Academy, 
and Is now stationed as an assistant at the 
"W'f'.'tervliet Arsenal, New Yo-k. ne is thj 
author of a number of authorities and text- 
books on ordnance. Address: War Depart- 
ment. 

BRUMBAUGH, GAIUS MARCUS, physi- 
cian, was born in Huntingdon County, Penn- 
sylvania, on May 7, 1862, son of Dr. Andrew 



B. (a prominen't physician in active prac- 
tice at Huntingdon, Penn., since 1866) and 
Maria (Frank) Brumbaugh — descended froni 
Jr-hannes Henrich Brumbach, who landed at 
Philadelphia September 30, 1754, from tno 
Palatinate. He was educated in privaio 
schools, Huntingdon Academy, Brethren 3 
Norma School and Juniata College, where 
he completed the teachers' course, receiv- 
ing the degree of Master of English; taughc 
ill the public schools of Pennsylvania for a 
number of years; attended University jf 
Pennsylvania and the medical department of 
Howard University, graduating from 'the lat- 
ter with the deg.ee of M. D. in March, 1885; 
attended post-graduate lectures at the med- 
ical department of Co umbian (now George 
Washingcon) University and the medicU 
department of Georgetown University, grad- 
uating from the latter in 1888, with the de- 
giee of M. D. ; received the degree of Mas- 
ter of Science in 1898. He removed to Wash- 
ington, D. C, in 1882, and held several Gov- 
e:nmen't positions, among them being that 
of assistant chief of Bureau of Animal In- 
dustry, for three years. He entered upoa 
the active practice of medicine in Washing- 
ton in October, 1887; is a member of the 
Medical Association of the Distrioc of 
Columbia, Medical Society of the District 
of Columbia, American Medica' Association, 
Pennsylvania German Society, Pennsylvania 
Historical Society, etc. He is medical ex- 
aminer for a number of life and accident 
insurance companies, and, since 1899, has 
been a member of the Third Board of United 
States Pension Examining Surgeons for 
V/ashington, D. C. On October 1, 1SS9, he 
married Catherine Elliott Brown, daughter 
of Dr. Charles W. and Mary (El iott) Browtj, 
then residing at Elmira, N. Y., but since 
1890 residen-ts of Washington, D. C, where 
Dr Brown is actively engaged in the prac- 
tice of medicine. They have two surviving 
children, Charles Andrew and Elliott Frank 
Brumbaugh. Office and residence: 905 Mas- 
sachuset'ts avene, n.w. 

BRUMM, CHARLES NAPOLEON, Con- 
gressman, was born at Pottsville, Pennsyl- 
vania, June 9, 1838, and attended the public 
schools and Pennsylvania College, Gettys- 
burg, for one year. He served an appren- 
ticeship as a watchmaker; subsequently he 
studied law for two yeais, leaving his studies 
t) en ist in the Union Army as a private at 
the first call for volunteers for 'the war i»f 
the rebellion. He later became Lieutenant, 
and served on the itaff of General Barton 
as assistant quartermaster and aide-de- 
camp. When mus'iered out of service he 
resumed the study of the law, and was ad- 
mitted to the bar in 1871, and since that 
date has been a practicing lawyer in Schuyl- 
ki 1 County, Pennsylvania. He was elected 
to Congress in 1878, bu't counted out by 192 
votes. President Harrison tendered him the 
office of Deputy Attorney-General, which he 
refused. Previous to the appointment of the 
Aibitration Commission by President Roose- 
velt, he was counsel for District No. 9, 
United Mine Workers' Association. He has 
been a Representative from the Twelfth 
Pennsylvania District since the Forty- 
seventh Congress. Republican. Legal rea- 



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Idence: Minersville, Pennsylvania. Wash- 
ing-ton address: House of Representatives. 

BRUN, CONSTANTINE, Minister to the 
United Sta'tes from DenmarK, was born a: 
Copenhagen, Denmarli, October 5, 1860, son 
of Genera C. A. A. I. F. Brun and Eila 
Amalie Bluhme. His father was a Gen- 
eral of the Artillery Corps. He attended 
the College of Herlupsholm (Denmark), 1873- 
78; the University of Copenhagen, 1878-83, 
gradua'ting from the latter institution in aw. 
From 1884 to 18S6 he served in the Regi- 
H'ent of Hussars of .[he Guard as privar ■, 
Corporal, and finally Second Lieutenant. In 
ls87 he became secreaary of the Danish 
Legation at Berlin; in 1891 was transferre.i 
to the legation at Paris, in the same capic- 
ity. On May 1, 1895, he was appointed Min- 
ister to 'the United States. He is Chamber- 
lain to His Majesty ithe King of Denmark. 
Unmarried. Residence: 1521 Twentieth 
street, n.w. 

BRUNDIDGE, STEPHEN, JR., lawyer. 
Congressman, was born in White County, 
Arkansas, January 1, 1857, and was edu- 
cated in 'the p. ivate schools of the county. 
He S'tudied aw with Messrs. Goody & McRae, 
at Searcy, Ark., and was admitted to the 
bar in 1878. In 1886 he was elected Prose- 
cuting Attorney for the First Judicial Dis- 
trict of Arkansas, and re-elected in 1888. 
He has served on the Democratic State Cen- 
tral Committee. He was elecred to the Fifty- 
fifth Congress, and has served since. Dem- 
ocrat. Legal residence: Searcy, Arkansas. 
Washington address: House of Representa- 
tives. 

BRYAN, FREDERICK CARLOS, lawyer, 
was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on July 16, 
1858, son of Constant and Susan Louise 
(Barnum) Bryan. In 1878 he was gradu- 
ated from the Western Reserve Co lege, of 
Hudson, now of Cleveland, Ohio; Cincin- 
nati Law School, LL. B., 1881; Columbian 
(now Geo-ge Washington) University, LL. 
M., 1903; M. Dip., 1904; D. C. L., 1905. 
Since 1883 he has been a member of the 
Ohio National Guard, and is now Lieutenant- 
Colonel and Judge Advocate on 'the staff of 
Major-General Charles Dick. From May 13 
to November 21, 1898, he was a Major of 
tli(? Eighth Ohio Infau'try in the Spanish 
War. From 1894 to 1899 he served as a 
member, and part of the time as president, 
of the Akron (Ohio) Board of Education, 
and of the Library Board from 1896 to 1899. 
He is a member of the Delta Kappa Epsi on 
college fraterni'ty; Sons of the American 
Revolution, Society of Colonial Wars, Society 
of Army of Santiago de Cuba, United Span- 
ish War Veterans, and the University Club. 
He is a member of the Protesiant Episcopal 
Church, and, in politics, a Republican. On 
June 18, 1898, he married Blanche Conger, 
of Akron, Ohio, 'to which union have been 
born three children. Residence: 1821 
Adams Mill road. Office: 701 Colorado 
Building. 

BRYAN, JOSEPH HAMMOND, physician, 
was born in Washington, D. C, July 4, 1856, 
son of Joseph Brooke and Louisa Stearns 



(Hammond) Bryan. He was graduated from 
the medical department of the University 
of Virginia in 1877, and from the medical 
department of the University of New York 
in 1878. He served as an assistant surge jn 
in the United States Navy from 1880 to 
]885 and since 1887 has been a practicing 
physician in Washing'ton. He is a member 
of the Washington Club, the American 
Laryngolica Association, the Academy of 
Sciences, and the Philosophical Society. Un- 
niarried. Residence: 1644 Connecticut ave- 
nue. 

BRYAN, THOMAS BARBOUR, philan- 
thropist, was born at Aleandria, Virginia, 
December 22, 1828. He was graduated from 
the Harvard Law School in 1848; admitted 
to the bar at Cincinnati, removing to Chi- 
cago in 1852. During the Civil War he ren- 
dered effective service as a member of the 
"Union Defense Committee." For twenty- 
five years he was presiden't of the Soldiers' 
Home at Chicago. He was a member of 
the Board of Commissioners of the Distric: 
ox Columbia from 1876 to 1878; was one 
of the original promoters of the Wor d's 
Columbian Exposition, and, as a special 
commissioner to Southern Europe, interview- 
ing kings and high officials, received a let- 
ter from Pope Leo XIII. in commendation 
of 'the enterprise. He was greatly instru- 
mental in securing the Fair for Chicago, 
v.'as made vice-president of the first Board 
of Directors, but refused a salary of $12,000 
therefor, and soon resigned to avoid dis- 
cord. While at Harvard he pub ished a 
German work, and many of his wri'tings have 
attained popularity. Residence: 1705 Con- 
necticU't avenue. 

BRYCE, JAMES, Amba'ssador from Great 
Britan to the United States since Febru- 
ary 25, 1907, was born in 1838, in Glasgow, 
son of James and Margaret (Young) Bryce. 
He was educated at the High School and 
University of Gl'asgow; scholar of Trinity 
College, Oxford (B. A., 1862, D. C. L., 1870); 
elected Fe low of Oriel College in 1862. Bar- 
ri.^ter, Lincoln's Inn, 1867, and practise.! 
until 1882; appointed Regius Professor of 
Civil Law at Oxford in 1870, serving until 
1893, when he resigned; Under-Secretary of 
Siate for the Foreign Office, 1886; Chancel- 
lor of Duchy of Lancaster (with seat in Cab- 
inet), 1892; President Board of Trade, 1894- 
95; Chairman Roj^al Commission on Sec- 
ondary Education, 1894; member Senate of 
London University, 1893; Fel ow Royal Soci- 
ety, 1894; corresponding member of Insti- 
tute of France, 1891 (foreign member, 1904); 
foreign memlDer Royal Academies of Turin 
and Brussels, 1896, and Naples, 1903; cor- 
responding member Societa Romana oi 
Storia Patrla, 1885; member Society of the 
Reale Accademia del Lincei, Rome, 1904. 
The honary degee of LL. D. was conferred 
upon him by Edinburgh University in 1883; 
Glasgow University, 1886; University of 
Michigan in 1887, and St. Andrew's in 1902; 
Aberdeen in 1906; D. P. S. by Royal Hun- 
garian University in 1897; D. C. L., Trin- 
ity Universi'ty, Toronto, Canada, 1897; Litt, 
ID.. Cambridge University, 1898; Dart.mouth 
College, 1904; University of Chicago, Uni- 



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verslty of I llnois, Washington University, of 
St. Louis and Harvard University, 1907. He 
sfrved as a member (Liberal) of Parlia- 
ment from Tower Hamlets (London), 1880- 
85 and from Aberdeen (South) from 1885 
to' 1907. He was appointed Chief Secre- 
tary for Ireland in 1905, serving until he 
■was appointed Ambassador to the United 
States in 1907. His favorite recrea'tion is 
mountain climbing. From 1899 to 1901 he 
was president of the Alpine Club. He Is 
the author of the Flora of the Island of 
Arran (1859); The Holy Roman Empirs 
(1862); The Trade-Mark Registration Act, 
with Introduction and Notes on Trade-Marli 
Law (1877); Transcaucasia and Arrarfit 
(1877); The American Commonwealth 
(1888); Impressions of South Africa (1897); 
Stories in History and Jurisprudence (1901); 
Studies in Contemporary Biography (1903), 
etc. In 1889 he married Elizabeth Marion, 
daughter of Thomas Ashton, of Fordbank, 
nfar Manchester, England. Address: British 
Embassy. 

BUBB, JOHN W., Colonel, U. S. A., was 
■born in Pennsylvania, April 26, 1843, and 
er.tered the army as a p:ivate 'n 1861, later 
becoming Sergeant. In 1866 he became Sec- 
ond Lieutenant, and the same year First 
Lieutenant. He was commissioned Captain 
of Infan'try March 16, 1879; became Major 
April 26, 1898, and Colonel October 20, 1899. 
After serving through the Civil War he was 
stiitioned on the Western frontier, and served 
through several Indian campaigns. Address: 
War Department. 

BUCHANAN, ROBERDEAU, mathema- 
ticiianal astronomer, son of Pay Director 
JMcKean Buchanan, U. S. N., and F. Soliria 
Roberdeau, was born in Philadelphia, Penn., 
Ts'C'vember 22, 1839. He is descended of dis- 
tinguished Revolutionary War ancestors. He 
was graduated from the Lawrence Scientific 
Schoo of Harvard University in 1861. He 
has been civil engineer and chief enginee'' 
in constructive work, and since 1879 has 
made astronomical caluclations for the 
Nautical Almanac. Previous 'to 1879 he was 
employed in the United States Parent 
Office. He has written several books on 
mathematics, astronomy, genealogy, biog- 
raphy, and is a contributor to several tech- 
nicha: periodicals. He miarried Lyla M. 
Peters. Residence: 2015 Q street. 

BUCK, GEORGE MACHAN, lawyer, au- 
thor, was born at Skaneai.eles, NtW Yo.k, 
son of Minerson and Hannah M. (Pierce) 
Buck. He was educated in the commo'i 
schools, and studied law at Battle Creek 
and Kalamazoo, Michigan, being admitted to 
the bar in 1865. From 1862 .to 1865 he served 
in the Union Army; from 1867 to 1871 was 
Circuit Court Commissioner of Kalamazoo 
County. He was Prosecuting Attorney for 
the same county, 1871-74; Judge Probate of 
same, 1877-84, and Judge of the Nin.,h 
Judicial District of Michigan, 1888-99. He 
was a member of the Board of Education 
of KaLamazoo, Michigan, 18SZ-88, and one 
of the tiustees of Albion Co lege (1894-1900). 
He is the author of Through Stress anJ 
Storm, and is a contributor to periodicals 



on legal sulDjects. He Is a Republican. 
Legal residence: Kalamazoo, Michigan. 
Was'hington address: 216 A street, s.e. 

BUCKEY, EDWARD L., Catholic cle-gy- 
mar, assistant rector of St. Matthew's 
Church. Residence: 1739 Rhode Island ave- 
nue, n.w. 

BUCKMAN, CLARENCE B., Congress- 
man, was born near Newtown, Pennsyl- 
vania, in 1851, and received a common school 
education in the county schools. He re- 
moved to Minnesota in 1872, and was elected 
to the lower house of the State Legislature 
in 1881; served 'three terms in the State 
Senate. He was elected to the Fifty-eighth 
Congress and re-elected to the Fifty-ninth. 
Republican. Legal residence: Liftle Falls, 
'Mmnesota. Washington address: House of 
Representatives. 

BUEL, DAVID HILLHOUSE, President 
Georgetown University, was born at Water- 
v let Arsenal, Rensselaer County, New York, 
June 19, 1862, son of David Hillhouse and 
Josephine (McDougall) Buel. His father 
served with great distinction through the 
Civi; War; was Chief of Ordnance of the 
Army of the Tennessee; promoted Captain, 
brevetted Major and Lieutenant-Colonel. He 
is descended of distinguished ancestors, such 
as the Hillhouses, McD'^ugalls, Hansons, and 
Wilmers. He was graduated from Williston 
Seminary, East Hampton, Massachusetts, m 
1S79, and from Yale in 1883; later he pur- 
sued a one - year classical course at the 
Je5;uit Novitiate, Frederick, Md. ; a three- 
yt-ar course in philosophy, and a four-year 
course in theology, at Woodstock College, 
Maryland; a one-year course in Ascetic 
theology at Florissant, Missouri. He is a 
member of the Society of Jesus, of the 
Roman Catholic Church; has been con- 
nected with St. Francis Xavier College, in 
New York City as professor of higher math- 
ematics; Fordham University, New York, 
a3 professor of physics and mechanics; Col- 
lege of the Holy Cross. Worcesaer, Mass., 
as professor of Latin and Greek, and George- 
town University, Washington, D. C, as pro- 
fessor of physics and mechanics. He spent 
one year of mission work in the New York- 
Maryland Province. He was ordained to the 
p.iesthood by Cardinal Gibbons on June 28, 
1898; was promoted to the grade of Pro- 
fessed Father of the Society of Jesus Febru- 
ary 3, 1902; acted as Father Minister at 
Georgetown College, 1904-05, when he bo- 
came president of Goergetown University. 
Under his administration the debt of the 
university has been materially reduced, and 
the standard )f scholarship and discipline 
improved; the new Ryan gymnasium erected, 
and the management of athletics placed 
under student .lontrol and freed from al taint 
of commerciarsm and professionalism. He 
is a member of the Military Order of th-i 
Loyal Legion, ind the National Geographical 
Society. Unm irried. Address: Georgetown 
Universiy. 

BUKEY, VAN HARTNESS, Dlsbursingr 
Agent of the Treasury Department for the 
Bureau of Engraving and Printing, was born 



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at Marietta, Washington County, Ohio, on 
June 14, 1836, son of Spencer T. and Eliza 
(Hill) Bukey. He is a great-grandson of 
Ei)h.iam Foster who was a Revolutionary 
soldier f'-om New Hampshire; grindson oi' 
Hezekiah Bukey, a prominent pioneer of the 
Ohio River border, of Virginia, and of 
Major Alexander Hill, an officer in the War 
of 1812, commanding Ohio troops. He was 
educated at the High School and Western 
Liberal Institute, at Marietta, Ohio. During 
the War of the Rebellion he served in the 
Eleventh West Virginia Infantry, United 
States Volunteers, from the rank of private 
to Colonel of the same regiment, and was 
bievetted a Brigadier-General in March, 1865. 
For several years after the war he was en- 
gaged in the oil business in West Virginia 
and Ohio, a ad from 1889 to 1893 he was 
Cashier of the Internal Revenue District of 
West Virginia. He has been Disbursing 
Agent at the Bureau of Engraving and Print- 
ing since August, 1897. He is a member of 
the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, Sona 
of the American Revolution, and Grand Army 
of the Republic. In politics he is a Repub- 
lican. On January 16, 1859, he married 
Cecilia Agnes Brenan, of Marietta, Ohio, to 
which union have been born i ihree children, 
two of whom are living. Residence: Four- 
teenth street and Spring road. Office: Bureau 
of Engraving and Printing. 

EULKELEY, MORGAN GARDNER, bp-i'^- 

er, United States Senator, was born at East 
Haddam, Connecticut, On December 26, 1837, 
son of Hon. Eliphalet A. Bulkeley. and was 
educated in the public schools of his native 
town and at Hartford, where his family re- 
moved in 1846. In 1852 he commenced a 
business life in Brooklyn, N. Y., and, as clerk 
and partner, continued until 1872. During 
this time he was for a number of years a 
member of the Republican General Commit- 
tee of Kings County. In 1862 he enlisted in 
the Thirteenth Regiment, N. Y. N. G.; in 
1872 returned to Hartford, Conn., where he 
organized the United States Bank, and, li 
1879, became president of the Aetna Life 
Insurance Company, organized by his father. 
Was, successively, chosen Counci man, Alder- 
m.an, and Mayor of Hartford, 1880-88, and in 
1881 elected Governor of Connecticut, which 
office he occupied until 1893. He was elected 
•Lo the United States Senate in 1905. He re- 
ceived the honorary degree of M. A. from 
Yale University in 1889. Republican. Legai 
residence: Hartford, Conn. Washington ad- 
dress: U. S. Senate. 

BUNDY, CHARLES S., Justice of the 
Peace. Residence: 1422 Irving street, n.w. 
Office: 416 Fifth street, n.w. 

BURCH, SYLVESTER R., Chief Clerk of 
the Department of Agriculture, was bora 
near Dresden. Ohio, in March, 1842. He 
taught school in the summer ot 1861, and 
in September, 1861, enlisted in the Twelftii 
Iowa Regiment, and was captured in "Hor- 
net's Nest," Shi oh, Tenn., Ap il 6, 1862, and 
was three months a prisoner of war. He 
■became Acting Adjutant-General, and wa3 
mustered out of service January 24, 1866. 
After the war he resumed teaching, and was 



proprietor of a hotel at Olathe, Kansas; 
president of the Schoo: Board; Mayor and 
Census Supervisor, and Colonel of the First 
Kansas Regiment of Guardsmen. He has 
been auditing clerk in the Department of 
Agriculture; chief clerk of the Bureau of 
Animal Industry, and at the present time 
i.« chief clerk of th - Department. Residence: 
The Sherman. Office: Department of Agri- 
culture. 

BURDETT, SAMUEL SWINFIN, lawyer, 
was born in Leicestershire, England, Febru- 
ary 21, 1836, son of Rev. Cheney and Eliz- 
abeth (Swinfin) Burdett. He was educated 
ia the public schoo s of Lorain County, Ohio, 
ficm 1848 to 1853, and attended, without 
graduation, Oberlin College. He read law at 
DeWitt, Iowa, and was admitted to the bar 
in 1859. In 1860 he became Superintendent 
of Schools in Clinton County, Iowa. From 
1861 to 1863 he served in the Union Army 
during the Civil War, first as Lieutenant, 
and later as Captain of Iowa Cavalry. Ha 
served as Circuit Attorney for Missouri, 1866- 
67; was a member of Congress from the 
Sixth Missouri District, 1869-73; served as 
Commissioner of the General Land Office, 
1874-75. He has been a practicing lawyer in 
Washington since 1875. He was Commander- 
in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Repub ic, 
1885-86. Residence: Glencarlyn, Alexandria 
County, Virginia. Office: 925 F street, n.w. 

BURDETTE, WALTER W., banker, was 
born in Howaid County, Maryland, May 21, 
1830, son of Wesley Burdette, of old English 
and French stock, who came over in the 
Seventeenth century. In 1859 ne engaged 
in the dry goods and carpet Duslness, and 
retired in 1889. He is an Episcopalian, and 
for many years was treasurer of the Ascen- 
.sion Church; one of the incorporators or 
the Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital, once a 
governor of the institution, and chairman of 
it'i finance committee. In 1890 he was elected 
a member of the Washington Stock Ex- 
change; has been interes'ted in many of th-3 
city's leading business enterprises. In 1865 
he married Susie E. Helmick. Residence: 
1026 Vermont avenue. 

BURDICK, ALLAN COREY, draftsman and 
teacher, was born at Mi Iville, Cumberlan-i 
County, New Jersey, April 28, 1869, son of 
Henry Day and Sarah Amelia (Corey) Bur- 
dick. His father was a Baptist clergyman, 
and chaplain of the One Hundred and Second 
New York Volunteers during the Civil Wa?. 
He attended the High School at Oaklana. 
Calif o.nia, and i.he State University of Cali- 
fornia, graduating from the latter in 1890. 
He was formerly draftsman at the Union 
Iron Works, of San Francisco, and teacher 
at Perolta Hall, Berk ley, California; he is 
now draftsman at the Washington Navy 
Yard, and a teacher at th ■ Hall-Noyea 
School. In politics he is a Republican; in 
religion a Baptist. He married Grace Pen- 
v/ell on December 31, 1903. Residence: 1415 
Rhode Island avenue, n.w. Office: Navy 
Yard. 

BURGESS, GEORGE FARMER, lawyer. 
Congressman, was born in Wharton, Whar- 



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ton County, Texas, September 21, 1861, son 
of Dr. C. H. A. Burg-ess and In 1882 began 
tho practice of law in Texas, becoming City 
Aucrney at Flatonia, Texas, in 1883. He 
v.as County Attorney for Gonzales County 
Ir. 1886, and Democratic elector in 1892. He 
has been a member of the Fifty-seventh, 
Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Con- ^ 
grefrses. He is a member of the Knight? 
Templar; is a Democrat, and a Baptisr 
in religious views. In December, 1888, he 
married Marie Louise Sims. Legal residence: 
Gonzales, Texas. Washington address: House 
of Representatives. 

BURGESS, GEORGE KIMBALL, physi- 
cist, was born at Newton, Massachusetts, 
January 4, 1874, son of Charles A. and Addle 
L. (Kimball) Burgess. He was graduated 
from the Massachusetts Instil. ute of T.ch- 
nclegy in a physics course, with the degree 
of S. B., in 1896, and from the University 
of Paris in 1901, with the degree of Docteur 
de rUniversite de Paris. He was a teacher 
in physics at the Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology, University of Michigan, and tho 
University of California. At present he i-? 
assistant physicist of the National Bureau 
ot Standards, engaged in pyrometric re- 
search. He is a member of Sigma Chi, 
and the American Physical Society. He is 
a translator and author of a number of pub- 
lications and pamphlets relating to physics. 
Residence: 1120 Thirteenth street, n.w. 
Oflice: Bureau of Standards. 

BURKE, CHARLES HENRY, Congress- 
man, was born on a farm in Genesee County'', 
New York, April 1, 1861, and educated in 
the public schools at Batavia, New YorK. 
In 1882 he became a Dakota homesteader, 
and subsequently studied law and was ad- 
mitted to the bar in 1886. He is engaged in 
the rea estate business and in the direction 
of a loan company. In 1894 and 1896 he 
was elected to the State Legislature, and has 
'been a Representative-at-La:ge from South 
Dakota since the Fifty-sixth Congress. Re- 
publican. Legal residence: Pierre, Hughes 
Couny, South Dakota. Washington address. 
House of Representatives. 

BURKE, JAMES FRANCIS, lawyer. Con- 
gressman, was born at Petroleum Center, 
Venago County, Pennsylvania, uctober '^l, 
1867, son of Richard J. and Anna (Arnold) 
Burke. He was educated In tne publ'.c 
schools, and in 1892 was graduated from the 
law department of the Unlve.sity of Michi- 
gan. In 1903 h? began the prad.'ice of law in 
Pittsburg. He was for a time secretary 
of the Republican National Committee, be- 
Ir^' the youngest man ever holding that offlct,. 
He was elected to the Fifty-ninth Congres.s. 
and re-elected to the Sixtieth Congress fro.n 
the Thirty-first Pennsylvania District. On 
April 15, 1895, he married Josephine Burch 
Scott, of Detroit. Legal residence: Pitts- 
burg, Penn. Washington address: House of 
Representatives. 

BURKETT, ELMER JACOB, lawyer, 
United States Senanor, was born on a 
farm in Mills County, Iowa, December 1, 
lo67, son of Henry W. and Catherine (Kear- 



ney) Burkett. He attended public schoo's 
and afterwards Tabor College, from which 
institution he was graduated in 1890, with 
the degree of B. S., immediately becoming 
principal of schools at Leigh, Nebraska. In 
1892 he began a law course at tne Univer- 
sity of Nebraska, graduatmg in 1893, with 
the degree of LL. B., and, in 1895, LL. M. 
He was admitted to the bar and began the 
practice of law in 1893; in 1896 he served 
as member of the Nebraska Legislature; 
in 1898 was elected to Congress, and in 1904 
became United States Senator from Ne- 
braska. In politics he is a Republican. He 
is a memer of the A. F. & A. M., the A. O. 
O M. S., the A. O. U. W., and M. W. A. 
lodges, and, in religion, a Methodist Episco- 
palian. On September 1, 1891, he married 
Fannie F. Wright. Legal residence: Lincoln, 
Nebraska. Washington address: U. S. Sen- 
ate. 

BURKLEY, CORNELIUS A., President 
Mutual Improvement Society of Washing- 
ten, D. C. 

BURLEIGH, EDWIN C, publisher, Con- 
gressman, was born in Linneus, Aroostook 
County, Maine, November 27, 1843. He was 
State Land Agent of Maine, 1876-78; State 
Treasurer, 1885-88, and Governor, 1889-92. 
He is the publisher of the Kennebeck Jour- 
n^l. He was elected to the Fifty-sixth and 
subsequent Congresses. Republican. Legal 
residence: Augusta, Maine. Washington 
address: House of Representatives. 

BURLESON, ALBERT SIDNEY, l-.wver, 
Ccngressman, was born at San Marcos, 
Texas, June 7, 1863, and was educated at the 
Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College: 
ac Baylor University, Waco, Texas, and the 
University of Texas. He was admitted to 
the bar in 1884; was Assistant City Attor- 
ney of Austin, Texas, 1885-90. In 1891 he 
was appointed attorney to the Twenty-sixth 
Judicial District, serving until 1896. He has 
been a Representative since the Fifty-sixth 
Congress. Democrat. Legal residence: Aus- 
tin Texas. Washington address: House of 
Representatives. 

BURNETT, FRANCES HODGSON, au- 
thor, novelist, was born In Manchester, Eng- 
hind, November 24, 1849, daughter of Fran- 
ce.; Eliza Hodgson. She came to the United 
States with her family in 1865, loca;ting in 
Nashville, Tenn., and In 1867 began to write 
for current periodica s. In 1875 she removed 
to Washington. She is the author of a very 
large number of stories and novels, the best 
known of which Is Little Lord Fauntleroy. 
Seme of the others are nearly as well known, 
including: That Lass o' Lowrie's; Dolly, 
a Love Story; Kathleen; Surly Tim and 
Other Stories; Haworth's; Louisiana; A 
Fair Barbarian; Through One Admlnistra- 
tijn; Edi'tha's Burglar; Sara Crewe; Lit- 
tle Saint Elizabeth; Two Little Pilgrims; 
Progress; The Pretty Sister of Jose; A 
Lady of Quality; His Grace of Ormonde; 
The Captain's Youngest; In Connection 
With the De Willoughby Claim; The Mak- 
ing of a Marchioness; The Little Unfairy 
Princess; A Little Princess. In addition, she 



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lis the author of several plays, some of them 
being adaptions of her own novels and sto- 
nes. In 1873 she married Dr. L. M. Bur- 
nett, of Washington, from whom she was 
divorced in 1898. Residence: 1770 Massa- 
chusetts avenue, Washington, D. C, and 
Maytham Hall, Rolvenden, Kent, England. 

BURNETT, JOHN LAWSON BRANDON, 

lawyer. Congressman, was born at Cedar 
Bluff, Cherol<ee County, Alabama, January 
20. 1854, son of W. E. J. and Mary N. Bur- 
nett. He was educated in the common schools 
of his native county; at the Wesleyan In- 
stitute, Cave Springs, Georgia, and at the 
Gaylesville High Schoo Gaylesville, Ala- 
bama; studied law at Vanderbilt University, 
giaduating in 1875, and was admitted to tne 
bar in Cherokee County in 1876. He was a 
member of the lower house of the Alabama 
Legislature, 1884-86; Alabama Senate, 1886- 
90: member of Congress from tne Seventh 
Alabama District from 1889 to the present 
time. He is a member of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, South; also of the Ma- 
sons, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, Elks. 
Democrat. He married Bessie Reeder on 
December 13, 1886. Legal residence: Gads- 
den, Etowah County, Alabama. Washington 
address: House of Representatives. 

BURNHAM, HENRY EBEN, lawyer, 
L''nied States Senator, was born in Dun- 
barton, New Hampshire, November 8, 1844, 
and educated at Kemball Union Academy 
and Dartmouth College, from which latter 
institution he was graduated in 1865. He 
studied law and was admitted to the bar 
in 1868, at Manchester, where he has since 
practiced. He was Judge of Probate foi 
Hillsboro County, 1876-79; representative in 
the State Legislature, 1873-74; also been 
Crunty Treasurer of Hillsboro. He was 
elected Senator in 1901: On October 22, 
1S74, he married Elizabeth H. Patterson, 
of Manchester. Republican. Legal residence: 
Manches'ter, New Hampshire. Washington 
address: U. S. Sena.te. 

BURNHAM, WILLIAiVI POWER, Contain, 
U. S. A., was born January 10, 1860, at 
Scranton, Penn., son of Major D. R. Burn- 
ham, U. S. A. He attended the public 
schools, the Kansas State Ag. icultural Col- 
lege, a.nd the United States Military Acad- 
emy, graduating from the Uni'ted States 
Infantry and Cavalry Schoo . He entered 
the ranks in 1877 as an enlisted man; in 
1£83 he was promoted to a commissioned 
officer, and during the Spanish-American 
War served as Lieutenant-Colonel of Volun- 
teers. He also pafticipated in the Philip- 
pino campaign, and is now Capitain of the 
Twentieth United States Infantry. He re- 
ceived the prize for the best essay while 
at the United States Infanry and Cavalry 
School in 1889. He is the author of Thre'3 
Roads to a Commission; Duties of Out- 
pcsts; Advance and Rear Guards, etc., and 
has prepared regulations for several army 
training schools. He is a member of the 
Military Order of the Loyal Legion. Order 
of Foreign Wars, Order of the Carabao, the 
Bohemian Club, of San Francisco, and vari- 
ous army clubs. Captain Burnham is n 



Presbyterian. On February 18, 1890, he 
married Grace F. Meacbam. Address: Pres- 
idio of Monterey, California, or War Depart- 
ment. 

BURNS, JAMES AUSTIN, educator, was 
bcrn at Oxford, Maine, January 25, 1840. He 
was a member of the class of 1862 at Bow- 
doin College, and, in August, 1861, he be- 
came a Lieutenant in the Seventh Connecii- 
cut Regiment, and was promoted to a Cap- 
taincy the following year. He was present 
a< the siege of Forts Pulaski, Sumt r, and 
Wagner, and at the investment of Peters- 
burg. For many years he was professor of 
chemistry in the Southern Medical College, 
at Atlanta. Au'thor of a series of Juxta- 
wear T. anslations of the Classics. Received 
the degree of A. B. in 1882 from Bowdoin 
College, and Ph. D. in 1885. Address: Cath- 
olic University. 

BURR, EDWARD, Major, Corps of Engi- 
neer, U. S. A., was born at Poonville. Mis- 
souri, May 19, 1859, son of William E. and 
Harriette Holly (Brand) Burr. He attended 
the Washington University in St. Louis In 
1S74, but left to enter the United States 
Military Academy, from which he was grad- 
uated, first in his class, in 1882. He was 
assigned to the Engineer Corps of 'the Army, 
and since that time has served variously 
throughout the country. During the Spanish- 
American War he commanded the battalion 
of engineers attached to the Fifth Army 
Corps; later was made Lieutenant-Colonel 
of Volunteers, and served witn the Second 
Regiment of Engineers, and later was act- 
ing chief engineer of that corps. He is a 
rriember of the American Society of Civil 
Engineers, and the Metropolitan, and Army 
and Navy Clubs. He was married, on June 
2-'., 1886, to Katherine Green. Address: Wash- 
ington Barracks. 

BURR, WILLIAM HENRY, stenographic 
reporter, artist, was born a.t Gloversvil e, 
Pulton County, New York, April 15, 1813, 
son of Jam s and Amarillis (Mills) Burr. 
He was graduated from Union College, 
Schenectady, New York, in 1838; in 1846 
he received the honorary degree of A. M., 
at th?- same institution. He was a flfer in 
the militia between the ages of sixteen and 
twenty-one. From 1848 to 1854 he was first 
a.ssistant on the Union corps of reporters 
of the United States Senate. From 1861 
to 1863 he was stenographer in the Supreme 
Court of New York City, and from 1865 to 
1S69 stenographer to the House of Repre- 
i.entatives. He is also a portrait pain'ter. 
He is the author of Self-Contradictions of 
the Bib e (ISfiO); Sunday Not the Sabbath 
(1872); Revelations of Anti-Christ (1879); 
Paeon and Shakespeare (1886); Thomas 
Paine — Wn« He Junius? (1890), and. Light 
on Fremasomy (1901), proving that Lord 
Bacon was jt« founder, and that he died to 
the world only in 1626, living on in exile 
some fifteen year^ longer. He is a Spiritual- 
ist. He married Julia A. Simonton on Oot j- 
ber 23, 1850 and Victoria A. Osborn May 4, 
18i)9, the latter now living. Reaiuenctf: 1339 
P'ou.teenth street, n,w. 



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BURRELL, JEREMIAH MURRAY, man- 

a.^rer and part owner of Allegheny Coal Com- 
pany, was born In Greensburg, Westmore- 
land County, Pennsyvania, on June 25, 1854, 
son of Jeremiah Murray and Anna (Richard- 
son) Burrell; his faJther at one time hav- 
ing been Chief Justice of Kansas Territory 
and a United States District Judge. He 
was educated in the public schools of his 
native town and Lafayette College, ait Easton, 
Penn. After leaving college he was con- 
nected with the engineering department of 
the Pennsylvania Railroad, subsequently 
serving as teller of a bank at Bradford, 
Penn; bank cashier at San Born, Dakota, 
and at Jasper, Alabama, and was superin- 
tendent of the Corona Coal and Coke Com- 
pany, at Corona, Alabama, until 1893, when 
•he removed to Washington, where he has 
since resided. He is a member of the 
Lafayetire Lodge of Masons, Delta Kappa 
Epsilon college fraternity, the Washington 
B(!ard of Trade, and, in politics, is a Re- 
publican. On January 20, 1886, he married 
Mary E. Crane, of Mandarin, Florida, to 
which umion have been born four children, 
three of whom are living. Residence: 
C eveland Park, D. C. Office: 815 Eleventh 
street, n.w. 

BURROWS, JULIUS C, lawyer, Unite.l 
Sta/'tes Senator, was born in Northeast, Eria 
County, Pennsylvania, January 9, 1837, and 
received a common school and academic edu- 
cation. The Kalamazoo College has con- 
ferred upon him the degree of LL. D. H"^- 
•was an officer in the Union Army, 1862-67; 
elected to the House of Representatives for 
the Forty-sixth and Fonty-seventh Con- 
gresses, and again to the Forty-ninth, serv- 
ing until the Fifty-fourth, when he resigned 
and became United Stai.es Senator from Mich- 
igan. He was Speaker pro tempore of the 
United States House of Representatives dur- 
ing the Fifty-first Congress. Republican. 
Legal residence: Kalamazoo, Michigan. 
Washington address: U. S. Senate. 

BURT, ANDREW S., Brigadier-General, U. 
S. A. (retired), was born in Ohio, and en- 
tered the army as la private in the Sixth Ohio 
Infantry in April, 1861. In the same year 
he was appointed a Lieutenant in the reg- 
ular army. He has served, successively, 
'tbrcugh th? various graaes, becoming a 
Brigadier-General in 1902, when he was re- 
tired. During the Spanish-American War 
ho commanded the First Brigade, Second 
Division, Seventh Army Corps. Address: 
War Department. 

BURTIS, ARTHUR, Rear Admiral, U. S. 
N. (retired), was born in New York City, 
June 29, 1841, son of Rev. Arthur and Grace 
Ewing (Phillips) Burtis. He was educated 
in the private schools of Buftalo, New York, 
at Union College and Hobart College. From 
the latter institution he received the de- 
gree of A. M. On July 14, 1862, he entered 
thf navy as an assistant paymaster; was 
promoted, successive y, through all grades 
to Captain in 1899, and retired, with the 
rank of Rear Admiral, November 21, 190J. 
He served on the U. S. S. Connecticut, 1862- 
64; Muscata, 1865-66; in the North Atlantic 



Squadron; in the European Squadron on 
the Brooklyn, 1870-73; U. S. S. Constella- 
tion and Galena, 1883-86; on the flagships 
Charleston and San Francisco, Pacific 
SQuadron. 1889-92, as fleet paymaster; on 
the flagship New York, as fleet paymaster, 
from 1897 to 1899, in 'this latter capacity 
serving under Admiral Sampson during the 
Spanish-American War. His sliore duty 
includes service at League Island and at 
Philadelphia, 1874-80; later at the New York 
Navy Yard; and, after his last cruise until 
1905, at Boston and New Yok. He was 
retired as a Rear Admiral on November 21, 
1902. He Is a member of the Kappa Alpha 
college fraternity, the Loyal Legion, Holland 
Society, St. Nicholas Society, and the Union, 
Sl Nicholas, and New York Yacht C ubs, 
of New York, and the Metropolitan Club, of 
Washington, the Philadelphia Club, of Phil- 
adelphia, and the University Club, of Buf- 
falo. In 1884 he married Ida Thomas. Res- 
idence: Buffalo, New York. Address: Care 
Navy Department. 

BURTON, GEORGE HALL, Brigadier- 
General, U. S. A., was born at Mi Isboro, 
Delaware, January 12, 1843, son of Benja- 
min and Catherine R. (Green) Burton. He 

was graduated from the United States Mil- 
itary Academy in 1865, and entered the 
Infantry as Second Lieutenant. On August 
16, 1871, he was commissioned Captain; be- 
cf<me Major and Staff Inspector-General on 
March 27, 1885; was made Lieutenant- 
Colonel August 31, 1888; promoted to Col- 
onel January 2, 1895. and made Brigadier- 
General and United States Inspector- 
General April 12, 1903. He was twice bre- 
velted for gallantry in action against the 
Indians in the West, where he served from 
1S69 to 1878, and, later, from 1880 to 1884. 
He is a member of the Metropolitan and the 
Army and Navy Clubs. On November 24, 
lf70, he married Minnie Larrabee. Resi- 
dence: The Highlands. 

BURTON, HIRAM RODNEY, physician, 
"banker. Congressman, was born at Lewes, 
Sussex Coumty, Delaware, November 13, 1841, 
ai,d was educated in the public schools. In 
1S62 he removed to Washington, D. C, en- 
tering the dry goods business. In 1S65 he 
entered the medical department of the Uni- 
versity of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1868. 
Since that time he has been practicing m 
Lewes. In 1877 he was appointed Deputy 
Collector of Customs for the Port of Lewes; 
served as Acting Assistant Surgeon, United 
Slates Marine Hospita' Service, 1890-93; 
was delegate to the Republican Nationa. 
Conventions of 1896 and 1900; was nomi- 
nated for Sitate Senator from the Fifth Dis- 
trict, Sussex County, 1898; has been a 
director of the Queen Annis Railroad since 
its consitruction; is a director of the Lewes 
National Bank; has, since 1870, taken an 
active interest in politics of his native State; 
has always been prominent in promoting 
public utiliities, and has ever taken an active 
part looking to the advancement of public 
interest. He was elected to the Fifty-ninth 
Congress, and re-elected 'to the Sixtieth, 
serving as Representa.tive-at-Large. In 
po.itics he is a Republican. In June, 1907, 



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he was elected vice-president of the Amer- 
ican Medical Association. He was married, 
in 1877, to Margaret V. Rawlins, who died 
ill 1897. Legal residence: Lewes, Delaware. 
Washington address: House of Represent- 
ajcives. 

BURTON, THEODORE E., lawyer, Con- 
giessman, was born at Jefferson, Ashtabula 
Ccunty, Ohio, December 20, 1851, and stud- 
ied at Grand River Institute, Austinburg, 
Ohio; Iowa College, Grinnell, Iowa, and at 
Oberlin College, from which "ast instituiti)a 
he was graduated in 1872; LL. D., Dart- 
mouth College. He began the practice ot 
law in Cleveland in 1875 He served as Rep- 
resentative from the Twenty-first Ohio Dis- 
itrict in the Fifty-first Congress, and in the 
Fifty-fourth and subsequent Congresses; 
chairman of Committee on Rivers and Har- 
bors. He is the author of Financial Crise.s 
and Periods of Commercial Depression, and 
Life of John Sherman. He is a memher 
of the Metropolitan and University Clubs, 
of Washington, and, in politics, is a Repub- 
lican. Legal residence: Cleveland, Ohio. 
Washington address: The Rochambeau. 

BURWELL, WILLIAM TURNBULL, 

Captain, U. S. N., was born at Vicks- 
burg, Mississippi, July 19, 1846, son of 
Armistead B. and Priscilla Withers (Man- 
love) Burwell. He was graduated from tha 
United States Military Academy in 1866, 
and became an Ensign in 1868. On March 
26, 1869, he was promoted to Master; be- 
came a Lieutenant on March 21, 1870; a 
Lieutenant-Commander, September, 1885; 
Commander, July 3, 1894; Captain, Novem- 
ber 29, 1900. He commanded the U. S. S. 
Wheeling, 1898 to 1900; was Commandant 
of the Puget Sound Navy Yard, 1900 to 1902, 
and in command of 'the Oregon, 1902-04. Since 
November, 1904, he has been in command of 
the Independence. He married Miss Brad- 
ford, of Norfolk, Va. Address: Care Navy 
Department. 

BUSBEY, L. WHITE, Journalist, wtis 
born in Vienna, Ohio, November 22, 1852, 
son of Thomas Carlton Busbey. He was 
educated in the common schools, and for 
a number of years taught schoo', in 187.» 
beginning newspaper work on the staff of 
the Chicago Inter-Ocean. He has been 
identified with that paper ever since, and, 
from 1896 to 1905, served as its Washington 
correspondent. Since 1904 he has been sec- 
rttary to Speaker Cannon. He is the author 
of a political hand-book used in the cam- 
paign of 1900. In 1896 he married Kather- 
ine Graves, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Residence: 
2336 Massachusetts avenue, n.w. Office: 
Speaker's Room, House of Representatives. 

BUSCK, AUGUST, entomologist, was 
born at Randers, Denmark, February 18, 
1870, son of Carl and Kattie Busck. He was 
educated in the Ordrup College, Denmark, 
from which he graduated in 1889, and the 
Royal University of Copenhagen, where he 
pursued a natural science course, and was 
graduated with the degrees of B. P. and 
A. M. Since 1896 he has been entomologist 
of the United States Department of Affri- 
5 



•cultre. He is a contributor on entomological 
subjects to technlca' magazines, and a mem- 
ber of the Washington Entomological Soci- 
ety, and the Stockholm (Sweden) Entomo- 
logical Society. On August 21, 1895, he 
married Ville Christensen. Residence: Lang- 
don, D. C. Office: U. S. National Museum. 

BUSH BY, WILLIAM R., Episcopal clergy- 
man, assistant rector St. Stephen's Church. 
Residence: 1509 Eighth street, n.w. 

BUSSEY, CYRUS, lawyer, was born at 
Hubbard, Ohio, October 5, 1833, son of Rev. 
Amos Bussey and great-grandson of Edward 
Eussey, who served as an officer in tha 
Revolutionary War from Maryland. He be- 
gan his career in mercantile pursuits on his 
own account w^en only sixteen years of age. 
Later served as a member of the Iowa State 
Senate, and was a de egate to the Demo- 
catic National Convention of 1860, which 
nominated Douglas. At the outbreak of the 
Civil War he recruited tthe Third Iowa Caval- 
ry, of whch he was Its first Colonel. Later he 
was promoted to Brigadier-General, an.l was 
brevetted Major-General. He commanded a 
brigade In the battle of Pea Ridge, March 
7, 1862; was commander of the Second 
Division of Cavalry of the Army of the 
Tennessee, and Chief of Cavalry wi:h Grant 
at Vicksburg. He led General Sherman's 
advance against Johnston's army at Jack- 
son, Mississippi, and defeated General W. 
H Jackson at Canton. During the last 
year of the war he was in command of the 
Third Division, Seventh Army Corps, Wes:*- 
ern Arkansas and the Indian Territory. Fol- 
lowing the declaration of peace, he became 
a commission merchant in St. Louis and 
New Orleans, residing for eighteen year.s 
in the latter city, where for six years he 
was president of the Chambe** of Com- 
merce, In 1883 removing- to New York. 
Since 1860 he has participated in 
every national campaign. He was As- 
sistant Secretary of the Interior from 
1S89 to 1903, and since that lime has engaged 
in law priictice. He Is a Republican. On 
May 15, 18i5. he married Ellen Kiser. Ro.ci- 
dence: 1204 N street, n.w. Office: 1416 F 
street, n.w. 

BUSSIUS, ALLEN, Chief Clerk of tha 
United States Pension Agency, was born ia 
Washington October 16, 1867, son of John 
Eussius, who lost his life in the Record and 
Pension Office at the time of the Ford'3 
Theater disaster. He was educated In the 
pub Ic schools, and started as a clerk In 
1888, and rose rapidly until 1897, when he 
became chief clerk after the appointment of 
H Clay Evans as Commissioner of Pen- 
eions. He is a Thirty-third degree Mason, 
under the Southern jurisdiction. Residence: 
i;;41 Emerson street, n.e. Office: Room 33, 
Pension Office Building. 

BUTLER, CHARLES HENRY, lawyer, 
was born in New York City, June 18, 1859, 
sen of William Allen and Mary (Marshall) 
Butler. He was educated at a school In 
Yonkers, New York, and was graduated In 
1S81 from Princeton University. He has 
been a practicing lawyer in New York for 



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th'' past twenty years, and, since December, 
1H02. has been Reporter of the United States 
Supreme Court. He was legal expert for 
■:hf- Ang-lo-American Canadian Commission 
in 1S9S. He is the author of Cuba Must Be 
Free; The Voice of the Nation; Our Rela- 
tions with Spain; Freedom of Private Prop- 
erty on the Sea; Treaty- Making Power of 
the" United States, etc., and has edited a larsre 
nimber of governmental documents and re- 
ports. He is a member of the New York 
Par Association, the New York State Bar 
Association, the American Bar Association, 
and the International Law Association, ani 
the Lawyers' Club and Yacht Club (of New 
Ynrk\ and the Metropolitan and Cosmos 
Clubs, of Wasbing-ton. In religion he is a 
Piesb\'terian; in politics, a Republican. He 
married Marcia Flagg in November, 1882, 
Residence: 15.J.5 I street. Washington, D. C, 
and Yonkers, N. Y. Office: Supreme Court. 

BUTLER, B. F., Compu:ter of Bullion, 
Office of the Director of the Mint. United 
States Treasury Department. Residence: 
418 T street, n.w. Office: U. S. Treasury 
Department. 

BUTLER, JOHN GAZZAM, Brigadier- 
Gfneral. U. S. A. (retired), was born at 
Pittsburg, Penn., January 23, 1842, son of 
Jrhn Partlet and Cathe-ine Selina (Gaz- 
zam) Butler. He was educated at the West- 
ern University of Pennsylvania, and was 
graduated from the United States Military 
Academy in 1863. He was appointed a Sec- 
ond Lieutenant of Artillery in th° same year, 
a:'id served with the Army of the Cumberlani 
during the Civil War, being brevetted for 
gallantry at Chickamauga. He became First 
Lieutenant on March 7, 1867; commissioned 
Captain June 2-3. 1874; promoted to Major 
September 15, 1890; made Lieuvenant-Colonel 
February 2, 1901; Colonel, August 16, 1903. 
and retired, as Brigadier-General, January 
21, 1904. During his forty years' service he 
served at a majority of the arsenal? and 
stations on ordnance wo-k, and was attached 
t''* special boards and prosecuted special 
duties re ating to the artillery corps or ord- 
nance branch of the army. He was married, 
on January 26, 1866, to Eliza Miller War- 
nick. He is a member of the Grand Army 
of 'the Republic, the Loyal Legion, Sons of 
the Ame'ican Revolution, and the National 
Geographic Society. He is an Episcopalian. 
Address: 1930 Calvert street. 

BUTLER, JOHN GEORGE, Lutheran 
clfrgyman. editor, was born at Cumber- 
land. Maryland. January 28, 1826, and edu- 
cated at the Allegheny Academy, at Cum- 
berland, Maryland, and the Pennsylvania 
Ccr.ege and Theological Seminary, at Gettys- 
burg from which latter institution he was 
graduated, with the degree of B. D., in 1868. 
He was pasto-- of St. Paul's English Lutheran 
Church of Washington, 1849-73, and of the 
Luther Place Memorial Church, Washington, 
since that time. He was among the first 
of the hospita chaplains appointed by Pre.-:- 
i.lent Lincoln, and served throughout the 
Civil War in the vicinity of Washington. 
He was chaplain of the House of Repre- 
sentatives from 1869 to 1875, and of th-^ 



United States Senate for several years from 
1S76. For nearly thirty years he was pro- 
fessor of homlletics 'and church history at 
Howard University, and for many years has 
been Washington correspondent of the 
Lutheran's Observer and the Lutheran 
Evangelist. He is at present editor of the 
latter. Residence: 1107 Eleventh street, n.w. 

BUTLER, MARION, lawyer, was born in 
Sampson County, North Carolina, In 1863, 
son of Wiley and Romelia (Ferre 1) Butler. 
He entered the University of North Caro- 
lina in 1881, graduating in 1885. The same 
year he was elected principal of the Salem 
High School, where he was prepared for 
college. In 1888 he bought the Clinton Cau- 
casian, advocated the establishment of a 
Railroad Commission, and the cause of the 
Farmers' Alliance. He was elected to thy 
State Senate in 1890 on that issue; was 
made chairman of the joint committee of 
the Legislature on that subject, and is the 
author of the present Railroad Commission 
law. In 1891 he was elected State Presi- 
dent of the Farmers' Alliance, and later 
President of the National Farmers' Alliance. 
In 1892 he organized the People's party in 
North Carolina, and campaigned the State 
as a Weaver e ector-at-large. In 1894 he 
was elected by the People's Party Natlona.1 
Committee. The same year he organized 
the movement that wrested the State from 
the Democratic party. He was elected 
Ignited States Senator in 1895, and, though 
he served but one term, he accomplished 
much. He was the succe-ssful champion 
of the rural free delivery, and the father 
of the present popular and growing system. 
He has also contended strongly for a postal 
telegraph, for penny postage, a parce s post, 
and for the postal savings bank, which he 
hopes to see successfully inaugurated. His 
lnw course, interrupted bv his father's death, 
vvas resumed and completed in 1897, whili 
in the United States Senata( the only known 
instance), at the unlversit.y of his State, and 
was admitted to practice by the State 
Supreme Court, and by the United States 
Supreme Court. Later he joined the Re- 
publican party and supported Theodore 
Roosevelt for President. He is now the 
senior member of the firm of Butler & 
Vale, which has a lucrative practice. In 
1J^93 he married F orence Faison, of Samp- 
son County, North Caiolina, and they have 
five children. Residence: The Portland. 
Office: Bond Building. 

BUTLER, MATTHEW CALBRAITH, 

lawyer, soldier, was born near Green- 
ville, South Carolina, March 8, 1836, son 
of Dr. William and Jane T. (Perry) Butler. 
He attended South Carolina Co lege from 
1S53 to 1856, and In the latter year was 
admitted to the bar; began law practice 
at Edgefield Court House. He was electeri 
to the Legislature in 1859, and during the 
Civil War served in the Comfederat-^ Army, 
from Captain to Major-General, losing his 
right arm on June 9, 1863. He was again 
elected to the South Carolina Legislatur'? 
in 1866; became United States Senator in 
1877, serving until 1889. During the Spanish- 
American War he served as a 'Major-General 



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of Volunteers, and served on the commission 
with Admiral Sampson and General Wade 
which was sent to assist the Spanish Gov- 
ernor In evacuating Cuba. He resigned his 
commission In the army, refusing to be re- 
tired, as suggested by President McKlnley. 
He Is president of the Mexican Mining anl 
Exploration Company, and a member of the 
Confederate Veterans' Association of South 
Carolina, and the Southern States, and the 
United States Aztec Society. He is a mem- 
ber of the Army and Navy, and the Metro- 
politan Clubs. On February 21, 1858, he mar- 
ried Maria Simkins Pickens. Address: 13;il 
F street, n.w. 

BUTLER, MOUNCE GORE, lawyer. Con- 
gressman, was born in Jackson County, 
Tennessee, May 11, 1849, and received an 
academic education, and a law education at 
Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tennessee. 
He has been a practicing lawyer for a num- 
ber of years. Was elected Attorney-Genera' 
for the Fifth Judicial Circuit of Tennessee 
in 1S94. serving for eight years. He was 
elected to the Fifty-ninth Congress from the 
Fourth Tennessee District He is a mem- 
ber of the Christian Church, and married. 
Republican. Legal residence: Gainesboro, 
Tennessee. Washington address: House of 
Representatives. 

BUTLER, THOMAS S., lawyer. Congress- 
man, was born at Uwchland, Chester County, 
Pennsylvania, November 4, 1855, and attended 
the common schools later pursuing an aca- 
demic course. Professionally he is a lawyer. 
He has been a Representative from the Sev- 
enth Pennsylvania District since the Fifty- 
fifth Congress. Repub lean. Legal residence: 
West Chester, Pennsylvania. Washington 
address: House of Representatives. 

BUTT, ARCHIBALD WILLINGHAM, 

Captain and Quartermaster, U. S. A., was 
born at Augusta, Richmond County, Geor- 
gia, September 26, 1866, son of Joshua Will- 
Ingham and Pamela Robertson (Boggs) 
Butt. He attended the University of tho 
Scuth, Sewanee, Tennessee, taking a post- 
graduate course in Greek and Latin, and, 
upon completion of his course, entered jour- 
nalistic work, becoming Washington corre- 
spondent for a syndicate of Southern news- 
papers. In an unofficial capacity he accom- 
panied General Matt. Ranson to Mexico, 
when the latter was appointed Ambassador 
to that country. He entered the army at 
the time of the Spanish-American War; saw 
three and a half years' service In the Phil- 
ippines, and later was appointed Depot 
Quartermaster, Washington, D. C, whicn 
pr.st he held for three years, re inquishing 
it to become Depot Quartermaster with the 
Army of Cuban Pacification at Havana, 
Cuba. He is the author of a large num- 
ber of short stories; also, A Problem in 
Army Transportation, and a financial treat- 
iFc, Where Silver Rules. He is a member 
of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity, the Soci- 
ity of Colonial Wars, Society of American 
Revolution, the Army and Navy, and Chevy 
Chase Clubs. Captain Butt is a member of 
the Protestant Episcopa Church. Unmar- 
ried Temporary residence: El Arsenal, 



Havana, Cufba. Waihinyton addr«ss: War 

Department. 

BUTTS, EDMUND LUTHER, Capitain, U. 

5 A., was born at Stillwater, Minnesota, 
August 15, 1868, son of Edmund Gregory 
and Mary (White) Butts. He was gradu- 
ated from the United States Military Acad- 
emy in 1890, becoming a Second Lieutenanr. 
On June 27, 1897, he became a First Lieu- 
tenant of Infantry, and was promoted to 
Captain on January 18, 1900. During the 
Spanish-American War he served as Cap- 
tain and Assistant Adjutant-General of 
Volunteers. He has made a study of army 
physical training, and, from 1893 to 189(5, 
was special Instructor in physical training 
for the army. He is the author of Manual 
of Physical Training for the United States 
Army, and is a frequent contributor to peri- 
odicals on ath etic subjects. On December 

6 1899, he married Miss Lilian Stafford 
Hatie. Address: War Department. 

BUTTS, FRANK GRAHAM, real estate, 
was born in New York City, February 20, 
1876, son of Frank Albert and Lucy Ade- 
laide (Crawford) Butts. His father is a 
Cnil War veteran and an attorney-at-law. 
Frank G. Butts attended the public schools 
of Washington, graduating from the Cen- 
tral High School In 1894, and pursued a post- 
giaduate course. In 1902 he was graduated 
with the degree of LL. B. from Columbian 
(now George Washington) University. For 
five years he was connected with the Cit- 
izens' Nationa Bank. Since 1903 he has 
been engaged in the real estate business. 
In politics he is a Republican; in religion, 
a Protestant Episcopalian. He is a mem- 
fcer of the Phi Delta Phi fraternity; Mili- 
tary Order of the Loyal Legion, Sons of the 
American Revolution, Washington Board of 
Trade, is a Mason and a Knight Templar. 
On June 30, 1903, he married Winifred N. 
Hill Residence: 813 Taylor street, n.w. 
Office: 621 Thirteenth street, n.w. 

BYNUM, WILLIAM D., awyer, was born 
near Newberry, Indiana, June 26, 1846. He 
was graduated from Indiana University in 
1869, admitted to the bar the same year, 
and was City Attorney of Washington, Indi- 
ana, 1871-75. He was a member of the Statg 
Legislature In 1882, and its Speaker in 188:^, 
The following year he was sent to Congress 
from the Seventh District, and served from 
the Fo'.ty-ninth to the Fifty-third Congress. 
When residing in Indianapolis he was made 
a member of the commission to revise ths 
laws of the United States, in 1900. Resi- 
dence: 1742 Q street, n.w. 

BYRD, ADAM MONROE, lawyer. Con- 
gressman, was born July 6, 1859, in Sumter 
County, Alabama, and removed to Missis- 
sippi when eight years of age. He was edu- 
cated in the common schools of Neshoba 
County, and in Cooper Institute, of Dale- 
vllle, Mississippi; in 1884 he graduated 
from the law department of Cumberland Uni- 
versity, Lebanon, Tennessee, and began the 
practice of law. He served as County Su- 
perintendent of Education, 1887-88; elected 
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and 1192; was also a member of the lower 
house of the Leirlslature, 1895. In 1896 he 
was Proypcutins Attorney for the Tenth 
Judicial District of Mississippi; In 1897 
was Judge of the Sixth Chancery District, 
which position he held until elected to the 
Fiftv-eig-hth Congress. He was re-elected 
to the Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Congresses. 
Democrat. Legal residence: Phllade phia. 
Mississippi. Washington address: House of 
Representatives. 

BYRNE, BERNARD ABERT, Major, U. 
S. A., was born at Newport Barracks, Ken- 
tucky, October 19, 1853, son of Major B. M. 
nnd Louisa (Abert) Byrne. He was edu- 
cated at Columbian (now George Washing- 
ton) University, and in 1875 was appointed 
by President Grant as a Second Lieutenant 
of Infantry. He was promoted, successively, 
to First Lieutenant and Captain, and served 
in many Indian campaigns throughout the 
West. He was attached to the Fifth Army 
Corps in the Spanish-American War, and 
fought at San Juan. From 1899 to 1902 he 
served in the Philippines, and was twice 
recommended for brevets for gallantry, and 
later was awarded a medal of honor 
for most distinguished gallantry In 
action at Bobong, P. I., July 19, 1899. In 
August, 1899, he became a Lieutenant- 
Colonel and on February li, 1901, was pro- 
moted to Major of the regular army. He 



i.^ a member of the Soni of th« Amtrlcan 
Revolution, and the Society of Santlaro. On 
February 11, 1892, he married Bertha Biir- 
nltz. Address: War Department. 

BYRNE, CHARLES CRISTOPHER, 

Brigadier-General (retired), was born at 
Pikesville, Bal'timore County, Maryland, May 
7, 1837, son of Dr. Charles and Emeline 
(Cole) Byrne. He was educated at Mt. St. 
Mary's College, Emmlttsburg, Mary and, and 
was graduated with the degree of M. D. 
fiom the University of Maryland in 1859. 
He entered the United States Army a.s 
Assistant Surgeon on June 23, 1860, and 
aiose to it'he rank of Assistamt Surgeon - 
Gtneral, U. S. A. He was retlretl 
as Colonel on May 7, 1901, later belngr 
made Brigadier-General by virtue of the 
Act of April 23, 1904. He is a member of 
the National Geographic Society, and a com- 
panion of the Military Order of the Loyal 
Legion. On October 4, 1876, he married 
Henrietta P. Colt. Residence: 1435 We. ling- 
ton Place. 

BYRNES, EDWARD M., In charge of 
Experimental Gardens and Grounds of the 
Bureau of Plant Industry, United States 
Department of Agriculture. Residence: 11 
M street, n.w. Office: Department of Agri- 
culture. 



CAHILL, SAMUEL (S. J.), clergyman, 
Vice-president of Geo:getovvn Univhrs'iy, a,s- 
sistant rector of Holy Trinity Churcfi, 
Georgetown. Address: Georgetown Uni- 
\ersLity. 

CALDER, WILLIAM M., builder Con- 
gressman, was born in B' ooklyn, N. Y., 
March 3, 1869, and was educated in the 
Brooklyn public schools and Cooper Insti- 
tute, New York City. For a number of 
years he has been a contractor and builder, 
and mO' e than twelve hundred hous s in 
the city of Brooklyn hJve been constructed 
by him. He is a Republican, and has rep- 
resented the Sixth New York Congressional 
District in the Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Con- 
gr sses. Legal residence: Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Washington add. ess: The New Willard. 

CALDERHEAD. WILLIAM ALEXANDER, 

lawyer. Congressman, was born in Perry 
County, Ohio, on September 26, 1844, son of 
Rev. E. B. Calderhead, a Presbyterian mln- 
isiter. He was educated in the common 
schools and the preparatory department of 
Franklin College, at Now Athens, Ohio. In 
August, 1862, he enlisted as a private in 
Company H, One Hundred and Twenty-sixth 
Ohio Infantry, and was transferred to Com- 
pany D, Ninith Veteran Reserves, on accoun: 
of disability incurred in service, and was 
discharged in 1865. After leturnlng from 
the war he spent about two years in trying 
to regain his health, attended school, and 



went to Kansas in 1868, and engaged in 
farming. After teaching school one year 
he began the reading of law, and was ad- 
mitted to the bar in 1875. In 1879 he settled 
at Marysville, Kansas, and engaged in the 
general practice of law, and in 1888 he was 
elected County Attorney, serving for two 
years. He has represented the Fifth Kan- 
sas Congressional District in Congress con- 
tinuously since the Fifty-fourth Congres.s, 
except the Fifty-fifth Congress. In politics 
he is a Republican. Legal residence: Marys- 
ville, Kansas. Washington address: House 
of Representatives, 

CALDERON, IGNACIO, diplomat, was 
born at LaPaz, Bolivia, July 31, 1848, son 
of Florencio and Antonia de Calderon. H.i 
was graduated from the University of 
LaPaz, and at nineteen became a teachei 
there for a year. He was secretary of the 
Bolivian Legation at Rome, 1868-70, then 
Supervisor of Public Education of Bolivia, 
and later first secretary of the Bolivian Le- 
gation at Lima, Peru. He came to the 
United States in 1876, traveled through the 
country and acted for a while as Consul 
General of Bolivia at New York. He re- 
turned to Bolivia in 1886. to manage the 
affairs of a large commercial company; was 
president of a large financial insititution at 
LaPaz; Secretary of the Treasury of Boliv- 
ia. 1900; and, since March, 1904. Envoy Ex- 
traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary 
from Bolivia to Che United States. Address: 
Bolivian Legation, 1633 Sixiteenth street, n.w. 



DISTRICT OP COLUMBIA. 



St 



CALDWELL, BEN FRANKLIN, Conffresn- 
man, was born In Greene County, Illinoiis, 
on August 2, 1848, son of John and Mary 
J. Caldwell. He was educated in the com- 
mon schools, and since 1853 has resided on 
a farm in Sangamon County, Illinois. He 
was a member of the Illinois State Legisla- 
ture four years; Illinois Senate four years, 
and has been president of the Caldwell Statf^ 
Bank, at Chatham, 111. From 1899-1903 h-5 
served as a member of Congress from the 
Seventeenth Illinois District, and from 1903 
to 1905 represented 'the Twenty-first District 
of Illinois. In November, 1906, he was 
elected a member of the Sixtieth Congress 
from the Twenty-first Illinois District as i 
Democrat. On May 27, 1873, he married 
Julia P. Cloyd. Legal residence: Chatham, 
111. Washington address: House of Repre- 
aentatives. 

CALE, THOMAS, Congressman. In No- 
vember, 1906, he was elected a member of 
the Sixtieth Congress from Alaska on th.3 
Republican ticket. Legal residence: Fair- 
banks, Alaska. Washington address: Housa 
of Representatives. 

CALL, LEWIS W., Chief Clerk and Solic- 
itor, office of the Judge Advocate General 
of the Army, was born in Ohio, December 
13, 1858, and went with his parents to Kan- 
sas when very young. He was graduatea 
from the Kansas State Agricultuarl College. 
B. S., in 1883, and from the Columbian (nov\- 
George Washington) University, LL. B., in 
1888; LL. M., in 1889, and, D. C. L., in 1900. 
He has served in the same office since 1888, 
as law clerk, and later as chief clerk, until 
July 1, 1907, when he was promoted to his 
present position. He has been highly com- 
mended by army authorities for his efficiency 
in handling legal subjects. Residence: 1448 
Newton street, n.w. Office: War Depart- 
ment. 

CALL, PATRICK D., clergyman (S. J.), 
assistant rector at St. Aloysius' Catholic 
Church. Residence: 19 I street, n.w. 

CALLAHAN, DANIEL J., assistant gen- 
eral manager of the Norfolk and Washing- 
ton Steamboat Company. Residence: 1308 
Euclid street, n.w. 

CALLAHAN, EDWARD W., Chief Clerk. 
Bureau of Navigation, Navy Department. 
Residence: 1918 H street, n.w. Office: Navy 
Department. 

CALLAHAN, JOHN, second vice-president 
and general manager of the Norfolk and 
Washington Steamboat Company. Residence: 
1317 Fairmount street, n.w. Office: Sevemth- 
street wharf. 

CALLAN, THOMAS H., Justice of the 
Peace. Residence: 908 H street, n.w. Office: 
617 F street, n.w. 

CALVO, JOAQUIN BERNARDO, Minister 
from Costa Rica to the United States since 
1896, was born in San Jose, Costa Rica, and 
was educated in his native town. He was 
tk* founder of th« first daily paper to ap- 
pmx iB C»«t» Kioa, %M.€ 'WMM Oov«raor of 



ha Provinc* of Cartaffo In 1886, and repre- 
sented his country at the Internationl 
American Conference held in Washington in 
1889; was a delegate to the Monetary Con- 
ference, and Charge d'Affaires of his country 
at Washington, 1892. He was secretary of 
the Costa Rican Commission to the World's 
Fair in Chicago in 1893, and was a dele- 
gate to the second International American 
Conference held in Mexico, 1901-02. Ad- 
dress: 1329 Eighteenth street, n.w. 

CAMERON, FRANK KENNETH, scient- 
is', was born in Baltimore, Md., February 2, 
1S69, son of Major John Malcolm and Eliz- 
abeth Helen (Fitzpatrick) Cameron. His 
father was Major and Adjutant in Rhodes' 
Brigade, Army of the Confederate States o: 
America. He was educaed in the public 
schools of his native town and by private 
tutors, afterwards attending Johns Hopkinij 
University, where he was graduated, A. B., 
in 1891, and. Ph. D., in 1894. He was in- 
structor in chemistry at Cornell, 1-894-95; 
associate professor of chemistry at the Cath- 
olic University of America, 1895-97, and was 
research assistant and instructor in phys- 
ical chemistry ait Cornell during 1897-98. 
He has been an expert in the United States 
Department of Agriculture, and was made 
chemist in the Division of Soils of the same 
department in 1899. He has been a contrib- 
utor to scientific publications, and is a mem- 
ber of the Cosmos Club. American Chemical 
Society, American Association for the Ad- 
vancement of Science, being president of the 
latter, 1902-03. He is a member of the 
Roman Catholic Church. Was married to 
Catherine Boyle, who died November 25, 
ir03. Residence: The Columbia. Office: 
Department of Agriculture. 

CAMMACK, JOHN, man of affairs, was 
born in Washington, on December 23, 1828, 
and attended the private schools of George- 
town, after which he went into business 
with his father, who was then a gardener 
and florist. In 1873 he retired from active 
business. He is an extensive owner of real 
estate, and is connected with many financial 
insti'tutions of the city, being a director in 
the Columbia National Bank, stockholder in 
th? Riggs National Bank, director in tho 
Washington Loan and Trust Company, the 
American Securiy and Trust Company, the 
Washington Gas Light Company, George- 
town Gas Light Company, Mergenthaler 
Linotype Company, Franklin Fire Insurance 
Company, Columbia Real E<?tate Title In- 
surance Company, Mutual Fire Protection 
Insurance Company, and Initer- Ocean Build- 
ing. He was at one time a director and sec- 
retary of the National Safe Deposit and Se- 
curity Company. Before the Washingtoa 
street raiways were merged he was the larg- 
est stockholder in the Metropolitan and 
Columbia lines, and a director in bo'th com- 
panies. He has been twice married, first, to 
Sarah Little, of Buffalo, N. Y., and, second, 
to Elizabeth May, of Washington. Residence. 
3553 Brightwood avenue, n.w. 

CAMPBELL, CHARLES HARROD, army 
officer, was born on July 12, 1847, son of 
Hum. ijrokil»al4 and M<ary WilUamaoa (Har- 



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rod) Campbell. Mr. Campbell, who was a 
lli'eal riepcondant of the fir.st Ea 1 of Bredai- 
bane, Scotland, graduated from the Military 
Academy at West Paint In 1835. Resigned 
in 1S36 and engaged in civil engineering: 
filled a number of important positions under 
th'" United States Government, and, as com- 
missioner for the Northwestern Boundary 
Survey, claimed for the United States, in 
opposition to the demand of Great Britain, 
and firmly adhered to his claim until sus- 
tained by the arbiter, the Emperor of Ger- 
many, the valuable island of San Juan, for 
which services he received the thanks of his 
Government. His earliest ancestor in 
America was John Harvvood, first treasurer 
of the Massachusetts company; grandson jf 
Archibald Campbell, Deputy Secretary of 
State of New York for forty years, president 
of St. Andrews' Society; and Charles Har- 
rod, president of the Atchafalaya Bank of 
New Orleans; aide-de-camp to General 
Jackson at the battle of New Orleans, and 
he is descended also from Richard Treat, 
Governor of Connecticut, of Charter Oak 
fame, and Ellas Dayton, Brigadier-General, 
Continental Army; a great-nephew of Judge 
Adams, of Quincy, Mass., son of President 
John Adams, and of Governor Williamson, 
of New Jersey, and Major R. Treat, who 
was killed at the battle of Fort Miffliii, 
November, 1777. The subject of this sketch 
was educated in the private schools of 
Washington anc^ Dr. Lyon's school, near 
Philadelphia, Penn. He became Second 
Lieutenant, First New York Light Artillery, 
February 4, 1855; promoted to Captain and 
Assistant Adjutant-Generai of Volunteers, 
June 1, 1865, and served on the staff of Gen- 
eral A. A. Humphreys, commanding the Sec- 
ond Army Corps, urttil August, 1865; ap- 
pointed Second Lieutenant. Sixth United 
States Cavalry, July 25, 1866; promoted 
Captain. September 20, 1874. He was bre- 
vetted First Lieutenamt and Captain March 
2, 1867, for gallant and meritorious services 
in the battle of Peter.'^burg, Va., and served 
with his rrgiment in Texas, Indian Territory, 
Kansas, New Mexico, Colorado and Arizona 
from December 28, 1860, to February 15. 
1881, and was engaged a number of times 
in battle with hostile Indians, having had 
a horse shot under him, and been com- 
mended for gallantry in a fight with Coman- 
ch. Indians on the North Fo-k of the Little 
Wichita, Texas. August 30, 1874. Resigned 
from the army February 15,1881. He is reg- 
istrar of the Society of the Sons of the 
Revolution, and a member of the National 
Geneaological Society, He married Elena 
Porter, youngest daughter of David D Por- 
ter, Admiral of 'the United States Navy, on 
December 15, 1890. Residence: 2101 G 
street, n.w. 

CAMPBELL, FRANK L., lawyer, was 
born in Hancock County, West Virginia, 
August 26, 1843, and was educated in the 
Paris (Pennsylvania) Academy and Wash- 
ington and Jefferson College, Pennsylvania, 
leaving before graduation to enter th-» 
Union Army, in 1863. After serving in a 
Pennsylvania volunteer regiment, he, in 1866. 
took UD his residence in Ohio, and then be- 
c«.m# prlncipa.1 of tha public •cUooU in 



Stark County. Soon after moving to Ohio 
he became acquainted with Major McKln- 
ley, of the same coun'ty, and they became 
close friends in 1868, and remained such to 
the date of President McKinley's tragic 
death. He, in 1870, received an appointment 
to a clerkship in the Interior Department ia 
Washington, D. C. He then took up tho 
study of law at Columbian (now George 
Washington) University, in Washington, and 
was vice-president of his class. After grad- 
uating from Columbian University, he con- 
tinued in the Government service as a clerk 
until he became assistant attorney in the 
Department of the Inerior, which position 
h<3 held for twenty-one years, during eight 
of which he was first assistant attorney of 
'the department. He was assistant secretary 
of the Department of the Interior, 1900-03, 
and he has been Assistant Attorney of the 
United States since February, 1903. Member 
oi' the bar of the Supreme Court of the 
District of Columbia, the Court of Appeals, 
and the United States Supreme Court. 
Although he did not remain to graduate, 
Washington and Jefferson College conferred 
upon him the honorary degree of A. M., and 
later, in 1902, in the centennial year of its 
existence, conferred upon him the degree 
of LL. D. Was, from 1907-08, Judge Advo- 
cate General of the G. A. R. for the United 
States. His politics are Republican. He 
married Mary J. Pollock, of Allegheny Ci'ty, 
Penn., in 1867, a relation of former Governor 
Pollock, of that State, and a great-great- 
granddaughter of Thomas Scott, the first 
member of Congress from Pennsylvania west 
of the Alleghenies. Residence: 1439 New- 
'ton street, n.w. Office: Interior Depart- 
ment. 

CAMPBELL, MARIUS ROBISON, geolo- 
gist, was born in Garden Grove, Iowa, on 
September 30, 1858, son of Alvah W. and 
Eliza (Davis) Campbell. He was educated 
in the public schools, teaching in the coun- 
try schools for a few years and later at- 
tending the Ohio State University. Was 
employed as a civil engineer for a few years, 
and, since 1889, he has been a geologist in 
the United States Geological Survey. Is 
the author of many bulletins and reports 
on geology and physiography of his depart- 
men't, and for some time he has been mak- 
ing a special study of the coal fields of the 
United States. He is a fellow of the Geo- 
logical Society of America, a member of the 
American Institute of Mining Engineers, 
Geological Society of Washington, and the 
Cosmos Club. He married Margaret Ste- 
venson at Middletown, N. Y., on November 
5, 1890. Residence: The Mendota. Office: 
U. S. Geological Survey. 

CAMPBELL, PHILIP PITT, lawyer, Con- 
gressman, was born in Nova Scotia, and 
when four years of age he removed with 
his parents to Kansas, where he has since 
resided. Graduated from Baker University 
(Kansas), and later began reading law on 
•the farm, and was admitted to the bar in 
1889. He has represented the Third Kan- 
sas Congressional District in the Fifty- 
eighth. Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Congresses. 
In 1892 he married Helen Goff. In politics 
h'js is a Republican. Lieyal reiiaence: Pitts- 



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burg, Kansas. Washing-ton address: House 
of Representatives. 

CAMPBELL, RICHARD K., Chief of the 
Division of Naturalization, United States 
Department of Commerce and Labor. Resi- 
dence: 1977 Baltimore street, n.vv. Office: 
Department of Commerce and Labor. 

CAMPBELL, WILLIAM WILDMAN, law- 
yer. Congressman, was born on a farm near 
Rochester, Vt., on April 2, 1853. He was edu- 
cated at Goddard Seminary, Barre, Vt., and 
Tuft's College, after whicn he took up th.j 
study of law. From 1894 to 1897 he served 
a.5 Prosecuting Attorney of Henry County, 
Ohio, and was elected to tne Fifty-ninth 
Congress from the Fifth Ohio District, and 
re-elected to the Sixtieth Congress. Mar- 
ried. Republican. Legal residence: Napo- 
leon, Ohio. Washington address: House of 
Representatives. 

CANDEE, HELEN CHURCHILL, author, 
was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1861, and 
was educated in the private schools of New 
Haven and Norwalk, Conn. She has edited 
two or three woman's magazines, and is the 
au'thor of a number of books, and has been 
a contributor of stories and essays to many 
of 'the leading magizines. Susan Truslow: 
All Oklahoma Romance, ah« two of her more 
popular books. Residence: 1716 Rhode 
Island avenue, n.w. 

CANNON, JOSEPH GUERNEY, Speaker 
of the House of Representatives, was born 
May 7, 1836, in a Quaker settlement of North 
Carolina, near Greensboro, in Guilford 
Cduniy. His paren'ts were, Quakers, who 
had emigrated from New England to secunj 
the blessings of greater religious liberty. 
His father was a physician, and practiced 
that profession until his death, in 1851. 
When his father died he attended the vil- 
lage school, and received some supplmenl- 
ary instruction at the Friends' Academy, in 
Bloomingdale, Parke County, Indiana. At 
the age of fourteen years he was thrown 
on his own resources, and worked in a coun- 
try store. At the age of twenty he entered 
the law office of Usher & Patterson, at 
Terre Haute, Ind., where, as a student, h-i 
commenced the study of law. In 1S58, at 
the age of twenty-two, he was admitted f> 
practice law at the bar of Terre Haute 
The following year he removed to Tuscola, 
Douglas County, Illinois, ctnd there opened 
a law office. In March, 1861, he was elected 
State's A'ttorney. His congressional career 
dates fri-rn 1R72. when he was elected to the 
Forty-third Congress from the Fourteenth 
Illinois District. In the Forty-first Congress 
he was chosen as chairman of the House 
Committee on Appropriations, and served as 
such for eight terms. Personally he is un- 
pretentious and democratic in his tastes and 
habits, and is familiarly known as "Uncle 
Joe" because of his democratic simplicity. 
To him is chiefly due the reformation in 
the postal laws whereby postage on second- 
class mail matter must be prepaid according 
to weight. He is well known as one of the 
indefatigable stewards of the Gnvernmenr, 
and a master of governmental finance and 
appropriations. At the special session of the 



Fifty-eighth Congress, in November, 1903, 
he was first elected Speaker of the House 
of Representatives, and was re-elected to 
the same position for the Fifty-ninth Con- 
gress. He has two children living, Miss 
Helen A. Cannon and Mrs. E. X. Leseure. 
Legal residence: Danville, 111. Washington 
address: House of Representatives. 

CAPERS, JOHN G., lawyer. Commissioner 
of Internal Revenue since June 1, 1907, was 
born In Anderson, S. C, on April 17, 1866, son 
of Ellison (now Protestant Episcopal Bishop 
of South Carolina) and Charlotte Rebecca 
(Palmer) Capers. He was educated at tha 
South Carolina Military Academy, at 
Charleston, and studied law and was admit- 
ted to practice before the South Carolina 
Supreme Court at Columbia in 1887; mem- 
ber of the bar of the Supreme Court of the 
United States. He was a Democrat until 
1S96, when, upon nomination of Bryan, he 
became a supporter of McKinley and joined 
the Republican party, and campaigned for 
McKinley and Roosevelt in 1900. In May, 
1901, he was appointed United States Dis- 
trict Attorney for South Carolina; dele- 
gate-at-large to the National Republican 
Convention in Chicago in 19>-4, since when 
he has been a member of the National Re- 
publican Committee. On June 18, 1895, he 
married Lilla Trenholm, of Charleston, S. C, 
Vvho, with two children, constitute his fam- 
ily. Legal residence: Greenville. S. C. 
Washington residence: The Cumberland. 
Office: Treasury Department. 

CAPPS, WASHINGTON LEE, Rear Ad- 
miral, U. S. N. He entered the United States 
Navy October 1, 1880, and has been a naval 
constructor, with the rank of Commander, 
since January 28, 1895, and, since October 
31. 1903, Chief Constructor and Chief of the 
Bureau of Construction and Repair, with tha 
rank of Rear Admiral. Address: Navy De- 
partmemt. 

CAPRON, ADIN BALLOU, Congressman, 
was born in Mendon, Mass., on January 9, 
1841, and was educated in the Woonsocket 
High School and the Westbrook Seminary, 
near Portland, Maine. After leaving scho d 
ht3 engaged in the grain and milling business, 
and at the outbreak of the Civil War he 
enlisted as a Sergeant in the Second Rhode 
Island Infantry. He was promoted to Ser- 
gf-ant-Major and later commissioned Lieu- 
tenant and ordered on detached service in 
the Signal Corps. Served in the Signal Corps 
all through the war, having been commi."- 
sirned Fif-^t Lieutenant in that division, 
and. In 1863, he was promoted to the rank 
of Captain and brevetted a Major. He 
served in the Rhode Island State Legisla- 
ture from 1887 to 1892, being Speaker of 
the lower house the last two years. Has 
represented the Second Rhode Island Con- 
gressional District in Congress continuously 
since the opening of the Fifty-fifth Congress. 
In politics he is a Republican. Legal resi- 
dence: Stillwater. Rhode Island. Washing- 
ton address: House of Representatives. 

CARBO, DON ESTEBAN FELIPE, Attache 

in Charge of Legation of Ecuador. Address: 
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CARBO, DON LUIS FELIPE, Envoy Ex- 
traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary 
from Ecuador to the United States. Ad- 
dress: 1222 Connecticut avenue. 

CARBO, IGENIERO DON LUIS AL- 
BERTO, Secretary Embassy of Ecuador. 
Address: 1222 Connecticut avenue. 

CARD, BENJAMIN C, army officer, was 
born in Rhode Island, February 15, 1825. 
He became First Lieutenant, Twelfth United 
States Infantry, September 27, 1861; was 
promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel and Deputy 
Quartermaster-General August 31, 1883, and 
retired February 15, 1889. He was brevetted 
Colonel March 13, 1865, and Brigadier-Gen- 
eral for faithful and meritorious services in 
the Quartermaster's Department during the 
Civil War. Address: War Department. 

CAREY, ANDREW J., clergyman, assist- 
ant rector of the Holy Name of Jesus Cath- 
olic Church. Residence: 920 Eleventh street, 
n.e. 

CARLETON, MARK ALFRED, botanist, 
v/as born in Jerusalem, Monroe County, Ohio, 
March 7, 1866, son of Lewis D. and Lydia 
Jane (Mann) Carleton. He was educated 
In the Kansas district schools until 1883, 
when he began a course at the Kansas Agri- 
cultural college, graduating in 1887, taking 
a Master's degree in science at the same 
lEStitmion in 1893. He was professor o* 
natural history in Garfield University in 
1888-90; assistant botanist at the Kansas 
Agricultural Experiment Station, 1892-94. 
He was appointed cerealist in the United 
States Department of Agriculture In 1894; 
agricultural explorer during 1898, 1899 and 
1900; in charge of the United States grain 
exhibit at the Paris Exposition during 1900, 
and a member of the International Jury of 
Awards of the exposition. Received French 
decoration Chevalier du Merite and Agricale 
in 1900. Has written several important bul- 
letins in connection with his work, among 
them being: The Cereal Rusts of the United 
States; Bases for the Improvement of Amer- 
ican Wheats, and Commercial Durum 
Wheats. He introduced the Durum wheat 
in this country, now having an annual value 
in agriculture of from twelve to fifteen mill- 
ion dollars. He is a Knight Templar, and 
a member of many of the scientific socie- 
ties of the country. Member of the Disciples 
of Christ. He married Amanda Elizabeth 
Paught, December 29, 1897. Residence: 1623 
Newton street. Office: U. S. Department of 
Agriculture. 

CARLISLE, CALDERON, lawyer. Address: 
Fendall Building. 

CARMACK, EDWARD WARD, lawyer, ed- 
itor, U. S. Senator, was born near Castalian 
Springs, Sumner County, Tennessee, on No- 
vember 5, 1858, and after finishing an aca- 
demic education he took up the study of 
law and practiced at Columbia, Tenn. In 1884 
he was elected a member of the Tennessee 
State Legislature on the Democratic ticket 
and two years later he joined the editorial 
staff of the Nashville American, and soon 
afterward founded the Democrat, of the 



same city, and later became editor-in-chief 
of the Nashville American, when the Dem- 
ocrat was merged with that paper. In 1892 
he left Nashville to accept the editorship of 
the Memphis Commercial, and in 1896 he 
v/as State delegate-at-large to the Demo- 
cratic National Convention. Was a member 
of the Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth Congresses, 
and was elected to the United States Sen- 
ate to succeed Thomas B. Turley, a Demo- 
crat, who declined to stand for re-election, 
taking his seat in 1901. His term of office 
expired March 4, 1907. In politics he is a 
Democrat. In April, 1890, he was married 
to Elizabeth Cobey Dunnington, of Colum- 
bia, Tenn. Legal residence: Memphis, Tenn. 

CARMAN, EZRA AYERS, educator, v/a.% 
born in Metuchen, N. J., on February 27, 
1834, son of M. F. and Maria (Ayers) Car- 
man. He attended the public schools in Mid- 
dlesex County, New Jersey, and later the 
Western Military Institute, in Kentucky, 
gi-aduating in 1855. Was assistant professor 
of mathematics in the University of Nash- 
ville, 1855-56, and during the Civil War he 
served in the Thirteenth New Jersey Infantry 
as Colonel, and was retired a Brigadier- 
General of United States "Volunteers March 
13, 1865. He served in the Army of the 
Potomac from 1861 to 1863, and the Army 
of the Cumberland from 1863 to 1865; was 
Ccmptroller of Jersey City, 1871-75, and 
was chief clerk in the United States Depart- 
ment of Agriculture from 1877 to 1885. H"i 
married Ada Salmon, of Jeffersonville, Ind., 
November 22, 1859. Residence: 1351 Q 
street, n.w. 

CARMODY, FRANCIS S., contractor, was 
born in Washington, son of Simon and Mar- 
garet (Griffin) Carmody, and was educated 
in the district schools, and after graduat- 
ing from the High School he engaged in thj 
general contracting business, and later 
founded the construction company which 
now bears his name (The F. S. Carmody 
Construction Company). Among the most 
important contracts he has nandled in the 
city are the foundations for the Bond 
Building, Washington Savings Bank, Barber 
& Ross Building, Washington Fire Insurance 
Building, and the Government Printing 
Office. Rebuilt the Bennings race track, 
which is considered one of the fastest tracks 
in the country. President of the Prince 
George County Citizens' League, and through 
his efforts was largely due the credit for 
the returning of Senator Gorman, of Mary- 
land, to the United States Senate in 1901. 
He organized and headed the ticket of the 
reform Republicans, defeating the regular 
Republican ticket, which ultimately gave the 
Democrats a majority in the State Legis- 
lature, which chose ex-Senator Gorman to 
succeed Senator Wellington in the United 
States Senate. On October 14, 1892. he mar- 
ried Mary E. Chaffee, of Washington. Resi- 
dence: Seat Pleasant, Md. Office: 1413 Q 
street, n.w. 

CARMODY, JOHN DOYLE, lawyer, was 
born in London, England, son of John Philip 
and Marian (Doyle) Carmody. He was edu- 
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or Columbia, Gonzagra Colleffe, and George- 
town University. After leaving Georgetown 
h« became secretary and counsellor of the 
Korean Legation, being the first to fill that 
position. In 1897 he became associated in 
business with H. K. Fulton; licensed auc- 
tioneer; Notary Public, and commissioner 
for the State of Minnesota in the District 
oi Columbia. He is a member of the Board 
of Trade, National Geographic Society, Sons 
o' the American Revolution, the Order of 
Cincinnati, and the Dis-trict Revolver Asso- 
ciation. He married Florence Mabel Ful- 
ton, and is the father of two children. Resi- 
dence: 1213 Vermont avenue, n.w. Office: 
314 Ninth street, n.w. 

CARPENTER, FRANK GEORGE, journal- 
ist, was born In Mansfield, Ohio, May 8, 1855, 
son of George F. and Jeanette L. Carpenter. 
Was educated in the public schools of his 
native town and Wooster University, gradu- 
ating in 1877. He took up newspaper work 
with the Cleveland Leader in 1879, and trav- 
eled in Europe and Egypt in 1881, and has 
been Washington correspondent of the 
Cleveland Leader, American Press Associa- 
tion and the New York World; made a trip 
around the world for a newspaper syndicate 
and the Cosmopolitan Magazine during 
lSSS-89, and a tour of Mexico in 1891, and 
Russia, Germany and England in 1892, the 
following year traveling in the Orient. Dur- 
ing 1898 he traveled more than 25,000 miles 
in South America; in 1900 he visited the 
Philippines, Australia, Java, and New Zeal- 
and. In 1902 he made a tour to investigate 
the American commercial Invasion in Euro- 
pean countries. He is the author of man> 
books on travel, and has for years prepared 
special stories of travel for the magazine 
sections of the leading metropolitan papers. 
Married Joanna D. Condict, at Mansfield, 
Ohio, January 10, 1883. Address: 1318 Ver- 
mont avenue, n.w. 

CARR, EUGENE ASA, Brigadier-General, 
and brevetted Major-General, U. S. A. (re- 
tired), was born in Concord, Erie County, 
New York, March 20, 1830, son of Clark Mur- 
win and Delia Ann (Torrey) Carr. Was 
graduated from the West Poiwt Military 
Academy in 1850, and served as Second Lieu- 
tenant in the First Cavalry from 1855 to 1862, 
and Colonel of the Third Illinois Volunteer 
Cavalry; Brigadier-General of Volunteers 
from 1862 to 1866. He was Major aad Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel of the Fifth United States 
Cavalry, and Colonel of the Sixth, from 1862 
to 1892, when he was made Brigadier- 
General; was in thirteen Indian fights; 
served throughout the Civil War, and was 
in the battles of Wilson Creek, Missouri, and 
Pea Ridge, Arkansas, where he was wounded 
three times, afterwards being awarded a 
medal by Congress for bravery in these bat- 
tles. He also took part in the battles of 
Clarendon, Poison Spring, and Jenkin's Ferry, 
Arkansas, and the siege and capture of 
Vicksburg and Mobile; received resolutions 
of thanks from the legislative bodies of the 
States of Nebraska. Colorado and the Ter- 
ritory of New Mexico. He married Mary P. 
Magwir© in 186S. Address: War Depart- 
ment. 



CARR, WILLIAM PHILLIPS, physician, 
was born in Boydton, Va., May 10, 1858, son 
of Professor William B. and Laura (Phil- 
lips) Carr. He was educated in the Lees- 
burg Academy, Randolph-Macon College, 
and the medical department of Columbia 
University. He was once professor of physi- 
ology in Columbian University, and surgery 
in the Washington Post-graduate School, 
and has been surgeon to the Emergencj', 
University and Washington Asylum Hospit- 
als. He is a member of the Medical Asso- 
ciation of the District of Columbia, Associ- 
ation of American Anatomists, District 
Board of Pharmacy, and the Washington 
Academy of Science. He has contributed 
articles to the leading medical and surgical 
publications of the country. He married 
Georgia O. Carter, at Hamilton, Va., Febru- 
ary 15, 1883. Residence: 1418 L street, n.w. 

CARRINGTON, CAMPBELL, lawyer. Res- 
idence: Mount Vernon Flats. Ofl^ce: 505 D 
street, n.w. 

CARROLL, D. J., Chief Clerk of tho 
Weather Bureau, was born In Washington 
in 1860. He was educated in the public 
schools; enlisted as a private soldier in 
the Signal Service in 1879; was ordered to 
other places before being brought to the 
headquarters at Washington. He learned 
telegraphy at the school of Instruction at 
Fort Meyer, and had become a Sergeant, 
when he was transferrred to a civilian 
clerkship, October 2, 1888, and was promoted 
step by step till he reached his present posi- 
tion, July 1, 1903. He learned stenography 
and was ajt various times private secretary 
to General A. W. Greeley and Professors 
Harrington and Moore. Residence: 1008 
Twenty-second street, n.w. Office: Weather 
Bureau. 

CARROLL, HENRY, army officer was 
born in New York, May 20, 1838. He en- 
tered the Third United States Artillery Jan- 
uary 13, 1859, and became Captain of the 
Ninth Cavalry January 22, 1867; Colonel, 
Seventh Cavalry, March 29, 1898, and re- 
tired March 6, 1899, after forty years' serv- 
ice. He served in the Army of the Poto- 
mac and the Wilderness campaign in the 
Civil War, and was advanced to the rank 
of Brigadier-General by act of April 23, 
1904. He was brevetted Major February 27, 
1890, for gallant services against the Indians 
in New Mexico April 7, 1884, where he was 
severely wounded. Address: War Depart- 
ment. 

CARROLL, JAMES, physician, army sur- 
geon, was born in England on June 5, 1854, 
son of James and Harriet (Chiverton) Car- 
roll, and was educated at the Albion House 
Academy, at Woolwich, England; attended 
the medical department of the University 3f 
Maryland, graduating in 1891, afterward 
taking a post-graduate course In pathology 
and bacteriology in Johns Hopkins Univer- 
sity. Was later associated with Major Wal- 
tei Reed, who was surgeon in the United 
States Army, in the study of Sanarelli's sup- 
posed yellow fever bacillus. Is now First 
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United States Army, and professor of bacte- 
riolf.gy and clinical microscopy in the Army 
Medical College; professor of bacteriology 
and pathology in the medical department of 
George Washington University. He is a 
member of the Society of American Bacte- 
riologists, Clinico-Pathological Society of 
Washington, Washington Academy of 
Sciences, and the Biological Society of 
Washington. He is the author of many 
articles that have appeared in the leading 
medical journals. He was married to Jennie 
M. George Lucas, at Cleveland, Ohio, in May, 
1888. Residence: 2147 F street, n.w. Office: 
Army Medical Museum. 

CARROLL, MITCHELL, educator, was 
born at Wake Forest, N. C, on June 2. 
1870, son of Rev. John L. and Sarah (Mitch- 
ell) Carroll, and was educated at private 
schools; Richmond College, 1884-88; Johns 
Hopkins University, 1889-93; Universities v>f 
Berlin and Liepsic, 1893-94: American School 
of Classical Studies, at Athens, 1898-99. He 
was professor of Greek at the Richmond Col- 
lege, 1895-97. Since 1899 he has been pro- 
fessor of classical philology in George Wash- 
ington University, and director of the uni- 
versity publications in the same institution 
since 1905. During 1907 he was chairman of 
the committee that conducted the Local Site 
Fund Campaign, in which $200,000 was raised 
for the university by popular subscription. 
Was a deacon in the Calvary Baptist Churcn, 
1504-06. He is the author of many boolcs, 
among them being: Greek Women; The 
Orators of Ancient Greece; The Attica of 
Pausanlas, and has been a contributor to 
many leading magazines. He is secretary of 
the Archaeological Institute of America, and 
one of the founders of the Washington Soci- 
ety of the institute; member of the Pni 
Beta Kappa Society, Beta Theta Pi college 
fraternity, and the University Club. He is 
a member of the Baptist Church, and was 
ma-ried to Caroline M. Benedict September 
6, 1898. Residence: "Belair," Cleveland Park, 
D. C. Office: The George Washington Uni- 
versity. 

CARROLL, WILLIAM J., clergyman, as- 
sifctant rector of St. Patrick's Catholic 
Church. Residence: 619 Tenth street, n..v. 

CARRY, ALBERT, President Naitional Cap- 
ital Brewing Company, was born in Hechin- 
gen, Hohenzollern, Germany, on February 
17, 1852, and was educated in the schools 
of his native town. When twenty years of 
age, with a good knowledge of brewtng, he 
came to America, settling in Cincinnati, 
where he began a successful career. After 
sixteen years in Cincinnati, he came to 
Washington, purchased what is now the 
Washington Brewery, and three years later 
bought the brewery owned by Henry Robey, 
forming a company which is now known 
as the National Capital Brewing Company, 
now having a capacity of 100,000 barrels. 
He is identified with many of the city s 
financial Insiitutions being a director of 
the National Capital Bank, the American 
Security and Trust Company, and is a larg'> 
owner of real estate in the city. In 1875 
ho naarried Wilhelmina Bock Hauck, of Cin- 



cinnati. He is the father of seven children, 
five girls and two boys. Residence: 135 
Twelfth street, s.e. Office; D street, between 
Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets, s.e. 

CARSON, JOHN MILLER, journalist, gov- 
ment official, was born in Philadelphia, 
June 18, 1837, son of Thomais an-i 
Jane Carson. He entered a printing office 
at the age of seventeen, and was for five 
years a compositor, then reporter on morn- 
ing papers. From May, 1861, to June, 1864, 
h',; was Lieutenant-Captain of the Twenty- 
seventh Pennsylvania Regiment, then re- 
sumed newspaper work in Philadelphia until 
1873, when he became night editor of the 
National Republican at Washington. In 1874 
he became assistant correspondent of the 
New York Times and correspondent of tne 
Philadelphia Public Ledger. In 1877 he' be- 
came chief of the Times Dureau in Wash- 
ington. He resigned the latter position In 
1882, continuing as chief of the Washington 
bureau of the Philadelphia Public Ledger. 
These two papers passing into the same own- 
ership, he became chief of the consolidated 
bureau in 1892. He resigned in 1902, havinr: 
been appointed by President Roosevelt chief 
of the Bureau of Manufactures. As clerk 
of the Ways and Means Committee of the 
House of Representatives, under the chair- 
manship of William D. Kelley, of Pennsyl- 
vania, he assisted in forming the tariff ac: 
of 1883 and the McKinley act of 1890. Was 
one of the founders and first president of the 
Gridiron Club, and again president in 1905. 
He is a member of the Army and Navy Club 
and the military order of the Loyal Legion. 
He married, November 28, 1861, Annie L. 
Miller, of Philadelphia. Residence: 1332 
"Vermont avenue. Office: Census Building. 

CARTER, THOMAS HENRY, lawyer, U. 
S. Senator, was born in Scioto County, Ohio, 
on October 30, 1854; educated in the com- 
mon schools of Illinois, after which he en- 
gaged in farming, railroading, and school 
teaching for a few years, when he took up 
the study of law and was admitted to the 
bar. In 1882 he removed to Montana, set- 
tling at Helena, from which place he was 
soon elected a delegate to represent the Ter- 
ritory of Montana in the Fifty-first Congress, 
and when Montana was first admitted as a 
Slate he was elected as its first Represent- 
ative in Congress. During 1891-92 he was 
Commissioner of the General Land Office, 
and resigned when elected chairman of the 
Republican National Committee. He was a 
delegate from his State to the National 
Republican Conventions in 1896, 1900 and 
1904. In 1895 he was elected to the United 
States Senate by the Montana Legislature, 
to serve out the term from 1895 to 1901, 
and. In January, 1905, he was again elected 
tD the Senate, to succeed Hon. Paris Gib- 
son, a Democrat. His term will expire 
March 3, 1911. He is a Republican. Wash- 
ington residence: 1528 Sixteenth street, n.w. 
Legal residence: Helena, Mont. 

CARTER, WILLIAM G., merchant, was 
born in Prince Williams County, Virginia, 
in 1869. He was educated in the Washing- 
ton High School, after which he went Into 



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the employ of Golden, Love X- Co. (commis- 
sion merchants), now Golden & Co., as 
general clerk; became a member of 
the firm In < 1893, and since that time 
has attended ito the managerial part oi 
the business. Under his management the 
business has grown to its present dimen- 
Fions. He is a member of the Board Df 
Trade, and is a Mason. Residence: 1116 
Virginia avenue, s.w. Office: 926 Louisiana 
avenue, n.w. 

CARTER, WILLIAM HARDING, soldier, 

! was born in Nashville, Tenn., and was grad- 
uated from the West Point Military Acad- 

I emy. He was First Lieutenant and Regi- 
mental Quartermaster, Sixth Cavalry, from 
1879 to 1887: Captain of the Sixth Cavalry 

I in 1889; Major and Assistant Adjutant- 
General, 1897; Lieutenant-Colonel and As- 
sistant Adjutant-General in 1898; Colonel 
and Assistant Adjutant-General, 1902, and 
Brigadier-General in 1902. Saw service on 
the frontier f.-om 1873 to 1897, being awarded 

I a medal of honor for distinguished bravery 
in action against the Apache Indians at 
Cibicu Creek, Arizona, in 1881. Served in 
the War Department. 1897-1903; Command- 
ing-General, Department of the Visayas, 
Philippine Islands, 1904-05; Department of 
the Lakes, since 1906. He is the author of 

I several books: Horses. Saddles and Bridles, 

I From Yorktown to Santiago; Old Army 
Sketches, and Historical Sketch of the Sixth 
United States Cavalry. Address: Care War 

' Department. 

i CARUSI, EUGENE, lawyer, was born in 
Alexandria. Va.. in 1S35. His earlv educa- 
tion was obtained under a private tutor, 
[ afterwards attending Dr. Arnold's Semina:y 
and Rugby Institute. He began the reading 
j of law In 1856, in the office of the lace 
William J. Stone, who was one of the fore- 
most members of the old Circuit Court of 
the District of Columbia. Since 1859 he 
has been actively engaged in the practice of 
law. He has long been identified with legal 
1 education in the city, and is dean of the law 
j faculty of the National University Law 
I School. In 1893 he was elected president of 
I the District Title Insurance Company, and 
served in that capacity until 1899, when he 
' resigned in order to devote his entire time 
I to his profession, and he is now the senior 
j member of the law firm of Eugene Caru"-1 
& Sons. In 1860 he married Frances Stand- 
I ford, of England. Residence: 1225 Thirteenth 
street, n.w. Office: 1331 F street, n.w. 

CARVER, FRANK NOBLE, building con- 
tractor, was born in Charles County, Mary- 

I land, on December 6, 1843, son of Richard 
H. and Amelia (Bruce) Carver. He re- 

' moved to Washington when about five years 
of age, where he was educated in the public 
schools. After finishing in the schools ')f 
Washington he took up coach making as a, 
tiade, and worked at that business only for 
a short time, when he enlisted in the Con- 
federate Arm5', and served from the begin- 

I ning to the end of the Civil War. After th-j 

1 war he engaged in the building business in 
Richmond, and not long afterward came to 
Washington to locate permanently, whera 



he beg^n in the same business on a small 
scale. His business gradually Increased, until 
to-day many of the large office and bank 
buildings of the city are monuments to his 
ability. Among some of the buildings he 
has erected in the District are the Colum- 
bia National Bank, Raleigh Hotel, the Will- 
ard Building, the warehouse of the Union 
Trust and Storage Company, and the resi- 
dences of E. G. Davis and William S. Knox. 
In 1863 he married Miss Blunt, of Richmond, 
Va., and is the father of six children. Resi- 
dence: 1431 L street, n.w. Office: 1416 F 
street, n.w. 

CARY, WILLIAM J., Congressman, was 
born in Milwaukee, Wis., March 22, 1865. 
He was orphaned at thirteen, and immedi- 
ately began life as a messenger boy. In 
1900 he was elected an Alderman in Mil- 
waukee, and was re-elected in 1902 from 
the same ward. In 1904 he was elected 
Sheriff, and in November, 1906, was elected 
to the Sixtieth Congress from the Fourtn 
Wisconsin District as a Republican. Legal 
residence: Milwaukee, Wis. Washington ad- 
dress: House of Representatives. 

CASEY, SILAS, Rear Admiral, U. S. N. 
(retired), was born in Rhode Island on Sep- 
tember 11, 1841, son of the late General Silas 
E. Casey. He was graduated from the 
United States Naval Academy in 1860; served 
tliroughout the Civil War, and was in many 
engagements, including attacks on Pensa- 
cola. Fort Fisher and Fort Sumter. He was 
the officer in charge of Admiral John Rogers' 
fliff^hin Colorado at the Asiatic Station from 
1870-73, and commanded a battalion of sail- 
ors and marines from the fleet when they 
attacked and captured the Korean fo.-ts In 
1872; promoted to Commodore in 1898, and 
Rear Admiral in 1899. He was the com- 
mander of League Island Navy Yard. 1898- 
1900, and the Pacific Station, 1901-02; re- 
tired September 11, 1903. He married Sophia 
Gray Heberton, of Philadelphia, in Oct)- 
ber, 1865. Address: Navy Department. 

CASEY, THOMAS LINCOLN, soldier, was 
born in New York City, New York, Febru- 
ary 19, 1857, and attended the Wesit Point 
Military Academy. He was Second Lieuten- 
ant of the Engineer Corps in 1879; First 
Lieutenant in 1881; Captain in 1888, and 
Major in 1898. He has been identified with 
much important engineering work, and dur- 
ing the Spanish-American War he was chief 
engineer in building fortifications and lay- 
ing mines for defense around Hampton 
Roads. Virginia. He is a fellow of the 
American Association for the Advancement of. 
Science; member of the National Geographic 
Society, the New York Academy of Science, 
and the Philadelphia Academy of Science, 
et.'. Author of a number of papers, and has 
contributed to many scientific publications. 
He married Laura Welsh, of Philadelphia, 
on June 1, 1S98. Residence: 1419 K street, 
n.w. 

CASSEL, HENRY BURD. Congressman, 
was born in Marietta, Lancaster County, 
Pennsylvania, on October 19, 1855. He em- 
barked in the lumber business when a younf 



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man and became a member of the Arm ef 
A N. Cassel & Son, wholesale and retail 
lumber dealers. He has been chairman of 
tht Republican committee in his own county, 
and was a delegate to the National Repub- 
lican Convention held at St. Louis in 1896; 
and, in 1898, he was elected to the Penn- 
sylvania State Legislature, and re-elected in 
1900. In 1901 he was elected to the Fifty- 
seventh Congress, to fill the vacancy caused 
by the death of the Hon. Marriott Brosius, 
and has since been elected to the Fifty- 
eighth, Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Congresses 
from the Ninth Pennsylvania District. Re- 
publican. Legal residence: Marietta, Penn. 
Washington address: House of Represent- 
atives. 

CASSON, HENRY, Sergeant-at-Arms )f 
the House of Representatives. Residence: 
Z.i B street, n.w. Office: House of Repre- 
sentatives. 

CASTLE, HENRY ANSON, lawyer, was 
born in Columbus, Adams County, Illinois, 
on August 22, 1841, son of Timothy H. and 
Julia A. (Boyd) Castle, natives of Vermont. 
His earliest ancestor to immigrate to this 
country was Henry Casti'e, who came from 
England and settled in Connecticut in 1635. 
Graduated from the scientific department 
of McKendree College, Illinois, in 1862, after 
which he studied law and was admitted to 
the bar in 1864, and has practiced in Quincy, 
111.; St. Paul, Minn., and Washington, D. .7. 
Was editor and proprietor of the St. Paul 
Daily Dispatch (Minnesota) from 1876 lo 
1885. He has been an officer in many banks 
and corporations of St. Paul, and was a 
member of the Minnesota State Legislature 
in 1873; Adjutant-General of the same 
Slate, 1875-76, and postmaster of St. Paul 
fiom 1892 to 1896. He was auditor of the 
Post-office Department in Washington, 1897- 
1904. Was secretary-treasurer or chairman 
o- the Minnesota State Republican Commit- 
tee, 1875-86, and orator for that party in 
every political campaign from 1864 to 1906. 
He has been president of the St. Paul Cham- 
bei- of Commerce, a Department Commander 
of the G. A. R. and the Loyal Legion. He 
saw service during the Civil War as a pri- 
vate and Sergeant-Major of the Seventy- 
third Illinois Volunteers, 1862-63, and was 
wounded in the battle of Stone's River; was 
Captain of Company A, One Hundred and 
Thirty-seventh Illinois Volunteers in 1864. 
He Is the author of several books, and has 
contributed many articles to leading mag- 
azines. He has been a member of the Pres- 
byterian Church since 1861, and was mar- 
ried to Margaret W. Jaquess on April 18, 
1865. He is the father of seven children, 
five of whom are living. His son is Captain 
Charles W. Castle, Thirtieth Infantry, U. S. 
A., now in Manila. Residence, when in Wash- 
ington, 1310 Euclid avenue; summer home. 
North St. Paul, Minn. Law office: Maryland 
Building. 

CAUGHY, W. S., clergyman, pastor of St. 
Stephen's Catholic Church. Residence: 2436 
Pennsylvania avenue, n.w. 

CAULDWELL, FREDERICK WADS- 
WORTH, Coaaular Clwrk And ▲m«ricam 



Vice-consul at Barlln, Germany, wai born 
in Watkins, New York, September 23, 187S, 
son of James A. Cauldwell. H« was edu- 
cated in the schools of Oswejro, New York, 
graduating in 1892; was at one time the 
Washington correspondent of the Buffalo, 
N. Y., Courier, and the Hartford, Conn., 
Courant. He is unmarried. Address: Stat« 
Department. 

CAULFIELD, HENRY STEWART, lawyer. 
Congressman, was born in St. Louis, Mo., 
December 9, 1873, son of John Caulfield. 
He was educated in the public schools of 
St. Louis and at St. Charles (Mo.) College 
and was graduated from the law depart- 
ment of Washington University, in St. Louis, 
in 1895, being admitted to the bar the same 
year in St. Louis, where he has since prac- 
ticed. From 1897-1904 he was a director and 
attorney for the Lincoln Trust Company, to 
whose interests he devoted his entire time, 
and, since 1904, he has been engaged in 
the general practice of law. He was de- 
feated for Congress in 1904, but, in Novem- 
ber, 1906, was elected a member of the Six- 
tieth Congress from the Eleventh Missoun 
District as a Republican. He is a member 
of the Mercantile Club of St. Louis. In 1902 
he married Fannie Alice Delano, of Cuba, 
Mo. Legal residence: St. Louis, Mo. Wash- 
ington address: The Cairo. 

CHAFFEE, ADNA ROMANZA, retired 
army officer, was born in Orwell, AshtabuU 
County, Ohio, on April 14, 1842. He was edu- 
cated in the public schools of his native 
towns, and at the age of nineteen enlisted 
in the Third Regiment of Cavalry (now the 
Sixth). He served in the army continu- 
ously from the time of enlistment until vol- 
untary retirement, February 1, 1906. His 
service during the Civil War was with the 
cavalry of the Army of the Potomac, and 
during the subsequent years until 1898 at 
forts in the South and West He was Lieu- 
tenant and Captain of the Sixth Cavalry; 
Major of the Ninth, Lieutenant-Colonel of 
thf Third, Colonel of the Eighth, and Brig- 
adier - Major - General of the Volunteers, 
July 8, 1898, during the Spanish War. Ho 
was mustered out April 13, 1899, and ap- 
pointed Brigadier-General the same date; 
was a second time appointed a Major- 
General of Volunteers, July, 1900, and was 
made Major-General of the United States 
Army February, 1902, and Lieutenant- 
General January 9, 1904, when Vice-Lieuten- 
ant-General Young retired from active serv- 
ice. He served as chief of staff from Janu- 
ary 9, 1904, to January 15, 1906, when he 
retired at his own request. Was twice 
wounded during the Civil War. He com- 
manded the United States troops sent to 
China in 1900; the Division of the Philip- 
pines, July, 1901, to October, 1902, and the 
Department of the East, November, 1902, 
to November, 1903. Has been twice married, 
first, in 1867, to Kate Haynie Reynolds, of 
Austin, Texas, who died in 1869; second, Lo 
Annie Frances Rockwell, of Junction City, 
Kansas, in 1875. Residence: 17S1 K street, 
n.w, 

CHAMBERLAIN, EUGENE TYLER, 



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In Albany, N. T., September 2t, 1155, 
■on of Frank and Celia D. (Tyler) Cham- 
berlain. His father was Lieutenant-Colonel 
of the One Hundred and Seventy-seventh 
New York State Volunteers, and Commis- 
sary-General of New York State. He was 
educated at the Albany Academy and Har- 
vard, graduating from the latrer in 1878. At 
one time editor of the Albany Argus, and 
earlier associate editor of the Albany Journal. 
Has been Commissioner of Navigation since 
1S93. Is a member of the Metropolitan Club: 
a Catholic in religion, and in politics was a 
gold Democrat. He was married to Mary 
Let Barnette April 17, 1900, now deceased. 
Residence: The Bachelor, 1737 H street. 
Office: 719 Thirteenth street, n.w. 

CHAMBERLAIN, ISAAC DEARBORN, 

labor leader, was born in Frederickstown, 
Ohio, on October 20, 1840, son of Uriah T. 
Chamberlain, who was an anti-slave leader, 
and one of the founders of Oberlin College. 
During the Civil War he served with the 
Eighteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry, and was 
in Kilpatrick's Division of the Army of the 
Potomac. He also acted as correspondent 
for the Erie Gazette, Cleve»and Leader, and 
other papers during the Civil War. For a 
number of years he was a teacher in graded 
and high schools, and was for a time an 
editor and publisher in Colorado. He is a 
Past General Master Workman, general sec- 
retary. Knights of Labor, and editor of their 
official organ. He married Lydia Bennett, o( 
Kelk.ggsville, Ohio, October 31, 1872. Resi- 
dence: 68 P street, n.w. Office: 43 B street, 
n.w^. 

CHAMBERS, DAVID ABBOTT, lawyer, 
was born in Zanesville, Ohio, son of Dr. 
David and Mary Ann (Abbott) Chambers. 
Ho was educated in the public schools of 
his native town, and removed with his 
parents to Washington In 1853, where he 
entered the Union Academy and Columbian 
University remaining until his junior year, 
when he entered Marietta College, in Ohi.">, 
graduating in 1860, receiving the degree ">f 
A B. and A. M. After his graduation he 
returned to Washington, and was in the 
Government service umil 1874, since which 
time he has been a practicing p.ttorney. He 
is attorney for the Southern Pacific Com- 
pany, the Union Pacific, and the Pacific 
Mail Steamship Company, and their allied 
lines. Is a trustee of George Washington 
University, and the Cavalry Baptist Churcn. 
Member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, 
Sigma Alpha Epsilon, and Di Gamma col- 
lege fraternities; the Cosmos Club, and the 
society of the Sons of the American Revo- 
lution. At Zanesville, Ohio, on October 26, 
1865, he married Elizabetn Keyser Fracker, 
and is the father of three children. Resi- 
dence: 1441 Q street, n.w. Office: McGiH 
Building. 

CHAMBERS, WILLIAM LEA, lawyer, Gov- 
errment official, was born at Columbus, Ga., 
March 4, 1852, son of William Henry and 
Anne (Flewellen) Chambers. He was edu- 
cated at Emory Collet*, leaving before grad- 
uation to go to Yale University. Before get- 
ting his degree from Tare he accepted a 



prlncipalship of a school In Alabama, teach- 
Ine two years. He studied law and was 
admitted to the bar In 1873. He was a mem- 
ber of the firm of Stone & Clopton, and later 
a partner of Hon. Hilary A. Herbert (for- 
merly Secretary of the Navy). In 1893 he 
was American member of the Samoan Com- 
mission under the Berlin Treaty of 1890; In 
1897, Chief Justice of the International Court, 
Sc)moa, and, since 1901, has been a member 
of the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission. 
In 1888 he was president of the First Na- 
tional Bank of Montgomery, Ala., when he 
moved to Northern Alabama, being presi- 
dent of the company which founded Shef- 
field. He is a member of the Alabama His- 
torical Society; Chi Phi; American Archaeo- 
logical Institute, and the National Geo- 
graphic Society. On October 27, 1873, he 
married Laura Ligon, daughter of Justice 
David Clopton, of the Supreme Court of 
Alabama. Legal residence: Sheffield, Ala. 
Washington residence: 1310 Thirteenth street, 
n.w. Office: 1415 H street, n.w. 

CHAMBRUN, CHARLES DE, Secretary 
French Embassy. Address: 1640 Rhode Is- 
land avenue. 

CHAMPNEY, ELIZABETH WILLIAMS, 

author, was born at Springfield, Ohio, Feb- 
ruary 6, 1850, and was graduated from Vas- 
sar College In 1869. She traveled In Europe, 
and wrote many papers for Harper's and 
Century Magazines. Author of the Witch 
Winnie Books; The Bubbling Teapot; 
Howling Wolfe and His Trick Pony; All 
Around a Palette; Bourbon Lillies; Rose- 
mary and Rue; In the Sky Garden; the 
eleven series of the Vassar Girls Abroad; 
also four volumes of Dames and Daughters 
of Colonial Days (1899-1902); Romance of 
the Feudal Chateaux (1900); Romance of 
Renaissance Chateaux (1901); Romance of 
Bourbon Chateaux (1903); Romance of 
French Abbevs (1905); Romance of Ital- 
ian Villas (1906). She married. In 1873, J. 
Wells Champney, who died May 1, 1903. Ad- 
dress: 2019 O street, n.w., Washington, D. C, 
and Deerfield, Mass. 

CHANCE, MERRITT O., Chief Clerk Post- 
office Department, was born at Salem, 111., 
in 1870. He was educated in the commoa 
schools and at Mount Vernon (111.) Acad- 
emy, where he resided for some time. Ho 
entered the Government service in 1888, 
and has been promoted through various 
ranks to his present position. Residence: 
Kensington, Md. Office: Post Office Depant- 
mf.nt. 

CHANCELLOR, CHARLES WILLIAM, phy- 
sician, was born near Fredericksburg, 
Spottsylvania County, Virginia, on Febru- 
ary 27, 1831, son of Major Sanford and Fan- 
nie L. (Pound) Chancellor. His earliest an- 
cestor. Sir Richard Chancellor, Captain in 
tho English Army, settled in Westmoreland 
County. Virginia, in 1682. He was educated 
ar the Fredericksburg Academy, Georgetown 
College, University of Vrrglnia. and was 
graduated M. D. from the Jefferson Medical 
College, Philadelphia. He holds an honorary 
degre* from the Royal Society of Arts, Lit- 



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erature and Sciences in London. Was med- 
IcaJ director of General Pickett's Division 
Oi the Confederate Army from 1861-65, and 
professor of surgery and dean of the Wasli- 
ington University (now College of Physi- 
cians and Surgeons), Baltimore. Has been 
president of the Maryland Hospital for the 
Insane and secretary of the Maryland Stale 
Board of Health, etc. For several years 
was a member of the City Council of Balti- 
more, and two years president of the upper 
branch. He was United States Consul ai 
Havre, France, from 1893 to 1897. He is 
the author of many papers, contributing tD 
a number of the leading magazines. In poli- 
tics he is a Democrat. He married Martha 
A. Butler, of Jackson, Tenn. Residence: 
1712 N street, n.w. 

CHANCELLOR, WILLIAM ESTABROOK, 

educator, was born at Dayton, Ohio, Sep- 
tember 25, 1867, son of David W. and Har- 
riet (Estabrook) Chancellor. He was grad- 
uated from Amherst College, 1889; Long Is- 
land Medical School. 1892; Harvard Law 
School, 1895. and studied m Europe in 189.3. 
Ho was head of the history department of 
Erasmus Hall High School, New York, 1895- 
96; Superintendent of Schools Bloomfield, 
N. J., 1897-1904, and at Paterson, N. J., 1904- 
06, and is now Superintendent of Schools 
in Washington, D. C. He was a lecturer in 
New York University; Chicago University, 
1907; George Washington University, 1907; 
Johns Hopkins University, 1908. Member 
of the American Academy of Political and 
Social Science; School Masters' Club, New 
York; American Association for the Ad- 
vancement of Science; American History 
Association; American Geographic Society; 
National Geographic Society; Cosmos Club. 
He is the author of Mathematical Series (10 
volumes). 1902; The United States (a his- 
tory), with F. W. Hewes, to be in ten vol- 
umes; Our Schools, Their Administration 
and Supervision (1904); A Theory of Edu- 
cation (1907). He married, at Brooklyn, N. 
Y., December 14, 1892, Louise Beecher. Office: 
Franklin School. 

CHANDLER, EZEKIEL SAMUEL, JR., 

lawyer. Congressman, was born in Bellville, 
Hamilton County, Florida, on October 18, 
1862, and when eight years of age he re- 
moved to Tishomingo County Mississippi, 
and later attended the law department of 
the University of Mississippi, graduating in 
1881. Began the practice of law with his 
father at luka. Miss., under the name of 
Chandler & Chandler. Was chairman of tlie 
Democratic Executive Committee of Tisho- 
mingo County in 1884, and removed to 
Corinth, Miss., in 1887, where he still re- 
sides and is actively engaged in the prac- 
tice of law. He was a presidential elector 
in 1888, and was for ten years a member of 
the Democratic Executive Committee of 
Alcorn County, Miss. Has represented the 
First Mississippi Congressional District in 
the Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth and Fifty- 
ninth Cong-esses, and has been reelected 
to the Sixtieth. In politics he is a Demo- 
crat. On April 26, 1883, he married Nancy 
Piescllla Hazlewood. of Town Creek, Law- 
rence County, Alabama. Legal residence; 



Corinth, Miss. Washington address: House 

of Representatives. 

CHANDLER, JOHN G., army officer, vi^as 
born in Massachusetts December 31, 1830, 
ana was graduated from the United States 
Military Academy in 1853; brevetted Seconl 
Lieutenant. Third Artillery, July 1, 1853; 
Colonel and Assistant Quartermaster-General 
December 11, 1892; retired for age Decem- 
ber 31, 1894, and advanced to Brigadier- 
General retired by act of April 23. 1904. He 
served chiefly on the frontier until 1861, and 
throughout the war as Chief of the Quarter- 
master's Department; West Virginia in 1861- 
62; Armies of the Ohio and Gulf, 1862-65; 
was engaged in the bat*'e of Shiloh, siege 
of Port Hudson, expedition to Sabine Pass, 
Ped River expedition, and operation of the 
Thirtenth Army Corps In Texas. He was 
bievetted Colonel, U. S. A., March 13, 1865, for 
faithful and meritorious services during the 
war. Address: War Department. 

CHANDLER, WILLIAM EATON, Presi- 
dent of the Spanish Treaty Claims (Commis- 
sion, was born in Concord, N. H., Decem- 
ber 28, 1835. He was graduated from the 
Harvard Law School in 1855, and In 1859 
was made reporter of the New Hampshire 
Supreme Court. He was first secretary and 
then chairman of the New Hampshire Re- 
publican Committee, and Speaker of its 
House of Representatives in 1863-64. In 1865 
he was first Solicitor and Judge Advocate- 
General of the Navy Department, and later 
First Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. 
In 1868 he was a delegate to the Republican 
National Convention and secretary of the 
national committee until 1876. becoming later 
and especially outspoken opponent of th'^s 
Southern policy of the Hayes Administra- 
tion. On April 7, 1882, ne was appointed 
Secretary of the Navy, and began a modern 
navy in the construction of the Chicago, Bos- 
ton. Atlanta and Dolphin. He also success- 
fully championed the Greeley Arctic relief 
expedition in 1884. At the close of the Arthur 
administration he left the Cabinet, and, on 
June 14, 1887, was elected United States 
Senator from New Hampshire, and re-elected 
in 1889 and 1895. his term closing in 1901. 
He- was chairman of the Committees on Im- 
migration, Census, Privileges and Elections, 
and an active member of the Committees on 
Naval Affairs, Interstate Commerce, Posr- 
offlces and Post Roads. On March 4, 1901, 
he was confirmed as President of the Spani.sh 
Treaty Claims Commission, which position 
, ha still holds, and is completing the settle- 
ment of claims amounting to sixty millions 
ot dollars. Residence: 1241 I street, n.w. 
Office: 1415 H street, n.w. 

CHANEY, JOHN CRAWFORD, lawyer, 
Congressman, was born in Columbiana 
County, Ohio, in 1854, and removed to Fort 
Wayne, Indiana, when an infant with his 
parents. Reared on a farm near Fort Wayne 
and educated in the country schools and at 
the Ascension Seminary, later attending 
Terre Haute Commercial College and the 
University of Cincinnati. For five years he 
taught school at Farmersburg and Worth- 
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at Sullivan, Ind., In 1883, and remained there 
until 1889, when he accepted the positi in 
of an assistant to the United States Attor- 
ney-General and came to Washington, where 
h3 continued throughout the administration 
of President Harrison. I<ater he opened an 
office in Washington, and engaged again in 
the private practice of law, also maintaininfj 
an office at Sullivan, Ind. Upon the sign- 
ing of the treaty of peace with Spain the 
captured possessions became United States 
territory, against which the tariff duties 
C(>uld not be charged, an 3 he filed the orig- 
inal briefs in these epoch-making cases, 
which were known as the insular cases in 
the United States Supreme Court. He always 
claimed Indiana as his residence, and was 
active in political campaigns of that State. 
To his efforts is chiefly due the change in 
political matters in the Second Indiana Dis- 
trict. After a second attempt, he carried the 
Second Indiana District by 1.542 majority 
in 1904 on the Republican ticket for Con- 
gress. The campaign of 1906 was a notable 
one in the Second Congressional District, 
and Mr. Chaney won the race against the 
strongest campaigner the Democratic party 
could name. He is married and the father 
of two children, a daughtpr (recently mar- 
ried) and a son, who is editor of an Indiana 
paper. Legal residence: Sullivan, Ind. 
Washington address: House of Represent- 
atives. 

CHAPIN, ARTHUR A., merchant, was 
born May 18, 1866, at Spring Mills. New 
York, son of S. L. and Sarah (Lawrence) 
Chapin. He was educated in the Washing- 
ton public schools, and at once engaged in 
business. He is the senior member of the 
firm of Chapin <Sr Sacks; n Freemason, and 
a member of the East Washington Citizens* 
Association. On November 1. 1887, he mar- 
ried Frances Williamson, of Washington. 
Residence: 612 E street, n.e. Business ad- 
dress: First and Patterson streets, n.e. 

CHAPIN, FREDERICK EMMONS, lawyer, 
was born in Crittenden, Erie County, New 
York, on December 7, 1860. son of William 
Slocum and Katherine (Hart) Chapin. A 
number of his ancestors rendered gallant 
services in the Revolutionary War; John 
Hart, of New Jersey, a direct descendant on 
his mother's side, was one of the signers 
of the Declaration of Independence. After 
completing his preparatory education in th-3 
schools of his native county he entered the 
law department of Columolan (now George, 
Washington) University, from which he was 
graduated, with the degree of LL. B., In 
1888. and was admitted to the bar of the 
Supreme Court of the United States in 1894. 
From 1885 to 1891 he was private secretary 
to Senator Joseph R. Hawley, of Connecti- 
cut; secretary and law clerk to Justice 
Jackson, of the Supreme Court of the United 
States; secretary and law clerk to Justlc; 
Brown, of the Supreme Court of the United 
States. During the recesses of the Senate 
in 1891 and 1892 he was engaged In news- 
paper work on the New York Tribune, and 
contributed a series of letters on industrial 
conditions in Connecticut, incident to tha 
working of the McKiniey tarlfC bill; these 



letters were used In the campaign of 1892. 
Since 1876 he has been more or less con- 
nected with newspapers In various capaci- 
ties; served as auditor of the Washington 
Post for three years, resigning upon the 
change of ownership, to resume the general 
practice of law. Since 1903 he has been legal 
adviser to the Japanese Embassy. He is a 
member of the Episcopalian Church, Loyal 
Legion, Metropolitan, Chevy Chase, and 
Alibi Clubs, and, in politics, a Republican. 
On December 27, 1886, he married Mary Lou- 
ise Libbey of Washington, to which unioa 
have been born 'two children, a son and a 
daughter. Residence: 2027 O street, n.w. 
Office: 1410 H street, n.w. 

CHAPMAN, PLEASANT THOMAS, law- 
yer, Congresman, was born on a farm In 
Johnson County, Illinois, on October 8. 1854. 
He was educated in the public schoois and 
at McKend:ee College, at Lebanon, III., grad- 
uating in 1876. After graduating from the 
college he took up the study of law, and 
was admitted to the bar at Mt. Vernon, 111., 
in 1878. He has also been engaged exten- " 
sively in the banking business and farming. 
Was elected a county judge in 1882, and 
re-elected in 1886. In 1890 he was elected 
to the State Senate, and was re-elected 
twice. In 1904 he defeated James R. Will- 
iams, Democrat, in the Twenty-fourth Illi- 
nois District for the Fifty-ninth Congress; 
re-elected to the Sixtieth Congress. Repub- 
lican. Legal residence; Vienna, 111. Wash- 
ington address: House of Representatives. 

CHARLTON, PAUL, lawyer, was born in 
Harrisburg, Penn., on November 2, 185G, 
son of Samuel Templeton and Clare (Por- 
ter) Charlton. Among his ancetors who dis- 
tinguished themselves were Captain Jacoo 
Mytinger, his great -great-grandfather, who 
served on General Washington's staff; James 
Cha:lton, his grandfather, who was a sur- 
geon, and, in connection with Dr. Valentine 
Mott, performed the first operation of Cae- 
sarian Section in America. After complet- 
ing his preparatory education in the Har- 
risburg Academy, he entered Yale Univer- 
sity, from which he was graduated, A. B., in 
1878, after which he took up the study of 
law. and was admitted to the bar in 1882 
at Harrisburg, Penn. From 1S82 to 1888 
he was engaged in the practice of law in 
Harrisburg, and from 188S to May 4, 1905, 
at Omaha, Neb., when he oecame law officer 
of the Bureau of Insular Affairs, War De- 
partment, succeeding Charles E. Magoon. 
Ho is a member of the Protestant Episcopal 
Church, the Metropolitan Ctub of Washing- 
ton, Baltimore Yacht Club, and, in politics, 
is a Republican. On November 24, 1887. h-i 
married Elizabeth Patton Donnison (died 
1902), of Hollidaysburg, Penn., to which union 
were born three children. Residence: I'l'i 
H street, n.w. Office: 240 War Depart- 
ment. 

CHASE. GEORGE SIDNEY, lawyer, was 
born in Charlestown, Mass.. on October 27, 
1S50. son of Enoch and Mary J. Chase. His 
father was a shipbuilder, and was a mem- 
ber of the New England Emigrant Aid Asso- 
ciation, and conducted two parties to Kan- 



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las. in 1S54 and 1S56; laid out Topeka, and 
was prominent in troubles from 1854 to tiie 
outbreak of the war. He was educated in 
the public schools of Topeka, Kansas, later 
attending Washburn College and Harvard 
University. He is a Mason, and in politics 
a Republican. Is a member of the Unita- 
rian rhurch. He married Margaret Alice 
Griffith on August 29, 1876, and is the father 
of two children. Residence: The Sherman. 
Office: Bond Building. 

CHASE, ISAAC McKIM, mechanical engi- 
neer, was born in Baltimore, Md., on May 
27, 1837, son of Alexander and Mary N. 
(Cruser) Chase. He was educated in the 
Baltimore public schools, afterwards gradu- 
ating from the Maryland Institute, later en- 
tering the Washington Navy Yard, becoming 
master mechanic in 1868. He has been ex- 
pert in marine propellers and propulsion, 
and has written many articles on technical 
subjects, and is the author of a boolc, 
Screw Propellers and Marine Propulsion, 
and The Art of Pattern Making. He mar- 
ried Emeline Hall, of Washington, April 1, 
1878. Residence: 11 Seventh street, s.e. 

CHASE, PLIMPTON B., proprietor of 
Chase's Theater, director of the Washing- 
ton Savings Bank. Residence: The Con- 
necticut. Office: Chase's Theater. 

CHATARD, THOMAS MAREAN, mining 
engineer, was born at Baltimore, Md., De- 
cember 15, 1848, son of Ferdinand E. and 
Eliza M. Chatard. He was graduated from 
Mt. St. Mary's College in 1867, and Harvard 
trniversity in 1871; Heidelberg, Ph. D., 1876. 
He- is a member of the American Institute 
of Engineers, and lecturer on chemical engi- 
neering at George Washington Universi'ty. 
He married, at Baltimore, February 12, 1880, 
Eleanor A. Williams. Residence: 1716 Rhode 
Island avenue. 

CHEKIB BEY, MUSTAPHA, Envoy Ex- 
traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary 
from Turkey to the United States since July 
4, 1901, was born in Constantinople. Hd 
was educated by private tutors in his native 
country, making a specialty of languages, 
political economy, finance and law. He en- 
tered the Imperial O'Homan Government 
service as Secretary of Council of State; 
served in Foreign Correspondence Bureau; 
Governor Vilayet of Sinvas; Imperial Com- 
missioner to Montenegro, and First Sec- 
retary and Special Envoy to England. He 
received third-class order of Osmaneh; head 
of Bureau of Legal Counselors of the Lut- 
line Porte; Tusco-Bulgarian Commissioner 
tc organize laws of Eastern Roumelia, and 
received second-class oraer of Medjidick, 
and was raised to civil rank of Quia first- 
class with grand cordon of the Odmanich. 
He served as Imperial Ottoman Commis- 
sioner to the St. Louis Exposition, and was 
Imperial Dekgate to the Eighth Internatlonial 
Geographic Congress held in Washington, 
being one of the honorary vice-presidents. 
Ht is a commander of the Order of Danilo 
(Montenegro), Grand Cordon of Sun ani 
Lion (Persia). He married Firdecos Haniiu. 
and is the father of two sons and a daugh- 



ter. Ht is a. member of the Mohammedan 
Church, and the Metropolitan Club of 
Washington. Address: 2101 S street, n.w. 

CHENEY, JAMES WILLIAM, Librarian of 
the War Department, was born in New- 
buryport, Mass., January 22, 1849; gradu- 
ate of Dartmouth College, 1870; received 
the degree of A. M., 1875; high school prin- 
cipal, 1870-87; stenographer, 1888-96; libra- 
rian, 1897; church organist since 1864; or- 
ganist and director ait St. Paul's Church, 
Rock Creek Parish; member Alpha Delta 
Phi; Scottish Rite Mason, Thirty-second 
degree. Residence: 816 Taylor street. 
Office: War Department Library. 

CHESNUT, VICTOR KING, chemist, was 
born in Nevada City, Nevada County, Cali- 
fornia, on June 28, 1867, son of John A. 
and Henrietta Sarah Chesnut. Was edu- 
cated in the University of California and 
the University of Chicago, graduating in 
1890; was assl&tant and instructor in the 
University of California from 1890 to 1893. 
PYom 1894 to 1904 he was in charge of 
poisonous plant investigations In the United 
States Department of Agriculture; from 1904 
to 1907 was a professor of chemistry and 
geology, Montana Agricultural College, and 
is now assistant chemist in the drug labora- 
tory. United States Department of Agricul- 
ture. He has been vice-president of the 
Washington Academy of Science and presi- 
dent of the Washington Chemical Soci&ty. 
I? the author of many bulletins, among 
them being one on the principal poisonous 
plants of the United States. In politics he 
has always been a Republican. He married 
Olive B. Spohr on July 18, 1899, and is th-j 
father of four children. Address: Deparc- 
ment of Agriculture. 

CHESTER -COLBY, MITCHELL, naval 
ofljcer, was born in New London, Conn., on 
February 29, 1844, son of Melville and Fran- 
ces E. (Harris) Chester. In 1863 he was 
graduated from the United States Naval 
Academy; was promoted to Ensign the same 
year, and served as an officer on the Q. S. S. 
Richmond in the Civil War, and took part 
in the capture of forts in Mobile Bay and 
the city of Mobile, Ala. In 1868 he was pro- 
moted to Lieutenant-Commander; Captain, 
in 1896, and Rear Admiral, in 1903. From 
1870 to 1873 he served on board the U. S. S. 
Alaska, Asiatic Stajtion; in charge of sur- 
veys in China and Korea, 1880-85; was in 
charge of hydrographic surveys of the coast 
of the United States. Prom 1890 to 1894 
he was commandant of the cadets at the 
U. S. Naval Academy. Was Commander-in- 
Chief of the naval forces on the South Atlan- 
tic Station. 1896-97, and was engaged in tho 
Spanish War as Commander U. S. S. Cin- 
cinnati, and later commanded the battleship 
Kentucky. In 1902 he was appointed super- 
intendent of the U. S. Naval Observatory, 
and in 1905 was commander-in-chief of the 
special squadron to observe the total eclipse 
of the sun in Spain and Algeria, and made 
an inspection and report upon the astro- 
nomical observatories of Europe. He is a 
member of the American Association for 
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graphic Society; Paris Geographical Society, 
etc. In November, 1873, he married Melan- 
cia Antoineitte Tremaine. Address: Naval 
Department. 

CHESTER, ROBERT A., First Vice-Presi- 
dent the Commercial National Bank. Resi- 
dence: 2238 Q street, n.w. Office: 1401 a 
street, n.w. 

CHEW, NOLEN L., President Society for 
Savings, of Washington. Residence: 2119 
First street. Office: 704 Thirteenth street. 

CHICKERING, JOHN WHITE, educator, 
was born in Boston, Mass., on September 12, 
1831, son of John W. and Frances E. (Kn-ivvl- 
ton) Chicliering. He was educated at Bow- 
doin College and the Bangor Theological 
Seminary, graduating in 1852 and 1862, re- 
spectively. Became a Congregationalist min- 
ister and settled in Springfield, Vt., about 
1860. After remaining there for three year.? 
he became pastor of a church a*^ Exeter, 
New Hampshire. He has oeen professor of 
natural science in Gallaudet College since 
1870. He is a contributor of articles of a 
scientific nature to newspapers and journals. 
He is a fellow of the American Association 
for the Advancement of Science, a member 
of the American Social Science Association, 
the Washington Academy of Science, eic. 
He m:arried Luciana Jameson in 1856. Res- 
idence: The Portner. 

CHILCOTT, ELLERY CHANNING, agri- 
culturist, in charge of dry land agriculture 
investigations, Bureau of Plant Industry, 
United States Department of Agriculture, 
since 1905, was born at East Hamburg, N. Y., 
April 8, 1859, son of Benjamin Franklin and 
Philanda (Freeman) Chilcott. He was edu- 
cated at the Friends' In&titute in his home 
town and obtained an M. S. from South Da- 
kota Agricultural College. He was civil engi- 
rer and surveyor and United States Deputy 
Surveyor, 1882-92, and owned and managed 
a stock ranch in South Dako>ta, 1883-92. Was 
State Senator, 1892; professor of agricul- 
ture in South Dakota Agricultural College, 
and agriculturist to United States Experi- 
ment Station, 1893-95; vice-director an 1 
agriculturist United States Experiment Sta- 
tion, 1895-1905; professor of geology and 
agronomy, 1897-1905, and collaborator United 
States Department of Agricultural Cereal 
Investiga.tions, 1902-05. He is a member of 
the American Association for the Advance- 
ment of Science, National Geographic Soci- 
ety, and State Board of Agriculture, 1901-02, 
and a life member of the State Historical 
Society; member of the Cosmos Club. He 
n>arried, January 2, 1884, Alice Bu.shley, of 
Lake View, Mich. Residence: 3445 Mr. 
Pleasant street. Office: Department of Agri- 
culture. 

CHILDS, THOMAS SPENCER, clergy- 
man, was born in Springfield, Mass., son of 
Joshua and Susan (King) Childs. His early 
education was obtained in the high and pri- 
vate schools of Springfield, Mass. He after- 
wards attended the University of New York 
and the Princeton Theological Seminary. 
Both his grandfathers wt-re in the Revolu- 
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tionary War; one fought and was wounded 
ar Bunker Hill, and the other served as an 
officer under General Sullivan. He has been 
a pastor in Hartford and Norwalk, Conn., 
churches, and now at Chevy Chase, Mrt., 
and has been professor in Wooster Univer- 
sity and Hartford Theological Seminary. He 
was the first archdeacon of Washington, 
which office he held until his removal to 
Chevy Chase, in 1899. Was commissionei" 
to the Ute Indians by appointment of Prt-.-^i- 
dent Cleveland. He is the author of a n'im- 
bei of books, among them being: Justifica- 
tion (1861); Hints to Christians (1862); 
The Heritage of Peace (1868); Claims of 
the Ministry on Young Men (prize es.say) 
(1885); Difficulties of the Bible as Te.sied 
by the Law of Evidence (1888). Is a charter 
member of the Phi Beta Kappa, New York 
University, and a member of the American 
Geographic Society. Has been twice married, 
first to Mary E. Porter, of Hartford, Conn., 
and, second, to Jane Lawrence Perkins, of 
Boston, Mass. Residence: Chevy Chase, 
Maryland. 

CHILTON, ROBERT S., JR., Government 
official, was born in Washington, D. C, June 
19, 1861, son of Robert S. and Mary Vir- 
ginia (Brent) Chilton. After receiving his 
education in the public schools he entered 
the Department of State in 1867 as a clerk, 
being promoted through various grades unill 
h.5 reached that of chief clerk, In 1893. From 
1895 to 1902 he served as Chief of the Con- 
sular Bureau; private secretary to Vice- 
President Levi P. Morton, 1889-93, and made 
two inspections of consulates (1897 to 1898). 
During 1906 he was a member of the Consu- 
lar Reorganization Board, and is at the pres- 
ent time serving as United States Consul 
ac Toronto, Canada. He is a member of the 
Metropolitan and Chevy Chase Clubs of 
Washington, and the Toronto Club and 
Toronto Golf Club. On October 12, 1898, 
he married Mary A. Dooley, of San Fran- 
cisco, Cal., three children having been born 
to this union, two of whom are living. Ad- 
dress: 510 Jarvis street, Toronto, Ontario, 
Canada. 

CHIPMAN, G. BOWIE, member of the 
Washington Stock Exchange, and manager 
of E. R. Chapman & Co., bankers and 
brokers. Residence: 1402 L street, n.w. 
Office: 1301 F street, n.w. 

CHITTENDEN, FRANK HURLBUT, ento- 
mologist, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on 
November 3, 1858, son of S. King and Harriet 
M. Chittenden. He was educated in the 
Cleveland schools and Cornell University, 
and has been the assistant entomologi.ot of 
the United States Department of Agriculture 
since 1891. He was editor of the Entomo- 
logica Americana, in 1890; autnor or many 
bulletins and papers on entomology, and has 
contributed to many scientific magazines. 
Residence: 1323 Vermont avenue, n.w. Office: 
U. S. Department of Agriculture. 

CHITTENDEN, HIRAM MARTIN, rivil 
engineer, was born in Cattaraugus Counry, 
New York, on October 25, 1858, the son of 
William F. and Mary J. (Wheeler) Chitten- 



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den. He was educated in the district schorls, 
the High School of Frankllnville, N. Y.; 
graduated from West Point in 1S84, was as- 
signed to the corps of engineers of the army, 
and then spen.t three years at the Engineer 
School of Api)lication at Willotfs Point, Mow 
York harbor. Since leaving the lat'er insti- 
tution he has served in a variety of works 
under the War Department, largely on river 
and harbor work. He served as a commis- 
sioner to investigate the Yosemite National 
Park, in 1904, and on a commission of engi- 
neers for the State of California to in\esti- 
gatb the flood and reclamation probi<^m in 
the Sacramento Valley. Among his other 
special service? rendered was an investiga- 
tion of the subject of the Government tak- 
ing' hold of the irrigation froblem la the 
West; the development of the present sys- 
tem of public highways in the Yellowstone 
National Park; investigation of the grea.r 
flood in 1903 in Kansas City, and the reser- 
voir system of the headwaters of the Missis- 
sippi River. He is the author of several 
books, The American Fur Trade of the Far 
West, and the Yellowstone National Park, 
Historical and Descriptive, being the most 
prominent ones. He is a member of th>i 
American Society of Civil Engineers, the 
American Historical Association, and the 
National Geographic Society. In politics hn 
is a Republican, and is a member of the Con- 
gregational Church. He married Nettie M. 
Parker December 20, 1884, and is the father 
of three children. Address: Seattle, Wash. 

CHOATE, WARREN RAGAN, lawyer, was 
born in Washington, D. C, September 20, 
1865, son of Henry and Catherine M. (Ragan) 
Choate. His father was a broker, a prom- 
inent church philanthropic worker, and a 
member of the Legislature of Washington, 
when that form of government was in vogue. 
Attended the public and private schools of 
Washington, and took special courses of 
study at the National University and Colum- 
bian University. He practiced law in Wash- 
ington from 1889 to 1898, when he entered 
the Treasury Department as a law clerk, 
making the rulings concerning the taxation 
of documents under the revenue act, forced 
to raise money for the war with Spain. 
In March, 1903, he was appointed chief clerk 
to the Bureau of Corporations in the De- 
partment of Commerce and Labor, and or- 
ganized the clerical force and administrative 
dc-tails of that bureau, which had jusit been 
created by an act of Congress, February 11, 
1903. He is a Mason and a member of Fed- 
eral Lodge, No. 1; Columbia Chapter, No. 1, 
and Phi Sigma Kappa college fraternitv, 
and. in politics, is a Republican. Marriei 
Alice B. Fleming October 31, 1904. Resi- 
dence: Rockville, Maryland. Office: Depart- 
ment of Commerce and Labor. 

CHURCH, ALONZO WEBSTER, lawyer, 
librarian, was born in Athens, Ga., on Feb- 
ruary 16. 1829. son of Alonzo and Saraii 
(Triprffe) Church. He attended Franklin 
College (now the University of Georgia) 
graduating in 1847, and later .taking up the 
study of law with A. M. Franklin, being ad- 
mitted to the Georgia bar in 1852, practicing 



ill Case County, Georgia, for four years, 
later moving to Davenport, Iowa, where he 
practiced for four years. He was general 
solicitor for the Chicago and Alton Railroad 
ai Chicago for fourteen years, becoming dis- 
abled by a stroke of paralysis, he removed 
tj Washington, being appointed librarian in 
the United States Senate, holding that posi- 
tion at the present time. Married Mary Ann 
Robbins (now deceased), of Limerick, Conn., 
on October 6, 1858. Residence: 1706 Oregon 
avenue, n.w. Office: U. S. Senate. 

CHURCH, CHARLES B., formerly presi- 
dent and general manager of the American 
Ice Company, was born in Jefferson, Mary- 
land, September 11, 1826, son of Shepard S. 
and Eliza (Cherry) Church. At fourteen 
years of age he came to Washington and 
learned the carpenter's trade, and two years 
later he embarked in the business for him- 
self and carried it on until 1876. His lum- 
ber- business was carried on under the name 
of C. B. Church & Sons, and in 1886 he 
partially organied the Great Falls Ice Com- 
pany, and became its vice-president and gen- 
eral manager. In 1873 he was elected presi- 
dent and general manager of the Independent 
Ice Company, and held that office until it 
was merged with the American Ice Com- 
pany, in 1898, when he was chosen director 
and general manager of the latter; served 
unitil poor health obliged him to resign. In 
1876 he became chairman of the River and 
Harbor Subcommittee. He was for many 
years a director of the Board of Trade, and 
was treasurer for eleven years of the fir.->t 
co-operative building association of the city. 
When the Long Bridge was swept away by 
a freshet in the spring of 1852. he restored 
it, at small expense, in the short time )f 
twenty-one days, thus becoming a public 
benefactor. He built the Westminster Memo- 
rial Church, on Seventh street, n.w. On 
March 4, 1847, he married Matilda S. Har- 
ris. Residence: 306 Eleventh street, s.w. 

CHURCH, MELVILLE, lawyer, was born 
in Utica. New York, December 16, 1856, son 
of Truman Kilborn and Julia Maria Church. 
He was graduated from St. John's Academy 
(Aleandria, Va.) in 1871, and later attended 
the Columbian Law School, receiving the 
degrees of LL. B., LL. M. and L. P. M. 
Was admitted to the bar of the Districc 
of Columbia in 1879; is a member of the 
American Bar Association and the Cosmos 
Club. At the present time he is a lecturer 
on patent law in George Washington Uni- 
versity. Residence: 1608 Twentieth street, 
n.w. Office: 603 McGill Building. 

CHURCH, WILLIAM A. H., senior member 
of the firm of Church & Stephenson, lumber 
dealers, was born in Washington in 1853, 
so:i of Charles B. and Matilda S. (Harris) 
Church. He attended the public schools oi 
Washington and Columbian College, leaving 
in 1873 (his sophomore year) to go into 
business with the firm of A. B. Church & 
Co., to learn the lumber business. His father, 
who was at the head of C. B. Church & 
Co., soon took him into business as a part- 
ner, and to-day he is the senior member 
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the name of Church A Stephenson. In addi- 
tion to his lumber business, he is a director 
In the Citizens' Na>tional Banlt; vice-presi- 
dent of the Washington Asphalt, Block and 
Tile Company; vice-president and treasurer 
of the Brennan Construction Company, and 
manager and treasurer of the Mutual Fire 
Insurance Company. He is a member of 
the Board of Trade, and is prominent in 
Masonic circles. He has been twice mar- 
ried, first, to Margaret Clarlc, and, second, 
to Mabel Spicer. Residence: 317 Eleventh 
street, s.w. Office: Eighth street and Mary- 
land avenue, s.w. 

CLABAUGH, HARRY MORRIS, jurist, 
was born in Cumberland, Maryland, on July 
16, 1856. In 1862 he removed to Baltimore 
with his parent.s, and received his prepara- 
tory education at Loyola College, and later 
entered the Pennsylvania College, graduat- 
ing in 1877. After leaving college he took 
up the study of law, and entered the office 
of Bernard Carter, one of Maryland's lead- 
ing attorneys, and at the same time attended 
the Maryland University Law School, gradu- 
ating in 1878.' and at once took up the prac- 
tice of law. In 1895 he was elected Attorney 
General for the State of Maryland, on the 
Republican ticket. He served in this offict 
until 1899, when he resigned to accept an 
appointment as Associate Judge of the 
Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, 
made vacant by the election of Judge Louis 
E. McComas to the United States Senate. 
When Chief Justice Bingham retired, in May, 
1903, President Roosevelt appointed him to 
fill the vacancy of Chief Justice of the 
Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. 
His wife was Katherine Swope, a daughter 
of Hon. John A. Swope. Residence: 1527 
Rhode Island avenue, n.w. 

CLAPHAM, ASHTON G., secretary and 
treasurer of the Merchants' and Mechanics' 
Savings Bank, and cashier of the National 
City Bank. Residence: 2122 Connecticut 
avenue, n.w. 

CLAPP, MOSES EDWIN, U. S. Senator, 
was born in Delphi, Montana, on May 21, 
1851. In 1857 he removed with his parents 
to the State of Wisconsin, settling near Hud- 
son, where he obtained a common school 
education and later attended the Wisconsin 
Law School, graduating in 1873. In 1878 he 
was eleced attorney for St. Croix County, 
Wisconsin. He removed to Fergus Falls, 
Minnesota, in 1881, where he resided until 
1891, and during his residence there he 
served as Attorney General of the State in 
1887, 1889 and 1891. He took up his permi- 
nent residence in St. Paul in 1891, and was 
elected to the United States Senate in Jan- 
uary, 1901, to fill out the vacancy caused by 
the death of Senator Davis; re-elected in 
1905; his present term of office will expire 
March 3, 1911. In 1874 he married Hattio 
Allen. Legal residence: St. Paul, Minn. 
Washington address: U. S. Senate. 

CLARK, ALLEN CULLING, lawyer, was 
born in Philadelphia, Penn.. on February 23. 
1858, son of Appleton Prentiss and Elizabeth 
C, (Woodman) Clark. In 1863 be removed 



to Washlntton with hl« par«nt«, and ha» 
since resided here. Educated in the publi^; 
schools of Washington; studied law in the 
National University Law School, from which 
ho was graduated in 1878, and was admitted 
to practice before the bar of the District 
of Columbia on the day he became of age. 
For a long period previous to this time he 
was employed in the tax department of the 
District Government. He was one of the 
founder? of the Equitable Industrial Life 
Insurance Company, and since its incorpora- 
tion, in 1885, has been its secretary. He is 
one of the incorporators of the National 
Capital Bank, People's Fire Insurance Com- 
pany, and the Lincoln Hall Association, and 
is a director of the Columbia Title Insurance 
Company, and other financial enterprises in 
Washington. He is the author of Thomas 
Law; Greenleaf and Law in the Federal 
City; William Duane, and other works on 
local history. In 1872 he was awarded the 
first prize for the best essay by a pi;pil of 
the public schools, which was donated by 
the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty 
to Animals. He is a trustee of the Columbia 
Historical Society, and a regular contribu- 
toi to its pape-s. On November 21, 1882, 
he married Sarah Pearce. Residence: 2020 
O street, n.w. Office: Equitable Industrial 
Life Building. 

CLARK, ALON70 HOWARD, historian, 
was born in Boston, Mass., April 13, 1850, 

son of Thatcher and Abby (Carnes) Clark. 
Educa.ted at Wesleyan University (M. A. 
conferred). After leaving college engaged 
in mercantile business in New York; later 
in charge of United States Fish Commis- 
sion Station at Gloucester, Mass.; special 
agent Tenth Census; curator of the Division 
of .\merican History of the United States 
National Museum since 1883, and editor of 
the Smithsonian Institu.tion since 1892. He 
was a commissioner to the London Interna- 
tional Fisheries Exposition in 1883, and ex- 
pert commissioner of the United States ta 
the Paris Exposition in 1889. He has been 
decorated with the Cross Offlcier du Merits 
Africole of France. He is secretary of the 
American Historical Associa^tion; secretary 
general of the Sons of th^ American Revo- 
lution; member of the Society of Colonial 
Wars, and of the Mayflower Descendant-j, 
etc. Author of several books and reports, 
among them being the Fishery Industry of 
the United States: The Whale and Seal 
Fisheries, and Food Industries of the World. 
Married Alice Morrew, at Gloucester, Mass., 
on June 25, 1881. Office: Smithsonian In- 
stitution. 

CLARK, APPLETON PRENTISS, JR., 

architect, was born in Washington, D. C, 
November 13. 1865, son of Appleton P. and 
Ebzabeth C. (Woodman) Clark. He was edu- 
cated in the public schools, graduating from 
the High School in 1883. His future profes- 
sion was indicated at an early age, when he 
received a gold medal for an original design 
in drawing. He served a pupilage in thg 
office of the late A. B. Mullett, although hia 
architectural education has largely been self- 
acquired. He made a tour of Europe, study- 
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the opening of his practice, he won the $2,000 
prize offered by the New Yo:k City Municipal 
Government In a building competition. He 
was one of the number selected by the Dis- 
trict of Columbia Commls-jioners to revise 
the city building regulations. Among some 
of the buildings he has designed are the 
Washington Post, Columbia Theater, Gar- 
field Hospital, National Capital Bank, West 
PJnd National Bank, Home Savings Bank, 
Eastern Presbyterian Church, the residences 
of Wayne McVeagh and Beriah Wilkins. In 
lf^91 he married Florence Perry. Residence. 
1762 Lanier place. Office: 605 F street, n.w. 

CLARK, C. CHARLES, Associate Statisti- 
cian of the Department of Agriculture, was 
born in Washington, D. C. In 1875. He is 
a graduate of the public schools of Wash- 
ington and of the Philadelphia Law Schooi, 
and a member of the Philadelphia bar, and 
of that of the District of Columbia. H.^ 
was graduated from the Columbian (now 
George Washingiton) University Law School 
in 1900 as Master of Laws, and 1901 from 
the School of Jurisprudence and Diplomacy 
of the same as Doctor of Civil Law. Ha 
entered the Statistical Bureau of the De- 
partment of Agriculture Ih 1899, and has 
been advanced through all grades to his 
present position. Residence: 1362 Newton 
place, n.w. 

CLARK, CHAMP, lawyer, Congressman, 
was born in Anderson County, Kentucky, 
on March 7, 1850. He was educated at 
Kentucky University, Bethany College, and 
the Cincinnati Law School. During 1873-74 
he was president of Marshall College, In 
West Virginia, and for a number of years 
held the record for being the youngest col- 
lege president in the country. In 1875 he 
removed to Missouri and engaged in the 
practice of law, and was soon elected City 
Attorney of Louisiana, and later of Bowl- 
ing Green. He has been Prosecuiting Attor- 
ney, presidential elector, and was vice- 
president for Missouri of the Trans-Missis- 
slppl Congress which was held at Denver 
in 1891, and In 1904, when the Democratic 
Convention was held In St. Louis, he was its 
permanent chairman, and chairman of the 
Committee on Noitification to wait on the 
presidential nominee. He has represented 
the Ninth Missouri Congressional District 
in all Congresses since the Fifty-second Con- 
gress. Democrat. Married Genevieve Ben- 
nett. Legal residence: Bowling Green, Mo. 
Washington address: House of Represent- 
atives. 

CLARK, CHARLES EDGAR, naval officer, 
was born In Bradford, Vermont, on August 
10, 1843, and was graduated from the United 
States Naval Academy in 1863, and was pro- 
moted to Ensign when graduated. He took 
part in the battle of Mobile Bay and the 
bombardment of Fort Morgan. In 1866 he 
was promoted to Master; Lieutenant in 
1867, Lieutenant-Commander in 1868, Com- 
mander in 1881, Captain in 1896, and Rear 
Admiral in 1902. He commanded the battle- 
ship Oregon from San F-ancisco around the 
Horn to Key West, a distance of 14,000 
nilles.and took part in the battjg with Cerve- 



ra's fleet off Santiago In 1898. For some time 
after the Spanish-American War he was In 
command of the League Island Navy Yard, 
at Philadelphia. He married Marie Davis, 
of Greenfield, Mass. Address: Navy Depart- 
ment. 

CLARK, CLARENCE DON, lawyer, U. S. 
Senator, was born in Sandy Creek, Oswego 
County, New York, on April 16, 1851. Ho 
received his early education in the public 
schools and attended the Iowa State Uni- 
versity; later took up ifte study of law, 
and was admitted to the bar in 1874, and 
taught school and practiced law in Delaware 
County, Iowa, until 1881, when he removed 
to Evanston, Wyoming, where he still re- 
sides. For four years he was Prosecuting 
Attorney for Uinta County, Wyoming, and 
was appointed Associate Justice of the Ter- 
ritory of Wyoming in 1890, but declined the 
office. He was a delegate to the National 
Republican Conventions in 1888, 1900 and 

1904. When Wyoming was adimtted as a 
State he was elected its first Congressman, 
and served in the Fifty-first and Fifty-second 
Congresses, being defeated for the Fifty- 
third by the Democrats and Populists. In 
January, 1895, he was elected to the United 
States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by 
the failure of the Legislature to elect in 
1892-93. His first term expired In 1899, when 
h'3 was re-elected, and again re-elected In 

1905. His present term of office will expire 
March 3, 1911. Legal residence: Evanston. 
Wyo. Washington address: 1855 Mintwood 
place, n.w. 

CLARK, EDGAR ERASTUS, member of 
the Interstate Commerce Commission since 

1906. was born at Luna, New York, Febru- 
ary 18, 1856, son of Henry Dean and Nancy 
Elizabeth (Jones) Clark. He was educated 
au the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, Lima. 
N. Y., and has been Grand Chief Conductor 
of the Railway Conductors of America since 
1890. and was a member of the Anthracite 
Coal Strike Commission, 1903. He Is a mem- 
ber of the Commercial Club of Cedar Rap- 
ids, Iowa; the Army and Navy Club of 
Washingiton; member of the Executive Com- 
mittee of the National Civrc Federation, and 
National Child Labor Committee; member 
of ithe American Academy and of the Insti- 
tute of Social Science. He was married, Sep- 
tember 1, 1880, to Lovenia Jenkins, and five 
children were born to them, all of which 
are living. Residence: The Rochambeau. 
Office: Interstate Commerce Commission. 

CLARK, EDWIN SPOTTSWOOD, mer- 
chant, was born in Farquier County, Vir- 
ginia, in 1859, son of Dr. E. P. and Judith 
(Taliaferro) Clark. In 1882 he entered the 
employ of Hooe Bro. & Co., and five years 
laiter went to W. B. Moses & Sons, with 
whom he remained for thirteen years. He 
then went into business for himself, form- 
ing the firm of Clark & Davenport (general 
housefurnishings). He married Miss Sweet, 
of Washington. Residence: 1720 Seven- 
teenth street, n.w. Business address: Tenth 
and' F streets, n.w. 

CLARK, FRANK, lawyer. Congressman, 
was Iporn ip Bufaula, Parbour County, AJ*- 



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bama, on March 28, 1860, son of John Wise 
and Mary E. (Kells) Clark. His father was 
Sheriff of Barbour County, and Captain of 
the Eufaula Light Artillery In the Confed- 
erate States Army. He obtained his edu- 
cation in the public schools of Georgia and 
Alabama, afterwards taking up the prac- 
tice of law at Fairburn, Georgia. He was 
a member of the Florida State Legislature 
for three terms, and United States District 
Attorney for the Southern District of Flor- 
ida during President Cleveland's second ad- 
ministration. Was chairman of the Demo- 
cratic State Committee in Florida in 1900. 
and was elected to the Fifty-ninth Con- 
gress from ithe Second Florida District, and 
re-elected to the Sixtieth Congress. He is 
a member of the Knights of Pythias, Wood- 
men of the World, and the Elks; a member 
ot the Baptist Church, and in politics a 
Democrart. He married Mary Ellen Mayo 
on October 8, 1884, and is the father of si-c 
children, four of whom are living. Legal 
residence: Gainesville, Fla. Washington 
residence: The Driscoll. 

CLARK, ISAAC, clergyman (D. D), pro- 
fessor of Scriptural Theology and English 
Exegesis at Howard University. Address: 
Howard University. 

CLARK, JOHN BULLOCK, lawyer, was 
born in Fayette, Missouri, on January 14, 
1831, and was graduated from the Harvard 
Law School in 1854. He entered the Confed- 
eralte Army as a Lieutenant, and was pro- 
moted to Brigadier-General. After the war 
he resumed his law practice at Lafayette, 
Mo., and was a member of Congress con- 
tinuously from 1873 to 1883. For several 
years he was a clerk in the House of Rep- 
resentatives. Residence: 1614 P street, n.w, 
I Office: Baltic Building. 

CLARK, JOSEPHINE ADELAIDE, libra- 
rian, was born in Weston, Mass., on March 
9, 1856, daughter of John Richardson and 
I Caroline (Derby) Clark. She was graduated 
I from Smith College in 1880; taught school 
for a few years, and then entered the Nev/ 
! York Statte Library School as a student, 
! afterwards becoming assistant in the library 
of the Gray Herbarium at Harvard Univer- 
I sity From 1901 to 1907 she was chief libra- 
(' rian of the United States Departmeriit of 
I Agriculture. In June, 1907, was appointed 
librarian of Smith College, Northampton, 
' Mass. She Is a member of the Collegiate 
I A'umnae Association and the American 
Library Associa'tion. Residence: 4 West 
street, Northampon, Mass. 

I CLARK, VICTOR SELDEN, educator, was 
born in Portageville, Wyoming County, New 

i York, on June 12, 1868, son of Major Selden 
and Helen E (Davis) Clark. His father was 

I formerly Washington correspondent for the 
New York Tribune. He was educated at 

( the Minnesota State University, Chicago Uni- 
versity. Gottingen and Bern, Switzerland, 
later receiving a Ph. D. from Columbia. For 
a number of years he was High School Prin- 

' cipal and Superintendent of Schools in Min- 

i nesota. He he has been Insuiar Superintend- 

I ent of School* and President of the Insular 



Board of Educa'tion in Porto Rico. He suc- 
ceeded General John Eaton in the reorgan- 
ization of the public school system of Porto 
Rico in 1899 and 1900. Author of text-books, 
a work upon Australia, many papers, among 
them being reports on the labor and eco- 
nomic conditions in ithe West Indies, Hawaii 
and the Philippines. At the present time 
he is associated with the Carnegie Institu- 
tion as assistant in charge of 'the history 
of American manufactures. He is a mem- 
ber of the Beta Theta Pi college fraternity, 
and a Republican in politics. Unmarried 
Residence: The Ontario. 

CLARK, WILLIAM ANDREWS, mine 
owner, banker. United States SenaJtor, was 
born on a farm near Connellsville, Fayette 
County, Pennsylvania, on January 8, 1839. 
He attended the public schools and removed 
with his father to Iowa in 1856. For some 
time he taughit school and studied law at 
Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, and later was employed 
in the quartz mines around Central City, 
Colorado, in 1862, removing to Montana the 
following year, where he has since resided. 
He was president of the firs^t two Consti- 
tutional Conventions of his State, which 
were held in 1884 and 1889. In 1888 he was 
a candidate for Congress, but was de- 
feated on account of a clique in his own 
party. In 1890 he was elected to /the United 
States Senate by the Democratic Legislature, 
but was not seated, owing to the trouble 
growing out of the organization of two 
Legislatures in the State, resulting in the 
Republican Senators being seated. He is 
extensively engaged in mining, banking, 
manufacturing, and various other enterprises. 
In January, 1899, he was elected to the 
Uniited States Senate to succeed Hon. Lee 
Mantle, a Republican. A memorial was pre- 
sented asking that his election be investi- 
gated, which was referred to the Committee 
on Privileges and Elections. After an inves- 
tigaition a resolution was reported making 
the election void; the resolution was not 
acted upon on the floor, as, in a speech, he 
stated that he had handed in his resigna- 
tion to Ithe Governor of Montana, and de- 
sired that the matter be submitted to the 
people of his State, and he would abide by 
their verdidt. He was immediately appointed 
by the Governor to fill the vacancy createl 
by his resignation, but was not sworn in 
under the credentials. In the Montana 
Democratic Convention held the following 
September, a resolution was unanimously 
adopted demanding his re-election to the 
Senate, and the following November the 
Democratic legislative ticket was elected, 
and in January, when they met, he was re- 
elected to the United States Senate, to suc- 
ced Senaitor Carter, taking his seat in 1901; 
his term of office expired in March, 1907. 
Legal residence: Butte, Montana. Washing- 
ton residence: 1915 Massachusetts avenue, 
n.w. 

CLARK, WILLIAM THOMAS, soldier, was 
born in Norwalk, Connecticut, on June 2rf, 
1S31, son of Levi and Fannie C. Clark. He 
served in the Union Army from private *o 
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out the Civil War. Wa» Chief of Staff and 
Adjutant-General of the Army of the Ten- 
nessee. Left the army in 1866 as Division 
Commander, and engaged in business at 
Galveston, Texas. He served as a member 
of Congress from the Galveston districr, 
1869-73, and secured the first appropriation 
of JIOO.OOO for a harbor, which resulted in 
the completion of the jetties, making Gal- 
veston one of the leading ports of the coun- 
try. He is the last surviving Adjutant and 
Chief-of-Staff of General Grant's old Army 
of the Tennessee. Married Laura Clark, of 
Hartford, Conn., on November 13, 1856. Resi- 
dence: 1528 U S'treet, n.w. 

CLARKE, DANIEL B., (M. D.), Presi- 
dent Franklin Insurance Company. Resi- 
dence: 1422 Massachusetts avenue. 

CLARKE, FRANK WIGGLESWORTH, 

chemist, was born in Boston, Mass., on 
March 19, 1847, son of Henry W. and Abby 
M. (Fisher) Clarke. He attended the schools 
of Boston, the Lawrence Scientific School and 
Harvard University, from which insititution 
he was graduated in 1867; Columbian Uni- 
versity conferred upon the honorary degree 
of D. Sc. in 1899; Victoria University, in 
England, conferred the same degree in 1903, 
and Aberdeen gave him the degree of LL. D. 
in 1906. In 1869 he was an instructor in 
Cornell; professor of chemistry in Howard 
University, 1873-74, and the University of 
Cincinnati from 1874 to 1883. He has been 
chief chemist in the United States Geological 
Survey, and an honorary curator in tlie 
National Museum since 1883. Author of sev- 
eral books and many scientific articles whicn 
have appeared in different journals; is a 
member of the Cosmos Club, and, as to poli- 
tics, he is independent. He is a member of 
the Unitarian Church. He married Mary 
Parker Olmsted on September 9, 1874, and 
is the father of three daughters. Residence: 
1612 Riggs place, n.w. Office: U. S. Geological 
Survey. 

CLARKE, GEORGE CAMPBELL, physi- 
cian, was born in Scheilsburgh, Bedford 
County, Pennsylvania, on September 23, 
1862, son of William A. B. and Jane L. 
Clarke. He was educated in the public 
schools and the academy of his native town 
until 1879, when he went to Washington and 
Jefferson College and later to the Jefferson 
Medical College, at Philadelphia, gradua,ting 
in 1888. After graduation he located in 
Washington. Member of the American Med- 
ical Association, District of Columbia Med- 
ical Association, and the Washington Med- 
ical and Surgical Society. He is a member 
of the Presbyterian Church, and, in politics, 
a Republican. Married Mollie I. Leitch on 
August 16, 1889, and is the father of two 
children. Residence: 321 East Capitol street. 

CLARKE, JAMES P., lawyer, Unite! 
States Senator, was born in Yazoo City, 
Yazoo County, Mississippi, on August 18, 
1854. He attended the common schools of 
hip native town and studied law at the Uni- 
versity of Virginia, from which institution he 
was ffraduated in 1878. Began the practice 
of hia profession in Helena, Arlcansas, in 



1S79. In 1886 he wn:^ elected to ithe State 
Legislature, and In 1888 to the State Senaiti, 
serving in that body until 1892, being presi- 
dent ex-officio; Lieutenant-Governor in 1891. 
Ill 1892 he was elected Atitorney-General 
of Arkansas, and in 1894 was elected Gov- 
ernor. After serving his State as Governor 
h'i removed to Little Rock, resuming the 
practice of law in that city. Having been 
chosen the Democratic nominee at the pri- 
mary election, he was elected to the United 
Staites Senate, to succeed James K. Jones, 
in 1902, taking his seat on March 4, 1903. 
His term of office will expire on March i, 
1909. Democrat. Legal residence: Little 
Rock, Ark. Washington address: U, S. 
Senate. 

CLAUGHTON, R. E., Treasurer of the 
United States Trust Company. Residence: 
The Plaza. Office: 611 Fourteenth street, 
n.w. 

CLAY, ALEXANDER STEVENS, lawyer. 
United Sta)tes Senator, was born in Mari- 
etta, Cobb County, Georgia, on September 
2.5, 1853. He was educated in the country 
schools and at the High School at Palmetto, 
Georgia, later attending Hiawassee College, 
graduating in 1875. Taught school for two 
years and then took up the study of law 
at Marietta, and was admitted to the bar 
ill 1877. In 1880 he was elecited a membrir 
of the City Council, and in 1881 was re- 
elected, and during 1884-87 he represented 
Cobb County in the State Legislature; dur- 
ing 1887 he was Speaker pro tempore. Was 
again elected to the Legislature in 1889, and 
served for two years, being Speaker at the 
time. In 1892 he was elected a member 
of the State Senate, and for two years served 
as president of that body. He was chair- 
man of the State Democratic Commiittee in 
1894, conducting the campaign between the 
Democrats and Populists; was re-elected in 
1896. and still holds that position. In 1896 
he was elected to the United States Senate, 
to succeed John B. Gordon, taking his seat 
on March 4, 1897. He was re-elected in 190"J, 
and his presenit term of office will expire 
March 3, 1909. Legal residence: Marietta, 
Georgia. Washington address: U. S. Sen- 
ate. 

CLAY, CECIL, soldier. Civil Service ofE- 
cal, was born in Philadelphia on February 
13, 1842, son of Joseph A. and Cornelia 
(Fletcher) Clay. He was graduated from the 
University of Pennsylvania in 1859. Enlisted 
in the Fifty-eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers 
in 1861; Captain in 1862; was promoted to 
Major, Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel, and 
bievetted Colonel and Brigadier-General of 
the United States Volunteers in 1865; mus- 
tered out in 1866. He received a medal cf 
honor from Congress for distinguished bra- 
very shown during the aittack on Fort Har- 
rison, Virginia, in 1864, where he lost one 
arm and was badly wounded in the other. 
Was president of the St. Lawrence Boom 
and Manufacturing Company from 1870 to 
1S79; Colonel of the Second District of 
Columbia National Guard for ten years, end- 
ing 1897, and is well known as a hunter of 
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range. He has been a contributor of articles 
to several of the leading: magazines. From 
IfiS:^ to 1903 he was chief clerk of the Unitei 
States Department of Justice, and since 
then its general agent. He is a member of 
the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, 
Medal of Honor Legion, Society of the Army 
of the Potomac, the University Club, Penn- 
sylvania Historical Society, Churchman'.3 
League, the National Geographic Society, 
etc. Married Anna Wood Kester, of Phil- 
adelphia, June 8, 1865. Residence: 1513 S 
street, n.w. Office: Department of Justice. 

CLAYTON, HENRY D., lawyer. Congress- 
man, is a native of Barbour County, Ala- 
bama. Before being elected to Congress he 
v/a.^ engaged in the practice of law, and 
from 1893 to 1896 he was United States Dis- 
ttrict Attorney. He has served in the Ala- 
bama State Legislature, and was a Demo- 
cratic presidential elector in 1888 and in 
1892. He has represented the Third Ala- 
bama Congressional District in Congres.s 
continuously since the Fifty-fifth Congress. 
Democra't. Legal residence: Eufaula, Ala, 
Washington address: House of Representa- 
tives. 

CLEMENTS, COURTLAND CUSHING, 

lawyer, was born at Blooming Grove, Indi- 
ana, March 26, 1843, son of James Morris and 
Catherine (Ferris) Clements, and was edu- 
cated at the United States Naval Academy. 
H"^ was acting receiver United States Land 
Office of Colorado, 1864-68, and register 
United States Land Office, Utah, 1869-74. 
Hu was admitted to the bar in 1865, and has 
practiced in Washington since 1880, repre- 
senting the Denver, Northwestern and Pacitic 
Railway. He was married August 26, 1868, 
a: New Castle, Indiana, to Ellen, daughter 
of General William Grose, Midshipman, U, S. 
N, 1860-63. Residence: 2438 Columbia load. 
Office: Colorado Building. 

CLEMENTS, JUDSON C, lawyer, member 
of the Interstate Commerce Commission, was 
born in Walker County, Georgia, on Febru- 
ary 12, 1846. He was educated in the pri- 
vate schools near his home, later taking 
up the study of law at Cumberland Uni- 
versity (Tenn.). Enlisted in the Confederace 
Army and served throughout the Civil War, 
having been promoted to First Lieutenant. 
Was admitted to the bar in 1869, and prac- 
ticed at Lafayette, Georgia; member of the 
Georgia State I^egislature from 1872 to lS7fi; 
State Senator from the Forty-fourth Georgia 
District, 1877; represented the Seventh 
Georgia District in Congress from 1881 to 
1891. He has been a member of the Inter- 
slate Commerce Commission since 1892. Mar- 
ried Lizzie E. Delaney, of Louisville, Ky., on 
December 2, 1868. Legal residence: Rome, 
Georgia. Washington residence: 2113 Ban- 
croft place, n.w. Office: American National 
Bank Building. 

CLEMENTS, RUTH SYPHERD, illus- 
trator, was born near the Lee mansion, la 
Alexandria County, Virginia, in 1885. She 
was educated in the public schools of 
Washington, and attended the Art School 
at the Corcoran Art Gallery. She studied 



two years at the Drexel Art School in Phil- 
adelphia, and one year in New York, re- 
turning to Washington to resume her stud- 
ies. She has won several prizes, among them 
$50 in gold given by the Countess Cassini 
for the best painting advertising her ente"- 
tainment for the benefit of the Russian suf- 
ferers in the Russo-Japanese War. She also 
v/on one of the prizes for the best emblem, 
ofl'ered by the Jamestown E.xposition Com- 
pany; has made many sketches and designed 
covers for magazines and illustrated books. 
Unmarried. Residence: The Berkshire. 

CLEPHANE, LEWIS PAINTER, real es- 
tate broker, was born at Washington, D. C, 
February 8, 1869, the son of Lewis and Annie 
M. (Collins) Clephane, his father being one 
of the organizers of the Republican par:y 
and vice-president of the first convention, 
a personal friend and adviser of President 
Lincoln, and postmaster of Washington dur- 
ing his administration. Lewis P. was gradu- 
ated from Cornell University in 1890, and 
was for three years Lieutenant and Com- 
mander of the First Division of the Naval 
Reserve until 1904. He is a member of the 
Society of Colonial Wars, Sons of the Revo- 
lution, and the University Club. Residence. 
1225 K street, n.w. Office: 1320 New York 
avenue, n.w. 

CLEPHANE, WALTER COLLINS, lawyer, 
was born in West Haven, New Haven 
County, Connecticut, on July 17, 1867, son 
of Lewis and Annie M (Collins) Clephane. 
?Iis father was a banker, at one time post- 
master of the City of Washington; Collector 
of Internal Revenue under Lincoln, and pre- 
pared and signed the call for the convention 
at which the Republican party was organ- 
ized. He was graduated from the Cen- 
tral High School, and later completed a 
course at the Columbian (now Georg.d 
Washington ( University, graduating in 1889, 
taking the degree of LL. M. in 1890. H^a 
was admitted to the bar of the Supreme 
Court of the District of Columbia in May, 
1889; he is also a member of the bar of 
the Supreme Court of the United States and 
of the Court of Appeals of the District of 
Columbia; member of the Bar Examining 
Committee of the Supreme Court of the Dis- 
trict and a member of the National Divorce 
Congress. Author of several books, among 
them being. History of the Government of 
the District of Columbia, and. Organization 
and Management of Business Corporation-!. 
He is a member of the Phi Delta Phi legal 
fraternity, the Cosmos and University Clubs 
He is Republican in politics, and a member 
of the Presbyterian Church. He is vice- 
president of the Second National Bank, and 
a director in the National Saving? and Tru^t 
Company, and is interested in other corpora- 
tions. Married Nellie M. Walker on Janu- 
ary 20, 1896, and is the father of two chil- 
dren. Residence: 1747 Corcoran street. 
Office: Fendall Building. 

CLEVELAND, SYNTHIA ELOISE, lawyer, 
author, was born near Canton, St. Lawrence 
County, New York, on August 13, 1843, 
daughter of Erin and Laura (Marsh) Cleve- 
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and Medina Academy, In Orleans County, 
New York, afterwards attending Harvard 
University (law departmem); she holds the 
degrees of LL. B. and LL. M. She if a mem- 
ber of ithe bar of the District of Columbia 
and the State of South Dakota. First came 
to Washington as a clerk in the Treasury 
Department, receiving an appointment after 
a law examination. Was president of thd 
Dakota Territory branch of the W. C. T IS., 
and much credit is due he^ that the Dako- 
tas came into the Union as prohibition 
States. For several years she was on the 
temperance platform of Frances E. Willard. 
She is the author of See-Saw (a story of 
Washington political life;, and His Honor. 
Is a member of the D. A. R., District Fed- 
eration of Woman's Clubs, the Woman';5 
National Press Association, Association of 
American Authors, Congregational Church, 
and the Young Women's Christian Associa- 
tion. Residence: 3600 Thirteenth street, n.w. 

CLOSSON, HENRY WHITNEY, retired 
army officer, was born in Whittingham, Ver- 
mont, June 6, 1832, son of Henry and Emily 
(Whitney) Closson. He was graduated from 
the United Sates Military Academy in 1854, 
and commissioned Second Lieutenant tha 
same year, advancing through all the 
grades to the rank of Brigadier-General 
He served on frontier duty against the Lipan 
Indians in Texas, and the Seminoles in Flor- 
ida, until the outbreak of the Civil War. 
During 1861-62 he took part In the defense 
oi Fort Pickens; chief of Artillery District 
of Pensacola; commanded the battery at 
Baton Rouge, La., till March, 1863, and was 
on the Teche campaign, at which time he 
commanded a company of artillery in Gen- 
eral Grover's Division of the Nineteenth 
Army Corps. He took part in the battles at 
Irish Bend, and the siege of Port Hudson, 
chief of the artillery of the Nineteenth Army 
Corps from October, 1863, to July, 1864, In 
Red River campaign; was chief of artillery 
in the Mobile expedition, when he engaged 
in the sieges of Fort Gaines and Fort Mor- 
gan. During November and December, 1864, 
he was chief of artillery and ordnance in 
the Middle Military Division, and from Jan- 
uary to April, 1865, was inspector of the 
Horse Artillery Brigade. He was brevetted 
Major for gallantry at Port Hudson on July 
8, 1863, and Lieutenant-Colonel for Fon 
Morgan in August, 1864. From the close of 
the Civil War until he retired he served 
at various stations and on military boards. 
He has been twice married, first, to Olivia 
A. Burke, of Springfield, Vt., on October 28, 
1857, and, second, to Julia W. Terry, at 
Cleveland, Ohio, on June 2, 1868. He was re- 
tired from active service June 6, 1896. Resi- 
dence: 1359 Columbia road. 

CLOUS, JOHN WALTER, soldier, lawyer, 
was born in Germany, in 1837, and educated 
in the schools of his native country, taking 
up the study of civil law. He came to the 
United States in 1855, and engaged in busi- 
ness; enlisted in the United States Army 
III 1862; appointed Second Lieutenant of the 
Sixth Infantry, and was twice brevetted for 
gallant conduct in battle; promoted to Firsc 
Lieutenant, Captain and Adjutant- General In 



the Second Military District during the re- 
construction. He was admitted to the bar 
of the United States Supreme Court, and 
served on the frontier and in the Indian 
campaigns from 1868 to 1886; was com- 
mended for gallant services during the In- 
dian uprisings In 1872; appointed Judge 
Advocate in 1886, and was assistant to the 
Judge Advocate General until 1890; lectured 
on law at West Point from 1890 to 1896, and 
served on the staff of Major-General Mer- 
rltt until 1898, when he became a member 
of General Miles' staff, while in the field 
during the Spanish-American War. He was 
ai'pointed Brigadier-General of Voluntetrs, 
and secretary and recorder of Commission 
f . r Evacuation of Cuba. He was a mem- 
ber of the staff of Major-General Brooke, as 
Deputy Judge Advocate General, serving 
until 1901, when he retired with the rank of 
Brigadier-General. He Is the author of many 
lectures on military and martial law, and the 
Suspension of Writ of Habeas Corpus. Ad- 
dress: War Department. 

CLOVER, RICHARDSON, Captain, U. S. 
N., was born at College of St. James, Wash- 
ington County, Maryland, on February 11, 
1846, son of the Rev. Dr. Lewis and Sarah 
V. B. (Ackerman) Clover. He was appointed 
a Midshipman In 1863, graduating from 
Annapolis in 1867. Has had twenty-two 
years' service at sea and has been in ail 
pzrts of the world, his last service being 
In command of the Wipconsin, 1904-07, on 
the Asiatic Station. During the Spanish- 
American War he was in Cuban waters, 
in command of the U. S. S. Bancroft. Was 
in charge of the surveys of S. E. Alaska 
in 1885-86 and head of the hydrographic 
office of the United States Navy from 1889- 
93. He was a member and first secretary 
of the United States Board of Geographic 
Rivers; chief of the Naval Intelligence, 
previous to and after the Spanish War, 
and was a member of the War and Strategy 
Board, March 15 to April 25, 1898. Was 
naval attache In London from 1900 to 1903. 
He is a member of the National Geographic 
Society, the Pilgrims, Metropolitan, Coun- 
try and Chevy Chase Clubs of Washington, 
and the University and New York Yacht 
Clubs of New York. Married Mary E. Mil- 
ler, daughter of General John F. Miller, for- 
merly Senator from California, on May 13, 
1S86. Residence: 1535 New Hampshire 
avenue. 

COCKRAN, WILLIAM BOURKE, lawyer. 
Congressman, was born In Ireland on Feb- 
ruary 28, 1854. He was educated in the 
schools of his native country, and later in 
France, removing to America when seven- 
teen years of age. Soon after coming to 
America he became a teacher in a private 
academy, and afterwards principal of a pun- 
lie school. Wliile engaged In teaching h<i 
read law, and was admitted to the bar In 
1876. He was elected to the Fiftieth Con- 
gress, and was a member of the commission 
to revise the Judiciary Article of the Consti- 
tution of the State of New York. Was a 
member of the Fifty-second and Fifty-third 
Congresses. He refused to support the plat- 
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at Chicago in 1896, and voted for McKIn- 
ley. In 1900 he supported the Democratic can- 
didate for President, claiming that if chosen 
he could have no effect on the coinage of 
the country, owing to the complexion of the 
Senate, while his mere election would of 
itself serve to expel imperialism from our 
political system. In February, 1904, at a 
special election, he was elected to the Fifty- 
eighth Congress, to fill the vacancy caused 
by the resignation of George B. McClellan, 
who had been elected Mayor of New York. 
He was re-elected to the Fifty-ninth and 
Sixtieth Congresses from the Twelfth New 
Ycrk Congressional District. Legal residence: 
New York City. Washington residence: The 
Highlands. 

COCKRELL, FRANCIS MARION, member 
of the Interstate Commerce Commission 
since 1905, was born in Johnson County, Mis- 
souri, October 1, 1834, son of Joseph and 
Naney Cockrell. He was graduated from 
Chapel Hill College, Missouri, in 1853; ad- 
mitted to the bar 1855, and located in War- 
rensburg, the county seat. In the Confed- 
erate Army he rose from Captain to Briga- 
dier-Commander, and won high reputation 
as commander of Cockrell's Brigade in the 
South, east of the Mississippi River. In 1874 
hti was candidate for the nomination for 
Governor before the Democratic State Con- 
vention, and was defeated by Charles H. 
Hardin. In the next year he was elected 
United States Senator, to succeed Carl 
Schurz, and was four times re-elected, until 
March 3, 1905, serving on the Committees 
on Claims, Appropriations, Indian Depreda- 
tions, Military Affairs, Public Lands, Rules, 
and as chairman of those on Appropriations, 
Claims, and Engrossed Bills. Residence: 
1518 R street, n.w. 

COCKS, WILLIAM WILLETS, Congress- 
man, was born in Westbury, Long Island, 
New York, on July 24, 1861, and is a descend- 
ant of old Colonial families and ancestors, 
who settled on Long Island as early as 
1642. In 1881 he was graduated from 
Swathmore College, and has always been 
active in educational matters, at the present 
time being trustee of Friends' Academy, at 
Locust Valley, Long Island. He has never 
adopted any particular profession, but 
might be considered a farmer, owning beau- 
tiful farms on Long Island and ranches in 
the West. He has served as Commissioner 
of Highways in his native town, and was 
elected a member of the State Senate in 
ISjOO. He was elected a member of the 
State Assembly in 1903-04. He was elected 
to the Fifty-ninth Congress from the First 
New York Congressional District, also the 
Sixtieth Congress, the district embracing 
the counties of Nassau and Suffolk and the 
Third, Fourth and Fifth Wards, Borough 
of Queens. Republican. Legal residence; 
Old Westbury, New York. Washington resi- 
dence: 305 New Jersey avenue, s.e. 

CODE, WILLIAM HENRY, engineer, was 
born at Saginaw, Michigan, November 22, 
1864, son of James and Elizabeth Code, and 
took a special engineering course at tho 
University of Michigan. Me was on rail- 



road work for the Union Paciflc Railway 
at Cheyenne, Wyoming, 1890-91; chief en- 
gineer consolidated canal system, Salt River 
Valley, Arizona, 1892-1902; chief irrigation 
engineer, Indian Bureau, since 1902, and spe- 
cial agent. Department of Agriculture, 1901- 
02. Member American Society Civil Engi- 
neers. He was married, September 14, 1893, 
at Bay City, Mich., to Martha E. Devlin. 
Residence: Hollywood, California. Office: 
Department of the Interior. 

COFFEY, GEORGE NELSON, soil expert, 
was born near Patterson, Caldwell County, 
North Carolina, on January 17, 1875, tho 
son of Elijah and Mary A. (Nelson)) Coffey. 
He was educated in the public schools and 
Patterson Academy, and later attended thi 
University of North Carolina, graduating 
with honor in 1900. Soon after leaving col- 
lege he became assistant in soil surveys 
of the Bureau of Soils in the United States 
Department of Agriculture; during 1904-05 
was in charge of soil surveys; now in charge 
of classification of soils. He is an authority 
upon the character and kinds of soil in the 
United States, and is the author of a num- 
ber of reports on soil surveys that have 
been made in the various parts of the coun- 
try. Residence: 1225 Eleventh street, n.v\. 
Office: Bureau of Soils, U. S. Department 
of Agriculture. 

COGHLAN, JOSEPH BULLOCK, naval 
officer, was born in Kentucky, son of Cor- 
nelius and Lavinia (Pouke) Coghlan. Ha 
was appointed to the U. S. Naval Academy 
from Illinois, graduating in 1863. After 
graduating from Annapolis he went into the 
service as an Ensign; was advanced to 
Master in 1865, Lieutenant m 1866, Lieu- 
tenant-Commander in 1868, Commander in 
1882, Captain in 1896, and Rear Admiral in 
1902. He was commander of the Raleigh 
at the Asiatic Station, 1898, and took part 
in the battle of Manila on May 1, 1898, 
being in command of expeditions to reduce 
all Spanish batteries, etc., in Manila Bay. 
He was in command of the expedition at 
the capture of Isla Grande, ^ubig Bay, 
Luzon, on July 7, 1898; commander of the 
North Atlantic Station in 1902-03. Address: 
Navy Department. 

COHEN, ROBERT, mercnant, was born 
October 13, 1836, at Alexandria, Virginia, 
and came to Washington in 1844. In 1847 
ho was rodman under Randolph Coyle, the 
city surveyor, and as such drove the stakes 
that marked the four corners of the Wash- 
ington Monument, the Smithsonian Institu- 
tion and Lafayette Square being laid out 
by him. He later was clerk with William 
Egan & Son, then entered the shoe store kept 
by his father, Robert Cohen, 8r., since 1838, 
and at his death, in 1889, he I ecame owner 
of the business. He is a Son of the Amer- 
ican Revolution, his name having originally 
been Cowen. Residence: ] 145 Roanoke 
street, n.w. Business addn us: 1114 F 
street, n.w. 

COLDREN, FREDERICK G., lawyer, 
senior member of the firm cf Coldren & 
Fenning, was born at Nortliville, Wayne 



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Countj% Michlgran, December 2, 1859. H© 
wa? graduated from the Univf rsity of Mich- 
igan, with the degree of B. A., in 1882; cleric 
in the United States Pension Bureau 18S2 
to 1884; graduated from the Law School 
of Columbian (now George Washington) 
University in 1884; Special Examiner U. S. 
Pension Bureau in Ohio and Indiana, 1884 
to 1886. He has practiced law in Washing- 
ton, D. C, since 1886. Member of Lafay- 
ette Lodge, F. A. A. M.; Mt. Vernon Chap, 
ter, R. A. M.; Washington Commandery, 
K. T.; Almas Temple, N. M. S.; National 
Plaj-ground Association, Washington Cham- 
ber of Commerce, and the Cosmos Club. He 
married Mary F. Galbreath in 1884. Resi- 
dence: 1725 Park road, n.w. Office: Century 
Building. 

COLE, CHARLES CLEAVES, lawyer, 
jurist, was born in Hiram, Maine, on May 
22, 1841. He attended the Hiram, Frye- 
burgh and Kent's Hill schools in Maine, 
after which he entered Harvard Law School, 
graduating in 1867. He served in the Civil 
War, enlisting as a private in the Seven- 
teenth Maine Infantry, being promoted to 
Captain for faithful service. In 1866 ne 
v;as admitted to the bar at Portland, Maine; 
afterwards took up the practice of law at 
West Union, W. Va., remaining there from 
1867 till 1871, and was Prosecuting Attorney 
for the county. Took up his residence at 
Parkersburg, W. Va., in 1871, where he 
practiced for eight years, being City Solic- 
itor for four years. He was United States 
Attorney for the District of Columbia from 
1879 to 1893, and was appointed Associate 
Justice of the Supreme Court of the Dis- 
trict of Columbia in 1893, resigning in 1901 
to again take up the private practice of 
law. Office: Century Building. 

COLE, RALPH D., lawyer, Congressman, 
was born in Hancock County, Ohio, on 
November 30, 1873. He was educated in 
the district schools and attended Findlay 
(Ohio) College, graduating in 1896, and later 
took a classical course at the Northwestern 
Ohio Normal University at Ada, and studied 
law. For two years he was Deputy Clerk 
of his native county. He was elected co 
the Ohio State Legislature in 1899, and re- 
elected in 1901, and was elected to the Fifty- 
ninth Congress from the Eighth Ohio Con- 
gressional District on the Republican ticket, 
and re-elected to the Sixtieth. Legal resi- 
dence: Findlay, Ohio. Washington addresa: 
House of Representatives. 

COLE, THEODORE LEE, President of the 
Statute Law Book Company, was born at 
Albany, N. Y., December 26, 1852, son of 
John Jay and Mary Pohlman (Lee) Cole, 
and was graduated from the University of 
Wisconsin in 1871. He has been a law book 
seller since 1874. Member of the American 
Historical Society, American Political 
Science, American Library Associatio.i, 
Bibliographical Society of America, and 
the Grolier (N. Y.), and Cosmos Clubs. Hi 
married, August 20. 1885, at Milwaukee, 
Wis., Kate Dunn Dewey. Residence: 132S 
Nineeteenth Street, n.w. Office: Colorado 
Buildinff. 



COLEMAN, CHARLES WASHINGTON, 

librarian, was born in Richmond, Va., No- 
vember 22, 1862, son of Dr. Charles Wash- 
ington and Synthia B. (Tucker) Coleman. 
After taking an academic course at the 
University of Virginia he entered the law 
department of the same institution. He was 
librarian at William and Mary College from 
1893 to 1898, and has been assistant in thy 
Library of Congress since 1899; custodian 
of the Toner Collection, and an assistant 
in the Document Division. He is the author 
of many articles that have appeared in Har- 
per's, Century, and Atlantic Magazines. H3 
is a poet of considerable note, having been 
chosen a? poet for the bi-centennial cele- 
b.ation of William and Mary College, Ph*. 
Beta Kappa Society, 288th anniversary of 
the settlement of Jamestown, and the un- 
veiling of a monument at Cape Henry com- 
memorative of the first landing of the Eng- 
lish there in 1607. Member of the Phi Beta 
Kappa Society, Sons of the Revolution of 
Virginia, and the Virginia Historical Society. 
Unmarried. Residence: ^z-i Indiana avenue. 
Office: Library of Congress. 

COLEMAN, WILLIAM MACON, educator, 
was born in Washington, D. C, January 2. 
1838, son of Colonel Daniel and Maria N. 
(Mahan) Coleman. His father was attor- 
ney for thirteen counties in North Carolina, 
and was the first Third Assistant Postma.s- 
ter General of the United States. He at- 
tended the University of North Carolina, 
Princeton Theological Seminary, Columbia 
Theological Seminary, Paris, and Heidel- 
berg. Read law, with Cnief Justice Pear- 
son, of North Carolina, being admitted lo 
the bar in 1858; holds the degrees of B. A. 
and A. M. and Ph. D. He has done consiil- 
erable legal and literary work; been prin- 
cipal of the Upper Marlboro Academy and 
an instructor of philosophy in Columbia 
University and a lecturer on law. Haj 
been Attorney General of North Carolina; 
member of the Theta Delta Chi college fra- 
ternity, and Society for Philosophical Inquiry, 
etc. Married Martha Victoria Hudson on 
July 12, 1872. Address: Fourteenth and L 
streets, n.w. 

COLMAN, HARRY A., day manager of 
the Associated Press in Washington, and 
president of the United States Historical 
Society. Residence: 1258 Columbia road, 
n.w. Office: Evening Star Building. 

COMBA, RICHARD, soldier, was born in 
Ireland July 11, 1837, and came to America 
in 1864 and enlisted in the regular army 
a.s a private the following year; served in 
the Seventh Infantry until 1863, when he 
was appointed Second Lieutenant in the 
same regiment. He was advanced to First 
Lieutenant later in 1863, Captain in 1805, 
Major in 1889, Lieutenant-Colonel in 189o, 
and Colonel in 1898, at that time serving 
in the Fifth Infantry; appointed Lieutenant- 
Colonel in 1890 for gallant services rendered 
against the Indians during the battle at 
Big Hole, Montana, in 1877. During th-i 
Spanish-American War he was commander 
of the Twelfth Infantry in the Santiago 
campaign and battle of El Caney; was made 



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Brigadier-General of Volunteers September 

7, 1898 for distinguished service in tlie Cuban 
campaign, and was put in command of the 
Second Brigade of the First Division of the 
Fourth Corps, being honorably dischargprl 
from the volunteer service on April 15, 1899. 
In 1900 he was put in command of th.i 
Fifth Infantry in the Philippines, and com- 
mander in charge of the province of Abra, 
in Northern Luzon, P. I. He was retired 
at the age limit on July 11, 1901. MarrieJ 
Frances Mary Logan on November 20, 1874. 
Address: War Department. 

COMPTON, CHARLES ELMER, soldier, 
was born in Mauricetovvn, New Jersey, on 
January 28, 1831, and entered the volunteer 
army in 1861 as a Sergeant in the First 
Iowa Infantry, being promoted to Captain 
of the Eleventh Regiment of the same State 
later the same year. He was promoted ti 
Major of the Forty-seventh Colored Infantry 
in 1863, and Lieutenant-Colonel of the Fifty- 
third Colored Infantry in 1864. Was mus- 
tered out of the volunteer service on March 

8, 1866, and received an appointment to the 
regular army as Major in the Fortieth In- 
fantry July 8, 1866, and was transferred to 
the Sixth Cavalry in 1870; promoted co 
Lieutenant-Colonel of the Fifth Cavalry in 
1S70, and Colonel of the Fourth Cavalry in 
1887. In 1867 he was brevetted Lieutenant- 
Colonel for gallant services in the campaign 
against Mobile; Colonel in 1890 for braver/ 
in leading charge against the Indians at 
Red River, Texas, in 1874. In 1898 he was 
appointed Brigadier-General of Volunteers 
in the Spanish War. He was put on the re- 
tired list In 1899. Residence: 1416 Twenty- 
first street, n.w, 

COMPTON, WILLIAM NORRIS, diptric. 
agent John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance 
Company, of Boston, Mass., was born in 
Selma, Ala., March 16, 1868, son of Jordon 
Chappel and Ada (Norris) Compton. He 
was graduated from the University of Ala- 
bama A. B., in 1888. He is a member of 
the Phi Delta Theta college fraternity, Sons 
of the American Revolution, the University 
Club of Washington, and is a Mason, being 
a member of Blue Lodge, Royal Arch Chap- 
ter; Council Knights Templar, and Scottish 
Rite, Eighteenth degree. He is a member 
of the Episcopal Church, and in politics a 
Democrat. On August 15, 1903, he married 
Louise E. Reisinger, of Meadeville, Penn., 
t.> which union has been born a daughter. 
Residence: The Ontario. Office: Wyatt 
Building. 

CONLIFF, JOHN CHRISTOPHER, man- 
ager Washington branch Stieff Piano Com- 
pany, was born in 1875. He entered the 
piano factory of Charles M. Stieff when 
fifteen years of age, and mastered the science 
of tuning, regulating and repairing pianos, 
afterwards being advancea to the position 
of traveling salesman through the New 
England States. After 1390 he opened a 
store of his own, continuing it until 1894, 
when he entered the field at Harrisburg, 
Penn. In 1896 he assumed the management 
of the Washington branch of the Stieff Piano 
Company. Residence: 63 U street, n.w. 
Business address: 1008-1010 F street, n.w. 



CONNER, JAMES PERRY, lawyer, Con- 
gr€ssman, was born in Delaware County, 
Indiana, on January 27, 1851. He attended 
the Upper Iowa University of Fayette, Iowa, 
and the law department of the Iowa State 
University, graduating from the latter insti- 
tution in 1873. In 1880 he was elected Dis- 
trict Attorney of the Thirteenth Judicial 
District of Iowa, and served in that capacity 
for four years, when he was elected Circuit 
Judge of the same district. In 1886 he was 
elected Judge of the Sixteenth Judicial Dis- 
trict, having the support of both the Repub- 
lican and Democratic parties. He has served 
as delegate to Republican conventions, and 
in 1900 he was elected to fill the vacancy 
in the Fifty-sixth Congress caused by the 
resignation of J. P. Dolliver, and has since 
been elected to the Fifty-seventh, Fifty- 
eighth, Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Congresses 
on the Republican ticket. Legal residence: 
Denison, Iowa. Washington address: House 
of Representatives. 

CONRAD, HOLMES, lawyer. He was the 
Gcvernment delegate to the Universal Con- 
gress of Lawyers and Jurists, St. Louis, 1904 
Residence: 1421 K street, n.w. Office: Home 
Life Building. 

CONRAD, STEPHEN, see Struntz, Stephen 

Conrad. 

CONVERSE, GEORGE ALBERT, naval 
officer, was born in Norwich, Vermont, on 
May 13, 1844, son of Shubael and Luvia 
(Morrill) Converse. He was educated In 
the Norwich public schools, Norwich Uni- 
versity, and the U. S. Naval Academy, grad- 
uating from the latter institution in 1865. 
Aftei leaving Annapolis he served on the 
Canandaigua with the European Squadron 
from 1865 to 1867; promoted to Ensign In 
1866, Master in 1868, Lieutenant in 1869. 
Lieutenant-Commander in 1878, Commander 
ill 1889, and Captain in 1899. He was in 
thf to.'pedo service, 1869-72; instructor at 
the torpedo station, 1885-89, and in charge 
frcm 1893 to 1897; commander of the cruiser 
Montgomery in the North Atlantic Squadron 
from 1897 to 1899; Bureau of Navigation, 
from 1899 to 1902, and has been commander 
of the battleship Illinois since September 15, 
1902. He married Laura Shelby Blood, jt 
New York, in December, 1871. He is a mem- 
ber of the Army and Navy Club. Address: 
Navy Department. Home: Norwich, Vt. 

CONWAY, JOHN A., clergyman, professor 
of sociology, Georgetown University. Ad- 
dress: Georgetown University. 

CCOK, FRANCIS A., naval officer, was 
born in Northampton, Mass., on May 10, 
1S43 He attended the U. S. Naval Acad- 
emy, graduating in 1863, and entered the 
s(:rvice as an Ensign, serving with Farragut 
in the West Gulf Squadron during the Civil 
War. He was advanced to Master in 1866, 
liieutenant in 1867, Lieutenant-Commander 
in 1868, Commander in 1881, and Captain in 
1896. He commanded the cruiser Brooklyn 
in 1896. Address: Navy Department. 

COOK, GEORGE W., Congressman. Ha 
wa.s elected a Representative-at-Larje from 



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Colorado to the Sixtieth Congress on the 
Republican ticket. Legal residence: Den- 
ver, Col. Washington aduress: House of 
Representatives. 

COOK, GEORGE WYTHE, physician, was 
born in Front Royal, Virginia, October 28, 
1846, son of Giles Cook (who was an emi- 
nent lawyer widely and favorably known 
throughout the Valley of Virginia) and Eliza- 
beth (Lane) Cook. He was educated at the 
Front Royal Academy, later entering the 
medical department of the University of 
Maryland, from which he was graduated, M. 
D., in 1869. He served in the Confederate 
Army during the latter part of the Civil 
War as private in the Seventh Virginia 
Cavalry, Rosser's Brigade, and Was severely 
wounded at the battle of Hawe's Shop, Han- 
over County, Virginia, on May 28, 1864. In 
1890 Dr. Cook received the degree of LL. D. 
from the National University, in the medi- 
cal department of which institution he was 
formerly professor of physiology. His public 
services in former years were rendered in 
the following positions: Attending physician 
to the George Washington University Hos- 
pital, physician to the Washington Home for 
Incurables, president of the Board of Medi- 
cal Examiners of the District of Colum- 
bia, acting assistant surgeon United States 
Army, stationed at Washington, during thi 
Spanish-American War. He continues to 
serve the public in the following capacities- 
Professor of clinical medicine, George Wash- 
ington University; attending physician to 
the Garfield Memorial Hospital, and presi- 
dent of Its medical staff; physician to the 
Louise Home, consulting physician to the 
Government Hospital for the Insane, consult- 
ing physician to the Episcopal Eye, Ear and 
Throat Hospital. He is <v member of the 
American Medical Association, member of 
the Medical Association of the District of 
Columbia, and chairman of its Board of 
Counselors; member of the Medical Socie'.y 
of the District of Columbia, member of the 
Washington Obstetrical and Gynecological 
Society, member of the Association of Mil- 
itary Surgeons of the United States, mem- 
ber of the Washington Academy of Sciences 
He is the author of a number of medicai 
papers and monographs published in various 
medical journals. He is a member of the 
Columbia Historical Society, and the Cosmos 
Club. He has been honored by scientific 
bodies, as follows: President of the Med- 
ical Society of the District of Columbia, 
1893; president of the Medical Association 
of the District of Columbia, 1897; president 
of the Washington Obstetrical and Gyneco- 
logical Society. 1901-03 (two terms); cor- 
responding secretary of the same, 1887-91. 
and recording secretary of the same, 1891- 
96. In 1877 he married Rebecca Lloyd, 
daughter of Richard Lloyd, Esq., of Alexan- 
dria County. Virginia. He has one son. Dr. 
Richard Lloyd Cook, of Washington, D. C. 
Residence: 3 Thomas circle. 

COOK JOHN J., Chief Clerk of the Ord- 
nance Bureau, was born In Charles County. 
Maryland, his parents removing to Wash- 
ington when he was six years old. He was 
educated in the public schools, and has spent 



nearly hi? whole life In Washingrton. Dur- 
ing the Civil War he was a clerk in the 
old Washington Arsenal, and participated 
in the taking of the census in 1870, the flrut 
after the Civil War. He became a clerk in 
the Ordnance Bureau in 1872, became chief 
clerk under General Baiet in 1882, which 
position he still holds. Residence: 925 M 
street, n.w. Office: State, War and Navy 
Building. 

COOK, OVERTON FULLER, sclentisr, 
was born in Clyde, Wayne Coumty, New 
York, on May 28. 1867. the son of Overton 
P. and Elijah (Horkway) Cook. He attended 
Syracuse University, graduating in 1890. 
Was formerly an agent of the New York 
Colonization Society, and is now in the U. S. 
Department of Agriculture. Married Alice 
Carter on October 11, 1892, and is the fathijr 
of four children, three of whom are living. 
Residence: Lanham, Maryland. Office: U. si. 
Department of Agriculture. 

COOLEY, ALFORD WARRINER, Assist- 
ant Attorney General, was born at Westches- 
ter, New York, on April 9, 1873, son of James 
Calvin and Agnes (Medlicott) Cooley. He 
was graduated from St. Paul's School, Con- 
cord, N. H.. in 1891; Harvard University, in 
1S95, and studied law at the Columbia (N. 
Y.) University Law School. He was admit- 
ted the New York bar January. 1898; was 
inspector of common schools. New York, 
1896-98; a member of the New York Assem- 
bly. 1900-01; Clerk. Surrogate's Court, 
Westchester County, New York, 1901-03; 
ir. S. Civil Service Commissioner, 1903-06, 
and, since November. 1906, has been Assist- 
ant Attorney General of the United States. 
Ho is a member of the Association of Bar 
of City of New York, and of the Metropoli- 
tan and Chevy Chase Clubs of Washington, 
D C. He married, December 1, 1904, Susan 
Dexter Dalton. Residence: 1725 H street, 
n.w. Office: Department of Justice. 

COOLIDGE, LOUIS ARTHUR, journalist, 
was born in Natick, Mass., on October 8, 
1861, son of William L. and Sarah I. Cool- 
idge. He attended Harvard University, 
graduating with the class of 1883. First 
took up newspaper work with the Springfield 
Republican, remaining there from 1883 to 
1SS8; was private secretary to Henry Cabot 
Lodge from 1888 to 1891. He has been cor- 
respondent for the Boston Advertiser, New 
York Recorder. Boston Journal, and New 
York Commercial Advertiser (now the 
Globe). He has been editor of the Congres- 
sional Directory and indexer of the Con- 
gressional Record; was clerk to the Hous-? 
Committee on the Election of President. 
Vice-President and Representatives of the 
Fifty-first Congress. He was director of 
the Literary Bureau in the Republican Na- 
tional Committee in the campaign of 1904. 
Hab been president of the Gridiron Club. 
Is the author of a number of books, among 
them being. The Show at Washington, and. 
Klondike and the Yukon Country, and h« 
has written many articles for the leading 
magazines. Married Helen L Pickerill on 
Jjnuary 2, 1890. Residence: 2419 Massachu- 
setts avenue. OfHce: Home Life Bulldln^r. 



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COONEY, MICHAEL, army ofBcer, was 

born at ^'nroe. County Limerick. Ireland, 
Ma> 1, 1837, son of Maurice and Anne 
(Ryan) Cooney, and was educated In the 
national schools of Ireland. He served 
throughout the Civil War with the First and 
Fifth United States Cavalry, and was mus- 
tered out as Captain Maich 16, 1866; was 
Colonel of the First Cavalry, June 9, 1899, 
aiid retired September 12, 1899; Brigadier- 
General April 23, 1904. He is a member of 
the Military Order of the Loyal Legion. He 
vas mar ied in New York July 23, 1868, lO 
Catherine Connolly. Address: 500 T street, 
n.w. 

COOPER, ALLEN FOSTER, lawyer, Con- 
gressman, was born on a farm in Fayette 
County, Pennsylvania, June 16, 1862, and 
was educated in the public schools at Cali- 
fornia and Lock Haven, Penn., and at Mt. 
Union College, in Ohio. After graduating 
from college he taught school for a few 
years and then took up law as a profes- 
sion, entering the law department of the 
University of Michigan. After graduating 
from law school he returned to his native 
county and began the practice of his profe.s- 
sior early In 1899, forming a partnership 
with J. Q. Van Swearingen (which still ex- 
ists), with offices in Uniontown, Penn. He 
1.4 a member of the bar of the Supreme 
Court of Pennsylvania, the District and Cir- 
cuit Courts of the United States for the 
Western Pennsylvania District, and the 
Supreme Court of the United States. Was 
elected to the Fifty-eighth Congress from 
the Twenty-third Pennsylvania Congressional 
District, and has been re-elected to the 
Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Congresses. In pol- 
itics he is a Republican. Legal residence: 
Uniontown, Penn. Washington address: 
House of Representatives. 

COOPER, GEORGE S., architect, was born 
in Washington, D. C, on December 14, 1864, 
son of Henry C. and Georgiana J. Cooper. 
Ht was educated in the public schools of 
the District. After graduating he took up 
a private course to fit himself for his career 
as an architect. He entered the employ 
of Gray & Page as draughtsman, remaining 
there for four years, resigning to go in the 
employ of Hornblower & Marshall and A. B. 
Mullett, of Washington. After remaining 
with these two firms about a year and a 
half he decided to go into business for him- 
self. In 1886 he was associated with B. 
Carlisle Fenwick, a mechanical draughtsman, 
with offices in the St. Cloud Building, which 
stood at the corner of Ninth and F streets, 
where the Washington Loan and Trust Com- 
pany's building now stands. Since 1888 h-i 
has been running an independent business, 
nnd has designed many promio' nt huilrlinajs 
in the District, among them being the Bond 
building, the Davidson & Davidson building, 
a: 1413 G street; the Westover and Glad- 
stone Apartments, etc. On September 2a, 
1884, he married Margaret H. Stier, of Wash- 
ington, and is the father of four children, 
three girls and one boy. Residence: 1807 
R street, n.w. Office: 1413 G street, n.w. 

COOPER, HENRY ALLEN, lawyer, Con- 
gressjnan, was born in Spring Prairie, Wal- 



worth County, Wisconsin, September 8, 1850. 
He received an academic education at the 
Northwestern University, graduating with 
the class of 1873; later attended the Union 
College of Law in Chicago; was graduated 
in 1875, and began the practice of law in 
Racine, Wis. Was elected District Attorney 
of that county in 1880, and was re-elected 
In 1882 and 1884. He waa a member of the 
Wisconsin State Senate from 1887 to 1889, 
and has represented the First Wisconsin 
Congressional District in Congress continu- 
ously since the Fifty-third Congress. Re- 
publican. Legal residence: Racine, Wis. 
Washington address: House of Represent- 
atives. 

COOPER, PHILIP HENRY, naval officer, 

was born in Camden, N. Y., August 5, 1X44. 
He attended the U. S. Naval Academy, grad- 
uating in 1863. After graduation he was 
made an Ensign and served on the Rich- 
mond from 1863 to 1865, taking part in the 
battle of Mobile Bay. He was promoted to 
Master in 1865, Lieutenant in 1866, Lieuten- 
ant-Commander in 1868, Commander in 1879, 
Captain In 1894, and Rear Admiral in 1902. 
From 1894 to 1898 he was superintendent of 
the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, and 
commanded the U. S. Chicago from 1898 f) 
1899. During 1900-01 he was commander of 
the Iowa, and superintendent of the Second 
Naval District from 1902-03. He was made 
Senior Squadron Commander at the Asiatic 
Station in 1903. Address: Navy Depart- 
ment. 

COOPER, SAM BRONSON, lawyer. Con- 
gressman, was born in Caldwell County, 
Kentucky, on May 30, 1850, and removed 
with his parents to Texas the same year, 
locating at Woodvllle, Tyler County. He 
was educated in the common schools until 
sixteen years of age, when he became a clerk 
in a country store. He subsequently studied 
law and was admitted to the bar in 1872. 
He was County Attorney for Tyler County, 
1876 to 1880; State Senator, 1881 to 1885, 
and served one term as president pro tem. 
of that body. From 1885 to 1887 he was 
Collector of Internal Revenue for the First 
District of Texas, and served as a mem- 
ber of the Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty- 
fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh and Fifty- 
eighth Congresses, and was elected a mem- 
ber of the Sixtieth Congress from the Sec- 
ond Texas District. In 1900 he was chair- 
man of the Texas delegation to the National 
Democratic Convention, and was chairman 
of the State Democratic Convention in 1904. 
Legal residence: Beaumont, Texas. Wash- 
ington address: House of Representatives. 

COPPINGER, JOHN J., soldier, was born 
in Ireland, October 11, 1834, son of William 
J. Coppinger, of Glenmr>re, County Cork, Ire- 
land. He was a Lieutenant and Captain in 
the Roman Army, and was made a Chevalier 
for gallantry at La Roca in 1860. Came 
to America In 1861, and received an appoint- 
ment as Captain in the Fourteenth U. S. 
Infantry; brevetted Major for gallantry at 
Trevilian's Station, Va. in 1864, and was 
brevetted Lieutenant-Colonel for gallantry 
shown at Cedar Creek the same year. He 



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was brevetted Colonel for bravery shown 
ag-alnst the Indians in 1S68, and was pro- 
moted to Brigadier-General in 1895. At th3 
outbreak of the Spanish War he was mad=! 
Major-General of Volunteers, commanding 
the Fourth Army Corps. He was retired is 
a Major-General, U. S. V., and Brigadier- 
General. U. S. A., on October 11, 1898. Mar- 
ried a daughter of the late James G. Blaine, 
Address: The Metropolitan Club. 

COQUILLETT, DANIEL WILLIAM, ento- 
mologist, was born in McHenry County, Illi- 
nois, on January 23, 1856, and was educated 
In the district schools. He studied entomol- 
ogy and other branches of science during 
odd moments. For a few years he taugnt 
in the district schools, and in 1880 prepared 
foi the tenth annual report of the Illinois 
State Entomologist a paper on the cater- 
pillars of the United States, with analytical 
keys to groups and species (being the first 
attempt of this kind ever made). During 
1881 he was Assistant State Entomologist 
of Illinois, and removed to Southern Califor- 
nia in 1882, where he aj^slsted Matthew 
Cooke in two works on entomology. In 188,1 
he investigated, for the Department of Agri- 
culture, the destructive grasshoppers in Cali- 
fornia, and perfected a method to destroy 
them by using a poison mash. During the 
r-ext year he investigated the cottony cush- 
ion scale insect, which was destroying the 
citrus trees In Southern California. On ac- 
count of lack of funds, the investigation 
was suspended for a while, but later he 
took up the experiment on his own account, 
by using poisonous gases to destroy nox- 
ious insects on trees and plants, inaugurat- 
ing the hydrocyanic acid gas treatment. In 
1888 he received insects imported by the 
Agricultural Department from Australia, 
and established colonies of the lady bird, 
which has freed the orchards of the cottony 
cushion scales. He took up his residence 
in Washington in 1893, and was appointed 
honorary custodian of diptera in the U. S. 
National Museum In 1896. He was First 
Assistant Entomologist in the Agricultural 
Department, 1902 to 1905. Has written a 
number of bulletins and contributed about 
150 articles of a scientific nature to maga- 
zines. He is a fellow of the American Asso- 
ciation for the Advancenient of Science, a 
member of the Washington Academy of 
Sciences, and was president of the Washing- 
ton Entomological Society in 1903 and 1904. 
Address: U. S. National Museum. 

CORBETT, LEE CLEVELAND, horticul- 
turist, was born in Watklns, Schuyler 
County, New York, October 21, 1867, the 
son of J. Wallace and Lucia M. Corbett. He 
was educated in the district schools and 
Watklns Academy, later Cornell University, 
graduating, B. S., 1890, also taking a Mas- 
ter's degree from the same institution m 
1S96. He was an instructor in Cornell Uni- 
versity from 1891 to 1893; professor of horti- 
culture and forestry in South Dakota Agri- 
cultural College, 1893-95, and West Virginia 
University. 1895-19.01. Has been horticul- 
turist in the U. S. Department of Agriculture 
since 1900, and has written a number of 
bulletins on horticultural subjects, and re- 



vised horticultural matter for the Interna- 
tional Encyclopedia and Century Dictionary. 
He is the inventor of the Corbett Auxamom- 
eier, transpiration apparatus and spraying 
apparatus. He Is a fellow of the American 
Association for the Advancement of Science, 
a member of the Society of Horticultural 
Science, American Pomological Society, and 
the Botanical Society of Washington. Was 
awarded a diploma and silver medal for the 
horticultural exhibit which he prepared for 
the Paris Exposition, and a diploma and a 
bronze medal was awarded him for the 
transpiration apparatus ana auxamometer. 
Married Evelyn Lovinia Northrup March 23, 
1893. Residence: Takoma Park. Office: U. 
S. Department of Agriculture. 

CORBIN, HENRY CLARK, soldier, was 
born in Claremont County, Ohio, September 
15, 1842, and was educated In the public? 
ai;d private schools of his home county, and 
later studied law. He entered the Union 
Army in 1862, as Second Lieutenant of th'- 
Seventy-ninth Ohio Volunteers, and served 
throughout the Civil War with the Army 
of the Cumberland, holdiiig all grades from 
Second Lieutenant to Colonel, and was bre- 
vetted Brigadier-General of Volunteers. Was 
mustered out of the volunteer service, and g 
entered the regular army as Second Lieu- 1 
tenant of the Seventeenth Infantry in 1866. 
and was promoted to Captain in 1867, and 
served in Kansas, New Mexico and Arizona 
In 1877 he was detailed for duty at the White 
House, and late in the same year was ap- 
pointed a member of the Sitting Bull Com- 
mission. He was with President Garfield 
when he was assassinated. In 1880 he wa.s 
appointed a Major and Assistant Adjutant- 
General, and has since been promoted to 
the grade of Brigadier-General. In recogni- 
tion of gallantry shown in the Spanish- 
American War, Congress conferred upon him 
the rank of Major-Generji. He is a mem- 
ber of the Loyal Legion. Married Editn 
Agnes Patten in Washington November 6. 
1901. Residence: 1701 Twenty-second street. 
Office: War Department. 

CORDOVA, DON SALVADOR, Charge 

d'Afi'aires, Embassy of Honduras. Address: 
Embassy of Honduras. 

COREA, LUIS FELIPE, Envoy Extraor- 
dinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from 
Nicaraugua to the United States since 1899. 
was born at Granada, Nicaragua, August 
25, 1864, son of Simon and Ramona (Briceno) 
Ccrea. He was graduated, and made LL. D., 
a: the Central University of Guatemala; 
professor in many colleges in Guatemala; 
judge and associate judge and professor ">f 
international law in the Western University 
of Guatemala. He was Secretary of the » 
Legation in Washington in 1896; Charge 
d'Affaires of Nicaragua, 1898; chairman of 
the Nicaraguan Commission, Pan-American 
Exposition, 1901; honorary vice-president if 
International Geographic Congress, 1904. He 
is a member of the Scientific Society of Gua- 
temala; life member of the American Acad- 
emy of Political and Social Science, and of 
the Lawyers' Club of New York, and Metro- 
politan and Fencers' Club of Washington. 
Residence: 1612 Twentieth street, n.w. 



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CORNWELL, S. G., merchant, was born 
in New York City in 1859, his father, G. G. 
Cornwell, being at the time a member of 
tht New Yorlt Steele Exchange. He finished 
his education at the Wyomanocic Seminary, 
New Lebanon, N. Y., when he entered the 
grocery business with his father. He Is 
now a member of the firm of G. G. Corn- 
well & Co., grocers. In 1882 he married 
Miss L. E. March, of New Lebanon, N. Y., 
and three sons have been born to them. 
Residence: 1359 Girard street, n.w. Business 
address. 1412 Pennsylvania avenue, n.w. 

CORTELYOU, GEORGE BRUCE, Secre- 
tary of the Treasury, was born in New York 
City, July 26, 1862. He was graduated from 
the Hempstead, L. L, Institute and State 
Normal School, Westfield, Mass.; also the 
law schools of Georgetown and George 
Washington Universities. In 1883 he was 
a law reporter in New York; principal of 
preparatory schools in New York State, 
1885-9; was private secretary to the Post- 
office Inspector in Charge at New York, 
to the Surveyor of the Port of New York, 
and to the Fourth Assistant Postmaster- 
General. He was appointed stenographer ro 
President Cleveland November, 1895; exec- 
utive clerk, February, 1896; assistant secre- 
tary to President McKinley, July 1, 189S; 
secretary to the President, April 30, 1900. 
reappointed March 5, 1901, and again by 
President Roosevelt September 16, 1901. 
Was made Secretary of the Department of 
Commerce and Labor February 16, 1903; 
elected chairman of the Republican National 
Ct'mmi'ttee June 23, 1904, conducting the cam- 
paign that resulted in the election of Presi- 
dent Roosevelt; became Postmaster-General 
March 7, 1905, and Secretary of the Treas- 
ury March 4, 1907. The degree of LL. D. 
has been conferred upon him by Georgetown 
University, the University of Illinois, and 
Kentucky Wesleyan College. He was mar- 
ried, September 15, 1888, to Lily Morris 
Hmds, of Hempstead, L. I., tO which union 
have been born four children. Residence. 
2111 Bancroft Place, n.w. Ofl^ce: U. G. 
Treasury Department. 

CORTES, DON ENRIQUE, Envoy Extra- 
ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from 
Colombia to the United States. Address: 
1312 Twenty-first street. 

COSBY, FRANK CARVEL, naval officer 
was born in Louisville, Ky., April 10, 1840, 
son of Fortunatus and Ellen (Blake) Cosby. 
He was educated in the public schools of 
Louisville and Washington; pay director 3f 
the United States Navy for four years, and 
held the position of general inspector of tho 
Pay Corps of the Navy. He served in tha 
Navy for forty-five years; member of th.i 
Loyal Legion and Army and Navy Club. 
H<- was retired on account of age April 10, 
1902, with the rank of Rear Admiral, and 
died on February 8, 1905. Married Charlotte 
M. Spencer on December 6, 1864, and wa? 
the father of three children. Address of Mrs 
Cosby: Stoneleigh Court. 

COSBY, SPENCER, Majo-, Corps of Engi- 
neers, in charge of the water supply sys- 



tem of the District, improvements of thu 
Potomac River, etc., was born in Maryland 
on October 2, 1867. He was graduated 
No. 1 from the United States Military 
Academy in 1891, and assigned to the Engi- 
neer Corps. He was stationed with the 
Engineer Battalion at Willet's Point, New 
York, until July 1894, and then assigned to 
duty as assistant to Major Raymond, Corps 
of Engineers, in charge of engineering work 
in the vicinity of Philadelphia. He re- 
mained there until he was appointed a 
Major of Engineers in the volunteer estab- 
lishment at the outbreak of the Spanish War. 
In 1898 he served continuously on the staff 
of Major-General Brooke during the opera- 
tions in Porto Rico, and on August 13 was 
engineer officer of the column commanded 
by General Hains to turn the entrenched 
position of the Spanish on the heights north 
of Guayama. For a short time he was on 
duty at Detroit, and also in the office of tli.^ 
Chief of Engineers in Washington. From 
September, 1901, until April, 1903, he was 
in charge of the river and harbor fortifica- 
tion work near Mobile, Ala., and then was 
given command of Company I, Third Bat- 
talion of Engineers, and accompanied it to 
Manila. He was then appointed Engineer 
Officer of the Department of Luzon, and 
later was charged with constructing light- 
houses in the Philippines, remaining there 
until August, 1905. Residence: Stoneleigh 
Court. Office: Twenty-second and K streets, 
n.w. 

COTTON, CHARLES STANHOPE, naval 

officer, was born at Milwaukee, Wis., Feb- 
ruary 25, 1843, son of Lester Holt and Mary 
Ann (White) Cotton. His first ancestor in 
America was the Rev. John Cotton, of Bos- 
ton (1634). He entered the Naval Academy 
September 23, 1858; was promoted Ensign 
November 11, 1862; Lieutenant February 22, 
1864; Lieutenant-Commander July 25, 1866; 
Commander April 25, 1877; Captain May 22, 
1892, and Rear Admiral March 27, 1900. He 
served on the St. Lawrence when she cap- 
tured the Confederate privateer Petrel; on 
the flagship Minnesota from November, 1861, 
to February, 1863, and on board that ship 
in Hampton Roads during the fight be- 
tween the Monitor and the Merrimac. He 
was in the battle of Mobile Bay on the 
Oneida, on the Shenandoah in the East 
India and China Seas, 1865-69; on the 
Ticonderoga as executive officer on tha 
Brazil Station, 1871-74; at the Navy Yard, 
Portsmouth, N. H., 1874-76; at the New 
York Navy Yard, 1876-80; commanded the 
Monocacy and the Alert, on the Asiatic Sta- 
tion, 1880-83. Was ordnance inspector at 
Norfolk, Va., 1884-87; lighthouse inspector 
at St. Louis, 1887-90; commanded the Mohi- 
can, 1891-92, and the first Behring Sea 
patrol for the protection of the fur seal in- 
dustry, 1891; the receiving ship Independ- 
ence, Mare Island, Cal., 1892-94; the flag- 
ship Philadelphia, 1894-97. He also com- 
manded the scout cruiser Harvard in 1898, 
reaching Martinique, W. I., a few hours be- 
fore the arrival of Admiral Cervera's squad- 
ron, and cabling thence the first informa- 
tion of Cervera's whereabouts since his de- 
parture from the Cape Verde Islands in 



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April. After the destniction of Cervpra's 
squadron at Santiago, July 3, 1898, the Har- 
vard rescued the surviving officers and men, 
nearly 700 in number, of the Spanish cruis- 
ers Infanta Maria Teresa and the Almianie 
Aauendo, who, with some 300 more of the 
Spanish prisoners, mostly from the Vizcaya, 
she carried to the Navy Yard, Portsmouth, 
N. H., and to the United States Naval Acad- 
emy. Captain Navy Yard, Mare Island, 
from October 1898 to April, 1899; command- 
ing U. S. Receiving Ship Independence from 
April, 1899 to March, 1900; president Retir- 
ing Board, Washington, March to July, 1900; 
commandant Navy Yard and Station, Nor- 
folk, Va., from July, 1900, to April, 1903; 
Commander-in-Chief United States European 
Squadron from April, 1903 to February, 1904, 
during, which period the squadron was en- 
gaged in important services in France, Ger- 
many, England, Portugal and Syria. While 
in command of the Monocacy (1880-83) 
Commander Cotton was engaged In many of 
the interesting and important events pre- 
ceding and including the exchange of rati- 
fications of the treaty between the United 
Btates and Korea, which led to the opening 
of the Hermit Kingdom to the world. Ad- 
diess: Navy Department. 

COTTON, JOHN BRADBURY, lawyer, 
was born in Woodstock, Conn., August 3. 
1841, son of Benjamin Robinson and Abby 
J. (Pike) Cotton. He was educated In Bow- 
doin College, at Brunswick, Maine, gradu- 
ating with the class of 1865, afterwards read- 
ing law with Fessenden & Fry, at Lewis- 
ton, Maine. Was Assistant Attorney Genera' 
of the United States from 1889 to 1893, and 
attorney for all manufacturing corporations . 
al Lewiston, Maine and the Maine Central 
Railroad. When Assistant Attorney General 
he had charge of all the Government work 
in the Court of Claims. He is a member 
of the Cosmos and University Clubs; .i 
Republican in politics, and a member of 
the Congregational Church. Married Amanda 
G. Love December 5, 1866. Residence: 1363 
Euclid street, n.w. Office: 1412 H etree:. 
n.w. 

COUDEN, ALBERT REYNOLDS, naval 
ofRcer, was born in Indiana October 30, 1846. 
He was graduated from the Naval Acad- 
emy, 1867, and served on the Franklin, flag- 
ship of the European Station, 1867-69. Was 
promoted to Captain January 15, 1902; Com- 
mandant at Atlanta, 1900-04, and, since No- 
vember 28, 1904, General Inspector of Ord- 
nance. Address: Navy Department. 

COUDEN, HENRY NOBLE, clergyman, 
was born in Marshall County, Indiana, No- 
vember 21, 1842, son of Joseph G. and Eliza 
(Chase) Couden. He is a graduate of the 
Ohio State School for the Blind and the 
Divinity School of St. Lawrence University 
at Canton, N. Y. Was ordained a Univer- 
salist clergyman In 1878, and served In tho 
Union Army from April, 1861, to July, 1863. 
when he was honorably discharged on ac- 
count of a wound which he received in bat- 
tle that destroyed the sight of both eyes. 
He was elected Chaplain of the House of 
Represen'tatives at the beginning of the 



Fifty-fourth Congress, and was re-electe<l 
for the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty- seventh, 
Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses. 
Married Harriet Dunbar January 26, 188G. 
Address: 1310 Columbia road, n.w. 

COUDREY, HARRY M., owner of the in- 
surance firm of Harry M. Coudrey & Co., 
Congressman, was born at Brunswick, Mo., 
February 28, 1867. He attended the public 
schools of St. Louis, to which place he re- 
moved in 1878, graduating from the Manual 
Training School. Soon after his graduation 
hfc entered the insurance business, and rose 
rapidly to his present position. From 1897 
to 1899 he was a member of the Municipal 
Assembly. While a member of that body 
he won the commendation of the public by 
his vigorous opposition to all boodle meas- 
ures, but, being alone in the fight, he de- 
clined to return at the expiration of hts 
term. He is president of the St. Louis Fire 
Insurance Agents' Association, vice-president 
of the Washington National Bank, secretary 
of the St. Louis Club, a director of the Com- 
monwealth Trust Company, and the Uni- 
versal Adding Machine Company; a mem- 
ber of the Merchants' Exchange, Business 
Men's League, Loyal Legion, University Club, 
and the St. Louis Jockey Club. He was 
elected to the Fifty-ninth Congress frora 
the Twelfth Missouri Congressional District 
as a Republican, but was not seated until 
near the end of the first session, owing to 
election frauds. In November, 1906, he was 
re-elected to the Sixtieth Congress from the 
same Congressional District on the Repub- 
lican ticket. Legal residence: St. Louis, 
Mo. Washington address: House of Rep- 
resentatives. 

COUGH LAN, JOHN D., lawyer, vice-pres- 
ident of the Columbia Title Insurance Com- 
pany. Residence: Woodside, Maryland. 
Office: 500 Fifth s-treet, n.w. 

COUGHLAN, MICHAEL A., treasurer of 
the J. Maury Dove Company, was born in 
Washington, D. C. He was educated at the 
Christian Brothers Academy, an old Wash- 
ington school, and after s-raduation he en- 
tered the employ of James O'Hagan, having 
full charge of his plumbing business. In 
1881 he took charge of a branch office of 
Stover & Co., coal dealers. After showing 
exceptional olflce ability, he was transferred 
and put In charge of the main office of the 
firm. When the J. Maury Dove Company 
was Incorporated he obtained an Interest in 
the concern, and was elected treasurer and 
a member of the board of directors, which 
position he still holds. Residence: 1816 Fif- 
teenth street, n.w. Office: Twelfth and F 
streets, n.w. 

COURTIS, FRANK, naval officer, was born 
in Cincinnati, Ohio, June 12, 1844, son of 
James F. and Jane (Cook) Courtis, and 
graduated from the United States Naval 
Academy in 1866. He was promoted to Com- 
mander July 10, 1894; Rear Admiral Septem- 
ber 27, 1901, and retired for physical disa- 
bility. Commanded U. S. S Essex, 1898-1900, 
and was at the War College, 1900. He is a 
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married, at Washington, April 17, 1883, 
Maude Carleton. Address: Navy Depart- 
ment. 

COUSINS, ROBERT G., lawyer, Con- 
grressman, was born in Cedar County, Iowa, 
in 1859. and was educated in the common 
schools and Cornell College, Iowa, graduat- 
ing in 1881. In 1882 he was admitted to 
the bar, and has been eng-aged in the prac- 
tice of law since that time. He was elected 
to the Iowa State Legislature in 1886, and 
was one selected by that body as a prose- 
cutor in the Brown impeachment, which was 
tried before the Senate in 1887. In 1888 
he was elected Prosecuting Attorney, and 
the same year was a presidential elector. 
He has represented the Fifth Iowa Con- 
gressional District in Congress continuously 
since the Fifty-third Congress. In politics 
he is a Republican. Legal residence: Tipton, 
Iowa. Washington address: House of Rep- 
resentatives. 

COVILLE, FREDERICK VERNON, botan- 
ist, was born in Preston, Chenango County, 
New York, on March 2.3, 1867, son of Joseph 
A. and Lj^dia (Moore) Coville. He was edu- 
cated in the Oxford Academy, at Oxford, 
'N Y., afterwards graduating from Cornell 
University, in 1887. Was an instructor of 
botany in Cornell University during 1887-88, 
and became assistant botanist in the Depart, 
ment of Agriculture in 1888, and has been 
botanist since 1893. He has been curator 
of the National Herbarium since 1893. Is 
the author of many papers on botany, among 
them being one on Botanj' of the Death 
Valley Expedition. He is a member of the 
Phi Beta Kappa, Theta Delta. Chi, Sigma Chi, 
and the Cosmos Club. Married Elizabeth 
Harwood Boynton on October 4, 1890. Resi- 
dence: 1836 V street, n.w. Office: U. S. 
Department of Agriculture. 

COWLES, WILLIAM SHEFFIELD, naval 

officer, was born in Farmington, Conn., 
August 1, ]S46, son of Thomas and Eliza- 
beth (Sheffield) Cowles. He attended the 
United States Naval Academy, graduating 
in 1867, and was promoted to Ensign in 
1869; Master, in 1870; Lieutenant, in 1871; 
Lieutenant-Commander, in 1892, and Com- 
mander, in 1899. Has served on the Medi- 
terranean. North Atlantic, Asiatic, and 
Pacific Stations; also served on the Isth- 
mus of Panama in 1884, guarding the prop- 
erty of American citizens. He was Naval 
Aide to the Secretary of the Navy, and in 
charge of the naval militia during 1891-92. 
From 1893 to 1897 he was Naval Attache to 
the United States Embassy In London; Com- 
mander of the Fern in 1897-98, and th« 
Topeka the year following. Since 1899 he 
has been assistant to the Bureau of Navi- 
gation and Naval Aide to the President. 
Residence: 1733 N street, n.w. 

COWSILL, ARTHUR, building contractor, 
I was born near Manchester, Lancashire, Eng- 
. land, in 1864. In 1882 he came to America, 
I spent four years in the West, and then lo- 
ij cated in Washington. He is the owner of 
\ many fine residences in the city, and has 
been ideptified with the construction of 
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many of the most prominent public and pri- 
vate buildings in the District, among them 
being the Post-office, the Union Station, 
Loan and Trust Building, Columbian Law 
and Manual Training School buildings, etc. 
Residence: 634 I street, n.e. OfHce: 307 Col- 
orado Building. 

COX, WILLIAM E., Congressman. In 
November, 1906, he was elected a member 
of the Sixtieth Congress from the Third 
Congressional District of Indiana on the 
Democratic ticket. Legal residence: Jasper. 
Ind. Washington address: House of Rep- 
resentatives. 

COX, WILLIAM T., Assistant Forester. In 
charge of Silviculture Division of the Forest 
Service, United States Department of Agri- 
culture. Residence: 1120 Sixteenth street, 
n w. Office: Atlantic Building. 

COX, WILLIAM VAN ZANDT, banker. 

lawyer, was born near Zanesville, Ohio, 
June 12, 1852, son of Colonel Thomas J. and 
liucy A. (Van Zandt) Cox. In 1874 he was 
graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan Uni- 
versity, later taking up the study of law. 
being admitted to the bar in 1877. He served 
on the administrative staff of the National 
Museum from 1879 to 1902. During 1883 
he was secretary and disbursing officer of 
the International Fisheries Exposition In 
London; represented the Smithsonian Insti- 
tution at the Minneapolis Exposition, the 
National Museum at the Chicago World's 
Fair, and at the Atlanta, Nashville, Omaha, 
Buffalo and St. Louis Expositions. He was 
vice-chairman of the Citizens' Committee 
for the reception of Admiral Dewey in 1899, 
and secretary of the Congressional Guberna- 
torial and Citizens' Committee of the Centen- 
nial of the National Capital in 1900. He Is 
now president of the Second National Bank. 
vice-president of the Washington Market 
Company, and director in several other 
financial institutions of Washington. He Is 
the author of a number of reports on vari- 
ous expositions of the country, and has con- 
tributed many articles to the leading mag- 
azines. Married Juliet H. Emery, of Wash- 
ington, October 27, 1886. Residence: Emer^ 
Piace, Brightwood, D. C. Office: Second 
National Bank. 

CRAFTS, SARAH J., (Mrs. Wilbur F). 
educator, author, was born in Cincinnati, 
Ohio, daughter of Jesse and Jane C. (Tima- 
nus) Crafts. She was educated in the public 
schools of Cincinnati and an academy at 
Davenport, Iowa. For five years taught In 
a Minnesota normal college, and. since 1874. 
has been an instructor in Sunday-school re- 
form institutions and the State Sundav- 
school conventions. She is the organizer 
and honorary president of the International 
Primary Union of Sunday-school Teachers, 
and, since 1895, has been superintendent of 
the Sunday - school Department of the 
World's W. C. T. U. At the Chautauqua 
assemblies she' has been an instructor an.l 
lecturer; a writer of temperance lessons 
for the National Temperance Society, an.l 
Sunday-school lessons for the Christian 
Herald, as well as being a regular contrlbu- 



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tor to many of the Sunday-school papers. 
She is the author of several books, among 
them being: Open Letters for Primary 
Teachers; The Primary Normal Outlines, 
etc. In May, 1874, she was married to Rev. 
Wilbur F. Crafts. Address: 103 Maryland 
avenue. 

CRAFTS, WILBUR FISH, clergyman, was 
born in Fryburg, Maine, January 12, 1850, 
son of Rev. Frederick A. Crafts, a Methodist 
preacher of Puritan stock. He attended 
Wesleyan University and Boston University 
School of Theology, graduating in 1871. He 
holds the degrees of B. D. and Ph. D. from 
Marietta College; was a Methodist minis- 
ter from 1867 to 1879; a Congregationalis; 
from 1880 to 1883, and a Presbyterian since 
1883. He has been pastor of churches in 
Stoneham, [Haverhill and New Bedford. 
Mass.; Dover, N. H.; Chicago, Brooklyn, 
and New York. In 1880. with his wife, on 
Invitation of the London Sunday-school 
Union, he made a Sunday-school tour 
through Great Britain, speaking in the prin- 
cipal cities. In 1873 he traveled through 
Europe, and again, in 1880, with his wife, 
extended his tour through the Bitole lands. 
While a pastor in New York he conducted 
two hearings before the United States Sen- 
ate Committee on Educatron and Labor in 
behalf of a national "Sunday Rest Law." 
He was editor of the Christian Statesman. 
1001-03, and of Twentieth Century Quarterly 
since 1896, and has edited departments in 
Our Day; Ram's Horn; The Advance, and 
other religious publications. In 1890 he con- 
ducted an Associated Press Reform, through 
which articles from specialists in reforms 
were sent in a syndicate sheet. He Is the 
author of a number of books, among them 
being: Through the Eye of the Heart (1873) ; 
Successful Men of To-day; Talks and Sto- 
ries of Heroes and Holidays; The Temper- 
ance Century, etc. In 1903 he was at the 
head of the movement to make the Interna- 
tional Reform Bureau a permanent institu- 
tion, and purchased b'uildings and grounds, 
and increased its force of workers; it !^ 
now located beside the Library of Congress. 
Married Sarah J. ' Timanus in 1874. Resi- 
dence: 206 Pennsylvania avenue, s.e. 

CRAIG, WILLIAM B., Congressman. He 
was elected to the Sixtieth Congress in 
November, 1906, from the Fourth Congres- 
sional District of Alabama on the Demo- 
cratic ticket. Legal residence: Selma, Ala. 
Washington address: House of Represent- 
atives. 

CRAIGIE, DAVID JOHISfSON, army officer, 
was born at Broomieside, Pifeshire, Scotland, 
December 6, 1840, son of George and Helen 
Young Craigie. He entered the service as 
First Lieutenant, Eighth Iowa Infantry, Sep- 
tember 12, 1861; was promoted to Captiain 
July 2, 1864; Colonel, Eleventh United States 
Infantry, April 14, 1902; transferred to Sev- 
enteenth United States Infantry Majrch 24, 
1903; Brigadier-General, August 12, 1903, 
and retired on the same date. Was severely 
wounded in the Civil War at Shiloh, and left 
over night on the battlefield; brevetted Cap- 
tain for gallant and meritorious service at 



the battle of Shiloh, Tenn., and luka. Miss. 
He served in the Philippines, 1901-03. He 
is a member of the Society of the Army of 
Tennessee, Military Order of the Loyal Le- 
gion, U. S.; Society of Foreign Wars, Naval 
and Military Order of the Spanish-American 
War, Society of the Army of the Philippines, 
and the Society of the Military Order of the 
Carabao. He was married at Philadelphia 
in 1869 to Florence Mortimer. Address: War- 
Department. 

CRAMPTON, CHARLES ALBERT, chem- 
ist, was born in Davenport, Iowa, February 
18, 1858, son of Albert A. and Harriet J. 
(Weaver) Crampton. In 1882 he was grad- 
uated from the University of Michigan, and 
attended Purdue University and the Medical 
Department of Columbian (now George 
Washington) University. From 1883 to 1890 
ho was assistant chemist in the Department 
of Agriculture, and since 1890 has been chief 
chemist in the Internal Revenue Bureau of 
the Treasury Department. He is the author 
of several bulletins and a number of articles 
that have appeared in scientific journals. 
He is a fellow of the American Association 
for the Advancement of Science, an ex- 
presidenit of ithe Washington Chemical Soci- 
ety, and a member of the American Chem- 
ical Society. On June 25, 1890, he married 
Lily Dunn. Residence: Somerset, Mont- 
gomery County, Maryland. Office: Internal 
Revenue Bureau, Treasury Department. 

CRANDALL, FRANCIS ASBURY, libra- 
rian, was born at Carbondale, Penn., No- 
vember 28, 1837, son of Rev. Andrew Jack- 
son and Amelia (Fink) Crandall. His early 
education was obtained at the Cazenovia, 
N. Y., Seminary, and afterwards learned the 
printing trade; was an editorial writer; edi- 
tor and publisher for about thirty-five years 
in a number of cities, among them being 
St. Louis, Buffalo, Providence, Erie and 
Utica. He was the first United States Su- 
perintendent of Documents, and was the 
organizer of the Document Service, which at 
this time supplies about 5,000 libraries; the 
first catalogue and Indexes of United States 
public documents that were accepted by ex- 
perts were published by him. He is the 
author of many Government bulletins, and 
has contributed articles to a number of th-a 
leading magazines and metropolitan news- 
papers. Member of the American Library 
Association, Library Association of the Dis- 
trict of Columbia, Buffalo Historical Soci- 
ety, and American Association for the Ad- 
vancement of Science. On September 17, 
1861, he married Annie A. Jones, of Trenton, 
'N.. Y. Residence: 2219 Fifteenth street, n.w. 

CRANE, AUGUSTUS, JR., banker, was 
bcrn in New York City October 27, 1853, 
and Wis educated in the Highland Military 
Acadfmy of Worcester, Mass., and the Uni- 
versity of the City of New York. After leav- 
ing college he entered the banking house 
of Hone, Nicholas & Co., on Wall street, 
where he gained a considerable part of his 
business education. In 1879 he left New 
York, accepting a position at Savannah, Ga., 
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who were then the agents of "Williams & 
Guion, of London and New York. After two 
years in Savannah, he came to Washington 
to locate, where he entered into a partner- 
ship with Albion K. Parris, and formed the 
banking Arm of Crane, Parris & Co. Besides 
the banking house which bears his name, he 
is interested in other financial institutions 
of the city, and is a member of the leading 
clubs. Residence: 1726 Twenty-first street, 
n.w. Office: 604 Fourteenth street, n.w. 

CRANE, WINTHROP MURRAY, paper 
manufacturer. United Stales Senator, was 
born at Dalton, Mass., April 23, 1853, son of 
Zenas Marshall and Louise (Laflin) Crane, 
and grandson of Zenas and Lucinda (Brewer) 
Crane. His earliest American ancestor, 
Henry Crane, was born in England, and set- 
tled in the vicinity of Dorchester, Mass., 
about 1648. His grandfather erected the first 
paper mill west of the Connecticut River, 
which became the nucleus of the now famous 
Crane Mills, owned and controlled by the 
present family. He was educated in the 
public schools and at Willis'ton Seminary, 
Easthampton, Mass., and in 1871 began his 
career in the paper making business. He 
passed through the various grades to super- 
intendent, and was then placed in charge 
of the mills of that company. Was a dele- 
g3te-at-large to the Republican National 
Conventions of 1892, 1896, 1904, and was 
elected as Massachusetts member of the 
Republican National Committee during the 
same years. From 1897 to 1899 he was 
Lieutenant-Governor of Massachusetts; Gov- 
ernor during 1900-02, and was appointed 
United States Senator October 12, 1904, to 
fill the vacancy caused by the death ot 
George Frisbie iloar, and took his seat on 
December 6. The degree of A. M. was con- 
ferred on him by Williams College in 1897, 
and that of LL. D. by Harvard University 
in 1903. On February 6, 1880, he married 
Mary Benner, of Astoria, L. I., who died 
February 16, 1884; one son, Winthrop Mur- 
ray Crane, Jr., surviving; married, July 10, 
1906, Josephine P. Boardman; one son, 
Stephen Crane. Legal residence: Dalton, 
Miass. Washington address: U. S. Senate. 

CRANFORD, H. PERCY, Vice-president of 
the Cranford Paving Company, was born in 
Washington, D. C, October 30, 1877, the 
youngest son of Major Henry L. Cranford. 
Hft was educated at Emerson Institute, in 
Washington, and after graduation took a 
course at the High School at Pottstown, 
Penn., but left before graduation to go into 
business with his father, who was then pres- 
ident of the Cranford Paving Company. He 
worked through every department of the 
business, gaining a thorough knowledge of 
the paving business, and after his father's 
death he was advanced to vice-president of 
the company, which position he holds at 
the present time. He is a Knight Templar, 
Mystic Shriner, and a member of the Colum- 
■bia Golf Club. Residence: 2150 Florida ave- 
nue, n.w. Office: 2620 E street, n.w. 

CRANFORD, JOSEPH H., President of the 
Cranford Paving Company, was born In 



Washington, D. C, in 1870, and wag educated 
in the public schools of the District, and later 
finished at the Emerson Institute. After 
leaving school he went into business with 
his father, Major Henry L. Cranford, who 
was president of the Cranford Paving Com- 
pany, and there worked in its various de- 
partments until he has a complete knowledge 
of the business, and the result was that 
when his father died he was made president 
of the company, which office he still holds. 
He is a member of the Army and Navy, Blue 
Ridge Rod and Gun Clubs, is a Knight Tem- 
plar, Mystic Shriner, and a member of the 
Loyal Legion. Aside from his paving busi- 
ness, he is interested in the Citizens' National 
Bank and the Union Trust and Storage Com- 
pany. He married Ada Tyssowski, of Wash- 
ington, and is the father of three children. 
Residence: 1604 Park avenue, n.w. 

CRANSTON, EARL, Methodist Episcopal 
Bishop, was born in Athens, Ohio, on June 
27, 1840, a descendant of Governor John 
Crans'ton and James Montgomery, early im- 
migrant from Ireland. He was graduated 
from the Ohio University in 1861, at once 
enlisted in the Union Army, was First Lieu- 
tenant of Company C, Third Ohio; subse- 
quently Adjutant of the First Battalion, Sec- 
ond Virginia, and finally Captain of the Six- 
tieth Ohio. He served until June, 1863, leav- 
ing on account of ill-health. He at first 
studied law, but in 1867 entered the minis- 
try of the Methodist Church, serving charges 
SiZ Marietta, Portsmouth, Columbus, and Cin- 
cinnati, Ohio; Jacksonville and Evansville, 
111, and Denver, Col., and was for four years 
presiding elder in the Rocky Mountain Dis- 
trict. He was one of tha rounders of the 
Denver University, a manager of the Meth- 
odist Book Concern, 1884-86; treasurer of 
the Preedman's Aid and Southern Educa- 
tional Society, and trustee and treasurer of 
the Methodist Church at large. He was 
made a trustee of the Ohio University In 
1888; received 'the degree of A. M. from 
the same institution in 1866, and that of 
D. D. from Allegheny (Penn.) College and 
Cornell (Iowa) College in 1881. In 1896 he 
was consecrated Bishop of the Methodist 
Church, in which capacity he has made two 
visitations 'to the Orient, one of two years' 
duration. Address: The Ontario. 

CRAVENS, W. B., Congressman. In No- 
vember, 1906, he was elected a member of 
the Sixtieth Congress from the Fourth Con- 
gressional District of Arkansas as a Demo- 
crat. Legal residence: Fort Smith, Ark. 
Washington address: House of Represent- 
atives. 

CRAWFORD, JOHN WESLEY, secretary 
to Admiral George Dewey, was born at Vine- 
land, Cumberland County, New Jersey, May 
11, 1867, son of David Crawford and Patience 
(Boody) Crawford. He was educated in the 
public schools of Vineland, and later at 
Walworth's Stenographic Institute, in New 
York and the Washington Y. M. C. A. 
Attended the National University Law 
School, graduating in 1904, taking a Mas- 
ter's degree in 1905; admitted to the Dis- 
trict bar in June, 1905. For a number of 



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years he was employed as a stenographer, 
and for seven years and a half has been 
secretary to Admiral George Dewey. He 
has been a naval officer since 1899, by virtue 
of his appointment as secretary to the Ad- 
miral. Is a member of the Board of Direct- 
ors and chairman of the physical department 
of the Young Men's Christian Association, 
and a member of the First Congregational 
Church. He married Mary Connell October 
16, 1889. Residence: 1902 G street, n.w. 
Office: 408 Mills Building. 

CRAWFORD, WILLIAM THOMAS, lawyer. 
Congressman, was born in Haywood County, 
North Carolina, June 1, 1856. He was grad- 
uated from the University of North Caro- 
lina, with the degree of UL,. B. From 1884 
to 1888 he was a member of the North Caro- 
lina Legislature, and, in 1888, was a presi- 
dential elector. He was a member of Con- 
gress from 1891 to 1895 and 1899 to 1901 
from the Ninth North Carolina Congressional 
District, and, in November, 1906, was elected 
a member of the Sixtieth Congress from the 
Tenth Congressional District of the same 
State on the Democratic ticket. Legal resi- 
dence: Waynesville, N. C. Washington ad- 
dress: House of Representatives. 

CREEL, ENRIQUE C, Ambassador from 
Mexico to the United States, was born in 
Chihuahua, Mexico, on August 31, 1854, son 
of Reuben W. and Paz (Cuilty) Creel. His 
father was a Kentuckian and his mother a 
Mexican. He started to work when very 
young without money and surrounded by 
difficulties. Whem ten years of age he sold 
cigars in the streets in Chihuahua, since 
when he has gradually became one of the 
most patriotic and wealthiest citizens of 
Mexico. His father died while he was quite 
young, leaving his mother and family of six 
brothers and sisters to care for, which 
made the opportunities hard for obtaining 
an education. He has served as a mer- 
chant, school teacher, tanner, farmer, stock 
raiser, miner, new-spaper man, banker, rail- 
road man, financier, member of City Coun- 
cils, member of Congress, Speaker of the 
House, Governor of the State of Chihuahua, 
Ambassador, and other minor responsibilities. 
In every way he might be considered a self- 
made man. He is very fond of books, and 
possesses one of the best private librarieo 
in Mexico. He is the organizer of the Banco 
Central Mexicano, a bank with a capital of 
$21,000,000, in the City of Mexico, with con- 
nections in all parts of the country. The 
Chihuahua and Pacific Railroad Company is 
another of the enterprises of which he is 
the founder, and the Banco Minero of Chi- 
huahua, with a capital of $5,000,000, was 
established by him. As Governor of the 
State of Chihuahua he increased the reve- 
nue 50 per cent, without advancing the tax- 
ation, established 200 schools, introduced the 
homes-tead laws in Mexico, and is respon- 
sible for the anti-alcoholic regulations, the 
law of public education, and several others 
which have been considered advanced in 
principles, with a kind motive for the work- 
ing classes. He has always held a kindly 
feeling for the American people, and has 
done mudh to bring about the present 



cordial relations between the United States 
and Mexico. September 12, 1880, he mar- 
ried Senora Angela Terrazas, daughter of 
General Terrazas, one of the great patriots 
of Mexico, to which union have been born 
seven children, six of whom are living. Two 
of his daughters are married and live in 
Chihuahua, and his four sons are being edu- 
cated, two at the Iowa State College of 
Agriculture, and two in the School of Com- 
merce of Neuchatel, Switzerland. Address. 
Mexican Embassy. 

CRENSHAW, AUGUSTUS P., secretary 
and treasurer of the Chesapeake and Poto- 
m.ac Telephone Company. Residence: 1815 
Sixteenth street, n.w. Office: 722 Twelfth 
street, n.w. 

CRIDLER, THOMAS WILBUR, Govern- 
ment official, was born at Harper's Ferry, 
W. Va., on November 13, 1850. He entered 
the Department of State in 1875, passing 
through the clerical grades to the rank of 
Third Assistant Secretary of State, being 
appointed to that office in 1897, serving 
until 1901, when he resigned. During the 
Monetary Conference at Brussels in 1892 
he was special disbursing agent for the 
Department of State; in 1900 he was ap- 
pointed special commissioner of the United 
States to the Paris Exposition. He has trav- 
eled in Europe many times on Government 
business, and was present at the time of 
the signing of the Hispano-American peace 
protocol in 1898. In 1901 he resigned from 
the Department of State to become commis- 
sioner for Europe of the Louisiana Pur- 
chase Exposition. He is a member of the 
Chevy Chase Club. Residence: 170S Rhode 
Island avenue, n.w. ' 

CRIST, HARRIS McCABE, journalist, was 
born in Sparlan, Illinois, August 25, 1875, 
son of Philip A. and Mary F. Crist. He 
v/as educated in the public schools of Wash- 
ington, soon after which he became asso- 
ciated with the Washington News Bureau 
ot the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. He became 
the head of the bureau and Washington 
correspondent for the same paper in Feb- 
ruary, 1905. He reported the proceedings 
ol the Russian-Japanese Peace Conference, 
a;; Portsmouth, N. H., during the summer 
of 1905. Member of the Dumbarton, Century, 
and Columbia Golf Clubs. Unmarried. Resi- 
dence: The Portner. Office: 608 Fourteenth 
street, n.w. 

CROFFUT, WILLIAM. AUGUSTUS,, au- 
thor, was born in Redding, Conn., in 1836. 
He was educated in the public schools of 
hi£' native town and Union College, from 
which institution he holds a Ph. D. degree. 
He served as private in the Union Army 
during the Civil War, at which time he 
was a phonographic reporter and correspond- 
ent of many of the leading newspapers. Has 
been editor of the Minneapolis Tribune, 
Rochester (N. Y.) Democrat, New Haven 
(Conn.) Palladian, and the Washington Post. 
Prom 1884 to 1894 he was «n executive officer 
in the Geological Survey, and in 1899 organ- 
ized and became secretary of the Anti- 
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extensively In this country 'and Europe, and 
has written may books of fiction and travel, 
among- them being: Folks Next Door; A 
Mid-Summer Lark; The Open I>oor ^f 
Dreamland; The Crimson Wolf, etc. He 
has been married twice, first, to Margaret 
Marshall, of Danbury, Conn., and, second, 
to Bessie B. Nicholls, of Washington. Resi- 
dence: 140 B street, n.e. 

CROMER, GEORGE WASHINGTON, law- 
yer, Congressman, was born in Madison 
County, Indiana, on May 13, 1856. He ob- 
tained his early education in the public 
schools, and later attended Wittenburg Col- 
lege, at Springfield, Ohio, and the Indiana 
State University, graduating from the latter 
institution in 1882. For a time after leav- 
ing college he edited the Muncie (Ind.) 
Times, and then began reading law and was 
admitted to the bar in 1886. In 1886 he was 
elected Prosecuting Attorney of the Forty- 
sixth Judicial Circuit of Indiana, and was 
re-elected in 1888. He has served as a 
member of the State Republican Committee; 
was elected Mayor of the city of Muncie in 
1894. He represented the Eighth Indiana 
Congressional District continuously in Con- 
gress, from the Fifty-sixth to the Fifty-ninth 
session, inclusive. In politics he is a Re- 
publican. Legal residence: Muncie, Ind. 

CROMWELL, BARTLETT JEFFERSON, 

naval officer, was born February 9, 1S40, 
and was appointed to the United States 
Naval Academy from the State of Nebraska, 
graduating in 1861. During the Civil War 
he served in the South Atlantic Blockading 
and Eastern Gulf Squadrons. In 1862 he 
was promoted to Lieutenant; Lieutenant- 
Commander, in 1866; Commander, in 1874; 
Captain, in 1889; Commodore, in 1898, and, 
Rear Admiral, in 1899. During the Spanish- 
American War, when Cuba was surrendered, 
he was ordered to Havana to receive the 
surrender of the naval station and stores, 
remaining there in command. In 1901 he was 
put in command of the United States flee; 
in South American waters, and was later 
transferred to the European Station. Ha 
was retired from active service on Februarj' 
9, 1902. In 1869, at Philadelphia, Penn., he 
married Lizzie S. Huber. Residence: 1525 
New Hampshire avenue, n.w. 

CROSBY, DICK JAY, agriculturist, was 
born at Elbridge, Oceana County, Michigan, 
October 2, 1866, son of Daniel W. and Agnes 
(Colestock) Crosby. He was educated in the 
rural schools, the Flint Normal College in 
1888, and later the Michigan Agricultural 
College, graduating in 1893 with the degree 
of B. S. Taught school before entering col- 
lege, and after graduation became a member 
of the faculty of the Michigan Agricultural 
College. Since 1900 he has been connected 
with the office of experiment stations of the 
United States Department of Agriculture 
a.-? a writer and lecturer on agricultural edu- 
cation. He is the author of numerous de- 
partment publications on agricultural edu- 
cation and allied subjects. He is a mem- 
ber of the Alpha Zeta college fraternity, 
American Civic Association, National Edu- 
cational Association, and secretary or the 



Committee on Instruction in Agriculture of 
the Association of American Agricultural 
Colleges and Experiment Stations. He is a 
Republican in politics. He married Mary L, 
Wheeler July 2, 1902. Residence: Lanham, 
Prince George County, Maryland. Office: U. 
S. Department of Agriculture. 

CROSBY, OSCAR TERRY, electrical engi- 
neer and explorer, was born at Ponchatoula. 
La., April 21, 1861, son of George L. and 
Elizabeth (Terry) Crosby, and graduated 
from the United States Military Academy 
in 1882. He resigned from the army in 1887, 
has been general superintendent of the 
Sprague Electric Railway and Motor Com- 
pany, experimenter in and author on elec- 
tric subjects, 1887-96, and president of sev- 
eral electric railway and lighting companies 
in Washington. He explored Abyssinia, Sou- 
dan, Turkestan and Thibet, and is ithe au- 
thor of several papers and books on Africa 
and Asia. Member of Che Royal Geo- 
graphic Society of London, Metropolitan, 
Chevy Chase and Cosmos Clubs of Wash- 
ington, and the University Club, New York. 
He was married, in 1886, to Jeanne Boulig- 
ing, of New Orleans. Address Metropolitan 
Club, or Warrenton, Va. 

CROSS, CHARLES WHITMAN, geologisr, 
was born at Amherst, Mass., September 1, 
1854, son of Moses Kimball and Maria E. 
(Mason) Cross. His father was a Congre- 
gationalist minister, and his earliest ances- 
tor to come to America was John Whitman, 
of Weymouth, Mass., who landed about 1638. 
Hf- attended the public schools at Wavei:ly. 
Iowa, and Amherst College, graduating from 
the latter institution in 1875; he afterwards 
studied three years at Gottingen and Leipsig, 
taking a Ph. D. degree. Was appointed as- 
sistant geologist in the Geological Survey 
in 1880, and geologist in 1888; he is chief 
of the section of petrology at the presen: 
time. He has written many reports for the 
Geological Survey, and a number of articles 
on geology, mineralogy and petrography for 
leading periodicals. He is a member of the 
Geological Society of America, the Washing- 
ton Academy of Sciences, Geological Soci- 
ety of Washington, and the Cosmos Cluo. 
ILc. married Virginia Stevens November 7, 
1895. Residence: 2138 Bancroft Place, n.w. 
Office: U. S. Geological Survey. 

CROSS, SAMUEL, secretary of the Wash- 
ington Safe Deposit Company, was born in 
Washington, D. C, August 3, 1833. When 
a little over sixteen years of age he left 
school to learn the trade of engineering, and 
later entered the Washington Navy Yard, 
where he remained five years. He served 
for three months in Company D, Seventh 
Battalion, District of Columbia Volunteer.*?, 
and then remained three years as clerk of 
the j'ard at the Washington Navy Yard, 
then embarking in the brokerage business. 
In 1870 he became secretary of the National 
Metropolitan Fire Insurance Company, and 
since 1882 has served in the same capacity 
for the Washington Safe Deposit Compan/. 
Residence: 1462 Bacon street, n.w. Offlca: 
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CROWELL, JOHN FRANKLIN, educator, 
economist, author, editor, was born at York. 
Penn., November 1, 1857, son of Daniel anJ 
Sarah A. (Jacobs) Crowell. He prepared 
for college at Union Seminary, New Berlin, 
Penn., taug-ht school three years, entered 
Dartmouth College in 1879, where he spent 
one year, and then entered the sophomore 
class at Yale University, graduating in 1883. 
From 1884 to 1886 he pursued study in the 
Yale Divinity School, and in the graduate 
department of the same university, during 
which time 'he was appointed Larned 
Scholar in philosophy. In 1894-95 he was 
appointed fellow in sociology, Columbia 
University, New York, and, in 1898, studied 
a: the University of Berlin, Germany, and 
at London University. He received the de- 
gree of Litt. D. from ithe University of North 
Carolina, 1890, and Ph. D., Columbia Uni- 
versity (New York), 1898. From 1883 to 
1S84 and 1886 to 1887 he was principal of 
the Schuylkill Seminary, Fredericksburg, 
Penn; 1887-94, president of Trinity College, 
N. C. ; 1895-97, professor of economics and 
sociology, Smith College, Mass.; 1900-04, ex- 
pert in employ of United States Industrial 
Commission and Bureau of Statistics, Treas- 
ury Department; 1904-06, educational di- 
rector of Intercontinental Correspondence 
University, Washington, and from April 1, 
1906, associate editor The Wall Street Jour- 
nal. New York. In 1893 he lectured on inter- 
national trade and commercial geography in 
Columbian (now George Washington) Uni- 
versity; was secretary of the economic sec- 
tion of the American Association for the 
Advancement of Sciences; 1902-06, president 
of the Washington Economic Society, and 
is a member of the Washington Board o' 
Trade, the Cosmos and University Clubs. 
He is the author of the following treatises 
and monographs: Logical Process of Social 
Development (1898); Distribution of Farm 
Products ("Vol. VI. of the Reports of the In- 
dustrial Commission, 1900); The Iron and 
Steel Trade of the United States; The Ship- 
ping and Shipbuilding Industry of the United 
States; The Lumber Trade of the United 
States; Warehousing Systems of the United 
States; Trunk Line Traffic and Differential 
Freight Rates to the Seaboard; Report to 
the River and Harbor Board of Engineers 
on the Commercial Advisability of Deepen- 
ing the Mississippi from St. Louis to Cairo; 
Monthly Reports on the Internal Commerce 
of the United States (Bureau of Statistics), 
and many reports and articles contributed 
to the newspaper and magazine press on 
social and economic subjects. He has been 
twice married, first, in June, 1887, to Laura 
Kistler Getz, of Reading, Penn., who died 
in June, 1888, and, second, in April, 1891, 
to Carrie H. Pascoe, of Philadelphia. Wash- 
ington residence: The Cosmos Club. Office: 
44 Broad street. New York. 

CROWNINSHIELD, ARENT SCHUYLER, 

naval officer, was born in New York State 
in 1843, son of Jacob and Mary M. (Schuy- 
ler) Crowninshield. In 1863 he was gradu- 
ated from the United States Naval Academy, 
after which he joined the steam sloop Ticon- 
deroga, and participated In .the attacks 
on Fort Fisher. In 1886 he was advanced 



to Lieutenant; Lieutenant- Commander, In 
1S68; Commander, in 1880, and Captain in 
1884. He was in commiand of 'the battle- 
ship Maine until succeeded by Captain Sigs- 
bee in 1897, when he became chief of the 
Bureau of Navigation in the War Depart- - 
ment, with the rank of Rear Admiral. Dur- 
ing the Spanish War he was made a mem- 
ber of the Board of Naval Strategy, and 
was later in command of the European Sta- 
tion. He was retired in 1903, with the rank 
of Rear Admiral. Residence: 820 Eighteenth 
street, n.w. 

CROWNINSHIELD, MARY BRADFORD 

(Mrs. Schuyler Crowninshield), author, Is 
the daughter of Judge John M. and Sarah 
E. (Hopkins) Bradford. She is the author 
of a number of books, among them being: 
A Romance of the West Indies; All Among 
the Lighthouses; The Lig^hthouse Children 
Abroad; The Archbishop and the Lady; 
Valincia's Garden, etc. She is the wife of 
Rear Admiral Arent Schuyler Crowninshield. 
Residence: 820 Eighteenth street, n.w. 

CROZIER, WILLIAM, soldier, inventor, 
was born at Carrollton, Ohio, February 19, 
1855, son of Judge Robert and Margaret 
Crozier. In 1876 he was graduated from 
the United States Military Academy, when 
he was assigned to the Fourth Artillery, 
serving in the West for three years under 
Generals Crook and Howard, taking part in 
the Sioux and Bannocks campaigns. From 
1879 to 1884 he was instiructor in maithe- 
matics at West Point. After a competitive 
examination he, in 1881, was transferred to 
the Ordnance Department, with which he 
has since been connected. With General 
Bufflngton, he invented the Buffington- 
Crozier disappearing gun carriage, now in 
general use in the coast defense works. He 
has invented a wire-wrapped rifle. He was 
promoted to Captain in 1890, and during 
the Spanish-American War he was Major 
and Inspector-General of Volunteers. Presi- 
dent McKinley appointed him one of the 
American delegates to the Peace Conference 
a: The Hague in 1899. In 1900 he served 
on the staff of General Bates, and on that 
of General Schwan in the last considerable 
campaign of the Philippine insurrection, and 
in the same year accompanied the Pekin 
relief expedition as chief ordnance officer 
under General Chaffee. Since November 22, 
1901, he has been Brigadier-General and 
Chief of Ordnance of the United State.s 
Army. He is a member of the American 
Geographical Society, American Association 
for the Advancement of Science, New York 
University, New York Yacht, and the Metro- 
politan and Chevy Chase (Washington) 
Clubs. Residence: 1785 Massachusetts ave- 
nue, n.w. Office: War Department. 

CRUGER, JULIE GRINNELL, novelist, 
essayist and poet, was born at Paris, France. 
Her father was a, descendant of the Went- 
wcirths, and her mother a niece of Wash- 
ington Truing. She is the author of a 
number of books (under the name of Julien 
Gordon), among them being: A Successful 
Man; Poppiaea; Eat Not Thy Heart; Mad- 
emoiselle Reseda; The Wage of Character; 



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A Puritan Pagan; A Diplomat's Diary; 
World's People, poems, etc. Married Colonel 
S. Van Rensselaer Cruger, who is now de- 
ceased. Residence: 2506 K street, n.w. 

CRUMPACKER, EDGAR DEAN, lawyer. 
Congressman, was born in Laporte County, 
Indiana. Received his early education in the 
common schools and the Valparaiso (Ind.) 
Academy. He took up the study of law. 
and was admitted to the bar in 1876, and 
still practices his profession at Valparaiso. 
From 1884 to 1888 he was Prosecuting Attor- 
ney for the Thirty-first Judicial District of 
Indiana, and served as Appellate Judge of 
the same State by appointment under Gov- 
ernor Hovey from 1891 to 1893. He has rep- 
resented the Tenth Indiana Congressional 
District in Congress continuously since iha 
Fiftj^-fifth Congress. In politics he is a 
Republican. Legal residence: Valparaiso, 
Ind. Washington address: House of Rep- 
resentatives. 

CRYDER, MARY ALSOP, vocalist, was 
born in New York City, daughter of Will- 
iam Wetmore and Helen (Chauncey) Cryder. 
Her earliest ancestor to come to this coun- 
try, in 1638, was Rev. Dr. Charles Chaun- 
cey, who was second president of Harvard 
College. She was educated in New York, 
London and Paris, and was a pupil of Sig. 
Enrico Duzensi. After several years' study 
she made Washington the scene of her prj- 
fessional work, coming here about 1900, and 
opened a vocal studio, and soon drew a num- 
ber of private pupils, as well as organizing 
and instructing a large class in sight read- 
ing. After making her debut as a singer at 
the Washington Club, she arranged several 
musicales, being assisted by such artists 
from New York as Leland Langley, Elizabeth 
Strauss, and others. The following season 
she presented several artists of great re- 
nown, among them being Signor Scotti and 
Franz Wilczek, the violinist. Her next 
achievement was the presentation of the 
Metropolitan Opera Company, the only per- 
formance of grand opera given In Washing- 
ton during 1903, "Philemon and Baucis." 
Among the artists who have appeared here 
under her management are Ysaye, Campa- 
nari, Journet, Maude Powell, Francis Rog- 
ers, Henri Marteau, Jean Gerardy, Mons. and 
Mme. Gilibert, Marie Hall, Emilio de Gogor- 
za. Edouard Dethier, Leon Rennay, Mme. 
Maconda, Claude Cunningham, and M. Cam- 
mille Saint-Saens. In addition to her work 
in the managerial field, she has continued 
her teaching, and has charge of the vocal 
department of the Misses Eastman's School; 
she also managed the lectures of the Alli- 
ance Francaise until its establishment in 
Washington. Residence: 1924 N street, n.w. 

CULBERSON, CHARLES A., lawyer. U. S. 
Senator, was born at Dadeville, Tallapoosa 
County, Alabama, June 10, 1855. His father 
represented a Texas district in Congre.5S 
for twenty-two years. Removed to Texa.i 
when a mere child, with his parents, resid- 
ing at Gilmer and Jefferson until 1887, when 
he removed to Dallas. He was educated at 
the Virginia Military Institute, at Lexing- 
ton, Va., graduating in 1874. and later took 



up the study of law at the University of 
Virginia. In 1890 he was elected Attorney- 
General for the State of Texas, and re- 
elected in 1892; in 1894 he was elected Gov- 
ernor of the State, and was re-elected to the 
same office two years later. In 1896 he was 
a delegate-at-large to the Democratic Na- 
tional Convention at Chicago, and at St. 
Louis in 1904, being chairman of the Texas 
delegation at both. He was elected to the 
U. S. Senate in January, 1899, to succeed 
Senator Roger Q. Mills, having only three 
opposing votes, and was re-elected in 1905; 
his present term will expire March 3, 1911. 
Legal residence: Dallas, Texas. Washing- 
ton address. U. S. Senate. 

CULL, JUDSON T., lawyer, president of 
the Home Title Insurance Company. Resi- 
dence: 114 Second street, s.e. Office: 317 
John Marshall Place. 

CULLOM, SHELBY MOORE, lawyer, U. 
S. Senator, was born in Wayne County, 
Kentucky, November 22, 1829. He received 
an academic and university education, and 
then removed to Springfield, 111., In 1853 to 
study law, and has since resided there. Soon 
after being admitted to the bar at Spring- 
field he was elected attorney for the city. 
He continued the practice of law until he 
was elected to Congress, in 1865. He served 
several years in the Illinois State Legisla- 
ture, being Speaker of that body two yeara. 
In 1856 was a presidential elector on the 
Filmore ticket, and served in the Thirty- 
ninth, Fortieth and Forty-first Congresses; 
was a delegate to the Republican National 
Convention in 1872, when it was held in 
Philadelphia. He was chairman of the Illi- 
nois delegation, and placed General Grant 
in order for nomination. He was also a 
delegate to the Republican National Conven- 
tion in 1884. Was elected Governor of Illi- 
nois In 1876, and re-elected In 1880, serving 
until 1883, when he resigned, after being 
elected to the U. S. Senate, to succeed David 
Davis, an Independent Democrat. He took 
his seat on December 4, 1883, and was re- 
elected in 1888, 1894, 1900 and 1907. Legal 
residence: Springfield, 111. Washington ad- 
dress: U. S. Senate. 

CUMMINGS, GEORGE JOTHAM, profes- 
sor of Latin and Greek and dean of the 
preparatory department, Howard University, 
since 1885, was born in Groton, Grafton 
County, N. H., on July 6, 1838, son of Jotham 
and Mary (Cheney) Cummings. After ob- 
taining his preparatory education at Kim- 
ball Union Academy, at Meriden, N. H., 
hi entered Dartmouth College, from which 
he was graduated, A. B., in 1869, and re- 
ceived an A. M. degree from the same in 
1872. For the first six years after gradua- 
tion from college he taught natural sciences 
and Latin, and since then has been in charga 
of schools, fitting students for college. Un- 
der his influence large numbers have taken 
the higher courses. From 1875 to 1880 he 
was principal of the Kimball Union Acad- 
emy, at Meriden, N. H., and principal of 
Monson (Mass.) Academy from 1880 to 1885. 
Since then he has been dean of the prepara- 
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Is a member of the Congregational Church; 
Psi Upsilon and Phi Beta college fraternities, 
and the Archaeological Society, and, in poli- 
tics, a Republican. On July 26, 1869, he 
married Lucy E. Hardy, of Groton, N. H., 
to which union two children have been born, 
one of which is living. Address: Howard 
University. 

CUMMINGS, GEORGE McLEAN, Presby- 
terian clergyman, was born in Baltimore, 
Md., on July 26, 1862, son of John and Mary 
Jane (Maben) Cummings. After complet- 
ing his preparatory education in the Balti- 
more schools he studied at St. John's Col- 
lege, Annapolis, Md., three years, and en- 
tered Princeton University, from which he 
was graduated in 1887. He was graduated 
from Princeton Theological Seminary in 
1890. Later he pursued post-graduate work 
in Princeton and McCormick Theological 
Seminaries. On December 27, 1891, he was 
ordained by the Presbytery of Baltimore; 
pastor of Presbyterian Churches of New 
Castle, Wyo., and Edgemont, S. D., during 
1892 and 1893; Clarence, Iowa, from 1893 
to 1898; Linn Grove Church, at Mt. Ver- 
non, Iowa, 1899 to 1901; Ida Grove, Iowa, 
1901 to 1905, since when he has been pastor 
of the Garden Memorial Church of Anacos- 
tla, D. C. On September 2, 1895, he mar- 
ried Minna May Whitnell, of Clarence, Iowa, 
to which union three children have been 
bcrn. Residence: 230 Fillmore street, Ana- 
costia, D. C. 

CUNNINGHAM, ANDREW CHASE, mem- 
ber Civil Engineer Corps, U. S. N.. was 
born at Mohawk, N T., February 15, 1858, 
son of Thomas and Celeste (Chase) Cun- 
ningham. He was graduated from the U. S. 
Naval Academy in 1879, and Renssalaer 
Polytechnic Institute in 1885. He was Line 
Officer, U. S. N., until his resignation, in 
1€85; served as Volunteer Ensign in Span- 
ish War, and at its end was appointed to 
a corps of civil engineers. He is a profes- 
sional expert in properties of iron and steel. 
Member of the American Society of Civil 
Engineers, U. S. Naval Institute, American 
Society of Naval Engineers, and of the Uni- 
versity Club. He was married at Middleville, 
N. Y., in 1879, to Jessie E. Thomas. Address: 
Navy Department. 

CURLEY, HUGH H., clergyman, assistant 
rector of St. Peter's Catholic Church. Resi- 
dence: 313 Second street, s.e. 

CURRIER, CHARLES WARREN, clergy, 
man, was born at St. Thomas, West Indies, 
March 22, 1857, son of Warren Green and 
Deborah (Heyliger) Currier. He attended 
the schools of St. Thomas, and in 1871 went 
to the province of Limburg, Holland. He 
studied philosoijhy and theologv at Whit- 
tem, Holland, from 1874 to 1880. He was 
missionary in Surinam, Dutch Guiana, dur- 
ing 1881-82, after which He came lo the 
United States; he went to Spain as a mem- 
ber of the International Congress of Ameri- 
canists in 1892. Became pastor of St Mary's 
Catholic Church in Washington in 1900. In 
ly04 he went to Stuttgart as a representative 
of the United States Government to the In- 



ternational Congress of Americanists. He 
holds the degree of Ph. D. from Villanova 
College, Pennsylvania. He is a member of 
the American Oriental Society, and of the 
National Society of the Fine Arts. In 1905 
he became attached to the Bureau of Cath- 
olic Indian Missions. He is the author of 
a number of books, principally on historical 
subjects, among them: Carmel in Amer- 
ica; Dimitrios and Irene; The Rose of 
Alhama; History of Religious Orders; 
Church and Saints; Cuba— What Shall We 
Do With It? Mission Memories: Tlie 
Divinity of Christ, and a number of maga- 
zine articles, such as The Church in Cuba- 
Why Cuba Should Be Free, etc. Add'ress: 
1326 New York avenue, n.w. 

CURRIER, FRANK DUNKLEE, Congress- 
man, was born at Canaan, New Hampshire, 
October 30, 1853. After attending the com- 
mon schools and the academy of his native 
town he began the study of law, and was 
admitted to the bar in 1874. He was elected 
to the New Hampshire State Legislature in 
1879; secretary of the State Republica.i 
Committee from 1882 to 1900. From 1883 
to 1887 he was clerk of the State Senate, and 
in 1887 president of that body. Was a dele- 
gate from his State to the Republican 
Naitional Convention in 1884, and from 1890 
to 1894 Wias naval officer of customs of the 
Boston port. He has represented the Sec- 
ond New Hampshire Congressional District 
in the Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth and Fifty- 
ninth Congresses, and was re-elected to the 
Sixtieth Congress. Legal residence: Canaan, 
N. H. Washington residence: The Dewey. 

CURTIS, CHARLES, lawyer, U. S. Sen- 
ator, was born at North Topeka, Shawne« 
County, Kansas, January 25, 1860, son it 
Owen Arms and Ellen (Poppan) Curtis. H-' 
■was educated in the public schools of To- 
peka, Kansas, afterwards studying law with 
A. H. Case, at Topeka, and was admitted 
to the bar in 1881. Entered into partner- 
ship with Mr. Case soon after being admit- 
ted to the bar, remaining there until 1884. 
Elected attorney for the county of Shawnee 
in 1884, and re-elected in 1886. He was a 
member of the Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth and 
Fifty-fifth Congresses from the Fourth Kan- 
sas District, and a member of the Fifty- 
sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth and Fifty- 
ninth Congresses from the First Kansas 
District. He is the author of the Curtis 
Act, which brought about a great change 
in Indian Territory; member of the com- 
mittee of eleven Republicans w^ho prepared 
the financial bill that was enacted into law 
during the Fifty-seventh Congress; a mem- 
ber of the Ways and Means Committee, and 
was a member of the Taft party when it 
visited the Philippines in 1905. In the spring 
of 1907 he visited the West Indies and Soutii 
America. He is a member of the Topeka 
Club, and in politics a Republican. He was 
elected to the U. S. Senate January 23, 1907, 
foi a term of six years from March 4, 1907. 
and also to fill out the unexpired term of 
J. R. Burton. Married Annie E. Baird No- 
vember 27, 1884. Washington residence: 1738 
Q street, n.w. Official residence: Topeka, 
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CURTIS, WILLIAM ELEROY, newspaper 

correspondent, was born at Akron, Ohio, 
November 5, 1850, son of Rev. Eleroy Cur- 
tis, D. D. He is a descendant of William 
Curtisi of Appledore, Kent County, England, 
v/hose sister, Mary Curtis, was the v/ife of 
John Eliot, "The Apostle of the Indians," 
and translator of the • Holy Scripture ini.o 
the Indian tongue. He was graduated from 
the Western Reserve University in 1871. 
Began his newspaper career as a reporter 
for the Cleveland Leader, and when the 
Inter Ocean was started in Chicago, in 1872. 
he joined its staff, and for sixteen years filled 
almost every position from reporter tj 
editor-in-chief. In 1884 he served as a mem- 
ber of the commercial commission sen4; tJ 
South America by President Arthur, and on 
hi."^ returned published the first general 
work that ever appeared on South America 
in the English language, under the title of 
Capitals of Spanish America. In 1887 he 
resigned from the Inter Ocean, and signed 
a contract with the Chicago Record to be- 
come its correspondent, with headquarters 
in Washington, and to write it a daily let- 
ter. In 1889 he became Mr. Blaine's per- 
sonal representative in charge of the Inter- 
national American Conference. He founded 
the Bureau of American Republics in 1890, 
and was its director until 1893. He was chief 
of the Latin-American Department and 
Historical Section of the World's Columbian 
Exposition, and was a representative of the 
Department of State on the Government 
Board of Management. Served as special 
envoy to the Vatican in 1892, and was com- 
missioner of the United States to the Colum- 
bian Exposition at Madrid. After the Chi- 
cago Exposition he again took up his duties 
as correspondent of the Chicago Record 
and the Record-Herald, and has visited all 
corners of the world for that paper. From 
December, 1893, when he resumed his con- 
nection with his paper, to the same date 
ia 1906, he wrote more than 4,500 newspaper 
letters from all parts of the world. Since 
1903 his letters have also appeared daily In 
the New York Globe, the Philadelphia Press, 
and the Washington Evening Star. He is 
the author of many books, among them be- 
ing: The Yankees of the Far East; Free 
Silver in Mexico; The Turk and His Loss of 
Provinces; The True Thomas Jefferson; 
The True Abraham Lincoln, etc. He mar- 
ried Cora Keppler, at Erie, Penn., December 

24, 1874. He is a member of the Gridiron 
and Cosmos Clubs, and the Alpha Delta Phi 
college fraternity. Residence: 1801 Connect- 
icut avenue. Office: Home Life Building. 

CURTIS, WILLIAM FULLER, artist, was 
born at Staten Island, New York, February 

25, 1873, son of Samuel Bridgham and Lou- 
ise (Fuller) Curtis. He was educated at the 
Columbian Preparatory School, and studied 
art, 1890-03, first, in the private studio of 
Julius Rolshoven, and two winters at Julian 
Academy, under Jules Lefebvre and Tony 
Robert Fleury. Since 1873 he has been pro- 
fessionally engaged as portrait painter. He 
i,s a member of the Architectural League, 
New York; Society of Arts and Crafts, Soci- 
ety of Washington Artists, and of the Wash- 
ington Water Color Club. H© was awarded 



a silver medal at the Louisiana Purchase Ex- 
position in 1904, and is a member of the 
Cosmos Club. Residence: 1727 Nineteenth 
street, n.w. 

CUSHMAN, ALLERTON SEWARD, chem- 
ist was born in Rome, Italy, when his father 
was United States Consul at that place, sou 
of Edward C. and Emma (Grow) Cushman. 
Mr. Cushman, senior, was the United States 
Ccnsul to Rome during Lincoln's administra- 
tion. Robert Cushman, an ancestor, was an 
elder of the Plymouth Colony in 1620; Char- 
lotte Cushman, a greait-aunt, was a celebrated 
American actress and philanthropist. He 
was educated at the Worcester Polytechnic 
Institute, Harvard University and Heidel- 
burg University, in Germany, receiving th'i 
degrees of A. M. and Ph. D. from Har- 
vard, where he" was appointed a John Harvard 
Fellow. He was an instructor in Washing- 
ton University at St. Louis from 1890 t> 
1894, and assistant professor of chemistry 
in Bryn Mawr College, 1899-1901. Has been 
connected with the Chemical Road Material 
Laboratory and Assistant Director in the 
Office of Public Roads, in charge of the 
Division of Tests of the United States De- 
partment of Agriculture since 1901. He is 
the author of a number of bulletins, and 
has contributed to leading scientific publi- 
cations. During the Spanish-American War 
h.2 enlisted as a private with the Sixth Mas- 
sachusetts Volunteers, and was promoted lo 
Captain, and saw active service in Port,-> 
Rico. He is a fellow of the American Asso- 
ciation for the Advancement of Science, the 
National Geographic Society, and a mem- 
ber of the Metropolitan, Cosmos, and Chevy 
Chase Clubs. He married Sarah D. Hoppia 
June 20, 1901. Residence: 1751 N street, 
n.w. Office: Department of Agriculture. 

CUSHMAN, FRANCIS W., lawyer. Con- 
gressman - at - Large from the State of 
Washington, was born at Brightoa, 
Washington County, Iowa, May 8, 1867. He 
was educated in the public schools of his 
native town and the Pleasant Plain Academy, 
in Jefferson County, Iowa. During his vaca- 
tion in the summer he worked on the rail- 
road as a water boy and common laborer 
m order to earn money to help defray his 
school expenses in the winter. When about 
sixteen years of age he removed to the Ter- 
ritory of Wyoming, working ithere as a cow- 
boy and helper in a lumber camp, later 
teaching school. During odd moments he 
took up the reading of law, and later re- 
moved to Nebraska, where he began prac- 
tice. In 1891 he removed to the State of 
Washington, settling at Tacoma, where he 
has since been engaged in the practice of law. 
Before being elected to the Fifty-sixth Con- 
gress he had never been a candidate for 
any public office. He has served his State 
continuously in the lower House since the 
Fifty-sixth Congress. Republican. Legal 
residence: Tacoma, Wash. Washington ad- 
dress: House of Representatives. 

CUSTIS, GEORGE W. N., physician, was 
born in Washington, D. C, June 5, 1830. H-s 
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vate schoiols of Washington, and when 
seventeen years of age was an assistant 
teacher in the public schools for a short 
while, after which he went to New Castle, 
Del., where he entered the locomotive 
works to learn the business of locomotive 
building. Later, when superintendent of 
the Camden and Atlantic Railroad of New 
Jersey, he was twice elected to the State 
Assembly, and during the second term 
he was Speaker of the House. After his 
experience in the Tailroad and political 
fields, he decided to take up the study lof 
medicine, and was graduated from the 
medical department of Columbian (now 
George Washington) University, later 
taking a post-graduate course at the 
Hahnemann Medical College in Philadel- 
phia, graduating in 1?88. He is a member 
of the American Institute lof Homeopathy, 
Washington Medical Society, Society of 
Colonial Wars, and the National Geo- 
graphic Society. He married Sarah Evans 
Wells, of Chester County, Pennsylvania. 
Residence: 110 East Capitol street. 

CUSTIS, J. B. GREGG, physician, was 
born in Washington in 1855, son of Dr. G. 
W. N. and Sarah (Wells) Custis. He was 
educated in Fernsmith's Preparatory 
School, in Philadelphia, and later entered 
Columbian (now George Washington) 
University, receiving the A. B. degree In 
1875. He then attended the New York 
Homeopathic Medical School, from which 
institution he was graduated In 1878. For 
a number of years he practiced his pro- 
fession on Capitol Hill, when he removed 
to his present office. He was one of the 
original promioters of the Homeopathic 
Hospital, being chief of the staff there 



during 1885-86, and from 1890 to 1894, 
inclusive. He has ibeen president of the 
Homeopathic Medical Examining Board 
since it was established; in 1892, when 
the American Institute of Homeopathy 
held its meeting in Washington, he was 
chairman of the Committee of Arrange- 
ments, chairman of the local committee 
for the erection of a mionument to Sam- 
uel Hahnemann, which now appears at 
Scott Circle. He has been president of the 
American Institute of Homeopathy, and 
chairman of the International Bureau of 
Homeopathy. He Is a member of the Na- 
tional Geographic Society, the National 
Society of Colonial Wars, and the Wash- 
ington Board of Tirade. In 1879 he mar- 
ried Catherine Ritter, of Frederick, Mary- 
land. Office and residence: 912 Fifteenth 
street, n.w. 

CUTTER, WILLIAM PARKER, libra- 
rian, was born in Washington, D. C, De- 
cember 19, 1867, son of Clarence H. and 
Mercine (Stinson) Cutter. He was ed- 
ucated in the public and high schools of 
Washington, and later Cornell University, 
graduating in 1888. From 1890 to 1893 
he was a chemist at the Agricultural Ex- 
periment Station at Logan, Utah, and 
since 1901 has been chief of the Order 
Department of the Library of Congress. 
He is a member of the American Chemi- 
cal Society and the American Library As- 
sociation, and is the author of Rare Books 
and Their Prices. He is professor of library 
science in the Corcoran Scientific School 
at George Washington University. On 
April 25, 1889, he married Cora F. Fuller, 
of Ithaca, N. Y. Residence: The Cosmos 
Club. Office: Library of Congress. 



DAGGETT, AARON S., Brigadier- 
General, U S. A. (retired), was born at 
Greene Corner, Maine, June 14, 1837, son 
or Aaron and Dorcas C. (Dearborn) Dag- 
gett. His early education was obtained at 
Greene Corner, Me., after which he entered 
Monmouth Academy, the Wesleyan Semi- 
nary and Bates College. He entered the 
army in 1861 and served throughout the 
Civil War, rising to the rank of brevetted 
Brigadier-General. He was also brevet- 
ted Major for gallant and meritorious 
services at the battle of Rapphannock 
Station, in 1863, and Lieutenant-Colonel 
for similar services at the Wilderness. 
After the war he was appoinlted to the 
regular army; served during the Spanish- 
American War in Cuba, in the Philip- 
pines, and in China with the allied for- 
eign forces. He was made Colonel of the 
Fourteenth Infantry March 31, 1899, and 
was promoted to Brigadier- General in 
1904, and reltired the same year. He is 
the author of America in the China Re- 
lief Expedition. On June 14, 1865, he 



married Rose Bradford. Residence: Bos- 
ton, Mass. Address: War Department. 

DALAND, GEORGE G., Assistant Rec- 
tor of St. John's Episcopal Church. Resi- 
dence: 3034 O street, n.w. 

DALE, THOMAS HENRY, mine owner, 
Congressman, was toorn at Daleville, 
Lackawanna County, Penn., and was edu- 
cated in the common schools and at 
Wyoming Seminary, Kingston, Penn. He 
entered the mercantile business, and sub- 
sequently became a coal operator. Be- 
ginning in 1882, he served nine years as 
a proithonotary of Lakawanna County, and 
in 1900 was a delegate to the Republican 
National Convention. In 1863 he enlisted 
in the Union Army, upon special call for 
volunteers by the Governor of Pennsyl- 
vania, and served seventy days, when he 
was honoraJbly discharged. He was elected 
to the Fifty-ninth Congress from the 
Tenth District of Pennsylvania. On Au- 
gust 20, 1870, he married Grace Rounds. 
Legal residence: Scranton. Penn. 



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DALES, WILBUR FISK, educator, was 
born in Summit, Schoharie County, New 
York, on August 10, 1862, son of Rev. O. 
P. and Harriette (Story) Dales. He was 
graduated from the Wesleyan University, 
A. B., 1886; A M., 1889, and received the 
degree of Ph. D. from the Illinois Wes- 
leyan University in 1891; from 1892 to 
1896 he took post-graduate work a: 
Johns Hopkins University. He has been 
engaged as a classical teacher in the 
Wyoming Seminary, at Kingston, Penn.; 
Buckeport (Me.) Seminary, and Rugby 
Academy, in St. Louis. At the present 
time he is engaged as a classical teacher 
in the Central High School of Washing- 
ton. He is a member of the Protestant 
Episcopal Church, and of the Washing- 
ton Chapter of the American Institute 
of Archaeology. On July 9, 1889, he mar- 
ried Virginia B. Swan, of Wilkesbarre, 
Penn., to which union has been born a 
son. Residence: 1212 Twelfth street, n.w. 

DALL, CAROLINE HEALEY, au- 
thoress, was horn la^t Bositon. Mass.. 
on June 22, 1822, and was educated by 
private teachers. From 1840 to 1844 she 
was assistant principal of Miss English's 
School, Georgetown, D. C. She is the 
author of Woman's Rights Under ithe 
Law; What We Really Know About 
ShaJcespeare; Woman's Right to Labor; 
Essays on Confuscius; Patty's Gray'^ 
Journey (to the Cotton Islands; My 
First Holiday, or Letters From Col- 
orado; Egypt's Place in Hisitory, etc. 
In 1844 she married Rev. C. H. A. Dall. 
Residence: 1526 Eighteenth street, n.w. 

DALL, WILLIAM HEALEY, natural- 
ist, was born in Boston, Mass., August 
21, 1845, son of Rev. Charles Henry Ap- 
pleton and Caroline (Healey) Dal!. 
His father was a missionary and opened 
the first free school west of the Missis- 
sippi, at St. Louis, Mo., in 1842. William 
Healey Dall was educated in the Boston 
public schools, at A'len's Acad'^my, West 
Newton, Mass., and the Agassiz Museum 
Comp. Zool., Cambridge. He re- 
ceived the honorary degree of A. M. 
from Wesleyan in 1885, and Sc. D. from 
the University of Pennsylvania in 1904. 
He served with the International Tele- 
graph Expedition to Alaska, 1871-84. 
Prom the latter date until 1905 he was 
paleontologist of the United States Geo- 
logical Survey, and since 1880 has been 
honorary curator of the United States 
National Museum. Since February, 1893, 
he has been professor of invertebrate 
paleontology in the Wagner Institute of 
Science, Philadelphia. He is the author 
of a number of reports, treatises and 
monographs on scientific subjects, rang- 
ing from anthropology to paleontology. 
He is a member of the National Acad- 
emy of Sciences. On March 3, 1880, 
he married Annette Whitney. Residence: 
1119 Twelfth street, n.w. Office: U. S. 
National Museum. 



DALZELL, JOHN, lawyer, Congresa- 
man, was born in New York City, April 
19, 1845. His parents removed to Pitts- 
!burg, Penn., in 1847, where he received 
a public school education, and later at- 
tended Yale University, graduating there- 
from in 1865. Subsequently he studied 
law and was admitted to the bar in 
1867, since which time he has been a 
practitioner. He has been a Representa- 
itive from the Thirtieth Pennsylvania Dis- 
trict since the Fiftieth Congress. In pol- 
itics he is a Republican. Legal residence: 
Pittsburg, .Penn. Washington address: 
House of Representatives, 

DANCY, JOHN CAMPBELL, Recorder 

of Deeds of the District of Columbia, was 
born a slave in Tarboro, N. C, May 8, 
1857. He was educated at Howard Uni- 
versity, Washington, D. C, and appointed 
a clerk in the Treasury Department. 
In 1878 he had four pupils under his 
charge as principal of the Tarboro Grade 
School for Colored Youths, and secretary 
of ithe State Lodge of Good Templars, 
and, in 1879, a delegate to the Grand 
Lodge, of Liverpool, England, when he 
traveled through the British Isles and 
spoke in all the larger cities and at the 
Crystal Palace, in London. He was a 
delegate to the Republican National Con- 
vention in 1884, 1888, 1892 and 1896, and 
seconded the nomination of John A. Lo- 
gan for Vice-President in 1884, and that 
of John Sherman for President in 1888. 
He was editor of the Star of Zion and 
the Quarterly Review; president of the 
National Colored Press Association, dele- 
gate to the Centennial of Methodism, at 
Baltimore in 1884; delegaite to the Eco- 
nomical Council, of Washington, in 1891, 
and general manager of the Centennial 
Jubilee of the A. M. E. Zion Church, 1896. 
In 1898 he was appointed Collector of 
Customs at Wilmington, N. C, having 
previously held the same office under 
President Harrison for three years. Res- 
idence: 2139 L street, n.w. 

DANIEL, JOHN WARWICK, lawyer. 
U. S. Senator, was born at Lynchburg, 
Campbell County, Virginia, September 5, 
1842, and educated at Lynchburg College 
and Dr. Gessner Harrison's University 
School. During 1865 and 1866 he studied 
law at the University of Virginia, and 
practiced his profession with his father, 
the late Judge William Daniel, Jr., until 
his death, in 1873, and since then under 
his own name. Washington and Lee Uni- 
versity and University of Michigan have 
conferred the degree of LL. D. upon him. 
He served in the Confederate Army until 
severely wounded and crippled in 1864, 
entering as Second Lieutenant in "Stone- 
wall" Jackson's brigade, and rising to 
the rank of Major and Chief of Staff of 
General Jubal A. Early. From 1869 to 
1872 he was a member of the Virginia 
House of Delegates; from 1875 to 1881, 
State Senator; was a Democratic elector-* 



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at-largre in 1876, and was a delegate 
to the national conventions of his party 
in 1880, 1888, 1896, 1900 and 1904. 
In 1881 he was the successful candidate 
for Governor of Virg-inia. He was elected 
to the House of Representatives in 1884, 
and has been a United States Senator 
since 1887. He is the author of Daniel 
on Attachments, and Daniel on Negotiable 
Instruments. In politics he is a Demo- 
crat. Legal residence: Lynchburg, Va, 
Washington address: U. S. Senate. 



DARLING, FLORA ADAMS (Mrs.), au- 
thoress, was born at Lancaister, Coos 
County, N. H., July 25, 1840, daughter 
of Harvey and Nancy Dustin (Rowell) 
Adams. She is of most distinguished an- 
cestry; Henry Sampson, who came over 
in the Mayflovk^er, and Henry Adams were 
her first ancestors ^to come to America. 
In England and Scotland her ancestors 
included many famous personages. In 
1895 Westminster College, of Maryland, 
conferred upon her the degree of A. M. 
She was the founder and first vice-pres- 
ident and general director of the Daugh- 
ters of the American Revolution, and for 
her services in organizing the society, 
was made an honorary life member. She 
resigned, however, in 1891. She is also 
the founder of the United States Daugh- 
ters of 1812, and president of the Edward 
Irving DarUng (Musical Society, founded 
in memory of her son, an American com- 
poser. She is also vice-presidenit of the 
Lamperti School of Music. Sihe is the 
author of Mrs. Darling's Letters, or Mem- 
ories of the Civil War; A Social Diplo- 
mat; Founding of the D. A. R. and D. R. 
Societies; Senator Athens, C. S. A.; A 
Wayward Winning Woman; Was It a 
Just Verdict? Memories of Virginia 
(1907), etc. She is a benefaatoress of 
William and Mary College; presented to 
the State of Mississippi a portrait of Jef- 
ferson Davis; in memory of her son, 
gave a magnificent painting of the Cru- 
cifixion to the Church of St. Peter, Mt, 
Clemens, Mich. Mrs. DarUng is a mem- 
ber of the American Society of Authors, 
and, In religion, a Roman Catholic. On 
March 15, 1859, she married Edward I. 
Darling, later General in the Confederate 
Army. Residence: 1907 N street, n.w. 

DARNEILLE, HOPEWELL HEBB, 

District Assessor, was born in Scott- 
ville, Virginia, October 7, 1878, son of 
Benjamin H. and Henrietta (Addison) 
Darneille. He took a law course at 
Colum'bia (N. Y.) University, and became 
private secretary to Senators Plumb and 
Bean, later receiving an appointment in 
the office of the Commissioners of the 
District of Columbia, and in 1888 in that 
of the District Auditor; pay clerk, dis- 
bursing clerk, disbursing ofllcer. and now 
Assessor of the District. He married 
Mary C. daughter of B. and Eliza (Can- 



by) Jackson, and four children have been 
born to them. Residence: 2523 Nineteenth 
street, n.w. Office: District Building. 

DARRAGH, ARCHIBALD BARD, bank- 
er. Congressman, was born in Monroe 
County, Michigan, and attended the com- 
mon schools, later graduating from the 
University of Michigan in 1868. At the 
time of the Civil War he enlisted as a 
private in the Union Army, and was dis- 
charged in 1865, when he held a commis- 
sion. In 1870 he entered the banking 
business, in which he has since been 
engaged. He has heen a Representative 
from the Eleventh Michigan District 
since the Fifty-seventh Congress. Re- 
publican. Legal residence: St. Louis, 
Michigan. Washington address: House 
of Representatives. 

DARTON, NELSON HORATIO, geolo- 
gist and chemist, was 'born in New York 
City, Decemiber 17, 1865, only child of 
William and Caroline Matilda (Thayer) 
Darton. He attended the public schools 
of New York. He was chemist to vari- 
ous manufactories in New York from 1884 
to 1885, during which time he invented 
a sugar process. His first public service 
was the investigation of pump wells in 
Brooklyn and discovery ithat their water 
was polluted led to the closing of over 
300 pumps by the Board of Health. He 
has been a geologist of the U. S. Geolog- 
ical Survey since 1886, and conducted field 
surveys in a number of States. He is 
the author of many reports published by 
the Geological Survey, and has lectured 
at various colleges and universities and 
before scientific societies. He has pub- 
lished many articles on geology and travel 
in various magazines and journals. He is 
a member of the Cosmos Club, American 
Institute of Mining Engineers, Washing- 
ton Academy of Sciences, Washington 
Geological Society, American Geograph- 
ers' Association, National Geographic So- 
ciety, Deutsch; Geological Uesell, and 
Societe Geologique de France, and a fel- 
low of the Geological Society of America, 
and the American Association for the Ad- 
vancement of Science. On November 3, 
1903, he married Alice Weldon Wasser- 
bach. Residence: 1900 R street, n.w. 
Office: U. S. Geological Survey. 

DARWIN, CHARLES CARLYLE, Li- 
brarian, was born at Paris, Ten- 
nessee, on January 27, 1848, son of 
Charles and Mary (Piatt) Darwin. 
He was graduated from Oherlin College 
iu 1868, with the degree of A. M., and 
also from the Union Thtological Semi- 
nary in 1870. He engaged in literary 
work in New York with Dr. Lyrnan Ab- 
bott from 1870 to 1872, and was engaged 
on the famous Bitde Dictionary. He Is 
the author of the poem. Wings Some Day, 
and of many other little poems which 
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mously. Served as professor of Hebrew 
at Howaxd University during 1872, and 
from the latter date until 1882 he waj 
librarian of the Smithsonian Library. 
In the Lilbrary of Congress. From 1882 
until 1902 he was librarian of the United 
Slates Geological Survey Library, and 
also, from 1882 until 1894, of the Bureau 
■of Ethnology of ithe Smithsonian Institu- 
tion. He Is a member of the Cosmo? 
Cub. On November 25, 1880, he married 
Gertrude Bascom. Residence: 152t 
Twenty-eighth street, n.w. 

DARWIN, GERTRUDE BASCOM 

(Mrs. Charles Carlyle) was born at 
Middlebury, Vermont, May 19, 1855, the 
daughlrr of "Wilnam Franklin and Anne 
Field (Strong) Bascom. She was grad- 
uated from Vassar College in 1878, and 
studied art at Geneva and Dresden dur- 
ing 1878 and 1879. From 1884 to 1887 she 
was secretary and treasurer, and (1896- 
98), and (1905-07), secreitary-treasurer. of 
the Washington branch of the Associa- 
tion of Collegiate Alumnae. She has been 
president of the Aurora (West Virginia) 
Library Association since 1897; from 
1893 to 1897 was secretary, and, from 
1897 to 1899, president of the Washing- 
ton branch of the Vassar Students' Aid 
Society. She was librarian-general of the 
Daughters of the American Revolution, 
1897 - 99; itreasurer - general, 1899 - 1903, 
and, 1903-07, national vice-president, In 
and, 1903-07, in charge of organization of 
local socie'ties of Children of the American 
Pevolu'tion; 1907 one of t>ip' ten national 
vice-presidents, C. A. R. She is the au- 
thor of the first three reports of the 
Daughters of the American Revolution to 
the secretary of the Smithsonian Institu- 
tion; was a member of the committee 
which prepared the fourth and fifth re- 
ports, and prepared the reports of the 
Children of the American Revolution con- 
tained in the sixth, seventh and eighth 
reports, D. A. R. In June, 1906, she was 
appointed Assistant Probation Officer of 
the Juvenile Court, Washington, D. C, 
a position she still holds. She is a mem- 
ber of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. On 
^TCovember 25, 1880, she was married, at 
Shenford, North Dakota, to Charles Car- 
lyle Darwin. They have four children, 
a son and three daughters. Residence: 
1524 Twenty-eighth street, n.w. 

DAVENPORT, JAMES L., First Deputy 
Commissioner of Pensions. Residence: 
940 T street, n.w. Office: Pension Office. 

DAVENPORT, RICHARD GRAHAM, 

Commodore, U. S. N. (retired), was born 
in Washington, D. C, January 11, 1849. 
son of Captain Henry K. (U. S. N.) and 
Jeannie Brent (Graham) Davenport. His 
first paternal ancestors came from Eng- 
land to America in 1638 and his first ma- 



ternal ancestor also from England, and 
(a Colonel In Charles I.'s army) landed 
In America in 1649. In 1675 Georgre 
Brent, of Woodsttock. S'tafford County, Vir- 
ginia, a maternal ancestor, went as Col- 
onel in command of a regiment to assist 
the Royal Governor Berkeley to put down 
Bacon's Rebellion, while at the same time 
his paternal ancestors were engaged In 
war with King Phillip in New England. 
His grandfather, an early resident of 
Washington, was Captain George Gra- 
ham, who served in the War of 1812, and 
was iSecretary of War during 1816 an-i 
1817. His early education was received 
in the private schools of Washington, D. 
C, and Maryland, until appointed a Mid- 
shipman to the United States Naval 
Academy from the First Congressional 
District of Georgia, graduating with the 
class of 1869. Subsequent to graduation, 
twice took the course of lectures and 
instruction on torpedoes and electricity 
at the Torpedo School at Newport, R. I., 
also twice taking the course of lectures 
and instructions in international law and 
naval science at the Naval War College. 
Newport, R. I. On July 12, 1870, he was 
commissioned an Ensign, and has served 
continuously, both at sea and ashore, 
through all the grades up to the tim"^ 
of his retirement, on June 30, 1907. as 
a Commodore, U. S. N., his last sea duty 
being in command of the first-class bat- 
tleship Georgia, of the U. S. Atlantic fiee;. 
He has had charge of different divisions 
of the Hydrographic Office; in charge 
of officers' detail. Bureau of Navigation 
and aide to the Rear Admiral represent- 
ing the Navy Department at the Cen- 
tennial Exposition, Philadelphia, Penn., 
in 1876. He was assistant and also gen- 
eral inspector of U. S. vessels building 
at Bath, Me., and Richmond, Va.; mem- 
ber of the Naval Examining and Retiring 
Boards, etc. Duriner the war with Spain 
he was Flag Lieutenant to Commodore J. 
C. Watson, U. S. N. ; second in com- 
mand of the blockading fleet, and later 
Commander-in-Chief of the Eastern 
Squadron. Took part in blockading both 
the north and south coast of Cuba; bearer 
of a flag of truce to the authorities In 
Havana, and was present aboard the U. 
S. S. Oregon when Santiago de Cuba sur- 
rendered to our forces. In command of 
the Fish Commission steamer Fish 
Hawk, he took a party of scientists to the 
West Indies and made a biological sur- 
vey of all the waters around Puerto Rico, 
and, as a Commander, commanded the 
Apprentice Training Sloop-of-War Essex. 
He is a member of the Society of Colo- 
nial Wars, Sons of the Revolution, Soci- 
ety of the War of 1812, Aztec Club (War 
with Mexico), Military Order of the Loyal 
Legion of the United States, Metropol- 
i'tan and Chevy Chase Clubs, of Washing- 
ton, and the New York Army and Nary 
and Yacht Clubs, of New York City. In 
religion he is an Episcopalian. On No- 



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vember 20, 1884, he married Serena Hale 
Gilman, of "New York City. Residence 
1331 Eighteenth street, n.w. Office: Navy 
Department. 

DAVENPORT, WILLARD GOSS, Pro- 
testanit Episcopal 'clergyman, author, was 
born lait Brandon, Rultland County, Vt., on 
May 9, 1843, son of Thomas Davenport, the 
inven'tor of the electric motor. He is de- 
scended of distinguished Revolutionary 
stock. He attended the Rectory Military 
School, at Hamden, Conn., from 1858 to 
1859: the Vermont EpiscoDal Ins'titute, 
Burling-ton, 1859-61, and St. Stephen's 
College. Annandale, N. Y., 1865-68. He 
was ordained a deacon of the Episcopal 
Church in 1872, and a priest in 1873. He 
was rector of the St. James Church, 
Hydevire, Vt.. 1872-76: of St. Luke's 
Church, Church Hill, Md., 1876-82; of 
©t. James' Church, Bolivar, Tenn., 1882- 
85; of Holy Trinity Church, Prince 
George County, Maryland, 1885-87, and, 
since the latter date rector of Emmanuel 
Church, Anacostia, D. C. At the out- 
hreak of the Civil War he enlisted in the 
Fifth Vermont Regiment, and during his 
three years of service rose to the rank 
of First Lieutenant. He w^as twice 
wounded at Fredericksburg, in 1863, and 
at the Battle of the Widerness, in 1864. 
He is the author of The Bihle and the 
Church; An Essay Towards Faith, and 
also the following books for boys: The 
Isle of the Lake; Milton Blairles, and 
The Green Mountain Boys. He is a mem- 
ber of the Grand Army of the Republic, 
the As.sociated Survivors of the Sixth 
Army Corps, Vermont State A.ssociation. 
and is a Mason. He has served as chap- 
lain in all these organizations. On Sep- 
tember 8, 1869, he married Mary Con- 
verse Backus. Residence: 103 Map'e 
avenue, Anacostia, D. C. 

DAVEY, ROBERT CHARLES, Con- 
gressman, was horn at New Orleans, La., 
October 22. 1853, and attended the public 
schools and St. Vincent's College (Cape 
Girardeau, Mo.), from which institution 
he was graduated in 1871. He was elected 
State Senator in 1879, and re-elected in 
1884 and 1886. In 1880 he hecame Judge 
of the first Recorder's Court, and served 
until 1888, when he was an unsuccessful 
candidate for Mayor of New Orleans. He 
was elected to *he Fifty-third Congress 
from the Second Louisiana District; de- 
clined nomination for the Fifty-fourth; 
was rf^-elected to the Fifty-fifth, and has 
served since that time. Democrat. Lega: 
residence: New Orleans, La. Washing- 
ton address: House of Representatives. 

DAVIDGE, CHARLES H5NRY, banker-, 
was born in Indianapolis, Ind., Febru- 
ary 15, 1843, son of Charles Henry and 
Sarah Agnes (Sandas) Davidge. He at- 
tended the Butler University, of that city 
served through the winter of 1863 In the 



United States Quar't'ermaster's Depart- 
ment at Helena, Arkansas, and for four 
years from 1866 was chief clerk in the 
Assessor's Office of Internal Revenue of 
•the Fourth District of Georgia, and for 
two years general bookkeeper in the Geor- 
gia National Bank, Atlanta, Ga.. return- 
ing to take a position in the First Na- 
tional Bank of Indianapolis. Later he 
came to Washington as chietf of division 
in the Treasury Department under John 
C. New, U. S. Treasurer, remaining eleven 
years. In 1885 he became a cashier of 
the First National Bank, Crawfordsville, 
Ind.; returned to Washington as cashier 
of the Ohio National Bank, and, on Jan- 
uary 1, 1898, became treasurer and cash- 
ier of the Washington Savings Bank. He is 
a member of the Society of the Sons of the 
American Revolution. He married, on 
December 31, 1868, Elizabeth E. Sloan, of 
Crawfordsville, Ind. Residence: 1736 
Q street, n.w. 

DAVIDSON, H. BRADLEY, President 
United States Trust Company, was born 
August 30, 1860, in Bethesda, Maryland, 
son of Dr. James H. and Sarah S. (Brad- 
ley) David-son. He was graduated from 
Princeton University in 1880 took a de- 
gree in laAv at Columbian (now George 
Washington) University with the c'^ass 
of 1882 and founded the firm of Davidson 
& Davidson (real estate). He is a mem- 
ber of the Chevy Chase Club the Young 
Men's Christian Association and an elder 
in the Bethesda Presbyterian Church. His 
first wife was Nannie Cunningham, of 
Baltimore, and one daughter survives; 
his second wife was Mary Stannard Por- 
ter, of Indiana, Penn, to which two sons 
have been born. Residence: Bethesda, 
Md., and 1904 T street, n.w. Office: 611 
Fourteenth street, n.w. 

DAVIDSON, JAMES H., lawyer, Con- 
gressman, was born at Colchesiter, N. Y., 
June 18, 1858. He was educated at the 
Walton (N. T.) Academ3^ and taught 
for several years in the public schools. 
He was graduated from the Albany Law 
School in 1884, and practiced at Prince- 
ton, Wis. He was District Attorney of 
Green Lake County, 1888; chairman of 
the Republican Congressional Committee. 
1890-96. He removed to Oshkosh. Wis., 
January 1, 1892, and was City Attorney, 
1895-97, and member of Congress from 
the Sixth Wisconsin District, 1897-1903, 
and a member of subsequent Congresses 
from the Fighth District. Legal residence: 
Oshkosh, Wis. Was'hington address: The 
Dewey. 

DAVIDSON, JAMES WOOD, author, 

was born in Newberry County, South 
Carolina, March 9, 1829, son of Alexander 
and Sarah J. D. Davidson. He was grad- 
uated from the South Carolina College 
(now the University of South Carolina) 
in 1852, later, in 1855, receiving the de- 



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^ee of A. M. He was professor of Greek 
at Mt. Zion Colleg-iate Institute, Winns- 
boro, S. C, from 1854 to 1859, and later 
taugWt at Columbia, S. C. He served dur- 
ing the Civil War was Adjutant in the 
Confederate Army, and after the declara- 
tion of peace engaged in newspaper work, 
removing to Washington. From 1873 to 
1884 he made his home in New York, and 
on the laJtter daJte removed to Lake Worth, 
Dade County, Florida. He was a mem- 
ber of the Florida State Constitutional 
Convention in 1886; member of the Leg- 
islature, 1887. Since 1887 he has been a 
olerk in the United Slates Treasury De- 
partment. He is the author of The Liv- 
ing Writers of the South; A School His- 
tory of South Carolina; The Correspond- 
ent; The Poetry of the Future, and The 
Florida of To-day. In 1884 he married 
Mrs. Josephine Allen; died June 23, 1905. 

DAVIDSON, JOHN C, junior partner 
of the real estate firm of Davidson & Da- 
vidson, was born at Bethesda, Maryland. 
He attended Rittenhouse Academy, ana 
later Columbian (now George Washing- 
ton) University. He is a director of tha 
Riggs Fire Insurance Company, and for- 
merly of the Washington Title Company; 
member of the Capital, Columbia Golf, 
and Bachelors' Tennis Clubs; Young 
Men's Christian A&sociation, and is a 
vestryman and register of St. Thomas' 
Episcopal Church. On November 29, 1889, 
he married Minnie R. Chichester, of Falls 
Church, Va., and has four children liv- 
ing. Residence: 1900 T street, n.w. Sum- 
mer home: Lewinsville, Fairfax County, 
Va. Office: 1413 G street, n.w. 

DAVIDSON, WILBUR LEROY, clergy- 
man, was born at Woodsfleld. Monrof 
County, Ohio, on April 3, 1853, son of 
Rev. William A. Davidson, a minister 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He 
was educated at Washington and Jeffer- 
son College, attending two terms, and 
at Scio College, Ohio, where he was grad- 
uated in 1870, with the degree of A. P , 
and at Drew Theological Seminary, where 
he graduated in 1876. Claflin University, 
in 1889. conferred the honorary degre<=> 
of D. D. on Dr. Davidson. From 1876 
to 1886 he served in various pastorales ^ 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church; from 
the latter date until 1891 he was an agent 
of the SundHv-school Union of his de- 
nomination. From 1892 until 1896 he lec- 
tured and managed twelve Chiutauqua 
assemblies in the capacities of field agent 
and superintendent of Instrucaon, and 
has always been prominently identifie.l 
with that movement, having the distinc- 
tion of organizing and conduc*^'ng more 
assemblies than any oither one man in 
this country. Since 1889 he has been sec- 
retary of the American University. In 
1901 he was sent as a delegate to the 
Ecumenoial Conference of Methodism, at 
London, England. He has contributed 



widely to the religious and secular press 
and is the author of Over the Sea and 
What I Saw, published in 1885. He is a 
member of the National Geographic Soci- 
ety, University Club, and the Masonic 
Order, and in political conviction is a 
Republican. On October 16, 1890, he mar- 
ried Bell Clark. Residence: 1711 La- 
mont street, n.w. 

DAVIS, ARTHUR POWELL, civil engi- 
neer, hydrographer, was born at Deca- 
tur, Macon County, Illinois, Fe^bruary 9, 
1861, son of Hon. John and Martha (Pow- 
ell) Davis. He was educated in the pub- 
lic and high schools of Illinois and Kan- 
sas, and the Kansas State Normal School: 
he is also a graduate of Columbian (now 
George Washington) University. From 
1882 to 1884 he was an assistant topogra- 
pher of the United States Geological Sur- 
vey; from 1884 to 1894 he served as a 
topographer, and from 1894 to 1902 was 
hydrographer in the same bureau. From 
1902 to 1906 he was assistant chief engi- 
neer of the United States Reclamatio i 
Service. Since March, 1907, he has been 
chief engineer of the same service. Id 
1898 he made a hydrographic examina- 
tion of the Nicaraguan and Panama Canal 
routes, and has conducted numerous hy- 
drogiaph'ic researches and field work 
throughout the United States. He is an 
expert on irrigation. He is the author 
of a number of reports, monographs and 
studies published by the United States 
Geological Survey. He is a member of 
the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, the 
American Society of Civil Engineers, the 
University and Cosmos Clubs, and the 
American Forestry Association. On June 
20, 1888, he married Edzabeth Brown. 
Residence: 2212 First street, n.w. Office: 
U. S. Reclamation Service, Twelfth and 
G streets, n.w. 

DAVIS, CHARLES EDWARD LAW 
BALDWIN, Lieutenant-Colonel, U. S. A., 
was born at New Haven, Conn., February 
16, 1844, son of Charles S. A. Davis. He 
was educated in the public and private 
schools of New Haven; was one year 
in the academic department of Yale Uni- 
versity, and graduated in 1866 from the 
United States Military Academy, becom- 
ing a Second Lieutenant of the Engineer 
Corps. He was commissioned First Lieu- 
tenant on March 7, 1867; promoted to 
Captain on September 2, 1877; became 
Major April 7, 1888, and Lieatenant-Col- 
onel May 3, 1901. He has served at vari- 
ous stations, and in the Philippines dur- 
ing 1902 and 1903. Unmarried. Address: 
War Department. 

DAVIS, CHARLES HENRY, Rear Ad- 
miral, U. S. N., was born at Cambridge, 
Mass., August 18, 1845, son of Rear Ad- 
miral C. H. Davis. He was graduated 
from the United States Naval Academy 
in 1864, and was appointed Ensign No- 



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vember 1, 1866, and, in the same year, 
promoted to Master. He was commis- 
Bioned Lieutenant in 18G8; Lieutenant- 
. Commander in 1869; Commander, 1885; 
Captain, 1898, and. Rear Admiral, 1904. 
During' his naval career he has served 
at various stations and on various duties, 
including service wrth various expedi- 
tions to determine difference of longitude 
by means of submarine cables. He was 
Buperintendent of the United States Na- 
val Observatory, 1897-98; commander of 
the Dixie from April to September of 
the latter year, and then again in charge 
of the Naval Observatory. He commanded 
the A'abama during 1902; was division 
commander of the battleship squadron in 
1904, and again in 1905. During the in- 
terim he served on the International Com- 
mission of Inquiry on the North Sea in- 
cident, at Paris. He is the author of 
Chronometer Rates as Affected by Tem- 
perature and Other Causes; Telegraphic 
Determination of Longitude; Life of 
Rear Admiral Davis, etc. Address: Navy 
Department. 

DAVIS, CHARLES LUKENS, Briga- 
dier-General. U. S. A. (retired), was born 
a.t New "Brighton, Beaver County, Penn- 
sylvania, February 27, 1839, son of Ben- 
jamin and Elizabeth (Hamill) Davis. He 
was educatea at the Lawrenceville High 
School, in New Jersey, and previous to 
the Civil "War was a civil engineer con- 
nected with various railroads in Penn- 
sylvania and Delaware. He entered the 
army as a private of artillery, soon after 
becoming Second Lieutenant of Volunteer 
Infantry, and, in 1862, First Lieutenant 
of the Signal Corps. In 1862 he was 
iSignal Officer of the Department of Vir- 
ginia and North Carolina, and In 1863 he 
was promoted to Captain of Signal Corp.s, 
also for a aime serving as Captain of 
Infantry with the Eighty-second Penn- 
sylvania Volunteers. He was a member 
of the Examining Board of Officers for 
appointment in the signal corps at New 
Orleans in 1863. During the same year 
he served with the Army of 'the Potomac, 
becoming Chief Signal Officer in 1865. He 
was brevetted Major of Volunteers in the 
same year, and in 1866 was appointed 
First Lieutenant of tihe Regular Infantry 
In 1867 he was brevetted Captain and 
Major; was promoted 'to Captain in 1879; 
became Major in 1898; promoted tc 
Lieutenant-Colonel in 1899; Colonel ia 
1901, and made Brigadier-General and re- 
tired in 1903. He served in the West In 
Indian warfare and on the Mexican fronc- 
ier from 1866 'to 1893; was on duty in 
North Carolina, 1893-97, and during the 
Spanish-American War assisted the Gov- 
ernor of North Carolina in organizing, 
and, later, disbanding volunteers. He was 
Military Collector of Customs of Porto 
Rico. 1899-1900; Commandant of Govern- 
or's Island, New York, 1900-01, and served 
in the Philippines from April, 1901, to 
December, 1902. He is a mem'ber of the 



Military Order ■ot the Loyal Legion, Order 
of Foreign Wars, Society of the War of 
1812, Sons of the Revolution, Order of 
Cincinnati, and a life member of the 
Pennsylvania Historical Society. In 1880 
he married Margaret Stewart Bowers. 
Residence: Schenectady, N. Y. Address: 
War Department. 

DAVIS, CHARLES RUSSELL, lawyer. 
Congressman, was born in Pittsfield, 111., 
September 17, 1849, and removed to Min- 
nesota in 1853, wbere he attended the pub- 
lic schools of Lesueur County, and was 
graduated from the S't. Peter High School 
in 1865. Subsequently he studied in a 
private school, and pursued a business 
course in St. Paul, later studying law. 
He was admitted to the Minnesota bar 
in 1872, and has since been practicing that 
profession. He was for ten years attorney 
of Nicollet County, and City Cleric and 
City Attorney of St. Peter for eighteen 
years. He was elected to the Legislature 
in 1888, and to the SItate Senate in 1890, 
and to the Fifty-eig'hth Congress as a 
Representative from the Third Minnesota 
District. He has been re-elected to eacn 
succeeding Congress. For four years he 
was Captain 'of Company I, Second Regi- 
ment, Minnesota National Guard. In 1874 
he imarried Emma Haven. Republican. 
Legal residence: St. Peter, Minn. Wash- 
ington address: House of Representatives. 

DAVIS, ELDRED GRIFFITH, Collector 
of Taxes, Dis'trict of Columbia, was born 
in Frederick County, Maryland, De- 
cember 25", 1837, son of William and Re- 
becca (Griffith) Davis. He was educated 
in the public and private schools of 
Maryland. Prom 1866 to 1888 he was a 
merchant, becoiming Collector of Taxri? 
for the District of Columbia on May 1., 
1888, which position he still holds. He 
is a director and vice-president of the 
Columbia Railway Company, and a direct, 
or and vice-president of the Fireman's 
Insurance Company, and a director in the 
Home Plate Glass Company. He is a 
member of the Washington Historical So- 
ciety, a Mason and Knight Templar, hav- 
ing served as Grand Master of Masons of 
the District of Columbia for two consec- 
utive terms, and as Grand Commander of 
the Knights Templar one term. Democra*. 
On October 14, 1874, he married Myra 
Louise Davis. Residence: 2211 R street, 
HjW. Office: District Building. 

DAVIS, GEORGE BRECKENRIDGE, 

Judge Advocate-General, U. S. A., was 
born at Ware, Mass., February 13, 1847, 
son of Soloman B. and Sarah Davis. He 
was graduated from the United States 
Military Academy in 1871, and later stud- 
ied law at Columbian (now George Wash- 
ington) University. He is the author of 
a number of books relating to interna- 
tional, national and military law. He is 
a member of 'the Loyal Legion and of the 
Army and Navy Club. In 1871 he mar-- 
ried Ella I. Prince. Residence: 1734 



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Cclumbla road. OfRce: War Depart- 
ment. 

DAVIS, GEORGE WHITEFIELD, Ma- 

jor-General, U. S. A. (retired), was born 
at Thompson, Conn., July 26, 1839, son of 
George and Elizabeth (Grow) Davis. H.j 
enlisted at the outbreak of the Civil War 
and served throughout the struggle, ris- 
ing to the rank of Major and Quarter- 
master of Volunteers. On January 22, 
1867, he was appointed Captain of In- 
fantry in the regular army; became Major 
on August 16, 1894; was promoted t) 
Lieutenant-Colonel March 25, 1898, and 
Colonel in 1899. On May 4, 1898, he wa.s 
appointed Brigadier-General of Volun- 
teers, and on February 2, 1901, succeeded 
to that rank in the regular army. He was 
commissioned Major-General June 24. 
1902, and later retired. He was assistant 
engineer for the Washington Monument, 
1876-85, and also served on the Board of 
Publication of War Records. During thJ 
Spanish-American War he commanded the 
Department of Pinar del Rio, and in May, 
1899, was appointed Military Governor of 
Porto Rico. In 1900 he was made In- 
spector-General of the army in the Phil- 
ippines; in 1901 he served as Military 
Governor of Manila, and later in the same 
year commanded the Department of Min- 
danao, and, in 1902, the Department of 
Luzon, and, finally, the Division of the 
Philippines. He was appointed a mem- 
ber of the Isthmian Canal Commission in 
March, 1904, and in May of the same year 
was made Governor of the Canal Zone. 
He is the author of various documents 
relating to military government, particu- 
larly in Porto Rico and the Philippines, 
and is a member of the Metropolitan Club. 
On April 30, 1870, he married Miss Car- 
men Atocha. Address: War Department. 

DAVIS, HENRY BAUM, Chief Inspector 
of Plumbing of the District of Columbia, 
was born in Washington on September 
20, 1871, son of William W. and Mary A. 
Davis. He was educated in the public 
schools of this city, and afterwards at- 
tended Linthicum Institute, in George- 
town, and studied architecture. For a 
time he practiced architecture, but in 1895 
entered fhe District Government as a 
draftsman. Since that time he became 
Assistant Inspector and Principal Assist- 
ant Inspector of Buildings, and since De- 
cember 1, 1902, he has been Inspector of 
Plumbing. He prepared the plans and 
specifications for the Western High School 
while a draftsman in the District Govern- 
ment and superintended the construction 
of the building in his capacity as Assist- 
ant Inspectar of Buildings. He is a mem- 
ber of the American Institute of Archi- 
tects, and president of the American Soci- 
ety of Inspectors of Plumbing and Sani- 
tary Engineers. On January 25, 1906, he 
married Helen Gertrude Keane. Resi- 
dence: 1339 Fairmont street, n.w^. OfRce: 
District Building. 
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DAVIS, HENRY EDGAR, lawyer, was 
born in Washington, D. C, March 15, 185C 
He was giaduated from Princeton in 1876, 
and in 1879 received the degree of A. M. 
from that university, and the same year 
that of LL. M. from Columbian (now 
George Washington) University. He re- 
ceived the honorary degree of LL. D. from 
the National University in 1898. He was 
admitted to the bar in 1879; from 1885 
to 1889 served as Assistant Attorney Tor 
the District of Columbia, and as United 
States Attorney for the District from 1897 
to 1899. He was professor of common 
law practice and lecturer on the history 
of law at Columbian (now George Wash- 
ington) University, 1888-97, and, sines 
1897 has been professor of evidence, plead- 
ing and mercantile \f<w and lecturer on 
■the history of law at the National Univer- 
sity. Residence: The Concord. Office: 
Jenifer Building. 

DAVIS, HENRY GASSAWAY, railway 
capitalist, was born at Baltimore, Md., 
November 16, 1823, and attended the 
county scihools until he was forced to 
earn a livelihood by the death of hl.^ 
father, which occurred when he was bu: 
a young man. He became superintendent 
of a plantation in West Virginia, and later 
entered railroad life, serving as a brake- 
man, conductor, and, subsequently, Balti- 
more and Ohio Railroad agent at Pied- 
mont, W. Va. Soon afterward he entered 
mercantile life and became a coal ope- 
rator, later o ganizing the West Virginia 
Central and Pittsburg Railway, subse- 
quently sold to the Wabash system. He 
built the Coal and Coke Railway, of West 
Virginia, of which he is president. He 
is interested in a large number of cor- 
poirations, and is president of the Davia 
National Bank, of Piedmont, W. Va.; the 
Davis Trust Company, etc. He served 
in the West Virginia Legislature from 
1865 to 1870 as a Representative, and later 
as Senator, and, from 1871 to 1883, he was 
United States Senator. He is a Democrat 
and has been prominent in the politics 
of his party, both State and national, 
serving as delegate to six national con- 
ventions, and in 1904 was Democratic 
candidate for Vice-President. He was 
one of the American delegates to the Pan- 
American Congress, and for some time 
has been a member of the United States 
Intercontinental Railway Commission. In 
1853 he married Kate A. Bantz. Home 
address: Elkins, W. Va. Washington ad- 
dress: 1517 H stree-t, n.w. 



DAVIS, HERMAN STEARNS, astrono- 
mer and electrical engineer, was born at 
iMilford, Del., in August, 1868, son of 
ThoTn'as Josiah and Mary Jane Davis. He 
studied at the Conferpnce Academy, Dover. 
Del., and at the Phillips Academy, And- 
over, Mass. In 1892 he was graduated 
from Princeton University with the de- 
gree of A. B., cum laude, and special hon- 
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pursued a post-gradua'te course in astron- 
omy at the s'ame institution during 1892 
and 1893. He received the degrees of 
A M. (in 1894) and Ph. D. (in 1895) from 
Columibia University, New York City, 
■while at that ins'titution as a university 
fellow and instructor. He served as assist- 
ant astronomer of the American expedi- 
tion to Africa in 1889-90, and in 1900 en- 
tered 'the United States Coast and Geo- 
detic Survey in the capacity of Expert 
Computer. From October, 1900, to No- 
vember, 1905, he was director of the In- 
ternational La'titude Observatory, a; 
Gai'thersburg-, Maryland. Previous to that 
time he was for a period astronomical 
lecturer for the New York City Board of 
Education. He is the author of a num- 
ber of reports, monographs, magazine ar- 
ticles and scientific treatises relaJting to 
astronomy and kindred sciences, and is 
the inventor of improved methods for 
astronomical and electrical calcula'tions. 
Since 1900 he has been editor of the Amer- 
ican section of the Astronomischer Jah- 
resl)ericht. Since October, 1896 he has 
been In charge of the reduction of Piaz- 
zl's observations for the Carnegie Insti- 
tution ' and the National Academy of 
Sciences. He is a life member of ths 
Astronomische Gessellschaift, a charter 
member of the Astronomical and Astro- 
physical Socieity of America, a fellow of 
the American Association for the Ad- 
vancement of Science, and a member of 
the Philosophical Society of Washington. 
Since 1906 he has been engaged as elec- 
trical engineer with Sanderson & Porter, 
engineers and contractors; alt present, 
engineer in charge of construction office 
of the Mahoning and Shenango Railway 
and Light Company, at Youngstown, Ohio. 
Residence: Dover, Del. Business address: 
52 William street. New York, N. Y. Wash- 
ington address: Care of the Carnegie In- 
stitution. 

DAVIS, JEFFERSON, ex-Governor of 
Arkansas, U. IS. Senator, was born June 
27. 1862, in Dittle River County, Arkansas, 
son of Lewis W. and Mary Davis. His 
early education was obtained at Russell- 
ville. Ark., and after graduating from the 
law department of Vanderbil't University 
in 1884 he was admitted to the bar in 
the same y^ar. In 1892 he was Prose- 
cuting Attorney for the Fifth Judicial 
District of Arkansas, and in 1898 was 
Attorney-General of that State. For the 
term beginning in 1900 and ending m 
January, 1905, he was Governor of the 
State or Arkansas. He was elected 
United States Senator from Arkansas, to 
succeed James H. Berry, whose term ex- 
pired March 3, 1907. In politics he is a 
Democrat. In 1882 he married Ina Mc- 
Kenzie, at Russellville, Arlc. Legal resi- 
dence: Little Rock, Ark. Washington ad- 
dress: U. S. Senate. 

DAVIS, JOHN CHANDLER BAN- 
CROFT, Reporter United States Supreme 
Court since 1883, was born at Wcrcester, 



Mass., December 29, 1822, son of former 
Governor John Davis. He was graduated 
from Harvard Universiy in 1840, and later 
studied law, subsequently receiving the 
degree of LL. D. from Columbia Univer- 
sity. He was secretary for the AmericaTi 
Legation at London from 1849 to 1853, 
and from 1854 to 1861 was American cor- 
respondent for the London Times. During 
this period he was engaged in the prac- 
tice of law in New York. He served as a 
member of the New York Legislature in 
1869, and in that year 'Wias made Assist- 
ant Secretary of State, serving until 1871, 
and again from 1873 to 1874. He was 
Special Ambassador for ithe United States 
to the Geneva Court of Arbitration 
in relation to Alabama Claims in 1871; 
from 1874 to 1877 served as United States 
Minister to Germany. He was Judge of 
the United States Court of Claims dur- 
ing 1878 and until 1882. He is the author 
of The Case of the United States Before 
the Tribunal of Arbitration at Geneva; 
Treaties of the United States; Mr. Fish 
and the Alabama Claims; The Massa- 
chuse/tts Justice, etc., including several 
volumes representing the proceedings of 
the Supreme Court. Residence: 1621 H 
street, n.w. Offiee: U. S. Supreme Court. 

DAVIS, LEWIS JOHNSON, banker, 
wias born in Washington, D. C. July 2, 
1834, son of George Madison and George- 
ana Davis, his father having been teller 
of the Bank of the Metropolis for over 
thirty years. He was educated in the 
school of Arnold «& Girault, leaving there 
in December, 1848, and was in the em- 
ploy of R. W. Latham & Co. till Septem- 
ber, 1850, when he resigned, went to 
Belair and resumed his studies under Dr. 
Edwin Arnold. He then entered the 
Washington Savings Bank, conducted by 
his grandfather, Lewis Johnson. Seven 
years later this institution was dissolved, 
and the firm of Lewis Johnson & Co. 
was formed. He has been vice-president 
of the Garfield Hospital; incorporator of 
the Children's Hospital; a director of the 
District Historical Society, and senior 
warden of the Epiphany Church, of which 
he has been a member for fifty years. 
He was president of the Washing'ton 
Stock Exchange in 1896, and chairman of 
the Sinking Fund of the District, in which 
capacity he disbursed millions of dollars. 
He is a member of the Chevy Chase and 
Metropolitan Clubs; the Archaeological, 
American Historical and Columbian His- 
torical Societies; ex-president of the Sons 
of the Revolution, and a member of the 
St. Nicholas Society, of New York. On 
October 12, 1854, he married Margaret 
Jane Keller, of New York City. Residence; 
1411 Rhode Island avenue, n.w. 

DAVIS, MADISON, Assistant Postmas- 
ter of the Washington City Post Office. 
Residence: 316 A street, s.e. Office: City 
Post Office. 

DAVIS, THOMAS BEALL, Congress- 



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lis 



man, was born in Baltimore, Md., April 
25, 1828, removed to Howard County, Md., 
and was educa'ted in the common schools 
there. In the early fifties he removed, 
wi'th his brother, Hon. Henry G. Davis, 
to Piedmont, W. Va., and entered the em- 
ploy of the Bal'timore and Ohio Rail- 
road, and has devoted much time to 
farming and raising' fine stock. He was 
eleoted to the Legislature of West Vir- 
ginia from Mineral County in 1898, and 
has been a member of the State Demo- 
cratic Executive Committee for more than 
thirty years, and was elected to the Fifty- 
ninth Congress at 'fhe special election on 
June 6, 1905, to fill a vacancy. Legal resi- 
dence: Keyser, W. Va. "Washington res- 
idence: 1517 H street. 

DAVIS, WIRT, Brigadier-General, U. S. 
A. (retired) was born at Richmond, Va., 
May 28, 1839, son of John F. and Delight 
T. Davis. He lattended the Hampton- 
Sidney College and the University of Vir- 
ginia. He enlisted at the beginning of 
the Civil War as a private, and became 
First Sergeant in 1863, later in the year 
being appointed 'Second Lieutenant of 
Cavalry, and, on April 2, 1865, First Lieu- 
tenant. He was commissioned Captain 
June 19, 1868; made Major April 15, 1890; 
Lieutenant-Colonel July 5, 1898, and Colo- 
nel January 10, 1900, aTid retired. He was 
later advanced to the rank of Brigadier- 
General. He was, successively, brevetted 
First Lieutenant, Captain and Major for 
conspicuous gallantry during the Civil 
War at Chickamauga, in Mississippi, and 
at Selma, Ala., respectively, and again, in 
1890, Lieutenant-Colonel, ror meritoriou;^ 
services in action against Indians at Red 
River, Texas, in 1872, and in Big Horn 
Mountains, Montana, in 1876. In 1884 he 
married Anna J. Berry. Residence: The 
Albion, Baltimore, Md. Address: War De- 
partmentt. 

DAWES, BEMAN GATES, Congress- 
man, was born in Marietta, Ohio, January 
14, 1870, son of General Rufus R. Dawes, 
formerly a Representative in Congress. 
He attended the Marietta Academy and 
College, and engaged in business. He was 
elected to the Fifty-ninth Congress from 
the Fifteenth Ohio District, and has been 
re-elected to the Sixtieth Congress. Re- 
publican. Legal residence: Marietta, 
Ohio. Washington laddress: House of 
Representatives. 

DAWSON, ALBERT FOSTER, jour- 
nalist. Congressman, was born at 
Spragueville, Jackson County, Iowa, 
on January 26, 1872, son of Thomas 
and Alice (Foster) Dawson. His 
mother died when he was but a boy, and 
he was reared by his grandparents. He 
attended the common schools at Preston, 
Iowa, and the University of Wisconsin for 
one year. At the age of nineteen he be- 
came editor of the Preston Advance, later 
becoming city editor of the Clinton (Iowa) 



Daily Herald. -He resigned this position 
to become private secretary to Congress- 
man G. M. Curtis, and later, from 1899 
to 1905, served Senator W. B. Allison in 
a similar capacity. In 1904 he was elected 
to Congress from the Second Iowa Dis- 
trict, and re-elected in 1906 to the Six- 
tieth Congress. He is la Republican in 
politics. On June 22, 1C93, he married 
Phoebe R. DeGroat. Legal iresidence: 
Preston, Iowa. Washington address: 
House of Representatives. 

DAWS0r4, EDWARD M., Chief Clerk of 
the Interior Department, was born at 
Easton, Md. He is a memher of the bar 
of the District of Columbia and of that 
of the United States Supreme Court. He 
entered the Department in 1868, and 
served as chief of the Patents and Miscel- 
laneous Divis-ion, and then became chief 
clerk, resigning to practice law for four 
years, and returning at the beginning of 
the first iMcKinley administration to take 
his old position, which he still holds. Res- 
idence: 1752 -S street, n.w. OflSce: De- 
partment of the Interior. 

DAY, ARTHUR LOUIS, physicist, phys- 
ical-geologisit, was born in Brookfleld, 
Worcester County, Mass., on October 30, 
1869, son of Daniel Putnam and Fannie 
Maria (Hobbs) Day. He attended the 
public schools of Westbo.ro, Mass., until 
1888; graduated from Yale University in 
1892, with the degree of B. A., and, upon 
the completion of a post-graduate course, 
from 1892 to 1894, received the degree of 
Ph. D. from the same institution. He 
studied at the University of Berlin in 1897. 
Froim 1894 to 1897 he was instructor in 
physics at Yale University; from 1897 
to 1900 a member of the scientific staff, 
Physikalisch-Technische Reichsantalt, at 
Charlottenbuj-g, Germany; from 1900 to 
1906, physical geologist, lattadhed to the 
United States Geological Survey. On Jan- 
uary 1, 1907, he was appointed diredtor of 
the Geophysical Laboratory of the Car- 
negie Institution, of Washington. With 
Dr. E. T. Allen, he is the author of 
Isomorphism and Thernal Properties of 
the Feldspiars, published by the Carnegie 
Institution of Washington in 1905. He 
is also a frequent contributor to technica; 
magazines on physical and geophysical 
subjects. He is a Mason, a member of 
the Washington Academy of Sciences, the 
American Chemical Society, American 
Physical Society, Deutsche Physikalische 
Gesellschaft, Societe Francaise de Phys- 
ique, Washington Geographical Society, 
Washington Geological Society, Cosmos 
Club, Chevy Chase Club, and a member 
and vice-president of the Philosophical 
Society of Wiashington. In politics he U- 
a Republican, and, in religious belief, a 
Congregationalist. On August 20, 1900, 
he married Helene Kohlrausch, daughter 
of Prof. F. Kohlrausch, of Charlottensburg, 
Germany. Residence: 3150 Highland av- 
enue, Cleveland Park. Office: Geophysical 
Laboratory, Carnegie Instiitutlon. 



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DAY, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Rear 
Admiral, U. S. N. (retired), was born in 
Ohio, son of Benjamin Franklin and Prus- 
sia Bunnell (King) Day. He was gradu- 
ated from the United States Naval Acad- 
emy in 1861, and from that time until 1864 
served with the blockading fleet in the 
West Gulf and from 1864 to 1865 with 
the North Atlantic blockading fleet. He 
was promoted to Lieutenant in 1862; was 
wounded in action in July, 1863. He was 
commissioned Lieutenant-Commander on 
July 25, 1866; promoted to Commander 
August 8, 1876; made Captain November 
5, 1891, and Rear Admiral Mardh 29, 189? 
Retired March 28, 1900. From 1897 to 
1900 he served as a member of the Exam- 
ining and Retiring Boards. Home address: 
Glasgow, Virginia. 



DAY, DAVID TALBOT, mineralogist, 
was born at East Rockpo'rt (now Lake- 
wood), Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Septem- 
ber 10, 1859, son of Willard Gibson and 
Caroline (Cathcart) Day. He attended the 
Baltimore grammar schools until 1876. 
and was graduated from Johns Hopkins 
University in 1883, with the degree of A, 
B., also in 1885 with the degree of Ph. D. 
He was demonstrator in chemistry at 
Johns Hopkins University from 1884 to 
1885. From 1883 to 1885 he was a special 
agent of the United States Geological Sur- 
vey, and in 1893 wias placed in charge of 
petroleum exhibits at the "World's Colum- 
bian Exposition. He was director of min- 
ing at the Cotton States and International 
Exposition in Atlanta, 1895; secretary of 
the Jury of Awards of the Tennessee Cen- 
tennial Exposition, 1897; director of min- 
ing at the Tnans-'Mississippi Exposition, 
1898; in charge of petroleum exhibits at 
the Philadelphia Export Exposition, 1899, 
and also in a similar capacity at the Paris 
Exposition in 1900. He was in Charge of 
the Department of Mining at the Pan- 
American Exposition; was honorary chief, 
Department of 'Mines and Mining at the 
Louisiana PurcTiase Exposition in 1904, 
and honorary commissioner of mining at 
the Lewis and Clark Exposition in 1905, 
and honorary director of mines and metal- 
lurgy at the Jamestown Exposition, 1907. 
Since 1886 he has been Chief of Division 
of aVTining and Mineral Resources of the 
United States Geological Survey, retiring 
July 1, 1907, to take charge of the petrole- 
um ;york of the Geological Survey. He is 
the inventor of a method of preparing 
basic phosphate of lime, also of a method 
of separaiting oils by diffusion. He has 
edited and compiled 'Mineral Resources 
of the United States, and many other bul- 
letins of the United States Geological Sur- 
vey. He has received the decorations of 
Ofllcier d'Academie of Paris (1905), and 
Bene Merente of Austria; is a member 
of the American Institute of Mining Engi- 
neers; National Geographic Society; 
Btffalo Academy of Natural Sciences; 
Geneva Geographical Society; Washing- 
ton Academy of Sciences; Sons of the 



American Revoluition, and the Geological 
ical Sociey of Washington. He is a mem- 
ber of the Presbyterian Church, Society 
of the Covenant. On March 17, 1886, he 
married Elizabeth Eliot Keeler. Resi- 
dence: 2511 Cliffbourne Place, n.w. Office: 
U. S. Geological Survey. 

DAY, WILLIAM A., lawyer, was a mem- 
ber of the Illinois State Legislature and 
Mayor of Champaign previous to his en- 
try into the Governmest service as an 
auditor in the Treasury Department. For 
some time he has been counsel for the 
Interstate Commerce Commission, and in 
this capacity has acted as special assist- 
ant to the United States Attorney-General 
in the prosecution of cases involving trusts 
and corporate interests from 1903 to 1905 
serving as Assistant Attorney-General in 
charge of tlie prosecution of such cases. 
He was a delegate to the Deimooratic Na- 
tional Conventions held in 1876, 1880 and 
1884, and is a member of the Metropolitan 
Club. Office: Department of Justice. 

DAY, WILLIAM RUFUS, Associate 
Justice of the United States Supreme 
Court, was born at Ravenna, Portage 
County, Ohio, April 17, 1849, son of Lutlier 
and Emily iSwift (Spalding) Day. His 
father was for many years Judge of the 
Supreme Court of Ohio. William Rufus 
Day entered the aoa'demic department of 
the University of Michigan in 1866, and 
graduated therefirom in 1870, later pur- 
suing for one year a law course in the 
same institution. He holds the honorary 
degree of LL. D., conferred by the Uni- 
versity of New York and the University 
of Michigan. In 1872 he was admitted to 
the bar and "began the practice of 'aw, 
and, in 1886, he was elected Judge of the 
Court of Common Pleas. In 1897 he was 
appointed Assistant Secretary of State, 
and, in 1898, Secretary of State, iby Pres- 
ident 'McKinley. He resigned this posi- 
tion to accept the chairmanship of the 
commission which negotiated the treatj' 
of peace with Spain at fhe close of the 
Spanish-American War. In February, 
1899, President iMcKinley appointed him 
United States Circuit Judge for the Sixth 
Judicial Circuit, and, in February, 1903, 
he was made Justice of the United States 
Supreme Court by President Roosevelt, 
taking the oath of office on March 2, 1903. 
On August 24, 1875, he married Mary E. 
Schaefer. Residence: 1301 Clifton street, 
n.w. Office: U. S. Supreme Court. 

DAYTON, JAMES H., Captain, U. S. 
N., was born in Indiana, and graduated 
from the United StaJtes Naval Academy 
in 1866. In 1868 he became Ensign; wa? 
promoted to Master in 1869; commissioned 
Lieutenant March 27, 1869; Lieutenant- 
Commander November, 1884; Commander, 
January, 1894; Captain, MarcOi 29, 1900. 
He has served variously in the navy; was 
commandeo" of the U S. iS. Detroit from 
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was made Commandant of the San Juan, 
Porto Rico, Naval Station. He com- 
manded the Chicago in 1901, and was at- 
tached the Naval War College in 1903. 
At the present time he is president of the 
Board of Inspection and Survey. Address; 
Navy Department. 

DEAN, CHARLES RAY, lawyer, Chief 
of the Bureau of Appointments, State De- 
partment, since 1905, was born in Chi- 
cago, III., June 1, 1857, son of John 
Wrig'ht and Sara E. Dean. He attended 
the public schools of Chicago, and in 1877 
was graduated from the University of 
Chicago; in 1882 graduated from Colum- 
bian (now George Washington) Univer- 
sity in law and diplomacy. In 1903 he 
was secretary to the American Consul 
at the "Venezuelan Arbitration, at The 
Hague Tribunal; in 1904 he was la dele- 
gate from the Department of State to the 
International Geographic Congress. In 
1902 he was a member of t'he entertain- 
ing party which accompanied Prince 
Henry of Pirussia on his tour of this 
country. He is the author of Digest of 
Decisions of the Treasury Department, 
1872-1882; member of the Psi Upsilon 
fraternity, Chevy Chase and University 
Clubs. In politics he is a Republican; in 
religious conviction, a Baptist. Unmarried. 
Residence: The Cecil. Office: Depart- 
ment of State. 

DEARING, GEORGE T., President Mu- 
tual Fire Insurance Company. Residence; 
1008 Massachusetts avenue, n.w. Office: 
902 Pennsylvania avenue. 

DE ARMOND, DAVID ALBAUGH, 

Congressman, was born in Blair County, 
Pennsylvania, on March 18, 1844, and 
was reared on a farm. He a;ttended the 
public schools and Williamsport (Pa.) 
Dickinson Seminary. He has served as 
State Senator, Circuit Judge, Commis- 
sioner of the Missouri Supreme Court, and 
has been a Representative from the Sixtn 
(Missouri District since the Fifty-second 
Congress. Democrat. Legal residence: 
Butler, Missouri. Washington address: 
House of Representatives. 

DEEBLE, W. RILEY, real estate broker, 
was born in Georgetown, D. C, April 21, 
1860, son of J-imes William and Nicea 
Patterson (Fuller) Deeble. He was edu- 
cated in the preparatory department of 
Columbian University, and on October 10, 
1876, he entered 'the employ of the Poto- 
mac Insurance Company, of Georgetown. 
He is a Bachelor of Laws, Columbia Uni- 
versity, 1882, and a member of the Dis- 
trict bar. On September 11, 1896, he was 
made president of the company; later ef- 
fected the purchase and the merger of 
the Lincoln Fire Insurance Company, and 
became vice-president of the enlarged 
company. He has been second vice-presi- 
dent of the National Safe Deposit, Savings 
and Trust Company, and two terms vice- 



president of the Washington Stock Ex- 
change, and a member of the Council of 
Administration of the Bankers' Associa- 
tion of the District of Columbia. He al- 
ways evinced a lively interest in the pros- 
perity of Georgetown, and was one of the 
founders of the Dumbarton Club. On Feb- 
ruary 8, 1888, he married Cora B. Begg.s. 
of Wilmington, Del., to which union was 
born four children. He died in 1907. Date 
residence: 2020 P street, n.w. 

DEEMER, ELI AS, Congress-man, was 
born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, In 
1838, and attended the public schools. 
Prior to the War of the Rebellion he 
was engaged in mercantile business in his 
native town and in Philadelphia, which 
business he left to enlist as a private in 
the Pennsylvania volunteer troops. He 
served with his regiment for a year, and 
was then discharged by reason of dis- 
abilities incurred in service. In 1868 he 
removed to Williamsport, Penn., where, 
from 1888 to 1890, he was president of 
the Common Council. In 1894 he became 
president of the Williamsport National 
Bank, a position he still holds, and has 
been extensively engaged in the manufac- 
ture of lumber since 1868. He is a stock- 
holder and director in a number of man- 
ufacturing companies, including the Dee- 
mer Manufacturing Company, which he 
organized, and of which he Is presidemt. 
He was an alternate to the Republican 
National Convention of 1896, and a dele- 
gate to that of 1904. He is a member of 
Reno Post, No. 64, Grand Army of the 
Republic, and, in politics, is a Republican. 
He was elected a Representative from the 
Fifteenth Pennsylvania Distridt to the 
Fifty-seventh Congress, and has since 
been re-elected. Legal residence: Will- 
iamsport, Penn. Washington address; 
House of Representatives. 

DE GRAW, PETER VOORHEES, Fourth 

Assistant Postmaster-General since March 
17, 1905, was born at Princeton, N. J., 
February 1, 1853, son of Abraham Paul 
and Susan Norris (Lowrey) De Graw. 
He received a common school education in 
Princeton, and became a telegrapher for 
the Camden and Amboy Railroad at South 
Amboy, N. J. He became an expert teleg- 
rapher, and before his sixteenth year 
went to Philadelphia to extend his work. 
In 1874 be took one of the eight keys 
operating on the first leased wire between 
New York and Washington for the New 
York Associated Press, and a year later 
was transferred to Washington, where he 
engaged in work on the reportorial stafl 
of the Associated Press. He remainea 
there until 1882, when the -New York and 
Wesitern Associated Press severed rela- 
tions. When he became connected with 
the latter, and a year later became Wash- 
ington manager for that organization. He 
became Washington manager of the 
United Press in 1885, and in 1886 general 
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Baltimore to 'New Orleans. He was also 
made assistant general manager for the 
Southern Associated Press. In 1897 he 
left journalism and engaged in commer- 
cial work in Philadelphia, returning, how- 
ever, to Washington four years la'ter. H? 
was (appointed press representa;tive in 
Washington for the Louisiana Purchase 
Exposition, and later was made Eastern 
representative. At the opening of tht 
Exposition he had charge of the tele- 
graphic arrangements by which President 
Roosevelt opened the Exposition, and, in 
recognition of these and other services, 
received the golden key which worked 
the Western end of the circuit. It was 
upon his motion that the Gridiron Clun 
was organized, of which he was one of 
the charter members, for eight years sec- 
retary, and now a member of the Execu- 
tive Committee. He organized the Hoad 
Drivers' and Riders' Association of the 
District of Columbia, and was elected sec- 
retary, which post he filled until the open- 
ing of the new speedway, when his duties 
as Assistant Postmaster-General made it 
impracticable for him to continue; on 
November 10, 1905, he was elected presi- 
dent of the association. On October 16, 
1876, he married Emma Louise Doerr. 
Residence: 210 Maryland avenue, n.e. 
Office: Post Office Department. 

DE KNIGHT, CLARENCE WOODS, 

lawyer, was born at Rocky Mount, Vir- 
ginia, September 23, 1867, while his 
father was temporarily there as a volun- 
teer officer in the Union Army. His 
mother was Roselia Pettibone, daughter 
of the late John Pettibone. He received 
the degrees of LL. B. and LL. !M. from 
Columbiian (now George Washington) 
Law School; was made Master of Patent 
Law, and admitted to the bar in 1892. 
Previously he was private secreitary to 
Senator Gorman, of Maryland, Firsc 
Assistant Postmaster-General S. A. Mit- 
field, and three Engineer Commissioners 
of the District, Colonel William Ludlow. 
Major Charles W. Raymond, and ColoneJ 
Henry M. Robert. He was also secretary 
of the Committee on Naval Affairs; of 
the United States Army Victory Board; 
of the Poirto Rican Evacuation Commis- 
sion, and assistant secretary of the Re- 
publican National Convention of 1900. He 
now represents large shipping and other 
corporate interests before Congress and 
the Executive Depantments, and some 
years ago he was offered, and declined, 
the position of attorney for the Southern 
Pacific Railway in Oregon. He is a mem- 
ber of the Phi Kappa Psi and Phi Delta 
Phi fraternities; a Mason and Knight of 
Pythias. Residence: The Connecticut 
Office: Kellogg Building. 

DE KOVEN, ANNA FARWELL (Mrs.) 
authoress, was born in Chicago, 111., No- 
vember 19, 1860, daughter of former Sena- 
tor Charles B. Farwell. She was gradu- 
ated from the Lake Forest University In 



1880. iShe is the author of a number of 
poems, a translator, and writer of storie.s, 
and has published the following: Trans- 
lation of Iceland Fishermen (Pierre Loti); 
A Saw Dust Doll; By the Waters of Baby- 
lon. On May 1, 1884, she was married to 
Henry Louis Reginald De Koven. Resi- 
dence: 1239 Vermont avenue. 

DE KOVEN, HENRY LOUIS REGI- 
NALD, musical composer, was born at 
Middletown, Conn., April 3, 1861, son of 
Rev. Henry and Charlotte (LeRoy) De 
Koven. He was graduated from Oxford 
University in 1880, and also holds the 
degree of Mus. Doc. from Racine (Wis.) 
College. He studied music at Stuttgart, 
Florence, Paris and Vienna, and then re- 
turned to this country and served as mu- 
sical critic on several New York publi- 
cations. He has written a number of 
songs, and music for songs, as well as 
orchestral works. He is the composer of 
the following operas: The Begum; Don 
Quixote; Robin Hood; The Fencing Mas- 
ter; Rob Roy; The Knickerbockers; The 
Tzigane ; The Mandarin; The Highway- 
man; The Three Dragoons; Papa's Wife; 
Foxey Quiller; The Little Duchess; 
Maid 'Marian; Red Feather; The Stu- 
dent King; The Girls of Holland, etc. On 
May 1, 1884, he married Anna Farwell, of 
Chicago. Residence: 1239 Vermonlt ave- 
nue. 

DE LACY, WILLIAM HENRY, Judge 
Juvenile Court of the District of Colum- 
bia, and associate professor of common 
law in the Catholic University of Amer- 
ica, was t)orn in Washing'ton, D. C, on 
February 8, 1863. He was graduated from 
St. John's College, B. S.; Georgetown 
University, LL. M., and received, in 
course, the degree of D. C. L. from the 
Catholic University of America. He is 
national president of the Alumni of 
Christian Brothers College, president of 
the Alumni Society of St. John's Col- 
lege, president of the Society of St. Vin- 
cent de Paul foir the District of Colum- 
bia, mem'ber of the Board of Managers 
of the Associated Charities, member of 
the Nationiail Prison Congress, National 
Conference of Charities and connections. 
Knights of Colu'mbus, National Union, 
University Club, and Carroll Institute. 
He is one of the organizers of the Inter- 
national Juvenile Court Society; mem- 
ber of the Washington Board of Trade. 
Residence: Chevy Chase, Maryland. Office: 
1816 F street, n.w. 

DELANEY, DENNIS, clergyman, assist- 
ant reotor of St. Dominic's Catholic 
Church. Residence: 515 Sixth street, s.w. 

DE LANEY, MATTHEW AUGUSTUS, 

Captain, Assistant Surgeon, U. S. A., was 
born at South Canaan, Wayne County, 
Pennsylvania, March 6, 1874, son of Syl- 
vester and Elizabeth (Burns) De Laney 
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stltute until 1896; graduated from the 
University of Pennsylvania, with the de- 
gree of M. D., in 1898, and from the Army 
Medical School in 1902. He was resident 
suirgeon at St. Agnes Hospita'l, Philadel- 
phia, and since his appointment in the 
army has served as Assistant Surgeon at 
the National Soldiers' Home, Hampton, 
Virginia. He saw three years' service 
in the Philippines during ithe insurrec- 
tion as an assistant surgeon in the army. 
He is la member of the Army and Navy 
Club, of Manila, P. I, and the Army and 
Navy Club, of Washington, D. C, also 
of the District of Columbia Medical Soci- 
ety. Unmarried. Address: War Depart- 
ment. 

DE LASH MUTT, THOMAS J., Manager 
of the American Bonding Company of 
Baltimore, and ithe Ocean Accident and 
Guarantee Corporation (Dtd.), of London 
Residence: The Arlington. Office: 1421 G 
sitreet, n.w. 

DEMPSEY, PHINEAS JANNEY, Chief 
Clerk in the Office of Chief of Engineers 
since July, 1901, was born at Alexandria, 
Va. When a mere youth he was appointed 
temporary clerk in the office of the Chief 
of Engineers, U. S. A., and he served 
continuously in that bureau, passing 
through the different clerical grades, his 
work being principally in connection with 
river and harbor improvements. He was 
appointed chief clerk of the office in July, 
1901. He married Jane Ashley Christian, 
daughter of the late William Armistead 
Christian, Paymaster, U. S. N. Residence: 
Alexiandria, Va. Office: War Department. 

DENBY, CHARLES, Chief Clerk, De- 
partment of State, was born at Evans - 
ville, Ind., November 14, 1861, son of 
Charles and Martha (Fitch) Denby. His 
father w^as a Colonel during the Civil 
War, and a memiber of the State Legis- 
lature, and United States Minister to 
China. Charles Denby, Jr., attended pri- 
vate school at Evansville, later studied 
under a private tutor, and, in 1882, was 
graduated from Princeton University. In 
1885 he was appointed second secretary 
to Ithe American Legation at Peking, Chi- 
na; later he became first secretary, and, 
finally, Charge d'Affaires until 1897. Diir- 
ing his twenty years of residence in Chi- 
na he acquired a remarkable facility in 
the Chinese language and a clear under- 
standing of the Chinese customs and the 
Chinese people. In 1897 he resigned from 
the American Legation and came to the 
United States, returning in 1898 to enter 
business in China. At the outbreak of the 
Boxer troubles in 1900 he was at Tientsin, 
China, land on the capture of that city 
by the allied foreign forces he was made 
Secretary-General of the Tientsin Pro- 
visional Government. On the dissolution 
of this provisional government in 1902, 
he was engaged as the foreign adviser 
of the Viceroy Yuaw Shik-Kai, at Tient- 



sin, which post he retained until 1905, 
when he came to the United States on 
leave. It was then 'that he was appointed 
Chief Clerk of the Department of State, 
which position he has since held. He has 
written a number of articles for the 
North American Review, Forum, Inde- 
pendent, etc. He is a member of Pro- 
testant Episcopal Church. On March 19. 
1895, he married Martha Dalxell Orr. 
Residence: 1308 Connecticut avenue. 
Office: (State Department. 

DENBY, EDWIN, lawyer. Congressman, 
was born at Evansville, Ind., February 18, 
1870, and attended the public schools of 
that city and the University of Michigan, 
from which institution he was graduated 
with the degiree of LL. B. He served in 
the Custoims Service of China during the 
time that his father, Hon. Charles Denby, 
was United States Minister to China, and 
was for several years a member of the 
Michigan Legislature. During the war 
with Spain he served on the U. S. S. 
Yosemite as a third-class gunner's mate. 
By profession he is a lawyer. He was 
elected a Representative from the First 
Michigan District to the Fifty-ninth Con- 
gress. Unmarried. Legal residence: De- 
troit, Mich. Washington laddress: House 
of Representaitives. 

DENISON, WILLIAM 0., real estate, 
was born at Elmira, N. Y., March 15, 1832, 
son of Oliver and Laura Booth Denison. 
His education was obtained at Dundee 
(N. Y.) Academy, and at the age of 
twenty he entered the printing business 
in the same city. Later he went to 
Cleveland, Ohio, where he published the 
first city directory ever issued in thait 
city, later removing to Louisville, Ky., 
where he became connected with the Daily 
Courier. In 1862 he came to Washington, 
accepting a position in the Treasury De- 
partment, retaining the same until 1878, 
when he engaged in the real estate busi- 
ness. During the Civil War he recruited 
with the Treasury Regiment, serving in 
the defense of Washington, when it was 
attacked by Breckenridge and Early's 
forces. He is treasurer of the Mutual 
Investment Fire Insurance Company, of 
Washington, D. C, and, in politics, is a 
Republican. Mr. Denison has been twice 
married, first, on July 7, 1857, to Ruth, 
daughter of Judge Wyatt Carr, of Cleve- 
land, Ohio, and, second, to Georgiana 
Booth, daughter of the late Edwin Booith. 
Residence: 2900 Seventh street, n.e. Office: 
732 Tenth street, n.w. 

DENNIS, WILLIAM CULLEN, Assist- 
ant SolicLtor, Department of State, was 
born at Richmond Ind., December 22, 
1878, son of David Worth and Martha 
Ann (Curl) Dennis. He was educated at 
home by his father and mother; Gym- 
nasium, Bonn, Germany, 1899; Royal 
High School, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1890; 
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1896; Harvard, A. B., 1897; A. M., 1898, 
and LL. B., 1901. Prom 1901 to 1902 he 
was secretary of the Lake Mohonk Con- 
ference on International Arbitration; from 
1902 to 1903 he was instructor of law in 
the University of Illinois, and from 1903 
to 1904 he was assistant professor of law 
In the same institution. In 1904 he was 
secretary of the Section on International 
Law, International Congress of Arts and 
Sciences, St. Louis Exposition, and in the 
same year he was a delegate to the 
Universal Congress of Lawyers and 
Jurists at St. Louis. He was assistant 
professor of law at Stanford University 
from 1904 to 1905, and adjunct professor 
of law in the law school of Columbia 
University fiom 1905 to 1906. On June 
30, 1906, he was appointed Assistant So- 
licitor for the Department of State, and 
on September 1, 1906, he was appointed 
professor in the department of law at the 
George Washington University. He is a 
member of the Cosmos Club, American 
Society of International Law, and Amer- 
ican Political Science Association. Un- 
married. Residence: The Mendota. Office: 
Department of State. 

DENNIS, WILLIAM HENRY, lawyer, 
was born in Philadelphia, Penn., on Feb- 
ruary 21, 1856, son of Edward Griscom 
and Katherine (Matthews) Dennis, botn 
of distinguished ancestry. He attended 
St. Joseph's College, in Philadelphia, from 
1861 to 1868, and was graduated with the 
degrees A. B. (1874) and LL. B. (1876) 
from Georgetown University. In 1880 he 
received the honorary degree of A. M. 
from the latter institution. He began his 
business career as a journalist, and also 
served in the office of the Register of 
Wills, later entering on the practice of 
law specializing in the care of estates, etc. 
He was deputy and acting Register of 
Wills most of the time from 1875 to 
1885. He has been United States Com- 
missioner for more than twenty years, 
and a member of the Bar Examination 
Committee for the past seven years. He 
is the author of Probate Law of the Dis- 
tiict of Columbia, and while at George- 
town University assisted in founding the 
Georgetown College Journal. He is a 
member of the Bar Association of the 
District; Lawyers' Association; Century 
Club; Carroll Institute Catholic Benevo- 
lent Legion; Columbia Historical Soci- 
ety; National Geographic Society, etc. 
On June 20, 1901, he married Mrs.'Lula 
L. Hickcox (nee Hughlett). Residence: 
1002 Twenty-second street, n.w. Office- 
416 Fifth street. 

DENNISTON, HENRY MARTYN, 

Rear Admiral, U. S. N. (retired), was 
born at Washingtonville, New York, on 
June 13, 1840, son of Robert and Mary 
(Scott) Denniston. He studied at home 
and was educated at Yale University from 
1858 to 1861, leaving before graduation. 
He received the degrees of A. B. and A 



M., from Yale in 1862. He entered the 
pay corps of the United States Navy in 
1861; was made Paymaster April 14, 1862; 
promoted to Pay Inspector on August 19, 
1876; commissioned Pay Director July 31, 
1884, and promoted to Rear Admiral in 
1902, and retired. He is a member of the 
Loyal Legion, and of the Presbyterian 
Church, 'and is a Republican. On Janu- 
ary 21, 1869, he married Emma J. Dusen- 
bury. Residence: Washingtonville, New 
York. Address: Navy Department, 

DENNY, FRANK LEE, Colonel, U S. 
Marine Corps, was born at Indianapolis, 
Ind., July 20, 1858, son of Hon. James 
Cook Denny, formerly Attorney-General 
of Indiana, and Caroline Davis, daughter 
of former Speaker John Wesley Davis. 
He entered the Ma:ine Corps as a Sec- 
ond Lieutenant in 1880; was promoted 
to First Lieutenant in 1884; commissioned 
Captain and Assistant Quartermaster in 
1892; promoted to Major and Quarter- 
master in June, 1897, and Colonel and 
Chief Quartermaster in March, 1899. Dur- 
ing his service in the Marine Corps he 
has spent six years at sea, and on shore 
duty at Alexandria, Egypt (beginning 
1882), Panama (beginning 1885), and with 
the Marine Corps during the Spanish- 
American War. He is a member of the 
Order of Spanish War, Naval Order of 
the United States, and the Sigma Chi 
fraternity, also of the Alibi, Metropolitan. 
Chevy Chase, and New York Yacht Clubs. 
He married Julia Graham, daughter of 
General Innis Nelson Palmer, U. S. A. 
Address: Care Commandant, U. S. M. C, 
Navy Department. 

DENT, ALFRED BARBOUR, Notary 
Public, bookkeeper, was born at Mor- 
gantown, W. Va., January 4, 1861, son 
of Marshall Mortimer and Louisa Amelia 
(Holden) Dent, both of distinguished an- 
cestry. He attended the State Normal 
School at Bloomsburg, Penn., 1874-75, and 
the Central High School of Philadelphia 
until 1786. He was bookkeeper for Bar- 
ber & Ross from 1886 to 1897; assistant 
cashier of the Pueblo (Colorado) Na- 
tional Bank, 1880 to 1881, and is now 
head bookkeeper of the Washington Loan 
and Trust Company. Since 1884 he has 
been a Notary Public for the District of 
Columbia. He is the author of a num- 
ber of articles on heraldry and armory, 
which have appeared in the Historical 
Bulletin. He is a Mason, a member of 
the Sons of the American Revolution, and 
editor, and ex-treasurer of the National 
Genealogical Society. In political belief 
he is a Republican, although he never 
cast a vote. On May 7, 1885, he married 
Sara Melissa March. Residence: 906 A 
street, s.e. Office: Washington Loan and 
Trust Company, 

DENT, LOUIS ADDISON, lawyer, was 
born in Baltimore, Md., October 6, 1863, 
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Dent. His father was descended from a 
distinguished Maryland family, whose 
members held hig-h governmental posi- 
tions in the Colonial and Revolutionary 
days. Louis Dent was educated at Man- 
hattan Academy, New York, and at St. 
John's College, Washington, finishing his 
academic course at fifteen, and later read 
law and was admitted to the bar. From 
1881 to 1887 he was a reporter in the local 
courts, and during the last two years was 
stenographer to Hon. James G. Blaine. 
In 1887 he was legislative reporter on the 
Kenebec Journal, of Augusta, Maine, after 
which he entered the Government service 
as a Civil Service clerk, serving two years 
in the War and Treasury Departments, 
1887-89. From the latter date to 1892 
he was private secretary to Secretaries 
of State Blaine and Foster, and in 1891 
and 1892 was also inspector of consulates. 
He was Consul to Jamaica at Kingston, 
1892-93 and 1897-99. From the latter date 
until 1904 he was Register of Wills of 
the District of Columbia. In 1904 he was 
appointed Consul at Dawson, Canada, but 
declined 'the office. Since then he has 
been practicing law, and is local counsel 
for the National Surety Company of New 
York, and other non-resident corporations. 
During the Spanish-American War, while 
Consul at Kingston, Jamaica, he rendered 
signal services to his Government, partic- 
ularly in getting the American refugees 
off the south coast of Cuba, in placing 
Lieutenant Rowan in Cuba, with his mes- 
sage to Garcia, in first reporting the 
Spanish fieet at Santiago; in furnishing 
pilots for the Santiago campaign; in his 
successful efforts to prevent Spanish ves- 
sels from provisioning at Jamaica, and in 
furnishing information to Admiral Samp- 
son which enabled him to maintain an 
effective blockade of the south coast of 
Cuba and capture the blockade runners. 
For his services during this war he was 
officially commended by the President anj 
Secretary of State. He was also instru- 
mental in bringing about better sanita- 
tion of Jamaica; in exposing the yellow 
fever epidemic of 1897, and in bringing 
about a conflict between the Governor 
and Legislature of Jamaica in 1899 which 
forced the English Colonial Secretary to 
the negotiation of the reciprocity treaties 
wi'th the British West India Islands that 
year. Mr Dent is a member of the Sons 
of the American Revolution, of which he 
is vice-president, and of the Columbia 
and Maryland Historical Societies; is a 
Mason, a Knight Templar, and a mem- 
ber of the Almas Temple of the Shrine, 
holding office in nearly all of his Masonic 
bodies. He has served on the Reception 
Committee for the Capital Centennial 
Celebration, 1900; Presidential inaugura- 
tions, 1901 and 1905; Grand Army En- 
campment, 1902; District Day at the St. 
Louis Exposition, 1904, and unveiling of 
the McClellan statue, in 1907. In politics 
he is a Republican; religiously, a mem- 
ber of the Protestant Episcopal Church. 



and of the Churchmen's League and the 
Brotherhood of Sit. Andrew. On June 3, 
1884, he married Kate Estelle Yost. Resi- 
dence: 1719 Riggs Place. Office: Fendall 
Law Building. 

DENVER, MATT R., Congressman. He 
was elected a member of the Sixtieth 
Congress from the Sixth Congressional 
District of Ohio on the Democratic ticket 
in November, 1906. Legal residence: Wil- 
mington, Ohio. Washington address: 
House of Representatives. 

DEPEW, CHAUNCEY MITCHELL, 

lawyer, U. S Senator, was born ai 
Peekskill, New' York, April 23, 1834, and 
graduated from Yale University in 1856, 
in 1887 receiving the degree of LL. D. 
from the same institution. He studied 
law and was admitted to practice in 
1858. He was elected to the New York 
Assembly in 1861 and 1862, and in 1863 
was Secretary of State of New York. 
He refused the post of United States 
Minister to Japan, and in 1866 became 
attorney for the New York and Harlem 
Railroad Company; in 1875 became gen- 
eral counsel for the New York Central 
and Hudson River Railroad, with which 
he has since been identified. He was 
made president of the system in 1885, 
and resigned in 1898, to become chair- 
man of the Boards of Directors of the 
New York Central, the Lake Shore, the 
Michigan Central, and the New York, 
Chicago and St. Louis Railroad Compa- 
nies. In 1867 he was appointed County 
Clerk of Westchester County, but re- 
signed, also refusing, in 1870, to accept 
the position of Immigration Inspector, 
tendered him by the New York Legisla- 
ture. Beginning 1875, he served as 
Boundary Commissioner for New York; 
in 1872 he was candidate for Lieutenant- 
Governor of that State; in 1874 he was 
appointed one of the regents of the State 
Universi'ty, and on the commission to 
build the State Capitol. In 1881 he was 
candidate for Senator, but withdrew, and 
in 1885 refused the senatorship when 
offered him. He was nominated for 
President a: the Chicago National Re- 
publican Convention of 1888, and received 
99 votes, and has been delegate-at-large, 
and was prominently identified with the 
national conventions of 1888, 1892, 1896, 
1900 and 1904. He was orator of the day 
at the unveiling of the Liberty Statue 
in New York; also upon the celebration 
of the anniversary of the inauguration of 
George Washing-ton to the presidency, 
and upon the occasion of the opening of 
the World's Columbian Exposition. He is 
widely known as a public speaker and 
orator, and has spoken on many other 
memorable occasions. He was elected to 
the United States Senate in 1899, and re- 
elected in 1905. He has been a lifelong 
Republican, and been active in State pol- 
itics since attaining his majority. He 
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1871, to Elise Hegeman (who died in 
March, 1893), and in December, 1901, to 
May Palmer. Legal residence: New York 
City. Washington address: U. S. Sen- 
ate. 

DERBY, GEORGE McCLELLAN, Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel, U. S. A., was born at 
sea, son of Captain George H. Derby, U. 
S. A. He entered the United States Mil- 
itary Academy from Missouri in 1874, 
and, upon graduation, in 1878, was com- 
missioned Second Lieutenant in the Engi- 
neer Corps. On January 2, 1881, he be- 
came First Lieutenant; in 1887 Captain, 
and, later. Major and Lieutenant-Colonel. 
During the Spanish-American War he 
served throughout the Santiago campaign 
as Chief Engineer of the Fifth Army 
Corps. He has been identified with river 
and harbor work during his service in 
the army. He is a member of the Amer- 
ican Society of Civil Engineers. Resi- 
dence: 1015 Carrollton avenue, New Or- 
leans, La. Address: War Department. 

DE RUSSY, ISAAC DENNISTON, 

Brigadier-General, U. S. A. (retired), 
was born at Fort Monroe, Virginia, June 
13, 1840, son of R. E. and Ann Alida 
De 'Russy. He attended the Episcopal 
High School, Alexandria, Va. On April 
26, 1861, he was commissioned from civil 
life a Second Lieutenant of Infantry; pro- 
moted 'to First Lieutenant on May 14 of 
the same year, and commissioned Captain 
on February 27, 1862. On September 29, 
1879, he was commissioned Major (after 
having been brevetted with this rank in 
1865); became Lieutenant-Colonel July 
1, 1885; promoted tto Colonel May 19, 1891, 
and Brigadier-General April 1, 1902; 
shortly afterward he was retired, after 
forty years' service. In 1891 he married 
Laura R. Requa. Address: War Depart- 
ment. 

DES PLANCHES, EDMONDO MAYOR, 

Baron, Italian Ambassador to the United 
States, was born at Turin, Italy, July 27, 
1851, son of Luigi and Luguia (Chevalier; 
des Planches. He attended the University 
of Turin, specializing in mathematics, 
philosophy and law; LL. D. in 1874. H<' 
entered the diplomatic service of his 
country as an attache in the Foreign 
Office in 1875; from 1876 to 1878 he 
served as secretary for foreign affairs to 
Premier Depretis, of the Italian Cabinet 
and from 1887 to 1900 he was secretary 
and chief of the Cabinet of Francisco 
Crispi. During tlhis time he accompanied 
the Premier on various political missions, 
including a visit to Berlin. He was Min- 
ister to Servia from 1899 to 1901, and 
since August 8 of the latter year has been 
Ambas.-^ador to the United States from 
Italy. In 1883 he was first secretary of 
■the International Sanitary Conference, at 
Rome, and also in a similar capacity 'for 
the Conference of "Venice, 1892-97. In 
1884 he was general secretary of the first 
Initernational Congress of Criminal An- 



thropology. He is the author of II Trai- 
■tato Delia Santa Alleanza e la Signora 
di Krudner; Axtes du Premier Congres 
International d'Anthropologie Criminelle; 
Etudes sur la Question d'Orient; Nuove 
Lettere del Conte di Cavour; M. Crispi 
ches M. de Bismarck; the Principi di 
Casa Savoia, etc. On November 20, 1881, 
he married Maria Antionetta Chevalier. 
Address: 1400 New Hampshire avenue, 
n.w. 

DEVINE, JOHN T., Manager of the 
Shoreham Hotel, was born in Brooklyn 
in 1853. After obtaining an education in 
the city schools he engaged in the hotel 
business. For many years he was con- 
nected with the old St. James Hotel, in 
New York, later the Hoffman House, and 
opened the Hotel St. Marc. Several years 
was spent on Long Island in the same 
business, after which he came to Wash- 
ington to take charge of the Shoreham. 
Residence: The Shoreham. 

DE VRIES, WILLIAM LEVERING. 

Protestant Episcopal clergyman, was born 
at Baltimore, Md., November 8, 1865, son 
of WillianTi R. and Mary Clement (Crane) 
De Vries. He was graduated from Sr. 
Paul's School, Concord, N. H., in 1882. 
After a short business career he entered 
Johns Hopkins University in 1885, and 
took the degree of A. B. in 1888, a Fellow - 
sihip in 1890, and a Ph. D. in 1892. He 
also graduted from the General Theolog- 
ical Seminary in New York, in 1894, with 
the degree of B. D. His university courses 
were in Greek, Latin and Hebrew. From 
1894 to 1896 he was rector of St. Alban's. 
at Alberton, Md., and of Good Shepherd, 
Howard County, Maryland, and since the 
latter date has been rector of St. Mark's, 
in Washington. Since 1896 he has been 
examining chaplain of the Diocese of 
Washington, and a member and chair- 
man of many of the church boards of the 
Episcopal Church in this city. He is a 
Mason, and a member of the Alpha Delta 
Phi college fraternity. Unmarried. Resi- 
dence: 327 East Capitol street. 

DEWEY, FREDERICK PERKINS, 

chemist, assayer, was born at Hartford, 
Conn., October 4, 1855, son of Daniel 
Shepar'd and Elizabeth (Perkins) Dewey. 
He attended the com^mon schools of Nor- 
wich, Conn., until 1870; the Collegiate 
and Commercial Institute, New Haven, 
during 1871, and was graduated from Yale 
University, with the degree of Ph. B., in 
1876, afterward pursuing a year's post- 
graduate course. He has been instructor 
of chemistry in Lafayette College; chem- 
ist for the (North Jersey Iron Company, 
of Pont Oram N. J., and the Roane Iron 
Company, of Chattanooga, Tenn. ; cura- 
tor, U. S. National Museum, where he 
arose through various grades to senior 
curator. For a time he was a practicing 
chemist and metallurgist, specializing in 
patent work. He is at present assayer 
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Treasury. He has written a number of 
technical monographs and treatises and 
read various papers before scientific soci- 
eties, etc. He is a member of the Pro- 
testant Episcopal Church, a vestryman 
and junior warden at St. Stephen's 
Church, and is a member of the American 
Institute of Mining Engineers, tlie Soci- 
ety for Chemical Industry, Washington 
Chemical Society (president in 1893), the 
American Chemical Society, and the 
American Electrochemical Society. On 
April 12, 1877, he married Charlotte 
Esther Candee. Residence: 1801 Sum- 
mit Place. Office: Treasury Depart- 
ment. 

DEWEY, GEORGE, Admiral of the 
Navy, was horn at Montpelier, "Vermont, 
December 26, 1837, son of Dr. Julius 
Yemans and Mary (Perrin) Dewey. He 
was graduated from the United States 
Naval Academy in 1858, and holds the 
degree of LL. D., conferred upon him by 
the University of Pennsylvania and 
Princeton University. Upon his promo- 
tion to Lieutenant, in 1861, he served 
with Farragut's fleet in the passage of 
Fort St. Philip and Fort Jadtson to New 
Orleans and in the battle of Port Hud- 
son. Later he served on several vessels 
in the North Atlantic blockading squad- 
ron, and then in the European fleet, and 
later in various duties at special stations. 
He became a commander in April, 1872, 
Captain in September, 1884, and Com- 
modore February 9, 1896. In January, 
1898, he assumed command of the Asiatic 
Squadron, and on May 1 of that year 
defeated the Spanish fleet at Manila Bay 
and subjugated the land batteries. As 
a mark of recognition of this exploit, 
he was immediately promoted to Rear 
Admiral, and thanked by a special Con- 
gressional resolution. In 1899 he was 
a member of the Philippine Commission, 
and on March 2 of that year became 
Admiral of the United States Navy. He 
has been twice married first to Susie 
Goodwin, on October 24, 1867, and, sec- 
ond, to Mrs. Mildren (McLean) Hazen, on 
November 9, 1899. Residence: 1601 K 
street. Office: Navy Department. 

DEWEY, LYSTER HOXIE, botanist, 
was born at Cambridge, Mich., March 14, 
1865, son of Francis Asbury and Har- 
riet (Smith) Dewey, his father having 
been a drummer in the volunteer Michi- 
gan regiment during the Black Hawk 
War. He was graduated from the Michi- 
gan Agricultural College in 1888, and wa.? 
botanical instructor there until 1890, and 
since then botanist in the U. S. Depart- 
ment of Agriculture; elder in the Gun- 
ton-Temple Memorial Church since 1900. 
He has written. Weeds and How to Kill 
Them; Legislation against Weeds; Prin- 
cipal Commercial Plant Fibers. He Is a 
member of the Biological and Botanical 
Societies of Washington, D. C. He mar- 
riad Etta. Conkling August 22, 1889, and 



two children have been born to them. 
Residence: 1337 Wallach Place. Office: 
Department of Agriculture. 

DE WITT, CALVIN, Brigadier-General, 
U. S. A. (retired), was born in Harris- 
burg, Penn., on May 26, 1840, son of Rev. 
William R. and Mary Elizabeth (Wallace) 
De Witt. He attended the public schools 
of his native city and the Harrisburg 
Academy, later graduating, in 1860, from 
Princeton, with the degree of A. B., and, 
in 1863, with that of A. M.; he was 
also graduated from the Jefferson Med- 
ical College, of Philadelphia, in 1865, with 
the degree of M. D. During the greater 
part of the Civil War he served as Cap- 
tain of Volunteer Infantry, and, on May 
14, 1867, was appointed First Lieutenant 
and Assistant Surgeon. On May 24, 1870, 
he became Captain and Assistant Sur- 
geon; wias promoted Major and Surgeon 
July 21, 1885; commissioned Lieutenant 
and made Deputy Surgeon-General De- 
cember 15, 1898. On May 7, 1901, he was 
promoted to Colonel and appointed Assist- 
ant Surgeon-General, and, on August 9, 
1903, made Brigadier-General, and later 
retired. His career in the army includes 
service throughout the United States and 
in several Indian campaigns on the West- 
ern frontier, and in Cuba. For a time 
he served as instructor in imilitary 
hygiene at the General Staff College at 
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and subse- 
quently was made professor of military 
medicine, and, recently, president of the 
Army Medical School in Washington. la 
1877 he married Josephine Lesesne. Res- 
idence: 1707 Twenty-first street, n.w. 

DE WITT, H. WINIFRED, Manager of 
Chase's Theater. For three years sha 
acted with James Hearne, of Shore Acres 
famOk and other productions. Later she 
was "Solaret," a dancer. Residence: The 
Cumberland. Office: Chase's Theater. 

DICK, CHARLES, United States Sen- 
ajtor from Ohio, was born November 3, 
1858, in Akron, Ohio; educated in pub- 
lic schools; was store clerk, bank book- 
keeper and teller; later grain commission 
merchant; is a lawyer, being admitted 
to the Ohio bar in 1894, and to practice 
before the United States Supreme Court 
in 1897; served two terms as Auditor 
of Summit Counity; was long Major and 
Lieutenant-Colonel Eighth Regiment, 
Ohio National Guard; served in Cuba 
in the war with Spain, being subsequently 
elected Brigadier-General, and now serv- 
ing as 'Major-General, commanding Ohio 
National Guard; is president of the In- 
terstate National Guard Association; wa^j 
several years member and three times 
chairman of Summit County Republican 
Committee, and has served in that capac- 
ity almost continuously since 1892; served 
as secretary Chicago Republican National 
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Republican National Committee 1897 to 
1900; was closely associated with Chair- 
man Hanna in the preliminary canvass 
for McKinley's nomination and subse- 
quent general campaign in 1896; was 
delegate to the Republican National Con- 
ventions in 1892 and 1896, and delegate- 
at-large from Ohio to the Republican Na- 
tional Conventions of 1900 and 1904; rep- 
resented the Nineteenth Ohio District in 
the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh 
and Fifty-eighth Congresses; as chairman 
of Committee on Militia and member of 
Committee on Military Affairs, secured 
the enactment of what is known as the 
"Dick Militia Law;" was elected Senator 
March 2, 1904, for short and long terms 
to succeed Marcus Alonzo Hanna, de- 
ceased. His present term of service will 
expire March 3, 1911. Legal residence: 
Akron, Ohio. Washington address: U. S. 
Senate. 

DICKEMA, G. J., member of the Span- 
ish Treaty Claims Commission. Legal 
residence: Holland, Michigan. Washing- 
ton residence: The Dewey. OflSce: 1415 
H street, n.w. 

DICKINS, FRANCIS WILLIAM, Cap- 
tain, U. S. N., was born at Beekmanville, 
Dutchess County, New York, November 

2, 1844, and entered the United States 
Naval Academy in 1861, graduating in 
1864. On November 1, 1866, he was com- 
missioned Ensign; on December 1, 1866, 
Master; March 12, 1868, Lieutenant; June 
12, 1869, Lieutenant-Commander; Sep- 
tember 23, 1885, Commander, and, on July 

3, 1898, Captain. For a time he was as- 
sistant to the Chief of the Bureau of 
Navigation, and commander of the Ore- 
gon, afterwards of the U. S. R. S. Inde- 
pendence. In 1903 he became president 
of the Naval Examining Board. He is a 
member of the National Geographic Soci- 
ety. Residence: 1334 Nineteenth street, 
n.w. 

DICKSON, FRANK STODDARD, law- 
yer, Congressman, was educated in the 
common schools of Decatur, Illinois, grad- 
uating from the High School in 1896, after 
a classical course. During the Spanish- 
American War he served with the Fourth 
Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and at the 
present time is Captain and Adjutant of 
the Fourth Regiment, Illinois State 
Guard. He was elected a Representative 
to the Fifty-ninth Congress from the 
Twenty-third Illinois District. Repub- 
lican. He was married on Jan. 10, 1903. 
Residence: Ramsey, Illinois. Washing- 
ton address: House of Representatives. 

DIEHL, SAMUEL WILLAUER BLACK, 

Captain, U. S. N., was born at Reading, 
Penn., September 20, 1851, son of Will- 
iam W. and Jonah C. Diehl. He aJtitended 
the public schools of Reading, and was 
graduated from the United States Naval 



Academy in 1873. In 1874 he became an 
Ensign; was promoted to Master in 1879, 
became a Lieutenant (junior grade) 1883; 
Lieutenant (senior grade), 1886; Lieu- 
tenant-Commander, 1899; Commander, 
1902; Captain, 1904. He has served on 
a number of United iStates vessels, and 
commanded the following: U. S. S. Eagle, 
Marietta, Newport, and Boston. His shore 
duty has included service in the hydro- 
graphic office of he Navy Department, 
also in the Bureau of Navigation, Bureau 
of Equipment, Naval Intelligence Office, 
and as superintendent of compasses, and, 
since June 4, 1904, as Judge Advocate- 
General of the United States Navy. He 
is the author of Practical Problems and 
the Compensation of the Compass; mem- 
ber of the National Geographic Society. 
On April 4, 1892, he married Caroline 
Willbank O'Connor. Residence: 1525 P 
street, n.w. Office: Navy Department. 

DILLER, JOSEPH SILAS, geologist, 
was born at Plainfield, Cumberland 
County, Pennsylvania, August 27, 1850, 
son of Samuel and Catherine (Bear) Dil- 
ler. He attended the State Normal School 
at Westfield, Mass., until 1873; graduated 
from Harvard University in 1879, and 
studied at the University of Heidelberg, 
Germany, for two years. He also pur- 
sued a post-graduate course of one year 
at 'Harvard. He was a teacher in the 
Westfield Normal School and the Har- 
vard Summer School of Geology. Since 
1883 he has been geologist in the United 
States Geological Survey. He is the 
author of many papers and reports on 
geological subjects. On June 5, 1883, he 
married Laura Irene Paul. Residence: 
1454 Belmont street. Office: U. S. Geo- 
logical Survey. 

DILLINGHAM, WILLIAM PAUL, U. S. 

Senator, was born at Waterbury, Ver- 
mont, December 12, 1843, son of Paul 
and Julia (Carpenter) Dillingham. He 
received an academic education and was 
admitted to the bar in 1867. He was 
State Attorney for Washington Coun:y 
two terms; Commissioner of State Taxes 
for several years, and a member of the 
State House of Representatives in 1876 
and 1884, also of the Sraie Senate in 
1878 and 1880. He was secretary of civil 
and military affairs in Vermont during 
the years 1874-76. From 1888 to 1890 he 
served as Governor of Vermont, and on 
October 18, 1900, was elected United 
States Senator. In politics he is a Re- 
publican. On December 21. 1874, he ma:- 
r ed Mary Ellen Shipinaa. Legal re^i- 
dtr'nce: Waterbury, Vermont. Washing- 
ton address: U. S. Senate. 

DIMMICK, EUGENE DUMMONT, 

Brigadier-General, U. S. A. retired), 
was born at Athens, New York, July 31, 
1840, son of Elnathan N. and Emily Jane 
Dimmick. He attended schools at Ath- 



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ens and Hudson, N. Y., and in 1861 oh- 
lisred as a private in the "Volunteer In- 
fantry, becoming Firsz Se geant of Cav- 
alry (volunteer) in 1861. He was oin- 
n'.issioned Second Lieu'.i'iant of '"'olun- 
teer Cavalry on May I'. U62; First :.\e\x- 
t*;nant, October 10, 1863, and, C.vptuin, 
July 5, 1863. Being severely wound*=-.d in 
action, he was mustere.l cut of S'irvice 
on November 6, 1863, later becoming a 
Second Lieutenant of the Veteran Reserve 
Corps, and a Second Lieutenant in the 
Nintih Cavalry, U. S. A., August 9, 1867. 
He was made First Lieutenant January 
16, 1870; Captain, October 25, 1883; Major, 
July 13, 1898; Lieutenant-Colonel, March 
1, 1901; Colonel, February 22, 1903, and 
suDsequently retired, later bein,? a.ivanced 
ir. rank to Brigadier-General. His army 
ca.eer of forty years has included service 
in a number of the btttles of the Civil 
War; service on the Western frontier 
in innumerable Indian campaigns, and in 
the Spanish-American War in Cuba. He 
was brevetted Captain for conspicuous 
gallantry in action against the Indians 
in the Black Range Mountains of New 
Mexico. In Cuba he commanded the Sec- 
ond Cavalry at Mantanzas. He has been 
twice married, first, in 1863, to Mary 
Caldwell, who died in 1882; and, second - 
to Mrs. Florence Palmer Hazard, in 1896. 
Residence: The Cairo. 

DINGER, HENRY CHARLES, naval 
officer, was born at Eau Claire, Wiscon- 
sin, March 2, 1876, son of Charles and 
Magdelin Lorenz Dinger. He was edu- 
cated at the United States Naval Acad- 
emy, 1894-98, then at sea for five years, 
later serving at the Bureau of Steam 
Engineering till 1905. He has made con- 
tributions to the Naval Institute Journal, 
American Society of Naval Engineers, 
Marine Engineering, and Scientific Amer- 
ican. He is a Roman Catholic, and is a 
member of the Military Order of the 
Dragon, the Military Order of the Cara- 
bao, the Army and Navy Club of Wash- 
ington and the New York Yacht Club. Ad- 
dress: Navy Department. 

DIXON, JOSEPH MOORE, lawyer, Con- 
gressman, was born at Snow Camp, Nortli 
Carolina, July 31, 1867. He attended Earl- 
ham College, Richmond, Ind., and was 
graduated from Guilford College, North 
Carolina with the class of 1889. In De- 
cember, 1892, he was admitted to the bar, 
and served as Assistant Prosecuting At- 
torney for Missoula County from 1893 
to 1895, being elected Prosecuting Attorney 
in 1894, serving until 1897. He was elected 
a member of the Montana Legislature 
in 1900, and was a delegate-at-large from 
Montana to the National Republican Con- 
vention at Chicago in 1904. He was 
elected to the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth 
Congresses as a Representative-at-Large 
on the Republican ticket. He married Car- 
rie M. Worden in March, 1896. Legal 



residence: Missoula, Mont. Washington 
address: House of Representatives. 

DIXON, LINCOLN, lawyer. Congress- 
man, was born at Vernon, Jennings 
County, Indiana, February 9, 1860, and 
attended Vernon Academy and Indiana 
University, graduating from the lattei- 
institution in 1880, with the degree of 
A. B. In 1882 he began practicing law 
at North Vernon, Ind., and in 1884 was 
elected Prosecuting Attorney for the Sixth 
Judicial Circuit, and re-elected in 1886, 
1888 and 1890. He was a member of the 
Democratic State Committee from 1897 
to 1904, when he was elected to Congress 
from the Fourth Indiana District. He 
was married in 1884. Legal residence: 
North Vernon, Ind. Washington address: 
The Cairo. 

DIXON, W. S., Medical Director of the 
Naval Dispensary. Residence: 1516 R 
street, n.w. Office: Mills Building. 

DODGE, ARTHUR J., editor, writer, 
was born at Neenah, Wisconsin, January 
4, 1860, and educated in the common 
schools. He was graduated from Colum- 
bian (now George Washington) Universitj*^ 
in 1901, with the degree of LL. B., and 
from the National University in 1902, 
with the degree of LL. M. He learned the 
printing trade, and was editor of county 
papers in Wisconsin previous to 1882, 
in which year he became associate editor 
of Peck's Sun, in Milwaukee. In 1885 
he became managing editor of the Osh- 
kosh Daily Times, and in 1887 Washing- 
ton correspondent of the Milwaukee Sen- 
tinel. He became editor of the State 
Journal, Madison, Wis., in 1890, and served 
as editorial writer on the Milwaukee Sen- 
tinel in 1893 and 1894. In the latter year 
he returned to Washington as correspond- 
ent of that paper and the St. Paul Pio- 
neer Press, and became Washington rep- 
resentative of the American Protective 
Tariff League, and correspondent of the 
American Economist, of New York. Ha 
has written a number of pamphlets on 
financial and economic questions, and on 
historical topics, including: History of 
the Gold and Silver Money of the United 
States; Admission of Wisconsin as a 
State; History of Paper Money Issues 
of the United States; Financial Problems; 
Protection in the United States, etc. He 
is a contributor ito itrade and financial pub- 
lications. Mr. Dodge is a me<mber of the 
American Academy of Political and Social 
Science, the National Geographic Society, 
the Gridiron Club, and Washington Ma- 
sonic orders. Office: 1403 F street, n.w. 

DODGE, CHARLES RICHARDS, scient- 
ist, entomologist, editor, consulting fiber 
expert, was born in Covington County, 
'Mississippi, July 17, 1847, son of Jacob 
Richards and Frances Gove (Buxton) 
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education and pursued a special course 
in agriculture and zoology at the Shef- 
field Scientific School of Yale University, 
graduating in 1867. He was assistant en- 
tomologist of the United States Depart- 
ment of Agriculure from 1867 to 1877, 
during which time he assumed charge of 
the Agricultural Museum and began the 
study of fibers. He was special agent 
of the Department of Agriculture in the 
Office of Fiber Investigations, 1890-98. 
He was editor and publisher of Field and 
Forest for three years, and for one year 
(1885) editor of Outing. He served as 
agricultural expert of the Tenth Census, 
and as agricultural and technical writer. 
He has been officially connected for the 
United States Government with ten in- 
ternational and national expositions, viz.: 
Philadelphia, in 1876; New Orleans, 1885; 
Paris, 1889; Chicago, 1893; Atlanta, 1895; 
Nashville, 1897; Omaha, 1898; Paris, 1900; 
Buffalo, 1901. He acted as director of 
agriculture and foods for the United 
States at the Pd.ris Exposition, and was 
a member of the Jury of Awards at Paris 
in 1889; president of Group IX. at Chi- 
cago; on Class Juries at Atlanta, Nash- 
ville, Omaha and Buffalo; at Paris in 
1900 he was vice-president of Class 41 
of tihe Internaitional Jury, and ajt St. Louis 
in 1904 was president of Class and De- 
partment Juries and a member of the 
Superior Jury. He is the author of De- 
scriptive Catalogue of Useful Fiber Plants 
of the World — a leading authority^and 
a large number of reports and bulletins 
on the subject, as well as contributions 
to magazines. In 1889 he received from 
the French Government the decoration 
of the Order of Agricultural Merit, and 
in 1901 that of Legion of Honor. Mr. 
Dodge is a fellow of the American Asso- 
ciation for the Advancement of Science, 
and a member of the National Geographiv^ 
Society, and the Philosophical Society of 
Washington. In politics he is a Repub- 
lican. On January 23, 1868, he married 
Mira Reab. Address: Cosmos Club. 

DODGE, FRANCIS S., Brigadier-Gen- 
eral, U. S. A., was born at Danvers, Mass., 
September 11, 1842, son of Francis and 
Rebecca Appleton Dodge. He attended 
school in his native town, and at the 
outbreak of the Civil War entered the 
volunter infantry as a private, later be- 
coming Corporal. In 1863 he was ap- 
pointed Lieutenant of the Second United 
States Colored Cavalry, and in 1865 be- 
came Captain, in 1866 being mustered out 
of service. He entered the regular army 
as a First Lieutenant of the Ninth Cav- 
alry on July 28, 1866; became Captain 
July 31, 1867; Major and Paymaster, 
January 30, 1880; Lieutenant-Colonel and 
Deputy Paymaster-General, February 2, 
1901; Brigadier-General and Paymaster- 
General of the United States Army since 
January 23, 1904. He served in Virginia, 
North and South Carolina during the Civil 
War; in Texas during the years 1867- 



75, and on the frontier in New Mexico 
and Colorado from 1876 to 1879. He was 
brevetted Major and awarded the Con- 
gressional medal of honor for gallant 
services in action against Indians near 
Milk Creek, Colorado. On December 3, 
1878, he married Mary H. Weston. Res- 
idence: 1821 Belmont Road, n.w. Office: 
War Department. 

DODGE, MARTIN, formerly Director 
of the Office of Public Road Inquiries, 
was born at Auburn, Geauga County, Ohio, 
May 27, 1851, son of Joseph Dodge, a 
millwright. The years of his minority 
were devoted to study in the common 
schools, labor on the farm and mechan- 
ical work with his father. He taught 
school each winter after he was seven- 
teen for four years. He studied at Hiram 
College and Buchtell College, Akron, Ohio, 
and later fitted himself by study for the 
practice of the law. He was admitted to 
the bar in 1877; practiced in Cleveland. 
1877-79, and in Kansas, 1879-81. Since 
that time he has been engaged in the 
real es'taite business in Cleveland. He has 
served in the Ohio Legislature (both 
houses) since 1892, and has for a num- 
ber of years been at the head of the 
good-roads movement. In 1893 Governor 
iMcKinley appointed him chairman of the 
Ohio Road Commission, and in 1898 Pres- 
ident McKinley appointed him Director 
of the Office of Public Road Inquiries, 
which place he held for six months; later, 
in May, 1900, again assuming charge of 
the same office, remaining until July 1, 
1905. He has written a number of 
pamphlets and reports, contributed to 
magazines on the good-roads movement. 
He is a member of the Unitarian Church, 
and a University Club member. In 1886 
he married Anna Merchant. Residence: 
Landover, Maryland. Office: 1424 New 
York avenue, n.w. 

DODGE, PICKERING, Chief Clerk of 
the United States Engineer Office, was 
born in Naples, Italy, August 31, 1856, 
of American parents and fitted for col- 
lege at the Cambridge (Mass.) High 
School. He began in the Government 
service in 1888 in (the United States Engi- 
neer Office, and served through all 
the grades up to his present position of 
chief cleirk, which he reached in 1894. 
He is treasurer of the Harvard Club in 
Washington, having been graduated from 
Harvard in 1879, and when the Washing- 
ton News was in existence was the super- 
intendent of circulation, when the circu- 
lation reached its highest point. Resi- 
dence: Falls Church, Virginia. Office: 
Twenty-second and K streets, n.w. 

DOERMAN, J. E. A., clergyman, pas- 
tor of the Grace Lutheran Church. Res- 
idence: 907 Westminster street, n.w. 

DOLE, EDMUND P., lawyer, was born 
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and educated at Wesleyan University and 
the Boston University School of Law. 
He was admitted to the bar in 1875, and 
later became Attorney-General of the 
Territory of Hawaii, and ex-officio head 
of the Police Department and a member 
of the Board of Health for the same. In 
1903 he resigned to argue the Mankichi 
case before the United States Supreme 
Court — a case involving the political and 
judicial status of the Republic of Hawaii 
in the interim between organization of 
the Territory in 1898 and its annexation 
in 1900. He is now a member of the firm 
of Dole & Ballinger. He is the author 
of Talks About Law; The Stand-By, 
Hiwa, a Tale of Ancient Hawaii. Resi- 
dence: 1309 Seventeenth street, n.w. 
Office: 1413 G street, n.w. 

DOLLIVER, JONATHAN PRENTISS, 

lawyer, U. S. Senator, was born near 
Kingwood, Preston County, Virginia 
(now West Virginia), February 6, 1858, 
and in 1875 was graduated from West 
Virginia University. In 1900 he received 
the degree of LL. D. from Bethany Col- 
lege. He was admitted to the bar in 
1878. He was elected Representative from 
the Tenth Iowa District to the Fifty-first 
Congress, and served until 1900, when he 
was elected United States Senator; he 
was re-elected in 1902 and in 1907. Re- 
publican. Legal residence: Fort Dodge, 
Iowa. Washington address: 1415 Mas- 
sachusetts avenue. 

DOLLIVER, LOUISE PEARSONS 

(M'rs.), Historian-General, Daughters of 
the American Revolution, was born at 
Hartford, Windsor County, Vermont, on 
iSeptember 16, 1866, daughter of George 
Read and Wealthla (Porter) Pearsons, 
of Fort Dodge, Iowa. She entered Dana 
Hall Preparatory School at Wellesley. 
and graduajted with the degree of B. A. 
from Wellesley College in 1889. For a 
time she was teacher of mathematics at 
the Northwestern University Teachers' 
Academy, at Evanston, 111. At present 
she is Historian General of the D. A. R., 
and organized the Fort Dodge (Iowa) 
chapiter of that organization. On No- 
vember 20, 1895, she married Congress- 
man (now Senator) Jonathan Prentiss 
Dolliver. Mrs. Dolliver, like her husband, 
the Senator, is a Republican. She is a, 
member of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church. Home address: Fort Dodge. 
Iowa. Washington address: 1415 Mas- 
sachusetts avenue. 

DONALDSON, ROBERT B., dentist, 
was born in Loudoun County, Virginia, 
in 1826. Having lost his father in child- 
hood, he was sent to school in Alexan- 
dria, Va., where he remained for ten 
years, and then secured a position in 
Washington with a mathematical instru- 
ment maker, with whom he remained until 
he became of age. In 1852 he began the 



practice of dentistry in Washington, 
which he followed for forty years, dur- 
ing part of the time serving as profes- 
sor of operative dentistry in the Mary- 
land Dental College, of Baltimore, and 
being the recipient of honorary degrees 
from two dental colleges. He has invented 
useful and valuable appliances in his pro- 
fession, which have had a wide sale. From 
1869 to 1871 he was Grand Master of 
Masons of the District, of Columbia. He 
is a director of the Union Trust and 
Storage Company. Residence: 1216 Six- 
teenth street. 

DONALDSON, ROBERT GOLDEN, 

lawyer, was born in the District of 
Columbia, November 27, 1875, son of Ben- 
jamin S. and Fannie L. Donaldson. In 
1892 he was the valedictorian of his class 
at the Business High School, and entered 
the law office of Wyman &. Cole. He 
was graduated from the law department 
of Georgetown University in 1895, and 
was admitted to the bar in Mr. Cole's 
office, and on his death, in 1899, suc- 
ceeded to his practice. He has been pres- 
ident of the Alumni Association of the 
Business High School, which has many 
novel features, among them an employ- 
ment bureau. He took a leading part 
in the proceedings for the extension of 
Sixteenth street. He is a member of the 
Bar Association, a Mason and a Knight 
Templar. On November 20, 1899, he mar- 
ried Antoinette Collet, and they have one 
daughter. Residence: 1502 H street, n.w. 
Office: 611 Fourteenth street, n.w. 

DONEY, CARL GREGG, Methodist 
Episcopal clergyman, was born in Colum- 
bus, Ohio, on July 24, 1867,- son of Abram 
Covert and Emily Victoria (Brock) 
Doney. He was graduated from the Ohio 
State Univesity, B. S., 1891; LL. B., 1893, 
and. Ph. D., 1902; Ohio Wesleyan Uni- 
versity, M. A., 1900, and took a post- 
graduate course in philosophy and the- 
ology at Harvard University in 1891 and 
1892. He was admitted to the bar of 
the Supreme Court of Ohio, but never 
practiced law. At the present time he 
is pastor of the Hamline Methodist Epis- 
copal Church in Washington. He is the 
author of The Throne-Room of the Soul 
(1906); An Efficient Church (1907), and 
has been an extensive contributor to the 
religious press. He is a Thirty-second 
degree Mason, a member of the Beta 
Theta Pi and the Phi Delta Phi college 
fraternities, and the Phi Beta Kappa col- 
legiate honor society; president of the 
Anti-Saloon League of the District of 
Columbia; recently elected president of 
the West Virginia Weslej'-an College, at 
Buckhannon, W. Va. On September 6, 1893, 
he married Jennie A. Evans, of Colum- 
bus, Ohio, and they have two children. 
Residence: 909 R street, n.w. 



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broker, was born in Albany, New York, 
December 23, 1839, son of Patrick and 
Mary Donohue. He was engaged in the 
grocery business in East Wasliington for 
twenty-five years, and has been engaged 
In the real esitate business in this city 
for the past seventeen years. He was 
connected with the Fifith Army Corps 
during the Civil War, and witnessed 
many of the battles along the Poto- 
mac. On October 28, 1875, he mar- 
ried Emily F. Jenkins, and five children 
have been born to them. Residence: 220 
Second street, s.e. Office: 308 East Cap- 
itol Eitreet. 

DORSET, MARION, bacteriological 
chemist, was born at Columbia, Tenn., 
on December 14, 1872, son of Walter 
Clagett and Jane (Mayes) Dorset. He 
was graduated from the University of 
Tennessee in 1893, with the degree of 
B. S. ; from Columbian (now George 
Washington) University, with the degree 
of M. D., in 1896, and also attended the 
University of Pennsylvania. From 1894 
to 1903 he was assistant chemist in the 
biochemic laboratory of the Department 
of Agriculture, and since 1904 has been 
chief of the Biochemic Division in that 
department. For a time he was a teacher 
of bacteriology and pathology, and for 
some years has devoted his time to re- 
search work in bacteriology, specializing 
in tuberculosis and in researches concern- 
ing etiology and the prevention of animal 
diseases. He is a member of the Amer- 
ican Public Health Association, Society 
of American Bacteriologists, American 
Chemical Society, and the Cosmos Club. 
On October 10, 1900, he married Emily 
K. Jackson. Residence: 2429 Eighteenth 
street, n.w. Office: U. S. Department of 
Agriculture. 

DORSEY, CLARENCE WILBUR, soil 
physicist, was born at Kirkersville, Lick- 
ing County, Ohio, July 6, 1872, son of 
Edwin Jackson and Mary Elma (Grove) 
Dorsey. He was graduated from Deni- 
son University, Granville, Ohio, in 1894, 
with tihe degree of Ditt. B.; in 1896 from 
Harvard University, with the degree of 
A. B. From 1896 to 1898 he was assistant 
physicist of the Maryland Agricultural 
Experiment Station; connected with the 
Bureau of Soils of the Department of 
Agriculture from 1898 to 1902. In 1902 
and 1903 he was soil physicist of the 
Bureau of Agriculture of the Philippine 
Islands, and since the latter date has 
been In charge of alkali land reclamation 
In the Bureau of Soils of the United 
States Department of Agriculture. He 
is the author of many papers and bulle- 
tins relating to soil investigations in the 
United States, Philippine Islands and 
PoPto Rico. He is a member of the Beta 
Theta Pi fraternity, American Forestry 
Association, and the Geological Society o't 



Washington. On December 25, 1898, he 
married Florence May Juilliard. Resi- 
dence: Chevy Chase, Maryland. Office: 
U. S. Department of Agriculture. 

DORSEY, ELLA LORAINE, authoress, 
was born in Washington, March 2, 1853, 
daughter of Lorenzo and Anna (Hanson^ 
Dorsey. She was educated at Madame 
Burr's school and the Georgetown Con- 
vent of Visitation. She entered journal- 
istic work in 1871, and for ten year> 
was a special correspondent and special 
writer on Washington newspapers, subse- 
quently serving in a similar capacity for 
newspapers in Chicago, Boston and Cin- 
cinnati. In 1886 she specialized in the 
writing of Catholic juvenile fiction. She 
is one of the indexers and Russian 
translators in the Scientific Library of 
the Department of the Interior, and dur- 
ing the Spanish-American War was a vol- 
unteer assistant in the Hospital Corps? 
of the D. A. R., serving on the executive 
staff and handling all correspondence re- 
lating to Roman Catholic Sisters who 
served as contract nurses in the United 
States, Cuba and Porto Rico. She is a 
member of the advisory and auxiliary 
boards of Trinity College, and in 1900, 
1903 and 1907 traveled in the interest Df 
the institution, securing substantial 
amounts for its endowment. She is a 
member of the Daughters of the American 
Revolution (now serving on the Conti- 
nental Hall Committee), Colonial Dames 
of Maryland, Georgetown Academy of the 
Visitation Alumnae Association, Auxiliary 
Board of Providence Hospital, Pocahon- 
tas Memorial Association, Association for 
Roman Catholic Indian Education, and 
an honorary member of the Association 
of Spanish War Nurses. In addition to 
a large number of contributions to the 
press and many periodicals, she Is the 
author of the following books: Midship- 
man Bob; Jet, the War Mule; The 
Taming of Polly; The Children of Ava- 
lon; The Jose Maria; The Two 
Tramps; Saxty's Angel; Pickle and 
Pepper; Pocahontas. Residence: 2121 
California avenue, n.w, 

DOUGLAS, ALBERT, lawyer. Congress- 
man, was born in Chillicothe, Ohio, April 
25, 1852. He was educated in the pub- ■ 
lie schools of his native town, Kenyon Col- 
lege and the Harvard Law School, and 
was admitted to the bar in Boston, June, 
1874. Since 1874 he has been actively 
engaged in the practice of his profession 
at Chillicothe, Ohio. In 1876 he was 
elected Prosecuting Attorney of Ross 
County as a Republican, and was re- 
elected to the same office in 1878. In 
1896 he was a presidential elector, when 
he cast his vote for McKinley. In No- 
vember, 1906, he was elected a member nf 
the Sixtieth Congress from the Eleventh 
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idence: Chillicothe, Ohio. Washington 
address: House of Representatives. 

DOUGLAS, CHARLES A., lawyer, wa.^ 
born at Winnsboro, S. C, on January 31, 
1862, son of John L. and Mary (Boyce) 
Douglas. He was graduated from the 
L/aw School of Columbian University, and 
was admitted to the bar before he was 
of age. At twenty-four he was elected 
to the South Carolina Legislature, and 
re-elected the following term, and again 
in 1888, when he was chosen elector-at- 
large from South Carolina, and cast hi.-:? 
vote for Grover Cleveland. Until 1895 
he practiced his profession at Columbia, 
S. C., when he removed to Washington, 
formed a partnership with H. N. O'Bear, 
and was elected professor and lecturer 
in the law department of Georgetown 
University. He has made a profound 
study of Negotiable Instruments, and is 
the author of a book for students on tha 
topic; also, with Senator Daniel, wroti 
the fifth edition of Daniel on Negotiable 
Instruments. From 1897 he practiced 
alone for a year, and then v/ent into part- 
nership with his brother under the firm 
name of Douglas & Douglas. He was the 
chief counsel in the celebrated Bonine 
case, in 1901. In 1886 he married Augusta 
Aiken, of South Carolina, and they have 
three children, all of whom are living 
Residence: 2035 Columbia Road, n.w. 
Oflice: Colorado Building. 

DOUGLAS, EDWARD MOREHOUSE, 

topog.apher, was born at Saratoga 
Springs, Saratoga County, New York, 
October 6, 1855, son of Daniel S. an:I 
Almira M. (Morehouse) Douglas. He at- 
tended the Mechanicville Academy, sui 
Mechanicville, N. Y., 1868-73, and was 
graduated from the Columbia College 
School of Mines in 1881, with the degree 
of C. E. He was an employe of the firm 
of W. & L. Gurley, instrument makers, 
learning the trade, 1874-76; served as 
assistant engineer of the Erie Railroad, 
at Buffalo, N. Y., from 1882 to 1895. Since 
1896 he has been geographer of the United 
States Geological Survey, and of late hai 
been in charge of the Western Division 
of Topography, including work in sixteen 
Western States. Mr. Douglas is a School 
Trustee of the State of Maryland, and, 
from June, 1902, to June, 1906, served as 
a member of the Town Council of Tacoma 
Park; he was also chairman of the 
Water and Sewer Committee of the Coun- 
cil. He is the author of The Adjustment 
of Triangulation. iMember of the Amer- 
ican Society of Civil Engineers, National 
Geographic Society, American Association 
for the Advancement of Science, and the 
Amerian Forestry Association. He is 
also a member of the Presbyterian 
Church. On August 3, 1881, he married 
Zelpha M. Childs. Residence: 1300 Mas- 
sachusetts avenue. Office: U. S. Geo- 
log'cal Survey. 
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DOUGLAS, W. J., Engineer of Bridges 
of the District of Columbia. Residerci: 
1855 Calvert street, n.w. Office: District 
Building. 

DOUGLASS, JOHN WATKINSON, 

lawyer, was born in Philadelphia, Octo- 
ber 25, 1827, son of Joseph' M. and Mar- 
tha Douglass. He attended the public 
schools of Erie, Penn, and studied law, 
in 1850 being admitted to the bar. Froui 
1862 to 1869 he was Collector of Internal 
Revenue for the Nineteenth Pennsylvan a 
District; was First Deputy Commissioner 
of Internal Revenue during the years 1869- 
71, and Commissioner of Internal Revenue 
for the United States from 1871 to 1875. 
Since the latter date he has been engaged 
in the practice of law in Washington. 
From 1889 to 1893 he served on the Board 
of Commissioners of the District of Co- 
lumbia, for a time as president. Resi- 
dence: 1816 F street, n.w. Office: Tacific 
Building. 

DOVE, J. MAURY, president of the J. 
Maury Dove Coal Company, was born 
in Washington. After completing his ed- 
ucation he engaged in business in Phila- 
delphia, but in September, 1876, he re- 
turned to Washington and entered the 
employ of Solomon Stoner, and on his 
death succeeded to the business. He was 
made president and general manager of 
the Lanston Monotype Company, and is 
prominently connected with the hotc. 
syndicate that operates the Raleigh and 
New Willard Hotels. Residence: 1740 
New Hampshire avenue. Business ad- 
dress: Twelfth and P streets, n.w. 

DOVE, WILLIAM M., secretary of the 
J. Mau;y Dove Coal Company, was born 
in Washington, D. C. He was educated 
at the Emerson Institute and Rockville 
Academy. For ten years he was con- 
nected with C. C. Bryan, and later, when 
his brother, J. Maury Dove, acquired the 
business of Stoner & Co., he entered his 
employ, resigning, after a few years, to 
accept the position of Inspector of Fuel 
for the District of Columbia, which posi- 
tion he held for over eight years^ then 
entered the Government service as Super- 
intendent of Station B, City Post Office. 
He later became secretary and a mem- 
ber of the Board of Directors of the J. 
Maury Dove Coal Company. Residence: 
1910 G street, n.w. Office: Twelfth and 
P streets, n.w. 

DOVENER, BLACKBURN BARRETT, 

Congressman, was born in Cabell County, 
Virginia (now West Virginia), April 20, 
1842. He served in the Union Army dur- 
ing the Civil War with a company he 
organized. He later read law at Wheel- 
ing, W. Va., and was admitted, to the 
bar in 1873, since which time he has been 
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State L-eglslaiture in 1883, and has repre- 
sented the First West Virginia Districit in 
Congress since the Fifty-fourth Congress. 
Republican. L-egal residence: Wheeling, 
W. Va. Washington address: House of 
Representatives. 

DOW, ALLAN WADE, chemist, was 
born in New York City, August 24, 186t>. 
son of Captain John iMelmoth and Eliza- 
beth K. (Allan) Dow. He attended pri- 
vate school, later graduating from the 
School of Mines of Columbia College in 
1888. From 1889 to 1894 he was assist- 
ant chemist in the Barber Asphalt Pav- 
ing Company, and since the latter date 
has been chemist inspector of asphalt for 
the Engineering Department of the Dis- 
itrict of Columbia. He is an author- 
{•ty and consulting specialist on asphalt 
paving. He is itihe author of a num. 
ber of articles, monographs, etc., on ce- 
ment land concrete construction, and 'the 
chemical components tests, and construc- 
ive use of these building materials. He 
is a member of the American Associaition 
for the Advancement of Science, American 
Chemical Society, Society of Chemical 
Industry (English), International Society 
for Testing Materials, etc. On Novem- 
ber 10, 1892, he married Jessie Cecelia 
Franl^. Residence: 1724 Q street, n.w. 

DOWNEY, WILLIAM F., philanthro- 
pist and public benefactor. Has acquired 
a generous fortune in the prosecution of 
the livery business, where his name has- 
been a household word for half a century. 
His name is a synonym for generosity 
and liberality, and he has befriended many 
scores of unfortunates, taking sjme of 
them even from state prison to put them 
on their feet and make men of them, 
where most men would have left them 
alone or assisted them downward instead 
of upward. His latest charity is the Goc.d 
Samaritan Home which he erected on L 
street, near his place of business. It is 
a five- story brick building, devoted en- 
tirely to charity and was opened and 
blessed by Cardinal Giibbons, January, 
1906. Mr. Downey is a devout Catholic 
He is the chairman of the committee on 
the statue of Commodore Perry. Office: 
1622-24 L. street. Residence: 1013 Seven- 
teenth street, n. w. 

DOWNING, ROBERT L., actor, was 
■born October 28, 1857, in the City of 
Washington, and began his professional 
career under the management of John T. 
Ford, in Baltimore, 'Md., 1877. Prior to 
1889 he played with Edwin Booth, John 
E. Owens, Lawrence Barreitt, Jolhn McCul- 
lough, the elder Sothern, Mary Anderson, 
Charloitte Cushman, Joseph Jefferson! 
Charles Fechter, and many other promi- 
nent stars at that time. His first starring 
venture was in "Tally-Ho," a play writ- 
ten expressly for him by Joaquin Miller; 
afterwards played "Vautour the Vulture," 



then became a star under the manage- 
ment of Joseph H. Mack, playing such 
parts as Spartacus, the Gladiator; Othello, 
Virginius, Ingomar, Damon, Samson, 
Richard, the Lion Hearted, etc., etc. For 
the past two seasons, since 1905, he has 
been starring in comedy. Married Eugenie 
Blair in 1889, divorced her in 1902, and, 
1904, married Mrs. Helene Kirkpaitrick, of 
Washington, D. C. Residence: Freder- 
ick, iMd. 

DOWNING, MRS. ROBERT L. (Euge- 
nie Blair), was born at Columbia, South 
Carolina, and made her initial appearance 
on the stage in child parts. Subsequently 
she appeared wiith John T. Raymond, 
Mrs. D. P. Bowers and others, and later 
was leading lady with James O'Neill and 
Frederick Warde. Since her marriage to 
Robert L. Downing she has generally ap- 
peared in his company, though starring 
at itimes in "Zara," "Sapho," and other 
plays. Residence: Edgemore, Bennings, 
D. C. 

DOYLE, BURTON T., lawyer, son of 
James iHenry and Mary (Sampson) 
Doyle, was born at Dyerstaurg, Tennes- 
see, November 27, 1856. Attended the 
public schools at Dyersburg (1873-75), 
the Southwestern Baptist University at 
Jackson, Tenn. (1875-77), the United 
States Military Academy at Wesit Point, 
N. Y. (1878-81), and the 'National Law 
School at Washington, D. C. (1881-83); 
was graduated from the latter in 1882, 
with the degree of LL. B., and in 1883 
with the degree of LL. M., and was the 
same year admitted to ithe bar of the 
Supreme Court of the District of Colum- 
bia; was later admitted to tthe bar of 
the Court of Appeals of the District of 
Columbia and to the bar of ithe Supreme 
Court of the United States; has en- 
gaged actively in the practice of his pro- 
fession in the District of Columbia since 
1896. "Mr. Doyle was connected with the 
War Department (1882-86), Treasury De- 
partment (1886-96); while connected 
with the laitter he was twice detailed to. 
Congress as an expert; was sent, in 1894, 
to the Sub-Treasury at San Francisco, 
Cal., as an expert accountant. In 1895 
he was serut to the State of Arkansas as 
one of the special commission of two to 
compromise and adjust with the then 
Governor of that State (ithe present U. S. 
Senator John P. Clarke) the differences 
between the State and the Federal Gov- 
ernmenit, amounting to some $3,000,000. 
For this service he received a vote of 
thanks from the Legislature of Arkansas. 
After coming to Washington Mr. Doyle 
was for a number of years the Washing- 
ton special correspondent of several of <the 
Southern daily newspapers, and since then 
he has contributed more or less to news- 
papers and periodicals. He is the author 
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and Artliur; Pansies for Thought; Un- 
strung Lyrics of Hope, Love and Life; 
Buds and Thistles of Sentiment, etc. He 
is a member of Washington Centennial, 
No. 14, A. and A. F. M.; Mount Vernon, 
No. 5, K. of P.; Washington, No. 1, T. 
of B. H., and National, No. 1, K. O. T. M. 
Residence: 632 C street, n.e. Office: Pacific 
Building. 

DOYLE, JOHN THOMAS, Secretary U. 
S. Civil Service Commission, was born 
in New York City, son of Thomas and 
Susan (Birdsall) Doyle, and educated in 
the public schools of that city and in the 
School of Jurisprudence and Diplomacy 
of George Washington University. For a 
time he was employed as a clerk in the 
New York City Post Office; then he be- 
came a stenographer for the U. S. Civil 
Service Commission, and, later secretary. 
On June 9, 1904, he married Georgle 
Eleanor Dixon. Residence: 'Near Hall's 
Hill, Alexandria County, Virginia. Office: 
U. S. Civil Service Commission. 

DRAKE, THOMAS E., Superintendent 
of ithe Department of Insurance of the 
District of Columbia. Residence: 1632 
Riggs, Place, n.w. Office: District Build- 
ing. 

DRAPER WILLIAM FRANKLIN, 

manufacturer, and later United States 
Ambassador, was born at Lowell, Mass., 
April 9, 1842, son of George and Hannah 
(Thwing) Draper. He attended ithe com- 
mon schools and an academy for two 
years, enlisting at the outbreak of th'j 
Civil Wa;r in 'the Massachusetts Volun • 
teers. He was itwice brevetted for gal- 
lantry, and rose from the rank of private 
to that of brevet Brigadier-General of 
Volunteers, serving throughout the wtar. 
He became interested in the manufacture 
of cotton machinery at the close of the 
war. In 1890 he was elected to the pres- 
idency of the Home Market Club of Bos- 
ton. Was a delegate to the National Re- 
publican Convention of 1876, and, 1892 
until 1897, was a Representative in Con- 
gress. On the latter date he was ap- 
pointed United States Ambassador to 
Italy, which post 'he occupied until 1900. 
He has been twice married, in 1862 to 
Lydia W. Joy, and, in 1890, to Susan 
Preston. Residence: Hopedale, Mass. 
Washington address: 1705 K street, n.w. 

DRAPER, WILLIAM H., Congressman, 
was born in Worcesiter County, Masssa- 
chusetts, June 24, 1841. and removed with 
his parents to Troy, N. Y., in 1847. Hj 
attended the common schools until 185^3, 
when he entered upon a mercamtile career. 
He is now a member of the firm of 
William H. Draper & Son, and a manu- 
facturer of cordage and twine. He was 
for a time frustee of the village of Lan- 
singburg, and from 1896 to 1900 was Com- 
missioner of Jurors for Rensselaer County 



He has been a Representative from the 
Twenty-second New York District since 
the Fifty-seventh Congress. In politics 
he is a Republican. Legal residence: Troy, 
N. Y. Washington address: Cochran Ho- 
tel. 

DRENNAN, DANIEL O., Adjutan:- 
General, Regular Army and Navy Union, 
U. S. Residence: 1318 W street, n.w. 

DRESSER, SOLOMON ROBERT, Con- 
gressman, was born at Litchfield, Hills- 
dale County, Michigan, February 1, 1842, 
and attended the common schools and 
Hillsdale College. Until 1865 he assisted 
his father on itheir farm, when he be- 
came interested in oil operations in We-^t 
Vi'iginia. He became connected with an 
oil company, subsequently became its 
manager, which position he held until 
1872, when he returned ito Pennsylvania 
and engaged in the production of oil and 
gas. He Is the inventor of a number 
of impiroved appliances for the manufac ■ 
ture and handling of oil and gas. He was 
elected a Representative from th-i 
Twenty-firsit Pennsylvania District to 
the Fifty-eighth Congress, and has since 
been re-elected. Republican. Legal res- 
idence: Bradford, Penn. Washington ad- 
dress: House of Representatives. 

DRISCOLL, MICHAEL EDWARD, law- 
yer. Congressman, was born in Syracuse, 
N. Y., February 9, 1851. When a child his 
parents removed to Camillus, Onondaga 
County, New York, where he attended the 
common schools, later .studying at Monroe 
Collegiate Institute and Williams College. 
He has been a Representative from the 
Twen'ty-ninth New York District since 
the Fifty- sixth Congress. Republican. 
Legal residence: Syracuse, N. Y. Wash- 
ington address: House of Representa- 
tives. 

DROOP, EDWARD FREDERICK, 

merchant, was born at Osuabruck, Ger- 
many, January 4, 1837. He was educated 
in his fatherland, and entered, while still 
in his iteens, the employ of a wholesale 
grocer and learned the business before 
coming to America, in the summer of 
1857. He first entered the employ of a 
manufacturer of bristle brushes in Bal- 
timore, but came to Washington laiter 
temporarily in the hotel business. He 
became a clerk on November 17, 1857, to 
W. G. iMetzerott, whose music store was 
on Ithe site of the present Post Office 
building. In due time he was taken into 
partnership, and on the death of Mr. 
'Metzerott, in 1884, he established his own 
business in his present quarters. In 1898 
he retired in favor of his two sons, Ed- 
ward H. and Carl A., and in 1904 the 
fiirm was incorporated under the name 
of E. F. Droop Sons Company, the elder 
gentleman still holding an interest in the 
business. He also has the agency for 
leading steamship companies, and is a 



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director in ithe Traders* National Bank, 
the Washington Safe Deposit Company, 
and the National Metropolitan and Cor- 
coran Fire Insurance Companies. He i?" 
a member of the German Lutheran 
Church, and a MJason. Residence: 1455 
Harvard street, n.w. Business address: 
925 Pennsylvania avenue, n.w. 

DRURY, PETER A., Presidemt of the 
National City Bank, and interested in 
other leading business enterprises. Res- 
idence: 1432 Binney street. Business ad- 
dress: 1405 G street, n.w. 

DRYDEN, JOHN FAIRFIELD, U. S. 

Senator, was born near Farmington, 
Maine, Augusit 7, 1839, and while a boy 
removed to Massachusetts with his 
parents. He attended school at Wor- 
cester, Mass., and pursued the law course 
at Tale University, being forced, however, 
to leave before completion of his course 
owing to ill-health. He later graduated 
with the class of 1865, and in 1900 also 
received the degree of A. M. from the 
same institution. He made a special 
study of life insurance, and in 1875 he 
founded the Prudential Life Insurancs 
Company of America, at Newark, N. J., 
becoming its secretary, and, in 1881, its 
president. He is identified with a large 
number of financial interests, including 
street railways, banks, etc.; was one of 
the founders of the Fidelity Trust Com- 
pany, and, since 1903, has been a director 
of the U. S. Steel Corporation. He was 
a New Jersey presidential elector-at- 
large in 1896 and 1900, and became United 
States Senator in 1902. Republican. 
Legal residence: Newark, N. J. Wash- 
ington address: U. S. Senate. 

DU BOIS, FRED T., U. S. Senator, was 
born in Crawford County, Illinois, May 
29, 1851, and attended the public schools 
and Yale University; was graduated in 
1872. He was secretary of the Board 
of Railway and Warehouse Commission- 
ers of Illinois In 1875 and 1876, and in 
1880 removed to Idaho and engaged in 
business in that State, becoming U. S. 
Marshal for Idaho in 1882, which posi- 
tion he retained until 1886. He was th,^ 
last Delegate from Idaho Territory, serv- 
ing ithe Fiftieth and Fifty- first Con- 
gresses, and, in 1890, after having been 
mstrumental in securing statehood for 
Idaho, was elected United States Sena- 
tor from that State. He was chairman 
of the Republican delegation of Idaho to 
the national convention in 1892, and with 
his delegation, left that party upon the 
adoption by them of the single gold stand- 
ard. In 1896 he was defeated for re- 
election to the Senate as the Silver Re- 
publican candidate; In 1900 he was 
elected Mr. Du Bois has fleclared him- 
self a Democrat. Legal residence: Black- 
foot, Idaho. Washington address: U S 
Senate. • 



DU BOIS, JAMES T., Consul-General 
to Switzerland, was born at Hollstead, 
Penn., April 17, 1852, son of Joseph and 
Emory (Taylor) Du Bois, an ancestor 
having founded Kingston, N. Y. He was 
educated at Ithaca (N. Y.) Academy, 
with two years at Cornell University. 
In 1872 he became editor of the Natlona' 
Republican, and in 1887 wias sent by 
President Hayes as commercial agent lo 
Aix-la-Chapelle, and promoted to Consul 
in 1881, when President Arthur sent him 
as Consul to Leipzig, Germany, resigning 
during President Cleveland's first admin- 
istration. On Januiary 1, 1898, he as- 
sumed, under President McKinley, thu 
important charge of Consul-General to 
Switzerland, and shortly afterward, with 
the efficient aid of the Appraiser of the 
Port of New York, commenced a rigorous 
and successful fight on a dangerous sys- 
tem of invoice undervaluation at St. Gal', 
whereby the United States Government 
has lost many millions of dollars of rev- 
enue on laces and embroideries. This was 
the most important and bitter struggle 
ever known in the customs administra- 
tion of the Government, and resulted in 
a prolonged investigation, the transfer of 
a number of officials from one depart- 
ment to another, and a long and rigorous 
controversy on both sides of the Atlantic, 
and a petition to the President signed by 
seventeen of the largest and most influ- 
ential exporters at St. Gall and import- 
ers in New York for his retention In 
oflice. He has been a great benefactor 
to his native town; is a member of the 
Sons of the American Revolution, the 
Economic Society of Washington, the Red 
Cross Society, and the National Geo- 
graphic Society. He has written: At 
Home with Charlemagne; In and About 
Aix-la-Chapelle; Centennial History of 
Susquehanna County, Penn.; The Fun 
and Pathos of One Human Life. In De- 
cember, 1883, he married Emma Pastor 
daughter of Henry Pastor, of New York 
City, to which union have been born two 
children. Address: Department of State. 

DUCKETT, MARION, lawyer, was born 
at Forest Hill, Prince George County, 
Maryland, on December 24, 1854, son of 
Dr. Thomas S. and Margaret Priscilla 
(Howard) Duckett His father was a 
physician of the old school, but in his 
later life vwas engaged largely in agri- 
culture on a large estate, which is now 
owned by his son, near Glendale, in Prince 
George County, Maryland. He is also a 
descendant of Judge Allen Bowie Duck- 
ett, who was the first Supreme Court 
Judge of the District of Columbia. Marion 
Duckett obtained his preliminary educa- 
tion at a private school conducted at the 
residence of the late Judge John B. 
Brook, in which about fifteen young men 
of the county were taught by professors f 
omploj^ed by their parents. He taught f 
.^chcci in Annerundle County, Maryland, * 
jnd studied law under the late Daniel 



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Clarke, who was, at the time of his dea.h, 
attorney for the Pf-nnsylvania Railroad 
Since being admitted to the bar he has 
been engiaged in the practice of law in 
the State of Maryland and the Disitrict 
of Columbia, confining himself mainly to 
chancery and ireal estate law. He pos- 
sesses one of the largest law and miscel- 
laneous libraries in Southern Maryland 
and has been a faithful and diligent situ- 
dent of his profession. In 1904 the de- 
gree of LL. D. was conferred upon him. 
For many years he has been president 
of the Bladensburg, Md., Town Commis- 
sioners, and is a member of numerous 
clubs and associations in Maryland and 
the District of Columbia. He is the au- 
thor of numerous articles on all branches 
of law. Member of the Protestant Epis- 
copal Church, and, in politics, a Demo- 
crat. On October 1, 1879, he married 
Gabriella Augusta Duval, daughter of th3 
late Edmund B. Duval, of Glendale, Prince 
George County, Maryland, to which union 
have been born nine children, all of whom 
are living. Residence: Bladensburg, 
Prince George County, Maryland. Office: 
635 P street, n.w., Washington, D. C, and 
Bladensburg, Md. 

DUDLEY, WILLIAM WADE, lawyer, 
was born at Weathersfield Bow, Windsor 
County, Vermont, August 27, 1842. He 
attended Phillips Academy, at Danville, 
Vit., and Russell's Collegiate Institution, 
at New Haven, Conn. In 1860 he went 
to Richmond, Ind., and entered the mill- 
ing business. At the outbreak of the 
Civil War he was Captain in the militia, 
and enlisted in the United States Army 
with his company. He served through- 
out the war; was brevetted Brigadier- 
General for conspicuous gallantry, and 
was wounded at GettysbuTg, losing a leg. 
After Gettysburg, he served las Judge- 
Advocate and Inspector until the declara- 
tion of peace, when he became Clerk of 
Courts in Wayne County, Indiana, which 
post he filled until 1874, when he wa-: 
admitted to the bar. He was cashier of 
the Richmond (Ind.) Savings Bank from 
1875 to 1879; served as United States 
Marshal for Indiana from 1879 to 1881, 
and from the latter date until 1885 he 
was Commissioner of Pensions. He then 
engaged in business until 1887, when he 
entered a law Arm, and, since 1889, has 
been engaged in the practice of his pro- 
fession in Washington. He was treasurer 
of the National Republican Committee in 
1888. In 1864 he married Theresa Fiske, 
and, in 1899, Nannie R. Finch. Residence: 
2431 Columbia Road. Office: 624 F street, 
n.w. 

DUELL, CHARLES HOLLOND, Asso- 
ciaite Justice, District of Columbia Court 
of Appeals, was born at- Cortland, N Y., 
April 13, 1850, son of R. HoUand Duell, 
formerly Commissioner of Patents. He 
was graduated from Hamilton College in 
1871, and finished a post-graduate course 



In law at the same instituition In 1872. 
He was a member of the New York Legis- 
lature in 1878 and 1880, and a practicing 
lawyer In New York from 1873 to 1880, 
and, later, from 1901 to 1905. He was 
located at Syracuse, N. Y., during ithe 
years 1880-98 as a patent lawyer; was 
United 'States Commissioner of Patents 
from 1898 to 1901, and, since December, 
1904, has been Associate Justice of ithe 
Court of Appeals of the District of 
Columbia. In 1904 he was Assistant 
Treasurer of the 'National Republican 
Committee. Member of ithe Sons of the 
American Revolution, and of the Amer- 
ican Bar Association. Residence: 1631 
Massachusetts avenue, n.w. 

DUFFIELD, WILLIAM WARD, civil 
engineer, was born at Ca/rlisle, Penn., 
November 19, 1823, and graduated from 
Columbia University in 1841, subsequently 
(in 1844) receiving the degree of A. M. 
From 1847 to 1848 he served as Lieuten- 
ant on the staff of General Pillow during 
the Mexican War, and at the outbreak 
of the Civil War was made Colonel of 
Michigan Infantry; later promoted to 
Colonel; brevetted 'Major-General in 186.), 
and promoted 'to Brigadier-General in the 
same year. He was .twice wounded at 
Murfreesboro. From 1878 to 1879 he was 
Michigan State Senator, later becoming 
chief engineer of railways in New York, 
Michigan, Illinois, and other States. Dur- 
ing 1892 and 1893 he was a Government 
engineer, having in charge the improve- 
ments on 'the Wabash and White Riv- 
ers, in Indiana and Illinois, and from 1894 
to 1898 was superintendent of the Coast 
and Geodetic Survey. He is the author 
of the following books: School of the 
Brigade and Evolutions of the Line; 
Treatise on Logarithms. On June 27, 
1854, he married A. Louise Ladue. He died 
at Washington on June 22, 1907. Late 
residence: 1633 Q street, n.w. 

DUGAN, REUBEN A., assistant gen- 
eral manager of the Southern Railway. 
Residence: 1445 Rhode Island avenue, 
n.w. Office: Thirteenth street and Penn- 
sylvania avenue, n.w. 

DUGGAN, WALTER T., soldier, was 
born in England, on April 11, 1843. On 
June 13, 1861, he entered the military 
service as a private in Company B, Fifth 
Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and was 
discharged on August 31, 1863. He was 
appointed a hospital steward in the U. 
S. Army on September 7, 1863; appointed 
a Second Lieutenant of the Tenth U. S. 
Infantry on January 3, 1867; First Lieu- 
tenant, 1874, Captain 1886, Major 1899, 
Lieutenant-Colonel 1901, Colonel of the 
Twenty-fourth Infantry 1902, and was 
transferred to the First Infantry on Octo- 
ber 18, 1904. Address: War Department 

DULANEY, BENJAMIN LEWIS, capi- 
talist, was born near Blountsville, Sulli- 
van County, Tennessee, on September 11, 



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1857, son of Benjamin Lewis and Rebecca 
(Cobb) Dulaney. His father was a phy- 
sican, and bis grandfather, Dr. Elkanah 
Roberts Dulaney, of Culpeper County, 
Virginia, crossed the Alleghenies before 
tihe Revolution, and was one of the phy- 
sicians of the "Watauga Settlement." 
He is a descendant, on his father's side, 
of Meriwether Lewis, of the Lewis and 
Clark expedition, and, on his mother's 
side, of the Cobbs, of South Carolina, and 
a kinsman of President Andrew Jackson 
He was educated by his mother and at 
Jefferson Academy, In his native town, 
after which Ihe studied medicine, but after 
a few months' practice abandoned tbe 
profession. iSeeing the boundless resources 
in Virginia and Eastern Tennessee, he 
turned his efforts to developing them. 
Although starting with little money and 
no experience in such matters, he ha.s 
witlhin twenty years taken from tlie 
North and from foreign countries into 
the mountains of Virginia and Tennes- 
see more than forty million dollars, mak- 
ing his own fortune, and doing more prob- 
ably than any other individual in the way 
of developing that section of the countrj-. 
He has been a builder of railroads, iron 
furnaces, and a developer of coal mines. 
One of 'the largest corporations which he 
has fo'rmed is the Virginia Iron, Coal and 
Coke Company, capital twenty millions. 
He has served as vice-president of the 
Virginia and Southwestern Railroad, and 
was one of its chief organizers, having 
constructed the Tennessee division of .thai 
road, 'then called the Britol and Elizabeth, 
of which he was president. He is pres- 
ident of the Black Mountain Coal Land 
Company, and is a director in many 
banks and other corporations. He was 
commissioner .to the Paris Exposition in 
1900, St. Louis Exposition in 1903, and 
is a member of the Art Club, of Philadel- 
phia; Lawyers' Club, of New York, and 
the Holston Club, of Bristol, Tenn. He 
is a member of the Presbyterian Church, 
and a Mason. In 1905 he selected Wash- 
ington as his home, and has resided here 
since. Residence: The Wyoming. Sum- 
mer address: Bristol, Tenn. 

DULANY, H. ROZIER, real estate, was 
born at Oakley, Virginia, in 1857. After 
graduating from the Universi'ty of Vir- 
ginia he took a post-graduate course at 
Johns Hopkins University, and then be- 
came instructor of mathematics in George 
Carey's preparatory school in BaLtimoro. 
He came from the West to Washington 
in 1885, and became a member of the 
firm of Dulany & Whiting. On 
February 15, 1892, he was elected 
a member of the Washington Stock 
Exchange; a member of the Metro- 
politan Club, and a director of the Colum- 
bia Fire Insurance Company. Residence: 
1838 Wyoming avenue. Business address: 
1320 F street, n.w. 

.a'^.'^I^m"' ^^^^^ STONEWALL 
JACKSON, sculptor, was born at 



London, Ontario, Canada, January 31, 
1862, son of Alexander and Susannah 
(Jackson) Dunbar. He attended the 
common public schools of his vicinity and 
Rockwood Academy. He served in tha 
Canadian militia fo'r three years. In 1880 
he became a professional sculptor, and 
since that 'time has modeled figures for 
the expositions of Atlanta, Buffalo, and 
St. Louis, and busts of pu'blic men and 
prominent patriots 'for Statuary Hall of 
the Capi'tol, lalso for the Corcoran Art 
Gallery, the Minnesota State Capitol, 
Union Club, of New York, and other 
buildings. He is 'the sculptor of .the 
bronze statue of former Governor Shep- 
herd, which will adorn the front of -the 
new Municipal Building of Washington; 
he has also done a large number of mon- 
uments. He is a member of the Society 
of Washington Artists, National Art Asso- 
ciation, National Society of Fine Arts, 
and, in religion, is an Episcopalian-Theos- 
ophist. On September 17, 1892, he mar- 
ried Mary Jo'hn Davis. Residence: 60 V 
street, n.w. 

DUNLAP, ANDREW, Captain, U. S. N., 
was born at Ovid, New Yo'rk, on October 
7, 1844, son of Andrew and Hannah 
(Kinne) Dunlap. He was graduated from 
the United States Naval Academy in 
1867, and served with the European and 
Pacific 'Squadrons .as a Midshipman dur- 
ing 1867-68, when he became Ensign. He 
was promoted to Master in 1870; made 
Lieutenant, 1871; Lieutenant-Commander, 
1891; Commander, February 1, 1898; Cap- 
tain, June 8, 1902. His naval career has 
included duty at various naval stations 
and on a number of United States vessels; 
in 1896-97 he commanded the Blake, under 
the direction of the Coast and Geodetic 
Survey; was comm.ander of the hospital 
s'hip Solace during the Spanish-American 
War, and the same vessel when after- 
ward converted into a transport. He was 
Lighthouse Inspector of the Tenth Dis- 
trict, at Buffalo, from 1900 ito 1902, and 
since the latter date has been command- 
ant of the naval station at San Juan, 
Porto Rico. He is a member of the 
United States Naval Institute and the 
Military Order of Foreign Wars. Address: 
Navy Department. 

DUNLAP, IRVING HALL, Chief Clerk 
of the Bureau of Fisheries, was born at 
Syracuse, N. Y., in 1862, and prepared for 
college at Pliillips-Andover Academy 
(Mass.). He .at first engaged in the coal 
business and the manufacture of steel. 
He came to Washington in 1896 to accept 
his present appointment. He takes a 
deep interest in scientific subjects, and 
is a member of the Cosmos Club and the 
National Geographic Society. Residence: 
1728 Q street, n.w. Office: Bureau of 
Fisheries. 

DUNLOP, GEORGE THOMAS, president 

and general manager of the Capital 
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Maryland, 'May 25, 1845, son of Colonel 
Henry Dunlop, who commanded the troops 
that escorted 'the Marquis de Lafayette 
to Washing-ton on his triumphant visit 
to America in 1824. In July, 1870, he en- 
tered business under the name of George 
T. Dunlop & Co., in 1878 buying out his 
father, retiring after twenty-five years 
In 1893 he was chosen vice-president .and 
manager of the Washington and George- 
town Railway Company, and in 1894 was 
elected president. The present under- 
ground system of electric street railways 
in the DiS'trict was accomplished under 
his direction. By his initiative the Capital 
Traction Company was formed, and he 
was chosen its president in September, 
1895. He is a director in the Washing- 
ton Title Insurance Company, the Union 
Trust and Storage Company, the Wash- 
ington Gas Light Company, and the Fire- 
man's Insurance Company and is a stock- 
holder in the Riggs National Bank, th- 
Farmers' and Medhanics' National Bank, 
and the Merchants' Transfer and iStorago 
Company. On December 18, 1867, he 
married Emily Redin Kirk, of Georgetown, 
D. C. Residence: 3102 Q street. 

DUNN, ARTHUR WALLACE, journal- 
ist, was born at Greenleaf, Minn., Feb- 
ruary 11, 1859, son of James W. and Eliz- 
abeth M. (Seely) Dunn. He was educated 
at the Jackson (Minn.) High School. In 
1883 he became editor of the Plain Dealer, 
at Grand Forks, North Dakota; was city 
editor of the St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer 
Press, 1887 to 1889; Washington corre- 
spondent of the Pioneer Press and Port- 
land Oregonian from 1889 to 1893. From 
1893 until 1906 was connected with the 
Associated Press, having charge of the 
congressional news for that association; 
was for many years the correspondent of 
the American Press Association in Wash- 
ington, contributing a daily letter for its 
service; has been writing continuously 
for the mag-azines; since November, 1906, 
has been the Eastern staff corespondent 
of the Woman's National Daily. He is a 
member of the Episcopal Church; mem- 
ber of the National Geographic Society, 
Pilgrims' Society of the United States and 
England; member and ex-president o^ 
the Gridiron Club; member of the Ban- 
nockburn Golf Club. On October 15, 1890, 
he married Lillian Jay Lash. Residence; 
2334 Massachusetts avenue. Office: 1426 
New York avenue. 

DUNN, JOSEPH, educator, was born 
in New Haven, Conn., in August, 1872, 
son of Thomas K. and Abigail (Leary) 
Dunn. He attended the public schools, 
graduated from Yale University in 1895, 
received the degree of Ph. D. in 1898. He 
attended Harvard University, 1901-02, 
and the University of Freiburg, Baden, 
during 1902-03; also the Faculte des 
Lettres, at Rennes, France, 1903-04. Sinci 
1898 he has been connected with the 
Catholic University of America until 1900 
as instructor in Latin; from 1900-01, in- 



structor in Romance languages, and since 
1904 assistant professor of Celtic lan- 
guages and literature. He is a contributor 
to American and European periodicals, 
and a member of the Phi Beta Kappa 
fraternity. In religion he is a Catholic. 
Unmarried. In politics, a Democrat. Ad- 
dress: Catholic University of America. 

DUNWELL, CHARLES TAPPAN, Con- 
gressman, was born at Newark, Wayne 
County, New York, February 13, 1852, 
and in 1854 removed with his parents 'to 
Lyons, New York, w*here he attended the 
Union School. He entered Cornell Uni- 
versity with the class of 1873, and in hli 
junior year left to attend the Columbia 
College Law School, where he was grad- 
uated in 1874, with the degree of LL. B. 
He was admitted to the bar the same year, 
and for many yea'rs practiced his pro- 
fession in New York City. His office is 
at present at 16 Court street, Brooklyn, 
N. Y. In 1890 he was defeated for Comp- 
troller of the City of Brooklyn, when 
serving as a Republican candidate. In 
1891-92 he was a member of the Nevv 
York Republican State Central Committee, 
and has been a Representative from the 
Third New York District since the Fifty- 
eighth Congiress. In politics he is a Re- 
publican. On April 22, 1880, he married 
Emma B. Williams. Legal residence: 
Brooklyn, N. Y. Washington address: 
House of Representatives. 

DUNWOODY, HENRY H. C, army 
officer, was born in Ohio, and entered 
the U. S. Military Academy as a cadet 
on September 1, 1862, and graduated on 
June 18, 1866. He was appointed a Second 
Lieutenant, Fourth Artillery; First Lieu- 
tenant, 1867; Captain, 1889; Major in the 
Signal Corps, 1890; Lieutenant-Colonel, 
1897; Colonel, 1898. He is second in rank 
of officers in the Signal Service, and has 
been supervising forecast official. He was 
pro-moted to the rank of Brig-adier- Gen- 
eral, U. S. A., and retired in 1904. Ad- 
dress: 1522 Thirty-first street, n.w. 

DU PONT, HENRY ALGERNON, U. S. 

Senator, was born at the Eleutherean 
Mills, Newcastle County, Delaware, July 
30, 1838, son of Henry D. Du Pont, and 
educated in the private scliools and at 
the University of Pennsylvania. In 1853 
he entered the United States Military 
Academy, graduating at the head of his 
class in 1861, becoming a Second Lieuten- 
ant of Engineers. He was commissioned 
Fil-st Lieutenant in 1861; made Acting 
Assistant Adjutant -General in 1862, and 
promoted to Captain in 1864; served as 
Chief of Artillery in various departments 
and for various brigades and armlo.s 
throughout the war. He was brevetted 
Major and Lieutenant-Colonel; received 
a congressional medal of honor, and was 
commended by Major-General Schofield 
for conspicuous bravery on various occa- 
sions. In 1875 he resigned from the army, 
and from 1879 to 1899 was president and 



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general manager of the Wilmington and 
Northern Railroad Company, subsequently 
retiring from active business life and 
since devoting most of his 'time to farm- 
ing. In 1906 he was elected United States 
Senator from Delaware. Republican. Ha 
is a widower. Legal residence: Winter - 
thur, Delaware. Washington address: U. 
S. Senate. 

DURAND, EDWARD DANA, Deputy 

Commissioner of Corporations, was born 
at Romeo, Michigan, October 18, 1871, son 
of Cyrus Y. and Celia (Day) Durand. He 
was g;aduated from Oberlin College 
(Ohio) in 1893, and in 1896 received the 
degree of Ph. D. from Cornell. During 
1895 and until 1897 he was legislative 
librarian of the New York State Library; 
from 1898 to 1899 was assistant profes- 
sor of administration and finance at Le- 
land Stanford, Junior, University; from 
1900 to 1902 he was secretary of the 
United States Industrial Commission, In 
the latter year becoming instructor in 
economics at Harvard University, and 
later special expert of the Census Office 
regarding street railways and electrical 
plants. From May, 1903, to March, 1907. 
he was special examiner of the Bureau of 
Corporations; since then Deputy Commis- 
sioner of that bureiau. He is a frequent 
contributor to periodicals and economic 
publications on political and economic 
subjects, and the author of finances of 
New York City. On July 15, 1903, he 
married Mary Elizr.beth Bennett. Res- 
id, nee: 3325 Holmead Place: Oflace: 
Willard Building. 

DUREY, CYRUS, Congressman. In 
November, 1906, he was elected a mem- 
ber of the Sixtieth Congress f.om the 
Twenty-fifth Congressional District of 
New York on the Republican ticket. Legal 
residence: Johnstown, N. Y. Washington 
address: House of Representatives. 

DUVALL, ANDREW BROWN, United 
States District Corporation Counsel, was 
born March 20, 1847, in Washington a 
descendant of Mareen Duvall, a Frencn 
Huguenot, who settled in Maryland in th-^ 
middle of the Seventeenth century. He 
was graduated from Columbian College 
in 1867, and in 1869 became LL. B.; was 
admitted to the bar A the Supreme Court 
of the District, and was for several years 
in partnership with Joseph H. Bradley a 
leading member of the District bar. He 
lectured for two years in the law depart- 
ment of Georgetown University; truste.^ 
of 'the American University; treasurer of 
the Bar Association and president of the 
Methodist Home. On March 15 1899 he 
was appointed by the Commissioners as 
attorney of the District, the title bein^r 
later changed, fi,rst, to City Solicitor, and 
then to Corporation Counsel. In May 1872 
he was married to Mary M., daughter of 
Charles E. Walker, and they have six 
children, one of them a Princeton gradu- 



ate and a practicing attorney In this city. 
Residence: 1831 M stret, n.w. 

DWIGHT, JOHN WILBUR, Congress- 
man, was born at Dryden, N. Y., May 24, 
1859. He was elected a Representative 
from the Thirtieth New York District to 
the Fifty-seventh Congress, and 'has been 
re-elected to all subsequent Congresses. 
Republican. Legal residence: Dryden, N. 
Y. Washingon address: House of Rep- 
resentatives. 

DYAR, HARRISON GRAY, entomolo- 
gist, bacteriologist, was born in New York 
City, on February 14, 1866, son of Harri- 
son Gray and Eleonora Rosella (Hannum) 
Dyar. His father made the first electric 
telegraph in America. Harrison Dyar, Jr., 
attended the Roxbury Latin School, Bos- 
ton, Mass., 1882-85; the Massachusetts- 
Institute of Technology, 1885-89 and 
1892-93, and Columbia (N. Y.) University, 
1893-95, from the latter institution receiv- 
ing the degrees of A. M. and Ph. D. For 
two years lie was assistant instructor in 
bacteriology at the College of Physicians 
and Surgeons of New York; 1897 to 1906, 
custodian in the department of insects 
of the United States National Museum; 
since 1906, assistant curator in the same 
department. He has written numerous 
papers on entomological subjects — about 
two hundred titles in the last ten years. 
He is a member of most of the entomo- 
logical societies in the Eastern United 
St'jtes, and has voted with t.he Repub- 
lican party since 1888. On October 14, 
1889, 'he married Zella Peabody. Resi- 
dence: 1512 Twenty-first street, n.w 
Office: U. S. National Museum. 

DYER, ALEXANDER BRYDIE, Major, 
U. S. A., was born at Fayetteville, North 
Carolina, March 28, 1852, son of Brevet 
Major-General A. B. Dyer, lately Chief 
of Ordnance, U. S. A., and Elizabeth B. 
(Allen) Dyer. He entered the Artillery 
Corps as a Second Lieutenant upon grad- 
uation from the United States Militari' 
Academy in 1873, and has since risen t'j 
the rank of Major of Artillery. He is a 
contributor to military periodicals, and 
author of Handbook for Light Artillery. 
On March 29, 1880, he marri d Madelene 
Minturn. Address: War Department. 

DYER, FRANCIS JOHN, correspond- 
ent for the San Francisco Chronicle, was 
born in Dyersville, Dubuque County, 
Iowa, on June 21, 1864, son of William 
and Mary (Richards) Dyer. After finish- 
ing his preparatory education in the 
schools of Dubuque, Iowa, he entered 
Northwestern University, at Evanston, 
Illinois, but left before graduation. For 
some time he was engaged in the lumbe- 
business, but entered journalism, an 1 
late,r owned and edited various newspa- 
pers. During most of the time for th.a 
last twelve years he has been on the staff 
of the San Francisco Chronicle, now be- 
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paper. He has twice been appointed post- 
master, and has always been interested in 
politics. He is a member of the A. F. 
and M. ; Independent Order of Foresters, 
and, in politics, a Republican. On Decem- 
ber 2, 1901, he married Lilly O. Reichling, 
of Jackson, Cal., founder of the Native 
Daughters of the Golden West. Residence: 
1223 L street, n.w. Office: Munsey Build- 
ing. 

DYER, GEORGE LELAND, Command- 

er, U. S. N., was born at Calais, Maino, 
August 26, 1849, son of George W. and 
Mary (Kelley) Dyer. He was an honor 
graduate of the United States Naval 
Academy in 1870, and was commissioned 
Ensign in 1871. In 1873 he was promoted 
to Master; became Lieutenant in Feb- 
ruary, 1879; Lieutenant-Commander, No- 
vember 22, 1898, and Commander, April 
19, 1901. During the Spanish-American 
War he comminded th^ gunboat Stranger, 
and, later, the Yankton, subsequently be- 
ing detailed tor service and patrol duty 
on the Cuban coast. He was placed In 
charge of the ships, and made head of the 
department of modern languages at the 
United States Naval Academy in July, 
1901, and in 1902 commanded the Rain- 
bow, flagship of the Asiatic Squadron. In 
1903 he commanded the cruiser Albany, 
and since May, 1904, has been Governor 
of Guam. On March 31, 1875, he married 
Su^an Hart, daughter of General O. H. 
Palmer. Home address: Winter Pa'rk, 
Orange County, Florida. Official address: 
Care Navy Department. 

DYER, NEHEMIAN MAYO, Rear Ad- 
miral, U. S. N. (retired), was born at 
Provincetown, Mass., in 1839, son of Henry 
and Sally (Mayo) Dyer. In 1862 he en- 
tered the volunteer naval service as a 
Master's Mate, and on May IS, 18fi3, was 
promoted to Acting Ensign, for gallantry; 
January 12, 1864, to Acting Master, for 
faithful and meritorious service. He was 
in command of the Rodolph, and witn 
her at the attack on Blakely River forts. 
Mobile Bay, when the ship was blown up 
by a rebel lorpedo. On April 22, 1865, he 
was made Acting Volunteer Lieutenant, 
and fom 1866 to 1868 was detailed for 
special duty with the Bureau of Naviga- 
tion. On December 18, 1868, he was com- 
missioned Lieutenant-Commander; made 
Commander, April, 1883; Captain, July, 
1897, and retired in February, 1901, with 
the rank of Rear Admiral. He partici- 
pated in the battle of Manila Bay with 
Admiral Dewey, and was on duty witii 
that fleet until March, 1899. From 1900 



until the time of his retirement he was 
detailed at the Boston Navy Yard. Since 
1903 he has been chairman of the Board 
of Commissioners of the Nautical Train- 
ing School of Massachusetts. He is a 
m.ember of the Army and Navy Club. 
Companion of the Loyal Legion, and a 
member of the Union Club (of Boston), 
the Melrose Club (of Melrose, Mass.), and 
an honorary member of the Buffalo (N. 
Y.) Club. Unmarried. Residence: Mel- 
rose, Mass. Address: Navy Department. 

DYRENFORTH, ROBERT ST. GEORGE, 

lawyer, was born in Chicago, 111., October 
17, 1844, son of Julius and Caroline Dyren- 
forth. Early in life he attended the pub- 
lic schools; was a cadet at Breslau. 
Neisse and Berlin, Prussia, from 1857 to 
1861; graduated from Breslau in the las: 
named year; graduated with the degree 
of M. E.. after a special course in mechan- 
ical engineering at the Polytechnic School, 
Carlsruhe, Baden; also from the Univer- 
sity of Heidelberg, in 1869, with the de- 
gree of Ph. D. He has also received ch3 
degrees of LL. B., M. D. and LL. D. from 
Columbian (now George Washington) 
University. He served in the United 
States Army during the Civil War, en- 
tering the cavalry and rising from a pri- 
vate to the rank of Major, and being sev- 
eral times brev tted fo gallantry. He was 
Assistant Inspector-General and Signat 
Officer for the Department of Missouri, 
and later Engineer Officer in several cam- 
paigns. He finished his services in the 
army on the Western frontier, taking part 
in several Indian campaigns. He was war 
correspondent for the Chicago Post and 
Times in the Austro-Prussian War, in 
lSfi6, and in 1871 entered the Pateni 
Office, after a comptitive examination. He 
became, successivelj% second assis.tant, 
first assistant, and, finally, principal ex- 
aminer, of the office, serving under the 
administrations of Grant and Hayes, and, 
fo'r a few days, as Commissioner of Pat- 
ents under Cleveland. Since 1885 he has 
been a practicing patent and corporation 
lawyer. In 1891 and 1892 he was in charge 
of the appropriation of Congress made tj 
determine whether the artificial produc- 
tion of rain by concussion was feasible, 
on which subject he made an illustrated 
report. He is now serving his fifth term 
as Commander-in-Chief of the Union 
Veterans' Union, and is a commander of 
the Military Order of the Merit. In 186G 
he married Jana De Lacy. Residence: 
Fourteenth and Binney streets, n.w Office: 
Washington Loan and Trust Bui'ding. 



EAGAN, CHARLES PATRICK, Briga- 
dier-General, U. S. A. (retired), was born 
in Ireland, in January, 1841. He at-tftnded 
school in San Francisco, and in 1862 was 
appointed First Lieutenant In the First 



Regiment, Washington Territory Infantry, 
Volunteer Army. He became a Second 
Lieutenant in the Ninth Infantry, Regular 
Army, in 1866; served as a line officer 
of infantry, 1866 to 1874; promoted to 



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Captain, Commissary iSubsistence Depart- 
men.t, 1874, and subsequently through all 
grades to Brigadier-General and Commis- 
sarv-General of Subsistence Department. 
U "s. A. He served in 'the last named 
capacitv during the Spanish-American 
War. In 1899 he was tried by court- 
martial for uncontradicted statements con- 
cerning General Miles and sentenced to 
suspension from duty for six years. Sub- 
sequently he was 'restored to active duty, 
and then retired by his own request. He 
was brevetted Captain tor gallant services 
in action against Indians in the Lava 
Beds, California, April 17, 1873, where h> 
was wounded. On iNovember 5, 1863, he 
married Emma Johnson. Residence: New 
York, N. Y., or War Department. 

EARL, CHARLES, lawyer, Solicitor 
of the United States Department of Com- 
merce and Labor. Residence: Riverdale, 
Maryland. Office: Department of Com- 
merce and Labor. 

EARLE, CHARLES T., Chief Clerk, 
Bureau of iMedicine and Surgery, Navy 
Department. Residence: 930 Sixteentli 
street, n.w. Office: Navy Department 

EASBY-SMITH, JAMES S., lawyer, au- 
thor, was born at Tuskaloosa, Alabama, 
May 17, 1870, son of Hon. W^illiam Russeii 
and Wilhelmine Maria (Easby) Smith 
He was graduated from Georgetown Col- 
lege in 1891; received the degree of A. 
M. in 1892, and that of LL. M. in 1894, 
succeeding his graduation in 1893 from 
the law department. During his college 
course 'he was associate editor and sub- 
sequently editor-in-chief of the George- 
town College Journal. In 1894 he was 
admitted to practice; from 1893 to 1899 
he was Law Examiner of the Department 
of Justice; was special United States 
Attorney for the Eastern District of Lou- 
isiana in 1896, and Pardon Attorney for 
the same district, 1899-1904. Since 1904 
he has been quiz master, and, since 1905. 
lecturer on constitutional law at George- 
town Univer.sity (law school). He has 
contributed a number of poems, transla- 
tions, stories and articles to contempo- 
rary periodicals, and Is the author of 
the following books: The Songs of 
Sapho (translation) ; The Songs of 
Alcaeus (translation); The Law of Par- 
dons; The Department of Justice, I:s 
History and Functions. On June 5, 1891. 
he married Lillian Louise Strong. Resi- 
dence: 1532 T street. Office: Century 
Building. 

EASTERDAY, GEORGE J., real estate 
and stock broker, was born in Virginia, in 
1859, and removed to Washington on be- 
coming of age, entering at once the busi- 
ness of life insurance and real estate. In 
1904 he joined the Washington Stock Ex- 
change. He is a graduate of the George- 
town Law School, and president of his 
class. Residence: 1681 ThiPty-first street 
n.w. Office: 1410 G street, n.w 



EASTON, THOMAS CHALMERS, cler- 
gyman, pastor of the Eastern Presby- 
terian Church. Residence: The Lincoln. 

EATON, JOHN, inspector of education 
for Porto Rico (1899); President of Shel- 
don Jackson College, Salt Lake City, 
1895-99, was born at Sutton, N. H., on 
December 5, 1829, son of John and Janet 
(Andrew) Eaton. He studied at Thetford 
Academy; graduated from Dartmouth 
College in 1854 Ph. D., LL. D. (Rutgers). 
From 1854 to 1856 he taught school at 
Cleveland, Ohio; was superintendent of 
schools at Toledo, Ohio, from 1856 to 1859. 
Later he studied at the Andover Theolog- 
ical Seminary and was ordained, and 
made chaplain of the Twenty-seventh 
Ohio Volunteer Infantry in 1862. In No- 
vember, 1862, Grant appointed him super-, 
intendent of freedmen, and was later 
given supervision at all military posts 
from Cairo to Natchez land Port Smith, by 
the Secretary of War. Was made a Colo- 
nel in the Sixty-third Colored Infantry in 
October, 1863; brevetted a Brigadier-(3-en- 
eral, March, 1865; furnished example for 
Preedmen's Bureau, etc.; assistant com- 
missioner, 1865-66, and mustered out. 
From 1866 to 1867 he was editor of the 
Memphis Post; 1867-69, State Superinten- 
dent of Schools of Tennessee; Commis- 
sioner of the U. S. Bureau of Education, 
1870-86; president of Marietta College, 
1886-91. He was councillor of the Ameri- 
can Public Health Association; vice-pres- 
ident of the American Association for the 
Advancement Of Science; and twice presi- 
dent of the American 'Social Science As- 
sociation. He 'represented the Interior 
Department lat the Centennial Exposition; 
organized the educational exhibit at New 
Orleans; was president of the National 
Congress of Education, and president of 
the National Society of Religious Educa- 
tion. He is the author of several books, 
among them being: History of Thetford 
Academy; Mormons of Today; The Freed- 
men in the War (report) ; Schools of Ten- 
nessee (reports); and repuTts of the U. S. 
Bureau of Education, together with circu- 
lars and bulletins for sixteen years; also 
magazine articles. Residence: The Con- 
cord. 

EATON, JOSEPH GILES, Captain, U. 
S. N., was born at Greenville, Alabama, 
January 29, 1847, son of William Pitt and 
Sara Farwell (B'razer) Eaton. He at- 
tended ithe public schools of Dockport, N. 
Y., and the Union Academy, and subse- 
quently graduated from the United States 
Naval Academy, becoming a Midshipman 
in 1863. He was promoted to Ensign in 
1869; Master, 1870; Lieutenant, 1871; 
Lieuitenant-Commander, 1888; Command- 
er, 1896; Captain, 1901. From 1870 to 
1874 he 'was detailed for duty in oceanic 
surveys, at the Isthmus of Panama and 
Darien; from 1893 to 1895 he was a 
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with especial distinction in ithe Spanish- 
American War and received two medals 
of honor for battles at Manzanillo and 
Santiago. He is a member of the Sons 
of the Revolution, the Society of Coloniai 
Wars (being Depu'ty-Governor for Mas- 
sachusetts of the latter organization), the 
Alogonquin Club (of Boston), New York 
Club, Army and Navy Club (of New 
York). In religion he is an Episcopalian. 
On August 8, 1871, he married )Mary Anne 
Varnum. Address: Navy Department. 

EATON, PARLEY H., Assistant Chief 
of ithe Division of Issue in ithe Office of 
the United States Treasurer, was born at 
Little Falls, Herkimer County, New York, 
May 2, 1842, a descendant of the Herki- 
mer family of Revolutionary fame. When 
but two and a half years of age his father 
removed his family to the then wilds of 
Michigan, and 'settled near Ionia, and aft- 
erwards made a disastrous trip over the 
plains to California in 1850. Returning ai 
the end of a year, broken in ihealth and 
pocket, to Herkimer, N. Y., from which 
place the subject of this sketch entered 
the Union Army in 1861, at the age oi 
nineteen; served under McClellan in the 
Army of the Potomac and under Banks, 
Canby and Gordon Granger, in the De- 
pocket, to Herkimer, N. Y., from which 
partment of the (julf, as an officer in the 
Twentieth United States Colored Infantry, 
w'hich regiment was complimented b5' 
General Sherman as only inferior in 
efficiency to the Twelfth United States 
Infantrj'; saw service in Maryland, Vir- 
ginia, Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, and 
Texas. He entered the office of General 
F. E. Spinner, Treasurer of the United 
States, in 1865, and was promoted through 
all the grades to his present position. Is 
a member of the Medical Profession of 
the Methodist Church, the Grand Army 
of the Republic, and the Masonic Frater- 
nity. Residence: 1318 T street, n.w. 
Office: Treasury Department. 

ECHOLS, JOHN WARNOCK, lawyer, 
was boirn at Clarksville, Penn., May 13, 
1849, son of James and Mary Echols. He 
attended Westminster College and Lafay- 
ette University, and from 1870 to 187.3 
traveled as a wholesale drug salesman. 
In 1873 he became a member of the firm 
of Echols & Co., cotton merchants, at 
Augusta, Ga., and from 1877 to 1879 stud- 
ied law, subsequently being admitted to 
practice at the bar of a number of States, 
and the United States Supreme Courc. 
He practiced his profession at Lexington, 
Ga., from 1879-88; then removed to Pitts- 
burg, where he practiced from 1888 to 1892; 
then he went to Atlanta, Ga., and was 
engaged in his profession until 1896, when 
he moved to Washington, where he has 
since resided. He was Supreme President 
of the American Protective Association 
during 1896-97, and from 1896 to 1899 pub- 
lished a weekly, The Republic, in this city. 
For a number of years he has been si 



member of the Executive Committee of 
the Scotch-Irish Society of America, and 
directed conventions of that society At 
Pittsburg in 1890, and Atlanta in 1892. 
He is a Mason and a Knight Templar, 
and a member of the Unitarian Church 
and the Columbia Golf Club. Residence: 
1310 Nineteenth street, n.w. Office: Colum- 
bian Building. 

EDGERLY, WEBSTER, President of 
the Ralston Company and of Ralston 
University. Residence: 1467 Rhode Is- 
land avenue, n.w. Office: 1223 to 12ol 
G street, n.w. 

EDGERLY, WINFIELD SCOTT, Colo- 
nel, U. S. A., was born at Farmington. 
New Hampshire, May 29, 1846, son of 
Josiah Bartlett and Cordelia (Waldron; 
Edgerly. He attended the common schools 
of his native itown, Effingham Institute 
and Phillips-Exeter Academy, and was 
graduated from the United States Military 
Academy in 1870. He became a Second 
Lieutenant in the Cavalry the same year; 
was First Lieutenant in 1876; promoted 
to Captain September 22, 1883; Major. 
July 9, 1898; Lieutenant-Colonel Febru- 
ary 19, 1901, and a Colonel in the Seconi 
Cavalry since February 17, 1903. He 
served with the army in the West in 
many Indian campaigns, and in the Span- 
ish-American War and in the Philippines. 
He is a member of the Army and Navy 
Clubs of Washington and Manila, and a 
Son of the American Revolution. On 
October 27, 1875, he married Grace Cory 
Blum. Address: War Department. 

EDGERTON, CHARLES EUGENE, 

Special Examiner, Bureau of Corpora- 
tions 'Since 1905, was born at Nineven, 
Broom County, 'New York, December 25, 
1861, son of Franklin and Julia (Taggart) 
Edgerton. In 1882 he was graduated, wich 
the degree of A. B., from Hamilton Col- 
lege, and later pursued studies in econ- 
omics and statistics at Columbia Uni- 
versity 'and Cornell University. He was 
for eight years connected with banking 
institutions in the West; for seven years 
engaged in manufacturing at Bingham - 
ton, N. Y., and taught economics one year 
at Smith College. He is a member oC 
the American Economic Association, th.* 
American Statistical Association, and the 
Washington Economic Society. On Octo- 
ber 9, 1884, he married Annie Benedici 
White. Residence: 80 V street, n.w. 
Office: Bureau of CoTporations. 

EDIE, GUY L., Major, U. S. A., Attend- 
ing Surgeon, War Department. Residence: 
1907 S street, n.w. Office: 1814 G stree', 
n.w. 

EDMONSTON, SAMUEL HESTON. 

building contractor, was born in Wash- 
ington, D. C, August 18, 1846, son of 



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Jackson and Jane Elizabeth Edmonston. 
He served as apprentice and joureyman 
to William H. Johnson for six and one- 
half years, when he eng-aged in business 
with Charles Edmonston, and has since, 
for twenty-seven years, superintended the 
construction of many of the finest resi- 
dences in Washigton, including ithose of 
Secretary Hay, Senator Hale, W. B. Gur- 
ley, 'S. G. Ward, and the Adams, Tucker- 
man and the Carlisle houses, and the Pos- 
tal Telegraph building. On his uncle's 
death he succeeded to the business, and 
among: the many costly building's later 
erected by him are the Woodward & 
Lothrop store building, the Geological 
Survey building, and the quaint structure 
on New York avenue known as the "Hall;:) 
of the Ancients." He has also remodeled 
the residences of General Mills, on Du- 
pont Circle, and thait of C. P. RusselJ, 
on I street. He married Mary E. Col- 
lier, and they have two children living. 
Residence: 1224 Eighth street, n.w. OfHce: 
611 G street, n.w. 

EDMONSTON, WILLIAM E., lawyer. 
President Real Esta'te Title Insurance 
Company, and Columbia Title Insurance 
Company. Residence: 1220 Massachu- 
setts avenue. OfRce: 500 Fifth street. 

EDSON, JOHN JOY, President of the 
Washington Loan and Trust Company, 
was born in Jefferson, Ohio, May 17, 1846. 
He was educated in the public schools, 
enlis'ted in the Sixty-first New York Vol- 
unteers during the Civil War, at t'he age 
of fifteen, 1861-63, and subsequently was 
appointed to a clerkship in the U. S. 
Treasury Department, where he remained 
from 1863 to 1875. He was graduated from 
■the law department of Columbian Univer- 
sity, and admitted to the bar of the Su- 
preme Court of the District of Columbia 
in 1869, and from 1875-81 was actively 
engaged in the practice of law, particu- 
larly patent law. He organized the Equit- 
able Co-operative Building Association, of 
which he was secretary, 1879-93, and, since 
the latter date, has been its president. 
He was also an incorporator of the Colum- 
bia National Bank; is a director of the 
Citizens' National Metropolitan Bank; di- 
rector of the Potomac Insurance Com- 
pany; treasurer of the Washington San- 
itary Improvement Company, and asso- 
ciated with many other corporations. Ha 
was president of the National Homeo- 
pathic Hospital, 1889-95; president of the 
Civil Service Reform Association of th.; 
District of Columbia, 1895-98; chairman 
of the Executive Committee for the re- 
ception and entertainment of the G. A. R., 
1892; served on the Inaugural Executive 
Committee, 1889, 1893, 1897; chaiirman of 
the 'McKinley second inaugural commit- 
tee, 1901; president Columbian Univer- 
sity Alumni Association 1899, and presi- 
dent of the Washington Board of Trade 



two terms. President Harrison, in 1893, 
and President McKinley, in 1901, tendered 
him the position of Commissioner of the 
District of Columbia. He is a member o£ 
the Columbia Historical Society, of the 
National Geographical Society, and of the 
Cosmos Club. Residence: 1324 Sixteenth 
street, n.w. Office: Washington Loan 
and Trust Building. 

EDWARDS, CHARLES GORDON, law- 
yer, Congressman, was born in Tattnall 
County, Georgia, July 2, 1878, son of 
Thomas J. Edwards. He was educated 
in the district schools of his native county, 
Gordon Institute, Barnesville, Ga., Florida 
State College, and was graduated from 
the law department of the University of 
Georgia in June, 1898, and immediately 
began the practice of law at Reidsville, 
Ga. In December, 1900, he removed to 
Savannah, Ga., where he has since con- 
tinued the practice of his profession as 
junior member of the firm of Alexandei- 
& Edwards. He "has been prominent in 
military circles of Georgia, being a retired 
officer of the State militia. He is a stew- 
ard in his church, a Mason, Odd Fellow, 
and is identified with many other leading 
fraternal orders. In November, 1906, he 
was elected to the Sixtieth Congress from 
the First Georgia District as a Democrat. 
On December 17, 1902, he married Orx 
Beach, of Waycross, Ga., to which union 
has been born a son. Legal residence: 
Savannah, Ga. Washington address: 
House of Representaitives. 

EDWARDS, CLARENCE RANSOM, 

army officer, was born at Cleveland, Ohio, 
January 1, 1860, son of William and Lucia 
(Ransom) Edwards. He attended the 
West Point Military Academy, graduat- 
ing with the class of 1883 (A. M., St. 
John's College, Fordham, N. Y.). On June 
13, 1883, he was commissioned a SeconJ 
Lieutenant in the Twenty-third Infantry; 
commanded the guard at ex-Presideni 
Garfield's grave, at Cleveland, Ohio, to 
July, 1886. From December, 1890, to 
October, 1893, he was professor of military 
science and tactics at St. Jo^hn's College, 
Fordham, N. Y. ; promoted to First Lieu- 
tenant February 25, 1891; Captain of the 
Tenth Infantry, July 30, 1898; Lieuten- 
ant-Colonel, Forty-seventh United States 
Volunter Infantry, October 1, 1899, and 
was mustered out of the service on June 
1, 1901. On January 6, 1899, he was as- 
signed to the staff of General Law ton as 
Adjutant- General, and served until tha 
death of that General, which occurred De- 
cember 19, 1899. He participated in Gen- 
eral Lawton's Santa Cruz and San Isidro 
campaigns and expeditions to Morong and 
Cavite Provinces, in the Philippines, and 
was recommended by him for brevets of 
Major, Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel, U. 
S. A., and Brigadier-General of Volunteers 
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death of General Lawton he accompanied 
the .remains to Washington, and from Feb- 
ruary, 1900, .to July 1, 1902, he was on 
duty in the office of the Secretary of War 
as Chief of the Division of Insular Affairs; 
promoted to Colonel, U. S. A., July 1, 1902. 
and Chief of the Bureau of Insular Affairs, 
whicTi office he holds at the present time; 
has directed all the publications of tha;: 
bureau. He is a member of the Metropoli- 
tan and Alibi Clubs. On June 11, 1899, 
he married Bessie Rochester Porter, at 
Niag-ara Falls, N. Y. Residence: 4 Jack- 
son Place. Office: War Department^ 

EDWARDS, DON CALVIN, Congress- 
man, was born in Appanoose County, 
Iowa, July 13, 1861, and a'ttended the pub- 
lic schools of Iowa and Kansas and the 
University of Holton (Kansas). In 1892 
he removed to Laurel County, Kentucky, 
and engaged in the manufacturing and 
wholesale lumber business. From 1898 to 
1904 he was Clerk and Master Commis- 
sioner of fhe Laurel Circuit Court. He 
was elected Representative to the Fifty- 
ninth Congress to represent the Eleventh 
Kentucky District and re-elected to tha 
Sixtieth Congress. On February 11, 1904. 
he married Lida Hodges. Republican. 
Legal residence: London, Ky. Washing- 
ton address: House of Representatives. 

EDWARDS, JOHN H., Assistant Sec- 
retary of the United States Treasury, was 
born in South Charleston, Ohio, in 1876, 
and began business as a bank clerk, and 
came to Washington as private secretary 
ito Representative Weaver, later entering 
the Post Office Department in a confiden- 
tial position, from there resigning to go 
■to the Treasury Department. Residence: 
1800 Belmont Road. Office: U. S. Treas 
ury_ 

EDWARDS, WILLIAM WALTON, law- 
yer, was born near Fulton, Hempstead 
County, Arkansas, on December 1, 1864, 
son of William Props and Margaret Eliz- 
abeth (Turrentine) Edwards. After ob- 
taining his preparato.ry education in the 
High School at Mineral Springs, Ark., 
he en'tered the Georgetown University 
School of Law, in Washington, from which 
he was graduated, LL. B., in 1891, and, 
LL. M., in 1892. In 1892 he was admitted 
to practice before t'he Supreme Court of 
the District of Columbia, and the follow- 
ing year the Court of Appeals of the Dis- 
trict of Columbia., since iwhen he ha.s 
been actively engaged in the practice ol" 
his profession in Washington. On Octo- 
ber 30, 1901, he married Mary J. Don- 
nelly, of Washington, to which union has 
been born one child. Residence: 1103 
East Capitol streeit. Office: Equity 
Building. 

EGAN, MARTIN P., clerygman, assist- 
ant rector of St. Theresa's Catholic 



Church. Residence: 44 Washington 
street, Anacostia, D. C. 

EGAN, MAURICE FRANCIS, educator, 
au'thor, was born at Philadelphia, Penn., 
May 24, 1852, son of Maurice and Margaret 
(MacMullen) Egan. He was graduated 
from La Salle College and studied at 
Georgetown University, which institution 
afterward conferred upon him the de- 
grees of A. M. and LL. D. In 1891 Ottawa 
University conferred upon him the degree 
of J. U. D. He entered journalistic work 
as sub-editor of McGee's Industrial 
Weekly, and, later, of the Catholic Re- 
view; subsequently he 'was appointed 
editor of Freeman's Journal. He was pro- 
fessor of English Utera'ture at the Uni- 
versity of Notre Daime (Ind.), and later 
was appointed professor of English lan- 
guage and literature at the Catholic Uni- 
versity, Washington, D. C. He was one 
of the edi'tors of the Wo^rld's Best Litera- 
ture and of the Encyclopedia of Irish Lit- 
erature, and is the author of the follow- 
ing: The Life Around Us; Modern Nov- 
elists; Jack Chumleigh; Jack Chumleigh 
at Boarding School; The Theater and 
Christian Parents; 'translator of Coop- 
ee's Pater (for Mr. Augustin Daly) ; Lec- 
tures on English Literature; A Primer 
of English Literature; A Gentleman; Pre- 
ludes and Songs and Sonnets (poems) ; 
The Disappearance of John Longworthy; 
The Success of Patrick Desmond; A Mar- 
riage of Reason; The Flower of ith.3 
Flock; The Vocation of Edward Con- 
way; The Sexton Maginnis Stories: 
Studies in Literature; The Chateline of 
the Roses; The Leopard of Lancianus; 
Jasper Thorne; The Watson Girls; In 
a Brazilian Forest; Belinda; Belinda'b 
Cousins. In 1880 he married Katherinc- 
Mullin. Appointed Ambassador to Den- 
mark in 1907. Residence: 212 North Cap- 
itol street. 

EICHELBERGER, WILLIAM SNYDER, 

astronomer, professor of mathematics. 
United States Navy, was born in Balti- 
more, Md., on September 18, 1865, son 
of Albert G. and Martha (Snyder) Eichel- 
berger. He attended the public schools 
of Baltimo.re and Johns Hopkins Univer- 
sity, graduating from the latter institu- 
tion in 1886, with the degree of A. B . 
and, in 1891, with the degree of Ph. D., 
and pursued post-gradua'te study in math- 
ematics and astronomy. From 1888 to 
1890 and from 1896 to 1898 he was assist- 
ant in the Nautical Almanac Office; from 
1890 to 1896, instructor at Wesleyan Uni- 
versi'ty (Middletown, Conn.); computer. 
United States Naval Observatory, 1898- 
1900, and since the latter date professor 
of mathematics of the United StaJtes Navy, 
stationed at the United States Naval Ob- 
servatory. He was a member of 'the 
'Eclipse Expedition to Pinehurst, N. C, 
in May, 1900; was in charge of the Fort 



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de Kock Station of the Eclipse Expedition 
to Sumatra, in 1901, and in charge of the 
Daroca (Spain) Station of the Eclipse 
Expedition of 1905. He has contributed 
a number of articles to the Astronomical 
Journal and the Memoirs of the National 
Academy of Sciences, and is a fellow 
of the American Association fo.r the Ad- 
vancemenit of Science (of which he was 
a vice-presidemt in 1905); a member of 
the Astronomical and Astrophysical Soci- 
ety of America (of which he has been a 
councilor since 1902); of the Washington 
Academy of Science, and the Philosophical 
Society of Washington, of which last 
named organization he is a member of 
the general committee. He is a member 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church. On 
March 21, 1894, he married Vola McCrea. 
Address: Naval Observatory. 

EIMBECK, WILLIAM, geodesis<t, civil 
engineer, was born at Brunswick, Ger- 
many, January 29, 1841, son of Freder- 
ick and Henrietta Eimbeck. He attended 
the common schools, but his principal 
educaJtion was through personal applica- 
tion and study. In 1857 he became a 
draftsman with a firm of locomotive man- 
ufacturers at St. Louis; subsequently he 
was appointed assistant civil engineer in 
public offices of ithat city. For two years 
he was professor of mechanics and engi- 
neering at Washington University, and, 
since July 1, 1871, 'has been assistant in 
the United States Coast and Geodetic 
Survey, and detailed for special work wi'th 
the Western division of 'the thirty-ninth 
parallel triangulation across North Amer- 
ica. He was a member of the Government 
Eclipse Expedi'tions to Illinois (in 1869) 
and Italy (in 1870). He invented the 
invariable reversible pendulum and the 
duplex base apparatus in use by the Coast 
and Geodetic iSurvey, and is a fellow of 
the American Association fo.r the Advance- 
ment of Science, and of oit'her learned soci- 
eties. He is unmarried. Address: Care 
The Coast and Geodetic Survey. 

EISEMAN, LOUIS, member of the firm 
of Eiseman Bros, (clothiers), was born 
in Baltimore, Md., September 10, 1861. 
He was educated in the public schools. 
and at the age of fifteen began to work 
for the firm composed of his older broth- 
ers, who had stores in Baltimore, Atlanta 
and Washingiton. He started at Atlanta, 
and four years later was transferred to 
Was'hington, where he has since been 
stationed, he having had entire charg^^ 
here for the past twenty-five years. Res- 
idence: 1620 Eig'hteenlth street, n.w. Busi- 
ness address: Seventh and E streets, n.w. 

EKENGREN, A., Secretary, Swedish 
Legation. Residence: The Benedick. 

ELIOT, JOHN LLEWELLIN, physician 
was born In Washington, D. C, Augus: 
2, 1853, son of Dr. Johnson and Marv 



Llewellin Eliot. He was educated at Gon- 
zaga College, District of Columbia; Rock- 
hill College, Ellicott City, Maryland, from 
which institution he received an A. M. de- 
gree; and Georgetown University, gradu- 
ating from the medical department of the 
latter in 1874; attended the School of 
Pharmacy of the same institution, but did 
not graduate. Prom 1870 to 1871 he was 
a durg clerk, and from 1871 to 1S74 he 
served as a hospital steward in the United 
Staltes Army. He has served as resident 
physician of the Washington Asylum, as- 
sistant physician at the Central Dispen- 
sary, and surgeon at the Casualty Hos- 
pital; physician ico St. Ann's Infant Asy- 
lum and a consultant at Providence Hos- 
pital; also served as medical inspector of 
the Health Department; has been at- 
tending physician since 1882 alt the Small- 
pox Hospital, and physician in charge of 
same from 1894 to 1896, and clinical pro- 
fessor of medicine at Georgetown Uni- 
versity. He has contributed numerous 
articles to the leading medical journals 
of the counitry, and is a member of the 
Home Club, Washington Lodge, No. 15, 
B. P. O. E.; Medical Association of the 
District of Columbia, Medical Society of 
the District of Columbia, Medical and 
Surgical Society of the Disitrict of Colum- 
bia, American Medical Association, Amer- 
ican Public Health Association, Medical 
Society of Georgetown University, and the 
Medical Society of Charles County, Mary- 
land. On April 15, 1885, he married Mary 
Spruance Lancaster; two children have 
been born to this union. Residence and 
office: 1106 P street, n.w. 

ELKINS, STEPHEN BENTON, lawyer. 
United States Senator, was born on a 
farm in Perry County, Ohio, September 
26, 1841, son of Colonel Philip Duncan. 
During early boyhood his parents removed 
ito iMissouri where he was educated in 
the public schools, and at the University 
of Missouri, graduating from the latter 
in 1860. During the Civil War he en- 
listed in the Union Army, as Captain of 
the SevenJty-seventh Missouri Volunteers. 
He then studied law, was ladmitted to the 
bar in 1864, and began practice in New 
Mexico, where he acquired a knowledge 
of the Spanish language. He was a mem- 
ber of the Territorial Legislaiture, 1864-65, 
and, later Territorial District Attornej', 
Attorney-General, and United States Dis- 
itrict Attorney. During this period, and ' 
later, he also engaged extensively in bank- 
ing and mining. From 1873 'to 1877 he 
was Delegate in Congress from New Mex- 
ico; in 1875 a member of the Republican 
National Committee, and, in 1884, chair- 
man of the Executive Committee. After 
leaving Congress he removed to West Vir- 
ginia and devoted himself Largely to busi- 
ness affairs. President Harrison appointed 
him Secretary of War in 1891, and he 
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tion. In February, 1S94, he was elected 
United States Senator from West Vir- 
ginia, and re-elected in 1900 and 1907. He 
is vice-president of the West Virginia 
Central and Pittsburg Railway Company, 
vice-president of the Piedmont and Cum- 
berland Railroad, president of the Davis 
Coal and Coke Company, and connected 
with many other industrial and financial 
interests. He is a member of the Union 
League, Republican, Ohio, and Metropoli- 
tan Clubs, of Ohio, and the Chevy Chase, 
Army and Navy, and University Clubs, of 
Washington. In 1875 he married* Hallie 
L., daugh/ter of ex- Senator Henry G. 
Davis, of West Virginia. Address: 1626 
K street, n.w. Summer residence: Hallie- 
hurst, Elkins, W. Va. 

ELLERBE, JAMES EDWIN, farmer. 
Congressman, was born near Marion, S. C, 
January 12, 1867. His preliminary edu- 
cation was received at Old Pine Hill 
Academy, entering South Carolina Col- 
lege in 1882 where he spent one year. He 
entered Wofford College, at Spartanburg, 
S. C, in 1884, graduating, A. B., in June. 
1887. In 1894 he was elected a member 
of the State Legislature; in 1895 lepre- 
senting in part Marion County in the 
State Constitutional Convenition; electea 
to the Fifty-ninth Congress, and re-elected 
to the Sixtieth, from the Sixth Congres- 
sional District of South Carolina on the 
Democratic ticket. On Noveonber 23, 1887, 
married iNellie Converse Elford, of Spar- 
tanburg, S. C, to which union five chil- 
dren have been born, three of whom ar- 
living. Legal residence: Marion, S. C. 
Washinglton addre.?s: House of Represent- 
atives. 

ELLICOTT, JOHN MORRIS, Lieuten- 
ant-Commander, U. S. N., was born a' 
St. Inigoes, St. Mary's County, Maryland. 
September 4, 1859, son of James Fox an.l 
Elvira Ann (Jones) Ellicott. He is a 
descendant of ithe British statesman, 
Charles James Fox, and of Miajor An- 
drew Ellicott, Who assisted L'Enfant in 
planning the city of Washing'ton. John 
Morris Ellicott was educated at privattr 
schools in Baltimore, Md., and graduated 
from the United States N'aval Academy 
in 1843, and later from the 'Naval Wa- 
College and Torpedo School. He was com 
■missioned Ensign in 1885, after serving 
on the United States flagship Tennessee, 
North Atlanltic Squadron, and in the sam ;- 
year served with the expedition occupy- 
ing the Isthmus of Panama. He was later 
tiansf erred to the U. S. S. Ranger, North 
Atlanltic Fleet, until 1888, when he was 
.stationed with the intelligence office of the 
Navy Department, serving there until 
1891. He served with the U. S. S. Ben- 
ningtton, 1891-93, and in 1894 on the flag- 
ship Chicago, European Station, later in 
the year becoming instructor in ordnance 
at the United iSbates Naval Academy, 
where he was stationed unitil 1896. In 



February, 1895, he was commissioned 
Junior Lieutenant, and from 1896 to 1898 
served with the U. S. S. Baltimore, flag- 
ship of the Asiatic Station, being with 
that vessel on ithe occasion of the battle 
of Manila Bay, and subsequent operations 
in that vicinity. In 1898 he was appointed 
Lieutenant, and Lieutenant-Commander in 
December, 1903. He was staitioned at the 
Naval War College from 1900-01. Com- 
mander Ellicott is the author of Justified 
(a novel) ; For Cuba (a novelette) ; Life 
of John Ancrum Winslow, Rear Admiral. 
U. S. N., and is a frequent contributor 
to military and service periodicals, and 
Ithe author of many short stories in cur- 
rent magazines. He is a member of tho 
Military Order of Foreign Wars, Society 
of American Wars, Army of the Philip- 
pines, the Lambs' Club, etc., and of the 
Protestant Episcopal Church. On Decem- 
ber 27, 1887, he married Annie W. Will- 
iams. Residence: 1620 Rhode Island ave- 
nue. Address: Navy Department. 

ELLIOTT, CHARLES GLEASON, 

drainage, expert civil eniineer, was 
born in La Salle County, Illinois, on June 
8, 1850, son of John B. and Elizabeth 
(Searles) Elliott. He attended the com- 
mon schools of his county and Oberlin 
College, and was graduated from the Col- 
lege of Civil Engineering, University of 
Illinois, in 1877, in 1892 receiving the 
degree of C. E. from this institution. 
Since 1878 he has been engaged in drain- 
■age engineering. For a time he was edi- 
tor of the Drainage Journal (Indianapo- 
lis, Ind.). He has been for some time 
past chief drainage engineer in the Office 
of Experiment StaJtions, United States 
^Depairtment of Agriculture. He is a mem- 
ber of the American Society of Civil Engi- 
neers, the American Association for the 
Advancement of Science, and the Illinois 
Society of Engineers, and ithe National 
Geographical Society, and is the author of 
the following books: Practical Farm 
Drainage; Engineering for 'Dand Drain- 
a.ge; Drainage of Farm Lands (U. S. De- 
partment of Agriculture Bulletin No. 187), 
and several department reports upon agri- 
culitural drainage. On January 1, 1879, 
he married Laura M. Bullock, of Normal, 
Illinois. Residence: The Ashley. Office: 
U. S. Department of Agriculture. 

ELLIOTT, fe. F., Brigadier-General U. 
S. Marine Corps, was born in 1847, and 
entered the service in 1870. He was in 
charge of marines on board the United 
States flagship Frolic from 1872 to 1873; 
stationed on ithe .Monongahela, 1873-76, 
and at the Norfolk Navy Yard during 
1876. In 1877 he served with the body 
of marines in the railway strikes of that 
year; from 1880 to 1882 was with the 
U. S. S. Alliance on an Arctic cruise; 
in 1885, with the Panama expedition. He 
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American Legation at Seoul, Korea, In 
1894, and during the China-Japan War 
was detailed in China to protect American 
initerests. He commanded a, company oC 
marines during the Spanish-American 
War, and took an active part in the cam- 
paign, subsequently being transferred to 
the Philippines, where, in 1899, he be- 
came Commandant of Marines in the Is- 
lands. In 1900 he returned to America, 
and from March ito December, 1903, wa^ 
commandant of the Washington Marine 
Barracks, with the rank of Colonel. On 
October 4, 1903, he became Brigadier- 
General and Commandant, U. S. M. C. 
F. cm December, 1903, until March, 1904, 
he was in command of a brigade of 
marines in Panama. Address: U. S. 
Marine Barracks. 

ELLIS, EDGAR CLARENCE, lawyer. 
Congressman, was born at Vermontville, 
Eaton County, Michigan, October 2, 1854, 
son of Elmer Eugene and Jane Maria 
(Halsitead) Ellis. He attended Olivet Col- 
lege and Carleton College, graduating from 
the latier institution with the degree of 
A. B. He subsequently studied law and 
was admitited to the Kansas bar in 1885, 
becoming a practitioner with the Arm of 
Ellis «& Ellis. Since 1887 he has been 
located at Kansas City, Mo., with the law 
firm of Ellis, Cook & Ellis. He was elected 
to the Fifty-ninth Congress from the Pifta 
Missouri Disitrict, and re-elected to the 
Sixtieth Congress. In politics he is a Re- 
publican, and in religion a Congregation- 
alist. On July 20, 1882, he married Emily 
Hatch Roy. Legal residence: Kansa-? 
City, Mo. Washington address: House 
of Representatives. 

ELLIS, WILLIAM R., jurist, Congress- 
man, was born at Waveland, Indiana, 
A.nril 23, 1850, son of James and Susan 
(Stone) Ellis. Removing to Guthrie 
County, Iowa, in 1855, he attended ith^; 
district schools and worked on a farm, 
after which he taught school and attended 
the Iowa State Agricultural Coll ge. After 
graduating from the law department of 
the Iowa State University, in 1874, he 
practiced law and worked at journalism 
aJt; Hamburg, Iowa. He was City Attor- 
ney of Hamburg for two years and served 
one term as Mayor. Removing to Ore- 
gon in 1883, he served one term as County 
Superintendent of Schools and three terms 
as District Attorney for fhe Seventh Dis- 
trict of Oregon. From 1893 to 1899 he 
was a member of Congress, and, in No- 
vember, 1906, was elected a member of 
the Sixtieth Congress from the Second 
Congressional Distriat of Oregon as a 
Republican. For the term from 1900 to 
1906 he was Judge of the Sixth Judicial 
District of Oregon. He has been twice 
married, first, on March 31, 1880, to Jen- 
nie B. Edwards, of Hamburg, Iowa, who 
died January 24, 1882 and, second, to Mrs. 



Ida J. Scott't, of Walla Walla, Washington, 
on June 16, 1885. Legal iasidence: Pen- 
dleton, Oregon. Washington address: 
House of Representatives. 

ELLISON, WILLIAM McELFRESH, 

lawyer, was born at Falls Church, Fair- 
fax County, Virginia, October 3, 1859, son 
of William H. and Eliabeth E. Ellison. 
He attended the public schools of his na- 
tive town and Jefferson Institute, later 
graduating from Columbian (now George 
Washington) University, in 1898, with the 
degree of LL. B. For several years ho 
was engaged in mercantile business, and 
later entered the practice of law, in which 
he is now engaged. For more than fiflteen 
years he has been a member of fhe Town 
Council of Falls Church, Virginia, and 
was four times Mayor of that town. H-^ 
is an Odd Fellow and has filled all the 
chairs of the I. O. O. F. Lodge No. 11, 
Falls Church, Virginia. In politics he Is 
a Democrat; in religion, a Methodist. On 
November 22, 1883, he married Lillian 
Ball. Residence: Falls Church, Virginia. 
Office: 402 Sixit'h street, n.w. 

ELY, GEORGE STETSON, Principal 
Examiner, U. S. Patent Office, was born 
at Dunkirk, Chautauqua County, New 
York, on April 17, 1S56, son of Ezra Ster- 
ling Ely and Harriet Gardner (Mason) 
Ely. He is of distinguished ancestry, be- 
ing 'a lineal descendant of Elder William 
Brewster, who served as pastor for the 
Mayfiowe Pilgrims; also of other sturdy 
early Colonial stock. George Stetson Ely 
■was graduated from Amherst College, 
with the degree of A. B., in 1878; was 
a fellow in Johns Hopkins University from 
1881 to 1883. On the last named date 
Johns Hopkins University conferred upon 
him the honorary degree of Ph. D. Since 
1891 he has been principal examiner in 
the U. S. Patent Office. He is the author 
of various mathematical articles in Johnf 
Hopkins University publications, and also 
in the journal of the London Mathemat- 
ical Society. He is a member of the Psl 
Upsilon 'and Phi Beta Kappa fraterni- 
ties, a charter member of the University 
Club of Washington, and formerly a mem- 
'ber of the Londc-n Mathematical Society. 
and the American Chemical Society. He is 
also a member of the Presbyterian Churcn. 
On August 22, 1883, he married Susie 
iScofleld. Residence: 300 First street, 
s.e. Office: U. S. Patent Office. 

EMIG, CLAYTON ELY, lawyer, was 
born in Yiork County, Pennsylvania, on 
November 4, 1862, son of Ely and Mag- 
dalena Emig. He attended the public 
schools, Eastman's College, Gaskell's 
Business College, Oberlin College, and the 
University of Maryland, graduating from 
the latter in 1892. He has received the 
honorary degress of LL. B. and A. B. 
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Eastman's College, respectively. Profes- 
sionally he is a practicing attorney-at-law. 
For four years he was presidemt of the 
North Washington Citizens' Associaition; 
a director of the Central Union Mission 
for five years, and in 1903 a trustee of 
Calvary Baptist Church. He is a Mason, 
and a member of Harmony Lodge, No. 17; 
Lafayette Chapter, No. 5, F. A. A. M.; 
of the A. O. U. W.; Royal Arcanum, etc. 
He Is a member of the Calvary Baptist 
Church. On January 19, 1896, he mar- 
ried Leila A. Drumgold. Residence: 1765 
P street, n.w. Office: Colorado Build- 
ing. 

EMMONS, SAMUEL FRANKLIN, geol- 
ogist, was born at Boston, Mass., March 
29, 1841, son of Naithaniel H. and Eliza- 
beth (Wales) Emmons. He was gradu- 
ated from the Harvard University witii 
the degree of A. M., in 1861; from 1862 
to 1864 pursued a course at the Ecole 
Imperiale des Mines (Paris, France), and 
from 1864 to 1865 at the Freiburg (Sax- 
ony) Mining School. In 1867 he entered 
the Government employ as a geologist, 
resigning in 1877 to go into the oattle 
business in Wyoming. In 1879 he was 
appoimted geologisit in the United States 
Geological Survey, which position he still 
holds. He is the author of a large num- 
ber of reports, monographs, etc. (including 
Government documents) on geological 
subjects and on minerals and mining, and 
is a frequent conbribuitor ito technical peri- 
odicals, etc. He is a member of the fol- 
lowing organizations: National Academy 
of Sciences (treasurer); Geological Soci- 
ety of America (president, 1903) ; Inter- 
national Congress of Geologisits (secre'tary, 
1891, and vice-president in 1897 and 
1903), and many other technical and scien- 
tific societies. He has been thrice married: 
on August 5, 1876, to Wetha Anita 
Stteeves (died February, 1888); on Feb- 
ruary 14, 1889, Ito Sophie Dallas Markoe 
(who died in 1896), and, oh August 4, 
1903, to Suz-anne Earle Ogden-Jones. Res- 
idence: 1721 H street, n.w. Office: U. S. 
Geological Survey. 

EMORY, FREDERIC, economist, editor, 
was born at Centerville, Queen Anne's 
County, Maryland, September 18, 1853. 
son of Blanchard and 'Mary Bourke Em- 
ory. He is of distinguished Colonial an- 
cesitry. He ajttended St. John's College, 
Annapolis, Md., from 1868 to 1872. Dur- 
ing 1893 and 1894 he was secretary of the 
Bureau of American Republics; from 1891 
to 1903, chief of the Bureau of Statistics 
(afterwards Bureau of Foreign Com- 
merce), of the Staite Department; served 
as director of the Bureau of American 
Republics from February, 1898, to Mas". 
1899, and was chief of the Bureau of 
Trade Relations, State Department, from 
July, 1903, Ito April, 1905. He originated 
the daily publication of the United States 
Consular Reports in January, 1898, and 
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reorganized the Bureau of American Re- 
publics the same year, subsequently or- 
ganizing the Bureau of Trade Relajtions 
of ithe State Department. He was the 
editor of Commercial Relations of th-J 
United Staites (1894-03) ; of the Consular 
Reports of the United States during 'the 
years 1894-03, and is the author of a 
large number of articles on varied 
economic subjects and phases, which have 
appeared in conitemporary periodicals; 
also of a novel, A Maryland Manor. He 
is a member of the American Association 
for Ithe Advancement of Science; the 
Washington Economic Society; Maryland 
Historical Society; Cosmos Club, etc., and 
was reared in the Protestant Episcopal 
faith. In politics he is a Democrat, buit 
supported President McKinley in 1896 and 
1900. On January 12, 1904, he married 
Maud Stalnaker. Residence: Queens- 
town, Queen Anne's County, Maryland. 
Washington address: Cosmos Club. 

EMORY, WILLIAM HEMSLEY, Cap- 

itain, U. S. N., was born in Washington, 
D. C, December 17, 1846, and was grad- 
uated from 'the United States Naval Acad- 
emy in 1862. He was commissioned En- 
sign in 1868; became Master May 26, 
1869; Lieutenant, March 21, 1870; Lieu- 
tenant-Commander, May, 1887; Com- 
mander, December 29, 1895, and Captain, 
April 14, 1901. He is now in command of 
the U. S. S. Hancock. Address: Navy 
Department. 

ENDICOTT, MORDECAI THOMAS, 

Civil Engineer, with ithe rank of Rear 
Admiral, U. S. N., was born at May'.s 
Landing, New Jersey, November 26, 1844. 
son of Thomas Doughty and Ann (Pen- 
nington) Endicott. He attended the Pres- 
byterian parochial school and was grad- 
uaited from Rensselaer Polytechnic Insti- 
tute, Troy, N. Y., with the degree of 
C. E., in 1868. Until his appointment as 
Civil Engineer, U. S. N., on July 14, 1874, 
he was engaged in the practice of civil 
and mining engineering. In 1895 he was 
made a member of the Nicaraguan Canal 
Commission, anri en April 7, 1898, made 
chiff of (the Bureau of "^ards and Docks 
of the Navy Departmerit, with the rank 
of Commodore. Subsequently he was 
promoted to Rear Admiral, and in l'»0.=> 
was made a member o:; the Isthn'Jan 
Canal Commission. Durin-r iiis services 
in tiie navy he has been detailed lor duny 
at various navy yards, anci a-' consulting 
engineer in this city. November 26, 1906, 
he passed to the retired list. He is a 
member of the American Society of Civil 
Engineers, and 'the Army and Navy and 
Cosmos Clubs (of Washington), and the 
Engineers' Club (of New York). On May 
29, 1872, he married Elizabeth Adams. 
Residence: 1330 R street, n.w. Office: 
Isthmian Cana" Commission. 

ENGLEBRIGHT, W. F., mining engi- 
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ford, Mass., November 23, 1855. At an 
early age his parents iremoved to Vallejo, 
Cal., at which place he received his edu- 
cation in the public schools. He became 
a house joiner's appremtice at the United 
States Navy Yard at Mare Island, and 
completed his studies in engineering there. 
Subsequently he became a mining engi- 
neer, and located at Nevada City. He 
is a member of the Executive Committee 
of the Ca ifornia State Miner's Associa- 
tion, and is an authority on mining and 
irrigation problems. He was elected to 
the Fifity-ninth Congress to fill out the 
unexpired term of Hon. James N. Gil- 
lett, and was re-elected to the Sixtieth 
Congress from the First California Dis- 
triot. In politics he is a Republican. In 
1882 he married Kittle F. Holand. Legal 
residence: Nevada City, Cal. Washing- 
ton address: House of Representatives. 

ENGLISH, MERTON A., osteopathic 
physician. Residence: 1520 Twelfth 
street, n.w. Office: Colorado Building. 

ENTWISTLE, JAMES, Rear Admiral, 
U. S. N. (reitired), was born at Paterson, 
N. J., in 1837, and educated in 'his native 
town. He entered the engineer service 
of the navy in October, 1861; was com- 
missioned Lieutenant on July 26, 1866: 
made Lieutenant-Commander March 21, 
1873; Commander, January 31, 1888; 
Captain, April, 1899; Rear Admiral, 
April, 1899, and subsequenitly retired. Hj 
served in tlhe Civil War with Farragut's 
fleet, and subsequently served on various 
vessels throughout the world. He was 
wrecked near China on the U. S. S. Ashue- 
lot in 1883. From 1890 to 1895 he was 
inspector of machinery at Bath, Maine, 
later becoming assistant to the genera; 
inspector at the Morgan Iron Works, and, 
in 1895, detailed for duty at ithe Mare 
Island Navy Yard. He was transferred 
to the Asiatic fleet in 1895, and in 1897 
became fleet engineer; he served on the 
U. >S. S. Olympia, of Dewey's fleet on the 
occasion of ithe battle of Mania Bay, and 
for his services was commended by Ad- 
miral Dewey and the Secretary of the 
Navy, land awarded a Dewey medal. He is 
a member of the Loyal Legion. Address: 
320 Broadway, Paterson, N. J., and Navy 
Department. 

ERNST, OSWALD HERBERT, Colo- 
nel, U. S. A., was born near Cincinnati. 
Ohio, June 27, 1842, son of Andrew H, 
and Sarah H. (Otis) Ernst. He was edu- 
cated in the common schools, attended 
Harvard University from 1858 to 1860, and 
was graduated from the United States 
Military Academy in 1864. In the same 
year he was commissioned a First Lieu- 
itenant of the Engineer Corps, and during 
the Civil War served with the Army of 
the Tennessee as Assistant Chief Engi- 
neer. He was assistant engineer of forti- 
fication work on the Pacific coast from 



1864 ito 1868; was astronomer of the 
eclipse expedition to Spain in 1870, and 
from 1871 to 1878 instructor in practical 
military engineering, military signaling 
and telegraphs^ at the United States Mil- 
itary Academy. He was placed in charge 
of the improvement of Western rivers 
from 1878 to 1886; from the latter daie 
until 1889 had charge of harbor im- 
provements on the coast of Texas, wher*^ 
he instituted work on the Galveston chan- 
nel and harbor. From 1889 to 1903 he 
was Engineer Officer in Charge of Pub- 
lic Buildings and Grounds, Washington. 
D. C. ; was superintendent of the United 
States Military Academy, 1893-98; made 
Brigadier-General of Volunteers at the 
beginning of the war with Spain. He 
served in Cuba, and later in Porto Rico. 
Since August, 1901, he has been division 
engineer of the Northwest Division, anl 
since February 25, 1903, has been pres- 
ident of the Mississippi River Commis- 
sion, and for some time a member of the 
International Commission on Rivers in ithe 
vicinity of boundary lines. From 1899 to 
1904 he was a member of the Isthmian 
Canal Commission, and was reappointed 
to the commission in 1905. He is hon- 
orary vice-president of the Wisconsin Na- 
tional Guard; a member of the Loyal Le- 
gion; Military Order of Foreign Wars; 
American Society of Civil Engineers, 
Porto Rico Society, and of the following 
clubs: Metropo'itan, Chevy Chase, and 
Chicago, University and Union League (of 
Chicago). He is the author of A Manual 
of Practical Miliitary Engineering. On 
November 3, 1866, he married Elizabeth 
Amory. Residence: 1321 Connecticut ave- 
nue. 

ESCH, JOHN JACOB, lawyer. Con- 
gressman, was born near Norwalk, Mon- 
roe County, Wisconsin, March 20, 1861, 
of German parentage. When four years 
of age his parents moved to Milwaukee, 
and five years later to iSparta, Wisconsin, 
where he received a common and high 
school education. He was graduated in 
1882 from the University of Wisconsin. 
Until 1885 he taught school and studied 
law, and in 1886 entered the law depart- 
ment of the Wisconsin State University, 
from whence he was graduated in 1887, 
subsequently being admitted to the bar. 
He has been a Representative from the 
Seventh Wisconsin Disitrict since the 
Fifty-sixth Congress. Republican. Legal 
residence: La Crosse, Wis. Washington 
address: House of Representatives. 

EUSTIS, WILLIAM CORCORAN, was 

born in Paris, France, July 20, 1862, son 
of George and Louise Morris (Corcoran) 
Eustis. His father "was a member of Con- 
gress from Louisiana during 1860 tnd 1861. 
and was later Chief Justice of the Sitate 
of Louisiana. William Eustis, an ancestor, 
also served as a member of Congress, was 
Governor of Massachusetts, and later was 



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Secre'tary of "War, and James B. Eustis, 
another ancestor, served as UnLted States 
Senator from Louisiana. He obtained his 
pre iminary education at 'the Shadwell 
School and Hanover Academy after whicn 
he attended the University of Virginia, 
and later entered the Harvard Law 
School, from which he was griaduated, 
LL. B., in 1887. During 1901 and 1902 
he was secretary of the American Em- 
bassy in London, and at the present time 
he is engaged in farming in Loudoun 
County, Virginia. He is a member of the 
Metropolitan, Coumtry, Alibi, and Chevy 
Chase Clubs, of Washington, and the 
Knickerbocker Club, of New York. He 
is a member of the Episcopalian Church, 
and, in politics, a Democrat. On April 
30, 1900, he married Edith Livingston Mor- 
ton, of New York, to which union have 
been born three children. Residence: The 
Corcoran House, 1611 H street, n.w. Office: 
Corcoran Buiding. 

EVANS, ALBERT, clergyman, was born 
in Steuben, Oneida County, N. Y., on Jan- 
uary 28, 1861, son of Hugh T. land Eliza- 
beth Evans. He obtained his academic 
education at Hainilton College, from whicn 
he was graduated in 1889, after which he 
entered the Princeton Theological Semi- 
nary, graduaiti'ng in 1891 (D. D., Hamilton 
College, 1905). During 1891 and 1892 he 
was pastor of the Third Presbyterian 
Church, at Camden, N. J.; Waverley Pres- 
byterian Church, Ba timore, Md., 1892 to 
1896, and from 1893 to 1903 pastor of the 
Westminster Presbyterian Church at 
Rochester, N. Y., since when he has been 
pastor of the Metropolitan Presbyterian 
Church in Washington, D. C. He is a 
member of the Psi Upsilon college fra- 
ternity, and, in polLtios, a Republican. On 
September 9, 1891, he married Mattie A. 
Parry, of Franklinville, N. Y. Residence: 
17 Fifth street, s.e. 

EVANS, FRANCK TAYLOR, Lieuten- 
ant, U. S.N., was born in Geneva, Switzer- 
land, September 9, 1875, son of Robley 
Dunglison and Charlotte (Taylor) Evans, 
descending from General Daniel Morgan, 
Colone: Presley Neville and Colonel 
Charles Simms, all of Revolutionary times, 
his earliest ancestor in America being 
Lord Somerall. He was for two years at 
William and Mary Col ege, and was grad- 
uated from the United States Naval 
Academy in 1898. He is a member of the 
Army and Navy Club, of Washington; the 
New York Yacht Club; the Army and 
Navy Club, of Manila; . the Guajan Club, 
of Agana, Guam, and of the Military Order 
of the Loyal Legion. On September 20, 
1901, he married Gertrude A ice Pallman. 
Residence: 324 Indiana avenue, n.w. 

EVANS, PAUL WARRINGTON, dentis:. 

was born at Washington, D. C, August 
<"., 1875, snn of W. Warrington and Edif- 



M.( Wiltberger) Evans. He is of a fam- 
ily of dentist's, and is a grand-nephew 
of Dr. Thomas W. Evans, dentist, of 
Paris. He ireceived the degree of A. B. 
in 1894, that of LL. B. in 1898 from 
Georgetown University, and of D. D. S. 
in 1899 from the Washington Dental Col- 
lege, and the Hospital of Oral Surgery 
(now Dental Department, Georgetown 
University). He is professor of dental 
ceramics at Georgetown University; mem- 
ber of the District of Columbia Dental So- 
ciety; National Dental Association; In- 
ternational Dental Association; Inter- 
State Dental Fraternity; Washington 
Fencers' Club; Columbia Golf Club, ana 
ithe Lambs' Club, of New York. On No- 
vember 27, 1897, he married I. A. Whit- 
"ock. Residence: The Burlingiton. Office: 
Bond Building. 

EVANS, ROBLEY DUNGLISON, Rear 

Admiral, U. S. N., was born in Floyd 
County, Virginia, August 18, 1846, son of 
Dr. Samuel Andrew Jackson Evans. Ho 
attended the common schools of Wash- 
ington and was graduated from th3 
United States Naval Academy in 1863, 
becoming an Ensign the same year. He 
was promoted to Lieutenant on July 25, 
1866; Lieutenant-Commander, March 12, 
1868; Commander, July, 1878; Captain, 
June 27, 1893; Rear Admiral, February 
11, 1901. He served during the Civil War, 
and received several severe wounds on 
the occasion of the attack on Fort Fisher, 
in 1865. He was in command of the York- 
town and stationed at Va paraiso during 
the period of strained relaitions with 
Chile, and at that time gained the sobri- 
quet of "Fig'hting Bob." He was in com- 
mand of the Iowa at the time of the block- 
ade of the Spanish fleet in Santiago har- 
bor, and took part in the battle with 
Cervera's fleet. He was formerly president 
of the Naval Board of Inspection and 
Survey, and during 1902 commanded the 
Asiatic fleet. He is the author of A 
Sailor's Log. In 1871 he ma-ried Char- 
lotte Taylor. Residence: 324 Indiana av- 
enue, n.w. 

EVANS, WALTER HARRISON, bot- 
anist, was born in Delphi, Indiana, Jan- 
uary 3, 1863, son of Joseph and Cather- 
ine Evans. He attended the pub ic schools 
of his naitive town, and, after a special 
course in botany, was graduated in 1887 
from Wabash College, later irecelving a 
Ph. D. degree. During 1890 he was in- 
structor in botany at Wabash College, 
and in 1891 became a specia-l agent of the 
United States Department of Agriculture. 
From 1897 to 1898 he was engaged in a 
special 'reconnaissance of Alaska, from the 
agricultura' and botanical viewpoint, for 
the Department of Agriculture, and in 1900 
represented that department ait the Con- 
gresses of Horticulture, Forestry and Ex- 
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1902 he has been Chief of the Division, of 
Insular Stations of the Department of Ag- 
riculture. He Is the author of various 
articles on botany, Including reports, 
monographs, etc., and a contributor to 
technical and popular periodicals on that 
subject. He is associate and botanical 
editor of the Experiment Station Record, 
and contributed matter on economic bot- 
any to the New International Encyclo- 
pedia. He is a member of the American 
Association for the Advancement of 
Science; Botanical Society of Washington. 
and the Biological Society of Washington 
and received a gold medal from the Pans 
Exposition. On October 22, 1890, he mar- 
ried Bessie Binford. Residence: 3432 
Newark street. Office: Department of 
Agriculture. 

EVERMANN, BARTON WARREN, 

Ijiologist, educator, was born near Albia, 
Monroe County, Iowa, October 24, 1853, 
son of Andrew and Nety (Gardner) Ever- 
mann. He attended the public schools 
of Indiana, graduated from the University 
of Indiaina, with ithe degree of B. S., in 
1886, with that of A. M. in 1888, and of 
Ph. D. in 1891. He pursued a post-grad- 
uate course in zoology at the University 
of Indiana, and a''so attended Howard 
University, Kokomo, Ind., from 1872 'co 
1873. He was a teaoher in the Indiana 
public schools from 1875 to 1879; prin- 
cipal of graded school at Santa Paula, 
California, 1879-81; superintendent of 
public schools of Carroll County, Indiana, 
1883-85; professor of biology, Indiana 
State Normal iSchool, 1886-91. Dr. Ever- 
mann wa.s curatoir of ithe Zoological Mu- 
seum of Indiana University in 1882, and 
again in 1885 and 1886. He was chairman 
of the County Board of Education of Car- 
roll County, Indiana, 1883-85; member of 
the County Board of Education, Ventura 
County, California, 1879-81, and since 1891 
has been icthyologiat in the United States 
Bureau of Fisheries. During 1902-03 hc^ 
was assistant in charge of the division of 
statistics and methods of the fisheries; 
from 1903 to date he has ben assistant in 
charge of scientific inquiry. United States 
Bureau of Fisheries, and from 1902 to 
the present time has been chairman of 
the Civil Service Examining Board of the 
Bureau of Fisheries; since 1905 curator 
of fls:hes. United States .National Museum, 
and since July, 1906, vice-president of the 
Board of Education of the District of Co- 
lumbia. He was a special lecturer in 
zoology at the Leland Stanford, Junior 
University during 1893 and 1894; lecturer 
on ifish cul'ture and fish and game pro- 
tection at Cornell University, 1899-03 
ajnd at Yale University since 1903. In 
1892 he was Uni.ted States Fur Seal Com- 
missioner. He is a member of the fol- 
lowing organizations: Terre Haute 
Science Club (president, 1890-91)- Bio- 
logical Society of Washington (president 



1902-04); Washington Academy of 
Sciences (member of council and also edi- 
tor of its proceedings since 1903); Indiana 
Academy of Sciences; American Associa- 
tion for the Advancement of Science; Cos- 
mos Club; Plant Preservation Society of 
America; California Academy of Science.^; 
American Fisheries Society, etc. He is the 
author of the following books: Animal 
Ana"ysis; Fishes of North and Middle 
America, and American Food land Game 
Fishes (with David Starr Jordan) ; Dopho, 
the Quail; Life History of the Pacific 
Salmon; The Aquatic Resources of Porto 
Rico (with M. C. Marsh); The Fishes and 
Other Aquatic Resources of the Hawaiian 
Islands (with David Stanr Jordan); The 
Fishes of the Philippine Islands; The 
Fishes of Alaska; The Golden Trout of 
the Southern High Sierras, etc., etc. He 
has contributed extensively to contempo- 
rary periodicals, both popular and scien- 
tific, and has been the editor of a num- 
ber of proceedings, reports, etc., relating 
to ifishes and fisheries, and other natural 
histoiry subjects. He is a Republican. 
On October 24, 1875, he married Meadie 
Hawkins, daughter of Noah Hawkins, of 
Indiana. Residence: 1425 Clifton street. 
n.w. Office: Bureau of Fisheries. 

EWELL, JOHN LEWIS, minister and 
teacher, was born in Rowley (Byfield 
Parrlsh), Essex County, Massachusetts, 
September 4, 1840, son of Samuel and 
Mary (Stickney) Ewell. He is descended 
from Governor Bradford, Priscilla Mul- 
lens, John Aden and other passengers on 
the Mayflower. He was graduated from 
Dummer Academy, Byfield, Mass., in 
1858; from Yale University in 1865 (vale- 
dictorian of his class), and from the And 
over Theological Seminary in 1870. How- 
ard University conferred upon him the 
honorary degree of D. D. in 1895. He 
traveled extensively abroad in the years 
1869, 1888, 1895, 1901 and 1907. He taught 
in the High School of Nashvi le, Tenn.; 
was later principal of the Bell Academy, 
in that city, and was professor of Latin 
at WashLngton University, St. Louis, Mo. 
Becoming a Congregational clergyman, he 
was pas.tor of a church at Clinton, Iowa; 
Waverley, Mass., and Millbury, Mass., ire- 
signing the "ast named charge in 1890 t6 
accept the chair of Hebrew and Church 
History in the Theological Department of 
Howard University. He served with the 
Sixtieth Massachusetts Volunteers in the 
War of the Rebellion, and is the author of 
The Story of Byfield, a local history; 
The History of Howard University, Theo- 
logical Department, and of various maea- 
zine articles. He is Elder-General of the 
Nationail Society of Mayflower Descend- 
ants, and has been governor of the chap- 
ter in the District of Columbia. He is a 
member of the Exegetual, American His- 
torical, American Church History, Archae- 
ological, Fine Arts and Geographic Socl.'- 



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itles. On December 30, 1872, he was m«ur- 
irled to Emily Spofford Hall, of Bradford, 
Mass., who died May 15, 1905, weaving four 
sons, all of whom are graduates of Yale. 
Residence: 325 College street. 



EWERS, EZRA PHILETUS, Brigadier- 
General, U. S. A. (retired), was born at 
Wayneport. Wayne County, New York. 
He enlisted in the army as a private in 
1862, later becoming First Sergeant of 
Company E, Nineteenth United States In- 
fantry. Om October 31, 1863, he was com- 
missioned Second Lieutenant in ithe same 
regiment, and, on March 14, 1864, Firs: 
Lieutenant, becaming Captain of United 



States Infantry on September 12, 1866. 
He was promoted to Major on March 7, 
1893; commissioned Lieutenant-Colonel 
April 30, 1897; made Brigadier- General 
of Volunteers on July 12, 1898, and oa 
May 16, 1899, commissioned Colonel of the 
Regular Army, later being retired, with 
the rank of Brigadier-GeneraJ, on April 
13, 1901. During the Civil War he was 
brevetted First Lieu'tenanit and Captain 
for galant services at Hoover's Gap, 
Tenn. (1863), and during the battle of 
Chattanooga, respectively. For distin- 
guished bravery in ba'ttle against Indiana 
on the Tongue River, Montana, January 
8, 1877, he was again brevetted Majo.-. 
Address: War Department. 



FAIRBANKS, CHARLES WARREN, 

lawyer, .twenty-sixth Vice-President of 
the United S'tates, was born on a farm 
near Unionville Center, Union County, 
Ohio, May 11, 1852, som of Loriston M. 
and Mary A. (Smith) Fairbanks. He 
attended the common schools and was 
graduated from Ohio Wesleyan Univer- 
siity, Delaware, Ohio, with the degree it 
B. A., in 1872. He then engaged in news- 
paper wo;rk for some time, studied law, 
and was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1874. 
In the same year he removed to Indian- 
apolis, Ind., where he practiced his pro- 
fession until 1897, when he was elected 
ito the United States Senate to succeed 
Daniel W. Vorhees, Democrat. He never 
held public office prior to his election to 
the Senate, though ihe was the unani- 
mous nominee of the Republican caucus 
for United States Senator in 1893, and was 
defeated by David Turpie, Democrat, the 
nominee of the majority party. He took 
his seat in the Senate March 4, 1897, and 
was re-elected in 1903. In 1892 and 1898 
he was chairman of the Indiana Repub- 
lican State Conventions; was a delegate- 
at-large to the Republican National Con- 
vention at St. Louis in 1896, and was tem- 
porary chairman of the convention; was a 
delegate-at- large to the Republican Na- 
tional Convention at Philadelphia in 1900, 
and, as chairman of the Commititee on 
Resolutions, reported the platform; was 
a delegate-at- large to the Republican Na- 
tional Convention at Chicago in 1904, and 
was chairman of the Indiana delegation; 
was appointed a member of Che United 
States and British Joint High Commis- 
sion, which met in Quebec in 1898, for 
the adjustment of Canadian questions, 
and was chairman of the United States 
High Commissioners. In 1904 he was 
unanimously nominated for Vice-Bresi- 
dent of the United S.tates and elected on 
the ticket with Theodore Roosevelt, re- 
ceiving 337 of the 476 electoral votes, to 



139 for Henry G. Davis, a Democrat. He 
resigned as United States Senator from 
Indiana, to take effect March 4, 1905, ac 
which time 'he took the oath as Vice- 
President of the United States. While 
a member of the 'Senate ihe was chair- 
man of the Committees on Immigration, 
and Public Buildings and Grounds, and 
a member of the Committees on Foreign 
Relations, (the Judiciary, Claims, Census, 
and Geological Survey. On October 6, 
1874, 'he married Cornelia, daughter of 
Judge P. B. Cole, of Marysville, Ohio. 
Legal residence: Indianapolis, Ind. Wash- 
ing-ton address: 1701 K street, n.w. 

FAIRCHILD, DAVID GRANDISON, 

pathologist, was born at Agricultural 
College, Ingraham County, Michigan, on 
April 7, 1869, son of George T. and Char- 
lotte Pearl (Halstead) Fairchild. His 
father was a pioneer educator in the 
Middle West, and was a former president 
of the Kansas State Agricu'lltural College. 
His early education was received in the 
private and district schools of Michigan, 
the Kansas Agricultural College, Iowa 
Agricultural College, Rutgers College (N. 
J.), and he attended several foreign insti- 
tutions for special study, among them 
being: The Naples Biological Stajtion, 
the German universities, and the Boiten- 
zorg (Java) Botanic Gardens. He is now 
agricultural explorer, in charge of seed 
and plant introduction, in the Depart- 
ment of Agriculture. He is responsible 
for the organization of this seed and plant 
introduction work, and for the Introduc- 
tion of a number of new plant indu£- 
tnies in the United States, and 'he is the 
author of many bulletins, among them 
being: Spanish Almonds and Their Intrc)- 
duotion Into America; Crops of the Nile 
Valley, etc. He is a member of the Chevy 
Chase and Cosmos Clubs. On April 25, 
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Residence: 1331 Conecticut avenue. Office: 
Department of Agriculture. 

FAIRCHILD, GEORGE W., Congress- 
man. In November, 1906, lie was electeJ 
a member of the Sixtieth Congress from 
the Twenty-fourth Congressional District 
of New York. In politics he is a Repub- 
lican. Legal residence: Oneonto, N. Y. 
Was'hington address: House of Repre- 
sentatives. 

FAIRFAX, CHARLES WILBUR, real 
estate, was boTn in Fairfax County, Vir- 
ginia, on June 9, 1873, son of Arthur W. 
and Lucy J. (Arundel) Fairfax, descend- 
ants of the dis'tinguished Fairfax family 
that settled on a large grant of land ceded 
by the English crown. After attending 
the public schools in Washington, he en- 
tered the National University Law School, 
and after graduation he embarked in the 
real estate business. He is now a imem- 
ber of the firm of Stone and Fairfax. On 
November 16, 1898, he married Li lie M., 
daughter of James G. Bowen, of Wash- 
ington. Residence: 1622 Twenty-first 
street, n.w.. Office: 1342 New York ave- 
nue, n.w. 

FAIRFIELD, F. W. (D. D.), clergyman, 
Dean of Howard University. Address: 
Howard University. 

FALCONIO, DIOMEDE, clergyman, was 
born at Pescocostanzo, a parish in the 
diocese of the Monte Casino, in the Am- 
bruzzi, Italy, on September 20, 1842. He 
entered the Franciscan Order in 1860, and 
after completing his studies he was sent 
as a missionary to the United States, lo- 
cating at Alleg^heny, N. Y., December, 
1865. A month later (January, 1866) he 
was ordained priest. During his first stay 
in America he filled many important posi- 
tions in the order. He was a professor 
and ;ater vice-president of the St. Eona- 
venture College, at Allegheny, N.' Y. In 
1868 he became president of the college 
and seminary of St. Bonaventure, remain- 
ing there in that capacity until 1871, when 
he was ordered tto Newfoundland, where 
he filled the offices of secretary and chan- 
cer or to the bishop and rector of the 
cathedral. In 1883 he returned to Italy, 
wthere he was elected provincial of the 
Franciscans in Ambruzzi, and in 1889 ithe 
general chapter of the Franciscan Order 
chose him as procurator-general, serving 
in that capacity until 1892, when he was 
preconized Bishop of Lacedonia, and was 
consecrated the same month at Rome bv 
Cardinal Monaco La Valetta, Dean of the 
Sacred College. In the year 1895 was 
made Archbishop of Acerenza and Matera 
In 1889 he was appointed first apostolic 
delegate to Canada, and in September 
1902, he was appointed apostolic delegate 
to the United States in which capacity 



he still serves, 
more stret, n.w. 



Residence: 1811 Balti- 



FALLS, NEILSON, clergyman, was 
born in Baltimore, Md., June 28, 1842, son 
of Moore Neilson and Matilda (Krebs) 
Falls. iHis father was a ^member of the 
firm of Stockton, Falls & Co., national 
s.tage route between Frederick, Md., and 
Wheeling, Va., also president of the Bal- 
timore Steam Packet Company, the Old 
Bay Line between Baltimore and Norfolk, 
Va. He attended the School of Letters, 
University of Maryland, Baltimore, and 15 
a graduate of the Philadelphia Divinity 
School (alumnus of 1866). On August 12, 
1866, he was admitted to the Order of 
Deacons, and in December of the same 
year was ordained a priest in Baltimore. 
In August, 1866, he was assistant minis- 
ter of Grace Church, Baltimore, Md.; sec- 
ond rector, S-t. 'Matthew's Church, Hali- 
fax, N. C, and of the Church of Our 
Saviours, Jackson, N. C, 1868-69; third 
rector of Grace Church, Morgantown, X. 
C, 1869 to 1879; fourth missionary, in 
charge of St. Matthew's Parish, Garrett 
County, Maryland, 1879-81; fifth rector 
of St. Alban's Parish, Was'hington, D. C, 
1881-95; detached service in the Diocese 
of Washington, 1895 to 1900, since when 
he has ben priest in charge of St. Barna- 
bas' Mission, Langdon, D. C. He mar- 
ried Lucy E. Wa ton, of Morgantown, 
Burke County, North Carolina, on Janu- 
ary 10, 1870, to which union eight children 
'have been born, seven of whom are liv- 
ing. Residence: Hammond Court, Thir- 
tieth and Q streets, n.w. 

FARDON, ABRAM P., physician, was 
born in Monmouth County, New Jersey. 
He attended the public schools near his 
'home, and later studied medicine in New 
Brunswick, N. J., and Brooklyn, N. Y., 
afterwards practicing his profession in 
(those towns. He first came to Washing- 
ton in the early sixties, having accepted 
an appointment to a position in the In- 
ternal Revenue Service. After serving in 
it'hat department foir a few years, he re- 
signed to invest and speculate in city real 
estate. Much of the land in the north- 
western part of the city, on which now 
stand many of the beautiful residences 
of the city, was at one time owned by 
him. He 'has done much in itihe way of 
improving and beautifying the city, being 
responsible for the inaugurating of the 
street parking system, etc. He was Pay- 
master for the District of Columbia un- 
der its Territorial Government, and was 
president of the old Union Railroad Com- 
pany. He is now president of the Colum- 
bia Real Estate Company, a director in 
the Washington Loan and Trust Com- 
pany and the Co'umbia Fire Insurance 
Company. Residence: 1918 I street, n.w. 

FARIS, GEORGE WASHINGTON, law- 
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in Jasper County, Indiana, June 9, 1854, 
son of James Collins and Margaret M. 
(Birown) Faris. He was graduated from 
Asbury University in 1877, and was ad- 
mitted to the bar the following year. He- 
represented itihe Eig'hth Indiana District 
in 'the Fifty-fourth Congress, and the 
Fifth Indiana District in the Fifty-fifth 
and Fifty-sixth Congresses. During the 
latter two terms ihe was chairman of the 
Committee on Manufactures. He is a Re- 
publican. In 1878 he married Anna C. 
Claypool, of Indianapolis, Ind. Legal res- 
idence: Terra Haute, Ind. Washington 
office: Bond Building. 

FARQUHAR, EDWARD, librarian, was 
born at Sandy Spring, Maryland, Septem- 
ber 2, 1843, son of William H. and Mar- 
garet (Briggs) Farquhar. He was edu- 
cated in the common schools and by pri- 
vate tutors. He 'holds a Ph. D. degree 
from Columbian (now George Washing- 
ton) University, and In 1893 became in- 
sitructor of English literature, and later 
professor of history, in that institution. 
Since 1865 he has been assistant librarian 
in the United States Patent Office. He 
is a member of the Washington Society 
for Philosophical Inquiry, and the Cos- 
mos Club. He has written some books 
of a historical nature, and has been a con- 
.tributor to many leading publications. On 
May 29, 1902, he married Mary W. Milan, 
of Salisbury, N. C. Address: Paten: 
Office Library. 

FARQUHAR, HENRY, economic writer, 
was born at Sandy Spring, Maryland, on 
August 27, 1851. He attended the pub- 
lic schools and later Cornell University. 
After leaving Cornell he taught school 
for a few years and ithen entered the 
United States Coast Survey. For some 
years he was a writer on economic sub- 
jects, later entering the Agricultural De- 
partment, taking charge of a centain 
statistical work during the twelfth cen- 
sus. He is the author of many articles 
on astronomy and statistical subjects. He 
is a fellow of the American Association for 
the Advancement of Science; a member 
of the Philosophical Society of Washing- 
ton; American Economical Association; 
Boston Free Trade League; American 
Statis.tical Association, and the National 
Geographic Society. In 1881 he married 
Isabel Robbins, of New York. Residence: 
Brookland, D. C. Office: Census Office. 

FARQUHAR, NORMAN VON HEL- 
D REICH, naval officer, was .born ai 
Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylva- 
nia, on April 11, 1840. He attended the 
Pottsville schools and was afterwards ap- 
pointed to the United States Naval Acad- 
emy, graduating in 1859. During the Civil 
Wair he served in the North Atlantic 
Blockading Squadron, and was present at 
the time of both attacks on Fort Fisher. 
In 1865 he was promoted to Lieutenant- 



Commander; Commander, in 1872, and 
Commodore, in 1897. He was in command 
of the Trenton when she was wrecked in 
a hurricane at Apia, Samoa, in 1889. He 
has been a member of the Lighthouse 
Board, chief of the Bureau of Yards and 
Docks, and commandant of the Norfolk 
Navy Yard. He was Commander-in-Chief 
of the Noirth Atlantic Squadron in 1899, 
and in 1901-02 he was chairman of the 
Lighthouse Board of the Navy Depart- 
ment. In 1902 he was iretired, with the 
rank of Rear Admiral, on account of age. 
He is la member of the New York Yacht 
Club and the Washington Metropolitan 
Club. On April 26, 1862, he married Addle 
W. Polk, of Boston. Residence: 1918 N 
street, n.w. 

FASSETT, JACOB SLOAT, lawyer. 
Congressman, was born at Elmira, N. Y., 
on November 13, 1853. He received his 
early education in the public schools of 
his native town and later attended the 
University of Rochester, graduating with 
the class of 1875. In 1878 he was admit- 
ted to the bar, and the fo. lowing year was 
appointed by the Governor of New York 
to ithe office of District Attorney for 
Chemung County, which position he held 
for one year, when he resigned to become 
a student at Heidelberg University, Ger- 
many. He was elected to the State Sen- 
ate in 1883, serving there for eight years, 
and was elected tempoirary president of 
that body in 1889. In 1888 he was sec- 
retary of the Republican National Com- 
mittee, and in 1891 he was nominated for 
Governor of New York by the Republi- 
cans, but was defeated by Roswell P. 
Flower. He was elected to the Fifty- 
ninth Congress from the Thirty-third 
New York District in 1904, and re-e'ected 
to ithe Sixtieth Congress. Republican. 
Legal residence: ElmLra, N. Y. Wash- 
ington residence: 1601 Twenty-first 
street, n.w. 

FA V ROT, GEORGE K., Congressman 
He was elected from the Sixth Congres- 
sional District of Louisiana to the Six- 
tieth Congress on the Democratic ticket. 
Legal residence: Baton Rouge, La. Wash- 
ington address: House of Representa- 
tives. 

FAWCETT, WALDON, newspaper cor- 
respondent, was born at Selam, Columbi- 
ana County, Ohio, on February 23, 1875, 
son of Richard and Jennie Fawcett. He 
received his education in the common 
schools of his native town, and later took 
up newspaper work. Since coming to 
Washington he has been a special writer 
and a photographic illustrator for news- 
papers. On April 4, 1899, he married 
Anne E. Miles. Residence: 1810 Belmont 
avenue, n.w. 

FAY, ALLAN BRADSHAW, assistant 
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Brooklyn, N. Y., on August 1, 1872, son 
of Edward Allan and Mary (Bradshaw) 
Fay. He was graduated from the Wash- 
ington High School in 1890, and Harvard 
University, A. B., in 1894, and, A. M., in 
1895. He is a member of the Unitarian 
Church and the Washington Harvard 
Cub. On June 25, 1902, he married Mar- 
garet Ashby Lyie, of Danville, Ky., to 
which union have been born two children. 
Residence: 4 Kendall Green. 

FAY, EDWARD ALLEN, educator, was 
born at Morristown, Morris County, New 
Jersey, on November 22, 1843, son of Bar- 
nata,s M. and Louise (Mills) Fay. His 
father was a clergyman and educator and 
was the first principal of the Michigan 
School for the Deaf. Edward Fay's ear y 
education was obtained in the schools 
of Flint, Mich., and under private tutors, 
later attending the University of Michi- 
gan and Johns Hopkins University, re- 
ceiving from the latter the degree of 
Ph. D. From 1862 to 1865 he was an in- 
structor in the New York Institution for 
the Deaf. He has been editor of the 
American Annals of the Deaf since 1870. 
He has written many articles and books 
on the deaf, the most important being. 
Marriages of the Deaf in America. He 
also edited the Histories of the American 
Schools for the Deaf, and the Concord- 
ance of the Divina Commedia, published 
by the Dante Society, of Cambridge. He 
is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Soci- 
ety; Alpha De ta Phi college fraternity, 
and the Literary Society of Washington. 
He is a member of the Unitarian Church. 
He joined the faculty of Gallaudet Col- 
lege in 1866, and became vice-president 
in 1885, which position he still holds. On 
July 6, 1871, he married Mary Bradshaw; 
he is the father of seven children, six of 
whom are living. Residence: 3 Kendall 
Green, n.e. 

FEALY, IGNATIUS, clergyman, was 
born on a farm in Osage County, Mi3- 
yourl, on July 31, 1878, son of Thomas 
J. and Mary C. (McNamara) Fealy, and 
left the State of Missouri when a child 
with his parents, since when the greater 
part of his life 'has been spent in Wash- 
ington. He was educated at Gonzaga 
College, in Washington; St. Charles Col- 
lege, at E liott City, Md., from which he 
was graduated in 1899, later finishing his 
studies at St. Mary's Seminary, in Bal- 
timore. On December 17, 1904, he was 
ordained a priest (in the Catholic Church) 
by Cardinal Gibbons. On January 1, 1905, 
he was appointed assistant pastor of St. 
Joseph's Church, in Washington, which 
position he holds at the present time. Ho 
is chaplain of Potomac Council, No. 433, 
Knights of Columbus, and spiritual di- 
rector of St. Joseph's Holy Name Society. 
Unmarried. Residence: Second and C 
streets, n.e. 



FEARN, RICHARD LEE, newspaper 
correspondent, was born at Mobi e, Ala- 
bama, August 31, 1862. He was educated 
at the University of the South and the 
University of Alabama, 1874-80, and was 
graduated from Stevens Institute of 
Technology in 1884. Was on the siaff 
of the Brooklyn Eagle, 1886-91, and se.jre- 
tary of foreign affairs. World's Columbia). 
Exposition, 1891-93. From 1893 to 1897 
he was Washington correspondent of the 
United Press, London correspondent of 
same 1896, and has been on New York 
Tribune staff since 1896, and chief of the 
Washington bureau of the same since 
1902. In 1908 he was a war correspondent. 
Secretary of Gridiron Club 1898 and 1903; 
vice-president in 1905, and president in 
1906. Married, April 21, 1887, Eleanor 
Egerton, of Baltimore. Residence: 2202 
Mas sadhu setts avenue. OflSce: 1322 F 
street, n.w. 

FERGUSON, ARTHUR WALSH, insu- 
ar official, was born in Benicia, Califor- 
nia, on December 4, 1859, son of Colonel 
David and Emily Amelia (Walsh) Fergu • 
son. He spent his early years in Mexico, 
and graduated from St. Augustine's Col- 
lege, at Benicia, Cal., In 1877, and from 
the Georgetown University Law School 
in 1885; LL. D. from same in 1886. He 
owned, edited and pub ished the Benicia 
(Cal.) News Era, 1879-82, and was official 
interpreter of International American 
Conference at Washington in 1889, and 
the same for the Intercontinental Railway 
Commission in 1891. He was secretary 
to the International Monetary Commis- 
sion the same year; secretairy United 
States Chilian Claims Commission, 1893, 
and of the United States and Venezuelan 
Claims Commission in 1894. Was chief 
translater of the Bureau of American Re- 
publics, 1897-1900; official interpreter of 
American and Spanish Peace Commission 
in 1898; Spanish secretary United States 
Philippine Commission, April 1, 1900, and 
chief secretary, 1900-01. Author of: 
Handbook of Mexico, Bulletin No. 9, 
Bureau of American Republics. Married, 
February 1, 1887, Mary Stanton Williams, 
of Washington, D. C. Address: Bureau 
of Insular Affairs, War Department. 

FERGUSON, THOMAS BARKER, 

scientist, dip omat, was born near 
Charleston, Sout/h Carolina, on August 
8, 1841, At the outbreak of the Civil 
War he was a member of the grad- 
uating class of the State Military Acad- 
emy at Charleston, S. C. He enlisted 
in the Confederate Army and was de- 
tailed as a oadet engineer to superintend 
the construction of the battery on Morris 
Island, and, with his felow cadets, man- 
ned the guns that opened fire on the 
steamer Star of the West when it at- 
tempted to relieve Fort Sumter. H<? 
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wounded, at one time having been sh)t 
through the lung while in command of 
General Walker's Division of General 
Johnson's Army. In 1867 he became a 
citizen of Maryland, residing near Balti- 
more, soon becoming identified with pub- 
lic measures and policies of the State, and 
held positions of honor. He was the organ- 
izer of the Maryland State Fish Commis- 
sion, after which he joined the Smithso- 
nian Institution. In 1876 he was an expert 
judge of awards at the Centennial Expo- 
sition, and in 1878 he was a commis- 
sioner to the Paris Exposition, af te- 
which he became Assistant Commissioner 
of Fish and Fisheries for the United 
States, serving in that capacity until 
1887. During President Cleveland's sec- 
ond administration he was appointed 
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni- 
potentiary to Sweden and Norway. In 
1867 he married Jeane Byrd (deceased), 
daughter of Thomas Swann, of Maryland. 
He is the father of two sons and one 
daughter. Residence: 823 Fifteenth street, 
n.w. 

FERGUSON, W. M., Methodist Episco- 
pal clergyman, pastor of Wesley Chapel. 
Residence: 509 Third street, n.w. 

FERREE, NEWTON, Chief of the Di- 
vision of Notes, Coupons, and Currency, 
Treasury Department. Residence: 1720 
Thirteenth street, n.w. Office: "Treasury 
Department. 

FESSENDEN, REGINALD AUBREY, 

electrician, was born at Milton, Province 
of Quebec, Canada, on October 6, 1866, of 
a New England family, from Cambridge, 
Mass.; son of Rev. E. J. and dementia 
(Trenholme) Fessenden. He was educated 
at the Deveaux Military School, at Sus- 
pension Bridge, N. Y., 1875-77; and Trin- 
ity College School, Port Hope, Ontario, 
1877-83. From 1886 to 1887, ihe was in- 
specting engineer for the Edison Company, 
New York; was head chemist in the labor- 
atory of Thomas A. Edison, 1887-1890; 
electrician, Westinghouse Electric and 
Manufacturing Co., Newark, 1890-1892. 
From 1892 to 1893 he was professor of 
physics and electrical engineering, in Pur- 
due University; professor of electrical en- 
gineering in the Western University of 
Pennsylvania, 1893-1900, and was a spe- 
cial agent of the United States Weather 
Bureau in 1900. He is the author 
of numerous papers concerning his pro- 
fession, among them being: Laws and 
Nature of Cohesion (1891-1892); Recent 
Work in Molecular Physics (1896); Out- 
line of Electrical Theory of Comets' Tails 
(1896); Conduction and Insulation (1898); 
Electro-Magnetic Mechanism with Special 
Reference to High Speed Telegraphy 
(1899); Wireless Telegraphy (1899); Na- 
ture of Electric and Magnetic Quantities, 
and the Density and Elasticity of the 
Ether (1900); Nature of Inertia, and Na- 



ture and Velocity of Gravitation (1900); 
also about sixty other papers. In 1889 
he married Helen May Trott, of Bermuda. 
Address: 1737 Riggs Place, n.w. 

FEWKES, JESSE WALTER, anthropol- 
ogist, was born at Newton, Mass., on No- 
vember 14, 1850. He was graduated from 
Harvard in 1875, and in 1877 received the 
degrees of A. M. and Ph. D. from the 
same institution. From 1878 to 1880 he 
studied zoology at the University of Leip- 
zic, in Germany, and from 1881 to 1889 
was an assistant in the Museum of Com- 
parative Zoology at Harvard University. 
From 1889 to 1891 he was secretary of the 
Boston Society of Natural History, and 
from 1890 to 1894 was editor of the Jour- 
nal of American Ethnology and Archae- 
o ogy. In 1895 he was appointed ethnolo- 
gist in the Bureau of American Ethnology, 
and since that time has been in charge 
of archaeological expeditions for the 
Smithsonian Institution, to Arizona, 
Porto Rico, and Mexico. He is the 
author of many pamphlets on marine 
zoology, archaeology and ethnology. On 
April 4, 1893, he married Harriet O. Cutler, 
of Cambridge, Mass. Residence: Forest 
Glen, Md. Office: Smithsonian Institu- 
tion, 

FFOULKE, CHARLES MATHER, art 

collector, lecturer, and writer, was born 
at Quakertown, Bucks County, Pennsyl- 
vania, on July 25, 1841. He is the son 
of Benjamin Green and Jiane (Mather) 
Ffoulke. He received his education in 
■the Friends' schools in Quakertown, 
Gwynedd and Philadelphia. After finish- 
ing his studies in these schools he be- 
came a teacher in the Friends' School 
at Philadelphia. He embarked in the 
wool business in Philadelphia in 1862. 
and continued in it until 1872. He began 
the study of art in 1872, confining the 
mos.t of his study to Europe. He now 
owns one of the largest, most interest- 
ing and valuable collections of antique 
tapestries in the world. In 1888 he ac- 
quired the famous Barberini collection of 
tapestries, which was founded by Pope 
Urban VIII. For a number of years he 
has lectured land written on the subject 
of antique art tapestries, and is now writ- 
ing History of Tapestries. He is a mem- 
ber of the Metropolitan, Country and 
Chevy Chase Clubs, and of the Archae- 
ological, Geographical and Historical So- 
cieties of Washington, and is president 
of the National Society of Fine Arts. He 
is also a member of several European art 
societies. On December 10, 1872, he mar- 
ried Sarah A. Cushing, in P&ris. Resi- 
dence: 2011 Massachusetts avenue, n.w. 

FIALLO, DON ARTURO L., Secretary 
Embassy of Dominican Republic. Resi- 
dence: The Cumberland. 

FIELD, ORRIN J., Chief Clerk, Depart- 
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County, Illinois, in 1869. He was edu- 
caited in the common schools and at 
the Hig'h School in Topeka, Kansas, and 
was graduated from the National Uni- 
versity Law School in 1900. He was en- 
gaged as stenographer in the office of 
the general manager of the Rock Island 
Railwiay Company and clerk and teller 
in a bank until 1893, when he took a 
Civil Service examination at Topeka. He 
has been promoted through various grades 
in the Government service to his present 
position. Residence: 114 S street, n.w. 
Office: Department of Justice. 

FIELD, SCOTT, lawyer, Congressman, 
was born in Madison County, Mississippi, 
in 1848. He attended the schools in his 
native county and later the University 
of Virginia. During the Civil War he 
served as a private in the Confederate 
Army under General N. B. Porresit. In 
1872 he moved to Texas, located at Cal- 
vert, where he has since resided and 
pnacticed law. In 1875 'he was elected 
County Attorney, and in 1888 he was 
elected to the State Senate. He was 
a delegate to the Democratic National 
Convention in 1892, and has represented 
the Sixth Congressional District of Texas 
in the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Con- 
gresses. Democrat. Leglal residence: 
Calvert, Texas. Washington address: 
House of Representatives. 

FIFER, JOSEPH W., ex-governor of Il- 
linois, lawyer, was born at Staunton, Va., 
on October 28, 1840, son of John and Mary 
Fifer. His early education was obtained 
in the public schools of McLean County, 
111., land was later graduated froim the 
Illinois Wesleyan University. He studied 
law and enlisted in the army and served 
in Company C, Thirty-third Illinois In- 
fantry Volunteers from August, 1861, to 
October, 1864; was wounded in battle at 
Jackson, Miss., on July 13, 1863, through 
the right lung. Was admitted to the bar 
in 1869. From 1889 to 1893 he was gov- 
ernor of Illinois, and since 1904 has been 
a member of the Interstate Commerce 
Commission. On June 15, 1870, he mar- 
ried Gertrude Lewis, at Bloomington, 111. 
Legal residence: Bloomington, 111. Wash- 
ington address: Sun Building. 

FIMPLE, JOHN H., Assistant Commis- 
sioner of ithe Generail Land Office, was 
born on a farm in Carroll County Ohio 
March 31, 1859, son of Daniel and Han- 
nah (Dumbleton) Fimple. His education 
was obtained in the district schools and 
at Mt. Union College, in Ohio, graduating 
from the latter institution in 1882. After 
leaving college he took up the study of 
law and was ladmitbed to the bar in 
O'hio in 1887, and the United States 
Supreme Court in 1903. In 1888 he was 
a member of the Ohio State Legislature, 
and the following year came to Wash- 
ington as an examiner in the Genenai 
Land Office. In 1893 he resigned from 



the Land Office, taking up ithe practice 
of law, in which capacity 'he continued 
until 1900, when he was appointed an as- 
sistant attorney in the Interior Depiairt- 
ment, and in 1903 he was appointed As- 
sistant Commissioner of the General Land 
Office. On December 3, 1888, he married 
Ida J. Patterson, of Augusta Ohio. Resi- 
dence. 925 Massachusetts avenue, n.w. 
Office: General Liand Office. 

FINK, EDWARD X. (S. J.), clergyman, 
pastor of St. Aloysius Catholic Church. 
Residence: 19 Eye street, n.w. 

FINLEY, DAVID EDWARD, lawyer. 
Congressman, was born at Yorkville, 
South Carolina, on February 28, 1861. He 
adopted law as a profession, practicing 
in Yorkville. During 1890-91 he was a 
member of the South Carolina State 
Legislature, and from 1892 to 1896 he was 
a member of the State Senate. He has 
represented the Fifth Congressional Dis- 
.trict of South Carolina in the Fifty-sixth 
and subsequent Congresses. Democrat. 
Legal iresidence: Yorkville, S. C. Wash- 
ington address: House of Representa- 
tives. 

FINLEY, WILLIAM WILSON, Presi- 
dent of the Southern Railway, was born 
at Pass Christian, Mississippi, on Sep- 
■bember 2, 1853. His first railway expe- 
rience was with the New Orleans, Jack- 
son and Great Northern, and Chicago, St. 
Louis and New Orleans Railiroads, from 
1873 to 1883. Beginning as the vice- 
president's stenographer, he gradually ad- 
vanced to assistant general freight agent. 
From 1883 to 1886 he was assistant gen- 
eral freight agent of ithe New Orleans 
division of the Texas and Pacific Rail- 
way, and from 1886 to 1888 he was the 
general freight agent, and ithe following 
year general freight agent of the "Pan- 
handle Route." During 1889-90 he was 
chairman of the Tnans-Missouri Traffic 
Association, and chairnian of the West- 
ern Passenger Association from 1890 to 
1892. In 1892 he became general traffic 
manager of the Great Northern and Mon- 
tana Central Railroad, serving until April, 
1895, when he became third vice-president 
of the Southern Railway, serving until 
October, 1895. In October, 1895, he was 
made second vice-president of the Great 
Northern Railway, serving until May, 1896, 
when he returned to the Southern Rail- 
wiay as second vice-president, serving in 
that capacity until after President Sam- 
uel Spencer's deatli, in November, 1900, 
when he was elected president. Residence: 
2019 Massachusetts avenue, n.w. Sum- 
mer residence: Chevy Chase, Maryland. 
Office: Thirteenth street and Pennsylva- 
nia lavenue, n.w. 

FIREMEN, PETER, chemist, was born 
at Lipovetz, Russia, on April 4, 1863. His 
early education was obtained in the 
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Bia. After graduating- from the latter 
institution in 1881 he studied at the Uni- 
versity of Odessa, Konigsberg, Zurich, 
and Berne, and holds a Ph. D. degree froni 
the latter. He came ito America in 1882, 
and for several years farmed in Western 
Oregon. He again returned .to Europe in 
1888, for specilal study in Germany and 
Switzerland, (returning ito this country 
in 1892. From 1892 to 1901 he was an 
instructor of chemistry in Columbian 
(now George Washington) University, and 
during 1901-02 was professor of chemis- 
try in ithe Missouri School of Mines and 
Metallurgy. In 1902 he became chemist 
to the Elmer A. Sperry Electrochem Re- 
search Laboratoiry, and still holds that 
position. He is the author of a number 
of articles which have appeared in lead- 
ing scien.tific journals. Address: The 
Cosmos Club. 

FISCHER, LOUIS ALBERT, scientist, 
was born in Washington, D. C, on Jan- 
uary 4, 1864, son of Frederick G. and 
Dana (Cox) Fischer. His early education 
wtas obtained in the public schools of 
the District, and later he attended the 
Corcoran Scientific School of Columbian 
(now George Washington) University, 
graduating with the class of 1891. In 
1899 he became assistant professor of 
physics in George Washington University, 
and in 1900 he entered the Bureau of 
Standiards as associate physicist, which 
position he still holds. He was a mem- 
ber of .the Assay Commission in 1905. He 
is the author of a number of bulletins 
that have been published by the Bureau 
of Standards, among them being: The 
Compilation of United States Laws on 
Weights and Meiasures; The Comparison 
of Line and End Standards; History of 
the United States Weights and Measures; 
and The Testing of Chemical Themome- 
iters, etc. He is a member of the Amer- 
ican Association for the Advancement of 
Science; American Physical Society; 
Washing'ton Philosophicial Society; Cos- 
mos and Analostan Boat Clubs. On Au- 
gust 6, 1888, he married Marian G. Har- 
vey. Residence: 923 Massachusetts ave- 
nue. Office: Bureau of Standards. 

FISHBURN, MOSHEIM ROSS, clergy- 
man, w;as born near Toronto, Canada, on 
June 11, 1867, son of Rev. J. and Susanna 
(MessersmLth) Pishburn. When he was 
eleven years of age his parents removed, 
with their family, .to their former home 
in Pennsylvania. He attended Pennsyl- 
vania College, from which he was grad- 
uiated in 1887, and Yale Divinity School, 
being graduated in 1891. Before ordi- 
nation he supplied 'two churches in the 
State of Wisconsin. He was ordained in 
the Congregational Church at Roxbury, 
Conn., in September, 1891, where he 
served as pastor until called to the as- 
sistant pas'torate of the Firsit Congre- 
giational Chu.rch of Washington. In 1894 
he accepted a call to the Mount Pleas- 



ant Congregational Church (Washington), 
where he is now located. On October 10. 
1893, he married Emma N. Hummel, of 
Harrisburg, Penn. Residence: 3109 Mt. 
Pleasant street. 

FISHER, ALBERT KENRICK, biologist, 
was born at Sing Sing, New York, on 
March 21, 1856, son of Hiram and Susan 
E. (Townsend) Fisher. His education was 
received at the Holbrook Military High 
School at Sing Sing, and the College of 
Physicians and Surgeons, New York, 
graduating in 1879. He has been on many 
exploring expeditions for the United 
States Government; the Death Valley 
expedition, in 1891, which made a biolog- 
ical survey of portions of California, Ne- 
vada, Arizona and Utah, and, in 1899, 
the Harriman Alaskan expedition. He is 
now in charge of economic investigations 
in the United SCates Biological Survey. 
He is one of the founders of the Amer- 
ican Ornithologists' Union. He is the 
author of many bulletins and articles ap- 
pearing in leading journals, among .them. 
Ornithology of the Death Valley, and. 
Hawks and Owls of the United States, 
etc. He is la member of .the Washington 
Academy of Sciences and the Cosmos 
Club, and president of the Washington 
Biological Field Club. He married Alwilda 
Merritt, of Sing Sing, New York. Resi- 
dence: 1516 T street, n.w. Office: De- 
partment of Agriculture. 

FISHER, HOWARD, physician, was 
born at Wheeling, W. Va., on January 25, 
1866, son of Rev. Dr. D. W. and Amandia 
(Kounits) Fisher. His early education 
was obtained at Hanover College, Indi- 
ana, graduating in 1886, when he took 
up the study of theology at the McCor- 
mick Theological Seminary, graduiating in 
1889. After his graduation from the 
theological seminary he took up the study 
of medicine at the Jefferson Medical Col- 
lege, and graduated in 1895; medical 
missionary in East India, and attended 
the University of Berlin (Germany) in 
1899-1900. He is .a Doctor of Medicine, 
and associated with the children's clinin 
at the Emergency Hospital. He is a 
member of the Sons of the Revolution, 
Sigma Chi college fraternity, the Medical 
Society of the District of Columbia, and 
the Presbyterian Church. On January 10, 
1896, he married S. Katharine Conner. 
Residence and office: The Mendota. 

FISHER, ROBERT JONES, lawyer, was 
barn at York, Penn., on July 25, 1847, son 
of Robert Jones and Catherine Jameson 
Fisher. He was graduated from Penn- 
sylvania College in 1867 and Albany Law 
School in 1869, and admitted to the bar 
tlie same year. He served as Examiner, 
Examiner-in-Chief, and Assistant Com- 
missioner, U. S. Patent Office, 1876-91; 
since .then general counsel Eastern Rail- 
road Association. Was married, at Wash- 
ington, D. C, February 7, 1876, to Har- 
riet S. Tyler; was married again, Janu- 



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ary 15, 1907, at Philadelphia, Penn., to 
Louise' Martin. Residence: 1915 Kalo- 
ramia road. Office: Eastern Railroad As- 
sociation. 

FISHER, SAMUEL TUCKER, lawyer, 
was born in Canton, Mass., on February 
12, 1855. His early life was spent on a 
farm; attended .the district schools, and 
later Harvard University, from which in- 
stitution he wias graduated. He after- 
wards took a special course in surveying, 
engineering and assaying in the Massa- 
chusetts Institute of Technology, and 
went ito Colorado as United States Deputy 
Surveyor. His work in the West not be- 
ing to his liking, he again returned «to 
Massachusetts, where he tutored for a 
while, and then took up the. situdy of law. 
After being admitted to ithe bar and a 
shont practice, he entered the United 
States Patent Office as Fourth Assis.tant 
Examiner in 1886. After a competitive 
examinfdtion, lie was appointed law clerk 
in that department in 1901, and principal 
examiner .the same year. In 1893 the 
President appointed him Assistant Com- 
missioner of Patents, which position he 
held until 1897, when he retired to take 
up the practice of law, and has since been 
a member of the law firm of Wilkinson 
& Fisher, of .this city. Residence: 1848 
Wyoming avenue. Office: Atlantic Build- 
ing. 

FISKE, ASA SEVERANCE, clergyman, 
was born in Strongville, Ohio, on March 
2, 1833. He attended Amherst College, 
graduating in 1855, taking the degree of 
A. M. in 1857, afterwards studying theol- 
ogy at the Andover and Yale Theological 
Seminaries (D. D., Hiamilton College, 
1899). Until 1870 he was a Congrega- 
tional minister, and since that time has 
been a clergyman in the Presbyterian 
Church. During the Civil War he served 
as a c'haplain; he wias in charge of 
refugees in the district of Memphis and 
Natchez under special detail of General 
Grant. From 1858 to 1861 was a pastor 
of Congregational Churches in St. Paul, 
and Rockville, Conn., the lajtter from 1865 
to 1870. From 1870 to 1896 he was in 
charge of Presbyterian Churches in 
Rochester, N. Y.; San Francisco, Cal., and 
Ithaca, N. Y. From 1896 to 1904 was pas- 
tor of the Gunton Temple Memorial 
Church, in Washington. He is the au- 
thor of many sermons and addresses that 
have appeared in pamphlet form, and con- 
tributed to many religious journals. Two 
volumes of his lectures, the one entitled 
Ruth, the other Reason and Faith, have 
wide circulation. He is a member of the 
National Geographic .Society; National 
Association for Religious Bducaition; the 
G. A. R., and the Military Order of the 
Loyal Legion. In 1860 he married Eliz- 
abeth Worthington Hand, of Madison, 
Conn. Residence: Ithaca, N. Y. 

FITCH, CHARLES HALL, topographer 
and engineer, was born at Manitowoc, 



Wisconsin, on September 12, 1854, son 
of Chiarles Walton and Mary F. (War- 
basse) Pitch. His educaition was ob- 
tained in the private schools of Wiscon- 
sin, Maryland, and at Georgetown Prepar- 
atory School, and he studied engineering 
under private ifcutors. From 1873 ,to 1876 
he was in the employ of the United 
States Coast Survey, land from 1876 to 
1884 he was interested in mining and pub- 
lic land surveys in New Mexico. He was 
in the employ of the General Land Office 
from 1893 .to 1895, when he became to- 
pographer in the United Stetes Geological 
Survey. From 1895 to 1899 he was to- 
pographer in charge of the Indian Terri- 
tory surveys for his department. He 
now holds the position of engineer in the 
United States Reclamation Service. He 
is a member of .the American Society of 
Civil Engineers, the Cosmos Club, the 
Washington Society of Civil Engineers, 
the National Geographical Society, and 
the American Forestry Association. He 
has contributed many articles on topo- 
gnaphical subjects to the leading scien- 
tific journals of the country, and wrote 
on the subjects of Oklahoma and Indian 
Territories for the Encyclopedias of 
Britannica. On April 26, 1882, he mar- 
ried Mary C. H. Stevens, of Washington. 
Residence: 3031 N street, n.w. Office: 
U. S. Reclamation Service. 

FITCH, JAMES E., banker. He came 
.to Washington just previous to the Civil 
War and joined a firm to engage in a 
general claim business, and especially 
those of damages by the soldiers. The 
firm becoming dissolved, he continued the 
business alone, adding to it a real estate 
brokerage business. Adding partners, the 
business grew rapidly, till the firm be- 
came, as at presen,t, Fitch, Fox & Brown. 
In addition to ittois, in connection with 
Charles J. Bell, president of the American 
Security and Trust Company, he estab- 
lished the banking house of Bell & Co. 
He is secretary and treasurer of ,the Mu- 
tual Protection Fire Insurance Company; 
a director of the American Security and 
Trust Company; the Receiver of the 
Church of the Covenant, and trus,tee of 
the Reform School of the District. Ad- 
dress: 1406 G street, n.w. 

FITZGERALD, JOHN JOSEPH, law- 
yer, Congressman, was born in Brook- 
lyn, N. Y., on March 10, 1872. He at- 
tended the Brooklyn schools, later grad- 
uating from .the academic department of 
Manhattan College, in New York City, 
afterwards taking up the study of law 
at the New Yoirk Law School. When 
but ibwenty-one years of age he was ad- 
mitted to the New York State bar, also 
the same year receiving from the regents 
of the State of New York the degree of 
Bachelor of Laws cum laude. In 1900 
he was a delegate to the National Dem- 
ocratic Convention at Kansas City. He 
has represented the Sixth New York Con- 



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gresslonal District In the Fiflty-slxth, 
Fifty- severi'tih, Fifty-eig-hth and Fifity- 
nin-th Congresses and has been re-eleoted 
to the Sixtieth Congress. Demoorait. Legal 
residence: Brooklyn, N. Y. Washington 
residence: 1815 Sixteenth street, n.w. 

FLACK, WILLIAM HENRY, Congress, 
man, was born at Franklin Falls, Frank- 
lin County, New York, on March 22, 1861. 
He attended the public schools of his na- 
tive town, after which he became inter- 
ested in the lumbering and tanning busi- 
ness. For seven years he was Super- 
visor of ,the town of Waverley, and was 
elected Clerk of Franklin County in 1897, 
and re-eleoted in 1900. From 1898 to 1902 
he was chairman of the Republican 
County Committee, and in 1902 was 
elected President of Malone N. Y. He 
represented the Twenty- sixth New York 
Congressional Dis,trict in the Fifty-eighth 
and Fifty-ninth Confesses. Republican. 
On October 7, 1882, he was miarrled to 
Katherine M. Lynch, and is the father of 
two sons. Legal residence: Malone, N. 
Y. Washington residence: 12 T street. 

FLATHER, HENRY H., Assistant Cash- 
ier, the Rlggs National Bank. Residence: 
906 D street, n.e. OfHce: Riggs National 
Bank. 

FLATHER, WILLIAM J., banker, wias 
born in Baltimore, Md., on May 7, 1859. 
He received his education \n the public 
schools of Baltimore and Washington, 
after which he entered a brokerage office. 
After two years in the brokerag'e office, 
he entered the office of Riggs & Co., in 
1877, as a messenger, and, by persever- 
ance land close attention to his duties, 
he was advanced rapidly. When the es- 
tablishment was reorg-anized, in 1896, 
under the name of (the Riggs National 
Bank, he was made a director and 'as- 
sistant cashier of the institution. In 
addition to his connection with the Riggs 
National Bank, <he is a director in the 
Real Estate Title Insurance Company and 
the Poitomac Insurance Company. On 
October 14, 1885, he married Emma Adele 
Felt, of Jackson, Mich. Residence: 2023 
R street, n.w. Office: Riggs National 
Bank. 

FLEMING, ROBERT ISAAC, architect, 
and philanthropist, was born in Gooch- 
land County, Virginia, on January 15, 1842, 
son of John Malcolm and Eliza A. Flem- 
ing', the latter believed .to be descended 
from Duncan, King of Scotland. On April 
25, 1861, he enlisted in the Richmond Pay- 
ette Artillery, participated in it'hirty bat- 
tles, land became Lieutenant June 3, 1864, 
at Cold Harbor, in recognition of dis- 
tinguished g'allantry. He then began 
business in Richmond as an architect and 
builder, and was appointed assistant city 
engineer. Removing to Washington in 
1867, he was elected la member of the 



District Legislature, and was a member 
of the National Democratic Convention 
that nominated Horace Greeley for Pres- 
ident. In 1870 he entered the District 
National Guard, and rose to its Colonel. 
He added la story to the Confederate Sol- 
diers' Home at Richmond, Va., which 
bears his name. He added extensive Im- 
provements to .the Shoreham Hotel, at a 
cost of $350,000, and lias built, among 
many others, the Church of the Cove- 
nant, the Britis'h Embassy, All Soul.s' 
Church, and the first Department of Jus- 
tice, the first fire-proof building in the 
District. He is a Thirty-third degree 
Scottish Rite Mason, of the Southern 
jurisdiction, an Odd Fellow and a Knight 
of Pythias. His summer home is at Oak- 
view, the former summer residence of 
President Cleveland, and ihe has been 
largely instrumental In developing that 
fine residence section of the city. On Oc- 
tober 27, 1886, he married Belle, daugli- 
ter of Colonel Nicholas Vedder, U. S. A., 
to which union have been born two chil- 
dren. Residence: 1408 Massachusetts av- 
enue. 

FLETCHER, ALICE CUNNINGHAM, 

ethnologist, was born in Boston, Mass., 
In 1845. Early in life she made a study 
of the archaeological remains found in 
the Mississippi and Ohio Vialleys, and in 
1881 investigated the habits and tradi- 
tions of the Omaha Indians for the Pea- 
body Instltate of Harvard University. 
She lived with the tribe, and in 1883 the 
Department of the Interior selected her 
to allot them .their lands in severalty. By 
her, Indian children and adults were sent 
to school at Hampton, "Va., and Carlisle, 
Penn., and through her small sums of 
money were loaned by the Woman's Na- 
tional Indian Association ito worthy In- 
dians to buy land and build houses. An 
exhibit by her of the progress of the In- 
dians for the last quarter of a century 
was a feature of the New Orleans Expo- 
sition, 1884-85. In 1886 she was sent to 
Alaska by the Commissioner of Educa- 
tion, and in 1887 she was made special 
agent to the Winnebago Indians. She 
was lalso elected a member of the Anthro- 
pological Society of Washington, and a 
fellow of the American Association for the 
Advancement of Science. She published 
Indian Education and Civilization (1888), 
and a report of her investigations in 
Alaska in 1886. Residence: 214 Firs: 
street, s.e. 

FLETCHER, LOREN, manufacturer. 
Congressman, was born at Mt. Vernon, 
Kennebec County, Maine. He attended 
the public schools in his native town and 
Maine Wesleyan Seminary, at Kent's Hill, 
Maine. In 1853 he moved to Bangor, and 
was in the employ of a mercantile and 
lumber company as a clerk. After re- 
maining In Bangor for three years, he 
removed to Minneapolis, Minn., where he 



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has since resided. Since locating in Min- 
nesota, he hias been engaged largely in 
manufacturing and mercantile businesses. 
In 1872 he was elected to the State Legis- 
lature, serving in that body seven con- 
secutive terms; the last three iterms he 
served as Speaker. He has irepresented 
the Fifth Minnesota Oongressional Dis- 
trict in ,the Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, 
Fifty-fifth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth 
and Fifty-ninth Congresses. Republioan. 
Legal residence: Minneapolis, Minn. 
Washington address: House of Repre- 
sentatives. 

FLETCHER, MONTGOMERY, naval 
officer, was born in Virginia on February 
15, 1830, and entered the Navy from Penn- 
sylvania as a Third Assistant Engineer. 
On February 21, 1851, he was promoted to 
the rank of Second Assistant Engineer; 
First Assistant Engineer on June 21, 1856, 
and Chief Engineer on October 25, 1859. 
During the' Civil War he served on the 
U. S. S. Saranac, ir; the Pacific Squadron, 
1861 to 1865. After the Civil War he 
served on various stations and duties until 
reaching the age limit, when he was re- 
tired, on February 15, 1892. Address: 
Navy Department. 

FLETCHER, ROBERT, Principal As- 
sistant Librarian, Library of Surgeon- 
General's Office, was born at Bristol, 
England, in 1823, son of Robert and 
Esther (Wall) Fletcher. He was gradu- 
ated from Royal College of Surgeons of 
England in 1844, and was made M. D. 
by Columbian (now George Washington) 
University. He is an associate fellow of 
the College of Physicians, Philadelphia; 
editor of Index Medicus; was for many 
years lecturer on medical jurisprudence, 
Johns Hopkins Universdity. He is a mem- 
ber of ,the Metropolitan and Cosmos Clubs, 
and of many scientific and learned soci- 
eties. Is author of many contributions 
to medical journals, and joint editor of 
the Index Catalogue of the Library of the 
Surgeon-General's Office, now in its 
twenty-eighth volume. Wias married to 
Anna Howe, wlio died January 20, 1889. 
Residence: The Portland. Office: Army 
Medical Museum and Library. 

FLINT, FRANK PUTNAM, lawyer, 
banker, U. S. SenatOir, was born at North 
Reading, Mass., July 15, 1862, son of 
Francis Eaton and Althea (Hewes) Flinr, 
his father being the manager of the 
Street System of San Francisco. He has 
been vice-pre.sident of the Los Angeles 
National Bank, and president of the Met- 
ropolitan Bank and Trust Company, of 
Los Angeles. He was United States Dis- 
trict Attorney for the Southern District 
of California, 1897-1901, and United States 
Senatoir from California since 1905. He 
is a member of the California Club the 
Jonathan Club, of Los Angeles, the Com- 
monwealth Club, of Sian Francisco the 



Metropolitan and Chevy Chase Clubs, of 
Washington, and the Los Angeles Com- 
mandery of Knight Templars. On Feb- 
ruary 25, 1890, he married Katherine 
Bloss, to which union two children have 
been born. Legal residence: Los Ange- 
les, Cal. Washington address: 2205 Mias- 
saohusetts avenue, n.w. 

FLINT, JAMES MILTON, surgeon, vas 
born at Hillsborough, New Hampshire, on 
February 7, 1838, son of Amos and Mary 
(Stickney) Flint. His early education 
was obitained in the common schools of 
his native town and the Pembroke Acad- 
emy, later attending the medical depart- 
ment of Harvard University, graduating 
in 1862. At the outbreak of ,the Civil 
War he was appointed Assistant Surgeon 
in the United States Niavy; Surgeon, in 
1874; Inspector, in 1893, and Medical Di- 
ireotor, in 1897. For several years he was 
connected with .the United States Fish 
Commission and the Smithsonian Insti- 
tution, being the author of many reports 
sent out by those departments. He was 
retired on February 7, 1900, with the rank 
of Rear Admiral. Residence: The Port- 
land. 

FLINT, WESTON, librarian, was born 
at Pike. Wyoming County, New York, 
on July 4, 1835. He attended 
the Chamberlain Institute and Alfred 
Academy, New York, and later at- 
tended Union College, graduating in 1860, 
afterwiards taking up the study of law 
in Columbian (now George Washington) 
University Law School, graduating in 
1878. He has been honored with the de- 
grees of Ph. D. and LL. D. by Alfred 
University. He was secretary of the 
Southern Loyalists' Convention in 1866, 
and a delegate to the Nationial Republican 
Convention in 1868. During 1869 and 1870 
he was editor and publisher of a paper 
in St. Louis called the Daily Tribune, 
and was United States Consul to China 
from 1871 to 1874. He wias librarian of 
the scientific library in the United States 
Patent Office from 1877 to 1887; statis- 
tician of the United States Bureau of 
Education from 1889 to 1895, and since 
1898 has been librarian and secretary of 
the Board of Trustees of the Wiashing- 
ton Public Library. He ds the author of 
a number of catalogues, among them be- 
ing: The Statistics of the Libraries of 
the United States and Canada; and, A 
Catalogue of Additions to the Library of 
the United States Patent Office. He is 
a member of the American Association for 
the Advancement of Science, American 
Library Association, and the National 
Geographic Society, etc. In 1883 he mar- 
ried Lucy Romilda Brown. Residence: 
1213 K sitreet, n.w. Office: The Public 
Libnairy. 

FLOOD, HENRY DELAWARE, lawyer. 
Congressman, was born at Appomattox, 
Va., September 2, 1865, son of J. W. and 



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Ella F. Flood. He was educated at Wash- 
ington and Lee University, and a.t the 
University of Virginia. He is la lawyer 
by profession, and has served in both the 
House and Senate of ithe Legislature of 
ithe State of Virginia, and for some time 
was attorney for ithe Commonwealth for 
Appomattox County, Virginia. In 1901 
and 1902 he wias a member of the Virginia 
Constitutional Conventions. He has rep- 
resented the Tenth Virginia Congressional 
District in the Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth 
and Fifty-ninth Congresses, and is a 
member of the Sixitieth Congress. He is 
a member of ithe Board of Visitors of the 
University of Virginia. Democrat. Legal 
residence: Appomattox, Virginia. Wash- 
ington address: House of Representa- 
tives. 

FLOWER, FRANK ABIAL, author, was 
born at Cotitage, Cattaraugus County, 
New York, on May 11, 1854, son of 
Doithrop T. and Sarah M. (Titus) Flower. 
His education was obtained in the gram- 
mar schools of his native town and the 
New York State Normal School, at Fredo- 
nia. He took up ithe study of law, and 
was admitted to the bar, but only prac- 
ticed about a year, renouncing it for 
journalism. In 1884 he removed .to Wis- 
consin, where he was State Commissioner 
of Statisitics for five years, and later was 
fiscal agent for the city of Superior, Wis- 
consin. For some time he was president 
of the International Traffic Association. 
and executive secretary and a member of 
the Executive Board of the International 
Deep Waterways Association. During the 
twelfth census he was an expert editor 
and interpreter. Among the books he has 
Wiritten there are 'a number of a historical 
and statistical nature: History of the 
Republican Party; Outline History of 
Wisconsin; Eye of the Northwest, etc. 
On May 15, 1892, he was married to Mabel 
Claire Powers, of Milwaukee, Wis. Resi- 
dence: A street, s.e. 

FLOYD, JOHN CHARLES, lawyer. 
Congressman, was born at Sparta, White 
County, Tennessee, on April 14, 1858. In 
1869 he removed with his parents to Ben- 
ton County, Arkansas, where he attended 
the common and high schools until 1876, 
when he entered the State University 
of Arkansas, graduating in 1879. In 1880- 
81 he taught school and began the read- 
ing of I'aw the following year, soon after 
being admitted to the bar. He located 
at Yeilville, where he has since been en- 
gaged in the practice of law. In 1888 he 
was elected to the State Legislature, and 
served one term. In 1890 and again in 
1892 he was elected Prosecuting Attorney 
of the Fourteenth Circuit. He has rep- 
resented the Third Arkansas Congres- 
sional District in the Fifty-ninth Congres.> 
and was re-elected to the Sixtieth Con- 
gress. Democrat. Legal residence: Yeil- 
ville, Ark. Washington residence: The 
Varnum, 



FOCHT, BENJAMIN K., publisher. 
Congressman, was born in New Bloom - 
field, Pennsylvania, on March 12, 1863, 
son of 'a Lutheran minister. Since early 
childhood he has resided ait Lewisburg, 
Penn., and was educated at Bucknell Uni. 
versity, Pennsylvania State College, and 
Susquehanna University, after which he 
learned the printing and publishing busi- 
ness, and at the age of eighteen founded 
a newspaper, which he still owns. He 
has served as State delegate, has many 
times been a congressional confere, Luther 
League 'delegate, and was three times a 
member of the Pennsylvania State Assem- 
bly, and served for four years in the 
State Senate. He was chairman of the 
committee which had charge of the cere- 
monies during the inauguration of Gov- 
ernor Pennypacker. He is prominently 
identified with business enterprises In 
Philadelphia and New York, as a member 
of the firm of Davis & Focht. In No- 
vember, 1906, he was elected to the Six- 
tieth Congress, as a Republican. He i.3 
married and the father of two daughter.s 
and one son. Legal residence: Lewis- 
burg, Penn. Washington address: House 
of Representatives. 

FOLGER, WILLIAM MAYHEW, naval 
officer, was born in Ohio. He was grad- 
uated from the United States Naval 
Academy in 1864, and was promoted to 
Master in 1866; Lieutenant and Lieu- 
itenant-Comm'ander in 1868; Commander 
in 1885, and Captain in 1898. In 1898 
he was commander of the New Orleans, 
of the North Atlantic Squadron, and in 
1900 was chief of staff of the North 
Atlantic fleet and commanded the flag- 
ship Kearsarge. In 1903 he was made 
Inspector of the Third Lighthouse Dis- 
trict. Address: Navy Department. 

FOLSOM, MOSES, editor of the South- 
ern Field, published by the Land and In- 
dustrial department of the Southern Rail- 
way, Washington, D. C, vvas born Au- 
gust 4, 1847, at Youngstown, Ohio, son of 
Elijah E. and Charity (Murray) Folsom. 
Educated in the public schools of his na- 
tive city; entered the office of the Youngs- 
itown Register as an apprentice in 1862; 
removed to Iowa in 1869; editor, success- 
ively, of the Centerville Citizen, Chariton 
Patriot, and LeMars Sentinel; president 
Iowa Editorial Association; visited the 
noted Kuklux districts of the South for 
the Burlington (Iowa) Hawkeye; super- 
intendent of the Iowa State Institution for 
the Deaf and Dumb, Council Bluffs, 1878- 
80; introduced the printing trade, and 
established the Hawkeye, a paper still 
printed by the students; advertising agent, 
ten years, and general traveling passen- 
ger and land agent two years, of the 
Great Northern Railway — the Hill Sys- 
tem — St. Paul, Minn., 1888 to 1900; Sun- 
day e'ditor St. Paul Daily Globe; author 
of Treasures of Science, History and Lit- 
erature; A Glance at the Globe; Alaska, 



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liand of Gold and Glacier; Valley, Plain 
and Peak, etc. Member of National Geo- 
graphic Society; A. F. and A. M.; I. O. 
O. F., and K. P. Married, in 1870, to 
Mary S. Waynick, at Charlton, Iowa; one 
son, Robert, actor, Chicago. Residence. 
1811 Eighteenth street, n.w. Office: 1320 
Pennsylvania avenue, n.w. 

FORAKER, JOSEPH BENSON, lawyer. 
U. S. Senator, was born on a farm near 
Ralnsboro, Highland Counity, Ohio, on 
July 5, 1846. At the ouitbreak of the Civil 
War he enlisted as a private in the 
Eighty-ninth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer 
Infantry, serving throughout the war, hav- 
ing been p'omoted to First Lieutenant and 
brevetted Captain. In 1869 he was grad- 
uated from Ooirnell University; began the 
study of law and was admitted to the 
bar at Cincinnati, where he has since 
practiced. He was elected Judge of the 
Superior Court of Cincinnati in 1879, serv- 
ing until 1882, when he resigned on ac- 
count of ill-healith. He was a Republican 
candidate for Governor of Ohio in 1883, 
but was defeated; in 1885 he ran again 
for the same office, being elected, and re- 
eleoted In 1887. He was again defeated 
for the same office In 1889. He was chaiir-- 
man of the Ohio Republican State Con- 
ventions in 1886, 1890, 1896 and 1900, and 
was a delegate-at-large from the same 
State to the National Republican Con- 
ventflons In 1884, 1888, 1892, 1896, 1900 and 
1904, and was chairman of ithe Ohio dele- 
gations in the conventions of 1884 and 
1888, preseniting at these conventions the 
name of Hon. John Sherman for the nom- 
ination for the presidency. During the 
1892 and 1896 conventions he served as 
the chairman of the Committee on Reso- 
lutions, and reported the platform at the 
time to the convention. In 1896 and 1900 
he presented the name of William Mc- 
Kinley to the conventions foir the nomi- 
nation for the presidency. He was elected 
to the United States Senate in 1896, to 
succeed Calvin S. Drice, and was re- 
elected In 1902. His term will expire on 
March 3, 1909. Legal residence: Cincin- 
nati, Ohio. Washingiton residence: 1500 
Sixteenth street, n.w. 

FORD, JOHN DONALDSON, Chief En- 
gineer, U. S. N., was born in Maryland. 
He attended the public schools of Balti- 
more, and later was graduated from the 
Maryland Institute School of Design, in 
1861, and the Potts School of Mechanical 
Engineering, in 1862. He entered the 
United States Navy the same year as 
Third Assistant Engineer, and was pro- 
moted ito Second Assistant Engineer in 
1864, First in 1868, and, Chief Engineer 
In 1890. During the Civil War he took 
part in the capture of Baton Rouge and 
the battles on Mobile Bay. He was on 
the Arizona when she was destroyed by 
ftre off Poventy Point, in the Mississippi 
River, In 1865. After serving on many 
expeditions he was ordered to start the 



Baltimore Training' School in 1884, and 
was at the Maryland Agricultural and 
Mechanical College from 1894 to 1896. 
From 1896 to 1898 he was Acting Com- 
mander of the U. S. S. Brooklyn. He 
joined the Asiatic fleet and took part in 
the battles In Manila Bay during the 
Spanish War, taking part in the destruc- 
tion of the battles at Caverty, Corre- 
gador and Manila. In 1899 he was com- 
missioned Commander and advanced In 
that grade for conspicuous conduct in 
battle. He was promoted to Rear Admiral, 
and placed on the retired list on May 19, 
1902. He Is the author of many pam- 
phlets on manual training and An Amer- 
ican Cruise in the East. Address: War 
Department. 

FORD, WORTHINGTON CHAUNCEY, 

statistician, was born In Brooklyn, N. T., 
on February 16, 1858. son of Gordon Les- 
ter and Emily E. (Fowler) Ford. From 
1885 to 1889 he was chief of the Bureau 
of Statisitics in the Department of State, 
and filled the same position in the Treas- 
ury Departmenit from 1893 to 1897. From 
1897 to 1902 he was connected with the 
Boston Public Library, and lecturer on 
statistics In the University of Chicago. 
Since 1902 he has been Chief of the Di- 
vision of Manuscripts In the Library of 
Congress. He is the author of a num- 
ber of books, among them being: The 
American Citizen's Manual; The S.tand- 
ard Silver Dollar, and George Washing- 
ton. Residence: Chevy Chase, Maryland. 
Office: Library of Congress. 

FORDNEY, JOSEPH WARREN, Con- 
gressman, was born in Blackford County, 
Indiana, on November 5, 1853. He at- 
tended the common schools of his native 
county, and removed to Saginaw, Michi- 
gan, in 1869, where he worked in the 
lumber camps, acquiring a thorough 
knowledge of the lumber industry, which 
business he is sitill interested in. He has 
been vice-president of the Saginaw Board 
of Trade, and was Alderman of that city 
for several years. He has represented the 
Eighth Michigan Congressional District In 
the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty- 
eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses, and 
has been re-elected to the Sixtieth Con- 
gress. Republican. Legal residence: Sag- 
inaw, Mich. Washington address: House 
of Representatives. 

FOREE, C. M., Chief Clerk in the United 
States Comptroller's Office, was born in 
Shelbyville, Kentucky. He was practicing 
law there as a member of the Court of 
Appeals when Secretary Carlisle asked 
him to take a position as law clerk in 
1893. Not long afterward a chief clerk- 
ship wus created, and he has filled the 
position since, being the only chief clerk 
the Comptroller has ever had. Residence. 
1211 K street, n.w. Office: Treasury De- 
partment. 



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FORMAN, SAMUEL EAGLE, educator, 
author, was born at Brentsvllle, Virginia, 
on April 29, 1858, son of Francis B. and 
Elizabeth Jane (Miller) Forman. He at- 
itended Dickerson College, graduating in 
1887, and later Johns Hopkins University 
for a special study. He has been princi- 
pal of schools in New England and Mary- 
land. During 1900 he was the director 
of the Teachers' Institutes in the State 
of Maryland. He has been a contributor 
to a number of the educational journals, 
and is the author of several books, among 
them being: First Lessons in Civics; The 
Life and Writings of Thomas Jefferson, 
etc. On April 21, 1898, he married Caro- 
line Meredith. Residence: The Driscoll. 

FORNES, CHARLES V., Congressman. 
In November, 1906, he was elected a mem- 
ber of the Sixtieth Congress from the 
Eleventh New York Congressional Dis- 
trict as a Democrat. Legal residence: 
New York, N. Y. Washington address. 
House of Representatives. 

FORSTER, RUDOLPH, Assistant Sec- 
retary to the President, was born in 
Washington, D. C, October 30, 1872, son 
of Herman and Justine (Hermann) Fors- 
ter. He was graduated from the Colum- 
bian Law School in 1897, and has been 
assistant secretary ito the President since 
March 17, 1903. He married, on October 
4, 1899, Emma Maria Galsberg, of Wash- 
ington, D. C. Residence: 1320 Park road. 
Office: White House. 

FORSYTHE, ANDREW DUNBAR, phy- 
sician, was born in Harrodsburg, Mercer 
County, Kentucky, on March 31, 1874, son 
of Matthew Leander and Bettie (Grif- 
fith) Forsytthe. After graduating from the 
Central University of Kentucky in 1892 
■he took up the study of medicine in the 
Hospital College of Medicine in Louis- 
ville, Ky., from which he was graduated 
in 1897. During 1897 and 1898 he was 
resident physician in the Louisville City 
Hospital; Lying Insanity Hospital, New 
York City, 1898-99, and Children's Hos- 
pital, at Randall's Island, New York City, 
1899-1900, since when he has practiced 
his profession in Washing'ton. He holds 
the position as chief surgeon to the Wash- 
ington Railway and Electric Company. 
He is a member of the Presbyterian 
Church, the Phi Delta Theta college fra- 
ternity, the Washington Medical Society, 
Washington Medical Association, Ameri- 
can Medical Association, and, in politics, 
is a Democrat. On September 17, 1903, 
he married Mary D. Asquith, of Washing- 
ton, to which union has been born one 
child. Residence: The Wyoming. 

FORSYTH, GEORGE ALEXANDER, 

retired naval officer, was born at Muncy, 
Pennsylvania, on November 7, 1837. He 
was educated at the Canandaigua (N. Y.) 
Academy. At the outbreak of the Civil 
War he enlisted as a private with the 
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Chicago Dragoons in 1861. Later in the 
same year he was piromoted to First 
Lieutenant and transferred to the Eighth 
Illinois Cavalry; Captain in 1862, Major 
in 1863, and brevetted Colonel of Volun- 
teers in 1864, for gallantry at Opquan 
and Winchester. In 1865 he was brevet- 
ted Brigadier-General of the Volunteers, 
and Lieutenant-Colonel of the U. S. A. in 
1867 for gallantry ait Dinwiddle Court 
House. In 1866 he was made Major of the 
Ninth United States Cavalry, and Lieuten- 
ant-Colonel of the Fourth Cavalry in 1881. 
He was brevetted Colonel of the U. S. A. 
for services at Five Forks, Virginia. Dur- 
ing 'the Civil War he served with the 
Army of West Virginia, Army of the 
Shenandoah, and ithe Army of the Poto- 
mac, taking part in all the principal bat- 
tles, being wounded four times. During 
1875 and 1876 he was a member of the 
board of officers appointed to inspect the 
army of Europe and Asia. He was retired 
on March 25, 1890. He is the author of 
some interesting books, among them be- 
ing: Thrilling Days in Army Life, and. 
The Story of a Soldier. In 1885 he mar- 
ried Natilie S. Beaumont, daughter of 
Colonel E. B. Beaumont. Residence: 1509 
Rhode Island avenue, n.w. 

FORSYTH, ROBERT B., Assistant Pay. 
Ing Teller in the Treasury Department, 
was born in June, 1849, at Oswego, N. Y. 
He was bookkeeper in the Maine National 
Bank, New York, until he was appointed 
by General F. E. Skinner, Treasurer of the 
United States, a first-class clerk in March, 
1870. He advanced ithrough the several 
grades until he reached his present posi- 
tion, being for ten years in charge of the 
shipping room. Residence: 1522 T street, 
n.w. Office: Treasury Department. 

FORT, GEORGE,' Chief of the Division 

of National Banks, Office of the Treasurer 
of the United States. Residence: 1525 
Twenty-eighth street. Office: Treasury 
Department. 

FORWOOD, WILLIAM HENRY, Briga- 
dier-General, U. S. A. (i^etired), was 
born in Brandywine Hundred, Delaware, 
on September 7, 1838. He was graduated 
from the Crozier Academy, at Chester, 
Pennsylvania, in 1856, and later attended 
the medical department of the University 
of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1861. At 
the outbreak of the Civil War he entered 
the army as First Lieutenant and Assist- 
ant Surgeon. He was very seriously 
wounded in battle in 1863, and was twice 
brevetted for meritorious service. In 1876 
he was promoted to Surgeon; Deputy 
Surgeon-General in 1891; Assistant Sur- 
geon-General in 1897, and, in 1902, Sur- 
geon-General (Brigadier-General), when 
he was retired on age. He served In In- 
dian campaigns, and was with Sheridan's 
exploring expeditions from 1880 to 1882. 
He has been the army operating su geon, 
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ing Board, and ithe Army Medical School. 
He is a member of the American Medical 
Association, American Academy of Medi- 
cine, Academy of Natural Sciences, and 
the Cosmos Club. He is ithe author of 
several books and has contributed articles 
to leading medical journals on military 
suirgery, etc. On September 28, 1870, he 
married Mary A. Y. Osborne, of Delaware 
County, Pennsylvania. Residence: 1425 
Euclid place, n.w. 

FOSS, GEORGE EDMUND, lawyer, 
Congressman, was born lait Burkshire, 
Franklin County, Vermont, on July 2, 
1863. He attended Harvard College and 
laiter Columbia (N. Y.) Lraw School, and 
the School of Political Science, in New 
York City. He was graduated from Union 
College of Law, in Chicago, in 1889, with 
the degree of LL. B., and was admitted 
to ithe Chicago bar the same year. Until 
elected to Congress, he 'had never held 
any political offlce. He represented the 
Tenth Illinois Congressional District in 
the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-flfth, Fifty-sixth, 
Fifty- seventh. Fifty- eighth and Fifty- 
ninth Congresses, and been chairman of 
the Committee on Naval Affairs since 
the" Fifty-sixth Congress. Republican. 
Legal residence: Chicago, 111. Washing- 
ton address: House of Representatives. 

FOSSE, DES PORTES DE LA, Coun- 
selor and Charge d' Affaires, French Em- 
bassy. Address: 1640 Rhode Island ave- 
nue. 

FOSTER, DAVID JOHNSON, lawyer. 
Congressman, was born at Barnet, Cale- 
donia County, Vermont, on June 27, 1857. 
He attended the St. Johnsburg Academy 
(Vt.), graduating in 1876, and later en- 
tered Dartmouth College, gr'aduating with 
the class of 1880. He took up the study 
of law and was admitted to the bar in 

1883, and from 1886 to 1890 he was Prose- 
cuting Attorney of Chittenden County, 
Vermont, and was elected to the State 
Senate from the same county in 1892 
and 1894 From 1894 to 1898 he "was Com- 
missioner of State Taxes, and chairman 
of the Board of Railroad Commissioners 
from 1898 to 1900 He has represented the 
First Vermont Congressional District in 
the Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth and Fifty- 
ninth Congresses, and has been re-elected 
to Ithe Sixtieth Congress. Republican. 
Legal residence: Burlington, Vt. Wash- 
ington address: 1443 Massachusetts ave- 
nue. ; jjgj 

FOSTER, JOHN HOPKINS, lawyer, 
Congressman, was born at Evansvrlle, In- 
diana, on January 31, 1862. He attended 
the 'Common 'schools of his native town, 
and was graduated from the Indiana 
State University with the class of 1882, 
Jater entering the law department of 
Columbian (now George Washington) 
University, graduating with the class of 

1884. He was admitted to 'the bar at 



Evansville, Ind., In 1885, where he has 
since practiced. In 1893 he was elected 
to the Indiana State Legislature, and in 
1894 he was elected Judge of the Supe- 
rior Court of Vanderburg County, Indi- 
ana, and was re-elected to the same office 
in 1898 and 1902. When the Hon. James 
A. Hemenway was elected to the United 
States 'Senate he was elected by a special 
election in May, 1905, to fill out his (Hem- 
enway's) unexpired term in the Fifty- 
ninth Congress from the First Indiana 
Congressional District, and has been ire- 
elected to the Sixtieth Congress. Legal 
residence: Evansville, Ind. Washingiton 
residence: 1505 L street, n.w. 

FOSTER, JOHN WATSON, diplomatist, 
was born in Pike County, Indiana, on 
March 2, 1836. He was graduated from 
the Indiana State University in 1855, and 
attended the Harvard Law School the fol- 
lowing year; he holds honorary degrees 
from Princeton, Yale, Pennsylvania and In- 
diana Universities, and Wabash College. 
After graduating from Harvard he prac- 
ticed law in the State of Indiana until 
the Civil War broke out, when he enlisted 
as Major, and was advanced to the rank 
of Colonel before the close 'Of the war. 
For a few years after the close of the 
war he edited a daily newspaper at Ev- 
ansville, Ind., and from 1869 to 1873 he 
was postmaster of that city. In 1873 he 
was appointed Minister to Mexico, serv- 
ing until 1880, when he was transferred 
to Russia, remaining there for one year. 
He served as Minister to Spain from 1883 
to 1885, and was appointed special pleni- 
potentiary to negotiate reciprocity treat- 
ies with Brazil, Spain, Germany and Brit- 
ish West Indies, etc., in 1891. During 
1892 and 1893 he was Secretary of State, 
and in 1893 he represented this country 
in Ithe Bering Sea arbitration at Paris. 
The Emperor of China invited him to 
participate in the peace negotiations with 
Japan. In 1898 he was a member of the 
Anglo-Canadian Commission. In 1903 he 
represented the United States at London 
in the Alaskan Boundary Tribunal. In 
1907 he represented China as a delegate 
to The Hague Peace Conference. He is 
the author of the following books: The 
Biography of Matthew Waitson Foster; 
A Century of American Diplomacy; 
American Diplomacy in the Orient; Arbi- 
tration and The Hague Court; The Prac- 
tice of Diplomacy, etc. In 1859 he mar- 
ried Mary Parke McFerson. Residence: 
1323 Eighteenth street, n.w. 

FOSTER, JUDITH ELLEN HORTON, 

lecturer was born at (Horton) Lowell, 
Mass., on November 3, 1840. Her early 
education was obtained at Lima,, New 
York, later removing to Clinton, Iowa, 
where she took up the study of law, and 
was admitted to the Iowa State bar in 
1872. She became prominent as a W. C. 
T. U. lecturer, and was for a time super- 
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When ithls party affiliated with the Pro- 
hibitionist party she united with non- 
partisan W. C. T. U., becoming presi- 
dent of that body. She is quite well 
linown as a Republican campaign orator. 
In 1869 she was married to E. C. Fos- 
ter, who was a lawyer, lat Clinton, Iowa. 
Residence: 416 Fifth street, n.w. 

FOSTER, MARTIN D., Congressman. 
He was elected a member of the Sixtieth 
Congress from the Twenty- third Illinois 
Congressional District as a Democrat in 
November, 1906. Legal residence: Olney, 
111. Washington address: House of Rep- 
resentatives. 

FOSTER, MURPHY J., lawyer, U. S. 
Senator, was born at Franklin, Louisiana, 
on January 12, 1849. His early education 
was obtained in a preparatory school at 
White's Creek, near Nashville, Tenn., later 
attending Washington and Lee Univer- 
sity, at Lexington, Va., and Cumberland 
University, a)t Lebanon, Tenn., graduat- 
ing from the latter in 1870. From Leba- 
non he went to Tulane University, in New 
Orleans, La., and entered the law depart- 
ment, graduating in 1871. In 1879 he was 
eledted to the Louisiana State Senate, 
and was ire-elected three consecutive 
terms for four years each, being elected 
president pro tempore in 1888 and 1890. 
He was the leader of the anti -lottery 
fight in the LegislaJture in 1890 and 1892; 
he was nominated by the anti-lottery con- 
vention for Governor, and was elected in 
1896, and re-elected four years later. Aftei- 
serving eight years as Governor, he was 
elected to the United States Senate, to 
succeed Hon. Donaldson Caffery, a Dem- 
ocrat, from Louisiana, taking his seat on 
March 4, 1901, and was re-elected in 1906. 
His term of office will expire March 3, 
1913. Democrat. Legal (residence; Frank, 
din, Louiisiana. Washington address: U. S. 
Senate. 

FOSTER, PERCY SEMPLE, merchant, 
was born in Richmond, Va., on September 
15, 1863. He is the son of Robert Ed- 
ward and Josephine (Wilkinson) Foster. 
When a child his parents removed to Bal- 
timoire, where he was educated in the pub- 
lic schools and Baltimore City College. 
Afiter graduaiting from the latter institu- 
tion, he began the study of stenography, 
soon becoming an expert. After hold- 
ing several positions as private secretary 
in Baltimore he came to Washington and 
was connected wii:h the American Se- 
curity and Trust Company as an assist- 
ant teller. Leaving the American Se- 
curity and Trust Company, he entered 
the employ of the B. H. Warner Com- 
pany, where he remained until 1895, when 
he was appointed manager of ithe Wash ■ 
ington branch of Sanders & Stayman 
(piano and music dealers), which posi- 
tion he still holds. He possesses consid- 
erable music talent, having a rich bari- 
tone voice, as well as being one of the 



most finished organists in Washington. 
Since coming to Washington he has been 
direator of some of ithe best church choirs 
in the city. He has conducted some of 
the largest choruses that have ever been 
brought together in the country. Was a 
member of the Executive Committee of 
President Roosevelt's inauguration, and 
director of the vocal music for the past 
three presidential inaugural ceremonies. 
He is a Mason and chairman of the 
Committee on Mercantile Interests of the 
Board of Trade; also member of the ne.v 
Chamber of Commerce. In addition t<) 
his connection with Sanders & Stay- 
man, he is prominently identified with 
many other business enterprises in the 
city. On October 19, 1882, he married 
Louise Wescott, and is the father of 
two children. Residence: "The Goodwin," 
and Washington Grove, Maryland. Office: 
1327 P street, n.w. 

FOSTER, ROMULUS ADAMS, physi- 
cian, was born in Washington, D. C., son 
of the laite Adams Foster, of Danvers, 
Essex County, Massachusetics, whose an- 
cestors came to America in 1638. Both 
his father and grandfather participated 
in the War of 1812, and one of his an- 
cestors, President John Adanris, was a 
member of the Commititee of Five whicn 
framed the Declaration of Independence. 
His early youth was spent in New Eng- 
land, where, in New Haven, Conn., ha 
attended the Webster and Eaton schools. 
After the death of his faither he returned 
to Washington, where he has since re- 
sided. He was graduated from the med- 
ical department of Columbian (now 
Geoirge Washington) University, and later 
took a short law course aii, the National 
University, after which he completed a 
two years' course in analytical chemistry, 
and was a special student in the depart- 
ment of arts and sciences of George 
Washington University in 1904-05. From 
1SS8 to 1890 he was physician to the Chi- 
nese Legation, and, in addition to his 
(regular practice, he has been official med- 
ical examiner foir several insurance com- 
panies in Pennsylvania and the District. 
In 1888 he was appointed by President 
Cleveland as Surgeon of the Fourth (now 
Second) Baittalion of Infarutry, District 
of Columbia Militia. He is a member of 
the Association of Military Surgeons of 
the United States and the Microscopical 
Society of the District of Columbia, etc. 
He is a member of ithe Protestant Epis- 
copal Church, and is unmarried. Resi- 
dence: 2207 Massachusetts avenue, n.w. 

FOULKROD, W. W., Congressman. In 
November, 1906, he was elected a member 
of the Sixtieth Congress from the Fifth 
Congressional District of Pennsylvania. 
In politics he is a Republican Legal res- 
idence: Philadelphia, Penn. Washington 
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FOWLER, CHARLES NEWELL, law- 
yer, Congiressman, was born at Lena, 
Illinois, on November 2, 1852. He was 
graduated from Yale University with ithe 
class of 1876, after which he entered the 
Chicago Law School, graduating in 1878. 
He has represented the Fifth New Jer- 
sey Congressional Disitrict in the Fifty- 
fourth and subsequent Congresses. Re- 
publican. Legal residence: Elizabeth, N. 
J. Washington address: House of Rep- 
resentatives. 

FOX, ALBERT F., President of the 
Columbia National Bank, was born in 
York County, Pennsylvania, December 
22, 1845. He was educated in the com- 
mon schools of Pennsylvania, worked as 
a drug clerk in Yo.-^k, Penn., and, on July 
10, 1863, entered ithe real estate office 
of Joseph P. Kelley. After thirteen year.s 
there, he 'started in business for himself, 
carrying on the business in his own nam^ 
until 1901, when it was incorporated un- 
der the name of the A. F. Fox Company. 
In June 1897, he was made president 
of the Columbia National Bank, and is 
also president of the National Union Fire 
Insurance Company. Residence: 16 Grant 
place, n.w. Business address: Fourteentii 
and New York avenue, n.w. 

FOX, EDMUND KELLEY, real estate, 
was born in Washington, D. C, July 17, 
1875, son of Albert Frederick and Mary 
Jane (Kelley) Fox. Descendant of ithe 
Quaker, George Fox, who settled in 
Pennsylvania. His father was one of the 
organizers of the Columbia National Bank 
and Washington Loan and Trust Com- 
pany, and is now president of the Colurii. 
bia National Bank and the Najiional 
Union Fire Insurance Company of Wash- 
ington. Edmund K. Fox was educated 
in the public schools of Washington, the 
Harry Hillman Academy of Wilkesbarre, 
Penn., Pennsylvania College, ai Gettysburg, 
and was graduated from the Georgetown 
Universiity Law School, LL. B., in 1897. 
He organized the Potomac Savings Bank, 
of Georgetown, and for over ten years 
served as an active member of the Na- 
tional Rifles of Washington. He is a 
member of Lafayette Lodge, No. 19, F. A 
A. M.; Lafayette Chapter, No. 5, R. A. M.; 
Washington Commandeiry, No. 1, K. T.. 
and is a noble of the Mystic Shrine. H-i 
is the author of To Gain and Retain 
Wealth, a booklet pertaining to the man- 
agrement of financial interests. He Is 
a member of St. Paul's English Lutherai; 
Church, and served as president of the 
Washington Alumni Chapter of the Sigma 
Chi college fraiternity in 1905, and is a 
chanter member of the University CluD. 
In December, 1905, he obtained the en- 
tire interests of the A. F. Fox Company 
(ireal estate), the same being now under 
his entire conitrol and management. On 
February 2, 1898, he married Florence 
Eysteir Weaver, of Carroll Counity, Mary- 



land, and two children have been born 
to them. Residence: 1618 Twenty-ninth 
street, n.w. Office: Fourteenth street and 
New York avenue. 

FOX, JAMES J., (S. T. D.). clergyman, 
professor at St. Thomas' College, Catholic 
University of America. Address: Catholic 
University of America. 

FRANK, ROYAL THAXTER, Brlga. 
dier-General, U. S. A. (retired), was born 
at Gray, Maine, on May 6, 1838. He aJt- 
tended the United States Military Acad- 
emy, graduating in 1858. For gallantry 
displayed at Fredericksburg during the 
Civil War he was brevetted a Major, and 
later a Lieuitenant-Colonel. From 1888 
to 1898 he was Colonel of the First United 
States Artillery and in command of the 
Artillery School at Fort Monroe. From 
1895 to 1899 he was a member of the 
Board of Ordnance and Fontifications; In 
1898 he was in command of the Depart- 
ment of the Eas(t, the First Division of 
the Third Army Corps, Third Army Corpi, 
and Second Division of the Fourth Army 
Corps. In 1899 he was in command of 
the Fourth Army Corps and the Depart- 
m nt of the Gulf, being promoted to Brig- 
adier-General the same year, when he 
was retired on age. On October 12, 1864, 
he was married to Emma Knight, In 
Brooklyn, N. Y. Residence: 1707 Q street, 
n.w. 

FRANKENFIELD, HARRY CRAW- 
FORD, of the United States Weather 
Bureau, was born in Easton, Penn., on 
November 24, 1862. He attended Lafay- 
ette College, graduating in 1881, with the 
degree of A. M., and later attended th^ 
medical department of Howard Univer- 
sity, in Washington. From 1887 ito 1894 
he was in charge of the United States 
Weather Bureau office at Chicago, 111., 
and the office at St. Louis from 1894 to 
1898. He is now in charge of the River 
and Flood Service of ithe United States 
Weather Bureau. He is a naember of the 
National Geographic Society and the Cos- 
mos Club. He is the author of many 
bulletins, which have been issued by his 
department, and has been a regular con- 
tributor to Ithe Monthly Weather Review. 
On November 24, 1891, he married Kath- 
erine Presley Thornton, the daughter of 
Judge Anthony Thornton, of Shelbyville, 
111. Residence: The Portsmouth. Office: 
U. S. Weather Bureau. 

FRANKLIN, SAMUEL RHOADS, Rear 
Admiral, U. S. N. (retired), was born in 
York, Pennsylvania, Augusit 25, 1825. He 
was graduated from the United States 
Naval Academy in 1845. and entered the 
active service as a Past Midshipman in 
1847; was promoted to Master and Lieu- 
tenamt in 1855; Lieutenant-Commander 
in 1862; Commander in 1866; Cap'tain 
In 1872; Commodore in 1888, and Rear 



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Admiral In 1885. The most of his service 
has been at sea, and he took part in the 
Mexican and Civil Wars. During 1884 
and 1885 he was superintendent of the 
United States Naval Observaitory, and 
Commander-in-Chief of the European 
Station from 1885 to 1887. He was re- 
tired from active ^e^rvice in August, 
1887. He was president of the Interna- 
itionai Marine Conference, and a member 
of the Washington National Monument 
Association; member of the Metropoli- 
tan Club. He is the author of Memories 
of a Rear Admiral. In 1883 he married 
a daughter of Rear Admiral B. F. Sand.^ 
Residence: 1338 Nineteenth sitreet, n.w. 

FRANTZ, J. LUTHER, clergyman, pas- 
tor of St. Mark's Lutheran Church. Resi- 
dence: 801 C street, s.w. 

FRANZONI, CHARLES WILLIAM, 

physician, was born in Washington, D. 
C, on August 15, 1837, son of John Clem- 
ens: and Ann (Dunbar) Franzoni. His 
educaiioin was obtained at Columbian 
(now George Washington) University, 
graduating Ph. B. In 1859, and M. D. 
in 1869. Since making medicine his pro- 
fession he has always practiced in Wash- 
ington. For more than thirty years he 
has been treasurer of the Washington 
Medical Society, and has been president 
of the Medical Association of the District 
of Columbia. On October 25, 1876, he 
married Sarah Cecelia Sanders, of Cleve- 
land, Ohio. Residence: 605 I street, n.w. 

FRASER, DANIEL, lithographer, bank- 
er, was born in Inverness, Scotland, on 
July 7, 1840. He obtained his early edu- 
cation at ithe parish school in his native 
town, after which he became an appren- 
tice with the firm of Gilmour & Dean, 
lithographers at Glascow, Scotland. In 
1862 he removed to America, residing in 
New York, where he was with the firm 
of Major & Knapp. After five years in 
New York he took cha.ge of the printing 
department of ithe Clark Thread Com- 
pany, at Newark, N. J., remaining there 
until 1872, when he came to Washington 
as superintendent of the Norris Peters 
liahographing establishment. After Mr. 
Peters' death Mr. Fraser formed a co- 
partnership with the heirs of the estate, 
which continued until 1899, wl.en a stock 
company was formed In addition to be- 
ing president and itreasurer of the Nor- 
ris Peters Company, he is a director of 
the American Security and Trust Com- 
pany and the Norfolk and Washington 
Steamboat Company. He is a Thirty- 
second degree Mason, and a past grand 
officer of 'the Odd Fellows. In 1862 he 
married Agnes Fulton, of Glascow, Sc>t- 
land. Residence: 1626 P street, n.w. 
Ofl'ce: 458 Pennsjiv^/iia avenue, n.w 

FRAZIER JAMES B., lawyer, U. S. 
Senator, was born in Pikeville, Bledsoe 
County, Tennessee, on October 25, 1858. 



He attended the University of Tennes- 
see with the class of 1878. After 
leaving college he began the read- 
ing of law with his father, Judge Thomas 
N. Frazier, ait Nashville, Tenn.; was ad- 
mitted to the bar, and soon afterward re- 
moved to Chattanooga, practicing law con- 
tinuously until 1902. He was electel 
Governor of Tennessee in 1902, and re- 
elected in 1904. In 1905 he was elected 
to the United States Senate, to fill out 
the unexpired term of Hon. William B. 
Bate, who died. Resigning from the 
governorship of Tennessee, he took his 
seat In the Senate on December 4, 1905. 
His term of office will expire March 3, 
1911. Democra't. In 1883 he married 
Louise Douglas Keith, of Athens, Tenn. 
Legal residence: Chatitanooga, Tenn. 
Washington address: U. S. Senate. 

FREMONT, JOHN CHARLES, naval 
officer, was born in San Francisco, Cal., 
on April 19, 1849, son of Major-General 
John Charles (U. S. A.) and Jessie (Ben- 
ton) Fremont. He attended the United 
States Naval Academy, making a spe- 
cialty of torpedoes, electric science and 
ordnance, graduaiting in 1872. From 1883 
to 1885 he saw service on the U. S. S. 
Drift, and was on the torpedo boat Por- 
ter in the Spanish-American War. From 
1899 to 1901 he was Commandant of th-? 
Cavite Navy Yard, and since 1902 he has 
been on the U. S. S. Calgoa, ranking as 
Commander. He is 'the author of a num- 
ber of Government reports, among them 
being one on deep sea soundings, and an- 
other on searchlights and coast survey. 
He has also written a number of news- 
paper and magazine articles He is a 
member of the New York Athletic and 
University (N. Y.), Carabon (Manila), and 
the Army and Navy Clubs. On May 27, 
1877, he married Sally Anderson, of New 
York. Residence: 2119 H street, n.w. 

FRENCH, BURTON LEE, lawyer. Con. 
gressman, was born at Delphi, Indiana, 
on August 1, 1875, son of Charles A. and 
Mina P. French and when five years of 
age he removed with his parents to Kear- 
ney, Nebraska, where he resided for two 
years, and since 1882 he has made his 
home in Idaho. In 1901 he was graduated 
from the University of Idaho, and late." 
attended the University of Chicago, grad- 
uating in 1904, with the degree of Ph. M. 
He took up law as a profession, and is 
a member of the law firm of Orland, 
Smith & French, of Moscow, Idaho. In 
1898 he was elected to the Idaho State 
Legislature, and re-eleoted in 1900. Ho 
has represented the State of Idaho in 'the 
United States House of Representatives 
during the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth 
Congresses, and was re-eleoted to the 
Sixtieth Congress. Republican. On June 
28, 1904, he married Winifred Hartley 
Legal residence: Moscow, Idaho. Wash- 
ington address: House of Representa- 
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FRENCH, FRANCES GRAHAM (Miss), 
translaitor and essayist, is a daughter of 
Hon. A. S. and Caro (Meade Whitney) 
French, and a sister of the late Lieuten- 
ant Walter S. French, U. S. N., one of 
the heroes of the U. S. S. Huron disas- 
ter. Her education was received abroad 
in France, Germany and Italy. She wa? 
commissioned by the Departanent of State 
as a delegate of the United States to the 
International Congresses of Charities and 
Corrections and the Protection of Chil- 
dren, held in Switzerland in 1896, where 
she delivered a paper in French on public 
and private charities in America, pub- 
lished in the report of that congress. At 
the first International Congress of Wom- 
en, held at Berlin, in 1896, to which she 
was a delegate, she read a -paper in Ger- 
man on the Higher Education of Women 
in America, which was published in thn 
reporit of that congress and in over sixty 
foreign journals. She is an affiliated 
member of the National Council of Wom- 
en, and of the Universal Peace Union; 
was representative of the president of the 
General Federation of Women's Clubs at 
the Congress of Mothers in Washington, 
and a delegate to the General Federation 
at Los Angeles and Denver. She has 
been a delegate to over fifty congresses, 
among them being the International 
League of Press Clubs, at New York and 
Stockholm; Peace Union, at Buda Pesith; 
International Congresses, in Brussels and 
Paris, 1899-1900. She is corresponding 
secretary of the International Press 
Union, was chairman of the Committee 
on Philanthropic Wo'rk in the District 
Federation of Women'is Clubs when '^the 
vestibuling of electric cars" was before 
Congress, aiding in that and other philan. 
'thro'pic work, such as play grounds, child 
labor, etc.; and editorial writer for home 
and foireign publicaitions, and special cor- 
respondent of the Boston Commonwealtn 
at 'the Chicago and Atlanta Expositions. 
She has been twice president of the Wom- 
en'is National Press Association, president 
of the District of Columbia Federation of 
Women's Clubs, member of the Society 
of Philoso-phical Inquiry, is a life member 
of the Woman's Army and Navy League, 
and, through her New England ancestry, 
who left Harvard College to help in the 
War of Independence, she is a Daughter 
of the American Revolution Residence- 
The Cumberland. 

FRENCH, OWEN BERT, geodist, 
civil engmeer, was born near Cleve- 
land, Ohio, on December 7, 1865, son of 
Marshall and Melissa A. (Harris) French. 
His early education was attained in 
the public schools, later attending the 
Case,,, School of Applied Science, grad- 
uating B. S. in 1888, C. E., 1905. He 
was in charge of the scientific work on 
Wellman's First Polar Trip in 1894; has 
been assistant in the U. S. Coast land 
Geodetic Survey since 1889, and has had 



charge of parties engaged upon topogra- 
phy, hydrography, magnetics, and all 
classes of astronomy and triangulation. 
He has commanded several Coast and 
Geodetic Survey ships, has worked nearly 
the whole lengths of the coasts of the 
United States and Alaska, and also in the 
interior of the United States; also deter- 
mined the astronomical positions for 
Mexican and northwest boundaries of the 
United States, and in 1900 was engineer 
for the United States on the location of 
a provisional boundary between British 
Columbia and Alaska. With another ob- 
server he determined the latitudes and 
longitudes of the U. S. Naval Observatory, 
Yerkes Observatory, and the Presidio As- 
tronomical Station. He was a member 
of the Geodetic Conference, held at Wash- 
ington, 1893-94. He is a member of the 
American Society of Civil Engineers; Na- 
tional Geographical Society; Philosophical 
Society 'Of Washington; American Asso- 
ciation for the Advancement of Science, 
and the Cosmos Club. He is the joint 
author of Gillespie's Higher Surveying 
(1897); besides being a contributor to re- 
ports and technical journals. Unmarried. 
Legal residence: Lakewood, Ohio. Of- 
fice: Coast and Geodetic Survey. 

FRISBIE, HENRY SAMUEL, author, 
Government official, was born in Mo- 
bile, Ala., on October 18, 1863, son of 
William and Jean D. (Plum) Prisbie. He 
obtained his education in his native town, 
coming to Washington in 1884, isince when 
he has been accountant in the United 
States Treasury Department. He is a 
well-known writer on Chrisitian Social- 
ism, being author of Prophet of th>^ 
Kingdom. He is a member of the Board 
of St. Alban's (P. E.) Parish, a mem- 
ber of the Church Association for the In- 
terest of Labor, Churchmen's League, and 
the Single Tax Society. On Augusit 1, 
1896, he married Agnes V. Barnes, of 
Chevy Chase. Residence: Tenleytown, 
D. C. Office: Treasury Department. 

FRISBY, EDGAR, astronomer, United 
States Naval Observatory, was born at 
Great Eastern, England, May 22, 1837, son 
of Thomas and Noah Frisby. He was 
graduated from the University of Toronto, 
1863,; A. M., 1864, and was acting pro- 
fessor of mathematics in Northwestern 
University; later assistant astronomer, 
U. S. Naval Observatory, Washington, 
and, i878, professor of mathematics, U. S. 
Navy. Present relation rank. Commander. 
Observed for Government several eclipses, 
and made computation of orbit of comet 
of 1882. In charge of twelve-inch epuato- 
rial until retirement. Retired May 22, 
1899. Married, Augusit 6, 1872, Laura Vir- 
ginia Ebert. Residence: 1607 Thirty-flrsi 
street, n.w. 

FRY, HENRY DAVIDSON, physician, 
was born at Richmond, Va., on April 11, 



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1853, son of Hugh Walker, Jr., and Mary 
Davidson) Fry. He received his prelim- 
inary education in the private schools ol 
Richmond, Va., and the preparatory de- 
pairtment of Columbian (now Georgs 
"Washington) University, later attending 
the medical department of the University 
of Maryland, graduating with the class 
of 1876. He is a professor of obstetrics 
in the medical department of Georgetown 
University; professor of obstetrics and 
gynecology in the Washington post- 
graduate medical school; gynecologist in 
the Garfield Memorial Hospital, and ob- 
stetrician in Columbian and Georgetow;i 
University Hospitals. He is a contribu- 
tor of imany scientific articles ito leading 
medical journals and has translated from 
the French Bar's Anticeptic Methods Ap- 
plied Ito Obstetric Practices. He is a 
member of the American Medical Asso- 
cia'tion; American Gynecological Society 
(vice-president in 1904) ; Southern Surgi- 
cal and Gynecological Society; Washing- 
ton Obstetrical and Gynecological Society 
(ex-president) ; Medical Association of 
the District of Columbia; Medical Soci- 
ety of the Disitrict of Columbia, and the 
Kappa Sigma College fraternitJ^ He has 
been twice married, first, to Gertrude 
May Campbell, and, second, to Ida Lind- 
say, in February, 1884. Residence: 1601 
Conneaticut avenue, n.w. 

FRYE, WILLIAM PIERCE, lawyer, U. 
S. Senator, was born at Lewiston, Maine, 
on September 2, 1831. He attended Bow- 
doin College, Maine, graduating with the 
class of 1850. After leaving college he 
began the study of law, and was admit- 
ted to the bar In his own State. During 
1861, 1862 and 1867 he was a member 
of the State LegislaJture, and for two 
years was Mayor of the city of Lewiston. 
From 1867 to 1869 he was Attorney-Gen- 
eral of the Staite of Maine He was a 
member of the lower House of Congress 
during the Forty-second, Forty-third, 
Forty-fourth, Fortj'-fifth, Forty-sixth and 
Forty- seventh Congresses, and was elect- 
ed to the United States Senate to fill 
the vacancy caused by the resignation 
of James G. Blaine, who was appointed 
Secretary of Staite in 1881. He was re- 
elected to the Senaite in 1883, 1888, 1895, 
1901 and 1907, and was elected President 
pro tempore of the Senate in 1896, and 
was re-elected in 1901. In 1898 he was 
a member of the commission which met 
in Paris ito adjust the terms of peace 
between the United States and Spain. 
He holds honorary degrees from Bates 
College and Bowdoin College, and has 
served as a trustee of the latter institu- 
tion since 1880. His present term of office 
will expire March 3, 1913. Republican. 
Legal residence: Lewiston, Maine. Wash- 
ington address: The Hamilton. 

FULKERSON, FRANK BALLARD, 

lawyer, Congiressman, was born near 



Edinburg, Grundy Counlty, Missouri, on 
March 5, 1866. His early education was 
obtained in the district schools and West- 
minster College, at Fulton, Mo., from 
which institution he graduated in 1888 
After iteaching school for a few years 
he entered the law department of the 
University of Michigan, remaining there 
until junior year, when he entered the 
law department of the Missouri . State 
University, grraduating in 1892, with the 
degree of LL. B. He was admitted to the 
bar and began immediaite practice, and 
was soon elected to the ofl3ce of City 
Attorney of Warrensburg, Mo., and was 
then elected Prosecuting Attorney of 
Johnson County and Holden, Mo. He has 
represented the Fourth Missouri Congres- 
sional District in the Fifty-ninth Con- 
gress. Republican. Legal residence: St. 
Joseph, Mo. Washington address: House 
of Representatives. 

FULLER, CHARLES EUGENE, lawyer. 
Congressman, was bom near Belvidere, 
Illinois. In 1870 he was admitted to the 
Illinois bar, and was soon elected City 
Attorney of Belvidere for /two terms, and 
was State's Attorney for Boone County, 
in the same State, for one term. He 
served three terms in the Illinois State 
Legislature, and two as State Senator. 
For six years he was Circuit Judge, and 
at the outbreak of the Spanish-American 
War he organized a regiment of volun- 
iteers, and was commissioned Colonel by 
the Governor of Illinois, but the regiment 
was never called into service. He has 
represented the Twelfth Illinois Congres- 
sional District in the Fifty-eighth, Fifty- 
ninth and Sixtieth Congresses. Repub- 
lican. Legal residence: Belvidere, 111. 
Washington address: Riggs House. 

FULLER, L, M., Major, U. S. A., As- 
sistant Chief of Ordnance and Recorder, 
Board of Ordnance and Fortification. 
Residence: 1927 S street, n.w. 

FULLER, MELVILLE WESTON, Chief 
Justice of the United States Supreme 
Court, was born in Augusta, Maine, on 
February 11, 1833, son of Frederick Au- 
gusitus and Katherine M. (Weston) Ful- 
ler. His early education was obtained in 
his native town and Bowdoin College, 
from which institution he was graduated 
in 1853, and later attended the Harvard 
Law School. He holds honorary degrees 
from Northwestern University, Bowdoin 
College, Harvard, Yale, and Dartmouth 
Universities. He was admitted to the 
Maine State bar in 1855, and began prac- 
tice at Augusta. For some time lie was 
editor of The Age, a Democratic paper, 
in Augusta, and for some time served as 
president of the City Council and as City 
Solicitor. In 1856 he 'removed to Chicago, 
where he practiced law until 1888, when 
he was appointed Chief Justice of the 
United States Supreme Court, taking the 
oaith of office on October 8 the same year. 



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In 1862 he was a member of the Illinois 
Siate Constitutional Convention, and 
from 1863 to 1865 he was a member of the 
Siaie I.PKJslaiure. He was a delegate to 
rthe Democratic National Conventions 
during 1864, 1872, 1876 and 1880. He has 
been twice married, first, in 1858, to Cal- 
lsi:a O. Reynolds, and, second, to Mary 
E. Coolbaugh, of Chicago, on May 30, 
1866. Residence: 1801 P street, n.w. 

FULLER, MYRON LESLIE, geologist, 

in charge of coastal plain inv stigations, 
United States Geological Survey, was 
born a)t Brockton, Mass., on April 19, 1873, 
son of Albert H. and Phoebe (Alden) 
Puller, his early progenitors being John 
Alden and Samuel Puller, both on .he 
Mayflower. He was graduated from the 
Mas.sachusetts Insiitute of Technology in 
1896 and was awarded the Walker prizes 
of the Boston Society in Natural History 
for geological essays in 1897 and 1905. 
He was geologist on the Geological Sur- 
vey of Michigan in 1897; instruotor at 
the Massachusetts Institute of Technol- 
ogy 1898-1900; member of the United 
States Geological Survey, engaged in coal, 
petroleum, underground water, and geo- 
logic investigajtions since 1900. He has 
written many scientific reports for the 
Government, and many articles for scien- 
tific magazines, and has differentiated the 
pleistocene oir glacial stages in the East- 
ern United States. He is a fellow of the 
Geological Society of America, ithe Seis- 
mological Society of America, and of the 
American Association for ithe Advance- 
ment of Science, and a member of the 
National Geographic Society. He mar- 
ried, April 6, 1897, Lillian A. Gayner. Res- 
idence: 2942 Newark street, n.w. Office: 
Geological Suirvey. 

FULLER, WILLIAM E., lawyer, was 
born at Howard, Pennsylvania, March 30, 
1846, son of Levi and J. E. (Tipton) Ful- 
ler. His father was a member of ithe 
Iowa Legislature, 1862-64, and United 
Staites Collector of Internal Revenue for 
the Third District of Iowa by appoint- 
ment of Abraham Lincoln. Two of his 
ancestors were Edward Fuller and Gov- 
ernor William Bradford, of the Mayflower. 
He was educated at the State University 
of Iowa, and was graduated from the law 
department in 1870 as valedictorian. He 
was a member of the Iowa Legislature, 
1885-89; member of Congress from the 
Fourth District of Iowa, and was ap- 
pointed by President McKinley March 4, 
1901, Assistant Attorney-General of the 
United States to prosecute cases before 
the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission. 
On January 1, 1868, he married, first Lou 
J. Harper, who died November 2, 1901, 
and, second, Mrs. Clara H. Manning. He 
has had nine children, of whom seven 
are living. Address: 1415 H street, n.w. 

FULTON, CHARLES WILLIAM, law- 



yer, Unlited States Senator, was born In 
Lima, Ohio, on August 24, 1853. When 
but two years of age he removed to Iowa, 
settling at Magnolia, where he received 
his early education in the common 
schools. In 1871 he took up his resi- 
dence in Pawnee City, Nebraska, where 
he attended the Pawnee Academy, and 
lajter began the study of law. For two 
or three years he taught school in Ne- 
braska, and in 1875 took up his resi- 
dence in Oregon, settling in Asitoria. In 
1877 he formed a partnership with J. W. 
Robb, and in 1878 was elected a member 
of the State Senate. He was eleoied at- 
torney for the city in 1888, and the same 
year presidential elector. In 1890 he was 
re-elected to the Oregon State Senate, 
and was re-elected in 1898 and 1902, and 
was president of thajt body during the 
sessions of 1893 and 1901. He was tiected 
a member of the United States Senate 
on February 28, 1903 to succeed Joseph 
Simon, taking his seat on March 4, 1903. 
His term of ofl^ce will expire March 3, 
1909. Republican On September 5, 187S, 
he married Ada Hobson, and is the father 
of one son. Legal residence: Astoria, 
Oregon. Washington address: U. S. Sen- 
ate. 

FULTON, CREED McTEER, lawyer, 
was born in Somerfield, Grayson County, 
Virginia, on February 24, 1862. His early 
education was obtained in the public 
schools n ar his native town, and later 
he attended Hiwassee College, in East 
Tennessee, graduating in 1885. Soon after 
graduation he was elected president of 
Ithe Dayton Masonic College, at Dayton, 
East Tennessee, which position he filled 
for about three and a half years, when he 
resigned to accept a position in the War 
Department. For some time he was a 
clerk in the Surgeon-General's office, at 
the same year attending Georgetown Law 
School. In 1893 he formed a partnership 
with W. Walton Edwards, practicing un- 
der the name of Fulton & Edwards until 
1896, when the partnership was munually 
dissolved, after which he formed a part- 
nership with A. E. L. Leckie, under the 
name of Leckie & Fulton. On June 17, 
1886, he married Emma Y. Walsh, of 
Spring Valley, Grayson County, Virginri, 
and is the father of two children. Resi- 
dence: Sunny Slope, Conduit road, n.w. 
Office: Fendall Building. 

FUSSELL, JACOB, merchant, was born 
in Hartford County, Maryland, on Febru- 
ary 24, 1819, and worked as an appren- 
tice and journeyman for some years in 
the tin.<5mith business, leaving it in 1851 
to conduct a milk business of four routes 
in Baltimore. Soon after he began 
to manufacture ice cream, and was the 
firsit, it is said, to carry on a wholesale 
ice cream business in America. He adver- 
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business so Increased that he gave 
up his milk routes and devoted himself 
entirely to the manufacture of Ice cream. 
In 1856 he left the BaUimore busine.=?s 
in charge of a pantner and came '*o 
Washingon, going later to Boston 
and New York, where h^ carried on the 
same business. In 1863 he removed to 



New York and bought a residence, estab- 
lishing a store on Fourth avenue. About 
ten years later he retired from buslnes-s 
in favor of Oither members of his fam- 
ily, who now carry it on under the name 
of the Fussell Ice Cream Company. He 
died in 1906. Address: 1427 New York 
avenue, n.w. 



GAILLARD, DAVID DU BOSE, army 
officer, was born in Sumter County, South 
Carolina, on September 4, 1859, son of 
Samuel I. and Susan R. Gaillard He 
entered the Uni'ted States Milliary Acad- 
emy July 1, 1880, and was promoted to 
the irank of Captain in 1895, and Major 
In 1904; member Mexican Boundary Com- 
mission 1891-96; was in charge of office 
of Washinarton Asqueduct 1895-98; Colonel, 
Third United States Engineers, 1898-99, 
and chief engineer of ithe Department o£ 
San'ta Clara, Cuba, 1899. During 1903-04 
he was chief of staff Department of th^ 
Columbia, and until October, 1906, was 
on duty at the Army War College. Froni 
October, 1906, to February, 1907, was 
chief of the Military Information Division, 
A I my of Cuban Pacification, Havana. 
Cuba. Since March 16, 1907, he has been 
a member of the Isthmian Canal Commis- 
sion, Culebra Canal Zone, and in charge 
of the Department of Excavation and 
Dredging. Member of the National Geo- 
graphic Society and the Huguenot Socieiy 
of South Carolina. Married, October 6, 
1887, Katherine R. Davis, of Columbia, 
S. C. Washington residence: 1929 S 
street, n.w. Official residence: Culebra. 
Canal Zone. 

GAINES, JOHN WESLEY, lawyer. 
Congressman, was born in Davidson 
County, Tennessee, August 24, 1861, son 
of Dr. John Wesley and Maria (Wair> 
Gaines. He attended the country schools, 
taught school for a while, and later at- 
tended the University of Nashville and 
Vanderbilt University, graduating from 
the latter insiritu'tion with an M. D. de- 
gree. He never practiced medicine, but 
took up the study of law, and was admit- 
ted to the bar in Nasnville in 1884. In 
1892 he was a presidential elector on ahe 
Cleveland ticket, and has represented the 
Sixth Tennessee Congressional District in 
the Fifty-fifth and subsequent Congresses. 
In politics he is a Democrait. Legal res- 
idence, Nashville, Tenn. Washington ad- 
dress: House of Representatives. 

GAINES, JOSEPH HOLT, lawyer. Con- 
gressman, was born in the District of 
Columbia, on September 3, 1863, and re- 
moved with his parents to Fayette 
County, Wesit Virginia, in 1867. He was 



educated at the University of West Vir- 
ginia and Princeton University, graduat- 
ing from the latter institution in 1886. 
He took up the study of law and was 
admitted to the bar in 1887 at Fayetite- 
ville, W. Va., and was appointed United 
States District Attorney for West Vir- 
ginia by President McKinley in 1897, 
serving until 1901, when h? resigned. He 
has 'represented the Third West Virginia 
Congressional District in the Fifty-sev- 
enth, Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Con- 
gresses, and has been re-elected to the 
Sixtieth. In politics he is a Republican. 
Legal residence: Charleston, W. Va. 
Wasihington address: House of Repre- 
sentatives. 

GALL, DAVID WASHINGTON, lawyer, 
was born in Philippi, Barbour County, 
Virginia (now West Virginia), on July 
25, 1851, son of John Jacob and Rebecca 
(Saver) Gall. He was educated in th« 
public schools and at West Virginia Col- 
lege; subsequently taught school, edited 
a newspaper, and served as a member 
of the West Virginia Senate. He has 
served as Mayor and postmaster of his 
home town. For several years he has 
been engaged in the practice of law In 
Washington. He is a member of the 
Episcopalian Church, a Mason, Odd Fel- 
low, a member of the Maccabees, and, in 
politics, is a Democrat. On January 6, 
1876, he married Hennie R. Reger, of 
Philippi, West Virginia, to which union 
three children have been born. Residence: 
107 Second street, n.e. Office: Pacifie 
Building. 

GALLAGHER, CHARLES WESLEY, 

clergyman, educator, was born in Boston, 
Mass., on February 3, 1846, son of Sam- 
uel C. and Rooxby M. (Foster) Gallagher. 
He attended Wesleyan University, grad- 
uating with the class of 1870, and holds 
the honorary degree of D. D. from Little 
Rock (Arkansas) University. After grad- 
uating from Wesleyan he became a min- 
ister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
and had charge of churches in New York 
and Connecticut until 1879, when he re- 
turned to Massachusetts, where he re- 
mained until 1889. From 1889 to 1903 
he was president of Lawrence University, 
at Appleton, Wis.; from 1893 to 1897, 
president of the Maine Wesleyan Semi- 



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nary and College, and firom 1897 to 1901 
■he was associiate principal of the Lasell 
Seminary, at Auburndale, Mass. Since 
1901 he has been presidemt of the Lucy 
Webb Hayes National Training School 
fo'r Missionaries and Deaconesses of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church. He is the 
author of, God Revealed, or Nature's 
Best Word. He has been itwice married, 
first, in 1876, to Emile Eliza Hubbard, 
of Brooklyn, N. Y., who died in 1890, and, 
second, to 'Evangeline Ooscarden, of 
Providence, R. I. Residence: 1146 North 
Capitol sitreet, n.w. 

GALLAUDET, EDWARD MINER, edu- 
cator, author, president of Gallaudet Col- 
lege, was born at Hartford, Conn., on 
Pebruiary 5, 1837, son of Thomas Hop- 
kins and Sophia (Fowler) Gallaudet. Hs 
is of Huguenot ancestry and a descend- 
ant of Dr. Peter Elisha Gallauder, an 
early settler of New Rochelle, N. Y., and 
of Rev. Thomas Hooker, founder of Con- 
necticut. His father, a well-known cler- 
gyman, educator, writer and philanthro- 
pist, founded the first permanent school 
for deaf-mutes in America at Hartford, 
Conn., in 1817. He was educated in the 
Han-tford public, high schools and at 
Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., gradu- 
ating from the former in 1851, and from 
the latter, with the degree of B. Sc, 
in 1856. He taught in his father's school 
for deiaf-mu'tes, 1856-57, and in the lat- 
ter year organized the Columbia Institu- 
tion for 'the Deaf, Dumb and Blind, at 
Washington, D. C, out of which devel- 
oped the Gallaudet College foir the Deaf, 
in 1864, so named in honor of his father. 
Of this ins'titution he immediately be- 
came president and professor of moral 
and poliitiaal science, both of -which posi- 
tions he still occupies. In 1867 he made 
a report on the schools for the deaf in 
Europe; in 187.3 was honorary commis- 
sioner to the Vienna Exposition; in 1880 
he attended and addressed a oongrress of 
in9truoto(rs held at Milan, Italy; in 1886, 
at the invitation of the British Govern- 
ment, he appeared before the Royal Com- 
mission in the interest of deaf-mute 
education; in 1891 he delivered an ad- 
dress at Glasgow before the British Deaf 
and Dumb Association, and, since 1895. 
has been president of the Convention of 
ithe American Instructors of the Deaf. 
He is a member of the Cosmos, Univer- 
sity and Chevy Chase Clubs; the Philo- 
sophical Society, National Geographic So- 
ciety, Social Science Association, Amer- 
ican Historical Society, the Huguenot So- 
ciety of America, and the Sons of the 
American Revolution. Since 1881 he has 
been a trustee of George Washington 
University, and of Howard University 
since 1884. He received the degree of 
Ph. D. from Columbian (now George 
Washington) University in 1868, and that 
of LL. D. from Trinity College in 1868, 
and from Yale University in 1895. He 



is ithe author of A Manual of Interna- 
tional Law; Life of Thomas Hopkins 
Gallaudet, and has contributed much ta 
the literature of his profession. He 'has 
been twice married, first, in July, 1858, 
to Jane M. Fessenden; second, on De- 
cember 22, i868, to Susian Denison. Eight 
children have been born to these unions, 
six of whom are living. Address: Ken- 
dall Green, Washington, D. C. Sumimar 
residence: Branford, Conn. 

GALLEN, JOSEPH S., Catholic clergy- 
man, assisitant rector at St. Peter's 
Church. Residence: St. Peter's Rectory, 
313 Second street, s.e. 

GALLIHER, WILLIAM T., of the firm 
of W T. Galliher & Bro., lumber dealers, 
was born in Port Deposit, Maryland. He 
came to Washington with his parents in 
Mardh, 1869, completed his education in 
the public schools, and entered the em- 
ploy of the late Reuben B. Clark, rising 
to be manager of the business and in 
charge of the large real estate inter- 
ests of his employer. After eleven years 
of service, in 1883, he for a time served 
in the Post Office Department, and left 
it to become a bookkeeper for a lumber 
dealer for five years, afterwards going 
into partnership with his birother, Charles 
E. Galliher. He is president of the Lum- 
ber Exchange; Past Grand Commander of 
the Grand Commandery, Knights Tem- 
plar, and a member of the Grand En- 
campment of that order. He is also a 
member of the Scottish Rite and Past 
Grand Coimmander of t^he Patriarchs 
Militant. He has been a director of the 
American Naitional Bank since its insti- 
tution, and of the Eastern Dispensary 
and Casualty Hospital. Residence: 208 
Maryland avenue, n.e. Business address: 
Thirteenth and B streets, -n.w. 

GALLING ER, JACOB H., physician, U. 
S. Senator, was born at Oarnwall, Onta- 
rio, March 28, 1837, son of Jacob and 
Catherine (Cook) Gallinger. His early 
education was obtained in the common 
schools, after which he took up the study 
of -medicine, graduating with honors in 
1858, and practiced his profession at 
Concord, N. H., until he entered politics. 
For iseveral yeairs he was a member Df 
the New Hampshire State Legislature, 
and was a member of the State Senate 
in 1878, 1879 and 1880, being president of 
that body tihe last two years. Prom 1882 
to 1890 he was chairman of the New 
Hampshire State Republican Committee, 
and from 1898 to 1906 he again served 
in this capacity. He has been a delegate 
to several NiaJtional Republican Conven- 
tions, and during 1904 and 1905 was 
chairman of the Merchant Marine Com- 
mission, which was composed of five Sen- 
ators and Representatives from the 
United States Congress. He served In 
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Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses, and 
declined nomination to the Fifty-first 
Congress; in 1891 he was elected United 
States Senator, to succeed Henry W. 
Blaiir, and was re-eleoted in 1897 and 
1903. His present iterm will expire March 
3, 1909. In politics he is a Republican. 
In 1860 he married Mary Anna Bailey, of 
Salisbury, N. H. Legal residence: Con- 
cord, N. H. Washington address: U. S. 
Senate. 

GALLOWAY, BEVERLY THOMAS, 

horticulturist, was born in Millersburg, 
Missouri, October 16, 1863, son of Rob- 
ert M. QaJloway. He was graduated fron: 
the University of Missouri in 1884, and 
from 1884 to 1886 he was assistant pro- 
fessor in the horticultural department of 
that university, and during 1887 and 1888 
he was assistant in the division of vege- 
table physiology and pathology of the 
United States Department of Agriculture, 
land since 1900 'has been chief of the Bu- 
ireau of Plant Industry in the same de- 
partment. In 1902 the University of Mis- 
souri conferred upon him the degree of 
LL. D. He has written a number of bul- 
letins for his department on botany, hor- 
ticulture, plant diseases and their treat- 
ment, etc. On September 5, 1888, ihe mar- 
irled Agnes S. Rankin, of Kansas City, 
Mo. Residence: Takomia Park, D. C. 
Office: U. S. Department of Agriculture. 

GAMBLE, ROBERT JACKSON, lawyer, 
U. S. Senator, was born in Genessee 
County, New York, February 7, 1751. 
When eleven years of age he removed to 
Fox Lake, Wisconsin, and later attended 
Lawrence University, at Appleton, Wis., 
graduating with the class of 1874. In 
1875 he located at Yankton, S. D., where 
he has since been engaged in the prac- 
tice of law, being senior member of the 
firm of Gamble, Tripp & Holman. He 
was District Attorney for the Second 
Judicial District of the Territory In 1880, 
and served two terms as attorney for the 
city of Yankton and -was elected to ths 
State Senate in 1885. He was la mem- 
ber of the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-sixth 
Congresses; in 1901 was elected to the 
United States Senate, and re-eleoted in 
1907. His term of office will expire on 
March 3, 1913 He is a member of the 
Cosmos Club. Republican. Legal resi- 
dence: Yankton, S. D. Washington ad- 
dress: The Portland. 

GANNETT, HENRY, geographer of the 
U. S. Geological Survey since 1882, was 
born at Bath, Maine, on August 24, 1846, 
son of M. F. and Hannah T. Gannett. He 
was graduated from the Lawrence Scien- 
tific School of Harvard University in 1869, 
and the following year attended the 
Hooper Mining School. He was a 
geographer of the tenth, eleventh and 
twelfth censuses, and was assistant di- 
rector of the census of the Philippine Is- 



lands. He is the author of a number of 
bulletins and reports on exploring expe- 
ditions, among them being: Dictionary 
of Altitudes; Building of a Nation; 
Statistical Atlases of the Tenth and Elev- 
enth Census; Census of Cuba; Census 
of Porto Rico; Magnetic Declination in 
United States, etc. He is a member of 
the National Geographic Society, Ameri- 
can Geographic Socieity, Scottish Geo- 
graphic Society, American Statistic Asso- 
ciation, American Economic Association, 
Geological Society of America, and the 
Cosmos Club, etc. On November 24, 1874, 
he married Mary E. Chase, of Waterville, 
Maine. Residence: 1829 Phelps Place, 
n.w. Office: U. S. Geological Survey. 

CANS, ISAAC, manager of Saks & Co. 
(merchants), was born in Baltimore, Md., 
in 1862. After completing his prepara- 
tory education in the public and pri- 
vate schools of Baltimore he entered the 
Baltimore City College, where he was a 
student until 1880, when he removed to 
Washing^ton, where he has since resided. 
Since being in Washington he has been 
engaged in the mercantile business, land 
has lectured hefore the Business High 
School, Wood's Commercial College, the 
Bank Clerks' and o/ther similar organiza- 
tions on topics pentaining to their pur- 
suits. He is the author of numerous ar- 
ticles that have appeared in leading mag- 
azines on commercial topics, among them 
being: Art of Selling Merchandise; Art 
of Advertising; Relations of Business to 
a Community; Successful Men, etc. He 
is a director of the American National 
Bank, vice-president of the Traveler's 
Protective Associiaition, member of the 
Board of Trade, Chamber of Commerce, 
etc. He is a Mason, and a member of 
the Royal Arcanum. Residence: The 
Iowa. Business address: Seventh street 
and Pennsylvania avenue. 

GARBER, HARVEY CABLE, Congress- 
man, was born in Hill Grove, Darke 
County, Ohio, July 16, 1865. He was edu- 
cated in the public schools of Green- 
ville, after which he entered the employ 
of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company 
as a telegrapher, and later manager of 
the Wesitern Union Telegraph Company, 
and superintendent of the Central Union 
Telephone Company of Ohio. He has 
'served in the Ohio State Legislature, been 
chairman of the Ohio State Democratic 
Committee, and was chairman of the 
Democratic State Executive Committee. 
He has irepresented the Fourth Ohio Con- 
gressional Disitrict in the Fifty-eighth and 
Fifty-ninth Congresses. On May 21, 1900, 
he married D. H. Curtis. Legal residence: 
Greenville, Ohio. Washington address: 
House of Representatives. 

GARDNER, AUGUSTUS PEABODY, 

Congressman, was born In Boston, Mass.. 
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Harvard University with the class of 
1886, and served two terms as a member 
of ithe Massachusetts State Senate. Dur- 
ing the Spanish-American War he served 
as Captain and Assistant Adjutant- 
General on the staff of GenenaJ James 
H. Wilson. He was elected to the Fifty- 
seventh Congress from ithe Sixth Massa- 
chusetts Congressional District to fill the 
vacancy caused by the resignation of 
Hon. W. H. Moody to become Secretary 
of the Navy, and was re-elected to the 
Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth 
Congresses as a Republican. Legal res- 
idence: Hamilton, Mass. Washington res- 
idence: 1765 Massachusetts avenue. 

GARDNER, CORNELIUS, army officer, 
was born in Netherlands on S?ptember 4, 
1879, son of Rev. Wynand and Barendina 
(Vissche.) Gardenier, and came to the 
United States during his childhood. He 
was graduated from the Holland (Mich.) 
Academy, and was a student at Hope Col- 
lege, two years. In 1869, he was commis- 
sioned a cadet, attended the United States 
Military Academy at West Point, and 
graduated on June 13, 1873 (A. M., Hope 
College). In June of the latter year he 
was commissioned a Second Lieutenant; 
First Lieutenant, 1879; Captain, 1891; 
Major of the Thirte?n Infantry, 1899, and 
Lieutenant-Colonel of the Twenty-first In- 
fantry on February 18. 1903. From 1874- 
80 he served in Indian Wars; in the Rio 
Grande, 1881-90; and lat Fort Wayne, De- 
troit, from 1891-96. He was an instructor 
in the Michigan National Guard, 1897-98, 
and for three years was in charge of the 
Pingree potato farms at Detroit. During 
the Spanish-Ame:ican War he was Colo- 
nel of the Thirty-first Michigan Volun- 
teers in the United States and Cuba; serv- 
ed in the Philippines as Colonel of the 
Thirtieth U. S. Volunteers from October, 
1899, to March, 1901, and was governor of 
Tayabas, Luzon, P. I., from March, 1901, 
to March, 1902, and is known as having 
made the first true report of atrocities in 
the Philippines. He is a fellow of the 
Geographical Society of California; a 
member of the Order of Indian Wars; 
Regular Army and Navy Union; Holland 
Society of Chicago; and the Yondetega, 
Detroit and Witenagemote (Detroit) 
clubs. In October, 1901, he married Bes- 
sie R., daughter of Captain Joseph R. Pat- 
ton, of Detroit. Address: Care the Ad- 
jutant General, U. S. A. 

GARDNER, FRANK DUANE, Chief. 
Division of Soil Management, U. S. De- 
partment of Agriculture, was born in Gil- 
man, Iroquois County, Illinois, on No- 
vember 19, 1864, son of Isaiac James and 
Inverno (Bennett) Gardner, his mother 
being a sister of Mrs. Belva A. Lock- 
wood, who was a candidate for President 
of the United States in 1884. After oom- 
pleting hiis preparatory education in the 



schools of his native itown he entered the 
College of Agriculture of .the University 
of Illinois, from which he was graduated 
with the degree of B. S. in 1891. From 
1891 to 1895 he was agricultuinalist at the 
University of Illinois; 1895 'to 1901, soil 
expert, U. S. Department of Agriculture; 
1901 to 1904*, director of Porto Rico Ex- 
periment Station, since when he has been 
in charge of -soil management in the De- 
partment of Agriculture. He is the au- 
thor of numerous bulletins on soils and 
crops, published by ithe Illinois Experi- 
ment Station and the Department of Ag- 
riculture. He is a member of the Unl- 
versalist Chu.ch. the National Geographic 
Society, the Biological Society of Wash- 
ington, and, in politics, is a Republican. 
On June 6, 1894, he married Leila P. 
Crum, of Parmer City, Illinois, to which 
union three children have been born. Res- 
idence: 3548 Tenth street, n.w. Office: 
U. S. Department of Agriculture. 

GARDNER, JOHN J., Congressman, 
was born in Atlantic County New Jersey, 
in 1845. He served as an Alderman of 
Atlantic City, and was Mayor, having 
been re-elected seven times to the latter 
office, and served one year as Coroner of 
Atlanitic County. From 1878 to 1893 he 
was a member of the New Jersey State 
Legislature, and since 1893 has repre- 
sented the Second New Jersey Congres- 
sional District in Congress. In politics he 
is a Republican. Legal residence: At- 
lantic City, N. J. Washington address: 
House of Representatives. 

GARDNER, WASHINGTON, Congress- 
man, was born in Morrow County, Ohio, 
February 16, 1845. When sixteen years 
of age he entered the Union Army, serv- 
ing throughout the Civil War with the 
Sixity-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He 
wias graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan 
University in 1870, and studied theology 
at the Boston University one year, after 
which he attended the Albany Law 
School, graduating in 1876. He engaged 
in the practice of law at Grand Rapids. 
Mich., for one year, and then entered 
the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, serving for twelve years. In 
1889 he became a professor and public 
lecturer for Albion College, and in 1894 
was appointed Secretary of the State of 
Michigan, and was twice re-eleoted to 
the office. He has represented the Third 
Michigan Congressional District in the 
Fifty-sixth and subsequent Congresses 
In politics he is a Republican. Legal res- 
idence: Albion, Mich. Washington ad- 
dress: Houise of Representatives. 

GARDNER, WILLIAM HENRY, physi- 
cian, surgeon, was boirn at Fayetteville, 
North Carolina, April 7, 1837, son of 
Charles P. and Rebecca (Hubbard) Gard- 
ner. He attended Georgetown University, 
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department of the same Institution, from 
which he was graduaited. In 1861 he 
entered the regular army; was promoted 
to Surgeon In 1882, and Lieutenant-Colo- 
nel and Deputy Surgeon-General In 1896. 
On December 10, 1898, he retired from 
aotlve service, ait his own request. He 
Is the author of The Curious Case of 
General Delaney Smythe, and has writ- 
ten many articles of both a scientific an'l 
popular nature, which have appeared in 
the medical journals ana popular maga- 
zines. He is a member of the American 
Medical Association, LfOyal Legion, Soci- 
ety of Indian Wars, Commandery of For- 
eign Wars, Sons of ithe Revolution, etc. 
On November 24, 1862, he married Sarah 
M. Farring, of Baltimore, Md. Address: 
Army and Navy Club. 

GARFIELD, JAMES RUDOLPH, Sec- 
^retary of the Interior, was born at Hiram 
Is Ohio, October 17, 18^, son of James 
Abraham (former President of the United 
Stales) and Lucretia (Rudolph) Garfield. 
His eajrly education was obtained at S';. 
Paul's School, at Concord N. H., later 
attending Williams College, graduating in 
1885, when he took up the study of law 
a/t the Columbia Law School, In New 
York. In 1888 he was admitted ito the 
bar at Cleveland, Ohio, where he prac- 
ticed for several years. He has been a 
member of the United States Civil Serv- 
ice Commission, and from 1903 to 1907 
he was Commissioner of Corporations in 
the United Stanes Depajrtment of Com- 
merce and Labor. When Ethan Allen 
Hitchcock retired he became his successor 
as Secretary of the Interior on March 4. 
1907. He is a trustee of Williams Col- 
lege, and president of the Board of Trus- 
tees of Tvake Erie College, at Painesville, 
Ohio.. He married Helen Newell, of Chi- 
cago. Legal residence: Memtor, Ohio. 
Washington residence: 2137 LeRoy Place. 
Office: Department of the Interior. 

GARGES, DANIEL EDWARD, Secre- 
tairy to the Engineer Commissioner of 
the District of Columbia, was born in 
Washington. D. C, on March 4, 1874. 
son of William Henry and Mary A. (Mul- 
len) Gairges. After being graduated from 
the Washington High School in 1890 he 
entered the law department of Columbi- 
an (now George Washington) University, 
from which he was graduated. LL. B., 
in 1895, and, LL. M., in 1896. He is sec- 
retary of the Washington Public Library 
Commission and a member and secretary 
of the Committee on Docks and Wharves 
of 'the District of Columbia. In 1895 he 
compiled Laws Relating to Street Rail- 
way Franchises in the District of Colum- 
bia, and the Code of Laws for the District 
of Columbia in 1906, and has written nu- 
merous magazine articles on street pav- 
ing and other municipal subjects. He is 
a member of the Catholic Church, and, on 
December 16, 1896, 'he married Daisy V. 



Cook, of East Saginaw, Mich., ito which 
union have been born three childiren, two 
of whom are living. Residence: 50 U 
street, n.w. Office: District Building. 

GARLINGTON, ERNEST ALBERT, 

army officer, was born sut Newberry 
Court House South Carolina, on Febru- 
ary 20, 1853, son of Albert C. and Sally 
L. (Moon) Garlington. He attended the 
University of Georgia, graduating with 
the class of 1872, when he entered West 
Point, graduating in 1876. He was as- 
signed to the Ssventh United States 
Cavalry as Second Lieutenant in 1876, 
and less than a month later was advanced 
to First Lieutenant; in 1877, Adjutant; 
1891, Captain, and, 1895, Major and In- 
spector-General. In 1883 he commanded 
the Greely Relief Expedition; in 1890 
was severely wounded in battle with the 
Indians at Wounded Knee, after which 
he was awarded by Congress a medal 
of honor for distinguished gallantry In 
this battle. In 1898 he was Inspector- 
General of the Cavalry Division In Cuba, 
and was present at the battle, siege and 
surrender of Santiago. From 1899 to 
1901 he was Inspector-General of tha 
Division of the Philippines, since when 
he has been Inspector-General of the 
Department of California. He is the au- 
thor of Historical Sketches of the Sev- 
enah Cavalry Regiment; Cavalry Out- 
posts; Advance and Rear Guards; Re- 
connoissance, etc. On August 17, 1886, 
he married Anna Buford, of Rock Island, 
111. Address: Wair Department. 

GARNER, ALEXANDER C, clergy- 
man, pastor of the Plymouth Church of 
the Disciples of Christ. Residence: 1921 
Seventeenth street, n.w. 

GARNER, JOHN NANCE, lawyer. Con- 
gressman, was born in Red River County, 
Texas, November 22, 1869. For four years 
he served as Judge of Uvalde County, 
Texas, and was a member of 'the Texas 
State Legislature for tour years. In 1900 
and 1904 he was a delegate to the Dem- 
ocratic National Conventions, and has 
represented the Fifteenth Texas Congres- 
sional District in the Fifty-eighth, Fifty- 
ninth and Sixtieth Congresses. Legal 
residence: Uvalde, Texas. Washington 
address: House of Representatives. 

GARRETT, FINIS JAMES, lawyer. 
Congressman, was born near Ore Springy, 
Weakley County, Tennessee, August 26, 
1875, son of Noah J. and Virginia Gar- 
rett. His education was obtained in the 
common schools and Bethel College, at 
McKenzie, Tenn., graduating with the 
class of 1897, and for some time after- 
ward was engaged in teaching school 
at Milan, Tenn. He took up the study 
of law in the office of the late Charles 
M. Ewing, at Dresden, Tenn., and was 
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pointed Master in Chancery in 1900, serv- 
ing until 1905. He was elected to the 
Fifity-ninth Congress from ithe Ninth 
Tennessee Congressional District, and re- 
elected to the Sixtieth Congress. Dem- 
ocrat. In 1901 ihe married Elizabeth Har- 
ris Burns, of McKenzie, Tenn. Legal res- 
idence: Dresden, Tenn. Washington ad- 
dress: House of Representatives. 

GARRIOTT, EDWARD BENNETT, 

meteorologisit, was born at Dockland, 
Ohio, March 17, 1853. His early educa- 
tion was obtained in public sdhools of 
St. Louis, Mo., and later Washington 
University, in the same city. He entered 
t'he United States Weather Bureau as 
an assistant observer, and is now super- 
vising forecaster and professor of mete- 
orology. He is the author of a number 
of bulletins that have been issued by the 
Weather Bureau, and is well known as 
a lecturer on imeteorology. He is a mem- 
ber of itihe American Association for th? 
Advancement of Science; National Geo- 
graphic Society; Philosopihical Socie'ty of 
Washington, and the Cosmos Club. On 
January 12, 1882, he married Gertrude L. 
Dewey. Residence: 1248 Princeton street, 
n.w. Office: U. S. Weather Bureau. 

GARRISON, CARL LOUISE, educator 
was born in Chicago, 111. He is the au 
rthor of Key to Metcalfe's Giammar, and 
co-author of Commercial Geography. Is 
a member of the Statistical, Audubon, 
and National Geographic Societies. Resi- 
dence: 1304 Yale street. 

GARRISON, JOHN R., Government 
official, was born at Garrisonville, Staf- 
ford County, Virginia, August 27, 1838 
son of John R. and Flrances (Hudson) 
Garrison. His ea^rly education was ob- 
tained in the West River Classical Insti- 
ituite (Maryland) and Union Academy 
(District of Columbia), after which he 
attended Dickinson College, ait Carlisle, 
Penn., and later was graduated from 
Columbian (now George Washington) 
University Law School, in Washington. 
He is a member of the bar of the Su- 
preme Court of the District of Columbia, 
United States Court of Claims, United 
States Supreme Count, and the Supreme 
Court of Porto Rico. In 1863 he entered 
the Comptroller's office in the Treasury 
Department, land was gradually promoted 
to Chief of the Division of Diplomatic 
and Consular Accounts in 1884. Prom 
1885 to 1893 he wis Deputy First Comp- 
troller of the Treasury, and during 1890 
and 1900 was auditon- under military gov- 
ernment, and from 1900 to 1903 under 
civil government, of Ponto Rico. Since 
May 1, 1903, he has been Chief of the 
Customs Division of the Treasury De- 
partment. On September 9, 1869, he mar- 
ried Jennie Davis, of Washington. Legal 
residence: Staff oird County, Virginia. 
Residence: 1437 R street, n.w. Office: 
Treasury Department. 



GARVER, LEONARD, writer and dra- 
maJtic lecturer, was born in Hamilton 
County, Indiana, in 1862. His :Cajther was 
Judge William Garver and his mother 
Eliza Ray, daughter of ex- Governor 
James B. Ray, of Indiana. He was edu- 
cated in tihe public schools of his native 
State and at Oberlin College, Ohio. Sub- 
sequently he engaged in newspaper work, 
contributed both prose and verse to va- 
rious periodicals, and entered the lecture 
field as a dramatic Interpreter of the mas- 
terpieces of liteirature. The principal sub- 
jeotis of his leotures, which have met 
with enthusiastic reception throughout 
the country, lare: Jean Valjean; A Char- 
acter Study in Conscience; Romula, or 
the Flower of Youth, and Quo Vadis, or 
the Sign of the Cross. In 1905 Mr. Garver 
received an appointment in the office of 
the Secretary of the United States Sen- 
ate. Address: 1736 G street, n.w. 

GASCH, HERMAN, President German- 
American Fire Insurance Company of the 
District of Columbia. Residence: 2617 
Fourteenth street, n.w. Office: 511 Elev- 
enth street. 

GATCHELL, WILLIAM F., Chief Clerk 
and Acting Supervising Inspector-General 
of the Steamboat Inspeotion Service, was 
boirn at Graysville, Ohio, on June 27, 1860, 
and at sixteen years of age was a teacher 
in Monroe County, Ohio, and then for 
three years assistant cashier of the Mon- 
roe Bank. In 1892 he was graduated from 
the Columbian (now George Washington) 
University Medical School. He was 
deputy auditor of the Beilair and South- 
western Railroad until October 29, 1886, 
when he was la^ppointed to a clerkship 
in the Treasury Departmenit, becoming 
Chief Clerk of Steamboat Inspection 
Service on September 28, 1898, and by 
Act of Congress, approved February 26. 
1907, was TTiade Chief Clerk and Acting 
Supervising Inspector-Genetral in that of- 
ficer's absence. Residence: 1452 Clif- 
ton street. Office: 721 Thirteenth street, 
n.w. 

GATES, ELMER, .scientist, inventor, 
was born near Dayton, Ohio, in 1859, son 
of Jacob and Phoebe (Goetz) Gates. His 
early education was obtained in the com- 
mon and normal schools and by private 
tutors, later taking special courses at 
college. He has made discoveries in ex- 
perimental psychology and physics from 
which he has evolved an art of using the 
mind more efficiently in the processes 
of discovering and learning knowledge 
and in applying it to the industries and 
right living, generally. He has done con- 
siderable work in electrical meteorology, 
and has made a number of successful in- 
ventions in mining, higher temperatures, 
ice-making, and pedagogic devices. He 
has several laboratories for experimental 
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other sciences, and is working to apply 
his methods to teaching ihe sciences and 
arts. He Is a member of many of the 
leading scientific isocieties of (this coun'try 
and Euirope, and is 'the author of a num- 
ber of scientific papers, among them be- 
ing: Psychurgy, or the Art of Using 'the 
Mind; Art of Mind Building; Scientific 
Education; Mortal Training, etc. In 1895 
he married Phoebe L. Edson, of Washing- 
iton. Residence: Chevy Chase, Md. 

GATES, LEWIS EDWARDS, author, 
was born at Warsaw, New York, Marcn 
23, 1860, son of Seth M. Gates, who was 
a Congressman fro'm Western New York 
from 1838 ito 1842, and active, in associa- 
tion with Slade and Giddings, in the 
anti-slavery struggle; the protest against 
the annexation of Texas, isigned by J. Q. 
Adams and many other members of Con- 
gress, was from his pen. Lewis E. Gates 
was graduated from Harvard in 1884, and 
studied in Germany, France and England 
from 1887 to 1890. From 1890 to 1896 
he was an instructor of English; 1896 
to 1901, assistant professor of English, 
and from 1901 to 1902 assistant professor 
of Coimparative Literature in Harvard 
University. He has contributed to vari- 
ous leading periodicals, an'd is the author 
of Selections from Jeffrey; Selections 
from Newman; Selections from Matthew 
Arnold; Three Studies in Literature; 
Studies and .Appreciations. Residence: Th^ 
Berkshire. 

GATES, MERRILL EDWARDS, edu- 
cator, was born at Warsaw, New York, 
April 6, 1848, son of Seth M. and Fannie 
J. (Parsons) Gates. He atjtended the 
University of Rochester, graduating with 
the class of 1870, and holds the following 
honorary degrees: Ph. D,, from the Uni- 
versity of the State of New York; LL. D.. 
firom Princeton, Rochester, Columbia, and 
Williams, an'd, L. H. D., from Columbia. 
From 1870 to 1882 he was principal of the 
Albany Boy's Academy; from 1882 to 
1890, president of Rutgers College, and, 
from 1890 to 1889, president of Amherst 
College. From 1889 to 1899 he was chair- 
man of the United States Board of In- 
dian Commissioners, land fro'm 1893 to 
1898 president of the American Mission- 
ajry Association. He is well known a;* 
a lecturer and writer on religious sub- 
jects, being a licensed minister of the 
Congregational Church. Among some of 
the books he has written are: Sydney 
Lanier, a Poet and Artist; Land and 
Law as Agents in Educating the Indians; 
International Arbitration; Highest Use 
of Wealth, etc. In 1873 he manied Mary 
C. Bishop of Rochester, N. Y. Residence: 
1315 New Hampshire avenue. Ofllce: 533 
Fifteenth street, n.w. 

GATHMANN, LOUIS, inventor, was 
born in Province of Hanover, Germany, 
August 11, 1843, son of Turgen H. and 



Magdelena Gathmann. His early educa- 
tion was obtained in Luneberg and Han- 
over, Germany, and after coming to Amer- 
ica 'he began the study of engineering. 
He is the inventor of the Gathmann Gun, 
and is now interested in aerial naviga- 
tion and the refining of crude petroleum 
by a new method. He married Henriette 
Ehlert, of Chicago. Residence: 2017 
Kalorama avenue, n.w. 

GATSCHET, ALBERT SAMUEL, lin- 

guist, was born at St. Beatenberg, Berne, 
Switzerland, October 3, 1832. He was 
educated in the common schools of Berne 
until 1852, when he studied in Berne 
University and at Berlin, Germany, un.til 
1858. He has always made a specialty 
of languages, and since coming to Amer- 
ica in 1874, Ihe has made a special study 
of languages of 'he American Indians. In 
1877 he wias appointed ethnologist of 
the United States Geological Survey, and 
since 1879, been connected with the Bu- 
reau of Ethnology of the Smithsonian In- 
stitution. He has written a number of 
books, among them being: A Creek 
Migration Legend; Klamath Indians of 
Southwest Oregon, and articles and bul- 
letins that have been issued by the 
Smithsonian Institution. He was married 
in 1892. Residence: 2020 Fifteenth street, 
n.w. Office: Smithsonian Institution. 

GEARE, RANDOLPH ILTYD, Chief of 
Division of Correspondence and Docu - 
ments. United States National Museum, 
was born at Abingdon, England, Febru- 
ary 13, 1854, son of Rev. Edward and Ann 
Jane (Payne) Geare. Was educated a 
the Derby School, Derby, England, and 
came to the United States in 1872. Trav- 
eled through the West 1872-75, and set- 
tled in Baltimore, 1875; tutored Spanish 
Consul's sons and other boys; had charge 
of St. Paul's School and choir two years, 
and came to Washington in 1880. Was 
connected with United States Fisheries 
Commission as secretary ito Commissioner 
Baird, 1881-82, and was appointed to 
present position 1883. Has published 
more than a hundred articles in technical 
and other magazines. At request of the 
Executive Committee, prepared the official 
report on the celebration of the one hun- 
dredth anniversary of the removal of the 
seat of government to Washington (De- 
cember, 1900). Had charge of several 
choirs land musical organizations in 
Washington and elsewhere. Married, 
Washington, D. C, February 28, 1881, Mae 
Julia Cooper. Residence: 1318 Colum- 
bia 'road, n.w. Office: National Museum. 

GEARIN, JOHN M., lawyer, U. S. Sen- 
ator, was Isorn in Umatille County, Ore- 
gon, Augu.sit 15, 1851. He obtained his 
education at St. Mary's College, in San 
Francisco, and later attended the Notrw 
Dame University, in Indiana, graduating 
with the class of 1871 (the same insti- 



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tutlon conferred the degree of LL., D. In 
1903). He took up the study of law In 
1871, and was admitted to practice In 
(tihe Starte of Oregon In 1873, where he 
has since been actively engaged in his 
profession. In 1874 he was elected a 
member of the State Legislature; City 
Attorney of Portland in 1875, and, in 
1884, was elected Distriot Attorney for 
Multnomah County, Oregon. In 1878, 
when Oregon constituted one congres- 
eional disitrict, he was defeated for Con- 
gress on the Democratic iticket. Presi- 
dent Cleveland appointed him special 
prosecutor for the Government w'hen the 
celebrated opium frauds were unearthed 
In 1893. The Governor of Oregon ap- 
pointed him United States Senator in 
December, 1905, to fill the vacancy caused 
by the death of John H. Mitchell. Dem- 
ocrat. Legal residence: Portland, Oregon. 
Washington address: U. S. Senate. 

GEREN, H. M,, Pastor of the Anacos- 
itla Baptist Church. Residence: 137 
Maple avenue, Anacostla, D. C. 

GERRY, JAME3 L., Chief of the Di- 
vision of Customs, Treasury Department. 
Residence: 1104 Eas-t Capitol street. 
Office: U. S. Treasury Department. 

GIBBS, HARRIET ALETHA, concert 

performer and teacher, was born at Vic- 
toria, Vancouver Island, on February 18, 
1874, daughter of Mifflin Wistar and 
Maria Ann (Alexander) Gibbs. Her father 
was United States Consul and presiden- 
tial elector in 1876. She was educated 
at Oberlin College, and Conservatory of 
Music, and took a special course in pub- 
lic school music at Chicago, 111., in 1899, 
and a post-graduate course at Boston and 
Paris, France. She has been director of 
the musical department of the Eckstein 
Norton University, of Kentucky; assist- 
ant director of music in the Washington 
public schools, and president of tha 
Washington Conservatory of Music. On 
June 23, 1907, she was married to Lawyer 
N. B. Marshall, formerly Deputy Collector 
of Taxes, of Boston, Mass., a graduate 
of Harvard College and Harvard Law 
School, who is now practicing in Wash- 
ingon. The conservatory of whjch she 
is president is located at 902 T street. 
Residence: 1836 Ninth street, n.w. 

GIBSON, GEORGE, printer, was born 
at Newtown-Stewart, Ireland, and when 
four years of age he removed with his 
parents to America, locating at Baltimore, 
Md. After attending the public schools 
he learned the printing trade, and in 
1862 came to Washington with his brother 
and established the printing house now 
known as Gibson Brothers. In addition 
to his interests in the firm of Gibson 
Brothers, he is interested in other busi- 
ness enterprises of the city. He Is a 



member of the Washing'ton Board of 
Trade; a prominent Mason and Knight 
Templar; president Masonic Veteran 
Association, and president Masonic Mu- 
tual Rlief Association. On May 14, 1861, 
he married Margaret Page Allen, of Bal- 
timore. Residence: 1512 Columbia road, 
n.w. Business address: 1238 Pennsylva- 
nia avenue. 

GIBSON, HORATIO GATES, retired 
army officer, was born in Baltimore, Md., 
May 22, 1827, son of Rev. John and Eliz- 
abeth (Jameson) Gibson. After gradu- 
ating from the West Point Military Acad- 
emy in 1847 he was brevetted a Second 
Lieutenant in the Second Artillery, and 
served In the Mexican War; was ap- 
pointed a Second Lieutenant in the Third 
Artillery In 1847; First Lieutenant in 
1851, and Captain in 1861. He served 
throughout the Civil War, taking part 
in the battles of Williamsburg, Stone 
Mountain, Antietum, and Fredericksburg. 
In 1862 he was brevetted a Major for gal- 
lant services at the battle of Williams- 
burg, Va., and brevetted Lieutenant- 
Colonel the same year for meritorious 
services in the battle of Antietam. In 
1863 he was transferred to the Second 
Ohio Heavy Artillery as Lieutenant- 
Colonel, being advanced to Colonel the 
same year, and was brevetted Brigadier- 
General of the United States Volunteer.? 
and brevet Colonel of the regular army 
in 1865; in 1867 became Major of the 
Third Artillery, U. S. A.; Lieutenant- 
Colonel of the Second Artillery in 1882. 
and Colonel of the Third Artillery in 1883. 
On May 22, 1891, he was retired from 
active service on age. On March 16, 1863, 
he married Harriet L. Atkinson, of Sc 
Louis, Mo. Residence: 1151 New Hamp- 
shire avenue, n.w. 

GIDDINGS, WILLIAM J., senior mem- 
ber of the firm of Giddings «& Steele, 
house furnishers, was born at Leesburg. 
Va., on November 12, 1863. He was grad- 
uated from the Blacksburg Military 
Academy, ithen worked for seven years 
In a dry goods and carpet establishment 
in Ohio, and was later for seven years 
in Atlanta. In the early nineties ha 
s-^cured employment with W. B. Moses & 
Sons, in Washington, being buyer for 
eight years, afte- which he embarked in 
business with Frank A. Steele, also an 
employe of Moses & Sons, and purchased 
the long-established business formerly 
conducted by Hooe Brothers, W. B. Mitch- 
ell and Frederick Petersen. Residence* 
Takoma Park, D. C. Business address: 
813 Pennsylvania avenue, n.w. 

GIFFIN, ESTHER JOSSELYN, libra- 
rian, was born in Newark, Ohio, daugh- 
ter of Dr. James Hervey and Ruth 
(Josselyn) Giffin. She was educated in 
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and B^th^ny Collepre, at Topeka, Kansas. 
For a few years she taught In the pub- 
lic schools of. Minneapolis, and for seven 
years has been deeply interested In the 
education of the blind. Since 1897 she 
has been librarian in charge of th^ read- 
ing room for the blind in the Library of 
Congress. She is a member of the Epis- 
copal Church: Mary Washington Chap- 
ter of the Daughters of the American 
Revolution; National Geographic Soci- 
ety; Library Association of the District 
of Columbia, and 'the American Library 
Association. In 1903 she was a delegate 
to the International rnngrpss for th-? 
Amelioration of the Condition of the 
Blind, held In Brussels. Belgium, and the 
International Conference on 'the Blind, 
held In Fdinburar. Scotland. In 190.^. She 
Is a member of the Society for the Pro- 
motion of Church Work for the Blind In 
Philadelphia; Higher Education and Gen- 
eral Improvement Society for the Blind 
of Chicago, and is a corresponding mem- 
ber of the British Foreign Assoclatl >t 
for the Blind, of London. Residence: 1716 
H street, n.w. Office: Library of Con- 
gress. 

GILBERT, GEORGE GILMORE. lawyer, 

Congressman, was born in Spencer 
County, Kentucky, In 1850. He was ed- 
ucated in the common schools of his n.^- 
tlve county, Cecilian Collpge and Lynd- 
land Institute (Ky.); 'taught school for 
a few years, and latjr took up the study 
of law in the Law Depatment of the 
University of Louisville, graduating with 
the class of 1873. In 1874 he bpsran the 
practice of his profession at Taylorsville, 
Ky.; In 1876 he was elected attorne.v for 
Spencer County, which office he h°ld for 
four years, and served four years in the 
State Senate. He has represented the 
Eighth Kentucky Congressional District 
In the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty- 
eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses. In 
politics he Is a Democrat. On November 
4, 1875, he married Lizzie W. HInkle 
Legal residence: Shelbyville, Ky. Wash- 
ington address: House of Representa- 
tives. 

GILBERT, GROVE KARL, geologist, 
was born in Rochester, N. Y., May 6, 
1843, son of Grove Sheldon and Eli^a 
(Stanley) Gilbert. He was graduated 
from the University of Rochester in 1562, 
and holds the honorary degree of LL. D. 
from that institution, and from the Uni- 
versity of Wisconsin. From 1863 to 1863 
he was an assistant in the Ward Museum, 
at Rochester, N. Y., and during 1868 and 
1870 he was the geologist in the Ohio 
State Survey; from 1871 to 1874, geolo- 
gist of the Wheeler Survey, and the Pow- 
ell Survey from 1875 to 1879. Since 1879 
he has been a geologist in the United 
States Geological Survey. He is the au- 
thor of many bulletins that have been 
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iFsued by that department, and has writ- 
ten articles for scientific publications; 
among h's bnnks are: Geologry of tha 
Henry Mountains; Lake Bonneville; In- 
troduction to Physical Geography, etc. 
On November 10, 1874, he married Fan- 
nie L. Porter, of Cambridge, Mass. He 
is a past president of the American Asso- 
ciation for the Advancement of Science; 
a m-^mber of the American Philosophical 
Society, National Academy of Sciences, 
etc. Pa=iden"p: 1919 Sixt-enth street, 
n.w. Office: U. S. Geological Survey. 

GILBERT, JAMES ELEAZER, (D. D., 

LL. D.). cle'gyman. editor, was born at 
Al"xander, N. Y., December 20. 1839, son 
of David and Amanda (Crawford) Gil- 
bert. He was educated in Genesee Col- 
lege, at Lima, N. Y., and ordained to the 
ministry of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church In 1871. He was once principal 
of the public schools in Buffalo, and was 
for a time editor of the Buffalo Courier. 
For some years he has been editor of 
the Journal of Religious Education anJ 
secretary of the American Society of 
Religious Education. He Is the author of 
several books of a religious nature, 
among them being: The Life of Christ; 
Sacred Pedaerogy; Man's Snirltual Na- 
ture; Principles of Art and Teachin.g, 
and has contributed much to religious 
papers. On June 11, 1866, he married 
Sarah J. Thompson, of Buffalo, N. Y. 
Resid?nce: 1503 R street, n.w. 

GILBERT, JOHN J., Inspector of 
Hydrography and Topography in the 
Coast and Geodetic Survey. United States 
Department of Commerce and Labor, was 
born in Fairfax County. Virginia, on Sep- 
tember 4. 1845. Was educated In Virginia 
public schools. Wilton Acadmy, Wilton, 
Conn., and Williams College (Mass.). He 
left oniiosre to a'^i^enr an annnintment iti 
the Coast and Geodetic Survey, und^r 
Superintendent A. D. Eache on June 1, 
1864. In April, 1866, he was ordered to 
tb" West rna<:t, and stationed on Piigpt 
Sound. Service has been on the West 
coT=t. in'^lndiig California, Oregon. Wash- 
ington and Alaska, and In 'the Philippine 
Islands. Was assigned to present duties 
March, 1906. He is a member of the 
Nat'nnal Gpngraphic .^oripty. the Philo- 
sophical Society of Washington, and the 
Cosmos Club; a Thirry-second degree 
Mason, a Knight Templar and a Shrliier. 
Residence: The I-oquots. Office: New 
Jersey avenue and B street, s.e. 

GILBERT, NEWTON WHITING, law- 
yer. Congressman, was born at Worthing- 
ton[ Franklin County, Ohio, May 24. 1862, 
son of Theodore R. and Ellen L. (John- 
son) Gilbert. He is a grandson of Joseph 
E. Johnson, a former Governor of Vir- 
ginia, and for many years a member of 
Congress. His early education was ob- 



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tainfed in the public schools in Indiana 
and Ohio, later attending the Ohio State 
University. Prom 1897 to 1901 he was 
a member of the Indiana State Senate, 
and from 1901 to 1905 was Lieutenant- 
Governor of Indiana, after which he wan 
elected a member of Congress. At the 
outbreak of the Spanish-American War he 
enlisted as a Captain in the One Hundred 
and Fifty-seventh Indiana Infantry. His 
politics are Republican. He is a Mason, a 
member of the Odd Fellows, Knights of 
Pythias and the Army and "Navy Club. 
He is a member of the Protestant Epis- 
copal Church, and a widower. Legal res- 
idence: Fort Wayne, Ind. Washington 
address: House of Representatives. 

GILHAMS, CLARENCE C, Congress- 
man, was born ait Brighton, La Grange 
County, Indiana, April 11, 1863, son of 
Aaron and Mary Jane Gilhams. He waj 
educated in the public schools and at the 
State Normal School, at Terre Haute, 
Ind., and later itaught in the commo.-i 
schools of his home county. He servea 
eight years as Auditor of La Grange 
County, Kentucky, and on November 6, 
1906, he was elected to fill out the un- 
expired term of Hon. N. W. Gilbert, who 
resigned in the Fifty-ninth Congress, 
and at the same time was eledted to ithi 
Sixtieth Congress from the Twelfth In- 
diana Congressional District, as a Repub- 
lican. Legal residence: La Grange, Ind. 
Washing'ton address: House of Repre- 
sentatives. 

GILL, JOHN, JR., lawyer. Congress- 
man, was born in Baltimore, Md., on 
June 9, 1850. He was educated at the 
Hampton-Sydney College (Va.), and later 
studied law at Maryland University, and 
was admitted to ifhe bar at Baltimore in 
1871, where he has since practiced, be- 
ing a member of the firm of Gill, Pres- 
ton & Field. For nine years he was 
one of the Police Commissioners of Bal- 
timore; four years a memWer of the 
Maryland House of Delegates, and was 
elected to two terms of 'the State Sen- 
ate. He has represented the Fourth 
Maryland Congressional District in the 
Fifty-ninth Congress, and was re-elected 
to the Sixtieth. Democrat. Legal resi- 
dence: Baltimore, Md. Washington ad- 
dress: House of Representatives. 

GILL, JOHN M., Pastor of the Rhode 

Island Avenue Methodist Protestant 
Church. Residence: 36 Rhode Island 
avenue. 

GILL, THEODORE NICHOLAS, zoolo- 
gist, was born in New York, March 21, 
1837, son of James Darrell Gill. He was 
educated by private 'tutors, and early in 
life showed an inlterest in natural history, 
which branch of science 'he has since 
made his specialty. In the early sixties 
he was librarian in the Smithsonian In- 



stitution and the Library of Congress, 
and was connected with the Naitional 
Museum in various capacities. He holds 
Ithe degrees of A. M., M. D. and Ph. D. 
from Columbian (now George Washing- 
ton) University, and has been at the head 
of the zoological department in that uni- 
versi'ty for a number of years. He was 
an associate editor of Johnson's New Uni- 
versal Cyclopedia, Century Dictionary, and 
the Sandard Dictionary, and is the au- 
thor of a number of books and bulletin.s 
on natural 'history, among them being; 
Synopsis of Fresh Waiter Fishery; Ar- 
rangement of Families of Mammals; 
Fishes of t'he East Coast of North Amer- 
ica; Principles of Geography; Scientific 
and Popular Views of Nature Contrasted; 
Account of Progress in Zoology, etc., and 
has contributed many articles to scien- 
tific publications. Address: Cosimos Club 

GILLESPIE, GEORGE LEWIS, army 
ofl^cer, was born in Kingston, Tennessee, 
in 1841. He attended West Point, and 
was graduated with the class of 1862, 
when he became an engineer officer on 
the staff of the General commanding th'^' 
Army of the Potomac from 1862 to 1864; 
afterwards Chief Engineer of the Army 
of the Shenandoah, and was twice bre- 
vetted for merritorious service and re- 
ceived a congressional medal for bravery. 
In 1865 he was with Sheridan at New 
Orleans, and, as Chief Engineer, took 
7mrt in the reconstruction of the Gulf 
States. On the Mississippi River Com- 
mission, 'he served as 'president in 1885, 
and was afterwards a member of the 
Board of Engineers of the United States 
Army at New York. He has been a 
member of the Lighthouse Board; Di- 
vision of Engineers of the Northeastern 
Division; at the outbreak of the Span- 
ish War he was appointed a Brigadier- 
General, and commanded the Departmen. 
of the East. In 1900 he was a member 
of the Board of Officers that visited Porto 
Rico in order to set apart from 'the 
crown lands those needed for military 
and naval purposes by our Government. 
On May 3, 1901, he was appointed a 
Brigadier-General and Chief of the Engi- 
neers of the United States Army, and Is 
a member of the Board of Ordnance and 
Fortifications and the Army War College 
Board. Residence: 1721 Rhode Island av- 
enue. 

GILLESPIE, OSCAR WILLIAM, law- 
yer. Congressman, was born in Clark 
County, Mississippi, June 20, 1858. He 
was graduated from Mansfield College, 
Texas, studied law and admitted to the 
bar in 1866. From 1890 to 1894 he was , 
Prosecuting Attorney for Tarrant County, * 
Texas. He 'has represented the Twelfth 
Texas Congressional District in the Fifty- 
eighth, Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Con- 
gresses. In politics he is a Democrat. 
On December 23, 1884, he married Ada 
Kate Hodges, of Mansfield, Texas. Legal 



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residence: Fort Worth, Texas* Washing-- 
ton residence: 1711 Riggs place. 

GILLETT, FREDERICK HUNTING- 
TON, lawyeir, Congressman, was born in 
Westfield, Mass., October 16, 1851. He 
was graduated from Amherst College 
wMh 'the class of 1874, after which he 
aittended the Harvard Law School, grad- 
uating in 1877, and was admitted to the 
bar at Springfie'ld, Mass., the same year. 
From 1879 to 1882 he was Assistant At- 
iLorney General of the State of Massachu- 
setts, and served in the State Legisla- 
ture during- 1890 and 1891. He has repre- 
sented 'the Second Miassachusetts District 
continuously in Congress since the Fifty- 
second Cong-ress. In politics he is a Re- 
publican. Legal residence: Springfleli 
Mass. "Washington address: House o:" 
Representatives. 

GILMORE, JOHN CURTIS, army 
officer, was born in Canada, April 
18, 1837. Was educated at Louisville, 
X. Y., and was graduated from the Albany 
Law School. Entered the army as Cap- 
tain, Sixteenth New York Infantry; bre- 
vetted Colonel of Volunteers November 
14, 1865. On May 11, 1866, he was made 
Second Lieutenant, Twelfth United States 
Infantry; promoted to Captain Thirty- 
eighth Infantry. January 22, 1867; Col- 
onel, A. A. G., April 28, 1900; Brigadier- 
General "Volunteers May 27, 1898, and wa^ 
Chief of Staff and Adjutant-General to 
General Miles until retired, April 18, 1901. 
Brevetted Major March 2, 1867, for gal- 
lant and meritorious services at Antie- 
tum; Lieutenant - Colonel, Fredericks- 
burg; medal of honor from Congress for 
distinguished conduct at battle of Salem 
Heights, Virginia. Took part in preparing 
Infantry, Cavalry and Light Artillery 
Drill Regulations and Manual of Guar') 
Duty. Residence: The Portland. 

GIRARD, ALFRED C, military sur- 
geon, was born in Switzerland, on July 
.31, 1841, son of Prof. C. F. and J. (Blo- 
mer) Girard. He is a g^raduate of 'the 
University of Wurzburg, Germany. He 
came to America and entered the imedical 
service of the regular army in 1867 a^ 
an assistant surgeon; was promoted to 
Major in 1887; Lieutenant-Colonel in 1890. 
and Colonel and Assistant Surgeon-Gen- 
eral in 1902. After serving in the di- 
visions of Louisiana and Texas from 186'^ 
to 1882 he was assigned to duty at the 
United States Military Academy. He 
published the first report in this country 
advoca'ting- antiseptic surgery, after vis- 
iting hospitals in Europe. For eight years 
he served in the West in Indian cam- 
paigns, after which he made another trip 
to Europe and published an atlas of clin- 
ical microscopy. During ithe Spanish- 
American War he served as chief surgeon 
of the Second Army Corps and equipped 
the general hospital at Presidio, Cal., and 



took care of over 19,000 patients in three 
years, mostly of whom were invalids from 
the Philippines. In 1902, after brief serv- 
ice in the Surgeon-General's office, he was 
ordered to the Philippines. He is author of 
a number of articles that have appeared 
in leading medical journals. He married 
Annie R. Epping, of Charleston, S. C 
Address: War Department. 

GIRARD, JOSEPH B., army officer, was 
born m Prance on December 26, 1846 and 
graduated from the University of Mich- 
igan, M. D., in 1867. On May 14 1867 
he was appointed an Assistant Surgeon' 
U. S. A.; promoted to Captain and Assist- 
ant Surgeon, 1870; Major and Surgeon, 
1888; Lieutenant-Colonel and Deputy Sur- 
geon-General, 1901, and Colonel and As- 
sistant Surgeon-General .on September 7, 
1902. He has served in the various de- 
partments and duties as a medical offi- 
cer, U. S. A., his first service being main- 
ly on the frontier, 1872-76. He has also 
served at various posts and in the field 
with General Crook against the Apache 
Indians. Address: War Department. 

GIRTY, GEORGE H,, stratigraphir 
paleontologist, United States Geological 
Survey since 1-895, was born at Cleveland. 
Ohio, December 30, 1869, son of Alfred 
P. and Emma Hopkins Girty. He was 
graduated from Yale University in 1892. 
and itook a Ph. D. in paleontology from 
the same insititution. Member of Geo- 
logical and Biological Societies of Wash- 
ington, and American Association for the 
Advancement of Science. Residence: 2462 
Ontario road. 

GITT, DAVID L., real estate, was born 
on Februai-y 17, 1849, at Cape Girardeau, 
Missouri. He was educated at the St. 
Louis High School, and filled a respon- 
sible position in the St. Louis city post- 
office. He served at first as clerk in th-? 
Pension Bureau, and afterwards as Chief 
of the Mail Division and Principal Ex- 
aminer, serving under eight commission- 
ers. Since 1889 he has been engaged 
in Ithe real estate and claims business. 
He has been manager of ithe Columbia 
Park Suburban Company, Sherman Park, 
Tuxedo, and, lastly, Central Heights He 
is the manager of "Oaklyn" and "Colum- 
bia Highlands," Maryland and has built 
up quite a large claim business before 
the departments. He married Marian F. 
Wetherall, who is associated with him a.s 
the company in nhe firm of David L. Gitt 
& Co. Residence: The Royalton, 918 
M street, n.w. Office: 623 F s'treet, n.w. 

GIVEN, HARVEY, Assistant United 
States District Attorney, en'tered the Cltjr 
Hall at Washington as a messenger, and 
was admitted to the bar shortly befor<i 
he became one of District Attorney Ba- 
ker's assistant. Residence: 1202 P street, 
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GIVEN, RALPH, Assistant United 
States District Attorney. Residence: 218 
B street, s.e. Office: City Hall. 

GLASS, CARTER, newspaper publisher, 
Congressman, was born in Lynchburg, 
Virginia, January 4, 1858. He was edu- 
cated in the private schools of his home 
town, after which he itook up newspaper 
wo:k, now being the owner of two pa- 
pers in his home town. From 1899 to 
1903 he was a member of the Virginia 
State Senate, and was a member of the 
Virginia Constitutional Convention in 
1901 and 1902. He has served as a mem- 
ber of the Board of Visitors of the Uni- 
versity of Virginia for eight years, and, 
after the death of P. J. Otey, in 1902, 
he was elected to fill out his unexpired 
term in the Fifty-seventh Congress, and 
was re-elected ito represent the Sixth 
Virginia Congressional District in the 
Fifay-eighth, Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth 
Congresses. Democrat. Legal residence: 
Lynchburg, Va. Washington address: 
House of Representatives. 

GLASS, HENRY, naval officer, was 
born in Kentucky on January 7, 1844, 
son of Henry and Martha K. Glass. He 
attended the United States Naval Acad- 
emy, graduating in 1863, after which he 
became an Ensign attached to 'the steam 
sloop Canandaigua, and took part in gen- 
eral engagements with forts and batter- 
ies in Charleston Harbor and other 
South Carolina ports during the Civil 
War. In 1865 he was promoted to Mas- 
iter; Lieutenant in 1866, Lieutenant- 
Commander in 1868, Commander in 1879, 
Captain in 1894, and Rear Admiral in 
1901. During the Spanish War he was 
in command of the cruiser Charleston, 
in the Asiatic Squadron, and conveyed 
the first troops to Manila, and captured 
the Ladrone Islanda After tlie surren 
der of Manila he became Captain of the 
port. From 1899 to 1903 he was Com- 
mandant of the United States Naval 
Training Station at San Francisco, and 
became Commander-in-Chief of the 
Pacific Squadron on February 10, 1903. 
He is a member of the Loyal Legion, 
Society of American Wars, Military Or- 
der of Foreign Wars of the United States', 
Naval Order of the United States, and 
Bohemian, Olympic and Union League 
Clubs, of San Francisco. He is the au- 
thor of Marine International Law. On 
March 15, 1881, he married Ella M. John- 
son, of San Francisco. Home: San Fran- 
cisco, Cal. Address: Navy Department. 

GLAZEBROOK, LARKIN WHITE. 

physician, was born in Richmond, 
Virginia, on July 28, 1867, son of Rev. 
Dr. Otis Allan and Virginia Calvert 
(Key-Smith) Glazebrook. His early edu- 
cation was obtained in the Grammar 
School of the University of the South, 
Norwood's School, at Richmond, Va.; 



Episcopal High School of Virginia, and 
the University of Virginia, afterwards 
studying medicine at the College of Phy- 
sicians and Surgeons, in New York, and 
the Long Island College Hospital, grad- 
uating from both in 1890. He was 
formerly resident physician at St. Luke's 
Hospital, South Bethlehem, Penn., and 
has been attending physician to the 
Emergency Hospital, the Washington City 
Orphan Asylum, and Coroner's Surgeon 
in Washington since 1903. He is a mem- 
ber of the Universitj', Chevy Chase and 
Bachelors' Clubs, and from 1894 to 1900 
was chief executive of the Alpha Tau 
Omega college fraternity. He is a mem- 
ber of the Protestant Episcopal Church, 
and superintendent of St. Thomas' Sun- 
day School. On January 9, 1894, he mar- 
ried Jane Threlkeld Cox. Residence: 2022 
P street, n.w. 

GLEAVES, ALBERT, naval officer, was 
born in Nashville, Tenn., on January 1, 
1858, son of Henry Albert and Eliza 
(Taunehill) Gleaves, and his earliest an- 
cestor in America was Colonel Samuel 
Gleaves, who was a member of General 
Braddock's staff. He was graduated from 
the United States Naval Academy in 1877, 
since when he has been advanced to the 
rank of Commander. During the Span- 
ish-American War he commanded the 
torpedo boat Gushing, and afterwards was 
commander of the United States cruiser 
Dolphin and the Mayflower on special 
service. At the present time he is in 
charge of the United States Naval Tor- 
pedo Station at Newport, R. I. He is the 
author of The Life of James Lawrence, 
which has been published by J. P. Put- 
nam's Sons. In 1902 while in command 
of the Dolphin, he discovered the great- 
est known depth in the Atlantic Ocean. 
The honor of Chevalier of the Legion of 
Honor has been conferred, but Congress 
has not yet authorized him to accept. 
On June 12, 1889, he married Evelina 
Heat. Address: Navy Department. 

GLENN, EDWIN F., soldier and au- 
thor, was born at Greensboro, N. C, on 
January 10, 1857, son of Robert W. and 
Julia (Gilmer) Glenn. He attended the 
United States Military Academy, grad- 
uating with the class of 1877, and lat<^r 
attended the law department of the Uni- 
^•crsity of Minnesota, graduatinj? in 1891 
He has been in continuous service since 
graduation, and in 1901 was promoted t^ 
Major of the Fifth Infantry in the Reg- 
ular Army. He is the author of Glenn s 
International Law, which appeared in 
1895. He is a member of the National 
Geographic Society, Alaskan Geological 
Society, of Seattle, Wash., etc. On April 
29, 1886, he married Louise Smyth, o* 
St. Paul, Minn. Address: War Depart- 
ment. 

GLENNAN, ARTHUR HENRY, assist- 
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Public Health and Marine Hospital 
Service, was born at Rochester, N. T., 
July 28, 1853, son of Surgeon P. and Mar- 
garet Denver (O'Donnell) Glennan. He 
was graduated from St. John's College 
and the medical department of the Uni- 
versity of the City of New York in 1882. 
He was appointed Assistant Surgeon In 
the Marine Hospital Service June 6, 1883; 
commanded United States Marine Hos- 
pitals and Quarantine Stations at vari- 
ous points, 1883-97; served In epidemic 
of yellow fever in the South, 1897-98. He 
organized the quarantine service in Porto 
Rico, 1899, and was chief quarantine offi- 
cer of Cuba during ithe yellow fever epi- 
demic at Havana; on staff of Major- 
General Wood, 1900-02, and sanitary com- 
mission to California, 1902-03. Member 
of the American Medical Association, the 
Association of Military Surgeons, the 
Military Order of the Loyal Legion, and 
Ithe University Club. Married Mary Clark 
Mcintosh, of Springfield, Mass. Resi- 
dence: Chevy Chase, Maryland. 

GLIEM, CHRISTIAN P., Chief Electrical 
Engineer, United States Capitol. Resi- 
dence: 642 East Capitol street. Office; 
The Capitol. 

GLOVER, CHARLES CARROLL, bank- 
er, was born on a farm, in Macon County, 
North Carolina November 24 1846 son of 
Charles and Caroline (Piercy) Glover.. 
His education was obtained in the schools 
of Washington after which he became a 
clerk for three years in a book store, 
prior to entering the employ of Riggs 
& Co., as a clerk. In 1873 he became a 
(member of the firm, and since its reor- 
ganization in 1896, he has been its presi- 
dent (since conducted under the name oC 
the Riggs National Bank). In addition 
to his connection with the Riggs National 
Bank, he is vice-president of the Cap- 
ital Traction Company; ex-vice-president 
of the National Safe Deposit Savings and 
Trust Company, and a member and ex- 
president of the Washington Stock Ex- 
change. Much credit is due him for the 
establishment of Rock Creek and Poto- 
mac Parks, and securing for the city tha 
site for the Fort Reno reservoir. He is 
(treasurer of the American University; 
trustee of the Protestant Episcopal 
Cathedral Foundation, and is vice-pres- 
ident and treasurer of the Corcoran Gal- 
lery of Art. On June 10, 1878, he mar- 
ried Annie C_, Poor, a daughter of Ad- 
miral Poor. Residence: 1703 K stree:, 
n.w. Office: Riggs National Bank. 

GODOY, DON JOSE F., Minister Pleni- 
potentiary, First Secretary, Mexican Em- 
bassy. Residence: 1300 Seventeenth 
street. 

GODFREY, EDWARD SETTLE, army 
officer, was born at Kalida, Putnam Coun- 
ty, Ohio, on October 9, 1843, son of Dr. 
Charles Moore and Mary (Chambers) 



Godfrey. His early education was ob- 
tained in the public schools of Ohio, and 
was a cadet in the United States Mil- 
itary Academy from 1863 to 1867, at which 
latter date he was graduated. Before en- 
tering West Point, he served as a private 
in Company D, Twenty-first Ohio Vol- 
unteer Militia, from April 26 to August 12. 
1861. From June 17, 1867, to February 

2, 1901, he served as Lieutenant, Captain, 
and Major of the Seventh Cavalry, and 
was in all the campaigns and Indian fights 
of the regiment, under General Custer, 
until his death. He was an instructor In 
cavalry tactics at the U. S. Military Acad- 
emy from 1879 to 1883. For "most distin- 
guished gallantry" against Chief Joseph 
and the Nez Pierce Indians at Bear Paw 
Mountains, on September 30, 1877, at 
which battle he was wounded and had a 
horse shot under him, he was brevetted 
a Major and awarded a Congressional 
medal of honor. He was a member of the 
board of officers that devised the present 
system 'Of drill regulations for Infantry, 
cavalry and artillery. Since October 23, 
1904, he has been Colonel of the Ninth 
United States Cavalry, commanding Fort 
Riley, Kansas, and the School of Appli- 
cation for Cavalry and Field Artillery. 
He is the author of Custer's Last Battle, 
appearing in the Century magazine, Jan- 
uary, 1892, and is a member of the Army 
and Navy Club, Washington. He has 
been twice married — first, on June 15, 1869, 
to Mary Pocock, at Hayesville, Ohio, and 
second, at Cookstown, N. J., to Ida D. 
Emley, on October 6, 1892. Address: War 
Department. 

GODWIN, HANNIBAL LAFAYETTE, 

lawyer, Congressman, was born in Har- 
n©M County, North Carolina, November 

3, 1873. son of Archibald Bryant and 
Rebecca E. (Reeves) Godwin. He was 
educated in the schools of Dunn, North 
Carolina; Trinity College (N. C), and 
the University of North Carolina, gradu- 
ating from the law department of tho 
latter institution in 1896. In 1897 he was 
Mayor of Dunn, N. C; State Senator 
in 1903, and a presidential elector In 
1904. In November, 1906, he was elected 
a member of the Sixtieth Congress from 
the Sixth North Carolina District, as a 
Democrat. He is a member of the Meth- 
odist Church, an Odd Fellow, Mason, and 
a member of other leading fraternal or- 
ders. On December 23, 1896, he married 
Mattie B. Barnes to which union have 
been born five children. Legal resldenc: 
Dunn, Harnett County, North Carolina. 
Washington address: House of Repre- 
sentatives. 

GOEBEL, HERMAN PHILIP, lawyer. 
Congressman, was born in Cincinnati, 
Ohio, April 5, 1853. He educated him- 
self for the practice of law, being admit- 
ted to 'the bar In his home town, where 
he has since been actively engaged In 
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he was elected a member of the Ohio 
State Legislature, and in 1884 was elected 
Judge of the Probate Court of Hamilton 
County, Ohio, and re-elected to 'the same 
office in 1887. He has represented thf 
Second Ohio Congressional District in 
the Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth and Sixti- 
eth Congresses. In politics he is a Re- 
publican. Legal residence: Cincinnati, 
Ohio. Washington address: House of 
Representatives. 

GOENNER, ALBERT, architect, was 
born in Germany, in 1860, and was edu- 
cated in the schools at Stuttgart, Wurt- 
temberg, and Zurich, Switzerland, mak- 
ing architecture his specialty. In 1880 
he emigrated to America, isettling in Nev/ 
York, where 'he was employed by some 
of the most prominent architectural 
firms, remaining ithere until 1887, when 
he removed to Washington to open offices 
and to engage in the same business on an 
independent scale. Since being in Wash- 
ington he has designed a number of 
prominent buildings in ithe city. Resi- 
dence: 134 Maryland avenue, n.w. Office: 
Bliss Building. 

GOETHALS, GEORGE W., army officer, 
chief engineer, Panama Canal Commis- 
sion, was born in New York. He was 
appointed to the army from New York, 
being promoifced to Second Lieutenant of 
Engineers June 12, 1880; First Lieuten- 
ant June 15, 1882; Captain December 14, 
1891; Lieutenant-Colonel and Chief Engi- 
neer of Volunteers May 9, 1898, to De- 
cember 1, 1898, and Major of Engineers 
on February 7, 1900. On July 1, 1907, 
he became Chief Engineer of the Pan- 
ama Canal Commission. Residence: 1903 
S street, n.w. Office: War Depart- 
ment. 

GOLDEN, ROBERT A., merchant, was 
born in Charles County, Maryland, in 
1840. Since 1882 he has been engaged 
in business in Washington, and for a 
number of years was the senior member 
of 'the firm of Golden, Love & Co., pro- 
duce merchants, and since the death of 
Mr. Love the 'business has been con- 
ducted under the name of Golden & Co. 
Besides the above business, he is prom- 
inently identified with a number of other 
leading business enterprises in Washing- 
ton. Residence: 814 B s'treet, s.w. Busi- 
ness address: 922-928 Louisiana avenue, 
n.w. 

GOLDENBERG, MOSES, merchant, 
was born at Kestrick, Germany, May 1. 
1847, and in 1865, when eighteen years 
old, came to America and opened a dry 
goods store in Baltimore. After a quar- 
ter of a century there, he came to Wash- 
ingiton in 1896, and opened a store on 
Seventh street, near the Free Library, 
soon after discontinuing the Baltimore 
store. Besides his dry goods business, he 
has several other important interests, 
among them real estate holdings and 



public charities. He is a member of the 
Phoenix Club, Harmony Circle, and the 
Suburban Club, all of Baltimore. He 
married Ros'a Heeht, and has two sons, 
both of whom are associated with him 
in business. Residence: 1628 Bolton 
street. Business address: 912 Seventh 
street, n.w. 

GOLDFOGLE, HENRY M., lawyer, 
Congressman, was born in New York 
City, May 23, 1856. He was educated in 
Ithe public schools, after which 'he read 
law and was adimitted to the bar in New 
York. In 1887 he was elected Justice of 
the Fifth District Court in New York, 
and re-elected in 1893, withouit opposition. 
He was a Judge in the Municipal Court 
of New York, retiring in 1900, 'to again 
take up the private practice of law. He 
has been a delegate to sevenal national 
and State conventions of the Democratic 
panty. He 'has represented the Ninth 
New York Congressional District in the 
Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth 
and Sixtieth Congresses. Democrat. 
Legal residence: New York Cit> Wash- 
ington address: House of Representa- 
tives. 

GOMPERS, SAMUEL, President of the 
American Federation of Labor, was born 
in England, January 27, 1850. He at- 
tended the public schools up to his 'teniiji 
.year, and then attended evening schools 
until his fourteenth year. In the mean- 
time he learned the trade of cigar maker, 
and worked at it for twenty-six years. 
He served as secretary and president of 
the local union of his trade for six years, 
and was editor of the weekly paper of 
'the lo'cal, The Picket, and president of the 
State Federation of Labor. He was one 
of the founders of ithe American Federa- 
tion of Labor, and has been president of 
that organization continuously since 1882, 
with the exception of one year; the first five 
years were without compensation or sal- 
ary. He is Ithe author of several pamph- 
lets, and has been editor of the American 
Federationist for thirteen years. Office 
address: 423-425 G s'treet, n.w. 

GOODE, JOHN, lawyer, was born in 
Bedford County, Virginia, May 27, 1829, 
son of John and Ann M. Goode. He was 
graduated from Emory and Henry Col- 
lege, Virginia, in 1848, and admitted to 
it'he Virginia bar in 1851. For several 
years he was a member of the Virginia 
State Legislature and in 1861 was a mem- 
ber of the Virginia Secession Congress, 
and Confederate Congress from 1862 to 
1865. After the close of the Civil War 
he again took up the 'practice of law at 
Norfolk, Va. He has been a presidential 
elector three times, and served as a mem- 
ber of Congress from 1875 to 1881. Dur- 
ing 1885 and 1886 he was Solicitor-General 
of the United States, and a member of 
the Chilean Claims Commission in 1893 
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in the private practice of law in "Wash- 
ington, and has lectured on criminal law 
in the National University Law School. 
For eight yeiars he was a member of the 
Democratic National Committee, and is 
a member of the Board of Trustees of 
William and Mary College; University of 
Virginia, and the Virginia Agricultural 
and Mechanical College. In 1901 and 1902 
he was president of the Virginia Consti- 
tutional Convention. Residence: 1925 I 
street, n.w. Office: 2425 New York ave- 
nue, n.w. 

GOODE, RICHARD URQUHART, geog- 
rapher, was born at Bedford, Virginia, 
on December 8, 1858, the son of John and 
Sally (Urquhart) Goode. Hi^ early edu- 
cation was obtained in the schools of 
Norfolk, Hanover Academy (Va.), and the 
University of Virginia. During 1877 and 
1878 he was Assistant Engineer in the 
Army Engineer Corps; from 1879 to 
1S82, topographer of the United States 
Geological Survey, and, 1882 to 1884, engi- 
neer and topographer to the Northern 
Trans-Conitinental Survey. In 1888 he 
was engineer and astronomer for the Pan- 
ama Canal Company, and since 1889 has 
been a geographer in the United States 
Geological Survey. He is the author of 
a number of bulletins that have been is- 
sued by the Geological Survey, and has 
written articles for leading magazines. 
Residence: Somet avenue, Lanier Heights. 
Office: U. S. Geological Survey. 

GOODWIN, RUSSELL PARKER, law- 
yer, was born in Du Page County, Illi- 
nois, December 24, 1851, son of Jeremiah 
and Mary D. (Srdgwick) Goodwin. He 
was admitted to the Illinois bar in 187t3, 
and was Public Administrator of Kan" 
County, Illinois, 1878-91; City Attorney, 
Aurora, 111., 1886-89; Judge Ci'ty Courts 
of Aurora and Elgin, 111., 1891-1902. Since 
Maj- 16, 1904 he has been Assistant Ai 
torney-General for 'he Post Office Depart- 
ment. He was married, at Geneva, 111 , 
August, 1890, to Nellie A. Ames. Resi- 
dence: The Portland. Office: Po.st Office 
Depiartment. 

GORDON, DAVID STUART, army offi- 
cer, was born in Franklin County, Penn- 
sylvania, May 23, 1832, son of Alexan- 
der and Hannah (Ely) Gordon. He was 
educated ait the Commercial School, Bal- 
timore, and enlisted as First Lieutenant, 
Second Cavalry, June, 1861; promoted to 
Colonel, Sixth Cavalry, July 28, 1892; 
Brigadier - General, and retired, 190i. 
Served through the Civil War; was at 
the first battle of Bull Run; taken prisoner 
and confined in Libby Prison and other 
Southern prisons; exchanged August. 
1862. He was brevetted Major for gal- 
lantry at Gettysburg, and was in battles 
at Manassas Gap, Cold Harbor, etc., and 
after the war servel in frontier campaigns 
against the Indians until retired. He is 



now connected with the Washingiton office 
of the Mutual Life Insurance Company 
of New York. He is a member of the 
Burnside Post Grand Army of the Repuo- 
lic. He was married, at Leavenworth, 
Kansas, to Ann E. Hughes. Address: 1335 
P street, n.w. 

GORDON, FULTON R., real estate, wa^s 
born at Bailey's Cross Roads, Fairfax 
County, Virginia, on June 18, 1867, and 
was educated at the Episcopal High 
School near Alexandria, Va. He came 
to Washington in 1890, and has since been 
actively eng\aged in exploiting properties 
in realty, making a specialty of northwe^'. 
and suburban properties. He married 
Cora A. Hart in 1895. Residence: The 
Manor House. Office: Colorado Build- 
ing. 

GORDON, GEORGE WASHINGTON, 

soldier, lawyer. Congressman, was born 
in Giles County, Tennesse, October 5, 
1836, son of Andrew and Eliza K. Gor- 
don. He 'Wias graduated from the West- 
ern Military Institute in 1859, and prac- 
»ticed civil engineering until the outbreak 
of the Civil War, when he enlisted in the 
Eleventh Infantry Regiment of Tennes- 
see as drill master, and transferred to the 
military service of the C. S. A. He wa.s 
promoted to Captain, Lieutenant-Colonel, 
and Colonel, and in 1864 wias made Brig- 
adier-General, being held a prisoner until 
August, 1865, at Fort Warren, Boston 
Harbor. He studied law at Lebanon, 
Tenn., practicing at Pulaski and Memphis 
until 1883; appointed one of the Rail- 
road Commissioners of Tennessee. In 
1885 he received an appoinitment from 
the Department of the Interior and served 
four years in Indian country and terri- 
tories west of the Rocky Mountains. He 
resumed the practice of law at Memphis 
until 1892, when he was elected superin- 
tendent of city schools, and in Novem- 
ber, 1906, was elected a member of the 
Sixtieth Congress from the Tenth Con- 
gressional District of Tennessee, as a 
Democrait. On September 5, 1876, he mar- 
ried Ora S., daughter of Constantine and 
Susan A. Paine, at Bartlett, Tenn. Legal 
residence: Memphis, Tenn. Washington 
address: House of Ripresentatives. 

GORDON, HENRY DURANT, lawyer. 
wias born on a farm in Fairfax County, 
Virginia, February 14, 1866, son of Daniel 
S. and Amanda E. (Burroughs) Gordon. 
He received his early education in the 
common .='chools of Fairfax County and 
the Episcopal High School near Alexan- 
dria, Va, and later emtered the law de- 
partment of the National University in 
Washington, graduating, LL. B., in 1895, 
and, LL. M.. in 1896. since which time 
he has practiced law in Washington. On 
June 11, 1900, he married Isabel J. Had- 
daway. Residence: 1615 Swan street. 
Office: 615 Fourteenth street, n.w. 



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GORDON, JOHN, clergyman, educator, 
was born at Pittsburg, Pa., on March 10, 
1850, son of Alexander and Catherine (Ed- 
wards) Gordon. He was graduated from 
the Western University of Pennsylvania 
in 1866, later studying at the Auburn 
Theological Seminary, 1868-70, and the 
Union Theological Seminary, 1870-71 (A. 
M., Yale; D. D., Western University of 
Pennsylvania). He has served pastorates 
at the First Presbyterian Church, of Lin- 
coln, Nebraska; Fourth Presbyterian 
Church, at Pittsburg, and Westminster 
Church, Omaha. Was professor of ec- 
clesiastical history at the Omaha Theo- 
logical Seminal y; president of Tabor Col- 
lege from 1901 to 1903, and since the lat- 
ter date has been president of Howard 
University, Washington. He is a mem- 
ber of the Lotus Club, of New York, and 
is the author of Three Children of Gal- 
ilee (1895). On May 31, 1877, he married 
Emma Ward Bacon, at Troy, New York. 
Address: Howard University. 

GORDON, WILLIAM A., member of the 
law firm of Gordon & Gordon, president 
of the National Metropolitan Fire In- 
surance Company and the Washington 
Safe Deposit Company. Residence: 6 
Cooke place, n.w. Office: 303 John Mar- 
shall place, n.w. 

GORE, JAMES HOWARD, educator, 
was born at Gore, Frederick County, Vir- 
ginia,,, September 18, 1856, son of Mah- 
lon and Sidney (Gather) Gore. He wad 
educated at the London Academy, Rich- 
mond College and Columbian (now George 
Washington) University, later going to 
Berlin, Leydon and Brussels for special 
study. From Columbian University he 
holds the degree of Ph. D., receiving it in 
1878. Since 1878 he has been professor 
of mathematics in Columbian University. 
He has held 'the position of astronomer 
in the United States Geological Survey; 
civilian txperc. United States Coast Sur- 
vey, and was commissioner-general for the 
United States to the expositoons at Ant- 
werp, Amsterdam, Brussels and Liege. Ha 
was a Siamese Commissioner at 'the St. 
Louis Exposition, and in 1906 was United 
S'tiates delegate ao the International Con- 
gress of .\ctuaries. He is the author of 
many books of a scientific nature, among 
them being: Elements of Geodesy; His- 
tory of Geodesy; Bibliography of 
Geodesy; Elements of Geometry; Man- 
ual of Geometry; Manual of Parliament- 
ary Law, and German Science Reader, 
etc. He holds 'the following decorations: 
Grand Officer, by King Leopold; Com- 
mandeur Crown of Slam and Merite Agri- 
cole; Officier Legion of Honor; Wasa Bul- 
garian Order of Merit, French Academy; 
Chevalier White Elephant, Orange and 
Nassau. He is a member of the Philosoph- 
ical Society (past president); G?ographical 
Society; Chevy Chase Club, Cosmos Club, 
and the Imperial Geographical Society of 
Russia. On June 20, 1890, he married 



Lllliian Sparrendahl, of Sweden. Resi- 
dence: 2210 R sitreet, n.w. 

GORHAM, GEORGE CONGDON, Jour- 
nalist, was born at Greenport, N. Y., 
July 5, 1832, son of George Gorham. His 
education was obtained at New London, 
Conn., and he emigrated to the State 
of California in 1849. In 1851 he was 
elected City Clerk of Marysville (Cal.), 
afterwards (taking up newspaper editorial 
work in Sacramento, San Francisco and 
Marysville, Cal. He continued in suc^i 
newspaper work until 1863, when he was 
appointed Clerk of the United States Cir- 
cuit Court at San Francisco. He was 
nominated for Governor of California by 
the Republican party in 1867, but was not 
elected. From 1868 to 1880 he represented 
California on the Republican National 
Committee. From 1868 to 1879 he waa 
secretary of the United States Senate, 
and from 1880 to 1884 editor of the Daily 
National Republican, that was published 
in Washington. Residence: 1763 Q street, 
n.w. Office: Room 604 Bond Building. 

GOULD, ASHLEY MULGRAVE, jurist, 
was born at Lower Horton, Nova Scotia, 
In October, 1859, son of Charles Edward 
and Mary Jane (Fuller) Gould. His early 
education was obtained in the public and 
'high schools of Northampton, Mass., after 
which he entered Amheist College, grad- 
uating with nhe class of 1881, and later 
attending the Georgetown University Law 
School, graduating in 1884. In 1884 he 
was admitted to the bar of the Distriot 
of Columbia, and in 1898 was elected a 
member of the Maryland State Legisla- 
ture. He has been United States Attor- 
ney for the District of Columbia, anJ 
on December 8, 1902, was appointed As- 
sociate Justice of the Supreme Court of 
the Distriot of Columbia. For several 
yuars he has been a lecturer on law in 
the Georgetown University Law School. 
On November 22, 1888, he married Mar- 
garet Gray, daughter of Horace J. Gray, 
of Washington. Residence: 1931 Six- 
teenth street, n.w. 

GOULDEN, JOSEPH A., Congressman, 
w^as born in Adams County, Pennsylva- 
nia, August 1, 1844. During 1864 and 
1865 he served in the navy, after which 
he settled in New York City, and for some 
years he was manager of a life in- 
surance company in that city. For ten 
years he was a commissioner and trustee 
ill the public schools of New York Cky; 
a member of the Board of Trustees of 
the Soldiers' Home at Bath, N. Y., and 
was secretary and a member of the com- 
mission that erected the Soldiers' and 
Siailors' Monument on Riverside Drive In 
New York. He has represented the 
Eighteenth New York Congressional Dis- 
trict in the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth 
Congresses, and has been re-elected to 
the Sixtieth Congress. In politics he i* 
a Democrat. In December, 1867, he mar- 



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rled Isabelle Allwein. Legal residence: 
New York, N. Y, Washington address: 
House of Representatives. 

GRAFF, JOSEPH V., lawyer. Congress- 
man, was born at Terre Haute, Ind., July 
1, 1854. He was graduated from the Terre 
Hauie High School after which he at- 
tended Wabash College, at Crawfordsville, 
Ind., for one year. He later took up the 
study of law, being admitted to the bar 
at Delavan, 111., in 1879. In 1892 he was 
a delegate to the National Republica*^ 
Convention at Minneapolis, and has rep- 
resented the Sixteenth Illinois Congros- 
slonal District In all Congresses since the 
Fifty-'thi.d. Republican. Legal residence: 
Peoria, 111. Washing:on address: Hju&e 
of Representatives. 

GRAFFENRIED, MARY CLARE de. 

Government official, was born at Macon, 
Georgia, May 19, 1849, daughter of V\iil- 
iam Ki kland and Mary Holt (Marsh) de 
Grfaffenried. She is a graduate of i-hj 
female college at Macon, Ga., and after 
the death of her father she taught Latin 
an.'t mathematics in the private schooia 
of Washington. In 1886 she entered the 
Department of Labor, and has since co.'- 
IsPted industrial and sociological data 
throughout this country and in Europe. 
She is the author of numerous paperi; cf 
a sociological nature, and has contributCii 
a.-tlcles to the Forum and the Popular 
Scic^nce magazines. Address: Depart- 
ment of Commerce and Labor. 

GRAFMAN, R., Hebrew Clergyman, in 
charge of Above Sholem Church. Resi- 
dence: Fifth and I streets, n.w. 

GRAHAM, ANDREW BUTLER. 

lithographer, was bom In Washing- 
ton, D. C, in 1856. His early edu- 
cation was obtained in the public schools 
and Gonzaga College, later attending 
Dickinson College, at Carlisle, Penn. 
After graduating from college he returned 
to Washington and entered tha litho- 
graphing establishment of his father and 
learned the business, and later was em- 
ployed as a topographic dnaughtsman in 
the Coast Survey. After six years in the 
Government service he returned to hi3 
father's establishment and conducted the 
business, and since his father's deaih th-j 
business has been conducted under the 
name of the Andrew B. Giaham Company. 
In add.tion to Mr. GrahJm s connection 
with the lithogrphing establishment, h-i 
Is interested in a number of other busi- 
ness enterprises of the city, among them 
being the Arlington Fire Insurance Com- 
pany and the Union Trust and Storage 
Company. He is a member of the BoarJ 
of Trade, Sons of the American Revolu- 
tion, and the National Geographic Soci- 
ety. In 1884 he married Jennio G. Evani, 
of Washington, Residence: 1407 Six- 
teenth street, n.w. Office: Fourteenth 
and E streets, n.w. 



GRAHAM, EDWIN C, President of th.j 
National Electrical Supply Company. Res- 
idence: 223 S street, n.e. Business ad- 
dress: 1330 New York avenue, n.w. 

GRAHAM, NEIL F., physician, was born 
in Canada, Febiuary 9, 1840, son of Dun- 
can C. and Mary Graham. In 1S62 he 
was graduated from the medical depart- 
ment of the Western Reserve University, 
and served throughout the Civil War as 
a surgeon with a volumeer regiment. Afte* 
the wtar he came to Washington, where 
he has since practiced his profession. 
Since 1872 he has been professor of prin- 
ciples of .surgery in th • Howard Univer- 
sity Medical School, and clinical lecturer 
on surgery at Freedman's Hospital. He 
is a member of the G. A. R.; Military 
Order of Loyal Legion; Medical Society 
and Medical Association of the Dlstric: 
of Columbia. Residence: 909 New York 
avenue, n.w. 

i 

GRAHAM, WILLIAM HARRISON, 

Congressman, was born at Allegheny, 
Penn., August 3, 1844. He was educated 
in the public schools of Allegheny, ani 
at the outbreak of the Civil War enlisted, 
seeing active service under Generals Aver- 
ill, Crook, and Sheridan. After the war 
he engaged in business, and was elected 
(three times to the office of Recorder .)f 
Deeds of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, 
and served four sessions in the State Leg- 
islature. He represented the Twenty- 
third Pennsylvania Cong.essional District 
in the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-si.Kth and Fifty- 
seventh Congresses. By a Citizena'- 
Democratic fu.sion movement, he was 
defeated for the Fifty-eighth Congress 
by eighteen votes, but was again re- 
elected to the Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth 
Congresses from the Twenty-ninth Penn- 
sylvania Congressional Dist.lct. Republi- 
can. Legal residence: Allegheny, Penn. 
Washington address: Hotel Dewey. 

GRAHAM, WILLIAM RUSSELL, law- 
yer, was born in Washington, D. C, In 
1882, son of William E. and Mary Idui 
(Bean) Graham. He was educated in 
the public schools of Washington and 
George Washington University graduat- 
ing in 1904 He is a member of the bar 
of the District of Columbia and is actively 
engaged in the practice of law. On Au- 
gust 9, 1904, he married Hattie Beele 
VV'renn. Residence: 417 Fourth street, s.e. 
Office: Columbian Building. 

GRANGER, DANIEL LARNED DAVIS, 

lawyer. Congressman, was born in Provi- 
dence, R. I., May 30, 1852. After gradu- 
ating from Brown University in 1874, he 
began the study of law and was admictei 
to the Rhode Island bar In 1887, after 
which he began practice at Providence, 
R. I. He was twice elected Reading 
Clerk of the Rhode Island Legislature, and 
In 1890 was elected City Treasurer of 
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years. In 1900 he was elected Mayor of 
Providence by the Democratic and Good 
Government parties, and 'has represented 
the First Rhode Island Congressional Dis- 
trict in the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth 
Congresses, and has been re-elected to the 
Sixtieth Congress. In politics he is a 
Democrat. Legal residence: Providence, 
R. I. Washington address: House 3f 
Representattives. 

GRANGER, JOHN TILESTON, broker 
and railway constructor, was born March 
4, 1847, at New Lexington, Perry County, 
Ohio, son of Oliver H. and Harriet Ann 
(Fracker) Granger. He was graduated in 
3 866 from the Zanesville (Ohio) High 
School land later taught higher 'mathemat- 
ics, bookkeeping, penmanship and phomog- 
raphy in a coniimercial college in tha.; 
city, and afterwards had entire charge 
of the penmanship department of the 
Zanesville public schools, with more than 
1,600 pupils under his care, ie'aving this 
to become chief clerk in the auditor's of- 
fice of the C. & M. V. Railway Company, 
later being private secretary to General 
Leggett, of the United States Patent 
Office, and of General Cowan, Assistant 
Secretary of the Interior, and was also 
associated witth the official reporters of 
the United States Senate. In 1872 he 
became prominently identified with the 
construction of the Texas and Pacific 
Railway, and later with the Colorado and 
Southern system, then beoame a partner 
in the stock brokerage firm ' of Tilghman, 
Rowland & Co., New York City. In 1903 
he, with other prominent business men. 
organized the Columbia Planograph Com- 
pany, of Wa.?hingiton, D. C, for the re- 
production of maps and charts. He is 
extensively interested in Washington and 
New Jersey real e'state, and is the owner 
of large horse and cattle ranches in Texas 
and Nebraska. He is a member of the 
Passaic Club (N. J.), the Blue Ridge Club, 
the Chevy Chase Club, and Iowa Society 
of New York, and Ohio Society of New 
York. In 1876 he married Carrie Stuart 
Hoffman, daughter of Major John B. 
Hoffman, general eastern . agent of the 
Erie Railroad Company in New York City, 
and two children have been born to them 
both of whom are living. Residence: 1838 
Connecticut avenue. Oflfice: Evening Star 
Building, Washington, and 40 Wall streec. 
New York City. 

GRANNAN, CHARLES P., Ph. D., D. D.. 

educator, clergyman, was born near Mil- 
waukee, in Kenoscha County, Wisconsin. 
His early oUassical education was obtained 
at St. Thomas College, Bardstown, Ky., 
and in Montreal, Canada. He studied 
philosophy and theology in the Urban Col- 
lege of the Propaganda, at Rome, Italy, 
1870-78; received the degree of Ph. D. 
In 1875, and D. D. in 1880; wias profes- 
sor of S. Scripture at Mount Saint Mary's 
College, Emmittsburg, Maryland, from 



1880 to 1888; studied languages and S. 
Scripture at Paris, Berlin and Leipzig, 
and itr'aveled in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, 
Asia Minor and Greece to 1892; appointed, 
August 30, 1901, American member of the 
International Pontifical Biblical Commis- 
sion by Leo XIII.; contributed articles on 
character, inspiration and authority of 
S. Scripture to Catholic reviews, etc., 
which have been translated into French 
and published in book form under the 
title, Questions d'Ecriture Sainte, in Paris, 
1903; 1905 and 1906, was vice-rector of 
Catholic University. Address: Catholii 
University of America. 

GRANT, ALEXANDER, General Super- 
intendent of the United States Railway 
Mail Service, was born at Monroe, Michi- 
gan, Febru'ary 16, 1853, son of Alexander 
and Eliza (Eraser) Grant. His early edu- 
cation was obtained in the schools of h's 
native town, later attending the law de- 
partment of George Washington Univer- 
sity, graduating with the class of 1893. 
From 1870 to 1872 he was a clerk in the 
post office at Monroe, Mich; from 1872 
to 1885 he was a clerk in the United 
States Railway Mail Service; in 1885 he 
was advanced to chief clerk, and in 1897 
to assistant general superintendent of that 
service; in March, 1907, he was made 
general superintendent. He is a Mason, 
member of the Geographical Society, and 
was for several years president of the 
old Columbia Athletic Club. He is a 
member of the Presbyterian Church, and 
is identified with the Republican party. 
Residence: The Cecil. Office: Post Office 
Department. 

GRANT, FREDERICK DENT, army 
officer, was born in St. Louis, Mo., on 
May 30, 1850, son of Ulysses and Julia 
D. Grant. He attended the West Point 
Military Academj^ graduating with the 
class of 1871, when he was assigned to 
the Fourth Cavalry and advanced to the 
rank of Lieutenant- Colonel, when he re- 
signed his commission in 1881. He has 
served as Minister to Australia, and was 
Police Commissioner of New York City 
at the outbreak of the Spanish War, 
when he became Colonel of the Fourteenth 
New York Volunteer Infantry, and was 
soon after appointed a Brigadier-General 
of the United States Volunteers. He saw 
service in Porto Rico, and after the war 
was in command of the military disitrict 
of San Juan, and later transferred to the 
Philippines, commanding the Second 
Brigade of the First Division of the 
Eighth Army Corps. While in the Phil- 
ippines he took part in ithe battles of Big 
Bend and Binacian, afterwards being 
transferred to the Second Brigade of the 
Second Division, advancing on Northern 
Luzon and invading the provinces of Bat- 
uan and Zamballes. In 1902 he was trans- 
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Samar, Where he received the surrender 
of 'the last insurgent forces. In 1901 he 
was appointed a Brigadier-General in the 
United States Army and assigned to 
command the Department of Texas, 
with headquarters at San Antonio. Ad- 
dress: War Department. 

GRAVES, EDWARD, President of the 
Havenner Baking Company. Residence: 
927 Massachusetts • avenue, n.w. Office: 
460 to 476 C street, n.w. 

GRAVES, J. HARWOOD, Assistant At- 
torney in the Trust Bureau of the Depart- 
ment of Justice, was born in Charles 
City, Virginia, in 1877. He was graduated 
from the Petersburg High School, at- 
tended Richmond College, and became 
court reponter in that city for two years 
before securing a Government clerkship 
in the Treasury Department. He was 
graduated in law in 1902, and was trans- 
ferred a year later to the Department 
of Justice, becoming private secretary o 
the assistant to the Attorney-General. He 
V'Sus afterwards designated appointment 
clerk, and was made assistarat attorney 
in 1905. Residence: 2233 Eighteencn 
street, n.w. Office: Department of Jus- 
tice. 

GREELEY, ADOLPHUS WASHING- 
TON, army officer, was born at Newbury- 
port, Mass., on March 27, 1844, sion of 
John Balch and Frances (Cobb) Greeley. 
His education was obtained at Newbury- 
port (Mass.) High School, graduaiting with 
the class of 1860. He served from pri- 
vate to Captain in the Civil War from 
1861 to 1865, and was brevetted for gal- 
lant services. In 1867 lie was appointed 
a Second Lieutenant in it'he regular army, 
and was promoted to First Lieutenant in 
1873. From 1876 to 1879 he was on signal 
corps duty, during which time he con- 
structed two thousand miles of telegraph 
lines in Texas, Dakota and Montana. In 
1886 he was promoted to Captain, and, 
after the death of General Hazen, he 
was promoted to the rank of Brigadier- 
General, being the first volunteer private 
of the Civil War to reach this rank in 
the regular army. He holds gold medals 
from the Royal Geological Society and 
ithe French Geological Society. He is the 
author of a number of books and papers, 
among them being: A Chronological List 
of Auroras; Diurnal Fluctuations of 
Barometric Pressure; Three Years cf 
Arctic Service; American Weather; 
American Explorers; Arctic Discoveries;; 
Rainfall of Western States and Territo- 
ries; Climate of Nebraska; Climatology 
of Arid Regions; Climate of Texas, et-i. 
On June 30, 1878, he married Henrietta 
H. C. Xesmith. Residence: 1914 G street, 
n.w. 

GREELEY, ARTHUR PHILIP, patent 
lawyer, was born at Meithuen, Mass., son 
of the Rev. Edward H. and Louisa M. 



(Ware) Greeley. His early education was 
obtained in the Concord High School, and 
after graduation in 1876 he entered Dart- 
mouth College, graduating in 1883, with 
the degree of A. B. He soon took up 
his residence in Washing>ton, entered the 
law department of Columbian ( now 
George Washington) Univers'ity, taking 
tlie degree of LL. B. in 1886 and LL. M. 
the following year. He was admitted 
to the District bar in 1888 and to tth> 
Supreme Court in 1901. For some years 
he was an assistant examiner in the 
United States Patent Office; in 1891 h.« 
was advanced no examiner, and in 1895 
appointed examiner-in-chief by President 
Cleveland. In 1897 President McKinley 
appointed him assistant commissioner of 
patents. During 1891 and 1893 he was 
a member of the committee which ar- 
ranged the patent exhibiit for the Chi- 
cago World's Fair and the Atlanta (Ga) 
Exposition. In 1898 he was appointed by 
President McKinley a member of the com- 
mission to revise the patent and trade- 
m^ark laws under the Act of Congress 
of June 4, 1898. In 1900 he resigned from 
the Patent Office to engage in the prac- 
tice of patent and trade-mark law, in 
which he is still engaged. He is a Knight 
Templar, and a member of the Psi Upsi- 
lon college fraternity; University Club of 
Washington, University Club of New 
York, and Cosmos Club. He is also a 
member of the American Bar Association, 
and of the Patent Law Association jf 
Washington. On November 16, 1892, he 
married Helene H. M. Herzog. Residence: 
906 T street, n.w. Office. Washington 
Loan and Trust Building. 

GREEN, BERNARD RICHARDSON. 

civil engineer, was born at Maiden, Mid- 
dlesex County, Massachusetts, December 
28, 1843, son of Ezra and Elmina Minerva 
(Richardson) Green. His early education 
was obtained in the public schools, and 
later was graduated from the Lawrence 
Scientific School of Harvard University 
in civil engineering with the class of 1863, 
taking the degree of B. S. Ever since, 
as a civil engineer, he has been almost 
entirely employed by the United States 
Government on fortifications, other works, 
and especially public buildings. For some 
years he has been in independent charge 
of construction of public buildings and 
Superintendent of Building and Grounds 
of the Library of Congress. He is a vice- 
president of the American Society of Civil 
Engineers; member of the Philosophical 
Society of Washington; Washington 
Academy of Sciences; National Society 
of Fine Arts; American Association for 
the Advancement of Science; Cosmos 
Club; a trustee of the Corcoran Gal- 
lery of Art; director of the Union Trust 
Company, and chairman of the Consulta- 
tive Board of the President on location 
and design of public buildings of Wash- 
ington. On January 1, 1868, he married 



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Julia Eliza Lincoln, and Is 'the father of 
four children. He is an officer of the 
Unitarian Church and the American Uni- 
tarian Association. Residence: 1738 M 
stree-t, n.w. Office: Library of Congress. 

GREEN, JAMES GILCHRIST, retlretj 
naval officer, was born at Jamaica Plain, 
Mass., on January 27, 1841, son of Mat- 
thews W. and Margaret A. Green. His 
education was obtained in the schools of 
New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Al 
'the outbreak of ithe Civil War he enlisted 
in the volunteer service of the navy as 
;an acting ensign, and after the war was 
transferred to the regular navy, and In 
1870 was commissioned a Lieutenant- 
Commander; Commander in 1887, and 
Captain in 1900. From 1898 to 1890 he 
was commandant at the Puget Sound 
Station, and in 1900 was Commandant at 
the Havana, Cuba, Naval Station; part of 
1900 and 1901, was in command of the 
U. S. S. New Orleans. On May 11, 1901, 
he was retired, with the rank of Rear 
Admiral, after forty years' service, on his 
own requestt. On January 18, 1864, ho 
married Cornelia F. Bond, of Edenton, N. 
C. Address: Army and Navy Club. 

GREEN, JAMES M., real estate, was 
born in Washington, D. C, in the sum- 
mer of 1861. H6 was educated in the 
principal schools of the District, studied 
banking with Lewis Johnson & Co., and 
then entered ithe real estate and broker- 
age business on his own account. He 
is a imember of the Woodmont Club, and 
vice-president of the Metropolitan Fire 
Insurance Company. Residence: 1737 
Massachusetts avenue. Office: 1336 New 
York avenue, n.w. 

GREEN, JOHN, army officer, was born 
in Germany on November 20, 1825, son of 
Gottlieb and Mary Green. He served in 
'the army as First Sergeant of Company 
B, and Sergeant-Major of mounted rifles 
from July 1, 1846, to August 27, 1848, and 
again frcm September 1852, to July 5, 
1855. On June 18, 1855, he was appointed 
Second Lieutenant of dragoons; First 
Lieutenant on March 3, 1861; Captain of 
the Second Cavalry on August 13, 1861; 
Major 'Of the First Cavalry, on June 9, 
1868; Lieutenant-Colonel of the Second 
Cavalry, on July 3, 1885; and on Novem- 
ber 20, 1899, he was retired for age. He 
was brevetted a Major on July 3, 1863; 
Lieutenant-Colonel 'On August 15, 1865; 
Colonel on February 27, 1890; and Briga- 
dier-General on same date. On April 23, 
1904, he was made a Colonel by an Act 
of Congress. He married Mary Yaeger 
on December 8, 1878, Address: War De- 
partment. 

GREENE, EDWARD LEE, botanical au- 
thor, was born ait Hopkinton, R. I., on 
August 20, 1843, son of William Maxson 



and Abby Maria (Crandall) Greene. He 
was educated in the public schools of 
Rhode Island and Wisconsin and later 
attended Albion College (Wis.), gradu- 
ating in 1866 with the degree of Ph. B. 
The degree of LL. D. was conferred upon 
him by the University of Notre Dame In 
1894. He was an Episcopal clergyman 
from 1871 to 1885, since 'then a Roman 
Catholic layman. From 1885 to 1895 he 
was professor of botany in the University 
of California, and from 1895 to 1904 pro- 
fessor of botany in the Catholic Univer- 
sity of America, and since 1904 he has 
been connected with the National Muse- 
um. He has explored thoroughly the re- 
gions between the Rocky Mountains and 
the Pacific coast and Western Mexico In 
the situdy of botany. He was president 
of the International Congress of Bot- 
anists in 1893, and has been a member 
of the International Commission oa 
Botanical Nomenclature since 1892. H3 
is the author of ten volumes of comtribu- 
tions to botany, besides countless articles 
in scientific periodicals. His best known 
books are: Flora of Franciscana; Manual 
of Botany of the Region of San Francisco 
Bay; Illustrations of West American 
Oaks; Pittonia, a Series of Botanical 
Papers, in five volumes; Leaflets of 
Botanical Observation and Criticism, in 
two volumes. During the Civil War he 
served as private in the Thirteenth Wis- 
consin Volunteer Infantry from 1862 to 
1865. He is a member of the California 
Academy of Sciences; Washington Acad- 
emy of Science; National Geographic 
Society; Geographical Society of the 
Paciflc; Sierra Club of San Francisco; 
Botanical Society of Washington; Bio- 
logical Society of Washington; Univer- 
sity Club, etc. Address: National Muse- 
um. 

GREENE, HENRY ALEXANDER, 

army officer, was born at Matteawan, 
New York, August 5, 1856, son of Edgar 
G. and Margaret D. (Scott) Greene. He 
attended the West Point Military Acad- 
emy, graduating with the class of 1879. 
In 1886 he was promoted to the rank of 
First Lieutenant; Captain in 1891, and 
Major in 1900. During the Spanish- 
American War he saw service in the El 
Caney and the Santiago campaigns, and 
served during 1899 and 1900 in the Phil- 
ippines. In 1900 he was transferred to 
the Adjutant-General's office in Washing- 
ton, and in 1901 he became Assistant 
Adjutant. For several years he was an 
instructor of mathematics, surveying, 
English, and infantry law and strategy 
in the United Staets Infantry and Cav- 
alry School at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, 
and a few years later was engaged In 
enlisting, organizing and commanding a 
regular company composed of Sioux In- 
dians. He Is a member of the Sons 
of the Revolution; Association of Qrad- 
uaites of West Point; Society of the 



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Army of Santiago; Army and Navy 
Clubs of Manila and Washing-ton. On De- 
cember 21, 1881, he married Augusta B. 
Barlow, of Franklin Park, N. J. Resi- 
dence: 1742 P street, n.w. Office: War 
Department. 

GREENE, HENRY FAY, lawyer, U. S. 
Civil Service Commissioner since 1903, 
was born in Newbern, Craven County, 
North Carolina, on May 30, 1859, son of 
Henry Fay and Alice Gray (Lawrence) 
Greene. A number of his ancestors ren- 
dered gallant service in the Revolution- 
ary War, among them being Roger Nel- 
son, Judge and member of Congress from 
1803 'to 1813; Joseph Sim, a member of 
the Provincial Counsel, and William Mur- 
dock. After obtaining his preparatory 
education in Chicago and the Grammar 
School of St. James' College, at Washing- 
ton, Maryland, he entered the collegiate 
department of S"t. James' College from 
which he was graduated, A. B., in 1880, 
when he entered the law department of 
the University of Maryland, from which 
he was graduated, LL. B., in 1883. From 
1883 to 1887 he practiced law in Balti- 
more, and from 1887 to 1903, at Duluth. 
Minn., since when he has been United 
States Civil Service Commissioner. Dur- 
ing 1893 and 1894 he was City Attorney 
of Duluth; referee in bankruptcy, 1898- 
1903; chairman of the commission to pre- 
pare a charter for the city of Dulu'th, 
Minn., from 1897 to 1903. He is a mem- 
ber of the Episcopal Church, Sons of the 
Revolution, Cosmos Club, and, in poli- 
tics, a Republican. On August 27, 1895, 
he married Susan Ryan Grady, of Balti- 
more, Md. Residence: 1527 Thirty-first 
street, n.w. Office: U. S. Civil Service 
Commission. 

GREENE, SAMUEL HARRISON, 

D. D., LLi. D., clergyman, was born 
ait Enosburg, Franklin County, Vermont, 
December 25, 1845, son of Columbus and 
Martha D. (Webber) Greene. Among his 
ancestors in America was Captain John 
Parker, who commanded the militia at 
the battle of Lexington, Mass. His educa- 
tion was obtained in the common schools 
of his native 'town, Norwich (Vt.) Uni- 
versity, later Madison University, grad- 
uating in 1873, with the d gree of A. B., 
when he entered the Hamilton Theological 
Seminary, from which institution he was 
graduated in 1875. He holds honorary 
degrees from Colgate, Rochester, Colum- 
bian and Norwich Universities. From 
1875 to 1879 he was pastor of the Baptist 
Church at Cazenovia, N. Y., and since 
1879 has been pastor of the Calvary Bap- 
tist Church in Washington. He is a trus- 
tee of George Washington University; was 
chairman of the board, and during 1895, 
1900, 1901 and 1902 he was acting presi- 
dent of that institution. He is the author 
of The Twentieth Century Sunday School; 
a member of 'the Delta Upsilon college 



fraternity; National Geographic Society; 
Sons of the American Revolution, and 
Institute of Archaeology, etc. In April, 
1866, he married Lucy A. Buzzell, and 
Is the father of one son, Samuel H. 
Greene, M. D., of Washington. Residence: 
1320 Q street, n.w. 

GREENE, WILLIAM STEDMAN, Con- 
gressman, was born at Tremont, Taze- 
well County, Illinois, April 28, 1841. In 
1844 he removed with his parents to Fall 
River, Mass., where he was educated in 
the public schools; afterwards worked as 
a clerk In an insurance business from 
1858 to 1865. From 1876 to 1879 he served 
as a member of the City Council, and 
was president of ithat body the three lat- 
ter years, and in 1880 was elect-^d Mayor 
of the city, and was re-elected the fol- 
lowing year, resigning the same year, 
owing to receiving an apointment as post- 
master. In 1886 he was again elected 
Mayor, but in 1887 and 1888 he was de- 
feated for the same office. He was ap- 
pointed Superintendent of State Prisons 
In 1888 by the Governor, serving until 
1893, when he was removed by the Dem- 
ocratic Governor. In 1894 he again be- 
came candidate for Mayor of Fall River, 
and was defeated, but was elected to the 
office in 1895, 1896 and 1897. and declined 
re-election in 1898, owing to being again 
appointed postmaster by President Mc- 
Kinley. In 1898 he was elected to fill out 
the term of the lajte John Simpkins In 
the Fifty-fifth Congress, and has repre- 
sented continuously since, the Thirteenth 
Massachusetts Congressional District in 
Congress. Republican. Legal residenc'^: 
Fall River, Mass. Washington address: 
House of Representatives. 

GREtNLEAF, CHARLES RAVENS- 
CROFT, army surgeon, was born at Car- 
lisle, Penn., on January 1, 1838. son of 
Rev.' Patrick H. and Margar. t (Johnson) 
Greenleaf. His early education was ob- 
tained in Boston and Cincinnati, and he 
later attended the Ohio Medical College, 
graduated with the cla?s of ISRO. At 
the outbreak of the Civil War he was 
the first surgeon commissioned from Ohio; 
built the Mower General Hospital at 
Philadelphia in 1862, and became Its exec- 
u'tive officer. He served on the staffs of 
Generals McClellan, Wallace, Hancock. 
Wright and Thomas, and was with the 
Army of the Potomac through the Penin- 
sular, Antietam and Gettysburg cam- 
paigns. During the Pittsburg ricts in 
1876 he was the chli f medical officer, and 
afterwards took part In Indian campaigns. 
From 1887 to 1893 he was the executive 
officer in the Surgeon-General's office. 
During the Spanish-American War he was 
the Chief Surgeon of the army in 'the 
field, serving in both Cuba and Porto 
Rico, and later saw service In the Philip- 
pines. He now ranks as Colonel Assistant 
Surgeon-General of the U. S. A. He Is a 



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membeir of the l/oyal Leg-ion, Sons of tha 
American Revolution, Society of Colonial 
Wars, and many scientific societties in llais 
country and Europe. He is the author of 
Greenleaf's Manual for Medical Ofl^cers; 
Physical Examination of Recruits, etc. 
On September 10, 1862, he married Geor- 
gia Franck de le Roche. Address: War 
Department. 

GREEN LEES, D. AG NEW, broker, was 
born in Alexandria, Va., in 1875. He at- 
tended Columbian (now Georgre Washing- 
ton) University, and completed his edu- 
cation at the University of Virginia. He 
became a member of the Washington 
Stock Exchange in March, 1899, and has 
been made a member and secretary of its 
Governing Committee. Residence: 3209 
R street, n.w. Office: 1422 New York av- 
enue, n.w. 

GREGG, ALEXANDER WHITE, law- 
yer, Congressman, was born in Texas, and 
was graduated from King College, at 
Bristol, Tenn. He look up the study of 
law at the University of Virg-inia, since 
when he has practiced his profession at 
Palestine, Texas. He has represented the 
Seventh Texas Congressional District in 
the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Con- 
gresses, and has been re-elected to the 
Sixtieth Congress. In politics he is a 
Democrat. Legal residence: Palestine, 
Texas. Washington address: House of 
Representatives. 

GREIST, LEWIS THOMAS, patent 
lawyer, was born in Crawfordsville, Ind., 
October 31, 1870, son of Alva C. and Re- 
becca (Greene) Greist. He was educated 
in the public schools, at Central Academy, 
Plainfleld, Ind., and Columbian (now 
George Washington) University, gradu- 
ating from the latter, LL. B., in 1898, 
and, M. P. L., in 1899. Was shorthand 
court reporter for several years. He read 
law in the office of J. T. Dye, general 
counsel of the Big Four Railway Com- 
pany, and later, as attorney, was con- 
nected with (the legal department of that 
company. Since 1900 he has been en- 
gaged in the general practice of patent 
law in Washington. He is a member of 
the Friends (Quaker) Church, and, in pol- 
itics, is a Republican. In 1894 he married 
Athelia Edwards, of Waynesville, Ohio, 
ito which union three children have been 
■born. Residence: 612 Ninth street, n.e. 
Office: 606 P street, n.w. 

GRESHAM (MRS.) FANNIE WILL- 
IAMS, author, was born at Indianola, near 
Galveston, Texas, April 19, 1856, daugh- 
ter of Col. Thomas G. and Mary (Curtis) 
Williams. Her earliest ancestor in Amer- 
ica was Captain John Tyler her great- 
grandfather, who landed in 1700, and was 
the first Governor of Virginia. Her early 
education was obtained in the German 
and English schools at San Antonio, 



Texas, and some years later she at- 
tended Columbian (now George Washing- 
ton) University. For a few years she 
was employed in the Census Bureau, but 
has at all times been more or less en- 
gaged as a journalist and short story 
writer. In 1895 she organized the In- 
dustrial Educational League of the 
South, and in 1904 organized the Wash- 
ington Day Nursery at this 'time being 
president of both organizations. She is 
a member of the Woman's National Press 
As'sociation of America; Texas Historical 
Society, etc. She is the author of A Cow- 
boy's Courtship, and other stories. On 
July 21, 1875, she married Colonel Edwin 
James Gresham, who died May 29, 1903. 
She is the mother of ten children, six of 
whom are living. Residence: 11 1-2 
Grant place n.w. 

GRIFFIN, APPLETON PRENTISS 
CLARK, Bibliographer of the Library 
of Congress, was born in Wilton, N. H.. 
son of Moses Porter and Charlotte H. 
(Clark). Griffin. His early education was 
obtained in the public schools and by pri- 
vate tutors, and from 1871 to 1890 he 
was cu.stodian of shelves in the Boston 
Public Library; keeper of books in the 
same institution from 1890 to 1894, and 
was engaged in cataloguing of books in 
the Boston Athenaeum from 1895 to 1897. 
In 1897 he came to Washington as assist- 
ant librarian in the Library of Congress 
and has since been made chief biblio- 
grapher, which position he still holds. He 
is the author of a number of books, among 
tthem being: Discovery of the Mississippi; 
Bibliography of American Historical So- 
cieties; Hawaii; Theory of Colonization; 
Trusts; Mercantile Marine Subsidies, etc. 
On October 23, 1878, 'he married Emily C. 
Osgood, of Cambridge, Mass. Residence: 
2007 Kaloramo avenue, n.w. Office: Libra- 
ry of Congress. 

GRIFFIN, JOHN JOSEPH, chemist, was 
born in Vorning, N. Y., June 24, 1859, 
son of Jeremiah and Mary Griffin. His 
early education was obtained in the pub- 
lic schools of Lawrence, Mass., after 
which he entered Ottawa University, in 
Canada, graduating in 1881, taking an A. 
M. in 1883; later he entered the Diocesan 
Seminary to study for the ministry, be- 
ing ordained a priest in May, 1885. Dur- 
ing 1885 and 1886 he was an instructor 
in physics ait Ottawa University; in- 
structor of chemistry at St. Thomas' 
Aquinas College, at Cambridgeport, Mass., 
from 1866 to 1867; professor of chemistry 
again at Ottawa University from 1887 to 
1890, and from 1890 to 1895 took a post- 
graduate course at Johns Hopkins Uni- 
versity in chemistry, physics and mathe- 
matics, receiving the degree of Ph. D. 
Since 1895 he has been professor of chem- 
istry at the Catholic University of Amer- 
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GRIFFITH, MONTE, oculist and aurisc, 
was born in Jefferson County, Virginia, 
February 10, 1862, son of Capt Joseph 
Thomas and Jane R. (Willson) Grif- 
fith. His early education was obtained in 
the Berryville (Va.) Hig-h School, Nor- 
wood High School and College in Nelson 
County, Virginia, and later he attended 
the University of Virginia and the med- 
ical departmemt of the University of 
Maryland, graduating from the latter In 
1896. After graduating in medicine, he 
located in Washing'ton, where he has since 
been engaged in the practice of his profes- 
'sion. From 1896 to 1899 'he was the out- 
door physician for tthe Children's Hospital. 
When the Episcopal Eye, Ear and Throat 
Hospital was organized in 1897 he was 
elected its assistant surgeon; In 1905, 
associate physician and surgeon, and in 
1907 attending physioian and surgeon. 
From 1898 to 1901 he was professor of 
physiology in the Washington Dental Col- 
lege and the Hospital of Oral Surgery 
(now School of Dentistry, Georgetown 
IJ'niversity). In 1905 he was elected 
ophthalmologist and aurist of Children's 
Hospital, and in 1906 assistant professor 
of ophthalmology in Georgetown Medical 
College. He is a Thirty-second degree 
Scottish Bite Mason, a member of . the 
National Geographic Society, Medical As- 
sociation of the District of Columbia (sec- 
retary, 1901-03); medical Society of the 
District of Columbia; Ophthalmological 
and Otological Society; Clinical Society 
(president 1904-05); Therapeutic Society; 
American Medical Association; the Uni- 
versity Club, and other scientific and so- 
cial organizations. Residence: The Far- 
ragut. 

GRIFFITH, SAMUEL HENDERSON, 

naval officer, entered the navy as an as- 
sistant surgeon lin 1877; was promoted 
to past assistant surgeon in 1880, and sur- 
geon in 1895. From 1893 to 1898 he was 
stationed at the Museum of Hygiene in 
Washington, and at the outbreak of the 
Spanish War was assigned to the May- 
flower, and saw service in Cuban waters. 
He now ranks as a Lieutenant-Commander 
He married Ellen Coxe. Residence: 1308 
New Hampshire ^ave-nue, n.w. 

GRIFFITHS, DAVID, botanist, was 
born at Aberystwith, Wales, in 1867, son 
of David and Rachael (Lewis) Griffiths. 
He was graduated from the Agricultural 
College at Brookings, South Dakota, in 
1893; Ph. D. from Columbia University, 
1900. He served as High School teachei- 
at Aberdeen, South Dakota 1893-98; pro- 
fessor of bo)tany University of Arizona, 
1900-01, and since 1901 has been assistant 
agro'stologist in the United States De- 
partment of Agriculture. He is a member 
of the American Association for the Ad- 
vancement of Science; Botanical Society 
of America; Biological and Botanical So- 
cieties of Washington; Torrey Botanical 



Club, and New York Academy of Sciences. 
Author of Torrey Botanical Club, mono- 
graph on North American Sordariaceae. 
Residence: Takoma Park, D. C. Office: 
Department of AgricultuTe. 

GRIGGS, JAMES MATHEWS, lawyer. 
Congressman, was born at La Grange! 
Ga., March 29, 1861. After attending the 
common schools near Ms home he en- 
tered the Peabody Normal School at 
Nashville, Tenn., and was graduated with 
the class of 1881, after which he taught 
.school and studied law, being admitted to 
the bar in 1883, when be commenced the 
practice of his profession at Alapaha, 
Berrien County, Georgia. He was en- 
gaged in the newspaper business for a 
w'hile, and in 1885 removed to Dawson, 
Ga., his present residence. In 1888 he 
was elected Prosecuting Attorney of the 
Pataula Judicial Circuit of Georgia, and 
was re-elected in 1902, resigning the fol- 
lowing year. He was appointed a Judge 
of the same circuit and was twice re- 
elected withouit opposition, resigning from 
the office in 1896, in order to enter the 
race for Congress. He has represented 
the Second Georgia Congressional District 
in every Congress since the Fifty-fourth. 
In politics he is a Democrat. Legal resi- 
dence: Dawson. Ga. Washington address: 
House of Representatives. 

GRIMKE, FRANCIS JAMES, clergy- 
man, was born near Charleston, S. C, 
November 4, 1850, son of Henry and 
Nancy (Weston) Grimke. His early ed- 
ueaition was obtained in the common 
schools of Charleston and the Lincoln 
University, in Chester County, Pennsyl- 
vania, graduating in 1870, after which 
he attended the Princeton Theological 
Seminary, graduating in 1878. He holds 
the degrees of A. M. and D. D. from Lin- 
coln University. He is the author of a 
number of pamphleits, among them be- 
ing: The Negro, His Rights and Wrongs, 
the Forces for Him and Against Him; 
Lynching of Negroes in the South, Its 
Causes and Remedy, etc., and has written 
a number of articles for the Independent, 
and for religious publications. Residence: 
1415 Corcoran .^Itreet, n.w. 

GRONNA, ASLE J., merchant, banker, 
Congressman, was born at Elkader, Clay- 
ton County, Iowa, December 10, 185S 
When two years of age he removed with 
his parents to Hous-ton County, Minnesota, 
where he lived on a farm and was edu- 
cated in the public schools, latter attend- 
ing Caledonia Academy. After teaching 
school a few years at Wilmington, Minn., 
he removed to North Dakota in 1879. 
where he was engaged in farming and 
school teaching. In 1880 he engaged In 
the mercantile business, being one of the 
leading merchan)ts and bankers of the 
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time. For several years ihe was presi- 
dent of his Town Council and Board of 
Education, and In 1889 was a member 
of the Territorial Legislature, and In 
1902 he was appoinited a member of th-i 
Board of Regensts of the University of 
North Dako'ta. He was a Representative- 
at-Large in the Fifty-ninth Congress, and 
re-elected to ithe Sixtieth, from the Stato, 
of North Dakota. Republican. On August 
3i, 1884, he married Bertha M. Ostby, of 
Spring Grove Minn. Legal residence: La- 
kota N, D. Washington address: House 
of Representatives. 

GROSE, ESTELLA, artist. Is ithe daugh- 
ter of a Union officer, who moved to Vir- 
ginia after the Civil War. She had no 
art training until she entered the Corco- 
ran Art Gallery, at ithe age of sixteen. 
Here she copied paintings for two year.s, 
then married an English landscape painter 
and went to live in New York. After a 
five years' tour around the world, sh3 
returned to Washington, where her hus- 
band died. She then iturned to china 
painting, which she had learned abroad, 
and excels in the most delicate portraits 
on porcelain. Address: Corcoran Build- 
ing. 

GROSVENOR, CHARLES HENRY, 

lawyer, Congressman, was born at 
Pomfret, Windham County, Connecti- 
cut, September 20, 1833. In 1838 he re- 
moved with his parents 'to Ohio, wher-? 
he attended the common schools in Ath- 
ens County, and later taughlt school and 
studied law, being admitted to the bar 
In 1857. During the Civil War he serve! 
In the Union Army with the Eighteentth 
Ohio Volunteers as Major, Lieutenant- 
Colonel and Colonel, and was brevetted 
Brigadier-General of Volunteers for gal- 
lant service. He has held divers township 
and village offices, and from 1874 ito 1873 
he was a member of the Ohio State Leg- 
islature, serving as Speaker of that body 
the last two years. In 1872 he was a 
presidential elector from the Fifteenith 
Ohio District, and was again an elector 
In 1880. In 1896 he was a delegate-at- 
large to the Republican National Conven- 
tion at: St. Louis and again to the con- 
vention alt Philadelphia in 1900. He rep- 
resented the Eleventh Ohio Congressional 
District continuously in the United States 
Congress from ithe Forty-ninlth to the 
Fifty-ninth Congress inclusive. Republi- 
can. Legal residence: Athens, Ohio. 

GROSVENOR, DANIEL ALLEN, Gov- 
ernment official, was born in Athens 
County, Ohio, March 4, 1839, son of Peter 
and Ann C. (Chase) Grosvenor. His 
father was a Major in the War of 1812, 
and Colonel Thomas M. Grosvenor, an 
ancestor, of Connecticut, was a Colonel 
In the Revolutionary War, and was In 
command of the First Connecticuit Rifles 



at the battle of Bunker Hill, and for some 
years he was a County Judge in ithe State 
of Connecticut. Daniel Grosvenor's early 
education was obtained in the common 
schools of Ohio and at an academy at 
Castile, in New York State. Some yeara 
later he entered ithe law department of 
the National University, graduating with 
the class of 1884. For some years he was 
a clerk in the Treasury Department and 
Pension Office and later was Deputy Audi- 
tor of the War Department; for several 
years he has been clerk to the Com- 
mittee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries 
In the House of Representatives. Hj 
served three years and three months as 
a soldier during the Civil War, and dur- 
ing 1877 and 1878 he was Assistami Adju- 
tant-General of the State of O'hio. He 
is a Mason and has held office In thai 
order. On October 28, 1874, he married 
Mrs. Virginia C. Lamborn, and is the 
father of two children. He Is a member 
of the Mei:hodist Church. Residence: 
Glen Echo, Md. Office: House of Repre- 
sentatives. 

GROSVENOR, GILBERT HOVEY, 

editor, was born In Consitantinople, 
Turkey, October 28, 1875, son of Prof. 
Edwin A. and Lillian (Waters) Grosvenor. 
His early education was obtained In the 
preparatory departmenit of Robert College, 
in Constantinople, and Worcester (Mass.) 
Academy, and later attended Amherst 
College, graduating with the class of 1897, 
taking a maslter's degree in 1901. During 
1897 and 1898 he taught in a preparatory 
school in Englewood, N. J., and in 1899 
became assistant editor of the National 
Geographic Magazine, and since 1903 has 
been editor. He has written a number of 
articles for leading magazines, and Is cthe 
author of The Explorations of the Nine- 
teenth Century, which appeared In the re- 
port of the Secretary of the Smithsonian 
Institution in 1900. On October 23, 1900. 
he married Elsie May Bell, daughter of 
Alexander Graham Bell. Residence: 1328 
Eighteenth street, n.w. Office: Hubbard 
Memorial Building. 

GUDE, ADOLPHUS, florist, senior 
member of Adolphus Gude & Bro., was 
born in Knoxville, Tenn., April 20, 1863, 
and came to Washington wiith his parents 
when seven years of age. He was grad- 
uated from the Spencerian Business Col- 
lege in 1886, and learned the principles 
of his business with Nicholas Studer, and 
then with his brother, William F. Gude; 
bouglait land in Anacostia, erected green- 
houses and cultivated flowers. One year 
later they opened a florist business in 
Washington, and in 1890 located in the 
Metzerott Building, where they remained 
for a year, until the building was blown 
down. The business was constanrtly in- 
creasing and they took larger quarters 
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located. He is a member of many civic 
and fraternal organizations among them 
the Grand Royal Arch Chapter of the Dis- 
trict, and the DeMolay Mounted Com- 
mandery, of which he is a Past Com- 
mander. He is manager of the Anacostia 
Brick Company, a director of the German 
Orphan Asylum and a lif? member of 'the 
Society of American Florists and Orna- 
mental Horticulturists. Residence: Gude- 
mont, Anacostia. Business add.ess: 1214 
F street n. w. 

GUDE, WILLIAM FREDERICK, florist, 
vvas born in Lynchburg, Va., in 1868, an.] 
when two years of age removed with his 
paents 'to Prince G orge County, Mary- 
land. After ajttending the counr.y schools 
he took a course at the Spencerian Busi- 
ness College in Washington, graduating 
in 1S87, since when he has be n engaged 
with his brother in floriculture. He i.s 
a member of the Board of Trade, Cham- 
ber of Commerce, a Mason, and an ex- 
presidenl: of th? Society of American 
Flo/ists and Ornamental Horticulturists, 
etc. In addition ito his florist business, he 
is identified with a number of other busi- 
ness enterprises in Wa.shingi.on. In 189C 
he married Kathryn M. Loeffl r, of Wa.sh- 
ington. Residence: 3900 New Hampshire 
avenue. Business address: 1214 F street, 
n.w. 

GUDGER, JAMES MADISON, JR., 

lawyer, Congressman, was born in Mad- 
ison County, No;'t)h Carolina, in 1855. He 
aitt:nded Emory and Henry College, in 
Virginia, and later took up the study of 
law at: Pearson's Law School, since when 
he has actively engaged in the practice 
of his profession. In 1900 he was elected 
a 'memb;r of the North Carolina State 
Senate, and has represented the Tenth 
North Carolina Congressional District in 
the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Con- 
gresses. He is a Mason, a Knight of 
Pythias, and a member of the Elks. He 
married Katie M. Hawkins, of Hender- 
sonville, N. C. Democrat. Legal resi- 
dence: Asheville, N. C. 

GUERRY, HOMER, lawyer, vice-presi- 
dent and general counsel of the Collins- 
Guerry Company (real esl:ate), was bora 
near Americus, Geo:gia, on December 6, 
1H(\1, son of William Barnett and Sara A. 
Ciuerry. His education was mainly self 
acquired, having been brought up in the 
South when there were practically no 
school facilities. He studied law under 
his father and brorher, DuPont Gue:ry, 
being admitted to practice in 1880, before 
Judge Charles F. Crisp, who was at the 
time the presiding judge of the South- 
western Circuit of Georgia, and who sub- 
sequently bei>ime Speaker of the House 
of Representatives. From 1885 to 1898 
he was in the government service. He has 
extensive practice befo^re the Land De- 
partment, and is largely interested in the 
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titling of public lands. On September 12, 
1889, he married Bessie H. Smith, of 
Vv'ashington. In polit.ics he is a Demo- 
crat. R 'sidence: Takoma Park, Md. 
OflSce: Collins-Guerry Building, 621 Thir- 
teenth street, n.w. 

GUGGENHEIM, SIMON, mine owns.-, 

smelter. United States SenaJtor, vvas born 
at Philadelphia, P nn., December 30, 1867. 
son of Meyer and Barbara (Meyers) Gug- 
genheim. After obtaining his preliminary 
(ducDtion in the public schools of Phila- 
delphia he traveled abroad for two years, 
making studies of the French. German anil 
Spanish languages. In 1889. wK.h his 
brother, he went to Pueblo, Col., engag- 
ing in 'the mining and smelting Interescj 
of that State, and is now a member of 
the Executive Committee of the American 
Smelting and Refining Company. The 
Silver Republicans of Colorado nominated 
him for Lieutenant-Governor of that 
State, and although ithe ticke>. was elected, 
h' had declined the nomination. In 1898 
he was nominated by the same party, anc 
received the indorsement of the People's 
par1:y, but withdrew from the ticket. He 
was elected to the United States Senate, 
to succeed Thomas MacDonald Patter.^on, 
whose term of office expired March 3, 1907. 
He married Olga Hirsh, wl New York, on 
November 24, 1898. He is a member ol 
the LawyeTs' and Harmonic Clubs, of 
New Yo:k; Progress Club, of Denver, and 
the Pueblo Club, of Pueblo, Col. Legal 
residence: Denver, Col. Washington ad- 
dress: U. S. Senate. 

GUNNELL, FRANCIS M., r. tired Sur- 
geon-General of the United States Navy, 
vvas born in Washington, D. C, in 1827. 
He entered the navy as an assistamt sur- 
geon in 1849, and in 1862 was with the 
North and South Atlantic Blockading 
Squadrons. In 1861 he was promoted to 
surgeon, and from 1863 to 1865 was on 
duty aiL the Naval Hospital in Washington. 
Early in 1871 he vvas a medical inspector, 
and in the year 1875 he became medical 
director. From 1884 to 1888 he was Sur- 
geon-General, being retired In 1889, wltn 
the relative rank of Commodore; subse- 
quently promoted to the rank of Rear 
Admiral for Civil War service. Address: 
600 Twentieth 2<:reet, n.w. 

GURLEY, (MRS.) WILLIAM B., Pres- 
ident Young Women's Christian Horns'. 
Residence: 311 C street, n.w. 

GUTHERZ, CARL, artist, was born In 
Switzerland in 1S44, son of Helnrlch and 
Henrietta Gutherz. He came to America 
in 1851, and aP.er working in his father's 
terra cotta art works in Cincinnati, he 
showed an artistic talent, and later stud- 
ied at Academic des Beaux Arts in Pari?, 
and la»:er in Belgium and Italy. He re- 
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and located in St. Douis, at the same 
time establisliing an art school in the 
Washington Universilty, which is now 
called ithe St. Douis School of Fine Arts. 
In 1876 he received a medal and diploma, 
and also the same honor from Paris in 
1889. His specialties have been portraits 
and figure pieces, in both oil and water 
colors. The titles of some of his more 
prominent works are: Evening of Sixtn 
Day; Spectrum of Lright, dn Library of 
Congress; Law and Justice, a decoraitive 
frieze in the courthouse, Fort Wayne, Ind.; 
Light of the Incarnation; Arcessiba ab 
Angelis. The latter pant of his life wa.s 



almost exclusively devoted to mural deco- 
rations for public buildings. He died oii 
February 7, 1907. 

GUTHRIE, CHARLES, Pastor of th<? 
Hamline Methodist Episcopal Church. 
Address: Ninth and P streets, n.w. 

GUZMAN, DON POMPONIO, Firs!. 
Secretary, Colo'mbian Legation. Address: 
1312 Tvventy- first streeit. 

GUZMAN, R. GARBIRAS, Charge 

d'Affaires, Embassy of Venezulea. 
Address: The Rochambeau 



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HACKETT, FRANK WARREN, law- 
yer, was born at Portsmouth, New Hamp- 
shire, on April 11, 1841, son of William 
H. Y. Hackett. He attended Phillips- 
Exeter Academy, and in 1861 was grad- 
uated from Harvard College. He stud- 
ied law at Portsmouth, N. H., ait Phil- 
adelphia, and at the Harvard Law School. 
From 1862 to 1864 he was an acting as- 
sistant paymaster in the navy. In 1866 
he was admitted 'to the har, and began 
practice in Bos'ton. He was private sec- 
retary in 1872 to Caleb Cushing, senior 
counsel for the United States before the 
Geneva Tribunal Arbitration on the Ala- 
bama Claims. Since 1873 he has been 
practicing law in this city. In 1900 and 
1901 he was Assistant Secretary of the 
Navy. He is the author of books and mon- 
ographs, including: Memoir of William H. 
Y. Hackett; The Geneva Award Acts; The 
Gavel and the Mace; Sketch of ithe Lif«^ 
and Public Services of William Adams 
Richardson, etc. In polities he i.=; a Re- 
publican. In April, 1880, Mt. Hackett 
married Ida Craven, daughter of Rear 
Admiral Craven, U. S. N. Residence: 
1418 M street. Ofiice: Maryland Build- 
ing. 

HACKETT, RICHARD N., Congress- 
man. He was elected to the Sixtieth Con- 
gress from the Eighth Congressional Dis- 
trict of North Carolina on the Demo- 
cratic ticket in November, 1906. Legal 
residence: Wilkesboro, N. C. Washing- 
ton address: House of Representatives 

HACKNEY, THOMAS, Congressman. 
In November, 1906, he was elected a mem- 
ber of the Sixtieth Congress from the 
Fifteenth Congressional District of Mis- 
souri, as a Democrat. Legal residence: 
Carthage, Mo. Washington address: 
House of Representatives. 

HAGGOTT, WARREN A., lawyer, 
Congressman, was born near Sidney, 
Shelby County, Ohio, on May 18, 1864, 
son of Benjamin Pearl and Mlargaret 



Agnes (Gamble) Haggott. He was edu- 
cated in the district schools, Sidney 
Grammar School, Xenia (Ohio) College, 
and Valparaiso (Ind.) College, and later 
taught school in Ohio, Texas and 
Colorado. In June, 1892, he was admit- 
ted to the bar of the Supreme Court 
of Colorado, and has since been actively 
engaged in the practice of law and metal- 
liferous mining. He was elected Lieu- 
tenant-Governor of Colorado in 1902, on 
the Republican tickeit, and was elected, 
in November, 1906, a member of the Six- 
tieth Congress from the Second Colorado 
District. On December 29, 1887, he mar- 
ried Lou Willie Cecil, at Columbia, Tenn., 
to which union have been born two chil- 
dren. Legal residence: Idaho Springs 
Col. Washington address: House of 
Representaitives. 

HAGNER, ALEXANDER BURTON. 

formerly Associate Justice of the Districi 
Supreme Court, was born in Washington, 
D. C, on July 13, 1826, seventh son of 
Peter and Prances (Randall) Hagner. He 
was graduated from Princeton Univer- 
sity in 1845, and later in life received the 
honorary degree of LL. D. from St. John's 
College, at Annapolis, Md. In 1848 he 
was admitted to the bar at Annapolis, 
and for a number of years practiced his 
profession in various counts in Maryland. 
En 1854 he was a member of the State 
Legislature, and chairman of the Com- 
mittee on Ways and Means; in 1860, a 
presidential elector on the Bell and 
Everett ticket, and, in 1858 and 1867, a 
candidate for Congress on the Whig and 
Republican tickets, respectively. He be- 
came an Associate Justice of the Supreme 
Court of the District of Columbia in 1879, 
and retired on June 1, 1902. In 1853 he 
married Louisa Harrison, of Goochland 
County, Virginia. In politics he is a 
Republican. Residence: 1818 H street. 
n.w. 1 . J' 

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Company, was born in Washington, D. C 
Early in life he entered the architec-; 
office of Hornblower & Marshall, but left 
that firm and entered the employ of the 
Allegiheny Coal Company, in Washington. 
After four and one-half years with th.? 
above company, he eng-aged, in 1902, in 
the coal business on his own account 
When the J. Maury Dove Coal Company 
was incorporated his firm sold out to 
them, and he became associated with 
them as a director. Residence: 1213 Sev- 
eniteenth stree't, n.w. Office: Twelfth 
and F streets, n.w. 

HAGUE, ARNOLD, geologist, was 
born at Boston, Mass., on December 3, 
1840, son of Rev. Dr. William and Mar^' 
Bowditch (Moriarty) Hague. He wa.s 
graduated from the Sheffield Scientific 
School of Tale University in 1863, and 
studied abroad at the universities of 
Gottingen and Heidelberg and the Schoj' 
of Mines at Freiberg until 1867. FroiT; 
that da'te until 1878 he was assistant geol- 
ogist attached to the United States geo- 
logical exploration of the fortieth paral- 
lel; engaged in investigations of mine^ 
and mining in Nevada, and other geo- 
logical and geographical work; for many 
years in charge of geological work in the 
Yellowstone National Park; was Govern- 
ment geologist of Guatemala in 1878. He 
pursued an investigation of the mineral 
resources and mines of North China for 
the Chinese Government during 1879 and 
1880, and since the latter date has been 
attached to the United States Geological 
Survey as geologist. He is the aurhor 
of a number of books, reports, mono- 
graphs and public documents on geolog- 
ical and geographical subjects, and is a 
contributor to scientific and technical 
periodicals. He is a member of the Met- 
ropolitan and Cosmos Clubs, of Wash- 
ington; the Century and University 
Clubs, of New York, and of the follow- 
ing societies: Geological Society o! 
America; Geological Society of London; 
American Philosophical Society; American 
Institute of Mining Engineers; National 
Academy of Sciences (home secretary 
since 1901), and, in 1900, was vice-presi- 
dent of the International Geological Con- 
gress at Paris, and was also a member 
of the committee of members of th^ 
National Academy of Sciences, appointed 
at the request of the United States to 
prepare a plan of national forest reserva- 
tion. In 1901 he received the honorary 
degree of D. Sci. from Columbia Univer- 
sity, and, in 1906, LL. D. from Aberdeen 
University. Residence: 1724 I street, n. av. 
Office: U. S. Geological Survey. 

HAHN, WILLIAM, merchant, was 
born in a small village in Holzahausen, 
Germany, September 9, 1853, and wa.7 
sent to a theological seminary, his fam- 
ily intending to educate him for a teacher. 
He came to America in 1868, wtien fifteen 
years old, and from New York he came 



to Washington and entered the employ 
of a shoe dealer. He was graduated In 
1871 from the Spencerian Business Col- 
lege, and in 1876 had saved enough money 
to bring his two brothers to America and 
to start into business for himself. On« 
brother had been in California, and he. 
with a third, all went into business, and 
have so remained since, under the name 
of William Hahn & Co. He has been a 
Freemason for thirty years, and is a 
member of Harmony Lodge, No. 18, and 
a director of the Home Savings Bank and 
of the Business Men's Association. When 
the Eighth-street Temple of the Washing- 
ton Hebrew Congregation was erected h^: 
was chairman of the Building Commit- 
tee. He was married in 1879 to Hannah 
Weil, and they have six children. Resi- 
dence: 1717 P street, n.w. 

MAINS, PETER CONOVER, Brigadier- 
General. U. S. A. (retired), was born in 
Philadelpihia, Penn., on July 6, 1840, sbn 
of Reuben P. and Amanda M. Haines. He 
was graduated from the United States 
Military Academy in 1861, and served 
throughout the War of the Rebellion, re- 
ceiving several brevets for distinguished 
bravery. Thereafter he served with the 
Engineer Corps, being engaged on a 
large number of river and harbor im- 
provements. This work has included 
service with the Lighthouse Board, as 
engineer secretary, as engineer in chargi3 
of the reclamation of the Potomac River 
flats member of the Board of Ordnance 
and Fortifications, Nicaraguan Canal 
Commission (1897-99), and has been a 
member of numerous boards of harbo/ 
fortifications, etc. Since 1899 he has been 
a member of the Isthmian Canal Com- 
mission. During the Spanish-American 
War he served as Brigadier-General oi 
Volunteers In Cuba and Porto Rico. In 
1903 he was advanced to the rank of 
Brigadier-General of the regular army, 
and retired on July 6, 1904. In Novem- 
ber, 1864, he married Virginia P. Jen- 
kins, daughter of Admiral Jenkins. Res- 
idence: 1523 K street, n.w. 

HALDERMAN, JOHN A., diplomat, was 
born in the State of Kentucky, on April 
15, 1838, son of Dr. John A. and Susan 
Henderson (Rogers) Halderman. He re- 
ceived an academic education and hold.=» 
the degree of LL. D. from Highland 
University (Kansas). He was private 
secretary to the first Governor of Kan- 
sas and subsequently Judge of the Pro- 
bate Court, later becoming Mayor or 
Leavenworth, Kansas. He has served In 
both houses of the Kansas Legislature 
He entered the Union Army as a Major, 
and rose to the rank of Major-General, 
being commended for conspicuous gal- 
lantry in battle. In ISSO he became United 
States Consul at Bangkok, Slam, and 
subsequently Consul-General to Siam. 
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Minister to that country. In recognition 
of his services in advancing civilization, 
he was decoraited by the French Govern- 
ment, and also received further decora- 
tions from the monarchs of Cambodia 
and Siam. Residence: 1311 K street, 
n.w. 

HALE, EDWARD EVERETT, Chaplain 
of the United Sta'tes Senate, was born 
ait Boston, Mass., on April 3, 1822, son 
of Nathan and Sarah Preston (Everett) 
Hale. He is of distinguisihed Puritan an- 
cestry. He attended it'he Boston Latin 
School from 1831 to 1835, and was grad ■ 
ua'ted from Harvard College in 1839, and 
received from the same institution in 1879 
the degree of S. T. D. He received the 
honorary degree of LL. D. from Dart- 
mouth University in 1901, and 'the same 
degree from Williiams University in 1904 
Becoming a licensed Unitarian minister, 
he served as pasitor of the Church of the 
Unity, at Worcester, Mass., from 1846 t • 
1856, and subsequently as pastor of ith>^ 
South Congregational Church, in Boston. 
He has been chaplain of the United States 
Senate since 1893. He was prominently 
identified for many j^ears with .the Chau- 
tauqua movement, and the Ancient Soci- 
ety for 'the Promotion of Christian Knowl- 
edge and Education. At present he is 
editor of the Lend-a-Hand Record (th^ 
official publication of the Lend-a-Hand 
Club, with Which he is closely connected), 
and also chairman of the Massachusetts 
Commission for International Justice. He 
is the author of a large number of books 
(about one for every year since 1862, and 
a few before ithat time), including poems, 
fiction, stories for boys, 'religious books, 
biography, eitc, and has been on the edi- 
torial staff of a large number of publi- 
cations. On October 13, 1852, he married 
Emily Baldwin Perkins. He is a member 
of the Alpha Delta Phi college fraternity, 
and was at one nLme president of the 
United Society. Republican. Residence: 
39 Hig*hland street, Roxbury, Mass. Wash- 
ington address: U. S. Senate. 

HALE, EUGENE, lawyer, United States 
Senator, was born a't Turner, Oxford 
County, Maine, on June 9, 1836, son of 
James Sullivan and Betsy (Staples) Hale 
He 'received an academic education, Latei 
studying law and securing admission U^ 
the bar in 1857. He began the practice 
of law when twenty years of age; for 
nine years vvas County Attorney of Han- 
cock County (Maine); member of itln 
Maine Legislature in 1867, 1868 and 1880 
He was elected to the Forty- first Con- 
gress, and subsequently re-elected four 
times. In 1874 he was appointed Post- 
mas'ter-General, and, in Hayes' adminis- 
tration, Secretary of the Navy, both of 
wihich positions he declined. He wa;5 
chairman of the Republican Congressional 
Committee for the Forty-fifth Congress; 
was a delegate to the National Repub- 



lican Conventions of 1868, 1876 and 1880, 
and was elected United States Senator 
from Maine in 1881, and re-elected in 
1S87, 1893, 1899 and 1905. The honorary 
degree of LL. D. has been conferred upon 
him by Bates College, Colby University, 
and Bowdoin College. In politics he is a 
Republican. Legal residence: Ellsworth, 
Maine. Washington address: 1001 Six- 
teenth stieet, n. w. 

HALE, NATHAN WESLEY, Congress- 
man, was born in Scott County, Virginia, 
on February 11, 1860, son of Drayton S 
Hale and a descentiant of Revolutionary 
ancestors of note. He obtained his early 
education at NicholasviMe, Va., and at 
Kingsley Academy, in Tennessee. For a 
time ihe taught school. For the past nine- 
teen years he 'has been engaged in the 
nursery business, and is now president 
of the Knoxville Nursery Company, alsJ 
of the Southern Nursery Company. He 
was one of the founders and part owner 
of the dry goods firm of Brown, Payne, 
Deaver & Co., of Knoxville, Tenn.; 
director of 'the East Tennessee National 
Bank, and president of the Frank's Medi- 
cine Company, of Knoxville. In 1890 he 
was elected to the lower house of the 
State Legislature; in 1892 to the Stale 
Senate, and, in 1905, to the House of 
Representatives from the Second Ten- 
nessee District, and 'has been re-eleoted 
to subsequent Congresses. He is a mem 
ber, and was for two years president, of 
the Southern Nurserymen's Association, 
and for one year president of the Amer- 
ican Association of Nurserymen. He is a 
Republican in politics. Legal residence; 
Knoxville, Tenn. Washington address: 
House of Representatives. 

HALFORD, ALBERT JAMES, journal- 
ist, was born at Hamilton, Ohio, on Au- 
gust 11, 1851, son of Elijah and Maria 
Ann (Walker) Halford. He attended the 
public schools, and in 1900 was the re- 
cipient of the honorary degree of M. Dip. 
from Columbian (now George Washing - 
iton) University. While a boy he learned 
the printer's trade; at fifteen 'he reported 
the proceedings of 'the Indiana State Leg- 
islature, 'and at eighteen was a staff re- 
porter on the Indianapolis News. From 
the latter position he rose, through suc- 
cessive promotions, )to the position of 
m.anaging editor in 1888, in which year 
he became managing editor of the Wash- 
ington Post, in this city. Subsequently 
he was connected with the Washington 
Bureau of the Associated and United 
Press Associations, and recently with the 
Washington Bureau of the New York 
Sun. He is the compiler of the Official 
Congressional Directory. On January 24, 
1877 he married Marie Dean. Residence: 
1622 Twenty-second street, n.w. Office. 
Hibb.s Building. 

HALFORD, ELIJAH WALKER, Pay- 
master, U. S. A., was born at Notting- 



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ham, England, on September 4. 1843, son 
of Elijah and Maria Ann Haifofd. He 
aittended the Ohio public schools, and 
an academy at NeWton, Ohio, later learn- 
ing the printer's trade and became a 
newspaper reporter at Indianapolis, Ind. 
For ,a lime he was editor of ithe Indian- 
apolis Journal; in 1872 was editori.ij 
founder of the Chicago Inter- Ocean; with 
that paper until 1893. During the interim 
he was also editor of the Indianapolis 
Journal, umtil 1889. In 1888 he was a del- 
egate to the National Republican Con- 
vemtion, serving on the platform com- 
mittee; from 1889 to 1893, was private 
.secretary to Presiden't Harrison, and on 
the latter date was appointed a paymaster 
in ithe army. In 1893 he was disbursing 
officer of 'the Bering Sea Arbitration 
Commission at Paris. Mr. Halford is a 
member of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, and in politics is a Republican. 
He was married, on May 1, 1866, to Mary 
Frances Armstrong, who is now deceased. 
Address: War Department. 

HALL, ARTHUR JOSEPH, physician, 
was born in St. Louis, Mo., on March 7, 
1858, son of Samuel K. and Massie D. 
Hall. After obtaining his preliminary 
education in 'the public schools of St 
Louis and Warrensburg, Mo., he entered 
the medical department of Columbian 
(now George Washington) University, 
from which he was graduated, M. D., in 
1886. Prom 1882 to 1891 he was employed 
as a printer in the Governmemt Printing 
Office, since when he nas been actively 
engaged in the practice of his profession 
in Washington. He is a member of ithe 
Medical Association of the District of 
Columbia, Medical Society of the Districc 
of Columbia, American Medical Associa- 
tion, American Therapeu'tic Society, 
Therapeutic Society of the District of 
Columbia, Sons of Veterans, and is a 
Mason. Unmarried. Residence: 928 I 
street, n.w. 

HALL, ASAPH, astronomer, was born 
in Goshen, Conn., on October 15, 182:9, 
son of Asaph and Hannah C. (Palmer; 
Hall. He was educated at Norfolii 
(Conn.) Academy, and 'taught school in 
Ohio. At the University of Michigan he 
studied lastronomy unde:' Brunnow, was 
under Professors W. C. and George P. 
Bond as student and assistant at Har- 
vard Observatory, 1857-62, and at the 
Naval Observa'tory, Wa.shington, 1862-63; 
appointed professor of mathennatics in 
the United States Navy with the rela- 
tive rank of Captain, in 1863, and as pro- 
fessor in the Naval Observatory, where 
he had charge of 'the great equatorial 
telescope, 1875-91. He observed the solar 
eclipse from Bering Sea, 1869; Sicily, 
1870 and the tiansit of Venus at Vladi- 
vostok, Siberia, 1874, and San Antonio, 
Texas, 1882, where he was chief astrono- 
mer. He discovered two satellites of 



Mars in August, 1877, naming them Dei- 
mos and Phobos, "Attendants ito the God 
of Wars," according to Homer. He was 
retired from aetive service in 1891, a: 
the age limit. From 1897 to 1899 he "lec- 
tured on theoretical astronomy at Har- 
vard, and was elected a member of the 
National Academy of Sciences in 1875. 
He was foreign as.sociate for ithe Royal 
Astronomical Society, London, and cor- 
responding member of the Institute of 
France, and of the Imperial Academy of 
Science, St. Petersburg. He was awarded 
the gold medal of the Royal Astronomical 
Society and the Lalandi Prize of th;? 
French Academy for his observations o*" 
the Satellites of Mars, and also the Arago 
gold medal, and was made a member of 
the Legion of Honor in 1896. He received 
the degree of Ph. D. from Hamilton in 
1878; A. M., from Harvard, in 1879; 
LL. D., from Yale, in 1879, and Harvard 
in 1886. Address: Norfolk, Conn. 

HALL, BENJAMIN MORTIMER, hy- 

drographer, civil onginoe;, was born in 
Fairfield County. South Carolina, near 
Winnsboro, on January 31. 1853, son of 
Dr. Nathaniel Barber and Nancy Ann 
(Boulware) Hall. He attended private 
schools and Emory College (Ga.) during 
the period 1861 to 1869, leaving the lat- 
ter institution in 1871, in 'his sophomore 
year, to enter the Univ^ersi'ty of Georgia, 
where he was graduated in 1876. with the 
degree of B. E., and, in 1885. with that 
of C. E. and M. E. From 1876 to 1880 
he was professor of mathematics at the 
North Carolina Agricultural College; from 
1880 to 1884 was chief engineer of water 
supply investigations, general surveys and 
constructive work in the Dahlonega gold 
mining region of Georgia. He was engi- 
neer and superintendent of ithe Sale & 
Lamar Gold Mining Company from 1884 
to 1885; of the Warren Gold Mining 
Company in 1886, and of the Southern 
Marble Company from 1887 to 1890. From 
1890 to 1903 he was senior member u:' 
the firm of Hall Bros., civil engineers, at 
Atlanta, Ga. He was resident hydrogra- 
pher of ithe United States Geological Sur- 
vey from 1895 to 1903. on which latter 
date he became consulting engineer of the 
United States Reclamation Service. He 
has since become superi vising engineer of 
this bureau for the States of New Mexico, 
Texas and Oklahoma. On July 1, 1907. 
he was detailed to organize irrigation 
work in the island of Porto Rico for th > 
Insular Government, and has planned an 
extensive system of reservoirs canals, etc.. 
for the irrigation of sugar cane on the 
south side of the island. He is the au- 
thor of a number of reports, monograph.s 
and other Government documents on 
hydrography, irrigation and civil engi- 
neering, etc., and is a member of the 
following oganizations: American Soci- 
e'ty of Civil Engineers; American Insti- 
tute of Mining Engineers: American For- 



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estry Association; National Geographic 
Society. In politics he is a Democrat. On 
January 5, 1881, he married Kate Paola 
Chamberlin. Address: U. S. Reclamation 
Service, and 413 Temple Court, Atlanta, 
Georgia. 

HALL, JOHN D., Colonel, and Assist- 
ant Surgeon-General, U. S. A., was born 
in New Hampshire, on March 17, 1842, 
and was graduated from Harvard Uni- 
versity in 1863, with the degree of A. B. 
In 1867 he received ithe degree of A. M. 
from the same institution, and that of 
M. D. from the medical department of 
Columbia University. He wias appointed 
an Assistant Surgeon in ithe Army in 
1868; advanced to t'he rank of Captain 
and Assistant Surgeon in 1871; commis- 
sioned Major and Surgeon, 1889; pro- 
muted to Lieutenant-Colonel and Deputy 
Surgeon-General on February 2, 1901, and 
promoted ito Colonel and Assistant Sur- 
geon-General, U. S. A., February 13, 1903. 
Address: War Department. 

HALL, PERCIVAL, educator, was born 
in Georgetown, D. C, on September 16, 
1872, son of Asaph and Chloe Angeline 
(Stickney) Hall. He obtained his pre- 
liminary education at the Columbian Col- 
lege Preparatory School, from which hn 
was graduated in 1887, after which he 
attended Harvard University, graduating, 
V B. A., 1892; Gallaudet College, M. A, 
1893, and Columbian University, M. A., 
1898. From 1893 to 1895 he was a teacher 
in the New York Institution for the Deaf, 
and since 1895 ihe 'has been a member 
of the faculty of Gallaudet College; now 
professor of applied mathematics and 
pedagogy. He is a member of the Delta 
Upsllon fraternity, the Washington Har- 
vard Club, and the University Club, o'. 
Washington. On June 20, 1900, he mar- 
ried Ethel Zoe Taylor, of Colorado 
Springs, Col., to which union two chil- 
dren have been born. Residence: 7 Ken- 
dall Green. 

HALL, PHILO, Congressman. In No- 
vember, 1906, he was elected Represent- 
tive-at-Large from South Dakota on 
the Republican ticket. Legal residence: 
Brookings, S. D. Washington address: 
House of Representatives. 

HALL, ROBERT HENRY, Brigadier- 
General, U. S. A. (retired), was born ai 
Detroit, Mich., on November 15, 1837. He 
was graduated from the United States 
Military Academy in 1860, and was com- 
missioned Second Lieutenant of Infantry 
the same year. In 1861 he was promoted 
to First Lieutenant, and until 1862 served 
with the army in New Mexico. He served 
throughout the Civil War and par'tici- 
pated in many engagements, being se- 
verely wounded at Weldon Railroad, and 
receiving the brevets of Major and Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel for distinguished gallantry. 



Subsequently lie served until 1871 on the 
Western frontier, in Minnesota, Dakota, 
and Texas, then becoming instructor in 
infantry tactics at the United States Mil- 
itary Academy, and, from 1871 to 1878, 
Adjutant. He was commissiond Major 
of Infantry in May, 1883; made Lieuten- 
ant-Colonel in 1888, and advanced to Col- 
onel in 1893. He served with the Fed- 
eral troops during the Coxey army dis- 
turbances, and against strikers of tho 
Northern Pacific Railroad. From 1896 to 
1898 he was commandant of Fort Sheri- 
dan, Illinois, on May 27 of the latter year 
becoming Brigadier-General of Volunteers 
and serving in the Spanish- American War 
as a brigade and division commander 
in Florida and Alabama. He was ordered 
to the Philippines in 1899 and there com- 
manded the brigade of the Eighth Army 
Corps serving in a number of campaigns 
against insurgents. In February, 1901, he 
was made Brigadier-General of the Regu- 
lar Army, and retired in November of the 
same year. He is the author of Register 
of the U. S. Army, 1789-1798; History of 
U. S. Infantry Tactics; History of the 
Flag of the United States; History o" 
Por't Dearborn; Review of Works of 
United States History, etc. General Hal; 
is a Thirty-third degree Mason and 
Shriner and a member of t'he Loyal Le- 
gion, Grand Army of the Republic, Army 
of the Potomac and of the Cumberland, 
and a corresponding member of the State 
Historical Society of Wisconsin. In Feb- 
ruary, 1866, he imarried Georgianna K. 
Foote. Address: War Department. 

HALL, WILLIAM LOGAN, forester, 
was born at Holden, Missouri, on May 28, 
1873, son of William Warfield and Mary 
Martha (Logan) Hall. He attended the 
public schools of Holden, Mo., and the 
high school at Anthony, Kansas; grad- 
uated in 1898 from the Kansas State 
Agricultural College, with the degree of 
B. S., and, in 1899, with that of M. S. 
During 1898 and 1899 he was assistant 
horticulturist of the Kansas State Agri- 
cuLtural College; from 1899 to 1901 he 
was assistant superintendent of tree 
planting in the Division of Forestry of 
the Department of Agriculture; from 1901 
to 1902, superintendent of tree planting, 
and since 1902 he has been assistant for- 
ester in charge of forest extension; is 
now in charge of the branch of products 
in the Forest Service. He is a member 
of the American Forestry Association 
(merhber of Board of Directors) ; Soci- 
ety of American Foresters (treasurer), 
and in 1905 was secretary of the Ameri- 
can Forest Congress. In religion he is a 
Baptist. On October 24, 1900, he mar- 
ried Ger'trude May Lyman. Residence: 
Hyattsville, Maryland. Office: Forest 
Service. 

HALL, WILLIAM PREBLE, Brigadier- 
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on June 11, 1848. He was graduated from 

the United States Miliitary Academy in 
1868, and became a Second Lieutenant Oi 
Infantry ithe same year, later entering 
the cavalry. In 1876 he was advanced to 
First Lieutenant of Cavalry; miade Cap- 
tain in 1877; promoted to Major, on the 
staff of Ithe Acting Adjuftant-General, in 
1893; commissioned Lieutenant-Colonel, 
same, 1897; made Colonel and Acting 
Adjutant-General on April 18, 1901, and 
Birigadier-General in 1904. Prior to the 
Spanish-American War he served on the 
Wesitern frontier and in a large number 
of Indian campaigns, including actions 
againsit the Apaches, at Whitestone Moun- 
tain, Arizona, July 13, 1873; Big Horn 
and Yellowstone expeditions, in 1876, and 
at Slim Buttes, Dakota. For conspicu- 
ous gallantry in action at the last named, 
General Hall was awarded a Congres- 
sional medal of honor. From 1899 to 1900 
he was Adjutant-General of ithe Depart- 
ment of Porto Rico. General Hall has 
been a member of many rifle iteams land 
has received a large number of medals 
for expert rifle, carbine and revolver 
shooting. Address: War Department. 

HALLOCK, CHARLES, naturalist, au- 
thor, journalist, wias born in New York 
City, on March 13, 1834, son of Gerard 
and Eliza (Allen) Hallock. His ancestors 
settled Eastern Long Island in 1626-40, 
and his great-grandfather, William Hal- 
lock, with sons, Jeremiah and Moses, 
were Revolu'tionary soldiers. He received 
a preliminary education at Hopkins 
Grammar School, at New Haven, Conn., 
and later attended Yale College and Am- 
hersit College. From 1852 to 1855 he 
worked as la printer on the New York 
Journal of Commerce, of which his father' 
was edi'tor, and from 1855 to 1856 was 
editor of the New Haven (Conn.) Regis- 
ter. From 1856 to 1861 he was on the 
Journal of Commerce staff. From 1862 .to 
1866 he was connected with the St. John's 
(N. B.) Telegraph, Humorist, and Courier, 
and during this same period carried on a 
brokerage business in St. Johns and Hali- 
fax, becoming, in 1868, financial editor of 
Harper's Weekly. In 1873 he founded 
Forest and Stream, and in 1874 organized 
•the International Association for the Pro- 
tection of Game. In 1880 he founded the 
town of Hallock, Minnesota, and in 1883 
instituted the culture of the Russian sun- 
flower in itihat State for its oil produc- 
ion. From 1896 to 1897 he was editor 
of the Nor'western Field and Stream. 
He has been a contributor to magazines 
since 1857, and has written ten copyright- 
ed books and fifty-six monographs, prin- 
cipally on nature study, sport and recrea- 
tion; was the author of the first code 
of game laws, and has assisted in the 
field work of the Smithsonian Institution 
since 1860, visiting every State, Terri- 
tory and Brltisih province. He was the 
flrsic secretary of the Blooming Grove 



Park Association (1870-72), and Is a mem- 
ber of the following organizatioois: Wash- 
ing'ton Academy of Sciences; Ornitholo- 
gist's Union; Long Island Historical So- 
ciety; America Social Science Assocla- 
ition, and the Minnesota and Alaska His- 
torical Societies. His two latest books, 
published in 1903 and 1905, respectively, 
are: Theory of the Electrical Body of 
the Future Life, and. Theory of Vito 
Magnetism in Its Relation to the Spirit- 
ual World. On September 10, 1855, he 
married Amelia J. Wardell. Residence: 
1337 Eleventh street. 

HALSTEAD, ALBERT, journalist, was 
born at Cincinnati, Ohio, on September 
19, 1867, son of Murat and Mary. (Banks; 
Halstead. He was graduated from 
Princeton University in 1889, and from 
1891 to 1896 he was Washington corre- 
spondent of the Cincinnati Commercial 
Gazette. From 1896 to 1899 he was edi- 
tor of the Springfield (Mass.) Union, and 
from 1900 to 1906 was Washington corre- 
spondent of Ithe Brooklyn Standard Union, 
Philadelphia Evening Telegraph, and other 
papers. Was appointed American Consul 
at Birmingham, England, in April, 1906. 
He formerly served four years as Colonel 
and Aide-de-Camp on the staff of Gov- 
ernor (later President) McKinley, of 
Ohio. On December 8, 1896, he marriea 
Aline Wilcox. Residence: 2208 Massa- 
chusetts avenue. Birmingham address: 
American Consulate, 43 Cannon street. 

HALSTEAD, GRIFFIN, member of ;rhe 
Washington Stock Exchange, was born on 
December 24, 1878, and was educated in 
the public schools. At seventeen he began 
the study of telegraphy, and secured an 
appointment under Speaker Reed, which 
position he filled for several years, and 
resigned to become a member of a New 
York stock brokerage house, devoting his 
time to the business for three years. Res- 
idence: 2123 Eighteenth street, n.w. 
Ofl^ce: Fou'nteemt'h and F streets. 

HAM, WILLIAM F., Treasurer of the 
Washington Railway and Electric Com- 
pany. Residence: 2312 Nineteenth street, 
n.w. Office: Fourteenth and East Capito! 

streets. 

HAMILL, JAMES A., Congressman. In 
November, 1906, he was elected a mem- 
ber of the Sixtieth Congress from the 
Tenth Congressional District of New Jer- 
sey, on the Democratic ticket. Legal res- 
idence: Jersey City, N. J. WashingtoTi 
address: House of Representatives. 

HAMILTON, DANIEL W., lawyer, 
Congressman, was born in Ogle County, 
Illinois, on December 20, 1861, son of 
Francis and Abigal J. Hamilton. He 
removed with his parents to Kansas in 
1868, and from there rto Keokuk County, 
Iowa, in 1874. He was educaited In the 



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common schools, and after teaching school 
for three years, was graduated from tht 
law department of the State Universiry 
of Iowa in 1884. In 1885 he located al 
Sigourney, Keokuk Counity, Iowa, where 
he has since been actively engaged in 
the practice of law. He was Mayor ot 
Sigou: ney in 1886; postmaster from 1894 
io 1898, and was a candidate for Judge, 
on the Democratic ticket, in the Sixth 
Judicial Dlsitrict of Iowa in 1898; was 
again a candidate for the same position 
in 1902. He was elected to ithe Sixtieth 
Congress in November, 1906, as a Dem- 
ocrat, defeating Major John F. Lacey 
lie :narried Elvira Gibbons, of Keokuk 
County, Iowa, in May, 1885. to which 
union have been born ten children. Legal 
residence: Sigourney, Iowa. WashingUm 
addie^s: House of Representatives. 

HAMILTON, EDWARD L., lawyer, 
Congressman, was born in Niles, Ber- 
rien County, Michigan, on December 9, 
IS.^'7. He was admitted ito the bar in 
1884, and elected Representative from 
the Fourth Michigan District to the Fifty- 
fifth Congress, and subsequently re- 
elected. Republican. Legal residence: 
Niles, Mich. Washington address: Hotel 
Dewey. 

HAMILTON, STANISLAUS MURRAY, 

historian, was born in Washington, D. C, 
on May 15, 1855, and educated at Gon- 
zaga College, in Washington, and the Col- 
lesre of Sainte Barbe, Piris, France. Since 
1880 he has been engaged in historical 
archives and record work of the Depart- 
ment of Sta'te, and of the Continental 
Congress, etc. He is a corresponding 
member of the Rhode Island Hi.sitorica; 
Society, and a memb?r of the Virginia 
Historical Society. He is the editor of 
The Writings of James Monroe; Letters 
to Washington, etc. Residence: Brook- 
land, D. C. Office: Department of State 

HAMILTON, WILLIAM, educator, was 
born at St. Thomas, West Indies, on Jan- 
uary 9, 1862. son of Rev. Allen and Jane 
(Taylor) Hamilton. He attended Mora- 
vian boiairding schools at Fulneck, Eng- 
land, and Naza.eth Hall, Pennsylvania, 
graduating from the Moravian Coll gt- 
(Bethlehem, Penn.) in 1883, with the de- 
gree of A. B.; from Columbian (now 
Was'hington) University, with that of A. 
M., in 1894, and, in 1901, with that of 
Ph.- D. From 1883 to 1890 he was a 
teacher in tha Moravian parochial school.'^ 
at Bethlehem, Penn and since 1890 ha^. 
been Assistant General Agent of Educa- 
tion for the United States in Alaska, in 
In is capacity having made seven tours 
of inspection throughout tha't territory. 
At present he is a lecturer in the de- 
partment of hisitory and political science 
of George Washing.ton University. He 
has been author of annual reports regard- 
ing education in Alaska since occupying 



his post with the Bureau of Education, 
and on the introduction of reindeer in 
Alaska, since 1891. He is a member of 
the Cosmos and University Clubs; the 
National Geographic Society; the Amer- 
ican Forestry Association, land the Mora- 
vian Historical Society. In politics he is 
a Republican, and, in religion, a Mora- 
vian. Unmarried. Residence: 1335 Con- 
necticut avenue. Office: Bureau of Edu- 
cation. 

HAMILTON, WILLIAM REEVE, Ma- 
jor, U. S. A., was born at Fon du Lac, 
Wisconsin, on June 13, 1855, son of Miajor- 
General Charles Smith Hamilton and So- 
phia J (Shepard) Hamilton. He ajttended 
the University of Wisconsin during 1871 
and 1872, and was graduated from 'the 
United States Military Academy in 1876, 
and the United States Antillery School 
in 1894, land also 'holds 'the degree of M. 
S. from Asbury (now DePauw) Univer- 
sity. He became a Second Lieutenant in 
1876; was made First Lieutenant of Ar- 
tillery in 1883; advanced to Captain in 
1898; commissioned Major in April, 1903. 
From 1879 to 1883 he served as professor 
of military science and tactics at Asbury 
(now DePauvv) Universi'ty; wias instructor 
of the New York State Militia, 1888 to 
1890; professor of military science ami 
tactics at the University of Nevada from 
1894 to 1897. Subsequently served wLth 
the Artillery Corps at Fort Slocum (New 
York), Willett's Point and Tampa, Flor- 
ida, and with the siege artillery train 
during ithe Spanish-American War. Prom 
1899 to 1901 he was commandant of Fort 
Schuyler (New York) ; from 1901 to 1903, 
commanded For.t Terry (New York), and, 
since March, 1903, has been stationed at 
Fort Moultrie, South Carolina. He is the 
author of a number of publications and 
pamphlets on army tactics and military 
science, statistical tables of military 
strength, etc. On June 21, 1902, he mar- 
ried Jane H. Bond. Address: War De- 
partment. 

HAMLIN, COURTNEY W., Congress- 
man. He was elect d a member of the 
Sixtieth Congress in Novembe , 1906, from 
the Seventh Missouri Congressional Dis- 
trict, as a Democratt. Legal residence: 
Springfi Id, Mo. Washington address: 
House of Representatives. 

HAMLIN, FRANCES BACON (Mrs. 
Rev. Teunis S.), was born in Maine City, 
St. Clai.e County, Michigan, on May 31, 
1847, daughter of James H. and Amanda 
(Ward) Bacon. Among her earliest an- 
cestors are Andrew Wa d and Rev. David 
Ward, vVho was a son of Esther Frank- 
lin, cousin of Benjamin Franklin; on her 
father's side, descended from ithe family 
of which Sir FianCis Bacon was a mem- 
ber on one side, and Younger Pitt, of Eng- 
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ucated in the public schools of Mich- 
igan and the Sta'te Normal School, from 
which institution she was graduated as 
a iteacher in 1868. She has contributed 
articles on missionary and religious sub- 
jects to religious periodicals. She was 
elected First ChapLain-General for 'the 
Daughters of the Revolution, re-elected 
for a second term, and again re-elected in 
1903 and 1905, respectively, serving in all, 
six years; she was also ithe first Chap- 
lain-General of Children of the Revolu- 
tion, which office she held for ten years, 
president of Women's Presbyterian Soci- 
ety for Home Missions for twenty-one 
years; vice-president of the Women's 
Presbyterian Boiard of Missions, New 
York, for the United Sitates, for twenty 
years; president Society of the Covenant 
for twenty years, etc. Since coming to 
Washington twenty-one years ago she 
has been idenjtifled with many religious 
women's movements, and started the 
women's campaign in Washington which 
resulted in the rejection of Mr. Roberts 
from the House of Representatives, and 
was very active in ithe campaign agains" 
Senator Smoot, from Utah. In religion 
she is a Presbyterian; in politics, a Re- 
publican. On February 4, 1873, she mar- 
ried Rev. Teunis S. Hamlin, D. D., who 
died April 17, 1907, to which union two 
sons were born, Elbert B. and Francis 
B. Hamlin. Residence: 1316 Connecticut 
avenue. 

HAMLIN, TEUNIS SLINGERLAND, 

Presbyterian clergyman, was born at 
Glenville, Schenectady County, New 
York, on May 31, 1847, 5on of Sol- 
omon Cuirtis and Christina (Slingerland") 
Hamlin. He attended the public schools 
and Charlton Academy, in 1857 graduat- 
ing from Union Colleg , and in 18 Tl from 
the Union Theological Seminary, in New 
York City. In 1886 he received the hon- 
orary degree of D. D. from Union Col- 
lege. From 1871 to 1884 he served a 
pasto.aile at Troy, N. Y., at Cincinnati, 
Ohio, from 1884 to 1886, and since th:- 
latter date has been the pastor of the 
Church of the Covenant, in VVashinglor.. 
Was president of ithe Board of Trustees 
of Howard Univ rsity. He is the author 
of Denominationalism versus Christian 
Union, and was a member of the follow- 
ing organiza'tions: Board of Vi = ito .^, 
Government Insane Asylum; Chevy Chase 
and University Clubs of Washington, and 
the University Club, of New York; pres- 
ident of th3 Fresh Air Fund of America. 
On February 4, 1873, he married Frances 
E. Eiacon. He died April 17. 1907. Late 
residence: 1316 Connecticuit avenue. 

HAMMOND, J. C, Assistant Astrono- 
me-, United States Naval Observatory. 
Address: U. S. Naval Observatory. 

HAMMOND, WINFIELD S., lawyer, 
Congressman, was born in Sounhborough, 



Worcesiter, Mass., on November 17, 1863. 
He attended the public schools of 'his na- 
tive town, was graduated from the Pe- 
ters High School in 1880 land Damtmouth 
College with the class of 1884. During 
1884-85 he was principal of the Mankato 
(Minn.) High School, and was superin- 
tendent of the Madelia (Minn.) public 
schools from 1885 <to 1890. He was admi't- 
ted to the bar in 1891; was a Democratic 
candidate for Congress in the Second Min- 
nesota District in 1892, being defeated by 
Hon. James T. McCleary. From 1894 to 
1896 he was County Attorney for Waton- 
wan County, Minneso'ta, and again from 
1901 to 1905. He was a m mber of the 
Minnesota State Normal School Board 
from 1899 to 1907; and was elected to Con- 
gress from 'the Second Minnesota Distrio: 
on the Democra.tic ticket in 1906. Legal 
residence: St. James, Minn. Washington 
address: House of Represemtatives. 

HANFORD, CHARLES BARNUM, ac- 
tor, was born at Sutter Creek, Amador 
County, California, on May 5, 1859, son 
of Levi and Lucy (Barnum) Hanford. 
He attended t'he Was:hington schools, 
gna'du siting from the high school in 1880, 
and for a time pursued the study of law 
at Columbia College and Columbia Law 
School, leaving to go on the stage. From 
1880 to 1882 he was a clerk in the United 
States Geological Survey and the United 
States Pension Office, 'and subsequently 
priviaite secretary to Congressman H. JP. 
Page, of California. He becam'^ connected 
with William Stafford's company, then 
touring in Shakespearean plays, at New 
London, Conn., in September, 1882. From 
1883 to 1885 he played with Thomas W. 
Keene; from 1885 to 1886 with Robson 
and Oran\ and from 1886 to 1887 with 
Edwin Booth. He played important parts 
with Booth and Barrett from 1887 'to 1889; 
was a member of the supporting company 
of Booth and Modjeska in 1889-90, and 
with Julia Marlowe during 1890 and until 
18t)2. He starred in various Shakes- 
pea; ean land other productions beginning 
1892; was manager and sub-star with 
Thcmas W. Keene from 1896 to 1898; 
starred with Odette Tyler and R. D. Mac- 
Lean in 1898 to 1899, and with Louis 
Jimes and Kathryn Kidder from 1899 tu 
1900. Since that 'time he has been at 
the head of his own company, starring 
principally in Shakespear an plays. In 
politics, he is a Republican; is a Master 
Mason, being a member of King Solo- 
mon Lodge, No. 31, of Washington. He 
is also a member of the Playe s' Club, of 
New York. On June 30, 1885. h- mair- 
ried Mariella Twaddell Bear. Residence: 
72 M street, n.w. 

HANFORD, FRANKLIN, Rear Admiral. 
U. S. N. (retired), was born ait Chili, Mon- 
roe County, New York, on NoV'jmber 3, 
1844, son of William H., Jr., and Abbey 
(Pixley) Hanford. He was graduated 



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firom the United States Naval Academy 
with the class of 1866; promoited to En- 
sign in April, 1868; Master in 1869; Lieu- 
tenant in 1870 Lieutenant-Commandar in 
October, 1885; Commander in September, 
1894, and Capitain on January 29, 1901. 
He has served at various stations, and 
while attached to the flagship Pensacola, 
as a navigator circumnavigated the globe 
(1881-84), taking observations for ithe de- 
termination of the variations of ithe com- 
pass. While comimanding the U. S. S. 
Alert he protected American interesn.s 
during the revolutions in Ecuador and 
Nicaragua (1895-97) ; was commandant 
of the United States Naval Station at 
Cavite, Philippine Islands, from 1900 to 
1902, and on January 3, 1903, was retired 
fro'm the navy with the rank of Rear 
Admiral, after forty years' service. On 
November 6, 1878, he married Sara A. 
Crosby. Address: Scottsville, N. Y., or 
Navy Department^ 

HANSBROUGH, HENRY CLAY, Unitei 
States Senator, was born in Randolph 
County, Illinois, on January 30, 1848. Ha 
attended the public schools, and learned 
the printers' trade, later becoming con- 
nected with newspaper work in Califor- 
nia, Wisconsin and Dakoiba Territory. In 
1881 he removed to Dakota, and later 
was twice made Mayor of his native city. 
In 1888 he was a delegate to the Repub- 
lican Naitional Convention; for eight 
years he was a national committeeman, 
and was the nominee for Congress by 
the first Republican State Convention of 
North Dakota, serving as its Representa- 
tive, 1889 to 1891, when he was made 
United States Senator fiom NortOi Dakota. 
In politics he is a Republican. Legal res- 
idence: Devil's Lake, N. D. Washington 
address: U. S. Senate. 

HANSON, JAMES CHRISTIAN MEIN- 
ICH, Chief of the Catalogue Division, 
Congressional Library, was born at Nordre 
Aurdal, Valdres, Norway, March 13, 1865, 
son of G. and Eleonore Hanson. He at- 
tended preparatoiry schools and was grad- 
uated from Luther College (Decorah, 
Iowa) in 1882, with the degree of A. B. 
From 1882 to 1884 he laibtended the Con- 
cordia Theological Seminary (St. Louis, 
Mo.), and pursued post-graduate work in 
history, economics and romance languages 
at Cornell, being an Andrew D. White 
fellow in history. He taught s9hool in 
Chicago from 1884 to 1888; from 1890 to 
1893 he was cataloguer 'and classifier at 
the Newberry Lihrairy of Chicago; chief 
of the catalogue depantment of the Uni- 
versity of Wisconsin from 1893 to 1897, 
and since the latter date has been chief 
of the catalogue division of the Congres- 
sional Library. He has written a num- 
ber of articles on biography and library 
work, and is a member of the American 
Library Association (now chairman of 
Advisory Catalogue Committee), and the 



University Club. Residence: 1244 Lansing; 
street, Brookland, D. C. OfBce: Library 
of Congress. 

HARDING, J. E., lawyer. Congressman, 
was born in Excello, Ohio, on June 29. 
1877, son of A. E. and Christine (Bridge) 
Harding, his father being of English ex- 
traction and his mother German. Mr. 
Harding, Sr., died after having accumu- 
lated a large fortune in the manufacture 
of writing paper, and who built the vil- 
lage of Excello, located three miles west 
of Middletown, Ohio. Mr. Harding, Jr., 
obtained his piieparatory education in the 
Amanda (Ohio) public schools and Penn- 
sylvania Military College, at Chester, Pa., 
after which he entered the law depart- 
ment of the University of Michigan, from 
which he was graduated in 1900, with 
the degree of LL. B. He served as a 
member of the Ohio State Senate during 
the Seventy-sixth General Assembly, hav- 
ing been the first Republican ever elected 
from the Second-Fourth Senatorial Dis- 
trict. In November, 1906, he was elected 
a member of the Sixtieth Congress from 
the Third Ohio District. Legal residence: 
Excello, Ohio. Washington address: House 
of Representatives. 

HARDWICK, THOMAS WILLIAM, 

1872. For two terms he was a member 
Congressman, was born on December 9, 
of the Georgia Legislaiture, and was 
elected to the Fifty-ninth Congress as 
a Representative from the Tentth Georgin 
District. He has since been re-elected. 
In politics he is a Democrat. Legal resi- 
dence: Sandersville, Ga. Washington ad- 
dress: House of Represerntatives. 

HARDY, RUFUS, farmer. Congress- 
man. He was elected to the Sixtieth 
Congress in November, 1906. Democrat 
Legal residence: Corsicana, Texas. Wash- 
ington address: House of Representative" 

HARLAN, JAMES SHANKLIN, mem- 
ber of the Interstate Commerce Commis- 
sion, was born at Evansville, Indiana, 
on November 24, 1861, son of John Mar- 
shall and Malvina French Harlan. His 
father was Colonel of a Kentucky regi- 
ment in the Civil War, member of the 
Bering Sea Arbitration Tribunal, and is 
an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court 
of the United States. He was graduated 
from Princeton University in 1883, and 
from the Columbian Law School. Was 
Attorney-General of Porto Rico, 1901-03; 
delegate to the Pan-American Congress 
at Rio de Janeiro, 1906, and was appointed 
a member of the InterstaJte Commerce 
Commission, Augusit, 1906. On November 
23, 1897, he married Mary Maud Noble. 
Residence: 1720 Rhode Island avenue, 
office: Interstate Commerce Commissior, 

HARLAN, JOHN MARSHALL, Associ- 
ate Justice of the United States Supreme 



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Court, was born in Boyle County, Ken- 
tucky, on June 1, 1833, son of Judge James 
and Mary Harlan. He was graduated from 
Center College (Ky.) in 1850; studied law 
at Transylvania University, and began the 
practice of his profession at Frankfort, in 
his native State. In 1858 he was elected 
County Judge, and in the following year 
was defeated as the Whig candidate for 
Congress in the Ashland District. In 1860 
he was presidential elector on the Bell 
and Everetit ticket, having previously re- 
moved 'to LfOuisville land formed a law 
partnership with Hon. W. P. Bullock. In 
1861 he recruited the Tenth Kentucky In- 
fantry, was made iits Colonel, and served 
with it, under General George H. Thomas, 
until the death of his father, in 1863, his 
name at the time being before the Sen- 
ate for confirmation as Brigadier-General. 
From 1863 to 1867 he was Attorney- 
Genenal of Kentucky, and in 1871 and 18 70 
was 'the Republican nominee for Governor, 
but was defeated in bath contests. In 1872 
his name was presented by the Repub- 
lican Convention of Kentucky for th9 
Vice-Presidency of the United States. In 
1877 he served on 'the Louisiana Commis 
sion, and in November of the same year 
was commissioned Associate Justice of 
the United States Supreme Court. Dur- 
ing the administration of President Hayea 
he was offered, successively, the Attorney- 
Generalship of the United States and an 
important foreign diplomatic post. In 
1893 he was a member of the Bering Sea 
Arbitration Tribunal, which met In Paris- 
Recently he has vigorously espoused a 
movement in behalf of the Presbyterian 
Church for the erection of a national 
minster at the capital. Bowdoin College, 
Center College and Princeton University 
have each conferred upon him itihe degree 
of LL. D. For many years he has occu- 
pied the chair of constitutional law at 
Columbian (now George Washington) 
University, and has at the same time de- 
livered many lay addresses. On Decem- 
ber 23, 1856, he married Malvina F., 
daughter of John Shanklin, of Evansville, 
Ind. Address: 1401 Euclid street, n.w. 

HARLAN (MRS.) JOHN MARSHALL, 

President Women's Christian Association 
Home. Residence: 1401 Euclid Place, 
n.w. 

HARLIN, THOMAS S. (S. J.), Catholic 
clergyman, pastor of the Holy Trinitj' 
Church, Georgetown. Residence: 1323 
Thirty-sixth street, n.w. 

HARMONY, DAVID BUTTZ, naval offl- 
cer, was born at Baston, Pennsylviunia, on 
September 3, 1832, son of William T. and 
Ebba (Herster) Harmony, who were of 
Huguenot descent. He was warranted 
Midshipman April 7, 1847; Lieutenant, 
September 16, 1855; Commander July 25, 
1866; Commodore September 23, 1885; 
Rear Admiral March 26, 1889, and was re- 



tired June 26, 1893. He served on the 
Iroquois in the passage of Forts Jackson 
and St. Philip, at the capture of New 
Orleans and in the engagements with 
Vicksburg and Grand Gulf. He was in all 
the attacks on the defenses of Charles- 
ton in 1863 and took part in the capture 
of Mobile. In 1867 he commanded the 
Frolic, in Admiral Farragut's European 
Squadron; was ohairman of the Light- 
house Board, 1889-91, and commanded the 
Asiatic Squadron, 1891-93. Residence. 
1623 Miassachusetts avenue. 

HARPER, BENJAMIN F., Auditor for 
the War Department. Residence: The 
Newberne. Office: Treasury Depart- 
ment. 

HARPER, ROBERT NEWTON, banker, 
pharmacist, was born near Leesburg, Vir- 
ginia, on January 13, 1861, son of Rob- 
ert and Mary Amelia (Newton) Harper. 
He was educated at the Leesburg (Va.) 
Academy and was graduated in 1884 from 
the Philadelphia College of Pharmiacy. 
In 1882 he entered the employ of John 
Wyebh & Bro., pharmacists, Philadelphia, 
and remained there for four years, until 
he became chief clerk, then removing tD 
Washington to go into business for him- 
self. Was the chief organizer of the 
American National Bank, and became its 
first president in 1903. He is president 
of the District of Columbia Pharmaceu- 
tical Association; Commissioner of Phar- 
macy of the District; treasurer of the 
Wholesale Drug Exchange; treasurer of 
the National Pure Food and Drug Con- 
gress, land of the National College of 
Pharmacy; president Washington Cham- 
ber of Commerce. He owns considerable 
real estate in Washington; president of 
the Horse and Colt Show Association of 
Loudoun County, Virginia, and president 
of the Virginia Democrajtic Association of 
this city. He was a delegate to the Dem- 
ocratic National Convention at Kansas 
City in 1900, and was Surgeon-General 
on the staff of Governor Montague, of 
Virginia. He married, February 25, 1892, 
Caroly Jackson Roush, of West Virginia. 
Residence: 1515 Sixteenth street, n.w. 
Office: American National Bank. 

HARRIES, GEORGE H., Vice-President 

and General Manager of ithe Washing'ton 
Railway and Electric Company. Resi- 
dence: 401 P street, n.w. Office: Four- 
teenth and East Capitol streets. . 

HARRINGTON, PURNELL FREDER- 
ICK, Rear Admiral, U. S. N., was born 
at Dover, Delaware, on June 6, 1844, son 
of Hon. Samuel M. H. and Mary (Lofland) 
Harrington. He entered the United States 
Naval Academy in 1861, and in 1863 wa.& 
commissioned Ensign, and began service 
in the navy during the Civil War. He 
served at the battle of Mobile Bay in 
1864; In the blockade of Galveston, Texas, 



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and, after Ihe close of ithe war, on the 
Monongahela, of the North Atlantic 
Squadron. On May 10, 1866, he was com- 
missioned Master; promoted to Lieuten- 
ant in 1867; advanced to Lieutenant- 
Commander March 12 1868; commiFsioned 
Captiaiin M'a.rch 1, 1895, and Rear Admiral 
March 21, 1903. From 1868 to 1870 he 
was instructor in ma'thematics at the 
United States Naval Academy; was exec- 
utive ofRcer of the flagship Pensacola, in 
South Pacific fleet, from 1871 to 1873; in- 
s'tructor in navigration at the Naval Acad- 
emy, 1874 ito 1876; executive officer U. S. 
S. Hartford, at Brazil, 1877 to 1880; head 
of the Depa.rtment of Navig-ation at the 
Naval Academy from 1881 to 1883; com- 
miandir U. S. S. Juanita, 1883-86; com- 
mandant of cadets and head of department 
of seamanship, Naval Academy, 1887-89; 
inspector of Fourth Lighthouse District, 
1890-93; commander U. S. S. Yorktown 
during 1893; president of Steel Board o^: 
the Navy, 1894-95; in command of the 
Terror and Puritan 1896-98, du.ing this 
period being engaged in the Cuban block- 
ade. From 1899 to 1902 Captain Harring- 
ton was commandant of the Portsmouth 
Navy Yard, and stationed at New York 
Navy Yard in 1903, and since March ot 
that year at the Norfolk Navy Yard. On 
August 5, 1868, at St. Croix, West Indies, 
he married Mia N. Ruan. Address: Na.vy 
Department. 

HARRIS, CICERO WILLIS, journalist, 
was born near Hend?rson, North Carolina, 
on January 6, 1857, son of Edward Willis 
and Eliza Winnifred (Lewis) Harris. He 
attended private academic institutions 
and Davidson College, later studying law 
and being admitted to the bar in 1868 
He sirved as a private in the Confeder • 
aite Army for one year, just previous to 
the close of the War of the Rebellion. 
From 1868 to 1870 ihe was owner and edi- 
tor of 'the Henderson (N. C.) Index, and 
from 1870 to 1872 of the Battleboro (N. C.) 
Advance. He was editor of the Wilming- 
ton (N. C.) Daily Morning Star from 18/2 
to 1876; of the Daily Journal and the 
Daily Sun, of Wilmington, 1877 to 1879 
In 1880 he removed to Washington and 
engaged in newspaper correspondence and 
journalistic work, and from 1889 to 1892 
was chief editorial writer on the Wash- 
ington Star. He is at present correspond- 
ent for the Camden (N. J.) Daily Courier. 
He is the author of A Glance at Govern- 
ment, -and, A History of the Sectional 
Struggle, Early Tariffs and Nullification 
In .religious belief he is a Southern Pres- 
byterian, and, in politics, a Democrat. On 
July 1, 1874, he married Carolina Aiken 
Jenkins, who died December 27, 1903. 
Residence: 146 Easit Capitol street. 

HARRIS, HENRY TUDOR BROWN- 
ELL, Rear Admiral, U. S. N., was born 
in Connecticut, on April 5. 1843. On No- 
vember 1, 1864, he entered the United 



States Navy as an Acting Assistant Pay- 
master. On February 27, 1867, ihe wa;5 
advanced -to Assistant Paymaster; Feb- 
ruary 17, 1869, promoted to Passed As- 
sistant Paymaster. On January 18, 1880, 
he bscame Paymaster, and subsequently 
Pay Inspector, and Pay Director in 1902, 
with the rank of Captain. Since July 1, 
1903, he has been Payma-siter-General of 
the Navy and Chief of the Bureau of Sup- 
plies and Accounts, with the rank of Rear 
Admiral. Address: Navy Department. 

HARRIS, ROLLIN ARTHUR, mathe- 
matician, U. S. Coast and Geodetic Sur- 
vey, since 1890, was born at Randolph, 
N. Y., on April 18, 1863, son of Francis 
E. and Lydia Harris. He attended Cor- 
nell University, graduating Ph. B., 1885 
(Fli D., same, 1888). From 1886 to 1&87 
he was a Fellow in Mathematics at Cor- 
nell; also Cla:k University, 1889-90. He 
is a member of the Washington Academy 
of Sciences, is a Fellow of the American 
Association for the Advancement of 
Science, and is a contributor to Annals 
of Mathematics and other magazine-^, re- 
views, reports, etc., and the National Get- 
graphic Magazine. On June 13, 1890, he 
ma ried Emily J. Doty at Falconer, New 
York. Residence; Albany street. Office: 
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. 

HARRIS, WILLIAM TORREY, ex- 

Comimissioner of Education, was born at 
No^rth Killingly, Conneaticut, on Septem- 
ber 10, 1835, son of William a.nd Zilpah 
(Torrey) Harris. For two years he at- 
tended Yale University, with the class 
of 1858, but did not graduate until 1869, 
when he received the degree of A. M.; 
also, in 1895, received the degree of LL. D. 
He has .received the following honorary 
deg ees: Ph. D., from Brown University, 
in 1893; University of Jena, in 1899; that 
of LL. D., from tihe University of Penn- 
sylvania, in 1894, land Princeton Univer- 
sity, in 1896. He started in life as a 
teacher, and from 1857 to 1867 was prin- 
cipal and assistant superintendent of 
schools at St. Louis, Mo., becoming super- 
intendent of the same in 1S67. In 1880, 
because of ill-health, 'he resigned and 
removed to Conco. d, Mass., where he be- 
came lecturer at the School of Philoso- 
phy. In 1889 he became United States 
Commissioner ot Education, and repre- 
sented that bureau at the International 
Congress of Educators at Brussels in 1880, 
and at the Paris Exposition in 1889. In 
1867 he founded, at St. Louis, the Jour- 
nal of Speculative Philosophy, which peri- 
odical he still conducts. He has edited 
a number of educational text-books, no- 
tably, the Appl-ton School Readers and 
Appleton's Educational Series, and i is the 
author of a large number of articles, etc., 
on educational subjects, philosophy, logic, 
psychology, etc. Since 1900 ihe has been 
editor-in-chief of Webster's Internationial 
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Exposition of 1878 he was tendered the 
title of "Officier de I'Academie," and, in 
1889, at the Paris Exposition, that of 
"Officier de '1 Instruction Publique. On 
December 27, 1858, h? married Sarah T. 
Bugbee. He is a member of ifhe Amer- 
ican Philosophioal Association; Washing- 
ton Academy of Sciences; American So- 
cial Soienc^ Association. Residence: 1360 
Yale street, n.w. 

HARRISON, CHARLES CURTIS, phi- 
la ntihropist, was born in Philadelphia, 
Penn., on May 3, 1844, son of George Leib 
and Sarah Ann (Maples) Harrison. He 
was gradua'ted from the University of 
Pennsylvania (Greek salu'tatorian) in 
1862, was made A. M. in 1865. He was 
chosen a trustee of the university in 1876, 
and in June, 1895, was elected provost of 
the university. He was manag?r of the 
Protesitant Episcopal Hospital, Philadel- 
phia, and a member of the American 
Academy of Political and Social Science, 
and of the Pennsylvania Historical Soci- 
ety. H? endowed the University of Penn- 
sylvania with $500,000, and later, in con- 
junctt'ion with Mrs. Harrison, gave a fur- 
ther sum of $250,000 for the general pur- 
poses of the university. He received the 
honorary d:gree of LL. D. from Columbia 
(N. Y.) Universiity in 1895, and from 
Princeton University in 1896. In 1879 he 
married Ellen Nixon. Residence: Stone- 
leigh Court. 

HARRISON, FRANCIS BURTON, law- 
yer. Congressman, was born in New York, 
on December 18, 1873. His early educa- 
tion was received in the Cutler School, 
New York, afte^r which he entered Yale 
University, graduating, A. B., 1895, and 
the New York Law School, LL. B., 1897. 
From 1897 to 1899 he was an instructor 
in the New York Night Daw School, and 
was admitted to ithe New Yo.k. bar in 
1898. He was a private in Troop A, New 
York Volunteer Cavalry, May to June, 
1898, and Captain and Assistant Adjutant- 
General, U. S. v., 1898-99. From 1903 
to 1905 (he was a member of Congress 
from the Thirteenth Disitrict of New 
York and, in November, 1906, he was 
elected a member of the Sixtieth Congress 
from the Sixteenth New York Congres- 
sional District. In politics he is a Dem- 
ocrat. He is vice-president of the Mc- 
Vlcker Realty Company. On June 7, 1900, 
he miarried Mary, daughter of the lata 
Frederick Crocker, of San Francisco. 
Legal residence: 876 Fifitih avenue, N. Y. 
Washington address: House of Repre- 
sentatives. 

HARRISON, THOMAS, Accountant and 
Corresponding Clerk, United States Naval 
Observatory. He entered the Naval Ob- 
servatory in 1848 after the death of his 
father, who was an officer of the Govern- 
ment, and has remained in continuous 



service since. Address: Naval Observ- 
atory. 

HARROD, BENJAMIN MORGAN, civi; 

engineer, is a graduate of Harvard Uni- 
versity, class of 1856. In 1877 he was 
Chief Engineer of Louisiana; in 1888, 
City Engineer of New Orleans, and, in 
1895, in charge of the constructive work 
In connection with the drainage system 
of tihat city. Since 1879 he has ben a 
member of the Mississippi River Commis- 
sion, and, since 1904, of the Is'thmian 
Canal Commission. In 1897 he was presi- 
dent of the American Society of Civil 
Engineers. Address: Seventeenth and G 
Btaeets, n.w. 

HARSHMAN, WALTER SCOTT, math- 
ematician, was born at North Jack.son, 
Ohio, on July 19, 1859. He was graduated 
from the Western Reserve Seminary in 
1880, with the degree of B. S.; from th-9 
O.hio Normal University in 1883, with tho 
degree of C. B., and pursued special study 
at Cornell University during 1888 and 
1889; at Columbian (now George Wash- 
ing'ton) University during 1892 and 1893, 
and again during 1893 and 1894, an5 
Johns Hopkins University during 1892 
and 1893. In 1894 he received the degree 
of Ph. D, from Columbian University, 
F,:om 1884 to 1885 he was professor ot 
matheimatics at the American Normal 
Colleg ; from 1889 to 1900, was assistan! 
American Ephemeris and on the latter 
date became professor of mathematics. 
United States Navy. Since 1901 he has 
b^en director of the Nautical Almanac 
Office and since 1900 professor of applied 
maithematics at the Graduate School ol 
Columbian (now George Washington) 
University. He has written largely on 
mathematical subjects, and regarding 
astronomy and astronomical probl.ms, 
etc. On December 9, 1890. he married 
Frances M. Hodges. Residence: The 
Ontario. Office: U. S. Naval Observa- 
tory. 

HART, ALP HON SO, lawyer, was born 
at Vienna, Trumball County, Ohio, on 
July 4, 1830, son of Chancey and Melisen- 
dra Hart. He attended the common 
schools of Ohio and Grand River Insti- 
tute, studied law, and was admitlted to 
the bar in 1851. From 1862 to 1865 he 
was Prosecuting Attorney of Portage 
County, Ohio; Sttate Senator from 1865 
to 1866. 'and again from 1871 to 1873, 
In 1872 he was a Grant presidential elector 
for Ohio, and from 1873 to 1875 served 
as Lieutenant-Governor of 'tihe Stalte. He 
was a member of Congress from Ohio 
from 1883 to 1885 and served as Solicitor 
of Internal Revonue f.om 1889 to 1893 
At present he is eng^aged in the practice 
of law in this city. He is a member of 
the National Geographic Society, and of 
the Republican party. He has been twice 



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married; on NovembeT 22, 1856, .to Phoebe 
Peck, and, on May 28, 1878, to Mrs. Anna 
F. Evans. Residence: 1125 Euclid street 
n. w. Office. 1320 F street, n.w. 

HART, WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON 

lawyer, vra^s born at Eufaula, Alabama, 
on Octobeir 81, 1857, son of Henry Clay 
and Jennie (Dunn) Hart. He attended 
school 'at Eufaula and \the American Mis- 
sionary Association's School, under the 
Freedmen's Bureau, during the period of 
1867 to 1874; attended the preparatory 
department of Howard Universiity, 1876- 
80; graduated from the college in 1885, 
and from the law department in 1887 
He received the honorary degree of A. M 
(in 1880) and that of LL. M. (in 1891) 
from Howard University. From 1888 to 
1891 he was private secretary to Senator 
Evarts, of New York; in 1889 was lap- 
pointed special assistant United States 
District Attorney in the District of 
Columbia. From 1893 to 1897 he was as- 
sis'tant librarian of Congress; in 1897 
dean of the department of agriculture at 
Howard University, and founder of the 
Hart Farm School in 1897. Since 1891 
he has been professor of criminal law, 
torts, corporations, etc., at Howard Uni- 
versity. He has been admitted to prac- 
tice before all the courts in the District 
and the United States Supreme Court. In 
politics he is a Republican. He is un- 
married. Residence: 216 Arthur Place, 
Office: 420 Fifth street, n.w. 

HARTMANN, CHARLES A., President 
Union Insurance Company. Residence. 
245 Twelfth street, 'n.e. Office: 612 Four- 
teenth street, n.w. 

HARTSUFF, ALBERT, Brigadier- 
General, U. S. A. (retired), was born 
in New York State, on February 4, 1837. 
Subsequent to his graduation, with the 
degree of M. D., from the Castleton Med- 
ical College (of Vermont), he was ap- 
pointed an Assistant Surgeon in the Army 
in 1861. He was advanced to the rank 
of Captain and Assistant Surgeon on July 
28, 1866; promoted to Major and Surgeon, 
1876; Lieutenant-Colonel and Deputy 
Surgeon-General, December 4, 1892; Col- 
onel and Assistant Surgeon-General, April 
28, 1900; retired on February 4, 1901, 
laJter being advanced to the rank of Brig- 
adier-General, retired. He served in the 
Army Medical Corps throughout the Civil 
Wiar, and received two brevets for dis- 
tinguished and meritorious conduct, and 
in 1866 being further breveitted Lieuten- 
ant-Colonel for conspicuous services dur- 
ing the cholera epidemic at New Orleans. 
Address: War Department. 

HARVEY, ALBION K. PARRIS, physi- 
cian, was born at Dixfield, Oxford County, 
Maine, on May 10, 1855, son of Albert 
and Satira (Eastman) Harvey. He at- 



tended Hebron Academy until eighteen 
years of age, when he entered the Hahn- 
neman Medical College, at Chicago, from 
whence he was subsequently graduated. 
He pursued post-graduaite courses at the 
New York Post-Graduate Medical School, 
and later was located at Lewisiton, Maine. 
In 1904 he went to. Somersworth, New 
Hampshire, where he established a pri- 
vate surgical sanitarium, and while there 
served as surgeon to the Boston and 
Maine Railroad; was also Coroner for 
Stafford County for several pears. He 
came to Washington in 1903 and has since 
practiced his profession in this city. He is 
operating surgeon to the HomeopaJthic 
Hospital, and lecturer on clinical medi- 
cine in the Southern Homeopathic College, 
of Baltimore; was formerly president of 
the New Hampshire Medical Society, and 
in 1904 was chaiTman of the Bureau of 
Gynecology of the Massachusetts Surgical 
and Gynecological Society; lis a .member 
of the New Hampshire Board of Medical 
Examiners; Washington Homeopathic 
Medical Society; American Institute of 
Homeopathy, and many of the leading 
medical societies of Massachusetts, Maine 
and New Hampshire. He is the author 
of In the Glow of the Campfire, and other 
similar books, and is a member of sev- 
eral literary societies; is an Elk, and 
a member of the Universalist Church. On 
November 11, 1878, he married Fannie 
Florence Niles. Residence: 1415 K street, 
n.w. Office: 1018 Fourteenth street, n.w. 

HARVEY, FREDERICK LOVIAD, law- 
yer, was born in Washington, D. C, on 
May 6, 1856, son of Frederick Loviad, Sr., 
and Helen Mary (Ford) Harvey. His pre- 
liminary education was received in the 
public schools of Chicago and New York, 
later attending the College of the City of 
New York. He was graduated from the 
law department of Columbian (now 
George Washington) University in 1879 
(LL. M., 1880), and was admitted to the 
bar of the District of Columbia in De- 
cember, 1879. From 1888-96 he was prin- 
cipal examiner 'Of land claims and con- 
tests in the U. S. General Land Office. 
He was secretary of the joint commis- 
sion for the completion of the Washing- 
ton National Monument, under Act of Au- 
gust 2, 1876, from 1878 to 1888; assist- 
ant secretary of the commission for the 
dedication of the Washington National 
Monument, and from 1872 to 1902 assist- 
ant secretary and secretary of the Wash- 
ington National Monument Society. He 
is the author of a History of the Wash- 
ington Monument and the Washington 
National Monument Society (1902), which 
was later enlarged, illustrated and print- 
ed as a Senate document; also another 
m'Onograph on the same subject, in 1885. 
He is a member of the Columbia His- 
torical Society of the District of Colum- 
bia, and in politics a Republican. On 
April 8, 1889, he married Pamela Dean, 



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daughter of Hon. W. S. Holman (Con- 
gressman from Indiana). Residence: 
2146 Floirida avenue, n.w. Office: 1419 F 
street, n.w. 

HARVEY, WILLIAM EDWIN, lawyer, 
was born in Kiikwood, St. Douis County, 
Missouri, on August 6, 1871, son of Will- 
iam E. and Mar^tha Belamy (Beach) Har- 
vey. After obtaining his preparatory ed- 
ucation in 'the public schools of the Dis- 
trict of Columbia he entered the Colum- 
bian University Law School, from whicii 
he was graduated, LL. B., in 1893, and, 
LL. M., in 1894. Since 1890 he 'has served 
in the National Guard of the Distiict of 
Columbia, and since 1899 has been Majox 
of the Sixth Battalion. Since 1887 he has 
been associated with George A. land Will- 
lam B. King in Ithe practice of law in 
Washington. He is a member of the Prot- 
estant Episcopal Church, and a Mason. 
On February 12, 1896, he married Kath- 
erine E. Heydrick, of Erie, Penn., to 
which union 'two children 'have been born 
Residence: 3459 Holmead Place. Office; 
728 Seventeenth street, n.w. 

HASBROUCK, EDWIN MARBLE, sur- 
geon was born at Syracuse, New York 
on July 17, 1866, son of Cyrus L. and Ade- 
line W. (Marble) Hasbrouck. He was a 
B'tudent at Syracuse University w^ith the 
class of 1890, and was graduated from 
Georgetown Medical School in 1895. He 
was assisitanit surgeon at Georgetown 
University Hospital, land later prosecutor 
of anatomy at the Georgetown Medical 
College. He was for many years inter- 
ested in biological and ornithologica' 
study, and previous to 'taking up imedi- 
cine devoted much of his 'time to worli 
in these fields. He is a member of the 
Phi Delta The'ta fraternity (formerlj 
president of the Washinglton lalumni chap, 
ter) ; American Medical Association, and 
the Medical Association of the Districl 
of Columbia, and the Washington Medical 
and Surgical Socieity. He is a membei 
of 'the Republican party, and an Episco- 
palian. On April 20, 1897, ihe married 
Harrie't Ann Blackistone, of St. MaryS- 
County, Maryland. Residence: 1819 Ad- 
ams Mill Road. 

HASBROUCK, HENRY CORNELIUS, 

Brigadier-General, U. S. A. (retired), 
was born at Newburg, New York, on Oc- 
tober 26, 1839, son of William C. and Mar-j 
E. Hasbrouck. He was graduated from 
the Uniited States Military Academy an3 
became a Second Lieutenant of Artillerj 
In 1861, later in the year becoming Firs^ 
Lieutenant. On July 26, 1866, he was ad 
vanced to Captain; promoited to Majoi 
on March 5, 1887; commissioned Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel October 29, 1896; Colonel. 
February 13, 1899, and, Brigadier-General 
December 2, 1902, and, in 1903, retired 
For conspicuous gallantry at Blackwater 



Bridge, Virginia, in 1862, he was brevetted 
Captain, and in 1900, for services against 
Indians in California in 1873, brevetted 
Major. From 1882 to 1888 he was Com- 
mandant of Cadets at 'the United States 
Military Academy, and in the latter year 
a member of the general army board 
which prepared the drill .regulations and 
tactics of the army. From 1892 to 1898 
he was director of the department of ar* 
tillery, ballistics, chemistry and explo- 
sives aJC the United States Artillery 
School, and during the Spanish-American 
War was made Brigadier-General of Vol- 
unteers, and commanded the Second 
Brigade of 'the Second Division, Seventh 
A-.rmy Corp'S. He is a member of the 
Army and Navy and the University Clubs, 
of New York. On October 26, 1882, Gen- 
eral Hasbrouck ■married Laetiitia Viely 
Warren. Address: War Department. 

HASKELL, HARRY L., Brigadier- 
General, U. S. A. (retired), was born in 
the State of Maine, on September 24, 

1840. At the outb-eak of the Civil War 
he enlisted as a private in the One Hun- 
dred and Twenty- fifth New York Infantry 
Subsequently he became Sergeanit Major, 
and Second Lieutenant, and Captain (in 
1863). In 1864 he was mustered ou't of 
the volunteer service, and in 1867 ap- 
pointed a Second Lieutenant in ithe reg 
ular army, attached to the Twelfth In- 
fantry. He was commissioned Firs'. 
Lieutenamt in 1877; promoted to Cap- 
tain in 1888; made Major in 1899; ad- 
vanced to Lieutenant-Colonel September 
27, 1901; Colonel July 31, 190a; Brigadier- 
General, and retired, September 24, 1904 
He served in the Virginia campaign dur- 
ing the Civil War; was cap'tured ait Har- 
pers Ferry; with General Grant until 
May, 1864, and wounded at SpotLsylva- 
nia. Address: War Department. 

HASKIN, WILLIAM LAWRENCE, 

Birigadier-General, U. S. A. (retired), 
was born ait Houlton, Maine, on May 31, 

1841, son of General J. A. Haskin. He 
attended the ^Mexico Academy, in Oswego 
County, New York, and was graduated 
with the degree of C. E., from the Rens- 
selaer Polytechnic Instituite in 1861. In 
the same year 'he was appointed a Sec- 
ond Lieutenant (subsequently made a 
First Lieutenant) of artillery. During the 
Civil War he was twice brevetted for con- 
spicuous gallantry. He was com'missioned 
Captain of Artillery in 1866; promoted to 
Major August 11,1887; advanced to Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel June 1, 1897; made Col- 
onel October 16, 1899, and advanced to 
Brigadier-General, and retired, in 1903. 
Following the Civil War he served vari- 
ously in the States of Oregon, California, 
Maine, Connecticut, New York and South 
Carolina, and in 1898 commanded his reg- 
iment in Cuban campaigns, luter being 
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on the island. He is 'the author of His- 
tory of it'he Fiist Regiment of United 
States Artillery. Gene.al Haskin was 
married to Annie L. Davis in April, 1865. 
Address: War Department. 

HASKINS, KITTREDGE, lawyer, Con- 
gressman, was born at Dover, Vermont, 
on April 8, 1836, and educated in the 
public schools and by a private tutor. 
After a study of law he was admitted t:< 
the bar in 1858, and in 1885 to the bar 
of the United States Sup erne Court. 
During 'the Civil War he s rved as Sec- 
ond Lieutenant in (the Union Army, later 
becoming Colonel and Chief of Staff to 
Governor Pe'tjr T. Washburn. From 1870 
to 1872 he was State's Attorney for Wind- 
ham County; from 1880 to 1887, United 
States Attorney for Vermont; served as 
a member of the Legislature from 187^ 
to 1874, and again, 1896 to 1900, b ing 
Speaker of the House from 1898 to 1900. 
He was State Senator from .1892 to 1894, 
and was elected <to the Fifty-seventh Con- 
gress (and has since be:n re-electedl 
from 'the Second Vermonit District. He 
is a member of the Grand A:my of the 
Republic, and of the Loyal L gion, and 
a member of the Board of Trus'tees of 
Norwich University. In politics he is a 
Republican. Legal residence: Brattle- 
boro, Vt. Washingiton address: House of 
Representatives. 

HATCH (MRS.), HANNAH M., Presi- 
dent National Associiation for 'the Relief 
of Destitute Colo', ed Women and Chil- 
dren. Residance: 1316 S streeit, n.w. 

HATHAWAY, FORREST H., Brigadier- 
General, U. S. A. (retired), was born in 
Vermont, on October 7, 1844. At the out- 
break of the Civil War ihe enlisted as a 
private in the Sixlteenth Vermont Infantry, 
in 1863 being mustered out. In 1864 he 
was 'made Cap'tain of the United States 
Colored Infantry, land brevetited First 
Lieutenant and Major for distinguished 
services. On March 7, 1867, he was com- 
missioned Second Lieutenant in the reg- 
ular army; promoted 'to First Lieutenant 
in 1878; made Captain and Acting Quar- 
termaster in 1882; advanced to Major 
and Quartermaster September 12, 1894. 
On August 12, 1900, he was made Lieu- 
tenan't-Colonel and Deputy Quartermas- 
ter-General, and on April 12, 1903, Col- 
onel and Acting Quartermaster-G?neral 
in 1904 being retired, las a Brigadier- 
General. Address: War Department. 

HATZFELDT- WILDENBURG, HER 
MANN VON, Counselor, Firs(t Secretary, 
Charge dAffaires, German Embassy. Ad- 
dress: 1701 T'wenty-fi'nst street, n.w. 

HAUGE, C, Envoy Extraordinary and 
Minister Plenipotentiary from Norway to 
the United States. Address: 1753 Rhodo 
Island avenue. 



HAUGEN, GILBERT N., banker, Con- 
gressman, was born in Rock County, Wis- 
consin, on April 21, 1859. He has been 
in active business life since his four- 
teenth birthday, principally as a real es- 
tate operator and banker. For six years 
he was Treasurer of Worth County, Iowa; 
after two terms, was member of the Iowa 
Legislature, and has been a Repres nta- 
tive from the Founth Iowa District sinc^i 
the Fifty- sixth Congress. In politics he is 
a Republican. Le9:<al •esidenc : North- 
wood, Iowa. Washington address: House 
of Representa'tives. 

HAUPT, HERMAN, engineer, was born 
in Philadelphia, Penn., March 26, 1817, 
son of Jacob Haupt. He was graduait d 
from the United States Mili'tary Academy 
in 1835, but resigned from the army th« 
same year. F. om 1844 to 1847 he was 
professo. of civil engineering at tth ■ Penn- 
sylvania College; was general superin- 
tendent and chief engineer and directoi 
of th^ Pennsylvania Railroad (during the 
same period engineer for the Hoosao 
Tunnel) from 1847 to 1861. During the 
Civil War he se.ved with 'the Union 
Army as Colonel, and subsequerttly as 
Brigadier-G nepal, being chief of the 
Bureau of Military Railroads. In 1875 he 
became general manager for 'the Pied 
mont Air Line, subsequently becoming en- 
gine r of the Tidewater Pipe Line Com- 
pany and general manager of the North- 
ern Pacific Railroad. He is the author of 
a number of technical articles, pamphlets 
and reports, also of the following books; 
General Theory of Bridges; Military 
Bridges; City and Suburban Motors; 
Reminiscences of General Herman Haupi, 
etc. Addres's: The Concord. 

HAVARD, VALERY, Colonel, Medical 
Department, U. S. A., in charge of the 
Army Medical Museum and Library 
Residence: 2025 O street, n.w. Office: 
Army Medical Museum, Seventh and B 
streets, s.w. 

HAVEN ITH, E., Counselor and Charge 
d' Affaires, Belgium Embassy. Residence: 
The Benedick. 

HAWKINS, HAMILTON SMITH, Brig 
adie'r-General, U. S. A. (retired), was 
born in the State of South Carolina, in 
1834, son of Major and Surgeon Hamil- 
ton S. and Ann Alicia (Chifdle) Haw- 
kins. He was appointed a Second Lieu- 
tenant of Infantry on April 26, 1861; ad- 
vanced to First Lieutenant in May, 1861; 
brevetted Captain in 1863, and commis- 
sioned 'the same in 1863; brevett d Ma- 
jor in 1865, and commissioned to that irank 
on October 1, 1883. From 1882 to 1892 
he was Commandant of Cadets at the 
United States Military Academy. He be- 
came Lieu'tenamt-Colonel in 1889; was 
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mi?sioned Briffariier-General rtf Volun- 
teers May 4, 1898; promotd to Major- 
General of i=aTne on July 8. 1898, and 
made Brig-adier-General of the Regular 
Army, and re'tired. September 28, 1898. 
From 1894 to 1S98 h^ wa=! commandml 
of the United States Infantry and Cav- 
alry School at Fort Leavenworth, Kan- 
sas. Since 1903 General Hawkins has 
been Governor of the National Soldiers' 
Home at Was<hing-ton, D. C. He is a 
membr of the Military Order of Foreign 
Wars, Loyal Legion, Society of 'the Army 
of the Potomac. Society of the Army of 
Santiago de Cuba. Society of Americar 
Wars. National Geographic Society, et-' 
On December 3, 18fi8. h^ married Annie- 
Gray. Address: Soldiers' Home, D. C. 



HAWLEY, JOHN MITCHELL, Rear 
Admiral, U. S. N., was born at North- 
ampton, Massachusetts, on July 28, 1846. 
He was graduated in 1868 from the 
United Sitates Naval Aoademy, and spent 
three winters in interoceanic canal sur- 
veys, and afterward? six years in the 
United States Coast Survey Service. Dur- 
ing the Samoan hurricane in 1889 he wa,: 
execuitive officer of the U. S. S. Nipsic. 
the only United States vessel saved, an! 
for heroic conduct on that occasion re- 
ceived the thanks of the Legislature of 
his naitive State, Massachusetts. He has 
the distinction of being the first officer 
to establish naval recruiting stations in 
the Wesitern States. During th^ Spanish- 
American War Tie was in charge of re- 
cruiting stations in the West land South- 
west, and took nearly two thousand men 
into the service. From 1899 to 1901 he 
commanded the training ship Hartford, 
and sailed from San Francisco with 
three hundred Western recruits, the first 
from that seotion of the country to go 
on a training cruise. From 1902 to 1904 
h^ was inspector of the Fifth Lighthouse 
District, with headquarters at Baltimore, 
Md. Was commissioned a Captain in 
March, 1904, and given command of the 
U. S. S. flagship Brooklyn on April 21, 
1904. WTiile in command of the Brook- 
lyn he brought the remains of John Paul 
Jones from France to Annapolis, Md. 
During a part of the time of 1904 'and 
1905 he was in command of th? South 
Atlantic Squadron. In 1898 the Illinoi.3 
Naval Militia presented him with a very 
handsome jeweled sword in token of their 
e.siteem; a life-siz-^ pn- trait of her hus- 
band. In oils, by Van Ness, was presented 
to Mrs Hawley. He commanded the U 
S. S. Wabash at the Navy Yard. Boston, 
Mass., from January, 1906, to July, 1907, 
when, at his own request, h^ was trans- 
ferred to the reti-ed li=t of the navy, with 
the rank of Rear Admiral, after forty-four 
years of ac'tive service. On June 17. 1874, 
he married Ella S. Mocre. Residence: 
1514 R street, n.w. 
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HAWLEY. WILLIS CHATMAN, lawyer. 
Congressman, was born four mil-s west 
of Monroe, in Benton County. Oregon, 
on May 5, 1864. son of Sewell Ransom 
and Emma A. (Noble) Hawley, who emi- 
grated to Oregon in the forties. He wag 
educated in the country schools of Ore- 
gon and at Williamette University, and 
located at Salem, Oregon, after receiving 
the degrees of B. S., in 1884. and. A. B 
and LL. B.. in 1888, and, A. M., in 1891. 
He was admift^d to the O-egon bar in 
1893. and to th^ United States District 
a'^d the United States Circuit Courts In 
1906. From 1884 to 1886 he served as 
principal of Umpqua Academy, at Wil- 
bur. Oregon; president of the Oregon 
Stat^ Normal School, lat Drain. Oregon. 
1888-91. and has since been en.gaged in 
educational work in connection with Will- 
iamette University, at Salem, Oregon. He 
served as prcid^nt of the latter institu- 
tion from 1893 until he resigned, in 1902, 
to devote his entire time to the study 
of political and constitutional history, 
public law and economics, at which time 
the trustees created for him the office 
of vice-president land dean. Since 1899 
he has been engaged in numerous busi- 
ness and educational enterprises, as pres- 
ident of the Williamette Valley Chautau- 
qua, of Oregon City, Oregon, and has been 
head manager. Pacific Jurisdiction. Wood- 
men of the World, since 1896. He had 
never been a candidate for public ofHce 
prior to November. 1906, when he was 
elected to the Sixti-^th Congress, as a 
Republican. On August 19. 1885. he mar- 
ried Anna Martha Geisendo-fer, of Albany, 
Oregon, to which union have been born 
three children, two boys and a girl. Legal 
residence: Salem, Oregon. Washington 
address: House of Represerttatives. 

HAY, CHARLES EDWARD, JR., Cap- 
tain, U. S. A., was born at Springfield, 
Illinois, on November 21, 1874. son of 
Cha. 1 s Edward and Mary (Ridgely) Hay. 
His ancestors came to America on the 
Mayflower. One of his ancestors partic- 
ipated, as a commissioned officer, in every 
war with the United States that has taken 
pliac since the Revolution. Charles Ed- 
ward Hay. Jr., attended the public school.-j 
at Springfield until 1892. and, until 1893. 
the Michigan Military Academ.v. He was 
graduated f.om Phillips Andover in 1894; 
from Yale University in 1899, and from 
the National Law School in 1905. He 
served as a Second and First Li utenanc 
in the United States Infamtry for three 
years including, principally, service in 
the Philippines. At present he is Captair 
U. S. A., and Actin.g Judg > Advocate for 
the Depi'itment of Texas. He is the au- 
thor of a revised edition of Military Reser- 
vations, and a member of the Psi Upsiloii 
fraternity, and the Episcopalian Church. 
On May 21. 1903, he married Jane Rob.v. 
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HAY, EDWIN BARRETT, lawyer and 
handwriting expert, was born in Norfolk, 
Virg-inia, on March 22, 1850, and came to 
Washing-ton in 1857. He was a gradu- 
ate of the Fourth District Grammar 
School of John E. Thompson in 1865, and 
one of the first graduates of the Spen- 
cerian Business College, in December, 
1867,as well as valedictorian of his class. 
He was Davis prize man in the class of 
1873 at Columbian College, and gradu- 
ated in 1874 from its Taw department, 
immediately entering the practice of law 
before the Government departments, the 
Court of Claims, Supreme Court of the 
District of Columbia and of the United 
States. He was a skilled penman, and 
became a famous expert in handwriting. 
He was an expert witness in many nota- 
ble cases, among them the Oliver v.s. 
Cameron case, in the District; the land 
.script cases of Dakota; the Sharon will 
case, and many hundreds of others, most 
prominent of recent years being the Moli- 
neaux case, the Rice will case, and the 
Patrick case, in New York, and the Page- 
Tucker case, in Boston — thus becoming an 
undoubted authority. He has also been 
the organizer and promoter of many in- 
dustrial companies, has done considei'able 
literary and newspaper work, and was 
president of the Shakespeare Club for 
sixteen years. For sixteen years he was 
a member of the Gridiron Club, a Knight 
Templar, a Scottish Rite Mason, a mem- 
ber of the Grand Lodge of the I. O. O. F. 
of the District of Columbia, also of the 
National Rifles, being a staff officer, and 
for three administrations was Grand Ex- 
alted Ruler of the Order of Elks for the 
entire country, being elected at Louis- 
ville, in 1891, by acclamation. He was 
thirty years a vestryman of St. Paul's 
Episcopal Church, and was one of the 
delegates from the District to the Dem- 
ocratic National Convention at St. Louis. 
He married Florence Brown, of Frederick, 
Md. He died June 11, 1906. Late resi- 
dence: 1512 Corcoran street. 

HAY, JAM ES, Congressman, was born 
at Millwood, Clarke County, Virginia, on 
January 9, 1856, and was educated in 
private schools in Maryland and Virginia, 
at the University of Pennsylvania, and 
Washington and Lee University, from 
which latter institution he was gradu- 
ated in law, in 1877. In the same year 
he removed to Harrisonburg and began 
the practice of his profession, and taught 
school until 1879, when he removed to 
Madison, Virginia, and took up the prac- 
tice of law. He was elected attorney for 
the Commonwealth of Virginia in 1883, 
and re-elected in 1887, 1891 and 1895; 
was elected a member of the State Leg- 
islature in 1885, 1887, 1889, and to the 
State Senate in 1893. For four years he 
was a member of the State Democratic 
Committee, and a delegate to the Na- 



tional Convention of 1888. He was elected 
to Congress from the Seventh Virginia 
District in 1897, and has since been re- 
elected. Legal residence: Madison, Va. 
Washington address: House of Represent- 
atives. 

HAY, WILLIAM PERRY, biologist, wa- 
born at Eureka, Illinois, on December 8, 
1872, son of Oliver Perry and Mary Emily 
(Howsmon) Hay. He attended the pub- 
lic and high schools of Irvington, Ind., 
until 1886, and was graduated from the 
Butler University (Ind.) in 1890, with the 
degree of B. S., and with that of M. S. 
In 1891. From 1892 to 1898 he was zoology 
teacher, and, from 1898 to 1899, teacher 
in biology at the Central High School of 
this city. From 1899 to 1901 he was head 
of the department of biology of the Wash- 
ington public schools: during 1898 and 
1899 he was assistant professor of zoology 
at Columbian (now George Washington) 
University, and since 1901 has been pro- 
fessor of biology at Howard University. 
In 1898 he was lecturer on zoology at 
Georgetown University; and from 1900 to 
1905 conducted various investigations in 
icthyology, etc., for the Bureau of Fisher- 
ies. He has written various articles, 
monographs, etc., on zoo)logical and bio- 
logical subjects. He is a member of the 
Christian Churc'h, and an independent 
Republican in politics. He is a member 
of the following organizations: National 
Fisheries Society; American Association 
for 'the Advancement of Science; Wash- 
ington Academy of Sciences; Biological 
Society of Washington; National Geo- 
graphic Society; Entomological Society of 
Washington; Cosmos Club, etc. On De- 
cembei- 19, 1902, he married Annie Aletha 
McKnew. Residence: 1925 Fourteenth 
street, n.w. 

HAYDEN, EDWARD EVERETT, naval 
officer and meteorologist, was born in 
Boston, Mass., on April 14, 1858, son of 
William and Louise Annie (Dorr) Hay- 
den. He was graduated from the Boston 
Public Latin School in 1875, and from 
the United States Naval Academy in 1879, 
and served with the Smithsonian Insti- 
tution and United States Geological Sur- 
vey in the West, where he was injured 
in a land s'lide, that resulted in the loss 
of a leg. He was at the Harvard College 
Observatory in 1884, and later in the 
United States Hydrographic Office, where 
he was chief of the Division of Marine 
Meteorology and editor of the Pilot Chart 
of the North Atlantic Ocean. He is a 
member of the American Association for 
the Advancement of Science, and, 1890- 
93. vice-president of the National Geo- 
graphic Society. At the outbreak of the 
Spanish War he served in the oflUce of 
Naval Intelligence at Washington and in 
charge of the observatory at Mare IsJand 
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authority on the subject of ocean storms, 
and is the author of papers on The 
Charleston Earthquake; Tropical Cy- 
clones; The 'Modern Law of Storms; 
The Samoan Hurricane of 1899; Storms 
of the North Atlantic; Clock Rates and 
Barometric Pressure; The Present Status 
of the Use of Standard Time. Is now a 
Commander in the Navy, on duty at the 
United States Naval Observatory. Resi- 
dence: 1802 Sixteenth street, n.w. 

HAYES, ARTHUR B., lawyer, Solicitor 
of the Internal Revenue Bureau, United 
States Treasury Department. Residence. 
3338 Sixteenth street, n.w. Office: Treas- 
ury Department. 

HAYES, CHARLES WILLARD, geolo- 
gist, was born at Granville, Ohio, on Oc- 
tober 8, 1859, son of Charles C. and Ruth 
Wolcott Hayes. He was graduated from 
Oberlin College in 1883, wsis a fellow in 
chemistry and geology from 1884 to 1887 
at Johns Hopkins University, and gradu- 
ated from that institution in 1887, with 
the degree of Ph. D. From 1883 to 1884 
he was principal of the Brecksville (Ohio) 
High School. He entered the United 
States Geological Survey as assistant 
geologist in 1887; was promoted to geol- 
ogist in 1894; attached to the Nicaraguan 
Canal Commission as geologist during 
1898 and 1899, and since 1900 has been 
geologist in charge of the division of 
/non-metallic minerals. In 1902 he was 
made chief geologist of the United States 
Geological Survey. He is the author of 
a number of monographs, reports, and 
matter bearing on geology, and is a mem- 
ber of the Geological Society of America; 
"Washington Academy of Sciences; Amer- 
ican Institute of Mining Engineers; Cos- 
mos Club, etc. On March 22, 1894, he 
married Rosa Paige. Residence: 3232 
Ashley Terrace. Office: U. S. Geological 
Survey. 

HAYES, EDWARD MORTIMER, Briga- 
dier-General, U. S. A. (retired), was born 
in 1842. He entered the United States 
Army in 1855, and served with the United 
States Cavalry in Texas. At the outbreak 
of the Civil War he was appointed a Sec- 
ond Jjieutenant of Volunteer Cavalry 
(Tenth Ohio Regiment). He served 
throughout the War of the Rebellion and 
rose to the rank of Captain, brevet Major. 
On February 20, 1866, he was appointed a 
Second Lieutenant in the Regular Army, 
and since that time has risen, through 
successive ranks, to that of Brigadier- 
Generail, to which rank he was commis- 
sioned on January 16. 1903. His army ca- 
reer included service in practically every 
Indian campaign from 1866 to 1898; in 
Cuban campaign, and service in the Phil- 
ippines. He was retired from service in 
January, 1903. Address: 254 West Ninety- 
eighth street, New York City, or War 
Department. 



HAYES, EVERIS ANSON, lawyer, 
Congressman, was born at Waterloo, Jef- 
ferson County, Wisconsin, on March 10, 
1855, son of Anson Everis and Mary (Fol- 
som) Hayes. He attended the public 
schools of Wisconsin, graduated from the 
Waterloo High School in 1872. and from 
the State University of Wisconsin in 1879, 
with the degree of LL. B., and, in 1882, 
with the degree of B. L. He practiced the 
profession of law until 1885, when he b<^- 
came interested in mining operations, ffe 
has been engaged in journalistic work and 
fruit growing. He is president of the fol- 
lowing corporations: Hayes Mining Com- 
pany, Ironwood, Mich.; Harmony Iron 
Company, Hurley, Wis.; Mercury Publish- 
ing Company, San Jose, Cal.; Hayes 
Chynoweth Company, San Jose, Cal., and 
Sierra Buttes Mining Company, Sierra 
City, Cal. He was a member of the Com- 
mon Council at Madison, Wis., from 1SS2 
to 1883; member of the Board of Super- 
visors of Gogebic County (Mich.) in 1890, 
and at present, member of Congress from 
the Fifth California District. He is a 
member of the Odd Fellows and of the 
National Grange, and in politics is a Re- 
publican. On June 18, 1893, he married 
Mary L. Bassett. Legal residence. San 
Jose. Cal. Washington address: House 
of Representatives. 

HAYES, JOHN W., labor leader, was 
born in Philadelphia, Penn., on Decem- 
ber 24, 1854. His education has been ac- 
quired entirely through his own efforts 
and study. When a youth he entered the 
service of the Pennsylvania Railroad as 
a brakeman, and while serving thus lost 
his right arm. Subsequently he learned 
telegraphy, and was employed as such 
until the general strike of 1883. Since 1884 
he has been connected with the Knights 
of Labor, and has been prominent in labor 
organizations, first (1884 to 1888) as a 
member of the general executive board; 
as secretary-treasurer, from 1888 to 1902, 
and since November of that year. Master 
Workman. He is also editor of the Jour- 
nal of the Knights of Labor. Residence: 
220 Capitol street. Office: 43 B street, 
n.w. 

HAYFORD, JOHN FILLMORE, geode- 
sist, was born at Rou.^es Point, Clinton 
County, New York, on May 19, 1868, son 
of Hiram and Mildred Alevia (Fillmore) 
Hayford. He attended the common schools 
at Rouse's Point and at Detroit, Mich., 
until 1885, and was graduated from the 
College of Civil Engineering of Cornell 
University in 1889. He was a computer in 
the Coast and Geodetic Survey from 1889 
to 1891; from 1892 to 1893, was assistant 
astronomer of the United States and Mex- 
ico Boundary Survey; during 1894-95 he 
was assistant on the field force, and from 
1898 to 1900 he was expert computer and. 
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vey, and since the latter date chief of the 
computing division and inspector of geo- 
detic work in that bureau. From 1895 to 
1898 he was instructor in civil engineer- 
ing at Cornell University. He is the au- 
thor of Geodetic Astronomy, and many 
scientific monographs on astronomic and 
geodetic subjects. He is a member of the 
Unitarian Church, and of the Unitarian 
Club, of which he is secretary; Cosmos 
Club, American Association for the Ad- 
vancement of Science, Philosophical Soci- 
ety of Washington, of which he is now 
president; Astronomical and Astrophys- 
ical Society, Society for the Promotion of 
Engineering Education, Washington Acad- 
emy of Sciences, and of the American So- 
ciety of Civil Engineers. On October 11, 
1894, he married Lucy Stone. Residence: 
2729 Ontario Road. Office: U. S. Coast 
and Geodetic Survey. 

HAYMERLE, F., Secretary, Austria- 
Hungary Embassy. Address: 2319 Onta- 
rio Road. 

HAYS, WILLET MARTIN, Assistant 
Secretary of Agriculture, was born near 
Eldora, Iowa, on October 19, 1859. He at- 
tended the common schools and worked 
his way through college, graduating in 
1885. He first entered Oskaloosa College 
and Drake University, but subsequently 
changed his course, and was graduated 
from the Iowa Agricultural College in the 
year given above. In 1886 he became as- 
sistant in agricultural experiments at the 
Iowa Agricultural College; in 1887 he was 
made associate editor of the Prairie Parm- 
er, and from 1888 to 1890 he served as 
assistant in agriculture at the University 
of Minnesota. On the last named date he 
was made professor of agriculture In the 
College of Agriculture (Minn.), and agri- 
culturist of the Experiment Station, and 
in 1892, having removed to North Dakota, 
he occupied a like position at the North 
Dakota Agricultural College, in 1894 again 
returning to Minnesota and resuming his 
place at the university. He was appointed 
Assistant Secretary of Agriculture on De- 
cember 19, 1904. In 1903 he was active in 
the organization of the American Breed- 
ers' Association, of which organization he 
is now secretary. He has experimented 
widely in practical agriculture, and espe- 
cially studied the various phases of farm 
management and plant breeding. He is 
the author of a number of agricultural 
text-books, and of numerous reports, mon- 
ographs and experiment station pamphlets 
on agricultural and allied subjects. In 
1885 he married Clara Shepperd. Resi- 
dence: The Maples Woodley Lane. Office: 
Department of Agriculture. 

HAYWOOD, JOHN K., chemist, in 
charge of miscellaneous laboratory, Bu- 
reau of Chemistry, United States Depart- 
ment of Agriculture. Residence: 1525 



Grant street, n.w. Office: Department of 
Agriculture. 

HAZARD, DANIEL LYMAN, computer, 
was born at Narragansett Pier, Rhode Is- 
land, on August 26, 1865, son of Thomas 
George and Mary King (Brooks) Hazard. 
He attended the public schools of his 
native town and the Rogers High School, 
at Newport, R. I., until 1880; from 1880 
to 1881 he attended Brown University, and 
from 1881 to 1885, Harvard University. He 
was employed as bookkeeper, land survey- 
or, and then as computer for the Massa- 
chusetts Topographical Survey Commis- 
sion until 1892, when he entered the Gov- 
ernment service as computer in the Coast 
and Geodetic Survey. He is a member 
of the Cosmos Club, Philosophical Soci- 
ety, National Geographic Society, Ameri- 
can Association for the Advancement of 
Science, Unitarian Club, and the Har- 
vard Club of WasTiington. He is unmar- 
ried. Residence: 1445 Massachusetts av- 
enue, n.w. Office: U. S. Coast and Geo- 
detic Survey. 

HAZEN, WILLIAM P. C, physician, 
was born at Lower Mount Bethel, Penn., 
on April 27, 1853, son of David B. and 
Susan (Depue) Hazen. He was educated 
at the Belvidere (N. J.) Academy, and 
later appointed apothecary in the United 
States Navy, with duty at the Naval Hos- 
pital in Washington. He was graduated 
from the Georgetown Medical College in 
the spring of 1877; resigned in July, and 
served as resident physician to the Wash- 
ington Asylum Hospital until September 
11, 1878, then as ward physician until tho 
fall of 1882. He then served for two years 
as visiting physician to the Washington 
Asylum, and has since then engaged in 
private practice. He is a member of the 
American Medical Society, the Medical 
Association ' of the District of Columbia, 
and the Medical and Surgical Society; wat" 
one of the organizers and president of the 
latter. He was one of the organizers of 
the Emergency Hospital, and a charter 
member of the Casualty Hospital, and was 
one of the founders of the National Cap- 
ital Bank, also a directo^r of the Ger- 
man-American Building Association and 
of the Asphalt Block and Tile Company. 
On January 8, 1878, he married Cutham 
E., daughter of L. A. and Mary A. Wood, 
of Washington, and three children have 
been born to them. Residence: 511 Ease 
Capitol street. 

HEAD, JOHN FRAZIER, Brigadier- 
General, U. S. A. (retired), was born at 
Boston, Mass., on January 9, 1821, son of 
George E. and Hannah (Catlin) Head. He 
was graduated from Yale University, with 
the degree of A. B., In 1840; with that 
of A. M. in 1843, and from the Harvard 
Medical School, with the degree of M. D., 
in 1843. He was appointed Assistant Sur- 



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geon and First Lieutenant in the army 
on August 6, 1846, and served through- 
out the 'Mexican and Civil Wars, being re- 
itired as Colonel on January 9, 1885. He 
was later advanced to the rank of Briga- 
dier-General (retired). He is a member 
of the Cosmos Club and the National Geo- 
graphic Society. On August 18, 1846, he 
married Katharine Apthorp. Residence: 
2015 R street. 

HEALD, JOHN CRESWELL, lawyer, 
was born in Philadelphia, on April 16, 
1850, son of Edward and Caroline (Cres- 
well) Heald. He was g. aduated with high 
honors from the University of Virginia. 
"When twenty-five years old he established 
ihimself in Washington. He is a member 
of the Cosmos and Chevy Chase Clubs. 
On October 31, 1876, he married Emma 
C, daughter of Charles ana Caroline C. 
Bradley, and has three children. Resi- 
dence: 1720 N street, n.w. Office: Colum- 
bian Building. 

HEAP, DAVID PORTER, Brigadier- 
General, U. S. A. (retired), was born at 
Stefano, Turkey, on March 24,1843, at the 
time when his grandfather, Commodore 
David Porter, was Minister, and his 
grandfather, S. D. Heap, was Charge 
d'Affaires from the United States to Tur- 
key. His parents were G. H. and Evelina 
(Porter) Heap. He attended Georgetown 
University, at Washington, and was grad- 
uated from the United States Military 
Academy in 1864, and served throughout 
the Civil War, receiving the brevet of 
Captain. He was commissioned Captain 
in 1867; promoted to Major of Engineers 
in 1883; made Lieutenant-Colonel May 
10, 1895; advanced to Colonel April 13, 
1903; made Brigadier-General, and re- 
tired, February 15, 1905. He has been 
engaged on river and harbor, fortifications 
and lighthouse engineering to a great ex- 
tent; was formerly division engineer for 
the Department of the Pacific; president 
of the California Debris Commission; en- 
gineer officer, Department of California. At 
the Paris Congress of Electricians in 1881 
he represented the Wai Department, and 
served on various boards. General Heap 
has traveled extensively throughout the 
world. He is the author of a number of 
publications on engineering and technical 
constructive work, etc., and is a member 
of the New York Athletic Club, the Army 
and Navy Club, Bohemian Club (of San 
Francisco), the Q:-and Army of the Re- 
public, and the Loyal Legion. He has 
been twice married; first, on December 1, 
1875, to Elizabeth Brown Beale, who died 
July 31, 1889, and, on November 12, 1902, 
to Josephine Bigelow Wright. Address: 
Pasadena, Cal., or War Department. 

HEARNE,, EDWARD WARREN, Gen- 
eral Secretary of the Young Men's Chris- 
tian Association in Washington, was born 



in Van Buren County, Iowa, on September 
30, 1872, son of Samuel and Sarah (War- 
ren) Hearne. After graduating from the 
Keosauqua (Iowa) High School in 1890 he 
entered the Iowa Wesleyan University, 
from which he was graduated, B.A., in 
1894, and, M. A., in 1897. From 1895 to 
1898 he served as a member of the Na- 
tional Guard of Iowa, and from April, 1898, 
to November, 1899, he served in the Span- 
ish War with the Iowa Volunteers and 
saw active service in the Philippines; 
served as Second and First Lieutenant. 
For several years he has been engaged in 
Y. M. C. A. work, serving as general sec- 
retary at Oskaloosa, Iowa, and as a sec- 
retary of the State Committee of Iowa; 
member of the staff of the International 
Committee of New York in its Army and 
Navy Department. From 1900 to 1902 
he was in charge of association work fo:-- 
soldiers and sailors in the Philippines, and 
with the Army of Occupation in North 
China, and from 1902 to 1906 he was State 
Secretary of the New Jersey Young Men's 
Christian Association. Since May, 1906, 
he has been general secretary of the 
Washington Association. He is a mem- 
ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
Phi Delta Theta college fraternity, Wasn- 
ington Board of Trade, and Chamber of 
Commerce. On February 19, 1902, he mar- 
ried May L. Myers, of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, 
to which union has been born one child. 
Residence: 1454 Irving street. Office: 1736 
G street. 

HEARST, WILLIAM RANDOLPH. ex- 
Congressman, newspaper publisher, was 
born at San Francisco, Cal., in 1863, son 
of the late Senator George Hearst and 
Phoebe A. Hearst. He attended the pub- 
lic schools of San Francisco and Harvard 
College. In 1886 he became editor and 
proprietor of the San Francisco Examiner; 
in 1895 he purchased the New York Jour- 
nal and became its editor, establishing, in 
the next year, the New York Evening 
Journal. In 1900 he founded the Chicago 
American, and, in 1902, the Chicago Ex- 
aminer; the Los Angeles Examiner in 
1903, and the Boston American in 1904. He 
was elected a Representative from the 
Eleventh New York District to the Fifty- 
eighth Congress, and v/as re-elected to 
the Fifty-ninth Congress. He is president 
of the National Association of Democratic 
Clubs, and in 1905 was the unsuccessful 
candidate for Mayor of New York, and, 
in 1906, for Governor of New York, both 
times running on a municipal ownership 
and People's party ticket. In politics he 
is an Independent. On April 28, 1903, he 
married Millicent Willson. Legal address: 
235 William street, New York, N. Y. 

HEATER, ROBERT E,, real estate, was 
born in Lovettsville, Loudoun County, Vir- 
ginia, in 1875. Since 1900 he has been 
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the real estate business. Residence: 2620 
Thirteenth street, n.w. Office: 26 Colo- 
rado Building'. 

HEATON. AUGUSTUS GEORGE, art- 
ist, was born at Philadelphia, Penn., on 
April 28, 1844, son of Augustus and Rosa- 
bella (Crean) Heaton. After partial prep- 
aration for college, he, in 1860, began the 
study of art under P. F. Rothermal in 
Philadelphia, while attending classes at 
the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts. 
From 1863 to 1865 he studied at the Ecole 
des Beaux Arts, of Paris, under Cabanel, 
being .the first to enter it. From 
1878 he studied under Bonnat, in 
Paris, eund exhibited several years 
at the Salon. He received an honorary 
degree from Philadelphia Academy of Fine 
Arts in 1866, when he was professor in 
the School of Design for Women, at Phil- 
adelphia. He has painted a large num- 
ber of pictures, one of which, The Recall 
of Columbus, bought by the Government 
in 1883, is in the Capitol in this city. 
His large picture, Baron Steuben at Val- 
ley Forge, 1777, was notable in the James- 
town Exposition. The Recall of Colum- 
bus was engraved on the Columbian fifty- 
cent stamp, and Hardships of Emigration, 
another of his pictures, on the Omaha ten- 
cent stamp. He was the architect of his 
Washington residence, of his cottage at 
Skyland, Va., and of the Amusement Hall 
there. He is the author of The Heart 
of David — the Psalmist King; Fancies and 
Thoughts in Verse; Yellowstone Letters. 
He has traveled widely in America and 
Europe, and speaks French and Spanish. 
He is a member of the Cosmos Club, the 
Metropolitan Club, Washington Society of 
Archaeological Institute of America, the 
American Association for the Advance- 
ment of Science; French Club; Short 
Story Club; Columbia Historical Society; 
Numismatic Association of America (of 
which he was president); Sketch Club, of 
Philadelphia (of which he was once pres- 
ident) ; Berceau arid Ramblers' Clubs, of 
Paris (both of which he was secre- 
tary), and the Numismatic and Archaeo- 
logical Society of New York. He is a 
member of the Republican party, and an 
Episcopalian. On December 21, 1874, he 
married Adelaide W. Griswold: Residence: 
1C18 Seventeenth street, n.w. 

HEDGE, THOMAS, lawyer. Congress- 
man, was born at Burlington (then Ter- 
ritory of Iowa), on June 24, 1844. He 
was graduated from Phillips Academy 
(Andover, Mass.), in 1861; from Yale 
College in 1867, and from the Columbia 
College Law School, of New York, in 1869. 
He served as private and Second Lieu- 
tenant of a company of New York volun- 
teers during the Civil War, in 1864 and 
1865, and, since 1869, has been practic- 
ing his profession at Burlington, Iowa. He 
served as a Representative from the First 
Iowa Distj-ict from the Fifty- sixth to the 



Fifty-ninth Congress, Inclusive. Repub- 
lican. Legal residence: Burlington, Iowa. 
Washington address: House of Repre- 
sentatives. 

HEFFERNAN, JOSEPH R., Assistant 
Rector of St. Dominic's Catholic Church. 
Residence: 515 Sixth street, s.w. 

HEFLIN, JAMES THOMAS, lawyer. 
Congressman, was born at Louina, Ran- 
dolph County, Alabama, on April 9, 1869, 
and attended the public schools of his 
native county and the Southern Univer- 
sity (Greensboro, Ala.), and the A. and M. 
College, at Auburn, Ala. Later he stud- 
ied law, and was admitted to the bar in 
1893. On March 16, 1893, he was elected 
Mayor of Lafayette, Ala., which office he 
held for two terms; for two years he 
vv^as Register in Chancery, and, in 1896, 
elected to the State Legislature, and re- 
elected in 1898. From 1896 to 1902 he was 
a member of the Democratic State Exec- 
utive Committee, and was a delegate to 
the Constitutional Convention of Ala- 
bama in 1901. In 1902 he was elected Sec- 
retary of State for Alabama, and in 1904 
he was elected a Representative in Con- 
gress fro.m the Fifth Alabama District, 
subsequently being re-elected. On De- 
cember 18, 1895, he married Minnie Kate 
Schuessler. Democrat. Legal residence: 
Lafayette, Ala. Washington address: 
House of Representatives. 

HEGER, ANTHONY, Brigadier-General, 

IT. S. A. (retired), was born in Austria, 
on December 4, 1828. He entered the serv- 
ice of the United States Army as Assist- 
ant Surgeon and Lieutenant in 1856; was 
commissioned Captain and made Assist- 
ant Surgeon August 29, 1861; advanced to 
Major and Surgeon September 17, 1862; 
brevetted Lieutenant-Colonel and Sur- 
geon January 24, 1866. On January 2, 

1891, he was made Colonel and Assistant 
Surgeon- General, and on December 4, 

1892, retired, later being advanced to the 
rank of Brigadier-General, iretired. Ad- 
dress: War Department. 

H El DEM AN,, IVAN, lawyer, was born 
in Washington, D. C, on September 26, 
1877, son of Adolph and Malchen 
(Michaelis) Heideman. After obtaining 
his preliminary education in the public 
schools of Washington, he entered the 
law department of Georgetown Univer- 
sity, from which he was graduated, LL. B., 
in 1901, since when he has been engaged 
in the active practice of Qaw in the Dis- 
trict of Columbia. On February 10, 1902, 
he was appointed a Notary Public, and 
reappointed on February 2, 1907. He is a 
member of Columbia Lodge, No. 10, I. O. 
O. F. Unmarried. Residence: 913 K 
street, n.w. Office: Stewart Building', 400 
Sixth street, n.w. 

HEISS, AUSTIN ELMER, journalist, 
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July 5, 1868, son of George Peter Heiss. 
He attended school at Mansfield, Ohio, 
until 1887, and later studied law. He 
entered newspaper work in 1887 at Mans- 
fleld, Ohio; from 1891 to 1892 he was legis- 
lative and political correspondent of the 
Cleveland Leader and Toledo Commercial; 
attached to staff of Cleveland Plain Dealer 
as political writer du:ing 1893 and 1895; 
Washington correspondent for that news- 
paper from 1895 to 1899, and since the lat- 
ter date correspondent in fhis city for the 
Pittsburg Dispatch. He was married, on 
July 3, 1895, to Emma R. Ver Beck. Resi- 
dence: 1504 Park Road. Office: Mun- 
sey Building. 

HEISTAND, HENRY OLCOT SHEL- 
DON., Colonel, U. S. A., was born on a 
a farm near Richwood, Ohio, April 30, 
1856, son of Henry Olcot Sheldon and 
Lavina (I^rwin) Meisstand. Biefore lliis 
admission to the United States Military 
Academy in 1874, he taught school for 
two years. He was graduated from the 
Academy in 1878, and became a Second 
Lieutenant of Infantry; was promoted to 
First Lieutenant on June 1, 1886; commis- 
sioned Captain March 19, 1891. On May 
19, 1892, he was appointed Instructor and 
Government Inspector of the Ohio Na- 
tional Guard, and during 1896 was confi- 
dential secretary to Miajor William Mc- 
Kinley during his campaign for Presi- 
dent. In 1900 he was Military Commis- 
sioner to the Paris Exposition; on Sep- 
tember 11, 1897, commissioned Assistant 
Adjutant-General; advanced to Lieuten- 
ant-Colonel April 18, 1900, and during the 
same year made Adjutant-General and 
chief of staff with the army in China for 
the relief of Peking. From that time until 
1902 he served as Adjutant-General of the 
Department of the Philippines; was ap- 
pointed Colonel on July 22, 1902, and i:^ 
at present Adjutant-General of the At- 
lantic Department. Colonel Heistand is 
the author of Alaska — Its History and De- 
scription, and is a frequent contributor to 
magazines and periodicals. On September 
19, 1878, he married Mary J. Rippey. Ad- 
dress: War Department. 

HEISTON, WALTER, member of the 
Washington Stock Exchange. He was one 
of the incorporators of the Lincoln Fire 
Insuaance Company, a director of the Po- 
tomac Fire and the District Title In- 
surance Companies, and the Traders' Na- 
tional Bank. He is also a member of 
the Columbia Golf Club and the Blue 
Ridge Rod and Gun Club. Address: The 
Rochambeau. 

HEITMAN. FRANCIS BERNARD, 

editor, was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, 
on April 10, 1838, son of Ferdinand Heit- 
man. He received his education at Cin- 
cinnati during the period of 1844-50. Since 
1856 he has been connected with the War 
Department, at present serving as editor 



of Historical Registers. He is the author 
of a number of publications, reports, mag- 
azine articles, etc., on army and military 
affairs, history of the army, etc. In 1863 
he married Mary Prances Poore. Resi- 
dence: 1758 U street, n.w. Office: War 
Department. 

HEIZMANN, CHARLES L., Colonel, U. 
S. A., was born in the State of Penn- 
sylvania, on April 15, 1846. He was grad- 
uated, with the degree of A. B., from 
Georgetown College in 1864, and from the 
University of Pennsylvania, with the de- 
gree of M. D., in 1867. He was made an 
Assistant Surgeon in the army on May 
14, 1867; was promoted to the rank of 
Captain May 14, 1870; became Major and 
Surgeon November 18, 1886; advanced to 
Lieutenant-Colonel and Deputy Surgeon- 
General April 28, 1900; commissioned 
Colonel and Assistant Surgeon-General 
April 7, 1902. Since 1904 he has been 
president of the Army Medical School, at 
Washington, D. C. Address: War De- 
partment. 

HELLER, JOSEPH MILTON, physician 
and surgeon, was born at Staunton, Vir- 
ginia, on January 29, 1872, son of Jonas 
and Pauline (Frank) Heller. He attended 
the public schools of Washington and 
studied under private instructors at Fish^ 
er's Academy in this city, graduating in 
1896 from ' the Georgetown Medical 
School. He took a post-graduate course 
at the New York Polyclinic School of 
Medicine. He is at present a practicing 
physician; lecturer on tropical diseases, 
at George Washington University; was 
formerly assistant demonstrator of anat- 
omy at Georgetown University Medical 
School, and clinical assistant at the Emer- 
gency and Central Dispensary, and at tho 
Garfield Hospital Dispensary. Prom 1896 
to 1897 he was resident physician of the 
Garfield Memorial Hospital, and was the 
first volunteer to be accepted by the 
United States after the declaration of war 
with Spain, in 1898. He served over two 
years in the Philippines under Generals 
Lawton and Young, and has the distinc- 
tion of being the only medical officer, 
either regular or volunteer, who was re- 
commended by cable to the War Depart- 
ment by General Otis. During the cholera 
epidemic in Manila in 1902 Major Heller 
had charge of the city water supply. In 
recognition of his services President Mc- 
Kinley commissioned him Major and Sur- 
geon, U. S. v., and on November 30, 1902, 
he resigned from the service, after nearly 
five years' service, to devote himself to 
private practice. He has traveled ex- 
tensively, having made a trip around the 
world, in Hawaii, China, Philippines, 
Malay Peninsula, India, Ceylon, Egypt, 
and European countries. He served on 
the Public Order Committee during Pres- 
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member and an officer ot the Military Or- 
der of the Carabao; Past Commander of 
Lawton Camp, U. S. W. V.; member Mil- 
itary Order of Foreign Wars; Association 
of Military Surgeons of the United States; 
Medical Association of the District of 
Columbia; American Medical Association; 
Medical Society of the Georgetown Uni- 
versity; Army and Navy Club; New 
York Athletic Club, and the American 
Club of Manila. He is a Mason (St. John 
Lodge), and is unmarried. Residence: 
1510 H street, n.w. 

HELM, HARVEY, Congressman. In 
November, 1906, he was elected a mem- 
ber of the Sixtieth Congress, on the Dem- 
ocratic ticket, from the Eighth Congres- 
sional District of Kentucky. Legal resi- 
dence: Stanford, Ky. Washington ad- 
dress: House of Representatives. 

HELPER, HINTON ROWAN, author, 
railway promoter, was born in the State 
of North Carolina, on December 27, 1829, 
and received an academic education. From 
1862 to 1866 he was United States Con- 
sul at Buenos Ayres, since which time 
he has been engaged in the promotion of 
his project for the establishment of three 
American railways to connect Bering 
Strait to the Straits of Magellan. He is 
trie author of Oddments of Adean Diplo- 
macy; The Three American Railways; 
Impending Crisis of the South; Nojoque; 
The Negro in Negroland; The Land of 
Gold, etc. In 1863 he married Maria Rod- 
riguez. Residence: 806 Twelfth street, 
n.w. 

HEMENWAY, JAMES ALEXANDER, 

lawyer. United States Senator, was born 
in Booneville, Indiana, on March 8, 1860, 
son of William J. L. and Sarah (Clelland) 
Hemenway. His father was a merchant 
of good business qualifications, but died 
when his son, James, was but thirteen 
years old, and he was thus compelled 
to take up the battle of life at an un- 
usually early age. He tried his hand at 
various vocations, and, despite the fact 
that he was obliged to leave school with 
■but the .ludiments of an education, he 
devoted every spare moment of his time 
to study, and was rewarded with the 
deputy auditorship of his county. He won 
the approval of his superiors, and was 
encouraged to study law. This he did 
during the interims of clerical work, and 
was admitted to the bar and commenced 
the practice of law in 1885. In 1886, and 
again in 1888, he was elected Prosecuting 
Attorney for the Second Judicial District 
of Indiana. Declining a third nomination, 
he turned to his profession, and for six 
years devoted himself unremittingly to 
the practice of law. In 1894 he was nom- 
inated by t^e Republicans of his district 
for Congress, and was elected in Novem- 
ber of that year. He was re-elected to 



the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, 
Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses. 
Before taking his seat in the Fifty-ninia 
Congress he was elected to the United 
States Senate, January 18, 1905, to suc- 
ceed Hon. Charles W. Fairbanks, chosen 
Vice-President on the ticket with Theo- 
dore Roosevelt. From 1888 to 1892 he 
was a member of the Republican State 
Committee from the First Indiana Dis- 
trict. On July 1, 1884, he married Anna 
Eliza Alexander, to which union three 
children have been born. Legal residence: 
Booneville, Ind. Washington address: U. 
S. Senate. 

HEMPHILL, JOHN JAMES, lawyer, 
was born at Chester, S. C, on August 25, 
1849, son of James and Rachel E. (Braw- 
ley) Hemphill. He was graduated from 
the South Carolina College in 1869, and, 
after law study with his father, was ad- 
mitted to the bar in October, 1870, be- 
ginning practice in 1871. From 1876 to 
1882 he was a member of the South Car- 
olina Legislature; from 1882 to 1892 was 
Representative in Congress from that 
State, and since the latter date has been 
engaged in the practice of law in Wash- 
ington and in South Carolina. He is the 
author of Why the Solid South? He is 
a member of the Metropolitan and Chevy 
Chase Clubs, and a Democrat in politics. 
On December 23, 1893, he married Eliza- 
beth S. Henry. Residence: 2108 Bancroft 
Place. Office: Washington Loan and 
Trust Building. 

HEMPHILL, JOSEPH NEWTON, naval 

officer, was born at Ripley, Ohio, June 18, 
1847, son of Samuel and Sarah (Campbell) 
Hemphill. He was graduated from the 
United States Naval Academy in 1866, 
and was on the Monongahela, wrecked in 
the West Indian earthquake, November, 
1867; was promoted Commander June, 
1895, and Captain March 3, 1901; was at 
Manila during the Philippine outbreak, 
and at Venezuela during the Andrade- 
Castro revolution, commanding Kear- 
sa:ge and chief of staff of North Atlantic 
fleet, 1902-03. Married, first, at Delaware, 
Ohio, December, 1873, Oro E. Stark, who 
died in October, 1886, and, second, at Du- 
buque, Iowa, August, 1903, Mrs. Dora A. 
Hancock. Address: Navy Department. 

HENDERSON, JOHN BROOKS, law- 
yer, ex-Senator, was born in Pittsylvania 
County, Virginia, on November 16, 1826, 
son of James and Jane (Dawson) Hender- 
son. In 1832 his parents removed to Lin- 
coln County, Missouri, and both died 
during his childhood. He received an 
academic education, taught school, studiecl 
law, was admitted to the State bar in 
Pike County, Missouri, in 1848, and be- 
gan practice in Louisiana, Missouri, the 
following year. In 1848, and again in 
1856-57, he was elected to the Legislature 



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of Missouri, and originated the railroad 
and banliing laws of that State. Was a 
Buchanan and Breckenridge presidential 
elector, 1856; a delegate to the Demo- 
cratic National Conveniion, 1860, support- 
ing the candidacy of Stephen A. Douglas; 
was defeated in the same year for Rep- 
resentative to the Thirty-seventh Con- 
gress; member of the Missouri conven- 
tion to determine the question of seces- 
sion, 1861; organized a brigade of Union 
State troops at the outbreak of the Civil 
War, and was made Brigadier-General of 
Militia; in 1862 was appointed United 
States Senator to succeed Trusten Polk, 
expelled, and the year following was 
elected for the full term ending March 4, 
1869. While in the Seniite he served on 
the following standing committees: 
Finance; Foreign Relations; Post Offices 
and Post Roads; Claims, District of 
Columbia; Indian Affairs; Contingent 
Expenses of the Senate. He was chair- 
man of the Committee on Indian Affairs, 
and organized and was chairman of the 
Indian Peace Commission of 1867, mak- 
ing treaties of peace with hostile tribes 
from Minnesota to Texas. He was author 
of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Con- 
stitution, and an advocate of the Four- 
teenth and Fifteenth Amendments. At 
the close of his term in the Senate he 
resumed the practice of law in St. Louis, 
Mo., and in 1872 received the unanimous 
nomination of the Republican party for 
Governor of the State, but was defeated. 
In 1875 President Grant appointed him 
Special United States Attorney to pros- 
ecute the "whisky ring" at St. Louis. In 
1884 he was piesident of the Republican 
National Convention at Chicago which 
nominated James G. Blaine. In 1889-90 
he was a member of the Pan-American 
Conference, in which he advocated a per- 
manent international board of arbitra- 
tion for the American Republics, and 
urged more liberal commercial relations. 
Since 1890 has resided in Washington, D. 
C. In 1892, 1898 and 1904 he was elected 
a regent of the Smithsonian Institution, 
and is still serving as such. He is a 
member of the American Social Science 
Association; Loyal Legion; G. A. R., and 
a member of numerous oclentific and legal 
societies. The University of Missouri 
conferred upon him the honorary degree 
of LL. D. in 1882. On June 25, 1868, he 
married Mary N. Foote, daughter of Judge 
Elisha Foote, of Washington. Retired 
from active business. Residence: Six- 
teenth street and Florida avenue. 

HENDERSON, JOHN BROOKS, JR., 

lawyer, was born at Louisiana, Pike 
County, Missouri, on February 18, 1870, 
son of former Senator John B. and Mary 
(Foote) Henderson. He attended the 
public and private schools of St. Louis 
and Lawrenceville, N. J., later graduating 
from Harvard University in 1891, and 



from the law department of Columbian 
(now George Washington) University in 
1893. In 1895 he was private secretary 
to Hon. John W. Foster, when he was 
diplomatic adviser to China, and in 1897 
he accompanied General Nelson A. Miles 
on his tour of army inspection througli 
Europe. For a number of years he has 
been a resident of Alexandria County, 
Virginia, and more or less Identified with 
public affairs, being vice-president of the 
Board of Trade, etc. He has always been 
interested in biological work, and has 
instituted some original researches and 
conducted several biological expeditions 
for the Smithsonian Institution to the 
West Indies. He has contributed to tech- 
nical periodicals on this subject, and is 
the author of American Diplomatic Ques- 
tions. He is a member of the Delta Phi 
fraternity, the University and Harvard 
Clubs of New York, and the Metropolitan, 
Chevy Chase and Cosmos Clubs of Wash- 
ington, as well as Geological and Biological 
Societies of Washington, the American 
Historical Association, the National Geo- 
graphic and Archaeological Societies, and 
president of the Audubon Society of Vir- 
ginia. In politics he is a Republican. He 
was the Repubican nominee for Con- 
gress from the Eighth Virginia District 
in 1906, but was defeated at the polls 
by John F. Rixey, the Democratic candi- 
date. On February 12, 1903, he married 
Angelica Schuyler Crosby. Country res- 
idence: Ballston, Virginia. Washington 
residence: Sixteenth stieet and Florida 
avenue. 

HENDERSON, MARY FOOTE, author, 
social reformer, was born at Seneca Falls, 
New York, on July 21, 1846, daughter of 
Judge Elisha and Eunice (Newton) 
Foote. Her father was Judge of the 
Court of Common Pleas of Seneca County, 
New York, and subsequently United 
States Commissioner or Patents. She re- 
moved with her parents to Washington, 
D. C, in 1864. She was elected president 
of the Missouri State Suffrage Association 
in 1876; organized the St. Louis School 
of Design that year, and founded the 
Woman's Exchange in that city in 1879. 
She studied art in Washington Univer- 
sity, St. Louis, and devoted much time 
to literary work, sietetics and social re- 
form while a resident of St. Louis. Since 
1889 her home has been in Washington, 
D. C, where she has actively participated 
in the social life and philanthropic move- 
ments of the Capital. She has been a 
strong advocate of a new executive man- 
sion, to take the place of the White 
House, and, with Mr. Paul J. Pelz, the 
architect of the Library of Congress, has 
formulated plans for a magnificent state 
residence; she is also an active worker 
for the proper development of Sixteenth 
street. She is the author of The Aristoc- 
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Dinner Giving, and occasional contribu- 
tions to the magazine and periodical press. 
In 1868 she was married to Joha 
Brooks Henderson, United States Sena- 
tor from Missouri, and resided in St. 
Louis in her early married life. Residence: 
Sixteenth street and Florida avenue. 

HENDERSON, WILLIAM GEORGE, 

lawyer, was born in Washington, D. C, 
on October 15, 1852, son of William and 
Sarah J. (Faucett) Henderson, of Balti- 
more, Md. After obtaining his prelimi- 
nary educaiWon in the preparatory school 
of Columbian College he obtained a tem- 
porary appointment in it'he Treasury De- 
partment; later gained a clerkship in 
the United States Patent OfHce, where, 
till 1874, he was a member of the Exam- 
ining Corps. He was graduated with 'the 
class of 1874 from Columbian (now Georg-; 
Washington) University Law School, and 
for two' years was connected with the 
law offices of the late Walter D. Davidge. 
He was admitted to the bar of the United 
Staites Supreme Court May 10, 1880, and 
was first president of -the North Capitol 
and Eckington Citizens' Association, in 
which capacity he served for eight years. 
He is a member of the Board of Directors 
of the Washington Board of Trade, and 
chairman of the Committee on Streets 
and Avenues of that organization. He 
is also Past Grand Master of Masons of 
the District of Columbia. He married 
Kate S. Nicholls, whose fiather, John C. 
Nicholls, represented the First Georgia 
District in Congress for two terms, and 
has four living children. Residence: 1822 
Third street, n.e. Office: 501 P street, 
n.w. 

HENDRICK, JOHN THILMAN, lawyer, 
insurance, investments, was born in 
Clarksville, Tenn., on November 12, 1876, 
son of David Stewart and Pattie War- 
field Hendrick. His father was for many 
years general manager of the Manhattan 
Life Insurance Company, Central Eastern 
Departmenit; was president of the Na- 
tional Association of Life Underwriters, 
and prominent in Masonic, social and 
business circles. Mr. Hendrick was edu- 
cated in the public schools of Nashville, 
Tenn., at Vanderbilt University, and at 
the Columbian (now George WashingUon) 
University Law School, from which lat- 
ter he was graduated, with the degree 
of LL. B., in 1897. While in the Colum- 
bian University he was president of the 
law class of 1897; business manager of 
the Columbian Call, and winner of the 
annual prize debate. He is present man- 
ager of the Central Eastern Department 
of the Manhattan Life Insurance Company 
of New York, and member of the Wash- 
ington Stock Exchange; direcitor Na- 
tional Bank of Washington, Union Trust 
Company, and United Stateis Savings 
Bank; member of the University Club 
of the Columbia Golf Club; member of 



Board of povernoTs of the Bachelors, 
Lawn Tennis Club, and Chi Phi and Phi 
Delta Phi fraternities; member Washing- 
ton Board of Trade, Chamber of Com- 
merce; the Knights of Pythias (Rath- 
bone Superior Lodge) ; Mason, Knight 
Temiplar, B. B. French Blue Lodge, Mt. 
Vernon Chapter, Washington Command- 
ery; Mithras Lodge, Scottish Rite; Al- 
mas Temple, Mystic Shrine. Unmarried. 
Residence: 1378 Harvard street, n.w. 
Office: 715 Fourteenth sitreet, n.w. 

HENGERVAR, VON LADISLAUS 
HENGELMUELLER, Ambassador to 
the United States from Austria- 
Hungary, was born in Budapest, Hun- 
gary. He has been Envoy Extraordinary 
and Ambassador Plenipotentiary from 
Austria-Hungary to America since De- 
cember 26, 1897. He married Countes^s 
Marie Dunir Borowska, at Dresden. Ad- 
dress: 1304 Eighteenth street, n.w. 

HENNING, GEORGE CUSTIS, was 

born in Washington, on February 3, 1833, 
son of George W. and Sarah Custis 
(Lewis) Henning. He continued with 
Saks & Co. as a partner until 1890, whea 
he undertook the organizaition of the 
Traders' National Bank, with w'hose af- 
fairs he was identified until January, 1906. 
He served in Company A, National Guard, 
on March 4, 1861, the day of President 
Lincoln's inauguration. He has been three 
times married. Residence: 1728 Twenti- 
eth street. 

HENNING, GEORGE NEELY, profes- 
sor of romance languages, George Wash- 
ington University, wias borri in Washing- 
ton, in 1871, son of George C. and Susan 
(Neely) Henning. He attended Phillips 
Andover Academy, and was graduated 
from Harvard University, with the de- 
gree of A. B., in 1894, and, in 189S, with 
that of A. M. During 1900 and 1901 he 
studied at Sorbonne, Prance. From 1899 
to 1900 'he w^as insitructor in French at 
Harvard University, and is now head pro- 
fessor of romance languages at G'^orge 
Washington University. He edited La 
Question d'Argent, by Dumas, and is a 
member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, 
and of the Harvard and University Clubs 
He is unmarried. Address: George 
Washington University. 

HENNISEE, ARGALUS GAREY, Brig- 
adier-General, U. S. A. (retired), was born 
ait Trappe, Talbot County, Maryland, on 
January 16, lS39, son of Samuel and Ann 
(Garey) Hennisee. He attended the pub- 
lic schools of his najtive county from 1845 
to 1855, and at the outbreak of the Civil 
War became First Lieutenant of the First 
Maryland Volunteer Infantry, and, on July 
24, 1862, Captain of the same regimeni. 
He was mustered out with (the volunteer 
troops in 1865, and appointed a Second 
Lieutenant in the regular army on Jan- 



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uary 22, 1867; was 'Oommissioned First 
Lieutenant in 1868; transferred from in- 
fantry to cavalry in 1871, and promoted 
to Captain of Ithe same in 1881; made 
Major on May 31, 1898; advanced to 
Lieutenant-Colonel February 2, 1901, and 
Colonel September 13, 1902. He was re-, 
tired,, as a Colonel, in 1903, land later ad- 
vanced to the rank of Brigadier-Genera), 
retired. General Hennisee is a member 
of the Military Order of the Loyal Leg-ion, 
and is a Methodist. On April 15, 1891, 
he married Emma Lone Rosetite. In pol- 
itics he is a Republican. Address: War 
Department. 

HENRY, ALFRED JUDSON, meteorol- 
ogist, was born lat New Be'thlehem, Penn., 
on September 1, 1858, son of John Mc- 
Connell Henry. He attended Reid Insti- 
tute (Clarion County, Penn.) from 1871 
to 1873, and Columbian (now George 
Washington) University from 1885 to 1886, 
and also from 1897 to 1898. In 1874 he 
studied telegraphy, and in July, 1878, en- 
tered the Signal Corps of the Army, serv- 
ing in the meteorological branch of the 
service until its itransfer to the United 
States Weather BuTeau, in 1891. From 
1895 to 1900 he was chief of the division 
of meteorological records at the Weather 
Bureau and since tlie latter date has been 
professor of meteorology at it'he same bu- 
reau. He is the author of a number of 
Government documents, anonographs, re- 
ports, &te., on meteorological conditions, 
phases, etc., of the United States, and 
IS a fellow of the American Association 
for the Advancement of Sciences; a mem- 
ber of the American Forestry Association, 
and the Cosmos Club. On July 25, 1883, 
he married Jessie Holbroolv Ide. Resi- 
dence: 1322 Columbia Road. Office: U. S. 
Weather Bureau. 

HENRY, EDWIN STANTON, Principal 
Examiner, United States Patent Office, 
was born near New Bethlehem, Penn., on 
February 14, 1862, son of John M. and 
Nancy J. Henry. He attended public and 
private schools in Pennsylvania and Ohio, 
and was graduated from the law depart- 
r^ient of (;;olui..l,ian (now George Wash- 
ington) University in 1890. He is a mem- 
ber of the National Geographic Society, 
Sons of the American Revolution, Colum- 
bia Golf Club. On September 10, 1890. 
he married Mary C. Beese. Residence: 
1320 Columbia Road. Office: Patent 
Office. 

HENRY, E. STEVENS, Congressman, 
was born at Gill, Mass., in 1836. When 
twelve years of age he removed wit!: 
h'.s lareiit? t.o Rockville, Conn., where lie 
has fmce reside'^. He was a member of 
the Connecticut General Assembly in 1883; 
State Senator from 1887 to 1888; Statp. 
Treasurer, 1889 ito 1893, and has been a 
member of Congress, representing the 
First Connecticut District, since the 



Fifty-fourth Congress. He was a dele- 
gate-at- large to the National Republican 
Convention in 1888. In politics he is a 
Republican. Legal residence: Rockville, 
Conn. Washington address: House of 
Representaitives. 

HENRY, JAMES SHARP, journalist, 
was born at Sharpsburg, Allegheny 
County, Penn., on April 20, 1859, and ed- 
ucated in the common schools and at 
Sharpsburg Academy. He served as city 
editor, news editor, and, in 1889, legisla- 
tive correspondent lat Harrisburg for the 
Pittsburg Commercial-Gazatte, subse- 
quently becoming Washington correspond- 
ent of the same paper. In 1891 he was 
attached to the Washington corps of thd 
Philadelphia Press, and is at present chief 
of the Washington bureau of that paper. 
He has written very largely for the peri- 
odioal press and newspaper syndicates 
Residence: 1512 Park Road. Office: 
Wyatt Building. 

HENRY, JOHN WILLIAM, banker, 
was born at Raneleigh, Maryland, in 
October, 1865, the youngest son of the 
late Captain James L. M. Henry, U. S. A., 
and Kate Kearney Henry, daughter of the 
late Fleet Surgeon John A. Kearney, U. 
S. N. He took la course at Columbian 
(now George Washington) University, 
and graduated at Charlotte Hall Military 
Academy, Maryland, in the fall of 1887; 
enitered the banking house of Lewis, John- 
son & Co., being rewarded eleven yearo 
with admission to the firm, of which he 
is now senior member. He is prominent 
in social circles, a member of the Metro- 
politan, Chevy Chase and Dumbarton 
Clubs; treasurer of the Society of Colo- 
nial Wars, a member of the Sons of the 
Revolution, and of that of the War of 
1812. He married Frances Brockenbor- 
ough Barber, of Georgetown, D. C, and 
has one child. Residence: 2137 R street, 
n.w. Office: 1319 P street, n.w. 

HENRY, ROBERT LEE, lawyer, Con- 
gressman, was born in Linden, Cass 
County, Texas, on May 14, 1862. He was 
graduated with high honors from the 
Southwestern University of Texas in 1885, 
receiving the degree of M. A. He was 
admitted to the bar in 1886, pursued a 
law course at the University of Texas, 
graduating in 1887. He was elected Mayor 
of Texarkana in 1890, resigning that posi- 
tion to become First Assistant Attorney- 
General, and subsequently Assistant At- 
torney-General, which latter posit he held 
for three years. He was elected Repre- 
sentative from- the Eleventh Texas Dis- 
trict to the Fifty-fifth Congress, and has 
since been re-elected to all subsequent 
Congresses. In politics he is a Democrat. 
Legal residence: Waco, Texas. Wash- 
ington address: House of Representa- 
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HENSEY, ALEXANDER T., Secretary 
of the Svvartzell, Rheem & Hensey Com- 
pany, was born in New York City, on 
April 24, 1861, son of Thomas G. and 
Amimta M. Hensey. His education was 
received in the public schools of Wash- 
ington. Was financial clerVc of the Wash- 
ington City Post Office under Postmaster 
Tulloch; from 1889 to 1894 was proprietor 
of the Washington Herald. Since 1895 he 
has been actively engaged in real estate 
operations; became secretary of the B. 
H. Warner Company in 1901, which com- 
pany became lanei' the Swartzell, Rheem 
& Hensey Company. He is a member of 
the Military Order of the Loyal Legion; 
director District Title Insurance Com- 
pany; director Riggs Fire Insurance Com- 
pany; vestryman St. Margaret's Church, 
etc. On February 10, 1885, he married 
Louise R., daughter of the late John A. 
Rheem, to which union has been born one 
child, Clarence Alexander. Residence; 
1801 Adams Mill Road. Office: 916 F 
street, n.w. 

HENSEY, THOMAS GARRET, army 
officer, was born in Rochester, N. Y., 
son of John and Margaret (Welsh) Hen- 
sey. He was educated at Columbia (N. 
Y.) College, and was graduated from 
Columbian (now George Washington) 
University in 1872. He served on 
the U. S. S. Shepherd Knapp in 
1861 as ship's yeoman; entered 
the First iNew York Mounted Rifles; 
served on the staff of General Sumner, 
in North Carolina, and resigned at Ab- 
ingdon, Va., in October, 1865. Was fOx- 
fourteen years bookkeeper in the Treas- 
ury Department; president of the Dis- 
trict of Columbia Suffrage Association, 
No. 2; established the present law busi- 
ness of Thomas G. Hensey & Co. in 1885. 
He is a member of the Military Order 
of the Loyal Legion. He has been twice 
married, firsit, July 11, 1860, to Aminta 
M. Dupiguae, who died February 6, 1895, 
and, second, to Ruth A. Bolway, whose 
maiden name was Rodbird. Residence: 
1759 Columbia Road, n.w. Office: 405 
Colorado Building. 

HENSHAW, HENRY WETHERBEE, 

biologist, naturalist, was born at Cam- 
bridge, Mass., on March 3, 1850, son of 
William and Sarah (Holden) Henshaw. 
He attended the public schools of his na- 
tive city and educated himself as a nat- 
uralist by outdoor study. He was at- 
tached as a naturalist to the Wheeler 
Survey in 1872, traveling throughout the 
West, and reporting on conditions there. 
In 1879 he became connected with the 
Bureau of Ethnology, and during a part 
of the time until 1893 was editor of the 
American Anthropologist. From 1894 to 
1904 he studied biological phases of 
Hawaii, and in 1905 became administrative 
biologist of the United States Department 
of Agriculture, which position he still re- 



tains. He is the author of a number of 
publications, monographs, etc., on nature 
subjects, ethnology, ornithology, etc. He 
is unmarried. Residence: The Ontario. 
Office: U. S. Department of Agriculture. 

HEPBURN, WILLIAM PETERS, law- 
yer. Congressman, was born at Wells- 
ville, Columbiana County, Ohio, on No- 
vember 4, 1833, and in 1841 removed with 
his parents to Iowa Territory, where he 
received a common school education. Fo;- 
a time he worked in a printing office, and 
in 1854 was admitted 'to the bar. He 
served throughout the Civil War as Cap- 
tain, Major, and Lieutenant-Colonel of 
the Second Iowa Cavalry. He was a del- 
egate to the Republican National Con- 
ventions of 1860, 1888 and 1896; was a 
presidential elector in 1876 and 1888. Dur- 
ing Harrison's adminisitration he was So- 
licitor of the Treasury Department, and 
■since 1881 has been a Representative from 
the Eighth Iowa District, with the ex- 
ception of the period from 1885 to 1892. 
Republican. Legal residence: Clarinda, 
Iowa. Washington address: 1124 Easit 
Capiitol street. 

HERBERT, HILARY ABNER, lawyer, 
formerly Secretary of the Navy, was born 
at Laurensville, South Carolina, on March 
12, 1834, son of Thomas E. Herbert. He 
was educated at the University of Ala- 
bama and at the University of Virginia, 
and was subsequently admiitted to the 
bar. He began the practice of his pro- 
fession at Greenville, Ala., and during the 
Civil War he served in the Confederate 
Army as Captain and Colonel of the 
Eighth Alabama Volunteers. After the 
war he resumed the practice of his pro- 
fession and removed to Montgomery, Ala., 
in 1872. From 1877 'to 1893 he was Rep- 
resentative in Congress and from 1893 
to 1897, Secretary of the Navy, under 
President Cleveland. Residence: 1612 
Twenty- first street, n.w. Office: 1419 Q 
street, n.w. 

HERMANN, BINGER, lawyer. Con- 
gressman, was born at Lonaconing, Alle- 
gany County, Maryland, on February 19, 
1843, and educated in the common schools 
and at the Independence Academy (later 
Irving College). He is the son of Dr. 
Henry and Elizabeth (Hopkins) Her- 
mann. He removed to Oregon early in 
life, and there taught school for a num- 
ber of years, subsequently studying law, 
being admitted to the bar in 1866. He 
also served in the Oregon Legislature as 
a Representative and State Senator, in 
1866 and 1868, respectively; was Deputy 
Collector of Internal Revenue for South- 
ern Oregon from 1868 to 1871; receiver of 
public moneys at the United States Land 
Office at Roseburg, Oregon, from 1871 to 
1873; Judge Advocate and Colonel of the 
Oregon Militia from 1882 to 1884, and was 
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Office in 1897, wliicli position he resigned 
in 1903. He was a Representative from 
the First Oregon Disitrict in the Forty- 
ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-first. Fifty-second, 
Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth Congresses, 
and again in the Fifty-eighth and Fifty- 
ninth Congresses. In politics he is a Re- 
publican. Legal residence: Roseburg, 
Oregon. 

HERNDON, WILLIAM, Pastor of the 
Pilgrim Baptisit Church. Residence: 1415 
Third street, n.w. 

HERRARTE, DON LUIS TOLEDO, 

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plen- 
ipotentiary from Guatemala to the United 
States. Address: The Highlands. 

HERRELL, JOHN E., President of the 
National Capiital Bank, was born in Lou- 
doun County, Virginia, on July 26, 1830. 
At twenty he worked at the trade of 
brickmason in Baltimore, and came to 
Washington in 1850 to enter the sam-^ 
business independently. "When Hhe war 
broke ouit he went into the United States 
Navy Yard as superintendent of the Gov- 
ernment's masonry work, and remained 
there for eleven years, in 1872 engaging 
in the manufacture of brick. . In 1880 
he was elected president of the National 
Capital Bank, and has so remained ever 
since. He was one of the organizers of 
the Columbia National Bank, and of the 
American Security and Trust Company, 
and one of the latter's directors. He is 
also president of the People's Fire In- 
surance Company, and has been a member 
of Harmony Lodge, I. O. O. P., for forty 
years. In 1851 he married Henriet'ta Ma- 
honey, of Georgetown, and they have had 
seven children, all of w'hom are now dead 
except one daughter, his wife dying in 
June, 1903. Residence: 926 Pennsylvania 
avenue, s.e. Office: National Capital 
Bank. 

HERRICK, SAMUEL, mining and pub- 
lic land lawyer, was born at Harrisburg, 
Penn., on March 2, 1880, son of Edward 
and Elia (Jackman) Herrick. He has 
eight direct ancestors who served in the 
Revolutionary War, and the grandfather 
of the subject of this sketch. General D. 
K. Jackman, was one of the three men 
who went on ithe bond of $100,000 for 
Jefferson Davis. Samuel Herrick at- 
tended the public schools of Washington 
from 1887 to 1898, graduating from the 
Central High School, and in 1901 from 
the law department of Columbian (now 
George Washington"* University. He pur- 
sued post-graduate courses ait this insti- 
tution, and in 1902 received the degree of 
LL. M., in 1903 that of M. Dip., and, in 
1904, the honorary degree of D. C. L. He 
was honor man of the class in each year 
of his course. Since his graduation in 
1901 he has been engaged in the practice 
of law before the courts of Pennsylvania, 



the Supreme Court of South Dakota, the 
District of Columbia Supreme Cout, and 
the United States Supreme Court. He as- 
sisted in founding the first town in the 
newly opened Rosebud Reservation, in 
South Dakota, which was named Her- 
rick in his honor, and co-operated in open- 
ing the Uintah Indian Reservation, Utah, 
to settlement in 1905. He is now engaged 
in law practice, specializing in public 
lands, mining, and irrigation law, and 
is Washington representative and attor- 
ney for the following corporations: Iron 
Mountain and Southern Railroad Com- 
pany; Central Colorado Power Company; 
Umatilla Power Company; Hydro-Eleotric 
Power Company; New Cenitury Light and 
Power Company; Western Power Com- 
pany; Continental Mining Company, 
Pennsylvania Lumber Company; Unitah 
Irrigation Company, etc. In 1904 he was 
the Republican nominee for County Judge 
of Gregory County, South Dakota, and in 
1903 campaigned the Stalte of Ohio with 
his cousin. Governor Herrick, and Sena- 
tor Hanna. He is ithe author of The Mon- 
roe Doctrine as a principle of International 
Law; la member of the Phi Delta Phi 
fraternity; University Club; Sons of the 
American Revolution; Washing'ton Board 
of Trade; Masonic Order; Mystic Shrine, 
and of the Episcopal Church. He is a 
Republican. He married, on October 22, 
1907, Fanny Field, granddaughter of Gen- 
eral J. G. Field, of the Confederate Army, 
who was candidate for Vice-President of 
the United States in 1892. Residence: 
Stoneleigh Court. Office: Colorado Build- 
ing. 

HERRON, J. WHIT, Business Manager 
of the Washington Evening S'tar. Resi- 
dence: 3536 Thirteenth street, n.w. Office: 
Eleventh street and Pennsylvania avenue, 
n.w. 

HEURICH, CHRISTIAN, President of 
the Heurich Brewing Company, was born 
at Hania-by-Roemchild, Saxe Meiningen, 
Germany, in 1842. After several years' 
residence in the ci'ty of Baltimore, he 
removed to Washington, and began busi- 
ness for himself, having previously trav- 
eled extensively in Germany and Austria 
and perfected himself in the ant of mak- 
ing beers. He is prominently identified 
with many of Washington's leading busi- 
ness enterprises. On January 11, 1899, 
he married Amelia Keyser, of Washington. 
Residence: 1307 New Hampshire ave- 
nue. 

HEYBURN, WELDON BRINTON, law- 
yer. United States Senator, was born In 
Delaware County, Pennsylvania, on May 
23, 1852. He received an academic edu- 
cation, and in 1876 was admitted to the 
bar. In 1883 he removed to Shoshone 
County, Idaho, where he has since resided. 
He was a member of the Constitutional 
Convention of the State of Idaho, and was 



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chairman of the Judiciary Committee of 
(that body; he was a delegate to the 
National Republican Conventions of 18S8. 
1892 and 1900, and was nominated for 
Congress in 1898, but defeated. He was 
elected United States Senator from Idaho 
on January 13, 1903. In politics he is a 
Republican. Legal residence: Wallace, 
Idaho. Washington address: Stoneleigli 
Court, or U. S. Senate. 

HEYL, CHARLES HEATH, Colonel, U. 
S. A. (retired), was born at Philadelphia, 
Penn., on July 22, 1849, son of David See- 
ger and Caroline Julia (Heath) Heyl. 
until 1867 he attended the public schools 
of his native city. In 1873 was appointed 
a Second Lieutenant in ithe Infantry; was 
promoted First Lieutenant March 20, 1882; 
was graduated from the United States In- 
fantry and Cavalry School ait Fort Lea- 
venworth, Kansas, 1883; advanced to 
Captain April 18, 1891; made Major and 
Assisitant Adjutant-General May, 1898; 
transferred to the Inspector-General's De- 
partment July 8, 1898; ipromoted Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel December 19, 1899, and 
Colonel July 23, 1902, retaining the post of 
Inspector-General. He was retired on 
November 21, 1904. Was brevetted First 
Lieutenant for conspicuous gallantry in 
action againsit hostile Apache Indians in 
1874, and later awarded la congressional 
medal of honor for most distinguished gal- 
lantry in action against Sioux Indians 
near Port Hartsuff, Nebraska, April 28, 
1876. He is a member of the Sons of the 
Revolution; War of 1812; Pennsylvania 
Commandery of the Naval Order of the 
United States; Pennsylvania Society; 
Order of Indian Wars of the United 
Sitates; Metropolitan Club, and Union 
League Club of Chicago, etc. He marrieJ 
Mrs. Mary Delphine Turner Heyl on Jan- 
uary 24, 1900. Residence: 2009 Wyoming 
avenue, n.w. 

HEYWOOD, CHARLES, Major-General, 
United States Marine Corps (retired), was 
born in the State of Maine, on October 3, 
1839. He was appointed a Second Lieu- 
tenant in the Marine Corps on April 5, 
1858; was with the corps in the quelling 
of the quarantine riots at Staten Island, 
New York, in 1858, and subsequently was 
on special duty. He saw special service 
in Nicaragua trying to apprehend the fili- 
buster Walker, and during the Civil War 
was on the U. S. S. Cumberland, until 
she was sunk in battle with the Merri- 
mac; later in the naval campaign around 
Fort Hatteras and ait the battle of Mo- 
bile Bay, and subsequent operations in 
that vicinity. He was commissioned a 
First Lieutenant on May 30, 1861; ad- 
vanced to Captain November 23, 1861; 
brevettted Major and Lieutenant-Colonel 
for distinguished bravery in adtion. Dur- 
ing the labor riots at Baltimore, Reading 
and Philadelphia he had command of a 
detachmenit of marines, and was corn- 



mended by his superior, General Hancock. 
On November 1, 1876, he was promoted to 
Major; commissioned Lieutenant-Colonel 
March 9, 1888; made Colonel in 1891, sub- 
sequently being advanced to the rank 
of Brigadier-General, and on July 1, 1902 
Major-General, and retired October 3, 1903. 
In 1885 he organized and assisted in the 
equipmenit of the marines sent to Pan- 
ama to protect American interests, and 
from 1891 to 1903 was commandant of the 
United States Marine Corps. Address: 
Navy Department. 

HI BBS, WILLIAM B., banker, broker, 
was born in Gordonsville, Virginia, in 1864. 
Member of 'the New York Stock Exchange, 
Chicago Board of Trade, and Washington 
Stock Exchange. Residence: 1618 Eight- 
eenlth street, n.w. Office: Hibbs Build- 
ing. 

HICH BORN, PHILIP, Rear Admiral, U. 
S. N. (retired), was born at Charlestown, 
Massachusetts, on March 3, 1839, son of 
Philip and Martha (Gould) Hichborn. He 
attended the public schools, and for five 
years served as a shipwright's apprentice 
at (the Boston Navy Yard, later pursu- 
ing a special course in ship design and 
construction, by direction of ithe Navy 
Department. In 1861, after a voyagf 
around Cape Horn, he entered the Mare 
Island Navy Yard (Cal.), and, in 1862, 
became ;master shipwright ait that sta- 
tion. In 1869 'he entered 'the United States 
Navy as an assistant naval constructor, 
and, after a competitive examination in 
1875, was commissioned naval constructor. 
At this time he was staltioned at Ponts- 
mouth, N. H., 'but subsequently he was 
ordered ito League Island, Pennsylvania, 
where he had charge of the rebuilding 
of the navy yard. In 1876 he was identi- 
fied prominently with the Philadelphia 
Centennial Exposition, and in 1881 be- 
came a member of ithe first naval a.d- 
visory board. In 1884, at the request of 
the Secretary of the Navy, he made a 
tour of European dock yards, to observe 
their shipbuilding ^methods, and on his 
return made important reports regarding 
the same, which Congrciss ordered to be 
printed and made public. He served as 
a member of the Board of Inspection and 
Survey for six years, and assistant to the 
chief of construction and repair ten years, 
and in 1893 he was appointed chief con- 
structor, and chief of that bureau, serv- 
ing about eight yeairs, until retired. Dur- 
ing his incumbency of thait office the 
United States witnessed an extraordi- 
nary naval growth, and his direction of 
affairs in the building up of the new 
navy has been most commendatory. He 
is the author of European Dock Yards; 
Standard Boats of the Navy; Sheathed 
or Unshealthed Ships? etc. He is the 
inventor of the Franklin life buoy, and 
of the Hichborn balanced turret, both in 
use now on war ships of the several na- 



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vies of the world. He is a Thirty-second 
degree Mason; a member and incor- 
porator of the Army and Navy Club; an 
honorary member of the Institution of 
Naval Architects, England; the Masonic 
Veterans Association of California; The 
California Pioneers; Sons of the Amer- 
ican Revolution; the Bunker Hill Mon- 
ument Association; the Massachusetts 
Charitable Mechanic Association, and a 
director in the Washington Loan and 
Trust Company. On November 29, 1875, 
he miarried Jennie Mary Franklin, of Ver- 
mont. Residence: 1707 N street, n.w. 

HICKLING, DANIEL PERCY, physi- 
cian, was born at Washington, D. C, on 
September 19, 1863, son of Daniel P. and 
Sarah A. Hickling. He attended Emer- 
.son Institute and the Columbia Prepara- 
to;ry School in 1884, graduating from the 
■medical department of Georgetown Uni- 
versity, and later pursuing la special course 
at London, Paris, Berlin, Chicago and 
Boston. He is at present engaged in pro- 
fessional practice, and as professor of 
surgery, Washing'ton Post -Graduate Med- 
ical School; clinical professor of surgery 
•and nervous diseases and professor of 
electro therapeutics in the School of Med- 
icine, Georgetown University; in charge 
of neurological and electro therapeutic 
clinic. Eastern Dispensary and Casualty 
Hospital; neurologist, Providence Hos- 
pital; ^consulting neurologist, Washington 
Home for Incurables; in charge depart- 
iment of neurology, Georgetown Hospital, 
land visiting physician, Washington Asy- 
lum. In addition, he was a physician to 
the poor; police surgeon; visiting physi- 
cian to the St. Elizabeth's Insane Asylum, 
and medical examiner of the Reliance Life 
Insurance Company of Pittsburg, Penn. 
He 'has written a number of medical mon- 
ographs and papers, including: Study of 
. Dislocations of the Firso and Carpo Meta- 
carpal Joint; Hysteria, Friederich's Dis- 
ease; Treatment of Delirium Tremens; 
Appendicitis; Abscess of Brain, and. 
Fractures -of the Skull. He is a Thirty- 
second degree Mason; member of the 
Knight Templars, and a member of the 
following organizations: Washington 
Board of Trade; Washington Chamber 
of Commerce; Washington Academy of 
Sciences; Medical Association of the 
District of Columbia; Medical Society of 
the District of Columbia; American Med- 
ical Association; Medical and Surgical 
Society of the District of Columbia; Soci- 
ety of Nei-vous and Mental Diseases of 
Districit of Columbia; Medical Society of 
Casualty Hospital; Medical Society of 
Georgetown Medical College, and Univer- 
sity Club, of Washington, D. C. He in 
also a member of the Pro- Cathedral 
Church of the Ascension. On September 
5, 1894, he married Harriet SItone. Resi- 
dence: 1304 Rhode Island avenue. 



HICKS, J. ADDISON, lawyer. Resi- 
dence: 1737 Rhode Island avenue, n.w. 
Office: The Bond Building. 

HIGGINS, EDWIN WERTER, lawyer. 
Congressman, was bo;rn at Clinton, Con- 
necticut, on July 2, 1874, and educated 
in the common schools and at Yale Uni- 
versity, where he was gradualted-from the 
laiw department in 1897. Since his ad- 
mission to the bar, in the same year, 
he has been engaged in the practice of 
law. In 1899 ihe was a Representative in 
the Connecticut General Assembly; sub- 
sequently he served as Corporation Coun- 
sel for Norwich, Conn.; as Deputy Judge 
of the City Court, and Health Officer for 
New London County, Connecticut. Since 
1900 he has been a member of the Re- 
publican State Central Committee, and 
was a delegate to the Republican National 
Convention in 1904. He was elected a 
Representative from the Third Connecti- 
cut Congressional District in 1905, and 
has been re-elected to subsequent Con- 
gresses. On Septemiber 21, 1904, he mar- 
ried Alice M. Neff. He is a Republican. 
Legal residence: Norwich, Conn. Wash- 
mgton address: House of Representa- 
tives. 

HIGGINSON, FRANCIS JOHN, Rear 

Admiral, U. S. N. (retired), was born at 
Boston, Mass., on July 19, 1843, son of 
Stephen Higginson. He was graduated 
from the United States Naval Academy 
in 1861, and during the Civil War served 
on the Colorado near Pensacola, Fla. ; on 
the U. S. S. Cayuga, at the passage of 
Forts Jackson and St. Philip, and the 
blockade of Charleston,' and consequent 
engagements about Forts Moultrie and 
Sumter, also on the U. S. S. HousaJtonic, 
at the time she was destroyed by a tor- 
pedo. He was advanced to Lieutenant in 
1862; made Lieutenant-Commander in 
1866; commissioned Commander in 1882; 
promoted to Captain in 1891, and as such 
commanded the Massachusetts in the war 
with Spain; advanced to the rank of 
Commodore August 10, 1898, and made 
Rear Adru'ral March 5, 1899. In August, 
1898, he was appointed chairman of the 
Lighthouse Board; May 1, 1901, he was 
in command of the North Atlantic fleet, 
and in July, 1903, placed in command of 
the Washington Navj^ Yard. Admiral Hig- 
ginson was retired on July 19, 1905. Ad- 
dress: Navy Department. 

HILL, EBENEZER J., Congressman, 
was born in Redding, Connecticult, on Au- 
gust 4, 1845, son of Rev. Moses and Char- 
lotte (McLellan) Hill, and a descendant of 
William A. and Sarah (Jourdain) Hill, of 
Lyme Regis, England, who settled at Dor- 
chester, Mass., in 1632. He prepared for 
college in the public schools of Norwalk, 
entered Yale University with the class of 
1865, and after two years there, joined 
the Union Army as a civilian. He re- 
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'the war, and was subsequently actively 
engrasred in business pursuits until 1895. 
During this period he was secretary and 
•treasurer of the Norwall< Iron Works; 
president of the Norwalk Street Railway 
Company, and the Norwalk Gas Com- 
pany, and vice-president of the Norwalk 
Mills Company, and of the National Bank 
of Norwalk. He served (twice as Burgess 
of Norwalk; twice as chairman of the 
Board of School Visitors; was delegate tj 
the Republican National Convention of 
1884; member of the Connecticut Senate, 
1887-89; served one term on the Repub- 
lican State Central Co'mmititee; was 
elected a Representative in the Fifty- 
fourth and subsequent Cong-esses, from 
the Fourth Connecticut District. In 1892 
Yale University conferred upon him the 
honorary degree of M. A. He married, 
on June 14, 1868, Mary Ellen Mosman, 
of AmhTst, Mass. Legal residence: Nor- 
walk, Conn. Washington address: House 
of Representatives. 

HILL, EDWIN ALLSTON, lawyer, civil 
engineer, and chemist, was born in New 
York City, on January 18, 1850. son of 
Benjamin Scranton and Elizabeth Stokes 
(Jones) Hill. He attended 'the public 
schools of New York, the Hudson River 
Institute (Claverack, N. Y.), and Willis- 
ton Seminary (EaSthampton, Mass.), and 
was graduated in 1875 from Yale Univer- 
sity, with the degree of A. B.; from 
Columbian (now George Washington) 
University in 1901, with the degree of 
M. S.; from Yale University, in 1902, 
wiith that of A. M., and from Columbian 
(now George Washington) University in 
1903, with that of Ph. D. For seventeen 
years he was a lawyer and civil engineer 
for railways; a member of the bar in 
three States. He served in the capacities 
of assistant attorney, assistant superin- 
tendent, claim agent, real estate agent, 
assisant engineer, and assistant receiver, 
with the following systems: B. & N. Y 
A. L. R. R.; I. D. & S. R. R.; C. & O., 
and C. C, C. & St. L. Ry., and the Jack- 
sonville Southeastern system. He was pri- 
vate secretary to 'three Commissioners of 
Patents, and is now Assistant Examiner 
in the United States Patent Office, and 
assistant professor of chimisitry at George 
Washington University. He has written 
a number of monographs for railway 
journals, and on genealogical and chem- 
ical subjects for technical periodicals. Hj 
was a member of the Committee on 
Street Decorations of the Inaugural Com- 
miittee of 190o, and has assisited with va- 
rious committees in the unveiling of stac- 
ues in this city. He is or has been a 
member of the following organizations: 
American Society of Civil Engineens; 
Western Society of Engineers; Connecti- 
cut Society of Engineers; Washing'ton 
Microscopical Society; Sangamo Club, of 
Springfield, 111; Wyoming Club, of Jack- 
sonville, 111., and the National Geographic 



Society, and has held office In the fol- 
lowing: American Chemical Society; 
Illinois Society of Engineers; Alumni As- 
sociation of Yale; Chora] Society; Engi- 
neers' Club, of Cincinnati; Sons of th3 
American Rpvolution; Connecticut Soci- 
ety of Mayflower Descendants; District 
Society of Mayflower Descendants; Na- 
tional Genealogical Society, etc. He is a 
member of the Protestant Episcopal 
Church. On June 18, 1884, he married 
Ida Maria Wood. Residence: 1221 K 
street, n.w. Office: Patent Office. 

HILL, GEORGE ANDREWS, astrono- 
mer, was born at Elizabeth, New Jersey, 
on April 11. 1858, son of Rev. I. N. and 
Annie M. Hill. He a'tt^nded private schools 
and Columbia College. Astronomer in th.» 
United States Naval Observatory. He 
has contibuted largely to periodicals on 
astronomical matters and pursued special 
work in the fundamental determination 
of star positions and the variation of 
latitude. He is a member of the Amer- 
ican Association for the Advancement of 
Science; Astronomical and Astrophysicai 
Society of America; Astronomischen 
Gesfllschafc of Germany, etc. Address: 
Naval Observatory. 

HILL, GEORGE GRISWOLD, journal- 
ist, was born at Montreal, Canada, on 
April 24, 18RS, son of George William and 
Frances Harriet (Griswold) Hill. He at- 
tended the public schools of Englewood 
(now Chicago), 111., and St. Ignatius Col- 
lege, and in 1886 entered journalistic 
work on The Farmer, at St. Paul, Minn. 
From 1890 to 1897 he was managing edi- 
tor of the American Farmer, at Chicago; 
from 1895 to 1897. of The Produce Trade 
Reporter. Since 1900 he has been located 
in Washington, from 1900 to 1902 ag 
Washington correspondent of variou.3 
n^wsp'apers, and since 1902 with the 
Washington Bureau of the New York 
Tribune; represented the New York 
Tribune at the Portsmouth Peace Con- 
ference, 1905. He is the author of Mar- 
keting Produce; Practical Hints for 
Farm Buildings, etc., and is a Republican 
in politics and a Rodman Catholic in re- 
ligion. On May 23, 1893, he married 
Frances Mary Chaffee. Residence: 2804 
Foute-nth street, n.w. Office: 1322 F 
street, n.w. 

HILL, GEORGE WILLIAM, Editor-in- 
Chief, United States Department of Agri- 
culture, was born at St. Peters' Port, 
Guernsey, England, on December 25, 1845, 
son of Dr. Ninian and Marion (T>ancaFter) 
Hill. He attended school in France and 
a,t the French Lycee, and at other private 
institutions, later studying law at McGill 
College, in Montreal, Canada. Subse- 
qurntly he was attached to the staff of 
the Montreal Herald, and from 1870 to 
1879 was engaged in Chicago with the 
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1879 he founded the Farmer's Review, in 
Chicago; from 1886 to 1888 was manager 
and editor of The Farmer, at St. Paul, 
Minn. Since July, 1899, lie has been edi- 
tor in the Depa:rtment of Agriculture. He 
is an Offlcier du Merite Agricole (French), 
and, in politics, a Cleveland Democrat. 
In 1906 received the degree (honorary) 
of Ph. D. from Villanova College (Penn.;. 
He is a Roman Catholic, and was married 
to Frances H. Griswdd on March 30, 1867 
Residence: The Benedick, 1808-10 I street, 
n.w. Office: U. S. Department of Agri- 
culture. 

HILL, JOSEPH ADNA, economist, stat- 
istician, was born at Stevvardstown, New 
Hampshire, on May 5, 1860, son of Rev. 
Joseph B. and Harriet (Brown) Hill. He 
was graduated from the Phillips- Exeter 
Academy in 1881; from Harvard Uni- 
versity, with ithe^degee of A. M., in 1887, 
and from Halle, Germany, with the de- 
gree of Ph. D., in 1892. During 1893 he 
was a lecturer at the University of Penn- 
sylvania, and in 1895 was an instructor 
at Harvard University. In 1897 he spent 
some time abroad, at the instance of 
the Massachusetts Tax Commission, in an 
Investigajtion of the European methods of 
taxatiiQTi, and since 1898 has been engaged 
in statistical work with the Bureau of 
the Census. He has written a number 
of articles on economic subjects; is tlie 
aulthor of The English Income Tax, with 
Special References to Administration and 
Method of Assessment, and prepared the 
census reports on Child Labor in the 
United States, and on Women at Work. 
He Is a member of the Cosmos Club, the 
National Geographic Society, American 
Economic Association, e)tc. He is unmar- 
ried. Residence: 1325 N street, n.w. 
Office: Bureau 'of the Census. 

HILL, ROBERT THOMAS, geologist, 
was born at Nashville, Tenn., on August 
11, 1858. He was graduated from Cor- 
nell University In 1886, and since that time 
has been connected with the United States 
Geological Survey, and geological and geo- 
graphical explorations, investigations, sur- 
veys, etc. He explored the Southwestern 
States and Mexico, and, with Prof. Alex- 
ander Agassiz, investigated the geolog- 
ical history, etc., of lands in Central 
America and the West Indies. He is an 
expert mining engineer and geologist, and 
has many Interests in Mexico. In 1902 
he was a member of the Martinique Ex- 
pedition of the National Geographic So- 
ciety, and a representative 'Of the Cen- 
tury Magazine. For two years he was 
professor of geology at the University of 
Texas, and has also been lecturer at the 
school of economics. University of Mich- 
igan, and throughout the States. He is 
the author of a number of Government 
bulletins and documents on geographic 
and geological subj ots, and is a frequent 
technical contributor to periodicals. On 
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December 28, 1887, he married Justina 
Robinson. Residence: 1738 Q street, n.w. 

HILL, WILLIAM ALEXANDER, real 

estate, was born In Prince George County, 
Maryland, on April 23, 1875, son of Sam- 
uel C. and Elizabeth Bowie Hill. He at- 
tended St. John's College, in Washington; 
Rock Hill College, at Ellicott, Maryland, 
and tbe Spencerian Business College, In 
Washington. He began his business ca- 
reer at the age of fift en in a IocjI mer- 
cantile house, and later was for several 
years in the counting room of Woodwa. d 
& LfOthrop (department store). He was 
a clerk with a real estate firm, b ginning 
in 1895, land, in less than a year, was 
salesman for the same company. On Jan- 
uary 1, 1900, he purchased a half Inter- 
est in the real estate business established 
by David Moore, and in 1902 the firm 
was incorporated under the name of 
Moore & Hill. He was vice-president and 
treasurer of the corporation until Janu- 
ary, 1902 when he purchased Mr. Moore's 
interesit, and became president of the 
company. He is one of the incorporators, 
and a director, in the National City Bank, 
and president of the Merchants' and Me- 
chanics' Savings Bank. He is a member 
of the Board of Trade, Chamber of Com- 
merce, and the Carroll InstHtute. On No- 
vember 1, 1900, he married Josephine Per- 
kins, daughter of former Senator Perkins, 
of Kansas. Residence: 1824 Biltmore 
street, n.w. Office: 1333 G street, n.w. 

HILL, WILLIAM CORCORAN, real es- 
tate, was born in Baltimore, Maryland, 
in 1847, son of Rev. Steven P. Hill, D. D. 
He was educated at Burlington Coll ge, 
and when eighteen years of age secured 
a position in the banking house of RIggs 
& Co., which company lie served a num- 
ber of years. When the real estate boom 
s!tarted in Washington he engaged in that 
business, which he still follows. He was 
a trustee of the RIggs Fire Insurance 
Company; the Louise Home; the Fund 
for the Poor in Georgetown, and has been 
interested in numerous other financial and 
charitable in.stitutions. In 1877 he mar- 
ried Sallie Phenix, of Washington. Resi- 
dence: 1724 H street, n.w. Office: 1502 
H street, n.w. 

HILL, WILSON SHEDRIC, lawyer. 
Congressman, was born in Choctaw 
County, Mississippi, on January 19, 
1863, and educated In the public schools 
and at the University of Mississippi, sub • 
sequen'tly studying law at Cumberland 
University, Lebanon, Tenn. He began the 
practice of his profession at Winona, 
Miss., in 1884; was elected to the State 
Legislature in 1887, serving one term; was 
elected in 1891, and re-elected in 1895 and 
1899, as District AtJtorney for the Fifth 
MIssls.cipni Judicial Di^t'ict, and in 1902 
to the Fifty-eighth Congress. He was re- 
elected to the Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth 
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Winona, Miss. Washington laddress: Met- 
ropolitan Hotel. 

HILLEBRAND, WILLIAM FRANCIS, 

mineral chemisit, was born at Honolulu, 
Hawaiian Islands, on December 12, 1853, 
son of William and Anna (Post) Hille- 
brand. He attended schools in Honolulu, 
and, from 1862 to 1863, Oakland College 
School (Cal.), land later Punahou College, 
Hawaiian Islands, and, 1870-72, Cornell 
University. He then studied at the Uni- 
versiity of Heidelberg, 1872-76, taking the 
Ph. D. degree in 1875, later studying at 
Strass'burg and PreilDerg, Germany. The 
National College of Pharmacy, Washing- 
ton, bestowed upon him the honorary de- 
gree of Ph'ar. D. Prom 1879 to 1880 he 
was an assayer at Leadville, Colorado; 
since the latter date he has been chem- 
ist in the United States Geological Sur- 
vey, and, since 1892, professor of general 
ehemisitry and physics at the National 
College of Pharmacy. He is the author 
of many publications, relating chiefly to 
mineral ehemistry, it'he -most important of 
which is, Principles and Methods of Rock 
Analysis. He is a member of the Amer- 
ican Chemical Society (president in 1906); 
fellow American Association for the Ad- 
vancement of Science; member American 
Philosophical Socie'ty; Geological Soci- 
ety of Washington; Colorado Scientific 
Society; University Club; corresponding 
member Royal Academy of Sciences, Got- 
tingen. On September 6, 1881, he married 
Martha M. Westcott. Residence: 506 T 
street, n.w. Office: U. S. Geological Sur- 
vey. 

HILYER, ANDREW FRANKLIN, law- 
yer, clerk. United States Treasury De- 
paPtment, was born near Monroe, Wral- 
ton County, Georgia, on August 14, 1858 
and eduoalted in the public schools of 
Minneapolis, Minn. He wis graduated 
from the University of Minnesota, with 
the degree of A. B., in 1882, and from the 
law department of Howard University in 
1884, later pursuing a post-graduarte 
course in law in the same institution. 
He is Ithe inventor of an evaporating pan 
for hot-air registers; treasurer of the S. 
Coleridge-Taylor Choral Society. On July 
1, 1886, he married Mamie E. Nichols. 
Residence: 2352 Sixth street, n.w. 

HINCH, J. A.^ Pasltor of St. Dominic's 
Catholic Ohurch. Residence: 515 Sixth 
street, s.w. 

HINCKLEY, ROBERT, artist, was born 
at Bositon, Mass., on April 3, 1853, son of 
Samuel Lyman and Anne Cutter (Par- 
ker) Hinckley. He undertook the study 
of art, and was graduated from the Ecole 
des Beaux Arts, in Paris, and for seven- 
teen years studied art and painting 
abroad. He founded, the studio of Caro- 
lus Duran, -and for a number of years 
was teacher of !the portrait class at the 
Corcoran School of Art, of this city He 



has made several hundred portraits of 
prominent Americans. On June 11, 1885, 
Mr. Hinckley married Eleanora O'Donnell. 
Residence: 1310 Massachustltts avenue. 

HINSHAW, EDMUND HOWARD, law- 
yer, Congressmian, was born at Greens- 
boro, Indiana, on December 8, 1860. He 
was brought up on a farm, and taught 
school for ten yea.rs, attending college in- 
termittently during this time. In 1885 
he was graduated from Butler College, 
at Indianapolis, Ind., and later removed 
ito Fairbury, Nebraska, Where 'he 'be- 
came superintendent of public schools. 
In 1888 he was admitted to the practice 
of law. He has held a number of county 
and municipal offices, and in 1898 was 
nominated as Reipublican candidate for 
Congress, and defeaited by a small ma- 
jority; in 1902 he was elected to Con- 
gress from the Fourth Indiana Distridc, 
and has been twice re-eleeted. Republican. 
Legal residence: Fairbury, Nebraska. 
Washington address: Dewey Hotel. 

HITCHCOCK, ALBERT SPEAR, bot- 
anist, was born at Owasso, Michigan, on 
Septembe.- 4, 1865, son of Professor Al- 
bert Jennings. His mother is now Mrs 
Peter Hughes. He was adopted by Mr. 
and Mrs. Hitchcock in 1867. He was grad- 
uated from It'he Iowa Agricultural College 
in 1884, and in 1886 received the degree 
of M. S. From 1886 to 1889 he was an 
assistant in Chemistry at the Iowa State 
University. From 1889 to 1891 he was 
botanical assis'tant at Ithe Missouri Botan- 
ical Garden, at St. Louis; was professor 
of 'botany at the Kansas Agricultural Col- 
lege from 1892 to 1901. From 1901 to 
1905 was assistant agrostologist of the 
United States Department 'Of Agriculture, 
and since then systematic agrostologist. 
He is a member of the American Associa- 
ition for the Advancement of Science; 
Botanical Society of America; St. Louis 
Academy of Science; Washington Botan- 
ical Society; Kan-sas Academj^ of Science; 
Washington Biological Society; Interna- 
tional Society of Geognaphical Botany, 
etc., and a frequent contributor on botan- 
ical subjects to scientific magazines. On 
March 16, 1890, 'he married, at Ames, 
Iowa, Rania B. Dailey. Residence: 3363 
Sixteenth street. Office: U. S. Depart- 
ment of Agriculture. 

HITCHCOCK, ETHAN ALLEN, former 
Secretary of the Interior, was born in 
Mobile, Alabama, on September 19, 1835, 
a great-grandson of General Ethan Allen, 
of Revolutionary fame. He lived at New 
Orleans for a year with his parents, and 
then removed with them 'to Nashville, 
Tenn., where he attended private schools, 
and, in 1855, completing his eduoaition at 
tlie Military Academy, New Haven, Conn. 
In 1902 he received the honorary degree 
of LL. D. from the University of Missouri, 
and also holds the same degree from 
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engaged in the mercantile business at St. 
Louis, at which time he entered the em- 
ploy of Olyphant & Co., and removed to 
China, later becoming a member of the 
firm. In 1872 he retired from active busi- 
ness life, and spent several years abroad. 
In 1874, following his return to this covm- 
try, he became president of a number of 
railway, mining and manufacturing com- 
panies, being ithus occupied until Au- 
gust 16, 1897, when he was appointed 
Minister to Russia. He was advanced to 
the grade of Ambassador in February, 
1898, being ithe first American Ambassa- 
dor to Russia. Oh December 21, 1898, 
he was appointed Secretary of 'the Inte- 
rior, and reappointed by President Roose- 
velt in 1902, serving unltil March 4, 1907. 
In politics he is a Republican. He is a 
trustee of the Carnegie Institution, and 
a 'member of ithe Society of the Cincinnati. 
Residence: 1601 K street, n.w. 

HITCHCOCK, FRANK HARRIS, First 
Assistanit Postmaster General, was born 
at Amherst, Ohio, on October 5, 1867, son 
of Henry Chapman and Mary Laurette 
(Hairis) Hitchcock. He attended school 
in Boston, Mass., and was graduated from 
Harvard University in 1891, and from the 
Columbian (now George Washington) 
University College of Law, with ^the de- 
gree of LL. M., in 1894, when he was ad- 
mitted to the bar. He has 'been in the 
Government service since 1891; for a time 
he was chief of 'the Division of Foreign 
Markets of the Department of Agricul- 
ture; later chief clerk of the Department 
of Commerce and Labor. He was assist- 
ant secretary of the National Republican 
Committee of 1904, and secretary of the 
Inaugural Commit'tee in 1905; also for- 
merly a member of the Government Ex- 
position Board. He is a fellow of (the 
American Statistical Association, and a 
member of the American Economic Asso- 
ciation; the American Association for th'j 
Advancement of Science; American Orni- 
thol'Ogists' Union; Washington Economic 
Association; Cosmos Club; Harvard 
Club, etc. He has wriltten a number of 
bulletins rel'iting to foreign commerce, 
trade, etc. In politics he is a Republican 
Unmarried. Residence: 1712 H street, 
n.w. Office: Post Office Department. 

HITCHCOCK, GILBERT M., journalist. 
Congressman, was born at Omaha, Ne- 
braska, on September 18, 1859, son of 
Phineas W. and Annie (Monell) Hichcock. 
He was educated alt Omaha, and Baden- 
Baden, Germany; was graduated from 
the law department of the University of 
Michigan in 1881. In 1885 he established 
the Omaha Evening World, which he ed- 
ited until 1889, when he purchased the 
Morning Herald, since when he has been 
publisher of the Morning and Evening 
WoTld-Herald. From 1903 to 1905 he was 
a member of Congress from the Second 
NeJbraska Districit, and, in November, 1906, 



•was elected to the Sixtieth Congress from 
the same district. In politics he is a Dem- 
ocrat. On August 30, 1883, he married 
Jessie Crounse, at Fort Calhoun, Neb. 
Legal residence: Omaha, Neb. Washing- 
ton address: House of RepresentaJtives. 

HITZ, JOHN, Superintendent of the 
Volta Bureau, was t)orn at Davos, Switz- 
erland, on September 14, 1828, son of 
John and Anna (Ko'hler) Hi'tz. He has 
been a resident of this country since 1831, 
and was educated in American private 
schools. For a time he was engaged in 
business as a banker and in commercial 
ven'tures. In 1864 became Consul Gen- 
eral of Switzerland, succeeding his father, 
where he served for sevente'^n years. Since 
1890 he has been superintendent of the 
Volta Bureau, an institution founded by 
Dr. Alexander Graham Bell for the in- 
crease and diffusion of knowledge relat- 
ing to the deaf. He has given a great 
portion of his Itime to philanthropic work 
and educational 'organizations, serving for 
a time al.so (1864-65) as .school trustee. 
He 'has written a number of monognaphs 
on social science, philanthropy, etc., and 
edited a number of publications relating 
to the deaf and dumb. He is a member 
of the Naitional Geographic Society; th( 
American Association 'to Promote Teach 
ing of Speech to the Deaf; National Ed 
ucational Association; American Asso 
elation for the Advancement of Science 
Society of American Florists; Anthropo 
logical Society; Society of Philosophical 
Inquiry; American Fores'try Association 
several Swiss- American Societies; honor- 
ary and corresponding member of foreign 
associations, etc. In 1865 he married Jane 
C. Shanks. Residence: 1601 Thirty-fifth 
street, n.w. Office: Volta Bureau, n.e. 
cor. Volta Place and Thirty- fifth street, 
n.w. 

HOAR, ROCKWOOD, lawyer. Congress- 
man, was born a/t Worcester, Mass., on 
August 24, 1855, son of the late Senator 
George Frisbie and Louisa (Spurr) Hoar. 
He attended the public schools of Wor- 
cesiter, and was graduated from Harvard 
College in 1876, with the degree of A. B.; 
in 1878, with that of LL. B., and, in 1870, 
with thalt of A. M. Since 1879 he has 
been engaged in the practice of law at 
Worcester, Mass. From 1884 to 1887 he 
was Assistant District Attorney; District 
Attorney from 1899 to 1905, and, from the 
latter date until 1907, member of Con- 
gress. From 1875 to 1878 he served with 
Ithe Massachusetts Militia as a private; 
from 1887 to 1890 was aide-de-camp on 
the Governor's staff, and subsequently 
Judge Advocate-General on the Governor's 
staff. During the Spanish-American War 
he was a member of the State Advisory 
Board on Military Affairs. He was for- 
merly president of the Com'mon CounciJ 
of Worcester. He is a trustee 'Of Clark 
University, and of the Worcester Insane 



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Hospital and Insane Asylum. In politics 
he Is a Republican; In religion, he is a 
member of the Unitarian Church. On 
June 1, 1893, lie married Christine Rice. 
Legal residence: Worcester, Mass. 

HOBSON, RICHMOND PEARSON, re- 
tired naval constructor, Congressman, 
was born in Greensboro, Alabama, on 
August 17, 1870, son of James Marcellus 
and Sarah Croom (Pearson) Hobson. He 
attended the privaite schools from 1878 
to 1882; Southern University from 1882 
to 1885, land w^as graduated from the 
United States Naval Academy in 1889. 
He also studied at Ecole National Supe- 
rieur des Mines and Ecole d' Application 
du Genie Maritime, Paris. He has seen 
active service in all parts of the world. 
He organized and conducted a post- 
graduate course for officers destined for 
construction corps at the United States 
Naval Academy, 1897-98, and in March, 
1898, went to sea wiith the North Atlantic 
Squadron, serving as constructor with the 
fleet. He was on the flagship New York 
at the outbreak of the Spanish-American 
War on blockading duty; took part in 
bombardment of Mantanzas, and in the ex- 
pedition against San Juan de Porto Rico. 
He commanded the Merrimac, and sunk 
■her in Santiago harbor; prisoner in Span- 
ish fort June 3 to July 6, 1898. During 
1899 and 1900 he was on duty in the far 
East, and was special representative of 
the Navy Department aJt the Pan-Amer- 
ican Exposition in 1901, and the Charles- 
ton Exposition, in 1901 and 1902. During 
May and June, 1902, he was superintend- 
ent of naval construction at the Crescent 
Shipyards, Elizabeth, N. J., and resigned 
from the navy on February 6, 1903. He 
is Ithe author of: A Study of the Situ- 
ation and Outlook In Europe; The Dis- 
appearing Gun Afloat; The Yacht De- 
fender, and the Use of Aluminum in 
Marine Construction; The Sinking of the 
Merrimac (1900); Why America Should 
Hold Naval Supremacy (1903); Para- 
mount Importance of Immediate Naval 
Expansion (1904); America Must Be Mis- 
tress of the Seas (1902); Buck Jones at 
Annapolis. In 1904 he was a presidential 
eledtor-at-large for the State of Alabama, 
land in November, 1906, he was elected a 
member of the Sixtieth Congress from the 
Sixth Alabama District. On May 25, 1905, 
he married Grizelda Houston Hull, of 
Tuxedo Park, New York. Legal residence: 
Greensboro, Ala. Washington address: 
House of Representatives. 

HODGE, FREDERICK WEBB, ethnolo- 
gist, was born at Plymouth, England, on 
Odtober 28, 1864, and when seven years 
of age came to America with his parents. 
He attended the common schools, a 
■private academy, and Columbian (now 
George Washington) University, but was 
not graduated. Prom 1884 to 1886 he was 
connedted with the United States Geo- 



log'ical Survey; from 1886 to 1889 he 
was secrettiary of the Hemenway Archaeo- 
logical Expedition, engaged in the exca- 
vations in Arizona and New Mexico, and 
the latter year became connected with the 
Bureau of American Ethnology of the 
Smithsonian Institution, editing iits publi- 
cations, acting as librarian, and engaging 
in the preparation of a Handbook of 
American Indians, the first volume of 
which was published in 1907. During the 
years 1895, 1897 and 1899 he was en- 
gaged in further research work among 
Indians in Arizona and New Mexico, in 
1897 scaling the precipitous Enchanted 
Mesa in the latter territory, and in Feb- 
ruary, 1901, was appointed to an exec- 
utive position in the Smithsonian Insti- 
tution, but re-entered the Bureau of 
American Ethnology in 1905. He is editor 
of the American Anthropologisit, and is 
the author lof Coronado's Route from 
Culiaean to Quivira, and of various articles 
on anthropological topics, appearing 
chiefly in scientific iperiodicals and in 
encyclopedias. He is a fellow of the 
American Association for the Advance- 
ment of Science; a member of the Amer- 
ican Histortcal Associaltion; Sequoia 
League; Explorers' Club; American 
Folk-Lore Society; Texas Historical As- 
sociation; Washington Academy of 
Sciences; American Anthropological As- 
sociation (of which he is a founder, and 
at present its editor and a member of 
the governing council) ; Anthropological 
Society of Washington (of which he is 
a member of the hoard of managers); 
Naltional Geographic Society; Cosmos 
Club; Archaeological Institute of Amer- 
ica; honorary member of the Quivira 
Historical Society, etc. On August 31, 
1891, he married Margaret W. Magill. 
Residence: Garrett Park, Maryland. 
Office: Bureau of American Ethnology, 
1333 P street 

HODGES, HARRY F., Major, Assistant 
Chief of Engineers, U. S. A.; member of 
Ithe Lighthouse Board. Residence: 1850 
Mintwood Place. Ofllce: War Depart- 
ment. . 'j 

HODGES, HARRY MARSH, Com- 
mander, U. S. N., was born at Carroll- 
ton, Illinois, on June 21, 1855, son of 
Judge Charles Drury and Ellen (Hawley) 
Hodges. He attended the public schools 
of his native town, and was graduated 
from the United States Naval Academy 
in 1875. He has the distinction of head- 
ing the naval list for sea service, having 
served approximately twenty-five years 
at sea out of twenty- seven years' service 
in the navy. In 1900 he completed a sub- 
marine survey for the trans-Pacific ca- 
ble, after discovering the greatest known 
ocean depth; from 1901 to 1902, was su- 
pervisor of the New York harbor, and in 
1904 was advanced to the rank of Com- 
mander, and made hydrographer of the 
Navy Department. He is a member of 



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the Permanent International Association 
of Navigation Congresses (Naval Order 
of the United States) ; National Geo- 
graphic Society; Army and Navy Club; 
Metropolitan Club, and the following New 
York clubs: Yacht. University, Manhai- 
tan, New York Yacht, Larchmont, etc. 
On September 5, 1901, he married Laura 
George Muir-Drew (nee Chapman), only 
daughter of George Chapman, of London, 
England. Residence: The Highlands. 
Office: Hydrographic Office, U. S. Navy 
Department. 

HODGES, JOHN WALTER, physician, 
pharmacist, was born at Baltimore, Md., 
on December 8, 1856, and educated in the 
public schools of his native city, in 1892 
graduating from the Bialtimore Medical 
College. For six years he was engaged 
in the drug business at Annapolis (1885- 
91), and from the latter date until 1905 
was proprietor of a drug store in Wash- 
ington, retiring from this in January, 
1905, to devote all of his time to the 
practice of medicine. In 1888 he was pres- 
ident of the Maryland State Pharma- 
ceutical Association, and from 1889 to^ 
1890 was president of the Business Men's 
Association of Annapolis, Md. He is a 
Mason, a member of the National Union; 
Independent Order of Foresters; Amer- 
ican Medical Association; District of 
Columbia Medical Association, and during 
his residence in Maryland a Democrat. 
He is a member of the Methodist Epis- 
copal Church. On October 28, 1880, he 
married Rosella Burgess. Residence: 639 
East Capitol street. 

HODGKINS, HOWARD LINCOLN, 

dean Washington Collcg'» of Engineer- 
ing, was born at Elgin, 111., on January 
23, 1862, son of David and Harriet 
(Shears) Holgkins. He attended the 
public schools of Chicago and Washing- 
ton, and was graduated from Columbian 
(now George Washington) University ii 
1883, with the degree of A. M., and, in 
1892, with 'that of Ph. D. From 1882 to 
1884 he was a tutor in mathematics at 
Columbian (now George Washington) 
University; was adjunct professor of 
mathematics of the same Institution 1884 
to 1887; professor of mathematics 1.887 
to 1905; professor of physics 1892 to 1902; 
dean of the Corcoran Scientiflc School 
1897 to 1903; dean of George Washing- 
ton University 1900 to 1902; dean of 
Washington College of Engineering since 
1905. He has been secretary of the George 
Washington Alumni Association since 
1887. From 1882 to 1892 he acted as a 
special computer in the Nautical Alma- 
nac Office, U. S. Navy. He is the au- 
thor of a historical catalogue of Colum- 
bian (now George Washington) Univer- 
sity; member of the American Physical 
Society; American Mathematical Soci- 
ety; Washington Philosophical Society; 
Washington Society of Engineers; Phi 



Kappa Psi college fraternity; Cosmos 
Club, and a fellow of the American Asso- 
ciation for the Advancement of Science. 
On June 18, 1890, he married Marie W. 
Wilkinson. Residence: 1830 T street, 
n.w. 

HOES, ROSWELL RANDALL, Chap- 
lain, U. S. N., was born on February 
28, 1850, son of Rev. Dr. John C. F. and 
Lucy Maria (Randall) Hoes. Prepared 
for college at Kingston (N. Y.) Academy; 
freshman and sophomore years at Am- 
herst College, entering in 1867; junior 
and senior years at Princeton College, 
graduating in 1871. Received the degree 
of Master of Arts from Princeton in 1874; 
graduated from Princeton Theological 
Seminary in 1875. Married, first, at 
Lambertsville, N. J., May 12, 1875, Eliz- 
abeth Seabrook (died April 8, 1879), 
daughter of the late Ashel Welch; sec- 
ond, December 5, 1888, Rose de Chine, 
daughter of the late Samuel L. Gouvern- 
eur. Children: Isabel Dorrence (born 
June 3, 1876), John Paul born March 7, 
1879), Gouverneur (born September 10, 
1889), Roswell Randall (born June 19, 
1891, died April 12, 1901), Lawrence Gouv- 
erneur (born January 8, 1900). During 
the y^ar following his graduation waa 
tutor of private classes at Lambersvllle, 
N. J.; assumed charge of Sabbath Schooi 
mission near there (at New Hope, Penn.), 
and secured the erection of a chapel, 
which has since been organized as a 
Presbyterian Church. Called to pastor- 
ate of Mt. Holly (N. J.) Presbyterian 
Church; ordained to ministry there July 
1, 1875, and commenced professional la- 
bors at that place. Published while there 
a parish paper. The Soewer, which was 
finally transferred to the New Jersey 
State Sunday School Association, and be- 
came its official organ. Accepted call 
to New Rochelle (N. Y.) Presbyterian 
Church 1879. Church edifice greatly en- 
larged during his pastorate, the fund? 
for which were entirely raised by him- 
self; organized services among the United 
States troops garrisoned at David's Is- 
land, N. Y.; elected president of Young 
Peo'ple's Association of New Rochelle; or- 
ganized the Citizens' Protective Associ- 
ation of same place, in the Interest of 
temperance and municipal reform; ap- 
pointed Chaplain, U. S. N., July 26, 1882; 
served on U. S. flagship Tennessee, of 
North Atlantic Squadron, December, 1882, 
to November, 1885, making three success- 
ive winter cruises to the West India Is- 
lands and visiting various ports In South 
America, Mexico and easitern coast of the 
United States; volunteered (1884) to ac- 
company Greely Relief Expedition, bu: 
offer declined by Secretary W. E. Chand- 
ler, with thanks; traveled abroad No- 
vember, 1885, to January, 1887, visiting 
Great Britain, most of the Continental 
countries, Egypt, Tunis, Palestine, SyrU 
and Asia Minor; while in England dellv- 



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ered address before the Huguenoit Soci- 
ety of London, and, as its guest, was the 
recipient of marlted attentions; New Yorlc 
Navy Yard summer of 1887 'till fall of 
1889; then Washington Navy Yard, fall 
of 1890; then to the U. S. flagship Pensa- 
cola, of the South Atlantic Squadron, vis- 
iting Brazil, Uruguay, Patagonia, Chile, 
Peru, Mexico and Hawaiian Islands; while 
in Honolulu was instrumental in organ- 
izing the Hawaiian Historical Society; 
at request of Queen to Secretary of 
State Blaine, commenced the arrange- 
ment of Governmenit archives and the 
preparation of a bibliography of Hawaiian 
Kingdom; Chaplain of the U. S. Naval 
Home, Philadelphia, May, 1893, to June. 
1897; then to the U. S. battleship Iowa 
through September, 1898. Present at the 
bombardment of San Juan, Porto Rico, 
and all 'the operations against Santiago, 
including memorable battle with Spanish 
squadron; Boston Navy Yard, Septem- 
ber, 1898, to May, 1902; while in Bos- 
ton was appointed chaplain of Ancient 
and Honorable Artillery Company, and 
preached its 262nd annual sermon; U. S. 
battleship Kearsarge, of North Atlantic 
Squadron, June, 1900, ito May, 1902; then 
to Washington Navy Yard until March 
1, 1906, when he was ordered to Norfolk 
Navy Yard, where he is now stationed; 
promoted to rank of Commander March 
19, 1897, and to rank of Captain March 2, 
1903. Declined offer of President Well- 
ing of professorate of belles lettres and 
English literature in Columbian (now 
George Washington) University, Wash- 
ington, D. C. Life member American 
Bible Society and American Tract Soci- 
ety; member New York Genealogical 
and Biographical Society (corresponding 
secretary two years) ; corresponding 
member New England Historical General 
Society; State Historical Societies of 
New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Virginia; 
the Huguenot Society of America; Mini- 
sink Historical Society; the Newport 
Historical Society; the Hawaiian His- 
torical Society; member of American 
Historical Association; Genealogical So- 
ciety of Pennsylvania; American Society 
of Church History; New York Sons of the 
Revolution; Rhode Island Society of Col- 
onial Wars (charter member). Author 
of Baptismal and Marriage Registers 
(797 pp.) of the Old Dutch Church of 
Kingston, Ulster County, New York, 
1660-1810. His other published writings 
include many written sermons and ora- 
tions and various articles for historical 
and genealogical periodicals, and con- 
tributions 'to the religious and secular 
press. Address: Navy Departmenit. 

HOFF, WILLIAM BAINBRIDGE, naval 
officer, was born in Philadelphia, Penn., 
on February 11, 1846, son of Rear Ad- 
miral Henry Kuhn and Louisa Alexina 
Wadsworth (Bainbridge) Hoff. In 1860 
he entered the United States Naval Acad- 



emy and was attached to the Niagara 
in 1864, and served on the East Gulf 
blockading squadron 1864-65. In 1867 he 
was attached to the Franklin, Admiral 
Farragut's flagship, in the European 
Squadron, and in 1872 was senior aide 
to Rear Admiral Pennock, commanding 
the Pacific Station. From 1876 to 1881 
he was at Washington, D. C, as aide to 
Admiral Porter, and in 1881 he com- 
manded the Portsmouth, and in 1887 the 
Ossipee, on the North Atlantic Sitation. 
He was naval commissioner to London 
for the World's Columbian Exposition, 
and was promoted Captain May 10, 1895, 
and was retired March 13, 1897, 'having 
been closely identified with the system 
of naval tactics officially adopted in the 
navy in 1890. He is the author of Exam- 
ples, Conclusions and Maxims of Modern 
Naval Tactics (1884); The Avoidance of 
Collisions at Sea (1886), land Elementary 
Naval Tactics (1894). He was married, 
January 6, 1869, to Juliet A. Potts, of 
New York. Residence: 1829 Jefferson 
Place. 

HOGE, WILLIAM S,, President Com- 
mercial Fire Insurance Company of the 
District of Columlaia, and president of 
The Hoge & McDowell Company (com- 
mission merchants). Residence: 1402 
Fifteenth street, n.w. Business address: 
915 Louisiana avenue, n.w. 

HOGG, HERSCHEL MILLARD, lawyer, 

Congressman, was born in Youngstown, 
Ohio, on November 21, 1853. He was 
graduated from Monmouth (111.) College- 
in 1876, and received the degree of M. A. 
from the same institution the following 
year, and was admitited to the bar of 
the Supreme Court of Illinois on June 
17, 1878. During 1882-83 he served as 
City Attorney of Gunnison, Col., and in 
1885 was elected District Attorney for 
the Seventh Judicial District of Colorado, 
serving until 1892. He served 'as City 
Attorney of Telluride, Col., and for a 
number of years was attorney for San 
Miguel County, Col. He was elected to 
the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Con- 
gresses from the Second Colorado Dis- 
trict, as a Republican. On June 17, 1880, 
he married Josephine Houghtaling, at In- 
dianola, Iowa. Legal residence: Tellu- 
ride, Col. Washington address: House 
of Representatives. 

HOLAIND, RENE J. (S. J.). Catholic 
clergyman, professor at Georgetown Uni- 
versity. Address: Georgetown Univer- 
sity. 

HOLBROOK, THEODORE LEWIS, 

President of the Washington Brick Com- 
pany, was born in Boston, Mass., on 
January 11, 1839, son of Theodore and 
Rachael B. (Smith) Holbrook. He W'as 
educated in the Boston schools and at 
Hopkins Academy, in Western Massa- 
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tion he entered business with his father, 
who was then a lumber merchant in Chi- 
cago. In 1861 he entered the Chicago 
post ofRee in a clerical capacity, rising 
to the rank of chief clerk, where he re- 
mained for six years, after which he 
came to Washington, accepting a posi- 
tion in (the Money Order Division of the 
Pos't Office Department, where he was 
promoted to the rank of general agent. 
He resigned from the Post Office Depart- 
ment in 1874 in order to accept an ap- 
pointment as committee clerk in the 
House of Representatives, which posi- 
tion he held for two years. In 1876 he 
became an active head of the Washing- 
ton Brick Company, and for many years 
has been president and general manager 
of that company. He married Catherine 
Robinson, of Washington, to which union 
have been born four children, three 
daughters and one boy. Residence: 
Cleveland Park. Business address: 1420 
New York avenue, n.w. 

HOLCOMBE, JOHN WALKER, edu- 
cator and Government official, was born 
at La Porte. Indiana, son of John War- 
wick and Harriet B. (Walker) Holcombe. 
He attended the public schools at La 
Porte, the Bellevue High School (Vir- 
ginia), and was graduated from Harvard 
University, with the degree of B. A., in 
1875, and from the State University of 
Iowa, with that of LL. B., in 1878. He 
pursued post-graduate studies at Georgi 
Washington University, and received the 
degrees of M. A. in history and Master 
of Diplomacy. From 1883 to 1887 he 
was State Superintendent of Public In- 
struction of Indiana; from 1887 to 189o 
chief clerk of 'the United States Bureau 
of Education, and since the latter date, 
chief of division in the Department of ithe 
Interior. Since 1900 he has been assist- 
ant professor of Comparative Politics at 
George Washington University. He is 
'the author of Life and Public Services 
of Thomas A. Hendricks (jointly with 
Hubert M. Skinner), and, Reports of Ihe 
State Superintendent of Public Instruc- 
tion of Indiana; School Law of Indiana, 
etc. He is a Democrat, and a member 
of the University and Harvard Clubs of 
Washington. On November 2, 1887, he 
married Effle Burford McOuat. Residence: 
1829 Corcoran street, n.w. Office: Inte- 
rior Department. 

HOLLANDER, HARRY HERMAN. 

lawyer, was born in Washington, D. C , 
in July, 1876, son of Herman and Fran- 
ces Hollander. He attended the public 
schools of Washington, graduated fron; 
the Central High School, and attended 
the Spencerian Business College ana 
Eaton, Burnett & Durling's Business Col. 
lege. In 1899 he was graduated from the 
law department of Georgetown Univer- 
sity, receiving the degree of LL. B., and 
after a year's post-graduate work, tha': 



of LL. M. He was admitted to the bar 
in 1900, and since that lime has been 
engaged in the practice of his profes- 
sion. Prior to that time he was for six 
years head bookkeeper for a large Wash- 
ington department store. He is a Mason, 
and financial secretary of District Coun- 
cil, No. 1595, Royal Arcanum. Unmarried. 
Residence: 2643 Eighteenth street, n.w. 
Office: Columbian Building. 

HOLLERITH, HERMAN, inventor. He 
is the inventor of the electric tabulating 
machines which are used by the United 
States and the various foreign govern- 
ments for the tabulating of census re- 
turns. Columbia University has bestowed 
upon him the degree of Ph. D., and he is 
a Fellow 'Of the Royal Statistical Society 
of London. Residence: 1054 Thirty-first 
street, n.w. 

HOLLIDAY, ELIAS S., lawyer. Con- 
gressman, was born at Aurora, Indiana, 
on March 5, 1842. While a boy his 
parents removed to the West, where he 
spent his youth on a farm and received 
a common school education, later in life 
pursuing academic studies. He served 
throughout the Civil War in a Kansas 
volunteer regiment; subsequently stud- 
ied law, and was admitted to the bar in 
1873. In the same year he removed to 
Brazil, Indiana, where he has since prac- 
ticed his profession. He has represented 
the Fifth Indiana Congressional District 
in the Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, Fifty- 
ninth and Sixtieth Congresses. In poli- 
tics he is a Republican. On March 5, 
1873, he married Lina Gregg. Legal res- 
idence: Brazil, Ind. Washington address. 
House of Representatives. 

HOLM, HERMAN THEODOR, botan- 
ist, was born at Copenhagen, Denmark, 
on February 3, 1854, son of Christian and 
Amalie Holm. He studied in the Univer- 
sities of Copenhagen and Stockholm, In 
Sweden, and pursued a special course In 
natural history, later receiving the de- 
gree of Ph. D. from the Catholic Uni- 
versity of America. During 1882 and 
1883 he was the naturalist of the Danish 
North Pole Expediton, and visited the 
shores of Novaja, Zemlja and Siberia, 
making an extensive collection of plants 
and marine invertebrates. In 1884 and 
1886 he traveled in Greenland as botan- 
ist and zoologist for the Danish Govern- 
ment, making further collections. In 
1888 he emigrated to America, and be- 
came botanical assistant at the National 
Museum and the Department of Agri- 
culture, where he remained until 1896. 
He has traveled in Colorado, making a 
special study of the alpine flora and its 
relation to the arctic. He is the author 
of a number of works on arctic botany 
and of plant morphology and plant anat- 
omy; member of the various botanical 
societies of Denmark, Sweden, France 
and Canada. In religion he is a Lutheran. 



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He was naturalized as an American cit- 
izen In 1893. Unmarried. Residence: 1432 
Newton street, Brookland, D. C. 

HOLMEAD, CHARLES HENRY, JR., 

clergyman, was born In Washing-ton, D. 
C, on August 24, 1873, son of Charles 
Henry and Lottie P. (Chichester) Hol- 
mead. Anthony Holmead, an ancestor, 
was one of the original owners of the 
District of Columbia. After obtaining his 
preliminary education In the public 
schools of Washington and the Colum- 
bian Academy, he entered Columbian 
(now George Washington) University, 
and from that institution he entered the 
Theological Seminary of Virginia, from 
which he was graduated in June, 1906. 
In 1890 he was in the employ of Saks 
& Co. and Woodward & Lothrop in 1891. 
During 1897-98 he was a member of the 
National Guatd of the District of Colum- 
bia. From 1896 to 1903 he was engaged 
in the real estate business Independently 
in Washington, when he entered the The- 
ological Seminary. At the present time 
•he is assistant of St. Paul's Parish of 
the Protestant Episcopal Church. He is 
a member of the Brotherhood of St. 
Andrew, Churchmen's League of the Dis- 
trict of Columbia and in politics, a Dem- 
ocrat. On January 9, 1897, he married 
Irene H. White, of Providence, R. I., to 
which union a son has been born. Res- 
idence: The Luzon, Pennsylvania avenue 
and Twenty-fifth street, n.w. 

HOLMES, CHARLES WENDELL, 

Assistant Treasurer of George Wash- 
ington University. Residence: The Ken- 
sington. Office: Fifteenth and H streets. 

HOLMES, GEORGE KIRBY, statisti- 
cian, was born at Great Barrington, 
Massachusetts, on May 10, 1856, son of 
Ha:vey and Mary J. (Kirby) Holmes. 
He attended the public schools of his 
native town, and later pursued the study 
of law. In 1877 he was admitted to the 
practice of law in Massachusetts; in 1890 
became special agent of the Census Bu- 
reau, in charge of the Division of Farms, 
Homes and Mortgages. He is at present 
chief of the Division of Foreign Markets, 
and a member of the crop reporting board 
in the United States Department of Agri- 
culture. He Is the author of various ar- 
ticles, reports, bulletins, etc., on economic 
and statistical subjects. He is a mem- 
ber of the American Economic Associa- 
tion; American Academy of Political 
and Social Science; American Statistical 
Association; American Political Science 
Association; American Sociological As- 
sociation; Washiniton Economic Society 
etc. On April 17, 1898, he married Lil- 
ian C. Hunter, of Washiniton. Residence: 
1323 Irving street. Office: Department of 
Agriculture. 

HOLMES, JOSEPH AUSTjN, geologist, 
was born at Laurens, South Carolina, on 



November 23, 1859, son of Z. L. and N. 
Catherine (Nickles) Holmes. He attended 
Laurens Academy and the Holmes School, 
and in 1881 was graduated from Cornell 
University. From 1881 to 1891 he was 
professor of geology and natural history 
at the University of North Carolina, and 
since the latter date has been lecturer on 
geology at that institution. In 1904 he 
was chief of the department of mines 
and metallurgy at the Louisiana Pur- 
chase Exposition; in 1905 was in charge 
of the fuel and structural materials test- 
ing plant of the United States Geological 
Survey at St. Louis. Since 1891 he has 
been State Geologist of North Carolina. 
He is a member of the Washington, North 
Carolina, and St. Louis Academies of 
Science; American Geological Society; 
American Institute of Mining Engineers; 
American Society for Testing Materials; 
Cosmos Club; St. Louis Club, etc. On 
October 20, 1887, he married Jeanie I. 
Sprunt. Address: U. S. Geological Sur- 
vey, 

HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL, Asso- 
ciate Justice of the United States Su- 
preme Court, was born at Boston, Mass., 
on March 8, 1841, son of Oliver Wendell 
and Amelia Lee (Jackson) Holmes. He 
attended T. R. Sullivan's School, and in 
1861 was graduated from Harvard Col- 
lege, and in 1866 from the law depart- 
ment of Harvard University, with the de- 
gree of LL. B. He has received the hon- 
orary degree of LL. D. from Yale and 
Harvard Universities. In 1861 he was 
commissioned First Lieutenant of the 
Twentieth Massachusetts Volunteer In- 
fantry, and later in the year received a 
severe wound at Ball's Bluff. He was pro- 
moted to Captain, and subsequently was 
wounded through the neck at Anlietum, 
and, in 1863, again at Marys Heigths, 
Fredericksburg. In 1864 he was made 
aide-de-camp to General Wright, retain- 
ing this position until the termination of 
his services. He was three times brevet- 
ted — as Major, Lieutenant-Colonel, and 
Colonel, respectively. From 1873 to 1882 
lie was engaged in the practice of law 
with Shattuck, Holmes & Munroe, then 
he became professor of law at Harvard 
University. On December 8, 1882, he was 
made a member of the Supreme Court of 
Massachusetts, becoming Chief Justice of 
the court on August 2, 1899. He was ap- 
pointed to the United States Supreme 
Court December 4, 1902. He was the edi- 
tor of the twelfth edition of Kent's Com- 
mentaries, and from 1870 to 1873 of the 
American Law Review, and author of The 
Common Law; also many monographs, 
articles and pamphlets on law subjects. 
On June 17, 1872, he married Fanny Bow- 
ditch Dixwell. Residence: 1720 I street, 
n.w. 

HOLMES, WILLIAM HENRY, anthro- 
pologist, archeologist, was born In Har- 
rison County, Ohio, on December 1, 1846, 



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son of Joseph and Mary (Heberling) 
Holmes. During 1871 and 1872 he was 
a teacher in the normal schools of Ohio; 
from 1872 to 1880 he was an assistant in 
the United States Geological Survey, and 
from 1880 to 1889 was geologist with that 
bureau. From 1882 to 1893 he was a 
curator of the department of aboriginal 
pottery of the National Museum; from 
1889 to 1898 was archeologist, and in 
charge of explorations of the Bureau of 
Ethnology; was professor of anthropic 
geology at the University of Chicago, and 
curator of anthropology of the Field Co- 
lumbian Museum from 1894 to 1897. From 
1898 to 1902 he served as head curator of 
the department of anthropology of the 
National Museum, and since 1902 has been 
chief of the Bureau of American Ethnol- 
ogy. Made a member of the National 
Academy of Sciences 1905; curator of 
the National Gallery of Art 1906; presi- 
dent of the Cosmos Club 1907. He is 
the author of a number of books, mono- 
graphs, etc., on ethnological, archeolog- 
ical and allied subjects, and in 1898 re- 
ceived the Loubat prize of $1,000 for 
his archeological work in the Potomac- 
Chesapeake region. He Is a member of 
a large number of scientific and learned 
societies. In October, 1883, he married 
Kate Clifton Osgood. Residence: 1444 
Belmont street. Office: National Mu- 
seum. 

HOLTON, WILLIAM SHEDD, insur- 
ance, was born near Hyattsville, Mary- 
land. He was educated in the schools 
of Washington, and was graduated from 
Georgetown University. He is an elder 
in the Presbyterian Church and a director 
in the First National Bank of Hyatts- 
ville, Md. Residence: Hyattsville, Md. 
Office: 1307 H street, n.w. 

HOLTZMANN, JENNIE WEAVER 

(Mrs. William F.), was born in Clark 
County, Virginia, daughter of Stephen D. 
and Jane (Cookendoffer) Castleman. She 
was educated at Hallowell's Female Sem- 
inary, at Sandy Springs, Maryland. She 
is a member of the Baptist Church, and 
of the Daughters of the Confederacy. On 
October 7, 1873, she married William F. 
Holtzmann. Residence: 1214 Twelfth 
street, n.w. 

HOOD, CHARLES CROOK, Brigadier- 
General, U. S. A., (retired), was born at 
Somerset, Ohio, on August 28, 1841, son 
of Thomas and Sarah Hood. He received 
his education in the public schools of 
his native town. In 1861 he entered the 
Thirty- first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, as 
a private, and subsequently arose to the 
ranks of Corporal and Sergeant, and later 
to that of First Lieutenant and Captain 
of the same regiment. At the close of 
the war he was transferred to the reg- 
ular army, and on July 28, 1866, became 
Capitaln of the Forty-first United States 



Infantry. In 1892 Tie was promoted to 
Major; commissioned Lieutenant-Colonel 
in 1897; advanced to Colonel on May 5, 
1899, and made Brigadier-General on Oc- 
tober 18, 1902, subsequently being retired. 
During the Civil War he was twice 
wounded, in April, 1863, and at the bat- 
tle of Chickamauga, in September, 1863. 
He served in Porto Rico and the Philip- 
pines after the Spanish-American War. 
On September 14, 1876, he married Fran- 
ces Skinner. Residence: 1934 Chestnut 
street, Philadelphia, Penn. Washington 
address: War Department. 

HOOD, JAMES FRANKLIN, Secretary 
of the American Security and Trust Com- 
pany, was born at Gratiot, Licking 
County, Ohio, on August 2, 1851. He was 
educated in the common schools of New- 
ark and Mount Vernon, Ohio; spent two 
years at Oberlin College, and was gradu- 
ated from the law department of Colum- 
bian (now George Washington) Univer- 
sity In 1876. He came to Washington in 
1869 and received an appointment in the 
office of the Secretary of the Interior, 
where he was later promoted to the rank 
of chief of the Appointment Division, 
serving in that capacity until 1885, when 
he resigned to take up the practice of 
law. He soon acquired a lucrative prac- 
tice, especially in the law of Teal estate. 
In 1895 he was elected secretary of the 
American Security and Trust Company, 
and has since had charge of the com- 
pany's real estate department. He is 
(president of the McLachlen Real Estate 
and Banking Company, and prominently 
identified with many other business en- 
terprises in Washington. He is a char- 
ter member of the Columbia Historical 
Society; a member of the Loyal Legion; 
a Knight Templar; member of the Blue 
Ridge Rod and Gun Club, and of the 
Chevy Chase and University Clubs. Res- 
idence: 1017 O street, n.w. Business ad- 
dress: American Security and Trust Com- 
pany. 

HOOPER, LOUIS LEVERETT, educa- 
tor, was born at Worcester, Mass., on 
May 18, 1867, son of William Robert and 
Frances (Nelson) Hooper. He attended 
the public schools of Washington from 
1876 to 1883; studied under a private 
tutor during 1883 and 1884, and attended 
Emerson Institute, Washington, during 
1884 and 1885. He was graduated from 
Harvard College in 1889; with the de- 
gree of A. B., and in 1898 with that of 
A. M. From 1889 to 1891 he was assist- 
ant in physics and a student in the Grad- 
uate School of Harvard University; from 
1891 to 1893, Master of Science, St. Paul's 
School, Garden City, L. I.; teacher of 
science and mathematics, Taft School, 
Watertown, Conn., 1893-95; teacher of 
mathematics. Smith Academy, St. Louis, 
Mo., 1895-97; teacher of mathematics, 
Erasmus Hall High School, Brooklyn, N. 



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Y., 1898-1900. Since the latter date he 
has been head master of The Washing-ton 
School for Boyis. He Is a member of 'the 
Phi Betta Kappa fraternity of Harvard, 
and of the Harvard and Cosmos Clubs of 
Washington. Unmarried. Residence: The 
Portsmouth, 1735 New Hampshire avenue, 
n.w. 

HOPKINS, ALBERT J., lawyer, United 
States Senator, was born in De Kalb 
County, Illinois, on August 15, 1856. He 
was reared on a farm, and after receiv- 
ing a good common school and academic 
preparation entered Hillsdale College, 
Michigan, from which he was graduated 
in 1870. He studied law, and was admit- 
ted ito the bar of Illinois, and began 
practice at Aurora, that State, wihere he 
has since resided. From 1872 to 1876 
he was State's Attorney of Kane County; 
from 1878 to 1880 he served as a mem- 
ber of the Republican State Central Com- 
mittee of Illinois, and in 1884 as presi- 
dential elector on the Blaine and Logan 
ticket. The following year he was elected 
to the lower house of the Forty- ninth 
Congress, and was, successively, re- 
elected to the Fiftieth, Fifty-first, Fifty- 
second, Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty - 
fifth, Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh Con- 
gresses. During the Fifty-sixth Con- 
gress he was supported by the Republican 
congressional delegation from Illinois for 
Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
While a member of the House he served 
as chairman of the select Committee on 
Census, and also on Merchant Marine, 
Fisheries, and Ways and Means Com- 
mittees. In 1903 he was elected to the 
Senate, to succeed Hon. William B. Ma- 
son, and took the oath of office March 4, 
1903. His term of office will expire on 
March 3, 1909. He is a member of the 
folloiwing Senate Committees: Fisheries, 
chairman; Cuban Relations; Interoceanic 
Canals, and Privileges and Elections. 
Legal residence: Aurora, 111. Washing- 
ton address: The New Willard. 

HOPKINS, ANDREW DELMAR, ento- 
mologist, was born on a farm near Rip- 
ley, Jackson County, West Virginia on 
August 20, 1857, son of Andrew Evans 
and Miriam Florence (Evans) Hopkins. 
He attended the common schools and was 
graduated from the higli school. From 
nis earliest recollection he has been a 
student of natural history and art. In 
1893 he received the honary degree of 
r\J^: ^'■^"^ ^^®t Virginia University. 
in 1874 he took charge of the 'homestead 
farm, and engaged in slock raising and 
the breeding of pure bred sheep and cat- 
tle; he took the first steps toward th-- 
organization of the fiTst county fair as- 
sociation in his county in 1881, of which 
he was president in 1883. and the State 
Sheep Breeders' and Wool Growers' As- 
sociation in 1879, and for three years he 
served as secretary and vice-president 



He also took the first steps toward the 
organization of County and State Farm- 
ers' Institute in West Virginia, in 1889. 
During 1890 he was special agent in ento- 
mology of the West Virginia Agricultural 
Experiment Station, and the same year 
was made entomologist, retaining the po- 
sition until 1902. From 1896 to 1902 he 
was professor of economic entomology at 
the West Virginia University; was spe- 
cial agent of the Division of Entomology 
of the Department of Agriculture, for 
special work in 1899, 1900 and 1901; since 
1902 he has been in charge of the forest 
insect investigations in the Bureau of 
Entomology, and special lecturer on forest 
entomology at the Yale Forest School. 
He is an authority on forest entomology. 
He is the author of many official bulle- 
tins and reports of the West Virginia 
Agricultural Experiment Station, of the 
Division and Bureau of Entomology and 
Forest Service of the Department of Ag- 
riculture, and many scientific and popu- 
lar papers and articles, principally on re- 
sults of original forest insect investiga- 
tions. He is a member of the following 
organizations: Fellow of American As- 
sociation for the Advancement of Science; 
Association of Economic Entomologists 
(vice-president 1901, president 1902); the 
Washing'ton Entoimological Society (sec- 
ond vice-president 1903-04, and first vice- 
president 1905-06, president 1906-07); the 
Biological Society of Washington; Wash- 
ington Academy of Sciences; Biological 
Field Club; Society for the Promotion of 
Agricultural Science; National Geograph- 
ic Society; honorary member of Asso- 
ciation of Economic Biology of England, 
and associate member of the Society of 
American Foresters; Cosmos Club, etc. 
On November 18, 1880, he married Adelia 
S. Butcher. Residence: The Rocking- 
ham. Office: Bureau of Entomology. 

HOPKINS, ARCHIBALD, Clerk, United 
States Court of Claims, was born ai 
Williamstown, Massachusetts, on Febru- 
ary 20, 1842, son of Mark Hopkins, for- 
merly president of Williams College. He 
was graduated from Williams College in 
1862, and entered the Union Army, be- 
coming, successively, Captain, Brevet 
Major, and Lieutenant Colonel. In 1866 
he was an officer of the Government, 
under the Reconstruction Acts. He was 
graduated from the Columbian Law 
School, and pursued the study of law 
in the office of David Dudley Field, sub- 
sequently practicing his profession in 
New York City until 1873. Since that 
date he has been Clerk of the United 
States Court of Claims. He is president 
of the District branch of the Sons of the 
Revolution; chairman of the Finance 
Committee of the Associated Charities; 
member of the Metropolitan Club; Wash- 
ington Academy of Sciences; National 
Geographic Society; District of Colum- 
bia Historical Society; American Social 



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Science Association, etc. He is tlie au- 
t'iior of Tiie Apostles' Creed. Residence. 
1826 Massacliusetts avenue. 

HOPKINS, FRANK A., Congressman, 
was born at Jeffersonville, Virginia, on 
May 27, 1853, and educated at the Taze- 
well Hig'h School. He was admitted to 
the Prestonburg (Ky.) bar in 1874, whence 
he removed in the same year. In 1882 
he was elected Superintendent of Schools 
of Floyd County, Kentucky; was a dele- 
gate to the Kentucky Constitutional Con- 
vention, and at present is a member of 
the Board of Trustees of the Kentucky 
State College. He was elected a Repre- 
sentative to the Fifty-eighth Congress 
from the Tenth Kentucky District, and 
re-elected to the Fifty-ninth Congress. In 
politics he is a Democrat. In November, 
1874, he married Alice G. Davidson. Legal 
residence: Prestonburg, Ky. Washing- 
ton address: House of Representatives. 

HOPKINS, THOMAS SNELL, lawyer, 
was born at Mount Vernon, Kennebec 
County, Maine, on April 22, 1845, and ed- 
ucated in the district schools and at the 
Maine Wesleyan Seminary. Subsequently 
he was graduated from the law depart- 
ment of George Washington University. 
He is a descendant of Elder William 
Brewster, and other Mayflower emigrants. 
At the age of seventeen he enlisted in 
the Sixteenth Maine Volunteer Infantry, 
and served three years in the War of the 
Rebellion, being wounded at the battle 
of Fredericksburg. He is a lawyer by 
profession, and is a member of the bar 
of the United States Supreme Court. He 
is a member of the Cosmos Club, and of 
the Society of Mayflower Descendants, 
of which latter organization he was Dis- 
trict Governor; also of the Department 
of the Potomac, G. A. R., of which he 
was commander in 1897. Summer address: 
Mt. Vernon, Maine. Winter address: 1817 
Nineteenth street, n. w. OfRce: Hibbs 
Building. 

HORNBLOWER, JOSEPH COERTEN, 

architect, was born at Paterson, New 
Jersey, in 1848, son of Rev. William H. 
Hornblower and Matilda (Butler) Horn- 
blower. He was graduated from Yale 
University in 1869 with the degree of Ph. 
B., and, from 1875 to 1876, studied at the 
atelier of J. L. Pascal, at Paris, France. 
He is a member of the firm of Hornblower 
& Marshall, larchitects, of the New Na- 
tional Museum Building, the Custom. 
House at Baltimore, Maryland, etc. 
He is a member of the University, Cen- 
tury, and National Arts Clubs, of New 
York, and the Cosmos, Chevy Chase, and 
Metropolitan Clubs, of Washington, and 
is a fellow of the American Institute of 
Architects. He married Caroline Brad- 
ley, daughter of the late Associate Jus- 
tice Joseph P. Bradley, of the Supreme 



Court of the United States. Residence: 
2030 Hillyer Place. Office: 1516 H street. 
n.w. 

HOSLEY, H. B., Pastor of the Wes- 
leyan Pentecostal Church. Residence: 
943 Massachusetts avenue. 

HOUCK, WILLIAM JOSEPH, Pastor of 
the United Brethren in Christ Church. 
Residence: 60 R street, n.w. 

HOUGH, C. ROYCE, Manager of the 
Washington BmnCh of the Pope Manufac- 
turing Company. He entered the em- 
ploy of the above company about 1901 
in Washington, soon afterward being 
transferred to the Waverly automobile 
factory, in Indianapolis, returning in 1904. 
to take charge of the local branch. Resi- 
dence: 2007 F street, n.w. Office: 817-819 
Fourteenth street, n.w. 

HOUGH, GEORGE CLINTON, building 
con'tnactor, was born at Waterford, Lou- 
doun County, Virginia, on January 21, 
1863, son of John and Hannah (Schooley) 
Hough. After being educated in the pub- 
lic schools he began work with his father, 
who was a contractor, and learned the 
trade of carpentery. In 1884 he removed 
to Washington, where he worked at his 
trade until 1892, when he formed a part- 
nership with his brother, under the name 
of Houg^h Bros., which continued until 
1898, when the partnership was dissolved, 
and he then started into business inde- 
pendently. Among some of the buildings 
in Washington that have been erected 
by him may be mentioned the Montgom- 
ery Apartment House; the residences of 
Dr. Francis B. Morgan, the late Senator 
Hoar, Mrs. Fannie T. Scott, Dr. E. Mc- 
Comas, C. E. Brandenburg, etc. He has 
served several years as secretary of the 
Master Builders' Association; a member 
of the Knights of Pythias; Order of the 
Golden Cross; the Knights of Maccabees, 
etc. In 1892 he married Lillian C. Har- 
per, of Loudoun County, Virginia, to 
which union have been born two chil- 
dren, a boy land a girl. Residence: 700 
Randolph street. Office: 1333 G street, 
n.w. 

HOUGH, WALTER, archaeologist, eth- 
nologist, was born at Morgantown, West 
Virginia, on April 23, 1859, son of Lycur- 
gus Stephen and Annie (Fairchild) 
Hough. He attended the Monongalia 
Academy and West Virginia Agricultural 
College, and was graduated from West 
Virginia University in 1883, with the de- 
grees of A. M. and Ph. D., in 1884 receiv- 
ing diplomas for special study in geology 
and chemistry at the same institution. 
He entered the Smithsonian Institution in 
1886; was a member of the United States 
Commission in 1892 and 1893 which at- 
tended the Columbian Historical Expo- 
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In this connection he was made Knig-ht 
of the Order of Isabella. In 1896 and 1897 
he was engaged in archaeological and eth- 
nological work in Arizona with Dr. J. 
Walter Fewkes, and in 1901 and 1904 he 
made extensive explorations in the West 
and Southwest. He is at present assist- 
ant curator of the Division of Ethnology 
of the National Museum, and is the au- 
thor of a number of monographs, etc., on 
ethnological and allied subjects. He was 
secretary of the Anthropological Society 
of Washington in 1901; is a fellow of the 
American Association for the Advance- 
ment of Science, of which he was vice- 
president of the section of anthropology 
in 1904; member of the Cosmos Club, and 
various other learned and scientific soci- 
eties, both in this country and abroad. On 
December 29, 1897, he married Jennie 
Myrtle Zuck. Residence: 3308 Four- 
teenth street, n.w. Office: National Mu- 
seum. 

HOUGH, WILLISTON SAMUEL, edu- 
cator, author, professor of philosophy in 
George Washington University, was born 
in the town of Williston, near Burlington, 
Vermont, on December 1, 1860, son of 
Rev. Jesse W. Hough, D. D., and Sarah 
(Holmes) Hough. He was graduated 
from the University of Michigan in 1884, 
and received the Master's degree in Phi- 
losophy (Ph. M.) from the same institu- 
tion. He subsequently studied and re- 
sided abroad at different times for a 
period aggregating ten years, four of 
which (1884-88) were spent in the pur- 
suit of his specialty at the universities 
of Heidelberg, Halle, Berlin, Paris and 
Oxford. He was instructor in philoso- 
phy at the University of Michigan 1888- 
89; assistant professor of philosophy at 
the University of Minnesota, 1889-91; pro- 
fessor of philosophy in same, 1891-94; 
was engaged in research work lat thH 
Bodleian Library, Oxford, and the Royal 
Lib':ary, Berlin, 1894-98; administrator. 
New York, 1898-1901; resided in Florence, 
Italy, London, and New York, 1901-05, and 
since that time has occupied the chair of 
philosophy in George Washington Uni- 
versity. In 1887 he published a transla- 
tion of Kuno Fischer's Critigue of Kant; 
later he edited the English translation 
of Erdmann's History of Philosophy (3 
vols.); was actively connected with plan- 
ning and initiating the Library of Philos- 
ophy, undertaken by the MacMillan Com- 
pany, and has contributed numerous ar- 
ticles and editorials to periodical litera- 
ture. He is now preparing a student's 
edition of Erdmann's History of Philoso- 
phy; a History of English Philosophy, 
and an English version of Eucken's The 
Problem of Human Life. On August 8 
1891, he married Lotta Mills. Residence:' 
Stoneleigh Court. 

HOUSTON, WILLIAM CANNON, law- 
yer, Congressmian, was born In Bedford 



County, Tennessee, on March 17, 1852, 
and attended school at Woodbury, Tenn. 
He was reared on a farm, and for 
a year or two conducted a counory news- 
paper. He was elected to the State Leg- 
islature in 1876; admitted to the bar in 
1878; re-eleoted to the Legislature in 
1880, land again in 1882. In 1894 he be- 
came Circuit Judge, to which position 
he was re-elected in 1898, and in 1904 
he was elected to Congress as a Repre- 
sentative from the Fifth Tennessee Dis- 
trict, and was re-elected in 1906 to the 
Sixtieth Congress. For fouT years he was 
a member of the Democratic State Exec- 
utive Committee, and in 1888 he was 
chairman of the Democratic State Con- 
vention. He is married, and a member 
of the Chris'tian Church. He is a Dem- 
ocrat In politics. Legal residence: Wood- 
bury, Tenn. Washington address: House 
of Representatives. 

HOWARD, BURTON JAMES, micro- 
chemist, was born at Ionia, Ionia County, 
Michigan, on September 17, 1872, son of 
William H. and Helen L. Howard. He 
was graduated from the lona High School 
in 1892, and from the University of Mich- 
igan in 1897, with the degree of B. S., 
later pursuing a special post-graduate 
course. He was assistant in chemistry 
at the University of Michigan for one 
year; for two yeairs teacher of science 
in the Pontlac (Mich.) High School, and, 
later, assistant in pharmacology and bot- 
any at the University of Michigan, in 1901 
becoming an assistant in the Bureau of 
Chemistry, United States Department of 
Agriculture, and, in 1904, chief of the 
micro-chemical laboratory. He is a mem- 
ber of the American (Ilhemical Society 
and the Washington Botanical Society 
He is a Methodist Episcopalian, and in 
politics a Republican. On June 28, 1899, 
he married Gertrude L. Peck. Residence; 
1366 North Carolina avenue, n.e. Office: 
Bureau of Chemistry, U. S. Department 
of Agriculture. 

HOWARD, CLEMENT W., Secretary of 
the Firemen's Insurance Company of 
Washington and Georgetown. Residence: 
1849 Wyoming avenue, n.w. Office: Sev- 
enth street and Louisiana avenue, n. w. 

HOWARD, CLIFFORD author, was 
boim at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, on 
October 12, 1868, son of William and 
Agnes Howard. He attended the Mora- 
vian Parochial School at Bethlehem, and 
was graduated in 1890 from the law de- 
partment of George Washington Univer- 
sity, with the degree of LL. B. As a 
young man he was employed as a sten- 
ographer by the Lehigh Valley Railroad 
Company, and by the Southern Railway 
Company, and from 1889 to 1903 was as- 
sistant and acting secretairy to the Board 
of Commissioners of the District of Co- 
lumbia. He is the author of Thoughts 



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in Verse; Twigs, Leaves and Blossoms; 
Sex Worship; The Story of a Young 
Man; Graphology; Curious Facts; Wash- 
ington as a Center of Learning, etc. He 
is a member of the Anthropological Soci- 
ety of Washington. On December 20, 
1893, he married Hattie Sterling Case. 
Residence: Chevy Chase, Maryland. 

HOWARD, ESME, Counselor of Brit- 
ish Embassy, was born at Greystoke Cas- 
tle, Cumberland, England, in 1863, son of 
the late Henry Howard, of Greystoke. 
His education was received at Harron. 
In 1885 he entered the diplomatic service; 
was assistant private secretary to the 
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1885 to 
1886; secretary in Embassy at Rome, 
1886-88; secretary in Embassy at Ber- 
lin, 1888-91, retiring froim the diplomatic 
service in 1892. From 1894 to 1895 he 
was assistant private secretary 'to the 
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; 
served as a trooper in the Imperial Yeo- 
manry during the South African War, 
in 1900 (medal and clasps) ; Consul Gen- 
eral for Crete, 1903-06; Counselor, Brit- 
ish Embassy at Washington, 1906. He 
is a commander of the Victorian Order: 
Companion of Order of St. Michael and 
George, and an officer of the Italian 
Order of St. Maurice and Lazarus. In 
1898 he married Lady lsat)ellia Guistinlani 
Bandini, daughter of Prince Guistinlani 
Bandini, tenth Earl of NewbuTg, in Scot- 
land, to which union have been born two 
sons. Residence: 2208 Massachusetts 
avenue, n.w. 

HOWARD, GEORGE, Treasurer of the 
National Safe Deposit, Savings and Trust 
Company. Residence: 1008 Sixteenth 
s'treet, n.w. Office: Fifteenth street and 
New York avenue. 

HOWARD, JAMES Q., author and 
journalist, was born at Newark, Ohio, son 
of George William and Ann Elizabeth 
Howard. He was educated at the Ohio 
Wesleyan University and Marietta Col- 
lege (M. A., 1859), and was admitted to 
the Ohio bar in 1860. Saved Calais, 
Maine, from destruction by a sailing 
party while United States Consul at St. 
John, N. B., 1861-66. Part owner and edi- 
tor Ohio State Journal, 1867-71; chief 
United States Appraiser, New York, 1879- 
83. Since 1897 has been chief of Refer- 
ence Library of Congress. He was the 
founder of the Ohio Society of New York 
City and the Literary Society of Wash- 
ington. Has been an editorial writer on 
four New York daily papers. Member of 
the American Historical Society. He is 
the author of Lives of Presidents Lincoln 
and Hayes; History of the Louisiana 
Purchase. Married, in 1876, Florence A. 
Leach. Residence: The Brunswick. 
Franklin Park. Office: Library of 
Congress. 



HOWARD, LELAND OSSIAN, ento- 
mologist, was born at Rockford, Illinois, 
on June 11, 1857, son of Ossian Greg- 
ory and Lucy Dunham (Thurber) How- 
ard. He attended Kinne's School, at 
Ithaca, N. Y., and was graduated from 
Cornell University in 1877, with the de- 
gree of B. S. In 1883 he received the 
degree of M. S., after post-graduate study 
in the sciences relating to medicine. He 
received the honorary degree of Ph. D. 
from Georgetown University in 1896. In 
November, 1878, he was appointed assist- 
ant entomologist of the United States 
Department of Agriculture, and in 1894 
made chief of the Division of Entomol- 
ogy. In 1895 he was made honorary 
curator of insects in the National Mu- 
seum. He has been a lecturer at George- 
town Medical School, and also at Cornell 
University, Swarthmore College, Vassav 
College, Yale University, Lowell Institute, 
and before the Brooklyn Institute of Arts 
and Sciences. He is at present, in ad- 
dition to the other position mentioned, 
consulting entomologist of the United 
States Public Health and Marine Hos- 
pital Service, and has been lecturer to 
the Navy Medical School. He is the 
author of Mosquitoes; The Insect Book, 
and many government documents, re- 
ports, imonographs, etc., on entomology, 
both scientific and popular. He has been 
secretary of the Cosmos Club since 1894; 
is an alumni trustee of Cornell Univer- 
sity; permanent secretary of the Amer- 
ican Association for the Advancement of 
Science; one of the Board of Managers 
of the Washington Academy of Sciences; 
president of the Cornell Alumni Associa- 
tion of this city; member of the Entomo- 
logical Society of Washington (president, 
1886-87); Biological Society of Washing- 
ton (president, 1894-95); Society for the 
Promotion of Agricultural Science (secre- 
tary and treasurer, 1893-94); honorary 
member National Agricultural Society of 
France; Agricultural Association of Por- 
tugal; Alzate Society of Mexico; Uni- 
versal Entomological Society of Ger- 
many; Entomological Society of France, 
and the Entomological Society of Stock- 
holm. On April 28, 1886, he married 
Marie T. Clifton. Residence: 2026 Hill- 
yer Place. Office: U. S. Department of 
Agriculture. 

HOWARD, WILLIAM MARCELLUS, 

lawyer. Congressman, was born at Ber- 
wick City, Louisiana, on December 6. 
1857, and was graduated from the Uni- 
versity of Georgia. He became a prac- 
ticing lawyer in 1880, and In 1884 was 
elected Solicitor-General for the North- 
ern Circuit of Georgia, and re-elected in 
1888 and 1892. He was elected to the 
Fifty-fifth Congress ft-om the Eighth 
Georgia District, and has since been re- 
elected. He is a member of the Board 
of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, 
and, in politics, a Democrat. Legal resi- 



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dence: Lexington, Ga. Washingrton ad- 
dress: House of Representaitives. 

HOWDEN, FREDERICK BINGHAM, 

Protestant Episcopal clergyman, was 
born on Staten Island, New York, on 
December 10, 1869, son of William Doug- 
las and Esther J. (Orrell) Howden. He 
attended public and private schools, and 
was graduated, in 1891, with the degree 
of B. A., and, in 1892, with that of M. A., 
from Trini'ty College, the University of 
Toronto, and the General Theological 
Seminary of New York (in 1894). His 
service as a clergyman has included 
charges as assistant minister at St. 
John's Church, Detroit, Mich.; Calvary 
Church, iNew York, and as rector of Em- 
manuel Church, Cumberland, Md.; St. 
John's Church, Washington, D. C. 
(Georgetown), since 1902. He was arch- 
deacon of Cumberland firom 1900 to 1902. 
He is a member of the Golf and Univer- 
sity Clubs. On February 20, 1895, he 
married Angelica Constance Faber. Resi- 
dence: 3238 O street, n.w. 

HOWE, CHARLES E., Assistant Sec- 
retary American Security and Trusi 
Company. Residence: 1322 Rhode Is- 
land avenue, n.w. Office: Fifteenth streei 
and Pennsylvania avenue. 

HOWELL, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, 

Congress'man, was tooirn in Cumberland 
County, New Jersey, in January, 1844. 
He served in the Twelfth New Jersey 
Volunteer Regiment throughout the Civil 
War, and in 1882 was elected Surrogate 
of Middlesex County, being re-elected in 
1887. He was elected Representative from 
the Third New Jersey District to the 
Fifty-fourth Congress, and has been re- 
elected to each succeeding one. In pol- 
itics he is a Republican. Legal residence: 
New Brunswick, N. J. Washington ad- 
dress: House of Representatives. 

HOWELL, EDWIN EUGENE, geolo- 
gist, was bom in Genesee County, New 
York, on March 12, 1845, son of John M. 
and Eunice (Elderkin) Howell. He at- 
tended the public schools, pursued spe- 
cial studies at the University of Roches- 
ter, and in 1880 received the degree of 
A. M. He was attached to the Wheeler 
Survey west of the 100th meridian as 
geologist during 1872 and 1873, and in 
1874 was also attached to the Poiwell 
United States Survey of the Rocky Moun- 
tain region. He is an expert relief map 
maker and modeler, and modeled what 
is probably the first relief map made in 
this country. In 1875 he modeled a relief 
map of the Grand Canyon of the Colo- 
rado, which was exhibited at Philadel- 
phia in 1876. He is the author of a num- 
ber of scientific papers on geological, geo- 
graphical and kindred subjects. He is a 
fellow of the American Association for 
the Advancement of Sciences; member 



of the National Geographical Society; the 
Philosophical Society; the Geological So- 
ciety, and the Cosmos Club. In 1884 he 
married Anne Huntington Williams. Res- 
idence: Somerset. Office: 612 Seven- 
tenth street, n.w. 

HOWELL, JOHN ADAMS, Rear Ad- 
miral, U. S. N. (retired), was born In 
New York State, on March 16, 1840. He 
was graduated from the United States 
Naval Academy in 1858, and was ap- 
pointed a Lieutenant in the Navy on 
April 18, 1861; advance'd to the rank of 
Lieutenant -Commander March 3, 1865; 
commissioned Commander March 6, 1872; 
proimoted to Captain March 1, 1884; made 
Commodore May 21, 1895, and Rear Ad- 
miral August 10, 1898. He was retired 
March 19, 1902. During the Civil War 
Admiral Howell participated in the en- 
gagements about Mobile Bay in 1864, 
and subsequently after the war served 
variously with the navy. During the war 
with Spain he was in command of the 
patrol squadron and the First Squadron 
of the North Atlantic Fleet, in the block- 
ade of Havana. For a time he served as 
president of the Examining and Retiring 
Board. Admiral Howell is the inventor 
of a disappearing gun carriage, and of a 
fly-wheel torpedo, and is the originator 
and inventor of the gyroscopic steering 
method for torpedoes. He is the author 
of a number of technical books. Address: 
Navy Department. 

HOWELL, JOSEPH, merchant. Con- 
gressman, was toorn in Boxelder County, 
Utah, on February 17, 1857, and was ed- 
ucated in the public schools and Utah 
University. He served three terms in the 
Territorial Legislature and one in the 
State Senate, and was elected Represent- 
ative-at-Large from Utah to the Fifty- 
eighth Congress. He has been since re- 
elected. Professionally he is a merchant, 
and is a Republican in politics. He was 
formerly Mayor of Wellsville, Utah; is 
now a member of the Board of Regents 
of Utah University, and, on October 24, 
1878, was married to Mary Maughan. 
Legal residence: Logan, Cache County, 
Utah. Washington address: House of 
Representatives. 

HOWLAND, CLARENCE H., dental 
surgeon. Residence: 1429 Staughton 
street, n.w. Office: 825 Vermont ave- 
nue, n.w. 

HOWLAND, PAUL, Congressman. He 
was elected to the Sixtieth Congress from 
the Twentieth Ohio Congressional Districi 
in November, 1906, as a Republican 
Legal residence: Cleveland, Ohio. Wash- 
ington addiress: House of Representa- 
tives. 

HOWLEY, JOHN P., ex-First Assist- 
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Brooklyn, New York. He was formerlj 
a telegrapher and stenographer, and was 
transferred from the Division of Sala- 
ries and Allowances of the Post Office De- 
partment, where he had been for several 
years, to become clerk to Frank H. Jones, 
then First Assistant. During- Postmaster 
Wj'-nne's term he was First Assistant 
Postmaster General. Residence: 2815 
Fourteenth street, n.w. 

HOWRY, CHARLES BOWEN, Associ- 
ate Justice United States Court of Claims, 
was born at Oxford, Mississippi, on May 
14, 1844, son of Judge James M. Howry. 
He was g-raduated from the University 
of Mississippi in 1867, with the degree 
of LL. B., later receiving the honorary 
degree of LL. D. from that institution, 
in 1896. He left the University of Mis- 
sissippi early in his course to enter the 
Confederate Army, where he served with 
the Twenty-ninth Mississippi Infantry, 
rising to the rank of Lieutenant. He 
served througTiout the Civil War, partic- 
ipated in many engagements, and was 
severely wounded at the battle of Frank- 
lin. After the war he completed "his 
course at the University of Mississippi, 
and began the practice of law. He served 
twice as a member of the Mississippi 
Legislature; from 1882 to 1894 was a 
trustee of the State University; United 
States District Attorney, 1885-89; Assist- 
ant Attorney-General of the United States 
from 1893 to 1897. He is a Democrat, and 
from 1891 to 1896 was a membe'r of the 
Democratic National Committee. Since 
February, 1897, he has been an Associ- 
ate Justice of the United States Court of 
Claims. Residence: 1728 I street, n.w. 

HOXIE, RICHARD L., Colonel, Engi- 
neers' Corps, U. S. A. Residence: 1632 K 
street, n.w. 

HOXIE, ViNNIE REAM (Mrs.) sculp- 
tor, was born at Madison, Wisconsin, on 
September 25, 1847. At the age of fifteen 
s'he was commissioned to model a life- 
size statue of President Lincoln — 'the same 
is now in the United States Capitol. Sub- 
sequently Congress commissioned lier t") 
execute the statue of Farragut, whicli 
now stands in Fsrragut Square. Sh^ has 
executed busts, statues, etc., of many fa- 
mous Americans and Europeans, among 
whom may be mentioned Mayor Powell, 
of Brooklyn, and Ezra Cornell, founder 
of Cornell University. She is the wife 
of Major Richard L. Hoxie, U. S. A. Res- 
idence: 1632 K street, n.w. 

HOYT, HENRY M., United State.^ 
Solicitor-General, was born at Wilkes- 
barre, Pennsylvania, on December 5, 1856, 
son of General Henry M. Hoyt, Governor 
of Pennsylvania from 1879 to 1883. He 
was graduated from Yale University in 
1878, a class-mate of Secretary Taft, and 
'ater graduated from the University of 



Pennsylvania in 1881, having studied law 
in the office of McVeag'h & Bispham, in 
Philadelphia, a^nd in that of George 
Shiras, Jr., in Pittsburg. He then went 
to New York, as assistant cashier of the 
United States National Bank, and for 
three years after 1886 was treasurer of 
the Investment Company of Philadelphia, 
ijecoming, in 1890, its president. Return- 
ing to the practice of the law in 1893, 
he was appointed Assistant Attorney- 
General in 1897, and Solicitor-General in 
1903. He 'has delivered several notable 
addresses, among them. The Navy of 
1812, at Arlington on Memorial Day, 1899. 
and, on Colonial Coercion and Civiliza- 
tion, before the Episcopal Church Con- 
gress at Albany, N. Y. Residence: 1701 
Rhode Island avenue. Office: Depart- 
ment of Justice. 

HOYT, JOHN WESLEY, educator and 
author, was- born near Worthington, 
Franklin County, Ohio, on October 13. 
1831. He was educated in the acade- 
mies of WorthingtO'n and Troy, and took 
a degree in art at the Ohio Wesleyan 
University in 1849, and took a course of 
law lectures at Cincinnati. He studied 
medicine at the Ohio and Eclectic Med- 
ical Colleges, and, in 1852, was appointed 
to the chair of chemistry and medical 
jurisprudence; was soon after called to 
the chair of cliemlstry ajnd natu'ral his- 
tory in Antioch College, Yellow Springs; 
also appointed medical superintendent of 
the Yellow Springs Sanitarium, and then 
professor of chemistry and medical juris- 
prudence in the new Cincinnati College 
of Medicine. In 1856 he had part in re- 
forming the Republican party and helping 
to nominate Fremont. In 1857 he re- 
moved to Madison, Wisconsin, purchased 
the Wisconsin Farmer and Northwestern 
Cultivator, soon becoming secretary and 
manager of the Wisconsin State Agricul- 
tural Society, and vice-president of the 
United States Agricultural Society; rep- 
resented State and country at the Lon- 
don Universal Exhibition of 1862. He 
was United States Commissioner to the 
Paris Universal Exposition in 1867, where 
he received from the Emperor, Napoleon 
III., a medallion portrait of himself. In 
1872, having been appointed United States 
Commissioner to the Vienna Universal 
Exposition of 1873, he was made 
United States Executive Commissioner, 
and, finally. Acting Chief Commissioiner, 
and received the Commander's Cross of 
the Imperial Order of Francis Joseph. On 
returning home he was made a member 
of the Railway Commission, with the 
duty of studying the problem of railway 
transportation, and reporting conclusions. 
In 1876 he was United States Commis- 
sioner to the Centennial Universal Ex- 
position, and, finally, president of its In- 
ternational Jury for Education and 
Science. In 1878 was elected Governor 
of Wyoming, and served for four years. 



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In 1884 he accepted the presidency of the 
International Jury for Education and 
Science at the New Orleans Universal 
Exposition, and in 1887 he inaugurated 
the new University of Wyoming, and was 
a member of the Constitutional Conven- 
tion. In 1892 he formed the Russian 
Famine Relief Committee of the United 
States, and in his capacity of chairman 
delivered addresses in the great cities, 
thus raising $100,000 and Ave shiploads 
of supplies, sent to St. Petersburg. In 
1897 he was Minister Plenipotentiary of 
the King of Korea, and presented a suc- 
cessful application for Korea's admission 
to the Universal Postal Union. He has 
written outline histories of the Universi- 
ties of Bologna, Paris, Oxford, and Cam- 
bridge, during the Middle Ages, and an 
outline history of the World's Universi- 
ties, Ancient, Medaeval, and Modern. In 
1854 he married Elizabeth Orpha Samp- 
son, of Athens, Ohioi, to which union have 
been born two sons. Residence: The 
Victoria. 

HOYT, JOHN WILLIAM, clergyman, 
was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, 
on July 1, 1872, son of John William and 
Hester Amelia (Steenbach) Hoyt. He 
is a descendant of Simon Hoyt, who em- 
igrated to America in 1628. He was 
graduated from the New York Univer- 
sity, B. A., in 1899, and from the Union 
Theological Seminary in New York City, 
B. D., in 1903. From 1901 to 1905 he 
served as a clergyman with the Federa- 
tion of Churches in New York City, and 
since 1905 has been pastor of Faith, and 
Bethany (Presbyterian) Chapels in Wash- 
ington, and since 1906 has been secretary 
of the' Presbyterian Ministerial Associa- 
tion of Washington. He is a member 
of the Southern Alumni Association of the 
Union Theological Seminary, and, in pol- 
itics. Is a Republican. On December 11, 
1902, he married Mary Elenor Louise 
Archer, of New York City, to which union 
have been born two children. Residence: 
900 B street, s.w. 

HRDLICKA, ALES (Alois F.), an- 
thropologist, was born at Humpolec, Bo- 
hemia, on March 30, 1869, son of Max- 
imilian and Carolina Hrdlicka. He re- 
ceived his academic education in Bohe- 
mia; in 1892, graduating in medicine from 
the New York Eclectic College; the New 
Yo:k Homoeopathic College, 1894, and the 
Maryland Allopathic State B'Oard in 1894. 
From 1894-96 and 1897-99, he made inves- 
tigations among Insane and other de- 
fective classes and during the first half 
of 1896 he studied abroad. He conducted 
anthropological expeditions to Mexico and 
the Southwestern United States in 1898, 
1899. 1900, 1902, and 1905, and was in 
charge of the physical anthropological 
part of the Hyde Expedition from 1899- 
1904. Since 1904 he has been assistant 
curator, in charge of the Division of Phys- 



ical Anthropology In the United States 
National Museum. He is a Fellow of the 
American Association for the Advance- 
ment of Science; member of the Society 
of American Anatomists; American An- 
thropological Association; Washington 
Anthropological, Biological and Medical 
Societies; a corresponding member of the 
Bohemian Ethnological Society; Royal 
Bohemian Association of Sciences; Paris 
Societe d' Anthropologie Association, and 
he is editor of the American Naturalist. 
He is the author of a number of reports, 
etc., among them being: Report on An- 
thropological Work in the State Institute 
for Feeble- Minded Children, Syracuse, 
New York (1898); Anthropological Inves- 
tigations on One Thousand White and 
Colored Children, New York (1899); The 
Eskimo Brain (1901); also many anthro- 
pological articles in various periodicals. 
Residence: 2501 Pennsylvania avenue, 
n.w. Office: U. S. National Museum. 

HUBBARD, EDWARD L., clergyman, 
pastor of the McKendree Methodist Epis- 
copal Church. Residence: 921 Massa- 
chusetts avenue. 

HUBBARD, ELBERT HAMILTON, 

lawyer, Congressman, was born at Rush- 
ville, Indiana, August 19, 1849, son of 
Hon. Asahel W. Hubbard. He was grad- 
uated from Yale College in 1872, and by 
profession is a lawyer. He has been a 
member of the General Assembly of 
Iowa, serving in both the House and the 
Senate. He was elected a Represent- 
ative to the Fifty-ninth Congress from 
the Eleventh Iowa District, and has since 
been re-elected. In politics ihe is a Re- 
pu'blican. On June 6, 1882, he married 
Eleanor Hermance Cobb. Legal residence; 
Sioux City, Iowa. Washington address: 
House of Representatives. 

HUBBARD, JEROME, President and 
Treasurer of the Hubbard Heating Com- 
pany, was born in Preston, Maryland, in 
1861, son of Francis M. and Martha E. 
(Cannon) Hubbard. He was educated in 
the public schools of Caroline County, 
Maryland, and removed to Baltimore in 
1882, where he entered into partnership 
-with his uncle, Alva Hubbard, in the 
heating business. After ten years in Bal- 
timore, he removed to Washington, where 
he organized the company above referred 
to. On June 14, 1902, he married Wini- 
fred R. Fawcett, of Sackville. New Bruns- 
wick, Canada. Residence: Takoma Park, 
D. C. Office: 918 F street, n.w. 

HUBBARD, WILLIAM PALLISTER, 

lawyer. Congressman, was born in Wheel- 
ing, then Virginia, on December 24, 184:?. 
He was educated in the public schools 
and Linsly Institute, of Wheeling, and 
was graduated from Wesleyan University 
in 1863, and was admitted to the bar in 
1864. In 1865 he served in the Union 
Army, and was Clerk of the West Vir- 



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ginia House of Deleg-ates from 1866 to 
1870. During 1881-82 he was a membei' 
of the House of Delegates, and a mem- 
ber of the committee to revise the general 
statutes. He was a delegate to the Na- 
tional Republican Convention in 1888; Re- 
publican candidate for Attorney-General 
of West Virginia the same year, and Re- 
publican candidate for Congress in 1890, 
being defeated at both elections. From 
1901 to 1903 he was chairman of the 
commission to revise the tax laws of 
West Virginia and in November, 1906, 
he was elected to the Sixtl?th Congreso 
as a Republican. He is a member of the 
American Academy of Political and So- 
cial Science; American Economic Asso- 
ciation, and the National Gei^graphic So- 
ciety. Legal residence: Wheeling, W. Va. 
Washington address: House of Repre- 
sentatives. 

HUBBELL, FREDERICK BROOKS, 

lawyer, was born at Harrisburg, Penn.. 
on July 21, 1842, son pf General Horatio 
and Rebecca (Brooks) Hubbell. He at- 
tended the public schools and was grad- 
uated from the Philadelphia Central 
High School, subsequently studying law 
in the office of his father. He is vice- 
president of the W. A. & F. C. Railway 
Company; was vice-president of the 
Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf Rail- 
road (Texarkana and Fort Smith Di- 
vision), now K. C. Southern; and was 
general freight agent of the Maryland 
Central Railway, and has been the incor- 
porator and manager of several other rail- 
ways. He is a member of Pittsburg 
Commandery, Knights Templar; of the 
Pennsylvania Chapter, Sons of the Rev- 
olution; Society of Mayflower Descend- 
ants of New York, and the Pennsylva- 
nia Society of New York. In politics he 
lis a Republican, and in religion a mem- 
ber of the Presbyterian Church. On Octo- 
ber 7, 1880, he married Ella Sherman, 
who died on March 20, 1890; married. 
June 11, 1907, Elizabeth Earle Baker, 
daughter of General Lawrence S. Baker, 
of North Carolina. Has one son, Stewart 
B. Hubbell, born at Pittsburg, Pa., on 
June 2, 1884; was graduated from Piince- 
ton, class of 1907. Residence: 714 Nine- 
teenth street, n.w. 

HUFF, GEORGE FRANKLIN, banker, 
coal operator. Congressman, was born in 
Norristown, Penn., on July 16, 1842, son 
of George and Caroline (Boycr) Huff. 
He was educated in the public schools 
of Middletown and Altoona, Penn.; taking 
a. deep Interest in mechanics, he entered 
the car shops of the Pennsylvania Rail- 
road Company at Altoona, where he 
learned a trade. At an early age he 
abandoned his trade to enter the banking 
business. In 1867 he moved to West- 
moreland County, Pennsylvania, where he 
has resided ever since. Cashier, Ebens- 
burg Bank, 1865-66; member banking 
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firm of Floyd. Huff & Co., 1866-73; presi- 
dent of Farmers' National Bank, Geens- 
burg, Penn., 1871-74; vice-president of 
Fifth National Bank, Pittsburg, 1873-75; 
cashier of Grcensburg Banking Company, 
1874-92; director of First National Bank, 
Greensburg, since 1881; treasurer of the 
Southweste.n Pennsylvania Railroad, 
1871-74, and director ever since; director 
of American Security and Trust Com- 
pany, Washington, D. C; president of 
Keystone Coal and Coke Company; pres- 
ident of Westmoreland Hospital A.s.»oela- 
tion; delegate to the National Republican 
Convention. Chicago, 1880; member of 
the Pennsylvania Senate, 1884-88; mem- 
ber of Congress, Twenty-flrst Pennsylva- 
nia Dist:ict, 1891-93; from Pennsylvanla- 
at-large, 1895-97; from the Twenty-sec- 
ond Pennsylvania District, 1903-09. Re- 
publican. Clubs: Metropolitan, Chevy 
Chase, Pennsylvania (Washington), Stroll- 
ers (New York), Duquesne (Pittsburg). 
Member of Historical Society of Penn- 
sylvania; Archaeological Institute of 
America; National Geographic Society; 
American Forestry Association. On March 
16, 1871, he married Henrietta, daughter 
of the late Judge J. M. Burrell, of Penn- 
sylvania, and afterwards United States 
District Judge and Chief Justice of Kan- 
sas. Legal residence: Greensburg, Penn, 
Washington address: 1600 New Hamp- 
shire avenue, n.w. 

MUGGINS, ELI LUNDY, Brigadier- 
General. U. S. A. (retired), was born In 
Schuyler (jounty, Illinois, on August 1, 
1842, son of Alexander G. and Lydia 
(Pettijohn) Huggins. He attended the 
public schools and Hamline University 
until the outbreak of the Civil War, when 
he enlisted in the volunteer Minnesota 
regiment. He was commissioned Second 
Lieutenant of Artillery on February 22, 
1S6", and rose through the immediate 
grades, to the rank of Brigadier-General, 
in 1903. He was retired the same year. 
He was graduated from the United States 
Artillery School in 1872, and has special- 
ized in artillery during his army service. 
For distinguished gallantry in action 
against the Ogallala Sioux Indians, on 
April 1, 1880, he received a congressional 
medal of honor. He is the author of 
Winona, a Dakota Legend, and other 
poems. He is a member of the Military 
Order of the Loyal Legion, Grand Army 
of the Republic, etc. Address: War De- 
partment. 

HUGHES, AARON KONKLE, naval of- 
ficer, was born in Elmira, New York, 
on March 31, 1822. He entered the navy 
October 20, 1838; became Commodore on 
November 16, 1862; Captain, January 19. 
1871; Rear Admiral, March 1, 1884, and 
retired on the 21st of the same month, 
on attaining the age of sixty-two. His 
service in the Civil War was as Com- 
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1861-62; the Mohawk, In the South Atlan- 
tic, 1862-63, and the Cinnamon, 1863-64, 
before Charleston, S. C. Residence: 1614 
Nineteenth street, n.w. 

HUGHES, JAMES ANTHONY, Con- 
gressman, was born at Corunna, Ontario, 
on February 27, 1861. In 1873 he removed 
with his parents to Ashland, Kentucky, 
where he engaged in business. In 1887 
and 1888 he was elected to the State 
Legislature of Kentucky, and in the in- 
terim, having removed to West Virginia, 
ibecame State Senator of that State. He 
was elected to the Fifty-seventh Con- 
gress from the Fifth West Virginia Dis- 
trict, and has since been re-elected. In 
politics he is a Republican. Legal resi- 
dence: Huntington W. Va. Washington 
address: House of Representatives. 

HUGHES, ROBERT P., army officer, 
was born in Pennsylvania in 1845, and 
at the outbreak of the Civil War he en- 
tered the Twelfth Pennsylvania Infantry 
as a private, and rose to be Lieutenant- 
Colonel of the Ninety-ninth Pennsylvania, 
and was brevetted Colonel for gallauc 
services on the assault of Fort Gregg, 
Virginia. He continued in the regular 
army and was transferred to the In- 
spector-General's Department many year.-; 
ago. He went to the Philippines on the 
staff of Major-General Otis, and filled a 
number of important posts. He was 
Provost Marshal of Manila during the 
early days of the Philippine rebellion, and 
received official praise from General Otis 
for the able manner in which he fought 
the great fire in Manila, his tact and vig- 
ilance alone saving the capital from com- 
plete destruction. Address: War De- 
partment. 

HUGHES, WILLIAM, lawyer, Con- 
gressman, was born at Paterson, New 
Jersey, in 1872. He was educated in the 
common schools and took a business col- 
lege course. During the Spanish-Amer- 
ican War he served with the Second New 
Jersey Volunteers, and was admitted to 
■the bar in 1900. He was a member of 
Congress from the Sixth New Jersey Dis- 
trict from 1903 to 1905. In November, 
1906, he was elected a member of the 
Sixtieth Congress from the same district. 
He is a Democrat in politics. On July 
16, 1898, he married Margaret Hughes 
Legal residence: Paterson, N. J. Wash- 
ington address: House of Representa- 
tives. 

HUIDEKOPER, FREDERIC WOL- 
TERS, formerly .railway official, now 
retired, was born at Meadville, Penn., on 
September 12, 1840, son of Edgar and 
Frances (Shippen) Huidekoper. In 1862 
he was graduated from Harvard Univer- 
sity, and in 1871 received the degree of 
A. M. During the Civil War he was Cap- 
tain in the Fifty-eighth Pennsylvania 



Militia. From 1877 to 1882 he was presi- 
dent of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois 
Railway; during 1881 and 1882, was 
president of the Evansville and Terre 
Haute Railroad; from 1886 to 1887, was 
first vice-president of the Richmond and 
Danville Railroad; vice-president, Rich- 
mond and West Point Terminal Rail- 
way and Warehouse Company, and the 
Virginia Midland Railway, and president 
of the Virginia Midland Railway; from 
1889 to 1891 he was president and re- 
ceiver of the Pittsburg, Shenango and 
Lake Erie Railroad; president South 
Atlantic and Ohio Railroad during 1890- 
92; from 1892 to 1894 was receiver of the 
Richmond and Danville Railroad, and 
from 1893 to 1895 receiver of the Geor- 
gia Pacific Railway; Charlotte, Columbia 
and Augusta Railroad, and Columbia and 
Greenville Railroad. He was president 
of the Chicago, Peoria and St. Louis 
Railroad during 1896 and 1897, and since 
1901 has been president of the United 
Land Company ofr Florida. During 1901 
and 1902 he was Governor of the Soci- 
ety of Colonial Wars, District of Colum- 
bia branch, and in 1905 was vice-president 
of the local chapter of the Sons of the 
Revolution. He is a member of the Met- 
ropolitan and Country Clubs of Washing- 
ton, and of the University and Harvard 
Clubs of New York. On January 22, 1867. 
he married Anna Virginia Christie. Resi- 
dence: 1614 Eighteenth street, n.w. Office: 
734 Fifteenth street, n.w. 

HUIDEKOPER, REGINALD SHIPPEN. 

lawyer, was born in Meadville, Crawford 
County, Pennsylvania, on May 24, 1876, 
son of Frederick Walters and Virginia 
(Christy) Huidekoper. In 1898 he was 
graduated, A. B., from Harvard Univer- 
sity; spent two years in post-graduate 
work at Trinity College, Oxford, England, 
after which he entered the Columbian 
(now George Washington) University 
Law School, from which he was gradu- 
ated with the degree of LL. B. He is 
the author of Water Works and Water 
Companies, which has appeared in the 
American and English Encyclopedia of 
Law. He is a director of the United Land 
Company; a member of the Episcopal 
Church; Metropolitan and Chevy Chase 
Clubs of Washington; University and 
Harvard Clubs of New York, and, in pol- 
itics, is a Republican. Unmarried. Res- 
idence: 1614 Eighteenth street, n.w. 
Office: Fendall Building. 

HULL, CORDELL, Congressman. In 
November, 1906, :he was elected to the 
Sixtieth Congress from the Fourth Con- 
gressional District of Tennessee, on the 
Democratic ticket. Legal residence: Cross- 
ville, Tenn. Washington address: House 
of Representatives. 

HULL, JOHN ALBERT TIFFIN, law- 
yer, Congressman, was born at Sabina, 



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Clinton County, Ohio, on May 1, 1841, 
and removed with his parents to Iowa 
in 1849. He attended the public schools, 
also Asbury (Indiana) University, Iowa 
Wesleyan College (Mt. Pleasant, Iowa), 
and the Cincinnati (Ohio) Law School, 
from which latter institution he was 
graduated in 1862. He served during the 
Civil War as Lieutenant and Captain of 
the Twenty-third Iowa Infantry, being 
forced to resign on account of severe 
wounds. He was elected Secretary of 
the Iowa Senate in 1872, and re-elected 
in 1874, 1876 and 1878; was Secretary 
of State of Iowa during the terms of 
1878, 1880 and 1882, and in 1885 was 
elected Lieutenant-Governor, and was re- 
elected in 1887. He is principally en- 
gaged in banking and farming. He has 
been a Representative from the Seventh 
Iowa District since the Fifty-second Con- 
gress. Republican. Legal residence: Des 
Moines, Iowa. Washington address: 
House of Representatives. 

HUME, THOMAS L., President Wash- 
ington Stoclc Exchange, was iborn in 
Georgetown, D. C, in 1872. He was edu- 
cated in the public and private school? 
of Washington, Pantops Academy (Va.), 
and the University of Virginia. He be- 
came a member of the Stock Exchange 
on September 20, 1900, and served as sec- 
retary of that body before being elected 
its president. Since 1906 he has been a 
member of the firm of W. B. Hibbs & 
Co., general bankers and brokers. He is 
married and the father of four children. 
Residence: 2113 S street, n.w. Office: 
Hibbs Building. 

HUMPHREY, CHARLES FREDERICK, 

Brigadier-General, U. S. A., was born in 
New York. He entered the army as a 
private, with Company E, Fifth Artil- 
lery, and rose to the rank of Sergeant, 
in 1866 being commissioned Second Lieu- 
tenant of Artillery. On May 21, 1868, 
he was promoted to First Lieutenant; 
graduated from the United States Artil- 
lery School in 1872 and 1874; was com- 
missioned Captain and Assistant Quar- 
termaster June 23, 1879; promoted to 
Major and Quartermast&r December 11, 
1892; advanced to Lieutenant-Colonel and 
Deputy Quartermaster-General October 
15 1897; 'Commissioned Colonel by Act 
of Congress July 7, 1898; made Briga- 
dier-General of Volunteers in 1898. He 
served through the Civil War and in the 
South until 1872, then served in the West 
and in Alaska until 1896. For conspicu- 
ous gallantry in action against Indians 
at Clearwater, Idaho, oin July 11, 1877, 
he was 'brevetted Captain and awarded a 
congressional medal of honor. During the 
Spanish-American War he was Chief 
Quartermaster at Havana, later Chief 
Quartermaster of the Division of Cuba, 
and also served in a similar capacity with 
the China Relief Expedition in 1900. Dur- 



ing 1901 he was stationed at Peking, and 
during 1902 and 1903 in the Philippines. 
He is now Quartermaster-General of the 
Army. Address: War Department. 

HUMPHREY, WILLIAM E., lawyer. 
Congressman, was born near Alamo, 
Montgomery County, Indiana, on March 
31, 1862, and educated in the public 
schools and at Wabash College, Indiana, 
from which institution he was graduated 
in 1887. In the same ye.\v he was admit- 
ted to the practice of law, and until 1893 
was engaged in his profession at Craw- 
fordsville, Indiana. He then removed to 
Seattle, Washington. In 1898 he was 
Corporation Counsel of Seattle, and was 
re-elected in 1900. He was elected Rep- 
resentative-at-Large to the Fifty-eighth 
Congress; was re-elected to the Fifty- 
ninth and Sixtieth Congresses. Republi- 
can. Legal residence: Seattle, Wash. 
Washington City address: 930 M street, 
n.'W. 

HUMPHREYS, BENJAMIN GRUBB, 

lawyer, congressman, was horn In Clai- 
borne County, Mississippi, on August 17. 
1865, son of Brigadier-General Benjamin 
G. Humphreys, C. S. A., and Governor of 
Mississippi from 1865 to 1868. For a time 
he attended the University of Mississippi, 
leaving before graduation to enter com- 
mercial business. He was a clerk, trav- 
eling salesman, and later merchant. Later 
he studied law and was admitted to the 
bar in 1891. He was appointed Superin- 
tendent of Education of Leflore County 
for four years, in 1892; in the same year 
he 'acted as messenger for the State and 
carried the result of the electoral vote; 
he served as District Attorney from 1895 
to 1903, and at the time of the Spanish- 
American War organized a company and 
became its First Lieutenant, serving in 
Florida throughout the war, being mus- 
tered out in December, 1898. He was 
elected to Congress from the Third Dis- 
trict of Mississippi in 1903, and re-elected 
to the Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Con- 
gresses. He is a Democrat, and on Octo- 
ber 9, 1889, he married Louise Yerger. 
Legal residence: Greenville, Miss. Wash- 
ington address: House of Representa- 
tives. 

HUNT, C. B., Engineer of Highway.s 
of the District of Columbia. Residence: 
1815 M street, n.w. Office: District Build- 
ing. 

HUNT, GAILARD, historical writer, 
and Chief of the Bureau of Citizenship 
of the Department of State, was born in 
New Orleans, La., on September 8, 1862, 
son of William H. and Elizabeth Augusta 
(Ridgely) Hunt. His father was a fa- 
mous jurist and se. ved as Attorney-Gen- 
eral of Louisiana; Judge of the United 
States Court of Claims; Secretary of the 
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R. Livingston, who was his great-great- 
grandfather, was the first Secretary of 
Foreign Affairs. After obtaining his pre- 
liminary education in the Emerson Insti- 
tute, of Washington, and other private 
schools, he took up the study of law, 
but never practiced. He i? the author 
and editor of a number of books and 
articles on historical and governmental 
subjects. He is a member of the Cath- 
olic Church. On October 23, 1901, he 
married Mary Goodfellow, daughter of 
Major Henry Goodfellow of "Washington, 
to which union one child has been born. 
Residence: 1711 De Sales street. Office: 
Department of State. 

HUNT, JOHN THOMAS, Congressman, 
was born at St. Louis, Mo., In 1860, and 
attended the public schools. He subse- 
quently became a stone cutter. He was 
elected Representative from the Eleventh 
Missouri District to the Fifty-eighth Con- 
gress, and was re-elected to the Fifty- 
ninth Congress. In politics he is a Demo- 
crat. Legal residence: St. Louis, Mo. 
Washington address: House of Repre- 
sentatives. 

HUNT, REID, physician, pharmacolo- 
gist, was born in Ohio, on April 20, 1870, 
son of M. L. and S. E. (Wright) Hunt. 
In 1891 he was graduated, with the de- 
gree of Ph. D., from Johns Hopkins Uni- 
versity, and subsequently studied at the 
University of Bonn, in Germany; in 1896 
received the degree of M. D., after a 
course of study at the College of Physi- 
cians and Surgeons, of Baltimore. From 
1896 to 1898 he was instructor in physi- 
ology at the New York College of Physi- 
cians and Surgeons; from 1898 to 1903 
was associate professor of pharmacology 
at Johns Hopkins University. Since 
March 1, 1904, he has been chief of the 
Division of Pharmacology of the Public 
Health and Marine Hospital Service. He 
is the author of a number of pharmaco- 
logical and medical books, and is asso- 
ciate editor of the American Yearbook of 
Medicine and Surgery. He is a member 
of the American Medical Association; 
American Physiological Society; Amer- 
ican Chemical Society, etc. He Is un- 
married. Residence: 1223 M street, n.w. 

HUNT, WILLIAM CHAMBERLIN, 

statistician, was born at Charlestown 
Masssachusetts, on December 20, 1856,' 
son of Samuel C. and Sarah K. Hunt.' 
He was graduated from the Charlestown 
High School in 1875, and from that year 
until 1877 was associated with the Mas- 
sachusetts State Census. From 1877 to 
1883 he was connected with the Boston 
Herald and with the Oliver Ditson Com- 
pany; was clerk with the Massachusetts 
Bureau of Statistics of Labor, and the 
Massachusetts Census of 1885, during the 
years 1883-89. From that year until 1895 
he was associated with the Eleventh 



United States Census as special agent in 
charge of population, and from 1895 to 
1899 was statistical expert with the De- 
partment of Labor. Since 1899 he had 
been chief statistician for population of 
the Bureau of Census. He is a member 
of the American Statistical Association, 
and the American Economic Association. 
In 1884 he married Mary E. Tilden. Res- 
idence: 928 Westminster street, n.w. 
Office: Bureau of Census. 



HUNTER, WALTER DAVID, entomol- 
ogist, was born at Lincoln, Nebraska, on 
December 14, 1875, son of Joseph H. and 
Mary Abbey (Crooker) Hunter. He was 
graduated from the University of Ne- 
braska, with the degree of A. B., in 1895, 
and with that of A. M. in 1897. From 1895 
to 1900 he was assistant entomologist ac 
the Iowa Agricultural Experiment Sta- 
tion, and since 1902 has been assistant en- 
tomologist in charge of boll weevil in- 
vestigations in the Department of Agri- 
culture. He is an authority on the boll 
weevil, and the author of a number of 
bulletins, reports, etc., on the same, and 
on other entomological subjects. He is a 
member of the Cosmos Club; Entomo- 
logical Society of Washington; American 
Ornithologists' Union, and a fellow of the 
American Association for the Advance- 
ment of Science. In religion he is a 
Congregationalist. Residence: Cosmos 
Club. Office: Department of Agriculture. 

HUNTINGTON, A. T., Chief of the Di- 
vision of Loans and Currency, Treasury 
Department. Residence: Vienna, Va. 
Office: Treasury Department. 

HUNTLEY, ELI AS DeWITT, Meth- 
odist-Episcopal clergyman, was born at 
Elmira, N. Y., on April 19, 1S40. He wa« 
graduated from Genesee College in 1866 
(D. D., East Tennessee Wesleyan Uni- 
versity, 1879; Grant Memorial University, 
1886, and LL. D., University of Iowa, 
1879). In 1866, he entered the Methodist 
Episcopal ministry; was professor of an- 
cient languages at Genesee Wesleyan 
Seminary, six months; and was presiding 
elder of the Madison, Wis., district. From 
1879 to 1883 he was president of Lawrence 
University, Appleton, Wis., resigning to 
become pastor of the Metropolitan Church 
at Washington; in 1883 being transferred 
to the Baltimore Conference. He has held 
pastorates successively at the Madison 
Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, Bal- 
tim'Ore; First Church, at Annapolis, Md.; 
First Church, at Baltimore, and Trinity 
Church, Washington. In 1881 he was a 
delegate to the Ecumenical Methodist 
Conference, held at London, England; 
from 1883-86 was chaplain of the U. S. 
Senate, and in April, 1903, he was made 
superannuated. Addresses: 20 Third 
street, s.e. and Washington Grove, Mary- 
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HURST, CARLTON BAILEY, United 
States Consul, was born while his parents 
were temporarily abroad, on August 16, 
1867, son of Bishop John F. (D. D., LL. 
D.) and Catherine (LaMonte) Hurs't. His 
academic education was obtained at the 
Phillips Academy, Exeter, N. H., later at- 
tending Harvard College, and grad- 
uated from the University of Tubingen, 
Germany, A. M., and Ph. D. In 1892 he 
was appointed U. S. Consul to Catania, 
Sicily; transferred to Crefeld, Germany, 
In 1893; to Prague, Bohemia, 1895; to 
VIennia, Austria, 1897, and to La Gualra, 
Venezuela, in 1904. He has contributed 
quite extensively to American periodicals 
on travel and fiction. On August 1, 1892, 
he married Hariette Hamlin Strobridge. 
Address: 1419 F street, n.w. 

HUSMANN, GEORGE C. F., pomolo- 
gist, was born at Hermann, Gasconade 
County, Missouri, on April 27, 1861, son 
of Professor George and Lioulse C Hus- 
mann. He attended the county and pub- 
lic schools at Bluffton and Sedalia, Mis- 
souri, and was graduated in 1882 from 
the Missouri State University. He has 
received the honorary degree of Master 
of Agricultural Science from the Mis- 
souri State University. For a time 'he 
was foreman of the Talcoa Vineyards, at 
Napa, California, then general foreman of 
Stanford's Vina Wineries and Distiller- 
ies, Vina, California; superintendent and 
manager, Kohler & Frohling, Windsor 
Wineries and Distilleries, Windsor, Cali- 
fornia. For a number of years he has 
been pomologist in charge of viticul- 
tural investigations, Bureau of Plant In- 
dustry, Department of Agriculture. He 
is the author of a number of government 
bulletins, reports, etc., on unfermented 
grape juice, raisin, wine, and other uses 
of the grape, pruning, culture, trimming, 
etc. He is a member of the Lutheran 
Church, and of the Masons and the Amer- 
ican Pomological Society. On February 
1, 1894, he married Ellen W. Dorsett. Res- 
idence: 1308 Q street, n.w. Office: U. S. 
Department of Agriculture. 

HUSTED, GLENN EDWARD, lawyer, 
was born at Kalamazoo, Michigan, on Au- 
gust 27, 1874, son of Thomas Edward and 
Elcey A. (Cheney) Husted. He attended 
the Kalamazoo High School, Parson's Col- 
lege, both at Kalamazoo, and was gradu- 
ated from Columbian (now George Wash- 
ington) University with the degree of 
LL. B. in 1899, with that of LL. M. in 
1900, and D. C. L. in 1901. He has been 
engaged in the practice of law since 1899, 
and since July 1, 1903, has been assistant 
attorney in the Department of Justice. 
He is a member of the Christian Church, 
a Mason, and a member of the Phi Sigma 
Kappa fraternity, and the University 
Club. In politics he Is a Republican. On 
June 9, 1897, he married Mary J. Sim- 
mers. Residence: Fort Drive and Eigh- 



teenth street, n.w. Office: Department of 
Justice.' 

HUTCH ESON, GROTE, Captain of the 

Sixth Cavalry, U. S. A. (General Staff). 
Residence: 1758 Corcoran street. Office: 

War Department. 

HUTCHINS, CHARLES THOMAS, 

Captain, U. S. N., was born in Kings- 
ton, Pennsylvania, in 1844, son of Rich- 
ard and Emily (Little) Hutchins. He 
was graduated from the United States 
Naval Academy in 1866, and was made 
Ensign in 1868; commisisioned Master in 
1869; ptomoted to Lieutenant in 1870; ad- 
vanced to Lieutenant-Commander in 
1887; made Commander in 1896, and 
Captain in 1901. In 1871 he was attached 
to the Relief when that vessel conveyed 
supplies to destitute French people in 
France; served on the Wyoming when 
that vessel was ordered to Cuba to cap- 
ture the Virginius; attached to the Lan- 
caster, and was present at the time of 
the bombardment of Alexandria, Egypt. 
He has been personally commended and 
thanked by the monarchs of Sweden and 
Norway. He was one of the United States 
representatives at the coronation of the 
present Czar of Russia, in 1884; from 
1902 to 1904 was naval secretary of the 
Lighthouse Board, and since 1904 has 
been in command of the new battleship 
Maine. Captain Hutchins is an Episco- 
palian in religion, and is a member of the 
following clubs: New York Yacht; San 
Francisco Yacht (honorary member) ; 
Rittenhouse (of Philadelphia), and Met- 
ropolitan and Chevy Chasc, of Washing- 
ton. On November 17, 1876, he married 
Marian Clemintine Borup. Address; 
Navy Department. 

HUTCHINS, FRANCIS E., Special At- 
torney, Department of Justice. Residence; 
1632 Riggs Place. Office: Department of 
Justice. 

HUTCHINS, STILSON, capitalist, was 
born in Whitefield, Coos County, New 
Hampshire, on November 14, 1838, son 
of Stilson II. and Clara (EJaton) Hutch- 
ins. He Is a Mayf^ower descendant, 
and his g-reat-grandfiather, Nathaniel 
Hutchins, was a Captain under General 
Washington in the Revolutionary War, 
as was also his maternal great-grand- 
father, Nathaniel Eaton. He was edu- 
cated at the Sanborn School, Hopkinton, 
N. H. ; the Dana (Cambridge) Prepara- 
tory School, and entered Harvard College, 
but left shortly thereafter to take a place 
on the Boston Herald. In 1856 he re- 
moved with his parents to Iowa, and there 
engaged in newspaper work and as edi- 
tor or proprietor, or both, was, success- 
ively, associated with the Northern lowan, 
at Osage; the Iowa State Journal, 
at Des Moines, and the Herald, at 
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Mo., and founded the St. Louis Times, 
and afterwards he became the proprietor 
of the St. Louis Dispatch, now owned by 
Joseph Pulitzer. Mr. Hutchins removed 
to Washington, D. C, in 1877, and founded 
the Washington Post, and later the Times, 
-both of which he sold, the former in 
1889 and the latter in 1901. During his 
residence in New Hampshire and Missouri 
he served several times in the Legisla- 
tures of those States, as a Democrat 
He was one of the organizers and chief 
promoter of the Mergent'haler Linotype 
Machine Company. He is a large holder 
of real estate and industrial interests, 
and has contributed much to enhance the 
beauty and promote the development of 
Washington. He has been twice married, 
first, on March 7, 1882, to Sarita Morri- 
son Brady; second, on June 12, 1890, to 
Rose Blake Keeling, of Baltimore, Md. 
Residence: 1603 Massachusetts avenue, 
n.w. Office: Hutchins Building. 

HUXFORD, WILLIAM P., retired 
army officer, Recorder of the Military 
Order of the Loyal Legion, enlisted, at 
seventeen years of age, in the Fourth 
Michigan Regiment, and rose to the rank 
of Major, later joining the One Hundred 
and Sixty-second New York, and after- 
ward the Forty-second United States In- 
fantry of the Regular Army. He was 
retired as brevet Major for meritorious 
conduct in the attack on Port Hudson, 
in 1863. He participated in the battles 
of Bull Run, Yorktown, Seven Days' 
Fight, and the siege of Richmond, in 
1861-62. In the last engagement he was 
shot and left for dead, but recovered, to 
be made a prisoner at Malvern Hill, and 
was confined for two months in Libby 
Priijon. In 1864 he was again taken pris- 
oner, but was exchanged a few month.s 
later. He served as Registrar of the 
Loyal Legion from 1886 to 1888, and re- 
corder from that time to the present. He, 
was registrar and chief for six terms, and 
represented the commander in the sixth, 
seventh and nintli congresses of that or- 
der. He was chosen Recorder in 1905, for 
the eighteenth time. Residence: The 
Albemarle. Office: Kellogg Building. 

HUYCK, JESSE VAN NESS, member 
of the Washington Stock Exchange and 
real estate broker. He is now the oldest 
established real estate broker in the city, 
and the value of his seat in the Exchange 
has risen since he bought it from $3,000 
to $10,000. Residence: 1728 I street, n.w. 
Office: 1505 Pennsylvania avenue, n.w. 

HYDE, JOHN, chief of the Bureau of 
Statistics of the Department 'Of Agricul- 
ture from 1897 to 1906, and a member of 
the United States Board on Geographic 
Names since November, 1899, was born at 
Stallybridge, Lancashire, England, on De- 
cember 16, 1848. He was educated at 
Stamford Academy, Ashton-under-Lyne, 



with special studies at Owens College 
(now Victoria University), Manchester. 
His business career was begun in an Eng- 
lish country bank, devoting his leisure 
hours to the study of statistical and eco- 
nomic questions. He published results of 
researches into economic effects of conta- 
gious diseases of cattle, 1876-78, and ex- 
tended his investigations into the United 
States and Canada, 1882-83. Prom 1884 
to 1885 he was an associate editor of the 
Prairie Farmer, and from 1885 to 1886 of 
the Banker's Monthly. Made a syste- 
matic investigation of agricultural condi- 
tions and capabilities of the United States 
and Canada, personally visiting every 
state and territory, including Alaska, and 
almost every part of the Dominion; was 
an expect special agent during the Elev- 
enth Census in charge of agricultural, 
1890-94, and was editor-in-chief of the 
National Geographic Magazine, from 1895 
to 1901. At the Paris Exposition of 1900 
he was cotton expert to the U. S. Com- 
mission, and was awarded a grand prize 
for American cottons. He has been a Fel- 
low of the Royal Statistical Society of 
London since 1893; member of the Inter- 
national Statistical Institute; Washington 
Secretary of the American Statistical As- 
sociation; member of the Council of the 
American Economic Association since 
1891; member of the Washington Acad- 
emy of Sciences; Fellow (vice-president, 
1901-02) of the American Association for 
the Advancement 'Of Science, and a mem- 
ber of many other United States and for- 
eign scientific societies. He is the author 
of many reports and magazine and other 
articles on statistical, economic and geo- 
graphic subjects, and his private library 
contains valuable collections of auto- 
graphs, manuscripts and early printed 
books. He was a member of the jury of 
awards at the Trans-Mississippi Exposi- 
tion held at Omaha in 1898, and the St. 
Louis Exposition, in 1904. In 1872 he 
married Emily, daughter of William Wat- 
son. Residence: 1840 Summit Place, n.w. 

HYDE, JOHN McEWEN, Brigadier- 
General, U. S. A. (retired), was born at 
New York, on November 1, 1841, son of 
Joseph and Catherine Maria (McEwen) 
Hyde. He attended a private school in 
New York City, and in 1861 enlisted as 
a private in the Seventy- first New York 
Militia. During the war he was twice 
wounded, and arose to the rank of Major, 
being twice brevetted (Lieutenant-Colonel 
and Colonel) for distinguished gallantry. 
His service was principally with the 
Army of the Potomac. He was commis- 
sioned a Second Lieutenant in the Thirty- 
third United States Infantry on Septem- 
ber 3, 1867. From this time until 1883 
he served at many stations throughout the 
West; was on recruiting duty in New 
York City from 1883 to 1885, and imme- 
diately thereafterward again stationed in 
the West. In 1886 he was appointed Adju- 
tant of the Eighth Infantry; in 1889 be- 



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came Quartermaster; served during- the 
period of the Spanish-American War as 
Quarterm'aster and Pnrohafslng- Com- 
missary at Boston. He went to the Phil • 
ippines in 1899; established a Quarter- 
master depot at Naka^ak!. Japan. T\'here 
he served as Depot (4Liarieiiii-.oiex- at tlie 
time of the foreign invasion in China. 
During 1901 and 1902 he was Chief Quar- 
termaster of the Department of Visayas, 
in the Philippines; ordered to Portland, 
Oiregon, in 1903; appointed Chief Quar- 
termaster, Department of California, in 
May, 1903; in August, 1903, 'appointed to 
the same position for the Department of 
Dakota. He has served through all suc- 
cessive ranks in the service from Second 
Lieutenant to Brigadier-General, to which 
latter rank he was advanced on July 9, 
1904. He was retired in the same year. 
General Hyde is a member of the Epis- 
copal Church, and of the following organ- 
izations: Loyal Legion; General Kear- 
ney Association, and Army and Navy 
Clu'b (of New York). On October 21, 1885. 
he married Katherine Hubbard. Address: 
War Department. 

HYDE, THOMAS, Vice-President of 
the Riggs National Bank, was born in 
Georgetown, D. C, son of Anthony Hyde. 
He has been a member of Riggs & Co., 
the ahove company's predecessor, since 
1854, and has been president of the Riggs 
Fire Insurance Company for several years. 
He is president of the Board of Trustees 
of the Louise Home; trustee of the Cor- 
coiian Gallery of Art, the Protestanl 
Episcopal Cathedral Foundation, and a 
member of the Metropolitan, Dumbarton, 
and Chevy Chase Clubs. For several years 
he served as president of the latter. Resi- 
dence: 1537 Twenty-eighth street. Office: 
Riggs National Bank. 

HYNSON, LAURENCE MAXWELL, 

physician, was born at Still Pond, Kent 
County, Maryland, on February 6, 1879, 
son of Nathaniel Thornton and Lucy 
Weston (Tiffey) Hynson. After complet- 



ing his preparatory education In the pub- 
lic schools of Maryland and Washington, 
he entered the Columbian (now George 
Washington) University Medical School, 
from which he was graduated, M. D., in 
1904. For five years he was associated 
with the National Geographic Society as 
assistant secretary, and is now engaged 
in the general practice of medicine in 
Washington. He is a member of the 
Episcopal Church; Medical Association of 
the District of Columbia; Medical Soci- 
et5^ of the District of Columbia; George 
Washington University Medical Society; 
Hippocrates Society; National Geo- 
graphic Society, and, in politics, a Demo- 
crat. Unmarried. Re-sidence: 1335 N 
street, n.w. 

HYVERNAT, HENRY (Eugene Xavier 
Louis), educator, was born at St. Julien- 
en-Jarret, Loire, France, on June 30, 1858, 
son of Claude and Leonide (Meyrieux) 
Hyvernat. He attended the Petit Semi- 
naire de St. Jean, at Lyons, from 1867 to 
1876; graduated from the University of 
France, at Lyons (degree of Bachelier- 
es-Lettres) in 1876; pursued theological 
studies at the Seminaire de St. Sulpice, 
Issy, from 1877 to 1879, and at Paris from 
1879 to 1882. He received the degree of 
D. D. in 1882 from the Pontifical Univer- 
sity of Rome. From 1882 to 1885 he was 
chaplain, St. Louis of the French, at 
Rome; from 1885 to 1889 was interpreter 
of oriental languages for the Propaganda, 
at Rome; professor of Assyriology and 
Egyptology, Roman Seminary, at Rome, 
from 1885 to 1888. He undertook scien- 
tific inquiry for the French Government 
in Armenia during the years 1888-89. He 
has been chief of the Department of 
Semitic and Egyptian literatures and pro- 
fessor of oriental languages and archaeol- 
ogy at the Catholic Universitj^ of America 
since 1889. He is the author of a number 
of hooks, written principally in French, 
on various religious, archaeological and 
other subjects. In religion he is a Roman 
Catholic. Residence: Brookland, D. C. 



IMHOF, FREDERICK, President Ger- 
man Orphan Asylum. Residence: 2262 
Twelfth street, n.w. 

INGERSOLL, ROYAL RODNEY, navai 
officer, was born at Niles, Michigan, on 
Decembej- 4, 1847, son of Harmon W. and 
Rebecca A. (Deniston) Ingersoll. He wa,3 
graduated from the United States Naval 
Academy in 1868; commanded U. S. S. 
Supply during Spanish-Amerioan War; 
has served in all parts of the world, and 
in 1905 was appointed general inspector, 
of the armored cruiser Maryland. Au- 
thor of: Text-Book of Ordnance and 



Gunnery (1887); Exterior Ballistics 
(1891); Elastic Strength of Guns (1891). 
Married, at Laporte, Ind., August 26, 1873, 
Cynthia Bason. Residence: The Marl- 
borough. Oflice: Mills Building. 

IRELAN, CHARLES MORRIS, govern- 
ment official, was born at Northeast, 
Cecil County, Maryland, on November 15, 
1861, son of Charles D. and Lydia E. 
(Morris) Irelan. He attended the pub- 
lic schools of Baltimore, Md., until sev- 
enteen years of age, when he began work 
in a printing office. For several years 
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of the Patent Office, and a member of 
the Keep Commission. He is a member 
of the New York Avenue Presbyterian 
Church, and an ex-presid3nt of the Trav- 
elers' Literary Club of Washington. On 
November 24, 1897, he married Frances 
Lane White, and is the father of four 
children. Residence: 1851 Wyoming 
avenue. Office: Patent Office. 

IRELAND, MARY E. (Mrs.), author 
and translator, was born at Calvert, 
Cecil County, Maryland, on January a, 
1834, daughter of Joseph and Harriet 



Haines. She was educated at the 
Ladies' Seminary, at Jamaica, Ltong 
Island. She is the author of: What I 
Told Dorcas; Grandma Elliot's Farm 
House; Timothy and His Friend; Un- 
der the Cherry Blossoms, etc., and haa 
written a number of serials and short sto- 
ries and poems for magazines, and has 
translated from the German: Betsy's De- 
cision; Red Carl; The Block House on 
the Shore; The Shepherd's Family, etc. 
In 1859 she married John M. Ireland, oi' 
Calvert, Md. Residence: 924 Miaryland 
avenue, n.e. 



JACKSON, AARON, member of the 
firm of Jackson Bros, (furniture dealers), 
was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on 
September 19, 1866, and removed with his 
parents to Washington at the age of ten, 
completing his education at a local busi- 
ness college. When a youth he entered 
a local furniture and carpet warehouse, 
and about ten years ago, with his broth- 
er, Louis J., started the business now 
conducted under the name of Jackson 
Bros. He is a Thirty-second degree Ma- 
son, a Mystic Shriner, and a member of 
the Royal Arcanum and of the Military 
Order of Loyal Legion. Residence: 237 
Florida avenue, n.w. Business address: 
919 Seventh street, n.w. 

JACKSON, HENRY, army officer, was 
born in England on May 31, 1837. He en- 
tered the army as a private and corporal 
in Company A, Fourteenth Illinois Cav- 
alry; Sergeant- Major of the Fifth United 
States (colored) Cavalry from December 
28, 1863, to May 13, 1865; promoted to 
Second Lieutenant of the United States 
(colored) Cavalry, 1865, and honorably 
mustered out on March 16, 1866. On July 
28, 1866, he was appointed a Second 
Lieutenant in the Seventh United States 
Cavalry; promoted to First Lieutenant, 
1867; Captain, 1876; Major of the Third 
Cavalry, 1896; Lieutenant-Colonel of the 
Fifth Cavalry, 1900; Colonel of the Third 
Cavalry, 1901, and on May 31, 1901, was 
retired. By the Act of Congress of April 
23, 1904, he was advanced to the rank •of 
Brigadier-General, U. S. A. Address: 
War Department. 

JACKSON, SHELDON, clergyman, 
government official, was born at 
Minaville, New York, on May IS. 
1834, son of Samuel Clinton and 
Delia (Sheldon) Jackson. He was 
graduated fiom Union College in 1855 
(LL. D., 1897) and from the Princeton 
Theological Seminary in 1858 (D. D., 
Hanover College, 1874; LL. D., Rich- 
mond, Ohio, College, 1897), and In 1858 
was ordained a minister of the Presby- 
terian Church, going as missionary to the 



Choctaw Indians. From 1859 to 1869 he 
was a pioneer missionary in Wisconsin 
and Minnesota; from 1869 to 1882, super- 
intendent of Presbyterian Missions in 
Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, 
New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Idaho and 
Montana; from 1877 to 1885, pioneer mis- 
sionary in Alaska, and from 1885 to the 
present. United States General Agent of 
Education in Alaska. H^ Introduced Inti 
Alaska Protestant Missions, public 
schools, civil government, domestic lein- 
deer, and mail service, carried In canoes 
and by reindeer. He was elected Mod- 
erator of the Presbyterian Church for 
the year 1897-98. He founded the Alas- 
kan Society of Natural History and Eth- 
nology; erected a fire-proof building 
and gathered a museum at Sitka, 1887, 
and a Christian College at Salt Lake City, 
Utah, 1895. He wjs editor and proprietor 
of The Rocky Mountain Presbyterian 
Denver, Col., 1872-82, and of The North 
Star, Sitka, Alaska, 1887-94. He is a 
member of the National Geographic Soci- 
ety, and a member of the leading scien- 
tific and philanthropic societies of the 
country. He is the author of a number 
of books, among them being: Alaska 
and Missions on the Pacific Coast, a 
special report to the United States Sen- 
ate, 1881; also annual reports from 1886 
on education in .'Ma-'ska. and annual re- 
ports from 1891 to the United States Sen- 
ate on the introduction of domestic rein- 
deer in Alaska. On May 18, 1858, he 
married Mary Voorhees. Residence: Con- 
cord Flats. Office: U. S. Bureau of Edu- 
cation. 

JACKSON, V. B., physician. He was 
a student in the public schools of Front 
Royal, Virginia, and Columbian (now 
George Washington) University and 
Medical School, graduating from the lat- 
ter in 1894. He has been associate sur- 
geon of the Emergency Hospital; visit- 
ing physician of the Foundlings' Hospital, 
and assistant gynaecologist and resident 
physician of the George Washington Hos- 
pital, 1894-95, and police physician, in 
1897. He is a Baptist, and a member of 



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the University Club; the Masonic Med- 
ical; the Clinical, and the National Geo- 
graphic Society, and the Medical Associ- 
ation, District of Columbia. Residence: 
The Brunswick. 

JACKSON, WILLIAM H., Congress- 
man, was born on a farm near Salisbury, 
Maryland, in 1839, son of Hugh Jackson 
After obtaining his common school edu- 
cation he engaged in the lumber busi- 
ness, from 1867 to 1889, under the firm 
name of E. E. JackS'On & Co., the busi- 
ness now being conducted under the 
name of the Jackson Brothers Company. 
From 1901 to 1905 he represented the 
First Maryland District in Congress, and 
in November, 1906, was elected a member 
of the Sixtieth Congress from the same 
district, on the Republican ticket. In 
1864 he married a daughter of Josephus 
Humphreys. Legal residence: Salisbury, 
Md. Washington address: House of 
Representatives. 

JACOBS, JOSHUA W., army officer, 
was born in Kentucky on June 24, 1843. 
He entered the army as a private in Com- 
pany K, and was Sergeant-Major of the 
Fourth Kentucky Volunteer Infantry 
from November 10, 1861, to September 25, 
1862; commissioned a First Lieutenant of 
the Fourth Kentucky Volunteer Infantry 
on September 25, 1862; Captain on Sep- 
tember 1, 1863; Major of the Sixth Ken- 
tucky Volunteers on July 1, 1865, and was 
honorably mustered out of the volunteer 
service on August 17, 1865. On June 28, 
1866, he was appointed a Second Lieu- 
tenant of the Eighteenth United States 
Infantry, and was transferred to the Thir- 
ty-sixth Infantry on September 21, 1866; 
promoted to Captain and Assistant Quar- 
termaster, 1882; Major and Quartermas- 
ter, 1894; Lieutenant-Colonel and Deputy 
Quartermaster-General, 1900; Colonel and 
Assistant Quartermaster-General in 1903, 
and Brigadier-General and retired in 1904 
after fo;ty years' service. Address: War 
Department. 

JACOBSEN, CHARLES, President of 
Arlington Bottling Company, was born 
In Baltimore, Maryland, on May 1, 1860. 
In early youth he came to Washington, 
and for several years was in the em- 
ploy of Christian Huerioh, until 1884, 
when he established what is known as the 
Arlington Bottling Company, one of the 
largest bottling houses In the District. 
In addition to his bottling house business, 
he is vice-president and director of the 
Adalinda Zinc Mining Company, of Arkan- 
sas; vice-president and director of the 
Washington Baseball Club. He is a Ma- 
son, and a member of the Almas Temple, 
'Mystic Shrine. Residence: 2509 Penn- 
sylvania avenue. Office: Twenty-seventh 
and K streets, n.w. 

JAMES, A. D., Congressman. In No- 
vember, 1906, he was elected to the Six- 



tieth Congress from the Third Kentucky 
Congressional District, as a Republican. 
Legal residence: Penrod, Ky. Washing- 
ton address: House of Representatives. 

JAMES, B. R., Military Attache, Brit- 
ish Embassy. Address: 1300 Connecti- 
cut avenue. 

JAMES, CHARLES A., President Na- 
tional Bank of Washington, and The Cor- 
coran Fire Insurance Company. Resi- 
dence: 1308 Massachusetts avenue, n.w. 

JAMES, OLLIE M., lawyer. Congress- 
man, was born in Crittenden County, 
Kentucky, on July 27, 1871. He obtained 
his education in the common and aca- 
demic schools of his native county, and 
served as a page in tlie Kentucky Legis- 
lature during the session of 1887. He 
took up the study of law under his father, 
L. H. James, and was admitted to the 
bar in 1891, and was one of the attor- 
neys for Governor Goebel in his contest 
for Governor of the State of Kentucky. 
In 1896 he was a delegate to the Demo- 
cratic National Convention in Chicago, 
and delegate-at-large to the convention 
in 1904, being chairman of the Kentucky 
delegation at both, and in 1900 he was 
chairman of the Kentucky State Conven- 
tion. He has represented the First Ken- 
tucky Congressional District in the Fifty- 
eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses, and 
has been re-elected to the Sixtieth Con- 
gress. On December 2, 1903, he married 
Ruth Thomas of Marion, Ky. Legal res- 
idence, Marion, Ky. Washington address: 
House of Representatives. 

JAMESON, JOHN FRANKLIN, edu- 
cator, was born at Somerville, Massachu- 
setts, on September 19, 1859, son of John 
and Mariette (Thompson) Jameson. He 
was graduated from Amherst College in 
1879; was a fellow at Johns Hopkins 
University, 1881; assistant professor of 
history there, 1882-88, and professor of 
history at Brown University, 1888-1901. 
He went thence to the same chair at 
the University of Chicago. He was one 
of the original members of the American 
Historical Association. He received the 
degree of Ph. D. from johus Hupkina 
in 1882, and that of LL. D. from Am- 
herst College in 1898, and from Johns 
Hopkins in 1902. He was managing edi- 
tor of the American Historical Review, 
1895-1901, 1905 to date, and since 1905, 
has been director of the Department of 
Historical Research in the Carnegie In- 
stitute of Washington. He is the author 
of: History of Historical Writing in 
America (1891); Dlctlcnary of United 
States History (1894), and of editorial 
contributions to the Century Dictionary, 
as well as Essays on the Constitutional 
History of the United States in the 
Formative Period (1889). Address: Car- 
negie Institution, Bond Building. 



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JANIN, VIOLET BLAIR, Colonial 
Dame, wife of Albert Covington Janin, 
was born at Washington, D. C, daugli- 
ter of James and Mary (Jesup) Blair, 
the latter a daughter of Major-General 
Jesup. All lines of her ancestry were 
here in colonial times, from 1607; the 
Blairs, Gists, Carys, Byrds, Clarks, How- 
ards, Jesups, Stebbinses, Croghans, and 
others, distinguished in Colonial Revolu- 
tionary and later periods. She was the 
founder of the Colonial Dames of the 
District of Columbia, Registrar of the 
Mary Washington Chapter, D. A. R., for 
fifteen years, and Treasurer-General of 
the Children of the Revolution for twelve 
years. She is a member of the Wash- 
ington Club, Daughters of the Cincinnati 
Association for the Preservation of Vir- 
ginia Antiquities, and about twenty other 
societies, and is a member of the Epis- 
copal Church. Residence: 12 Lafayette 
Square. 

JARVIS, DAVID HENRY, officer in 
the Revenue Cutter Service, was born 
at Berlin, Worcester County, Maryland, 
on August 24, 1862, son of E. H. ana 
Sallie M. (Truitt) Jarvis. He attended 
the Central High School In Philadelphia, 
graduating in 1879, when he entered the 
Cadet School of the Revenue Service, at 
New Bedford, Mass., graduating in 1883. 
In 1883 he was promoted to Third Lieu- 
tenant in the Revenue Cutter Service; 
Second Lieutenant in 1890, and First 
Lieutenant in 1895. Until 1888 he had 
served at various stations, since when he 
has seen continuous service in Alaska 
and Arctic waters, and during 1897 and 
1898 he commanded the Overland Relief 
Expedition to Point Barrow, for which 
he received the thanks of Congress and 
a gold medal. In 1899 he was in command 
of the revenue cutter Bear, in Arctic 
waters, and in 1900 was on special duty 
at Nome, Alaska, and since 1902 has 
been Collector of Customs for the Dis- 
trict of Alaska. He is the author of the 
report of Overland Expedition to Point 
Barrow. On April 2, 1896, he married 
Ethel Tafber, of New Bedford, Mass. 
Residence: 1919 Seventeenth street, n. w. 

JENKINS, JOHN JAMES, lawyer. Con- 
gressman, was born in Weymouth, Eng- 
land, on August 20, 1843. He oame to 
America in 1852, settling at Baraboo. 
Wisconsin, where he was educated in 
the common schools. At the outbreak of 
the Civil War he enlisted as a member 
of the Sixth Wisconsin Volunteers, and 
saw active service. He served as a 
member of the Wisconsin State Legisla- 
ture from Chippewa County; been Judge 
of the same county, and in 1876 was ap- 
pointed United 'States Attorney for the 
Territory of Wyoming by President Grant. 
He has represented the Eleventh Wiscon- 
sin Congressional District in the Fifty- 
fourth and subsequent Congresses. In 



politics he is a Republican. Legal resi- 
dence: Chippewa Falls, Wis. Washing- 
ton address: House of Representatives. 

JENKINS, RALPH, physician, was 
born in New York, at the close of the 
Civil War, prepared himself for Cornell 
University, whence he was graduated in 
1885, with high honors. He spent con- 
siderable time in the universities and 
hospitals of Europe, and established him- 
self at Washington in 1887, as a practic- 
ing physiciam and surgeon. After prac- 
ticing for fifteen years, giving much time 
to the success of the Homeopathic Hos- 
pital, which continues to have his ad- 
vice and assistance, being president of 
the Board of Trustees, he retired from 
active practice. He is a member of many 
of the leading clubs. Residence: 1732 
Massachusetts avenue. 

JENKS, JOHN EDWARD, journalist. 
was born at St. John, New Brunswick, 
on 'December 15, 1866, son of John Moore 
and Carrie E. (Fernald) Jenks. His edu- 
cation was obtained in the Emerson 
Grammar School, of Boston, Mass., after 
which he took up newspaper work. He 
is at present the proprietor of the United 
States Government Advertiser, and editor 
of the Army and Navy Register. He is 
a member of the Unitarian Church, a 
Mason, a member of the Century Club, 
and independent in politics. Residence: 
The Mt. Pleasant. Ofllce: Bond Build- 
ing. 

JENNESS-MILLER (MRS.), ANNA, 

author lectuter, was born in New Hamp- 
shire and educated in Boston. For several 
yea'rs she was proprietor and editor of 
the Jenness- Miller Monthly, a magazine 
published in New York and devoted to 
physical development and improved 
dress. Upon these topics she gave over 
eleven hundred lectures in the princlpai 
cities of the United Sta;tes and Canada. 
Among her books may be mentioned 
Twixt Love and Law, Mother and Babe, 
How to Finish and Furnish a Home, 
Creating a Home, and the Philosophef of 
Driftwood. She also wrote the chapter 
on Dress for the revised Johnson's En- 
cyclopedia. She is now at work upon a 
drama — The Master Passion — for one of 
the leading New York managers, and 
upon a book. Our Triune Developmient. At 
the close of her platform work, Mrs. Jen- 
ness-Miller lived abroad four years, where 
she became interested in collecting paint- 
ing and curios. She has built many ar- 
tistic houses. Her latest venture is Wen- 
dell Mansions, 2339 Massachusetts avenue, 
where she resides. 

JESTER, JAMES G., Disbursing Ofllcer. 
Isthmian Canal Commission. Residence: 
1467 Irving street. Office: Mills Build- 
ing. 

JEWELL, THEODORE FRELING- 
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Georgetown, D. C, on August 5, 1844. 
son of Thomas and Eleanor (Spencer) 
Jewell. He was graduated from the 
United States Naval Academy in 1864, 
and in 1863 was in command of naval 
batteries in defense of Washington; was 
commissioned Ensign in 1866; Lieuten- 
ant-Commander in 1869; Commander in 
1885, and Captain in 1898. From 1890 
to 1893 he commanded the Naval Tor- 
pedo Station, and from 1893 to 1896 was 
superintendent of the Naval Gun Factory. 
During the Spanish-American War he 
commanded the protected cruiser Min- 
neapolis, on scouting service in the West 
Indies, and later was in command of the 
armored cruiser Brooklyn, serving in the 
Philippines. As Rear Admiral, com- 
manded the United States naval force 
in European waters until his voluntary 
retirement in 1904. He is the author of 
a number of pamphlets and articles on 
naval subjects, and is a fellow of the 
American Association for the Advance- 
ment of Science, and a member of the 
Lioyal Legion. In 1871 he married Eliz- 
abeth Lindsay, daughter of Rear Ad- 
miral C. H. Poor. Residence: 2135 R 
street, n.w. 

JOHNS, ARTHUR SHAAFF, clergy- 
man, was born in Georgetown, D. C, om 
October 10, 1843. son of Rt. Rev. John and 
Margaretta J. (Shaaff) Johns. He was ed- 
ucated at the Episcopal High School near 
Alexandria, Va., Virginia Military Insti- 
tute, and the University of Virginia, and 
was graduated from the Episcopal Theo- 
logical Seminary, near Alexandria, Va,, 
in 1874. During the Civil War he served 
as Ordnance Officer of the Tenth Vir- 
ginia Artillery. From 1874 to 1897 he 
was rector in Episcopal Churches in Vir- 
ginia and Maryland. Since 1897 he has 
been rector of Christ Church in Wash- 
ington, and has been secretary of the 
Episcopal Diocese of Washington since 
1895, and in 1904 was a deputy to the 
General Convention at Boston, Mass, and 
again elected deputy in 1907 to the Gen- 
eral Convention at Richmond, Va. He 
is a member of the Sons of the Amer- 
ican Revolution, Phi Kappa Psl college 
fraternity, and the University Club of 
Washington. On June 30, 1874 he mar- 
ried Helen Lane. Residence: 620 G street, 
s.e. 

JOHNSON, ARNOLD B., Chief Clerk 
of the Lighthouse Board, Department of 
Commerce and Labor; member of the 
United States Geographic Board. Res- 
idence: The Plymouth. Office: Depart- 
ment of Commerce and Labor. 



Washington address: House of Repre- 
sentatives. 

JOHNSON, HENRY LOWRY EMIL- 
lUS, physician, was born in Washington, 
November 11, 1858, son of Henry L. and 
Emily E. Johnson, a nephew of Charles 
Goodyear, the patentee of India rubber. 
He attended the Columbian (now George 
Washington) Medical School, graduating 
in medicine in 1882, after which he saw 
service in a number of hospitals. He has 
been professor in the Washington Post- 
graduate School of Medicines, in addition 
to his private practice in Washington. 
For a number of years he has been pro- 
fessor of gynecology in the Medical De- 
partment of Columbian University. He 
is a member of a number of the leading 
medical societies, memtjer of board of 
trustees of American Medical Associa- 
tion; the Society of Sons of the Revolu- 
tion; Society of Colonial Wars; Society 
of Descendants of Colonial Governors; 
vice-president Pan-American Medical 
Congress; vice-president First, Second 
and Third Sanitary Conventions Amer- 
ican Republics. He is the author of a 
number of pamphlets and articles on med- 
icine that have appeared in scientific 
journals. Residence: 1801 Jefferson 
Place, n.w. 

JOHNSON, JOSEPH TABOR, physi- 
cian, was born at Lowell, Massachusetts, 
on June 30, 1845, son of Lorenzo D. and 
Mary (Burges) Johnson. His early edu- 
cation was obtained in the Rochester 
Academy, in Plymouth County, Massa- 
chusetts, and Columbian (now George 
Washington) University, in Washington, 
after which he entered the Georgetown 
Medical iSchool, graduating with the class 
of 1865. He has done post-graduate work 
in Vienna and the Bellevue Hospital Med- 
ical College. In 1870 Columbian Univer- 
sity conferred upon him an honorary M. 
A. degree, and in 1889 Georgetown Uni- 
versity conferred a Ph. D. degree. In 
addition to his private practice in Wash- 
ington, ihe has for thirty years ibeen pro- 
fessor in the Georgetown Medical School, 
and for many years has been president 
of the medical faculty of that Institution. 
He is a member, and holds office in a 
number of the prominent medical soci- 
eties. He is a member of the Washing- 
ton Academy of Sciences; Board of 
Trade; Descendants of the Mayflower; 
Colonial Wars; Sons of the American 
Revolution; Metropolitan, Cosmos, and 
University Clubs, and is a member of the 
Congregational Church. On May 1, 1873, 
he married Edith Maud Bascom. Resi- 
dence: 924 Farragut Square, n.w. 



JOHNSON, BEN, Congressman. He 
was elected to the Sixtieth Congress 
from the Fourth Kentucky Congressional 
District In November, 1906, as a Demo- 
crat. Legal residence: Bardstown, Ky. 



JOHNSON, JOSEPH TRAVERS, law- 
yer, Congressman, was born at Brewer- 
ton, Laurens County, South Carolina, on 
February 28, 1858. He attended Ersklne 
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1879, afterwards took up the study of 
law and was admitted to practice in the 
State and county courts of South Caro- 
lina in 1883. Until elected to Congress, 
he had never held political office of any 
kind. He has represented the Fourth 
South Carolina Congressional District in 
the Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, and Fifty- 
ninth Congresses, and has been re-elected 
to the Sixtieth Congress, In politics he 
is a Democrat. Legal residence: Spar- 
tanburg, S. C. Washington address: 
House of Representatives. 

JOHNSON, PHILANDER CHASE, 

journalist, was bom at Wheeling, West 
Virginia, on February 6, 1866, son of 
Sylvanus E. and Martha A. (Mann) 
Johnson. He was educated in Cincin- 
nati, after which he took up newspaper 
work, and for some time conducted hu- 
morous and literary departments in the 
Merchant Traveler, published in Chicago, 
later removing to Washington, where he 
was a regular contributor for a number of 
years to the Critic, Capital, and Post. 
For the last fifteen years he has been 
an editorial writer for the Evening Star, 
and is the author of miscellaneous verse 
and dialogue appearing in that paper 
under the title of "Shooting Stars." He 
Is the author of Sayings of Uncle Eben, 
and, Now-a-Day Poems. On October 21, 
1890, he married Louise Covert, of Wash- 
ington. Residence: The Victoria. Office. 
Star Building. 

JOHNSON, SYLVANUS ELIHU, jour- 
nalist, was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, 
on January 19, 1841. He attended the 
public schools, and later Richmond (Ohio) 
College, and McNeely School, in Harri- 
son County, Ohio. For several years he 
worked at the printing trade, later tak- 
ing up newspaper work, becoming city 
editor of the Ohio Statesman, and after- 
wards city editor, managing editor, and 
editorial writer of the Ohio State Jour- 
nal. Since 1879 he has, with the ex- 
ception of one year, when he was with 
the New York World, been connected with 
the Cincinnati Enquirer as State corre- 
spondent, managing editor, and editorial 
writer. He has taken an active part In 
Ohio and national Democratic politics, 
and in 1900 sat in the Democratic Na- 
tional Committee as proxy for John R. 
McLean. His legal residence is at Cin- 
cinnati, but he spends the greater por- 
tion of each year in Washington. He is 
a member, and ex-president, of the Grid- 
iron Club. On March 30, 1865, he mar- 
ried Martha A. Mann, of Columbus, Ohio 
now deceased. Residence: The Iroquois' 
Office: 1517 H street, n.w. 

JOHNSON, V. BALDWIN, coal mer- 
chant, was born on the eastern shore oi: 
Maryland, son of Alward Johnson. He 
settled in Washington in 1873, at the 
time when Governor Shepherd was 



transforming the city. He passed the 
highest final examination that had ever 
been passed in Washington schools up 
to that time, and also studied at St. John's 
College, Anruapolis. Since then his whole 
life has been given to his retail coal 
business, which has grown to large pro- 
portions. He is a Thirty-second degree 
Mason, married, and has two children. 
Residence: 1201 Q street, n. w. Business 
address: 1101 Rhode Island avenue, n.w. 

JOHNSON, WILLIAM GOODYEAR, 

lawyer, was born in Washington, D. C, 
on June 8, 1860. His early education was» 
obtained by private tutor, at Gonzaga 
College, Jesuit College, and later Colum- 
bian University, graduating from the law 
department in 1883. During his course in 
the law school he pursued the study ot 
law at the same time in the offices of 
Hanna & Johnson. In 1884 he was ad- 
mitted to the bar of the Supreme Court 
of the District of Columbia, and was ad- 
mitted to the Supreme Court of the 
United States in 1889. In 1894 he formed 
a partnership with Caldron Carlisle, 
which continued until 1901, when Mr. 
Carlisle died. For a number of years 
Mr. Carlisle was legal adviser of the 
British Government at Washington, and 
after his death Mr. Johnson was selected 
as his successor. Since 1901 he has been 
a member of the law faculty of George 
Washington University. In 1892 he mar- 
ried Mary Anna Moore. Residence: 1827 
Sixteenth street, n.w. Office: 344 D 
street, n.v?. 

JOHNSTON, ELIZABETH BRYANT 

(Miss), author, was born in Mason 
County, Kentucky, and is a member of 
the Columbian Historical Society, the Lit- 
erary Society of Washington, and of the 
Daughters of the American Revolution. 
She is the author of: George Washing- 
ton Day by Day; Original Portraits of 
George Washington; Visitors' Guide to 
Mount Vernon; The Days That Are No 
More, and Christmas in Kentucky. She 
has contributed to the Home Magazine, 
in twenty- two papers, a history of the 
governmental departments at Washington, 
and is preparing a descriptive and his- 
torical catalogue of Washington relics for 
the National Museum. She is also a lec- 
turer and a dialect reader. Residence; 
1320 Florida avenue. 

JOHNSTON, FRANCES BENJAMIN 

(Miss), photographer and writer, was 
born at Grafton, West Virginia, on Jan- 
uary 15, 1864, daughter of Andrew D. 
and Frances A. (Benjamin) Johnston. 
She was graduated from Notre Dame, of 
Maryland, in 1883, and was an art stu- 
dent of Julien's, in Paris, during 1S84-85. 
She has contributed a number of de- 
scriptive articles and photographs of no- 
table persons and events to leading mag- 
azines In this coutnry and Europe, and 



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has made a specialty of preparing pho- 
tographic exhibits of etfucational work. 
In 1900 she was the delegate from the 
United States to the International Con- 
gress of Photography in Paris, at which 
time she received a gold medal for her 
own individual exhibit. She is an In- 
corporating member of the Washington 
Art Students' League, and a member of 
the Camera Club of Washington and New 
York, and the Photo Club of Paris. Res- 
idence and studio: 1332 V street, n.w. 

JOHNSTON, HENRY A., apothecary, 
was born at Portsmouth, Va., on Novem- 
ber 10, 1854. Early in life he .removed to 
Washington, where he obtained his edu- 
cation at Gonzaga College and the West 
End High School. Leaving school he en- 
tered the employ of Daniel B. Clarke, 
a druggist, and in 1879 he launched into 
the same business for himself. He has 
received the degree of Phar. D.; Is one of 
the trustees and a member of the fac- 
ulty of the National College of Phar- 
macy. Dr. Johnston has contributed nu- 
merous articles to various papers, but at 
present his contributions are mainly to 
pharmaceutical journals. He is a life 
member of the B. B. French Lodge, No. 
15, F. and A. M.; Columbia Commandery 
and Almas Temple of the Mystic Shrine, 
and has held several offices in the District 
Pharmaceutical Association. Residence: 
237 Morgan street, n.w. Business address: 
1221 New Jersey avenue, n.w. 

JOHNSTON, JAMES MARION, retired 

lawyer, banker, was born in Washington, 
D. C, on February 27, 1850, son of Dr. 
William P. and Mary E. Johnston. He 
was educated at the Emerson Institute, 
In this city; Chestnut Hill School, nea: 
Baltimore, and Lawrenceville, N. J., and 
was graduated from Princeton with the 
class of 1866, taking a Master's degree 
In 1873. He later began the study of law 
in the office of the Hon. Walter S. Cox 
and the Columbian Law School, being ad- 
mitted to the bar in 1872. He formed a 
partnership with John S. Hanna in 1874, 
which continued until he died. In 1885, 
after which he formed a partnership witri 
Mr. Caldron Carlisle, which continued 
until 1888, when he retired from active 
practice. He was a member of Riggs 
& Co., bankers, and when the company 
was reorganized, In 1896, he became sec- 
ond vice-president and director in the 
Riggs National Bank, which positon he 
held until 1902, when he resigned in order 
to retire from active business. In addi- 
tion to his connection with the above 
bank, he was for some years second vice- 
president and director of the Nationa' 
Safe Deposit Company; a director in the 
Arlington Insurance Company; the 
Columbia Fire Insurance Company, and 
the Columbia Title Insurance Company. 
In 1886 he married Sophie Carr, and is 
the father of one son and two daughters. 
Residence: 1628 Twenty-flrst street, n.w. 



JOHNSTON, JOHN A., army officer, 
was born In Allegheny, Pa., on Feb- 
ruary 22, 1858, son of Alexander and Sa- 
rah R. Johnson. He was graduated from 
the United States Military Academy in 
1879, and was an honor gracfuate of the 
Infantry and Cavalry School at Fort Lea- 
venworth, Kansas, in 1883. In 1879 he 
was promoted to Second Lieutenant; First 
Lieutenant in 1886; Captain in 1895; 
Major and Assistant Adjutant-General in 
1898; Lieutenant-Colonel and Assistant 
Adjutant-General in 1901, and Brigadier- 
General In 1903. He has seen several 
years' frontier service, and was an In- 
structor in the Infantry and Cavalry 
School at Fort Leavenworth, and was in 
charge of the mounted instruction and 
cavalry depot at Jefferson Barracks, 
Missouri. He organized under marshals, 
inaugural parades, of President Cleve- 
land, in 1893, and President McKInley, 
in 1897 and 1901, and the Grant Monu- 
ment Parade in New York, In 1897, and 
the military parade at the dedication of 
the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, etc. 
During the Spanish-American War he 
was in charge of the organization and 
muster in and out of volunteer forces in 
the Adjutant-General's office, and was in 
charge of the reorganization of the Gen- 
eral Recruiting Service dt the United 
States Army, incident to its increase. In 
1888 he married Henrietta D. Vander- 
grlft, of Pittsburg. Residence: 2111 Mas- 
sachusetts avenue. 

JOHNSTON, JOSEPH FORNEY, law- 
yer. United States Senator, was born In 
Lincoln County, North Carolina, in 1843, 
son of Dr. William and Nancy (Forney) 
Johnston. ' At the outbreak of the Civil 
War he was attending high school, but 
left and entered the Confederate States 
Army as a private, serving from 1861 to 
1865. During the war he rose to the rank 
of Captain, and was wounded four times 
in battle. From 1866 to 1884 he practiced 
law at Selma, Ala., since which time he 
has resided in Birmingham. He was 
president of the Alabama National Bank 
from 1884 to 1894; first president of the 
Sloss Iron and Steel Company, and sub- 
sequently Governor of Alabama, 1896-1900 
He was elected to the United States Sen- 
ate from Alabama to succeed the late 
Edmund W. Pettus. His term of office 
will expire March 3, 1915. In politics he 
is a Democrat. Legal residence: Bir- 
mingham, Ala. Washington address: U. 
S. Senate. 

JONES, CLAUD C, Disciples of ChrLst 
clergyman, pastor of the Thirty-fourth 
Christian Church. Residence: Mount 
Rainier, District Line, n.e. 

JONES, JAMES E., Chief Clerk of the 
Bureau of Plant Industry, was born In 
Youngstown, Ohio. He was educated in 
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law at George Washington University. 
In 1892 he was a page in Congress, and 
in 1893 a messenger in the Department 
of Agriculture. For six years he was 
ranking clerlt in the office of the appoint- 
ment clerlv of the Department of Agri- 
culture, and became chief clerlt in Julj% 
1901. Residence: 42 R street, n.e. Office: 
Department of Agriculture. 

JONES, JAMES KUNBROUGH, lawyer, 
was born in Marshall County, Mississippi, 
on September 29, 1839, son of Nat Kun- 
broug*h and Mary J. Jones. He was 
a private in the Confedtrate Army, 
1861 to 1865, land after the war returned 
to his plantation until 1873, when he be- 
gan the practice of law in Hempstead 
County, Arkansas. He was State Senator, 
1873 to 1879, and president of the Senate, 
1877 to 1879. He was Democratic Repre- 
sentative from Arkansas in the Forty- 
seventh, Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth 
Congresses (1881 to 1887), and was elected 
United States Senator in 1884, to succeed 
James D. Walker. He was re-elected in 
1890 and 1897, and was made chairman 
of the Democratic National Committee, 
conducting the presidential campaigns of 
1896 and 1900. Residence: 915 M street, 
n.w. Office: Colorado Building. 

JONES, MYRON JERMAIN, Director 
of Education in the Young Men's Chris- 
tian Association since 1905, was born in 
Adrian, Michigan, on September 19, 1870, 
son of Myron Doty and Sarah 'Margaret ta 
(Jermain) Jones. His father served as 
master of transportation on the Lake 
Shore Railway, <and Tompkins Delavan 
Jermain, 'his grandfather, was proprietor 
of the Milwaukee Sentinel, Milwaukee. 
Wis. In 1888 he was graduated from the 
Toledo (Ohio) High School (class pres- 
ident and orator), after which he entered 
the University of Wooster, at Wooster, 
Ohio, from which institution he was grad- 
uated B. A., in 1893, and M. A., in 1896: 
during 1897 .and 1898 he took a special 
course in social science and American 
history at Cornell University. While a' 
Wooster University he won the second 
prize in the Interstate Oratorical Contest 
which was held at Columbus, Ohio, in 
May, 1893, and was his class orator at 
graduation. From 1894 to 1897 he was 
Associate General Secretary of the Toledo 
Ohio, Y. M. C. A.; from 1899 to 1905, was 
general secretary of the association at 
Mansfield, Ohio. He has .been a trustee 
of the Toledo, Ohio, Public Library; sec- 
retary and incorporator of the Emergency 
Hospital in the same city; secretary of 
the Social Service Club, Mansfield, Ohio 
and served las chairman of the Social and 
Industrial Betterment Committees of the 
Mansfield Chamber of Commerce. From 
1900 to 1902 he was editor of the Phi 
Gamma Delta Journal, and is the author 
of: The Greatness of Peisonality (1893); 
The City of Washington and the Young 
Mens Christian Association (1907) and 



has been an occasional contributor to the 
leading magazines. He is a member of 
the Presbyterian Church, the Phi Gamma 
Delta college fraternity. Sons of thi 
American Revolution, Chamber of Com- 
merce, Social Service Club of Washing- 
ton, and the Masonic fraternity. On Apri] 
14, 1897, he married Susan Wales Foley, 
of Toledo, Ohio, to which union 'have been 
born two sons. Residence: The Plaza. 
Office: 1736 G stret, n.w. 

JONES, THOMAS ROCKEFELLER. 

banker, was born at Snydertown, North- 
umberland County, Pennsylvania, on May 
17, 1838, son of Thomas and Harriet 
(Schroeder) Jones. He attended the pub- 
lic schools and Bucknell University, at 
Lewisburg, Penn., graduating in 1862, 
and later the law department of Colum- 
bian (now George Washington) Univer- 
sity, graduating with the class of 1868; 
in 1865 he received an A. M. degree from 
Bucknell University. In 1872 he entered 
the employ of the National Safe Deposit 
Savings and Trust Company as a book- 
keeper, and advanced through the grades 
of teller, cashier and vice-president to 
president of the institution, which office 
he holds at the present time. During the 
Civil War he enlisted as a private in the 
Union Army, and was advanced to Cap- 
tain for meritorious service. He is a mem- 
ber of the Loyal Legion, the Washington 
Stock Exchange, and votes with the Re- 
publican party. On October 18, 1864, he 
married Elizabeth Bright. Residence: The 
Westmoreland. Office: Fifteenth street 
and New York avenue, n.w. 

JONES, WESLEY L., lawyer. Congress- 
man, was born near Bethany, Illinois, on 
October 9, 1863. He attended the South- 
ern Illinois College at Enfield, and after 
graduation took up the study of law, and 
later 'removed to North Yakima, Washing- 
ton, where he has since resided. He has 
been one of the Washington Representa- 
tives in the Fifty-sixth and subsequent 
Congresses. Legal residence: Nortn 
Yakima, Wash. Washington address: 
House of Representatives. 

JONES, WILLIAM ATKINSON, lawyer. 
Congressman, was bo'rn at Warsaw, Vir- 
ginia, on March 21, 1849. He attended the 
Virginia Military Institute, Where he re- 
mained until the evacuation of Richmond, 
serving with the cadets in the defense uC 
tiio city during the war. After the close 
of the war he studied at Coleman's 
School, in Fredericksburg, until 1868, 
when he entered the University of Vir- 
ginia, graduating with the class of 1870, 
receiving the degree of B. L In 1870 ho 
v,-as admitted lo the bar, and has since 
been engaged in the general practice of 
law. He has represented the First Vir- 
ginia Cmgressional District continuously 
sJnce the Fifty-first Congress. Legal res- 
idence: Warsaw, Va. Wash'ngton res- 
idence: 1709 Q street, n.w. 



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JORSS, AMANDUS FREDERICK, 

manufacturer, was born in Hamburg^, 
Germany, on April 28, 1863. His educa- 
tion was received in the schools of hi? 
native city until he was thirteen years 
of age, when he entered the shops of an 
ornamental iron worker as an apprentice, 
where be served five yuars. When he at- 
tained the age of eighteen years he lef 
his native country and came to the United 
States, later settling in Washington. Aftex 
arriving in the the latter city he engaged 
in the ornamental iron business for him- 
self on a small scale, opening bis first 
shop at 1218 C street, n.w. He is a Scot- 
tish Rite Mason, a member of Almas Tem- 
ple, Mystic Shrine; a member of the 
i3oard of Directors of the Saengerbund 
of this city; a director in the Charle3 
Schnoidei Banking Company, and many 
other bur'ness enterprises of Washington 
In 18S9 he married Miss Albrecht, to which 
union two children have been born. Res- 
idence: 1449 Harvard street, n.w. Busi- 
ness address: 315 Thirteenth street, n.w. 

JOSEPHSSON, AXEL, lawyer, was 
born in Stockholm, Sweden, on Decem- 
ber 2, 1868. His early education was ob- 
tained at the Nya Elementarskolan, a col- 
lege school; Schartaus High School, and 
by private tutors in Stockholm, Sweden. 
He came to America in 1893, a few years 
later attended George Washington Uni- 
versity, and was graduated from the law 
department in 1903, with the degree of 
LL. B. In addition to being a lawyer, h? 
has done considerable literary work, hav- 
ing translated into Swedish Colonel John 
Jacob Astor's book, A Journey in Other 
Worlds, and Victor Rydberg's Singolla 
from Swedish to English. He has been 
sent to Europe several times on special 
missions by the Associated Press, the last 
time being in 1905, at the time of the rev- 
olution in Norway, when he went to 
Scandinavia to report the settlement. 
Then, as on previous occasions, he was 
received in private audifences by King 
Oscar and Crown Prince Gustat. He is 
identified with the Republican party, and 
in 1896 and 1900 assisted In the election 
of President McKinley; in the first cam- 
paign he was the secretary of the Scandi- 
navian Bureau of the National Commit- 
tee, and in the second a stump speaker 
in the Northwest. He now divides his 
time between Washington and New York, 
where he practices his profession. Oflfices: 
Bond Building, Washington, and 20 Nas- 
sau street, New York City. 

JOUBERT, DON EMILIO CO., Minister 
Resident, Embassy of Dominican Repub- 
lic. Address: The Shoreham. 

JOYCE, JOHN ALEXANDER, lawyer, 
author, was born at Shraugh, Ireland, on 
July 4, 1842, son of Michael and Catherin 
(Gobbons) Joyce. He was educated in 
Kentucky, and was graduated from the 
Highland Literary Institute, at Mt. Ster- 



ling, Ky., in 1859, after which he took 
up the study of law. He enlisted in the 
Union Army as a private, and was pro- 
moted to Adjutant before he was dis- 
charged, on account of wounds, in 1864. 
At the end of the war he again took up 
the practice of law. He is the author of 
a number of books of prose and poems, 
among them being: A Checkered Life; 
Peculiar Poems; Zig-Zag; Jewels of 
Memory; Complete Poems; Oliver 
Goldsmith; Edgar Allen Poe and Brick- 
Bats and Bouquets. Residence: 22fi 
Maryland avenue, n.e. 

JOYCE, MAURICE, president the Joyce 
Engraving Company, was born In 
Ireland, in 1838, and emigrated tj 
Halifax, N. S., and served for seven 
years in a printing office there, removing 
to Boston in 1854. He tried shipbuilding 
then for six months, but returned to his 
first choice, and conducted a printing and 
engraving business in Boston. In No- 
vember, 1863, he obtained a position as 
compositor in the Government Printing 
Office, and invented the Joyce process of 
engraving, which was adopted by the 
Government and long afterwards used 
In 1877 he resigned his position to found 
an engraving plant, which has been con- 
verted into an extensive establishment, 
finally incorporating it under the name of 
the Joyce Engraving Company. Residence. 
922 M street, n.w. Business address: 
Evening Star Building. 

JUDD, SYLVESTER DWIGHT, biolo- 
gist, ornithologist, was born at West 
Orange, New Jersey, on June 14, 1871, 
son of Charles Dwight and Lucretia M. 
Judd. He was graduated from Harvard 
University in 1894, and took M. A. and 
Ph. D. degrees at Georgetown Univer- 
sity. His earliest American ancestor was 
Thomas Judd, who came from England 
in 1633, and settled in Cambridge, Mass. 
His great-grandfather, Sylvester Judd, 
was identified with the early history of 
Northampton, Mass. He investigated the 
food habits of birds, and wrote many 
published studies of the economic rela- 
tion of birds to agriculture. He was also 
professor of biology at Georgetown Uni- 
versity. He was a member of the Cos- 
mos Club and various scientific bodies. 
On December 21, 1900, he married Helen 
M. Parkhurst. He died at Baltimore on 
October 22, 1905. 

JUDGE, HENRY A., Catholic clergy- 
man, professor of history of philosophy 
and of physiological psychology at George- 
town University. Address: Georgetown 
University. 

JUDSON, WILLIAM VOORHEES, 

Captain, Engineer Corps, U. S. A., was 
born in Indianapolis, Indiana, on Feb- 
ruary 16, 1865. He attended Harvard 
from 1882 to 1884, and was graduated from 
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1888, and the United States Engineers' 
School, at Wlllit's Point, New York. He 
is now recorder of the Board of Engi- 
neers of the United States Army; a mem- 
ber of the United States Board of Engi- 
neers for Rivers and Harbors, and in- 
structor of military engineering in the 
United States Engineering School. He Is 
a member of the American Association of 
Civil Engineers. On April 21. 1891, he 
married Alice Carneal Clay, of Lexington, 
Ky. Address: Care War Department. 

JUNG, FRANZ AUGUST RICHARD, 

physician, was born at Suhl, Germany, 
on October 9, 1869, son of Herman and 
Mary J. Jung. He was graduated from 
the University of Leipzig and specialized 
in diseases of the stomach and intestines. 
He is a member of the Medical Society 
of the District of Columbia; of the Med- 
ical Association of the District of Colum- 
bia, and of the Washington Academy o:! 
Sciences; the Order of St. Stanislaus, 



conferred by the Czar of Russia, April, 
1902; Order of the Crown, conferred by 
the German Emperor, June, 1904. He is 
an extensive contributor to American and 
German journals; a member of the Uni- 
versity Club. Was married, July 23, 1896, 
to Dr. Sophie A. Nordhoff. Residence: 
1229 Connecticut avenue. 

JUSSERAND, JEAN ADRIEN AN- 
TOINE JULES, Ambassador from France 
to the United States, was born in Ly- 
ons, France, on February 18, 1855. H^ 
has served in the diplomatic service since 
attaining his majo;ity, and at the time 
h,e was appointed Ambassador to the 
United States he was Minister to Den- 
mark for his country. He holds the hon- 
orary degree of LL. D. from the Univer- 
sity of Chicago, and is the author of sev- 
eral books of a historical nature. He 
married Miss Elise Richards, of Paris. 
Address: French Embassy, n.w. 



K 



KAHN, JULIUS, lawyer. Congressman, 
was born at Kuppenheim, Grand Duchy 
of Baden, Germany, on February 28, 1861. 
In 1886 he embarked with his parents to 
California, where he received his educa- 
tion in the public schools. After leaving 
school he engaged in the theatrical pro- 
fession, which he followed for ten years, 
playing with such stars as Edwin Booth. 
Joseph Jefferson, Tomasso Salvini, Clara 
Morris, and others. In 1890 he returned 
to California, where he began the study 
of law; was elected to the Legislature 
of the State of California in 1892, and in 
January, 1894, he was admitted to the bar 
by the Supreme Court of California. He 
has represented the Fourth Congressional 
District of California in the Fifty-sixth, 
Fifty-seventh and Fifty-Ninth Congresses. 
and has been re-elected to the Sixtieth 
Congress. On March 29, 1899, he married 
Florence Prag, of San Francisco. Legal 
residence: San Francisco, Cal. Wash- 
ington address: House of Representa- 
tives. 

KALANIANAOLE, JONAH KUHIO, 

capitalist. Territorial Delegate from 
Hawaii to Congress, was born on March 
26, 1871, at Kolola, Island of Kauai, 
Hawaii. He was educated in Honolulu, 
the United States and England; was 
employed in the office of the Minister 
of the Interior and the Custom House 
under the monarchy. He is a cousin of 
the late Kalakaua and Queen Llliuoka- 
lani, who were once monarchs of Hawaii. 
In 1884 he was created Prince by royal 
'proclamation. On October 8, 1896, he 
married Elizabeth Kahanu Kaauwai, the 
daughter of a chief of the Island of Maui. 
He represented Hawaii In the Fifty- 



eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses, and 
was re-elected to the Sixtieth Congress 
by an increased majority. Republican. 
Legal residence: Honolulu, Hawaii. 
Washington addiess: House of Repre- 
sentatives. 

KARPELES, HERMAN L., municipal 
officer, was born in Washington, D. C, 
on December 9, 1872, son of Leopold and 
Henrietta (Mundheine) Karpeles. He at- 
tended the Washington public schools, 
graduating from the high school in 1891. 
He has for some time been water regis- 
trar of the District of Columbia. He Is 
a member of the Hebrew Church, a Ma- 
son, a member of the Royal Arcanum, 
Loyal Grand, and other fraternal orders. 
On February 1,9, 1896, he married CeUa 
Jackson, and is the father of two chil- 
dren. Residence: 1648 Third street, n.w. 
Office: District Building. 

KASSON, JOHN ADAM, lawyer and 
diplomat, was born at Charlotte, Ver- 
mont, on January 11, 1822. He was grad- 
uated from the University of Vermont 
in 1842 (LL. D.), after which he removed 
to Iowa, where he engaged in the prac- 
tice of law. During 1861 and 1862 he was 
First Assistant Postmaster General; Com- 
missioner to the International Postal 
Congress in 1863; member of the United 
States Congress from Iowa for six terms, 
and a member of the Iowa Legislature 
from 1868 to 1873. From 1877 to 1881 
he was United States Minister to Aus- 
tria; 1884 to 1885, to Germiany; Com- 
missioner to Congo International Congress 
in 1885; Special Envoy to Samoan Inter- 
national Conference in 1893; Special Com- 
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reciprocity treaties In 1897 and 1901, and 
was a member of the American-Canadian 
Joint High Commission in 1898. He is the 
author of: History of the Formation of 
the United States Constitution; History 
of the Monroe Doctrine, and many essays 
and speeches that have appeared in lead- 
ing magazines. Residence: 1726 I street, 
n.w. 

KAUFFMANN, RUDOLPH, Managing 
editor of the Evening Star. Residence; 
1525 Sixteenth street, n.w. Office: The 
Evening Star Building. 

KAUFFMANN, SAMUEL HAY, jour- 
nalist, president of the Washington Even- 
ing Star Company, was born in Wayne 
County, Ohio, on April 30, 1829. son of 
Rudolph and Jane (Hay) Kauffmann. His 
youth was spent on a farm, and he re- 
ceived his early education in the com- 
mon schools of his native county, after 
which he learned the printing trade. This 
he temporarily abandoned, took up teleg- 
raphy in its stead, and was employed for 
some time as a telegraph operator. He 
then returned to his original trade, sub- 
sequently became editor and publisher 
in Zanesville, Ohio, and was so identified 
down to 1861, when he was appointed to 
a position in the ofl^ce of the United States 
Treasuiy, then under the secretaryship of 
Salmon P. Chase. In 1867 he purchased 
an interest in the Washington Evening 
Star, with which he has been connected 
ever since. Upon the incorporation of the 
Evening Star Company in 1868 he was 
elected its president, and has continuously 
remained at its head. He has been an 
extensive traveler, a student and a patron 
of art, especially sculpture, and has wilt- 
ten much, both editorially and descript- 
ively, on travel and art subjects. He is 
recognized as an authority on the eques- 
trian statuary of the world, and has pre- 
pared an illustrated volume on this form 
of sculptural art. His travels have em- 
braced many of the countries of Europe, 
Asia, Africa, China, Japan, and the Ha- 
waiian Islands. He was made a trus- 
tee of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Wash- 
ington, D. C, in 1881. and president of 
that institution in 1894. In February, 
1899, he was president of the American 
Newspaper Publishers' Association, and 
has been prominent in its councils. He is 
also a member of the Philosophical Soci- 
ety; the Anthropological Society; Colum- 
bia Historical Society; National Geo- 
graphic Society; Cosmos Club, and Chevy 
Chase Club — all of Washington; and the 
American Geographical Society; Shakes- 
peare Society; National Arts Club; Na- 
tional Sculpture Society, and the Grolier 
Club — all of New York. On October 12, 
1852, he married Sarah Clark, daughter of 
John Tileston Fracker, of Zanesville, 
Ohio. He died in February, 1906. Late 
residence: 1421 Massachusetts avenue, 
n.w. 

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KAUFFMANN, VICTOR, Uterary edi- 
tor The Evening Star. Residence: 2200 
Wyoming avenue, n.w. Office: The Even- 
ing Star Building. 

KAUFMAN, D. J., merchant, has re- 
sided In Washington since 1862. He has 
been a leading clothing merchant In 
Washington for several years, and is a 
member of the Board of Trade, and a 
director of the Merchants' and Mechan- 
ics' Bank, and other l&ading business en- 
terprises. Residence: 1313 Rhode Island 
avenue, n.w. Business address: 1005- 
1007 Pennsylvania avenue, n.w. 

KAUTZ, ALBERT, retired naval officer, 
was bo;n In Georgetown, Ohio, on Janu- 
ary 29, 1839, son of George and Dortha 
(Lewing) Kautz. He was graduated from 
■the United States Naval Academy in 
1854, and in 1858 was appointed a mid- 
shipman, and promoted to past mid.-<hip- 
man In 1861, and Master and Lieutenant 
the same year. In 1861 he was a prisoner 
of war in North Carolina and Richmond, 
and in 1862 served as Farragut's Flag 
Lieutenant on board the Hartford at the 
capture of New Orleans, and personally 
hauled down the "Lone Star" flag from 
the City Hall and hoisted the "Stars and 
Stripes" on the Custom House. He was 
on the Hartford during the engagements 
with Vicksburg batteries. He was pro- 
moted to a Lieutenant-Commander irf 
1865; Commander in 1872; Captain in 
1885; Commodore In 1897, and Rear 
Admiral in 1898. In 1899 he was In com- 
mand at Apia, Samoa, during the troubles 
of the native chiefs. He was retired on 
age January 29, 1901. Address: Navy 
Department. 

KEAN, JEFFERSON RANDOLPH, 

army surgeon, was born at Lynch- 
burg, Virginia, on June 27, 1860, son of 
Robert G. H. and Jane Nicholas (Ran- 
dolph) Kean, and great-grandson of 
Thomas Jefferson. He was graduated, M. 
D., from the University of Virginia in 
1883, and took a post-graduate course at 
the New York Polyclinic. H- served eight 
years on the Western frontier, and five 
years in Florida. In the Spanish War 
he was with the Seventh Army Corps, 
and was promoted to chief surgeon there- 
of; on the return to the United States. 
was made assistant to the Surgeon-Gen- 
eral. He was promoted to Major in the 
regular service on February 2, 1901. A 
member of the Association of Military 
Surgeons, and of the Army and Navy 
Club. Was married, at St. Augustine, 
Fla., on October 10, 1894, to Louise Harl- 
but Young. Residence: 1913 N street, 
n.w. 

KEAN, JOHN, lawyer, United States 
Senator, was born at Ursino, near Eliz- 
abeth, N. J., on December 4, 1852. After 
attending the private school he entered 
Yale University, but did not graduate. 



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and ]ater took up the study of law at 
Columbia College Law School (N. Y.), 
graduating In 1875, and was admitted to 
the New Jersey State bar in 1877. He 
served as a member of the Forty-eighth 
and Fiftieth Congresses; chairman of 
■the Republican State Committee in 1891- 
92, and was a candidate for Governor in 
1892. In 1890 he received the degree of 
M. A. from Yale University; was a mem- 
ber of the committee to revise the judi- 
ciary system of the State of New Jer- 
sej^ and was nominated by tacclimation 
by the Republican caucus, and elected to 
the United States Senate from New Jer- 
sey in 1899 to succeed James Smith, Jr., 
and was re-elected in 1905. His present 
term will expire on March 3, 1911. He 
is president of the National State Bank 
of Elizabeth, iN. J., and vice-president of 
the Manhattan Trust Company, in New 
York, and is identified with a number or 
other prominent business enterprises in 
and near 'New York. Legal residence. 
Elizabeth, N. J. Washington residence. 
1700 I street, n.w. 

KEANE, JOSEPH H., real e.state, was 
born m Washington, D. C, son of M. J. 
Keane. He was graduated from George- 
town University in 1898. Before enter- 
ing business for himself he had several 
years traiming in a real estate brokerage 
office in New York City, also in man-- 
other large cities in the East and West 
He handles exclusively the properties 
constructed by John Miller and M J 
Keane, two Washington builders land pro- 
moters. Residence: 1325 Yale street, n.w 
Office: Colorado Building. 

KEBLER, LYMAN F., chemLst. chief of 
Drug Laboratory of the Bureau of Chem- 
istry, United States Department of Agri 
culture. Residence: 1322 Park Road, n.w 
Office: Department of Agriculture. 

KEEPER, JOSEPH ISADORE, lawver 
was born at Middlebury. Virginia, ' ob 
May 24, 1850. He was educated at th' 
Georgetown College, admitted to the bar in 
1876, and engaged in practice in Washing- 
^.oV ?^ accompanied Secretary Seward's 
State Department party to Russian Amer- 
ica, 1867, land was present when the firs 
American flag was planted on Alaskan 
A i^ ^^ '^® '^°^^ survivor of that party 

Address: 503 Seventh street, n.w. 

KEIFER, JOSEPH WARREN, lawyer 
soldier Congressman, was born in Bethel 

uary 30, 1836. He attended the common 
schools of his native county and Antioch 
College, and afterwards took up the studv 

Car L'lslf c"^' ^^"'^"^'^ to the Ohii 
witv, i ' ^'""^^ '^^'^^ ^e 'has practiced 
wi h offices at Springfield, Ohio At the 
outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted in 

lit 5 °'' f ■™^' ^^^ '^^^ved throughoi 
the w.ar, and was brevetted Brigadier and 



also Major-General for gallant services. 
In 1878 he was admitted to practice In the 
Supreme Court of the United States. He 
was a member of the Forty- fifth. Forty- 
sixth, Forty-seventh land Forty-eighth 
Congresses from Ohio, and during the 
Forty-seventh Congress was Speaker of 
the House. During the Spanish-American 
War he was a Major-General of Volun- 
teers, and commanded the First Division 
of the Seventh Army Corps, sometimes 
the corps, and was in command of the 
United States forces which took posses- 
sion of Havana on January 1, 1899. He 
was Instrumental in organizing, and was 
the first Commander-in-Chief, of the 
Spanish War Veterans. He was elected 
to the Fifty-ninth Congress from the Sev- 
enth Ohio Congressional District, and was 
le-elected to the Sixtieth Congress. He 
is the author of Slavery and Pour Years 
of War. which appeared in 1900. On 
March 22, 1860, he married Eliza Stout, 
who died in 1899, and he is the father or 
three sons. Legal residence: Springfield. 
Ohio. Washington address: The Marl- 
liorough. 

KEIM, De BENNEVILLE RANDOLPH, 

author, editor, war and Washington cor- 
respondent, was born in Reading, Penn- 
sylvania, on January 1, 1841, son of John 
High (Hoch) and Martha Elizabeth (Ran- 
dolph, of Virginia) Keim, his father hav- 
ing been a Lieutenant- Colonel of the 
Fifty- third Pennsylvania Regiment In the 
old State Guard. His earliest ancestor 
in America was Johann Keim, who emi- 
grated, in 1698, from the Palatinate 
(Pfalz), near Spier; was one of the first 
settlers on the Oley Hills Indian Frontier 
of Pennsylvania, now Berks County, and ' 
one of the original founders of Reading, 
Penn., Niklaus Keim, son of the founder, 
becoming owner of the trading post es- 
tablished by Conrad Weiser, around which 
Reading was built. He wa.s scientifically 
educated at Beloit College, Wisconsin, but 
did not graduate. He was Captain of 
the first City Zouaves of Harrisburg. 
Penn., 1860-61 (now City Grays, National 
Guard of Pennsylvania), resigning to take 
up journalism. In 1870 he was appointed 
by President Grant as agent to examine 
United States Consulates and make per- 
sonal report on certain diplomatic mis- 
sions to the President, and has visited 
nearly all parts of the world as corre- 
spondent or official. Saw very extensive 
military service, as New York Herald 
correspondent under Grant, Sherman, 
Sheridan, McPherson, Banks, Logan, and 
others, witnessing and describing twenty- 
six battles. He has written: The Hand- 
Book of Washington; Washington Eti- 
quette and Public Ceremonials; Society 
in Washington, and several smaller works 
on the oapital; Capitol; Potomac River; 
Mount Vernon, etc.; Sheridan's Troop- 
ers on the Border; Sketches of Santo 
Domingo; Our Alaska Wonderland and 
Klondyke Neighbor; Gazetteer of the 



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Philippine Islands (Senate document, 
280, 57-1); Sherman Statue Memorial 
(Senate document, 320, 58-2) ; Rocham- 
beau Commemoration (Senate document, 
537, 59-1); dramas: Lafayette, the Man 
of Two "Worlds; Frederick the Great; 
Monmouth; Pocahontas; Scenario of 
Apotheosis of Pocahontas, music by San- 
telmann, and others, besides magazine 
and countless newspaper articles. He is 
a life member of the Pennsylvania His- 
torical Society, Pennsylvania German So- 
ciety, War of 1812, and is eligible to join 
all Colonial (Pocahontas-Rolfe-Randolph), 
Huguenot, Aztec, and other patriotic soci- 
eties. He is an Episcopalran. Has at dif- 
ferent tims represented the New York 
Herald, war, foreign, editorial and Wash- 
ington staff for ten years; Philadelphia 
Press, Times, Inquirer, and Telegraph; 
the Globe-Democrat, St. Louis; the Com- 
mercial, Pittsburg,; the Harrisburg Tel- 
egraph; New York Iron Age, and Albany 
Journal, besides special service during the 
Grant administrations with leading news- 
papers in all the larger cities. He mar- 
ried, June 25, 1872, Jane Sumner Owen, 
and they have had four children, two ot 
whom are living. Home residence* "Edge- 
mount," Reading, Penn., Penn Mountain. 
Professional residence and address: 
Washington, D. C. 

KEELTY, T., Catholic clergyman, as- 
sistant pastor of St. Dominic's Church. 
Residence: 515 Sixth street, s.w. 

KEITH, ARTHUR HARRISON, geolo- 
gist, was born at St. Louis, Missouri, on 
December 30, 1864, son of Harrison Alonzo 
and Mary (Richardson) Keith. He was 
graduated from Harvard University in 
1885, with the degree of A. M., and the 
following year took a special course in 
the Lawrence Scientific School of the 
same institution. During 1886-87 he was 
on the Massachusetts State Topographic 
Survey, and since 1887 has been a geolo- 
gist in the United States Geological Sur- 
vey. Residence: 2110 Twentieth street, 
n.w. Office: U. S. Geological Survey. 

KELIHER, JOHN A., Congressman, 
was born at Boston, Mass., on Novem- 
ber 6, 1866, son of John and Joanna 
(STiea) Keliher. He was educated in the 
public schools, after which he entered 
the real estate business. He was a mem- 
ber of the Massachusetts State Legisla- 
ture during 1896 and 1897, and the State 
Senate during 1899 and 1900. He has rep- 
resented the Ninth Massachusetts Con- 
gressional District in the Fifty-eighth and 
Fifty-ninth Congresses, and has been re- 
elected to the Sixtieth Congress. In poli- 
tics he is a Democrat. Legal residence: 
Boston, Mass. Washington address: House 
of Representatives. 

KELLEHER, JOHN B. (S. J.), assist- 
ant rector of St. Aloysius Catholic Church. 
Residence: 19 I street, n.w. 



KELLERMAN, KARL FREDERIC, 

scientist, was born at Gottingen, Ger- 
many, on December 9, 1879, son of Dr. 
William A. and Stella (Dennis) Keller- 
man. He was educated in the Kansas 
district schools, Columbus (Ohio) grade 
and high schools, Ohio State University, 
and Cornell University, graduating from 
the latter institution in 1900, making a 
specialty of natural science. During 1900 
and 1901 he was an assistant in botany 
at Cornell, and since 1903 has been a 
scientific assistant in the Department of 
Agriculture. During 1905 he was acting 
in dharge of the laboratory of pla'^t physi- 
ology, and since 1905 has been physiolo- 
gist in charge of soil bacteriology and 
water purification investigations. He is 
the author of a number of scientific ar- 
ticles that have appeared in department 
bulletins and magazines. He is a mem- 
ber of the Delta Upsilon and Sigma Chi 
fraternities. On August 17, 1905, he mar- 
ried Gertrude Hast, of Cumberland, Md. 
Residence: The Natchez. Office: U. S. 
Department of Agriculture. 

KELLEY, JAMES DOUGLAS JER- 
ROLD, naval officer, was born in New 
York, on December 25, 1847. His early 
education was obtained in the public 
schools and at the Seaton Hall (N. J.) 
College. He was appointed to the United 
States Naval Academy by President Lin- 
coln in 1864, and was graduated with the 
class of 1868. He was promoted to En- 
sign in 1869; Master in 1870; Lieuten- 
ant in 1872; Lieutenant-Commander in 
1883, and Commander in 1899. He ha.s 
served on many duties and stations. He 
was the prize essayist and medalist of 
the United States Naval Institute in 1881. 
In 1898 he wias a member and chairman 
of the Board of Auxiliary Vessels, and 
been an inspector of merchant vessels 
in New York, and senior aide to the com- 
mandant at the navy yard in the same 
city. He is the author of a number of 
books, among them being: The Question 
of Ships; A Desperate Chance (novel); 
American Yachts; Typical Yachts; 
American Men-o'-War; The Navy of the 
United States, 1775-1899, etc. He mar- 
ried Isabel de P. Morrell, of New York. 
Address: Navy Department. 

KELLOGG, WILLIAM PITT, ex-Gov- 
ernor of Louisiana, was born at Oswell. 
Vermont, on December 8, 1831, son of 
Rev. Sherman Kellogg. He was educated 
at Norwich (Vt.) Military Institute, and 
was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1852, 
and practiced at Canton, 111., 1852-61; wa^ 
a Lincoln elector for Illinois, 1860; ap- 
pointed, 1861, Chief Justice of the Ne- 
braska Territory, and became Colonel of 
the Seventh Illinois Cavalry in the sum- 
mer of 1861. He was Collector of th<j 
Port of New Orleans, 1865-68; United 
States Senator, 1867-72 and 1877-83; G>v- 
erno'- of Louisiana, 1873-76; member of 



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Congress, 1883-85; delegate to every Na. 
tional Republican Convention, 1860-96. 
Residence: The Shoreham. 

KELLY, JAMES KERR, lawyer, was 
born in Center County, Pennsylvania, on 
February 16, 1819. He attended Prince- 
ton University, graduating with the class 
of 1839. In 1842 he was admitted to the 
Pennsylvania bar, and from 1847 to 1849 
he was Deputy Attorney General for 
Mifflin County, Pennsylvania. In 1849 he 
removed to California, and Oregon in 
1851, and was a member of the com- 
mittee to draw up a set of laws for the 
territory. He was Lieutenant-Colonel of 
the First Oregon Regiment of Mounted 
Volunteers, and took part in the fight 
against the Yakima Indians in 1855-56; 
member of the Territorial Council from 
1853-57, and was one of the framers ol 
the Oregon Constitution in 1857. From 
1860 to 1864 he was a member of the 
Oregon State Senate, and a member of 
the United States Senate from Oregon, 
1871-77. In politics he has always been 
a Democnat, and from 1879 to 1881 was 
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of 
Oregon. On November 26, 1863, he mar- 
ried Mary Buchanan Miller, of Salem, 
Oregon. Residence: 1919 M street, n.w. 

KELLY, JAMES V. (S. J.), Catholic 
clergyman, professor of classics and Eng- 
lish at Georgetown University. Address; 
Georgetown University. 

KEMEYS, EDWARD, sculptor, wa^ 
born at Savannah, Georgia, on January 
31, 1843, son of William and Abby B. 
(Greene) Kemeys. He attended school in 
New York until the outbreak of the war 
in 1860, when he enlisted in the Union 
Army as Captain of an artillery company. 
After the war he took up farming in 
Illinois for la short while, later joining a 
corps of civil engineers at work in Cen- 
tral Park, New York. In 1870 he became 
interested in sculpture work, later going 
to Europe for special study. His work 
has been exhibited in London and in 
the Paris Salon. It "has been his custom 
to make a specialty of the North Amer- 
ican Indian and animal figures in his 
work. He hias been a contributor to 
many of the leading magazines, and is 
recognized as one of the leading sculptors 
of the United States. He married Laura 
Swing, of Bridgeton, N. J. Residence: 
1321 New Hampshire avenue, n.w. 

KEMPFF, LOUIS, naval officer, was 
born at Belleville, Ohio, on October 11, 
1841, son of Frederick and Henrietta 
Kempff. He attended the United States 
Naval Academy, 1857-61; served on the 
Vandalia in the blockade off Charleston; 
captured and took to New York the 
schooner Henry Middleton, of Charleston; 
took part in the battle of Port Royal, S. 
C, November 7, 1861; served on the flag- 



ship Wabash and other vessels throughout 
the Civil War. He was promoted Lieu- 
tenant-Commander July 26, 1866; com- 
manded U. S. S. Monitor Montrey, and, 
in 1896-99, the receiving ship Independ- 
ence; Rear Admiral, 1899; Comman- 
dant Mare Island Navy Yard, California. 
1899-1900; on Asiatic Station, 1900-02; 
commanded the Pacific Naval Station, 
1903. Member of the Loyal Legion, tha 
Grand Army of the Republic, National 
Geographic Society, New York Yacht, 
University, Olympic, San Francisco. Was 
married, at Fair Oaks, Cal., July 16, 1873, 
to Cornelia R. Lebby. Address: Navy 
Department. 

KENDALL, HENRY M., Major, U. S. A. 
(retired); secretary and treasurer of the 
United States Soldiers' Home. Address: 
U. S. Soldiers' Home. 

KENDALL, WILLIAM CONVERSE, 

Government official, was born at Freepon, 
Cumberland County, Maine, on April 4, 
1861, son of William Pote and Frances 
Ann (Carver) Kendall. His education 
was obtained in the Freeport public and 
high schools, later attending Bowdoin 
College, receiving the degree of A. B. 1". 
1885. and A. M. in 1890; entered the 
Georgetown University Medical School, 
graduating in 1896. For a few years he 
was engaged in school teaching, and in 
1889 joined the United States Fish Com- 
mission, with which he is still connected. 
He has contributed articles of a scien- 
tific nature to the publications of the 
United States Fish Commission, and the 
National Museum, and to magazines and 
newspapers. He is a member of the 
Episcopal Church; a Mason; Knight of 
Pythias, and a member of many of the 
leading scientific societies. On April 3, 
1893, he married Ida W. Aschenbach. Res- 
idence: 1404 Eleventh street, n.w. OfRce: 
U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. 

KENNEDY, CHARLES A., Congress- 
man. In November, 1906, he was elected 
a member of the Sixtieth Congress from 
the First Congressional District of Iowa, 
on the Republican ticket. Legal residence: 
Montrose, Iowa. Washington address: 
House of Representatives. 

KENNEDY, CRAMMOND, lawyer, au- 
thor, was born at North Berwick, Scot- 
land, on December 29, 1842. He was ed- 
ucated in his native town and Edinburgh, 
and after coming to New York in 1856, 
he there attended a night school. From 
1857 to 1860 he delivered religious ad- 
dresses, and was widely known as "The 
Boy Preacher." From 1861 to 1863 he 
studied at Madison University, and dur- 
ing 1863-64 he was chaplain of the Sev- 
enty-ninth New York Regiment, being 
brevetted for gallant services. He has 
lectured on the Civil War In England and 
Scotland, and In 1869 was editor and pro- 



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prietor of the Church Union; the same 
year, with Henry Ward Beecher, estab- 
lished the Christian Union, and became 
its editor in 1870. In 1878 he was gradu- 
ated from the Columbia Law School, 
practicing in New York, and later Wash- 
ington. He is the author of several books, 
among them being: Close Communion 
and Open Communion; Some Phases oC 
the Hawaiian Question; The Capture o£ 
Aguinaldo; James Stanley (a Sunday 
school story), etc. In 1867 he married Ag- 
nes Gorman. Residence: The Shoreham. 
Office: Bond Building. 

KENNEDY, JAMES, lawyer. Congress- 
man, was born in Mahoning County, Ohio, 
on September 3, 1853. He attended the 
Poland Union Seminary and was gradu- 
ated from Westminster College in Penn- 
sylvania, with an A. B. degree, in 1876, 
after which he took up the study of law 
with General T. W. Sanderson, at Youngs- 
town, Ohio, and was admitted to the bar 
in 1879. He never held any public office 
until elected to the Fifty-eighth and 
Fifty-ninth Congresses from the Eight- 
eenth Ohio Congressional District; re- 
elected to the Sixtieth Congress. In poli- 
tics he is a Republican. He married 
Phebe Erwin, and is the father of one 
daughter. Legal residence: Youngstown, 
Ohio. Washington address: House of 
Representatives. 

KENNEDY, JOHN LAUDERDALE, 

lawyer. Congressman, was born on a 
farm in Ayrshire, Scotland, on October 
27, 1854. He attended the public schools 
of his native country until nineteen years 
of age, when he came to the United States 
and settled in La Salle County, Illinois, 
where he farmed for a few years, and 
later attended Knox College, at Galesburg. 
111. He took up the study of law in the 
law department of the University or 
Iowa, graduating in 1882, with the de- 
gree of LL. B. An A. M. degree was con. 
ferred upon him by Knox College in 1898 
He began the practice of his profession 
in the city of Omaha. From 1882 to 
1888 he was the senior member of the 
firm of Kennedy & Martin, and from 1888 
to 1907 the senior member of the firm 
of Kennedy & Learned, lawyers. In 1900 
he was a presidential elector. Until he 
was elected to the Fifty-ninth Congress 
from the Second Nebraska Congressional 
District he had never held any office. In 
politics he is a Republican. Legal res- 
idence: Omaha, Neb. Washington ad- 
dress: House of Representatives. 

KENNEDY, JOHN LEWIS, stock 
broker, was born at Indianapolis, Indi- 
ana, on June 15, 1854. He entered the 
printing business in 1871, and was pres- 
ident of the Columbia Typographical 
Union, 1890-91. He Is the author of 
the clause in the Copyright Law requir- 
ing that all books copyrighted In thia 



country shall be printed in type set in 
the United States. Under his presidency 
the Typographical Union built its $75,000 
Temple in Washington. From 1894 to 
1898 he corresponded for several news- 
papers. Appointed, October 6, 1898, mem- 
ber of the United States Industrial Com- 
mission. Residence: 1922 Cincinnati 
street. Office: Home Life Building. 

KENNON (MRS.), BRITANNIA, Pres- 
ident 'Of the Aged Women's (Home. Resi- 
dence: Tudor Place, n. w. 

KENNY, ALBERT SEWELL, Paymas- 
ter-General, U. S. N., was born in Van 
Buren County, Iowa, on January 19, 1841, 
son of Sewell and Mary (Strong) Kenny. 
He was graduated from the University 
of Vermont in 1861; entered the Navy 
as an Assistant Paymaster in 1862; was 
promoted to Paymaster in 1865, and Pay 
Inspector in 1884, and Pay Director in 
1897. From 1862 to 1863 he served in 
the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 
and during 1864 and 1865 was in the 
North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, be- 
ing present at both attacks on Fort Fisher. 
He has seen twelve years' service a', 
sea, and has had shore duty on the 
west coast of Africa, San Francisco, the 
Naval Academy and at tlie New York 
Navy Yard since the Civil War; Pay- 
master-General of the Navy, and Chief 
Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, Navy 
Department, from May, 1899, to July 1, 
1903. On January 19, 1903, he was re- 
tired. Residence: 1402 Chapin street, 
n.w. 

KENT, ALEXANDER, clergyman, was 
born at Truro, Nova Scotia, on Novem- 
ber 27, 1837, son of James and Sarah 
(Archibald) Kent. He attended the 
schools of his native town from 1843 
to 1854, and later studied at Lombard 
University, in Illinois, and the Canton 
(N. Y.) Theological School until 1863, 
when he took charge of the Universal- 
ist Church at Halifax. Nova Scotia, re- 
maining there until 1867. From 1867 to 
1869 he was pastor of the Universalisi 
Church at Portland, Maine; served as 
a missionary in Minnesota part of 1869, 
and Baltimore, 1869-77. In 1877 he re- 
moved to Washington, and for twelve 
years was pastor of the Universallst 
Church, and the following ten years wasj 
pastor of the undenominational People's 
Church. He is the author of a number 
of monographs, sermons, and addresses, 
the most prominent one being, The Co- 
operative Communities of the United 
States. On January 24, 1878, he married 
Carrie E. Grove, of Washington. Resi- 
dence: 930 O street, n.w. 

KENT, W. SETON, Manager of the 
Southern Printers' Supply Company, was 
born In Calvert County, Maryland, in 1872. 
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lie schools of Baltimore, he entered the 
employ of Barnhart Bros. & Spindler 
(manufacturers of printers' supplies), and 
for several years was engaged as a sales- 
man, traveling in all parts of the East- 
ern United States. Since 1900 he has 
been manager of the Southern Printers' 
Supply Company, the Washington branch 
of Barnhart Bros. & Spindler. Residence: 
239 Florida avenue, n.w. Office: 425 
Eleventh street, n.w. 

KENYON, JACOB MILLER, lawyer, 
was born at Sandy Hill, Washington 
County, New York, on February 4, 1870, 
son of Norman S. and Jane A. Kenyon. 
He attended the University of Virginia, 
New York Law School, Georgetown Law 
School, and the National University Law 
School. In addition to being a member 
of the bar of the District of Columbia, 
he is secretary and director of the Amer- 
ican National Bank, and is interested in 
a number of other Washington business 
enterprises. He Is vice-president of the 
Lawyers' Association of Washington; a 
member of the Board of Trade, the Uni- 
versity, Analostan, and Bachelors' Ten- 
nis Clubs. For several years he was the 
champion long-distance runner of the 
District of Columbia, and was a member 
of the Columbia Athletic Club's boat 
crews, under Coach Charles Courtney, 
being a member of the crew which won 
the Staten Island Challenge Cup in 1890, 
and took part in many other prominent 
regattas. On October 24, 1894, he mar- 
ried Laura David Bailey. Residence: 1906 
Calvert street, n.w. Office: Colorado 
Building. 

KERBY, WILLIAM JOSEPH, clergy- 
man, educator, was born at Lawler, Iowa, 
on February 20, 1870, son of Daniel and 
Ellen (Rochford) Kerby. Graduated from 
St. Joseph's College, Dubuque, Iowa, in 
1889; theological course at St. Francis 
Seminary, Milwaukee; ordained Roman 
Catholic priest in 1892. Graduate stu- 
dent Catholic University, 1892-94, re- 
ceiving degree, Licentiate in Theology. 
Professor in St. Joseph's College, Du- 
buque, 1894-95; student of social sciences 
In universities of Bonn and Berlin and 
Louvain, 1895-97. Received degree of 
Doctor in Social and Political Science.- 
from University of Louvain, 1897. Asso- 
ciate professor of sociology Catholic Uni- 
versity, Washington, 1897-1906. Profes- 
sor of sociology since 1906. Author of 
Le Socialisme aux Etats Unis, and of ar- 
ticles on social questions in Catholic mag- 
azines. Member of the American Socio- 
logical Society. Address: Catholic Uni- 
versity. 

KERN, CHARLES EVERETT, journal- 
ist, was born in Washington, D. C, on 
October 5, 1862, son of Frederick S. and 
Mary Ann (Miles) Kern. His education 
was obtained In the public schools and 



under private tutors, after which he be- 
came a telegrapher and stenographic re- 
porter, later taking up newspaper work. 
For a time he was connected with the 
National Republican, and later with the 
Washington Post, and was associated 
with the late General H. V. Boynton, 
when corrjespondent of the Cincinnati 
Commercial Gazette. For the past twelve 
years he has been a congressional and 
political writer for the Washington Even- 
ing Star. From 1888 to 1891 he was pri- 
vate secretary to Civil Engineer A. G. 
Menocal, who was chief engineer of the 
Nicaragua Canal Company. In 1888 he 
accompanied Lieutenant Robert E. Peary, 
U. S. N., later of Arctic fame, on the ex- 
pedition for the final location of the Nic- 
aragua Canal, at which time he was cor- 
respondent of the New York Times and 
other papers. He was associated with 
Mr. Menocal in investigations of the Pan- 
ama Canal, and in 1890, during the inter- 
val between the final survey and the be- 
ginning of work on the canal, was sec- 
retary to the commission, of which Cap- 
tain A. T. Mahan, U. S. N., was presi- 
dent, for the location of a navy yard 
on the Northwest coast of the United 
States. He is a director and secretary- 
treasurer of the Columbia Planograph 
Company. He is a member of the Wash- 
ington Board of Trade; Columbia His- 
torical Society; National Geographic So- 
ciety; Sons of the Revolution; a Mason, 
etc. On April 14, 1895, he married Cath- 
arine Reed Wells Deane, of Deanwood, 
D. C. Since December 1, 1907, Mr. Kern 
has heen connected with the Associated 
Press. Residence: 1328 Harvard street, 
n.w. Office: The Evening Star Building. 

KERR, JAMES, surgeon, was born at 
Fort Stewart, County Derry, Ireland, on 
December 14, 1848. His early education 
was obtained in the Coleraine Academic 
Institution, later attending the Royal 
University, at Dublin, Ireland, and Queen's 
College, at Belfast, graduating from the 
latter institution in 1870, with the de- 
grees of M. D. and M. Ch. From 1871 
to 1873 he was surgeon of the Royal Can- 
adian Mail Service; surgeon to the H. M. 
Transport No. XII., Gold Coast Expedition, 
during 1873 and 1874; chief surgeon of 
Canadian Pacific Railway from 1882 to 
1888, and in 1885 surgeon of the Canadian 
Militia in the Riel Rebellion. He was 
formerly professor of surgery in the Man- 
itoba Medical College, and since coming 
to Washingt'0.n he has been professor of 
surgery in the Georgetown Medical Col- 
lege. He is a member of the leading 
scientific societies, and has contributed 
to the leading medical magazines. In 1876 
he married Laurie J. Bell, of O'Nolin, 
Ireland, at Brantford, Ontario, Canada. 
Residence: 1711 H street, n.w. 

KERR, JOHN B,, army officer, was 
born in Fayette County, Kentucky, on 
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(Fry) Kerr. He was graduated from the 
United States Military Academy in 1870; 
promoted Captain, Sixth United States 
Cavalry, January 3, 1885; Lieutenant- 
Colonel May 31, 1901, and Colonel, Twelfth 
Cavalry, March 30, 1903. In military 
service on frontier of Texas, Indian Ter- 
ritory, Kansas, Arizona and New Mexico. 
1870-88. Honorably mentioned in Gen- 
eral Orders, June 25, 1888, for meritorious 
conduct in defeating attempts to rescue 
Navajo Indian prisoners. Took part in 
campaign against Sioux Indians, 1890-91, 
and was awarded medal of honor for 
distinguished bravery; commanded Sec- 
ond Squadron, Sixth Cavalry, in Spanish- 
American War, and was wounded in as- 
sault on San Juan Ridge, July 1, 1898. 
He was military attache to Paris Expo- 
sition and Germany, 1S98-1902. Member 
of the general staff corps from April 17, 
1903, to August 15, 1906. Chief of staff, 
Philipplnp Division. 1903-04; Atlantic 
Division, December 26, 1904, to August 15, 
1906; commanding Twelfth Cavalry at 
Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, since Septem- 
ber 13, 1906. Winner of many medals 
for marksmanship. Married, at St. Louis, 
June 7, 1904, Eva Paddock. Address: War 
Department. 

KERR (MRS.) WILLIAM, President of 
Working Boys' Home and Children's Aid 
Society. Residence: 2013 O street, n.w. 

KERVICK, THOMAS J., clergyman, 
rector of the Holy Name of Jesus Cath- 
olic Church. Residence: 920 Eleventh 
street, n.e. 

KETCHAM, WILLIAM HENRY, Di- 
rector of Bureau of Catholic Indian Mis- 
sions since 1901, was born at Sumner, 
Iowa, on June 1, 1868, son of Alonzo and 
Josephine (Shanafelt) Ketcham. He was 
graduated from St. Charles College, Grand 
Coteau, La., after which he studied divin- 
ity at the Theological Seminary, Mt. St. 
Mary's of the West, Cincinnati, Ohio. He 
was ordained a priest, Pro-Cathedral, 
Guthrie, Okla., March 13, 1891, and ap- 
pointed missionary to Creek and Cherokee 
Indians in 1891, and to the Choctaw In- 
dians in 1897. Address: 1326 New York 
avenue, n.w. 

KIGGINS, FRANK M., Chief Examinev 
of the United States Civil Service Com- 
mission. Residence: 1237 Irving street. 
Office: Eighth and E streets, n.w. 

KILBOURNE, CHARLES EVANS, 

army officer, was born at Columbus, 
Ohio, on January 17, 1844, son of Lin- 
coln and Jane (Evans) Kilbourne. In 
1866 he was graduated from the United 
States Military Academy, and during 
1869-70 was a student in the Artillery 
School at Fort 'Monroe, Virginia, being 
■the honor graduate in 1870. He was ap- 
pointed a Second Lieutenant in 1866; 



promoted to First Lieutenant in 1868; 
Captain in 1896, and Major in 1893. From 
1871 to 1884 and from 1890 to 1893 he 
served in the United States Signal Corps, 
and was professor of military science and 
tactics in the Ohio State University from 
1887 to 1890. During 1898-99 he served 
in the Philippnies as auditor of public 
accounts and treasurer of the Philippine 
Archipelago and Island of Guam. On 
April 13, 1868, he married, at San Fran- 
cisco, Ada J. Coolidge. Address: War 
Department. 

KIMBALL, AMOS SAMUEL, army 
officer, was born at Lawrence, New 
York, on July 14, 1840, son of James and 
Sophia (Taft) Kimball. He was gradu- 
ated from the State Normal School, at 
Albany, N. Y., in 1859. Enlisted, as First 
Lieutenant, Ninety-eighth New York 
Regiment, November, 1861; served in the 
Army of the Potomac to November, 1862, 
taking part in McClellan's Peninsular 
campaign, and was Quartermaster at 
Newbern, N. C, during the yellow fever 
epidemic, where he incurred the disease; 
brevetted Colonel by State and appointed 
Major of Volunteers and Assistant Quar- 
termaster, U. S. A. Served under Sher- 
idan in the Indian campaign of 1868-69, 
and during the Spanish War distributed 
over eight million dollars in four months. 
Promoted Brigadier-General, U. S. A., 
and retired, October, 1902. In 1861 he 
married Hattie F. Crary, at Fort Coving- 
ton, N. Y. Address: War Department 

KIMBALL, ARTHUR RICHMOND, 

librarian, was born at Concord, New 
Hampshire, on January 29, 1862, son o*' 
William H. and Sarah M. (Gate) Kim- 
ball. He was graduated from the Con- 
cord Hig'h School in 1882; later attended 
the Moses Woolsen Private School, in the 
same place, and afterwards took up the 
study of law, and was admitted to the 
New Hampshire State bar in 1889, but 
never practiced. In 1890 he became the 
New Hampshire State Librarian, and in 
1901 was appointed Commissioner of Free 
Public Libraries and elected secretary of 
the State Library Association. Since 1897 
he has been an assistant librarian of the 
Library of Congress, at the present time 
having charge of the binding division. 
Legal residence: Concord, N. H. Office: 
Library of Congress. Residence: 1827 
Kalorama avenue, n.w. 

KIMBALL, HERBERT HARVEY, 

librarian, was born at Hopkinton, Mer- 
rimack County, New Hampshire, on Feb- 
ruary 13, 1862, son of Elbridge Gerry and 
Mary (Butler) Kimball. He attended the 
New Hampshire College of Agriculture, 
graduating in 1884, with the degree of 
B. S., and in 1900 received an M. S. de- 
gree from Columbian (now George Wash- 
ington) University, at the present time 
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at the same institution. Since 1903 he 
has been talking: a course in astrophys- 
ics and meteorology in the latter uni- 
versity. From 1884 to 1888 he was con- 
nected with the Signal Corps, U. S. A., 
as a meteorological observer. Since 1888 
he has been connected with the United 
States Weather Bureau, and now holdd 
the position lof librarian and climatolo- 
glst. He is a member of the National 
Geographic Society; the Washington 
Academy of Sciences, and is a Repub- 
lican in politics. He is a member of the 
Baptist Church, and a deacon in the Cal- 
vary Baptist Church of Washington. On 
November 4, 1891, he married M. Ger- 
trude Cowling, and is the father of two 
sons and one daughter. Residence: 1819 
Monroe street, n.w. Office: U. S. Weather 
Bureau. 

KIMBALL, L G., Judge of Police Court 
of the District of Columbia. Residence: 
620 North Carolina avenue, s.e. Office; 
Police Court. 

KIMBALL, SUMNER INCREASE, 

General Superintendent of the United 
States Life Saving Service, Treasury De- 
partment, was born at Lebanon, Maine, 
on S.ptember 2, 1834, son of Increase S. 
and Miriam W. (Bodwell) Kimball. He 
was graduated from Bowdoin College in 
1855, took up the study of law and was 
admitted to the bar in 1858, and served 
as a member of the Maine Legislature 
the following year. In 1862 he entered 
the Second Auditor's office of the United 
States Treasury Department as a clerk; 
in 1870 had advanced to be chief clerk 
of that office, and in 1871 became chief 
of the Revenue Marine (now Revenue 
Cutter) Service, and the Life Saving 
Service, which was then a part of that 
branch. In 1878, upon the organization 
of the Life Saving Service as a separate 
bureau of the Treasury Department, he 
was appointed general superintendent, 
his nomination b:ing confirmed by the 
Senate without refe;ence to committee, 
and in 1893 his services in that position 
were recognized by Congress by an in- 
crease in salary, "while the position is 
held by the present incumbent." Has at 
various times served as Acting Comptrol. 
ler. Acting Register, and Acting Solicitor 
of the Treasury. In 1872 was appointed 
a member of the Board of Examiners in 
the Treasury Department, and in 1889 
was delegate of the United States to the 
International Marine Conference held that 
year. In 1891 he received the degree 
of Doctor of Science from Bowdoin Col- 
lege. He is a member of the American 
Association for the Advancement of 
Science; National Geographic Society; 
Geological Society of Washington, and 
the Cosmos and University Clubs. On 
October 12, 1858, married, at Augusta, Me., 
Ellen Frothingham Fenno. Residence: 
1316 Rhode Island avenue, n.w. Office: 
Treasury Department. 



KIMBALL, WILLIAM PRESTON. 

Congressman, was born in New Lex- 
ington, Kentucky, on November 4, 1857. 
He is a lawyer by profession, the style 
of his firm being, Kimball & Hunter. 
He was elected to the Sixtieth Congress 
from the Seventh Kentucky Congressional 
District as a Democrat in November, 1906. 
Legal residence: Lexington, Ky. Wash- 
ington address: House of Representa- 
tives. 

KIMMEL, WILLIAM ALEXANDER, 

building contractor. was born at 
Bloomington, Maryland, on November 
21, 1859, son of Peter and Elizabeth S. 
(Brandt) Kimmel. After leaving school 
he began as an apprentice in the build- 
ing and contracting business, showing 
great energy and practical ideas, and he 
soon attained a prominent place in the 
list of building contractors of Washing- 
ton. He established his own business 
in 1886, since when he has erected a num- 
ber of prominent buildings, among them 
being: St. Paul's M. E. Church; Berean 
Baptist Church; Temple Baptist Church; 
Grace Baptist Church; Washington 
Heights Presbyterian Church; Chuich of 
the Advent (Episcopal); Knights of 
Pythias Temple; King Building, at the 
Soldiers' Home. His specialty is churches 
and re-enforced concrete buildings. He 
is a Knight Templar, a Mystic Shriner, 
and a Thirty-second degree Mason, also 
twice Master of Pentalpha Lodge, No. 23, 
F. A. A. M., and is a member of several 
other fraternal orders. On October 25, 
1886, he married Adah S. WInckelman, of 
Washington. Address: 1508 Columbia 
Road. 

KING, ALBERT FREEMAN AFRI- 
CANUS, physician, was born at Hamlet 
of Blackthorn, Oxfordshire, England, on 
January 18, 1841, son of Edward and Lou- 
isa (Freeman) King. His early education 
was obtained at Maley's School and the 
Bicester Diocesan School, in England, and 
after coming to America he attended 
Columbian (now George Washington) 
Unive.slty, graduating in 1861, and the 
University of Pennsylvania, graduating In 
1865. He holds honorary degrees from 
the University of Vermont, A. M., In 1883, 
and, LL. D., in 1904. For thirty-six 
years he has been professor of obstetricd 
in George Washington University, and in 
the medical department of the University 
of Vermont. For three months in 1864 
he was an acting assistant surgeon in 
the United States Army, under contract. 
He is the author of several papers of a 
scientific nature, and one book. The Man- 
ual of Obstetrics, which has appeared in 
ten editions from 1882 to 1907. He is a 
member of the Cosmos and University 
Clubs, and a member of the Episcopal 
Church. On October 17, 1894, he married 
Ellen Amory Dexter, of Boston, Mass., 
and is the father of three children. Res- 
idence: 1315 Massachusetts avenue, n.w. 



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KING, GEORGE W., Pastor of the 
Dumbarton Avenue Methodist Episcopal 
Church. Residence: 3130 O street, n.w. 

KING, HARRY, merchant, was born on 
January 17, 1865, in Washington, D. C, 
son of H. Xing', Jr., who founded King's 
Palace. He attended Columbian (now 
George Washington) University, but did 
not graduate, going instead into business 
with his father in 1885, and, in 1893, after 
his father's death, became senior member 
of the firm, which included other members 
of his family. He was captain of the 
baseball team of the old Columbia Athletic 
Club, and champion in the Washington 
Olympias. Residence: 1024 Eighth 
street, n.w. Business address: 810-81G 
Seventh street, n.w. 

KING, JOHN RIGDON, Pension Agent, 
was born at Hagerstown, Maryland, on 
June 24, 1844, son of Samuel L. and Maria 
(Lane) King. He was educated in the 
public schools of Washington County, 
Maryland, and enlisted at seventeen In 
the Sixth Maryland Regiment, and served 
throughout the Civil War in the Third and 
Sixth Army Corps, Army of the Poto- 
mac. He was a prisoner of war in Salis- 
bury, N. C, and Libby prisons six months, 
and thrice wounded; he assisted in form- 
ing the first G. A. R. post in Maryland, 
and held every ofBce, including Depart- 
ment Commander; elected Senior Vice- 
Commander-in-Chief of G. A. R. in 1904, 
and became Commander-in-Chief in 1905 
for unexpired term. He was in the Balti- 
more Custom House thirty years, and is 
now United States Pension Agent in 
Washington. He is president of the Grand 
Army Club of Maryland. Married, in How- 
ard County, Maryland, May 28, 1874, Anne 
Maria Snyder. Address: 615 Fiftenth 
street, n.w. 

KINGSMAN, RICHARD, phsician, was 
born in Louisville, Kentucky, on May 31, 
1855. After completing a course in the 
public schools of his native city, he 
worked for several years in the job rooms 
of the Louisville Courier-Journal, Indian- 
apolis Journal and Lafayette Journal, and 
later received an appointment to the Gov- 
ernment Printing Office, where he re- 
mained for five years, resigning to accept 
a position in the office of the Paymaster- 
General of the United States Army. When 
in the Paymaster-General's office he took 
up the study of medicine, and graduated 
in 1886, resigning in 1889 to engage in the 
general practice of medicine in Washing- 
ton. He is a Knight Templar, and a 
member of several other fraternal organ- 
izations; a member of the Board of Trade; 
the Homeopathic Medical Society of the 
District of Columbia; Homeopathic Med- 
ical and Surgical Club; American Insti- 
tute of Homeopathy, and was for six yearj 
a member of the Board of Education. For 
several years he has been a member of 



the medical staff of the Homeopathic 
Hospital. He is married and has one 
daughter. Residence: 711 East Capitol 
street. 

KINKAID, MOSES P., lawyer. Con- 
gressman, was born in Monongalia 
County, West Virginia, in 1854. He was 
educated in the public schools and the 
University of Michigan, graduating from 
■the law department, being president of his 
class in his senior year. For twenty-five 
years he has resided in fhe State of Ne- 
braska; served in the State Senate; held 
the office of District Judge for three 
terms, and ran for Judge of the Supreme 
Court of the State in 1896, when the Re- 
publican ticket was defeated. He has rep- 
resented the Sixth Nebraska Congres- 
sional District in the Fifty-eig'hth and 
Fifty-ninth Congresses, being the first 
Republican to hold the office from that 
district; re-elected to the Sixtieth Con- 
gress. Legal residence: O'Neill, Neb. 
Washington address: House of Repre- 
sentatives. 

KINNEAR, JOHN B., Treasurer of the 
Sudwarth Printing Company, was born 
in Illinois, in 1857, and taught school for 
.seven years. He was principal of the 
Canni (111.) schools, and resigned in 1886 
to enter the Treasury Department. He 
was cashier of the People's Savings Bank, 
and served two terms as Mayor of Tako- 
ma Park, D. C. Residence: 1870 V street, 
n.w. Business address: 510 Twelfth 
street. 

KINSLEY WILLIAM WIRT, govern- 
ment official, was born at Buffalo, New 
York, on October 8, 1837, son of William 
and Caroline Kinsley. He attended Ober- 
lin College, graduating with the class of 
1861, and from 1862 to 1865 was pro- 
fessor of mathematics at Northern Indi- 
ana College, at South Bend, Ind., and from 
1865 to 1872 was a bookkeeper in the 
Auditor-General's office at Lansing, Mich., 
and since 1872 has been in the United 
States Pension Bureau, for some time 
past having been a member of the Board 
of Review. During the Civil War he 
served in the Seventh Ohio Volunteer In- 
fantry. He is the author of: Views on 
Vexed Questions; Old Faiths and New 
Facts; The Bronte Sisters, and. Science 
and Prayer. He is a member of the Con- 
gregational Church, and a Republican in 
politics. On October 4, 1864, he married 
Mary Jewell. Residence: East Falls 
Church, Virginia. Office: Pension Bu- 
reau, 

KIPP, GEORGE WASHINGTON, 

banker, Congressman, was born in 
Pike County, Pennsylvania, on March 
28, 1847. He was educated in the pub- 
lic schools, and was engaged in the lum- 
ber business for thirty-five years, retir- 
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ago. In 1888 he served as County Com- 
missioner of Wayne County, Pennsylva- 
nia. He is president of the First National 
Bank of Towanda, Penn., and of several 
water works companies and street car 
lines in various parts of Pennsylvania. 
He was elected to the Sixtieth Congress, 
as a Democrat, in November, 1906. Legal 
residence: Towanda, Penn. Washington 
address: House of Representatives. 

KIRK, HYLAND BLAIR, inventor and 
journalist, was born near Rochester, New 
York, on March 8, 1846, son of David and 
Margaret (Underbill) Kirk. He began 
life as a school teacher, then a student 
at Canandaigua (N. Y.) Academy ant! 
Amherst College; principal of the Phelps 
Classical School, and School Commis- 
sioner in Ontario, N. Y. He has written 
a history, called. Heavy Guns and Light, 
relating to the Fourth New York Heavy 
Artillery, of which he was Second Lieu- 
tenant, and commanded the picket line 
of the brigade, Second Army Corps, on 
April 2, 1865, When the enemy's line.-; 
were broken. In thp Spanish War he 
was clerk in the Pay Corps froim 1898 
to 1902, the last two years being spenr 
in 'the Philippines, where he was corre- 
spondent of the National Tribune, and 
other papers. He is a member of vari- 
ous Masonic and literary societies of 
Washington; was president of the Short 
Story Club for two years, and of the Sec- 
ular League for the same period. His in- 
ventions include: The Pregraded Method 
of Instruction, for teaching classifled 
science; Zoologic Mist; Thermometers 
for Reading Temperature at a Distance, 
and has written articles on devices in 
aeuronautics for the Engineering Maga- 
zine and the Cosmopolitan, and has con- 
tributed to the Popular Science 'Monthly, 
the Open Court, Outing, Life, and other 
papers. In 1905 he was elected a fellow 
of the American Association for the Ad- 
vancement of Science. Author of: When 
Age Grows Young; The Revolt of the 
Brutes, and, Vladimir, the Mystic; also an 
essay, The Possibility of Not Dying, and 
is now engaged on an extensive work, re- 
viewing vital phenomna, called. Physical 
Immortality. Residence: The Plaza 

KIRKPATRICK, GEORGE D., physi- 
cian, was born in Minnesota, in 1877. He 
was graduated from the Northern (Min- 
nesota) Institute of Osteopathy, and was 
•the first physician to bring that method 
of practice to the Atlantic seaboard. Ad- 
dress: Bond Building. 

KITCHIN, CLAUDE, lawyer. Congress- 
man, was born in Halifax County, near 
Scotland Neck, North Carolina, on March 
24, 1869. After graduating from Wake 
Forest College in 1888, began the study 
of law, and was admitted to the bar in 
1890, since when he has been engaged in 
the practice of his profession at Scot- 



land Neck, N. C. He has represented the 
Second North Carolina Congressional Dis- 
trict in tile Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth 
and Fifty-ninth Congresses. Before be- 
ing elected to this office he had never 
previously held any public office. In pol- 
itics he is a Democrat. On November 13, 
1888, he married Kate Mills. Legal resi- 
dence: Scotland Neck, N. C. Washing- 
ton address: House of Representatives. 

KITCHIN, WILLIAM WALTON, law- 
yer. Congressman, was born near Scot- 
land Neck, North Carolina, on October 
9, 1866. He attended the Vine Hill Acad- 
emy and Wake Forest College, graduat- 
ing from the latter institution in 1884. 
In 1885 he edited the Scotland Neck Dem- 
ocrat, after which he took up the study 
of law under his father, the late Hon. 
W. H. Kitchin, and Hon. John Manning, 
and was admitted to the bar in 1887, and 
located at Roxboro in 1888, where he has 
since been engaged in the practice of his 
profession. In 1900 he was chairman of 
the Democratic County Executive Com- 
mittee, and was his party's nominee for 
the State Senate in 1892. He has repre- 
sented the Fifth North Carolina Congres- 
sional District in the Pifty-flfth, Fifty- 
sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth and the 
Fifty-ninth Congresses. In 1892 he mar- 
ried Musette Satterfield. Legal residence: 
Roxboro, N. C. Washington address: 
House of Representatives. 

KITTREDGE, ALFRED BEARD, law- 
yer. United States Senator, was born in 
Cheshire County, New Hampshire, on 
March 28, 1861. He was graduated from 
Yale in 1882, entered the law department 
of the same institution, graduating in 
1885, after which he began the practice 
of law at Sioux Falls, South Dakota, 
where he has since i:esided. On July 11, 
1901, he was appointed to the United 
States Senate from South Dakota, to fill 
the vacancy caused by the death of the 
Hon. James H. Kyle, and in 1903 was re- 
elected to succeed himself. His present 
term of office will expire on March 3, 1909. 
Legal residence: Sioux Falls, S. D. Wash- 
ington address: U. S. Senate. 

KLEMM, LOUIS RICHARD, educator, 
was born in Dusseldorf, Germany, on De- 
cember 8, 1845. He attended the schools 
in Ousseldorf, and came to America in 
1866; graduated from a normal school, 
and received a Ph. D. degree from De 
Pauw University. He taught school in 
Indianapolis and Detroit; was assistant 
superintendent of schools in Cleveland, 
Ohio; principal of a German Normal 
School in Cincinnati; superintendent of 
schools in Hamilton, Ohio, and principal 
of a technical scnool In Cincinnati. Since 
1889 he has been a government specialist 
in foreign education. He is the author 
of a number of books, most of which are 
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of a nunmber of government bulletins. 
Residence: 919 B street, n.e. Office: U. 
S. Bureau of Education. 

KLEPPER, FRANK B., lawyer, Con- 
gressman, was born in St. John, Putnam 
County, Missouri, on June 22, 1864. At 
the age of one year he removed with his 
parents to Mirabile, Caldwell County, Mis- 
souri, where he lived for ten years, re- 
moving to Clinton County, Missouri, 
where he grew to manhood on a farm 
He was educated at home, took a normal 
course at Baker University, Baldwin City. 
Kansas, and taught school for two years. 
He later read law under Hon. Frank B. 
Ellis, of Plattsburg, Missouri, and after- 
wards was graduated from the law de- 
partment of the Missouri State Univer- 
sity, and began the practice of law a: 
Polo, Caldwell County, Missouri. In 1900 
he was elected to the office of Prosecuting 
Attorney of Caldwell County, and wa.s 
re-elected for the term ending January 
1, 1905. He was elected to the Fifty-ninch 
Congress from the Third Missouri Dis- 
trict, and re-elected to the Sixtieth Con- 
gress. Republican. On November 30. 
1893, he married Lela Madden, of Clinton 
County, Missouri. Legal residence: Kings- 
ton, Mo. Washington address: House of 
Representatives. 

KLINE, JACOB, army officer, was born 
in Pennsylvania, on November 5, 1840, 
son of Levi and Belle M. (Ebert) Kline. 
At the outbreak of the Civil "War he en- 
listed in the Union Army from Pennsyl- 
vania, being appointed First Lieutenant 
of 'the Sixteenth Infantry; promoted to 
Captain in 1864; Major of the Twenty- 
fourth Infantry in 1887; Lieutenant-Col- 
onel of the Ninth Infantry in 1892, and 
Colonel of the Twenty-first Infantry in 
1897. He served throughout the Civil 
War and was brevetted three times for 
gallant services rendered. At the out- 
break of the Spanish War he was ap- 
pointed Brigadier-General of Volunteers, 
and on March 15, 1899, he was discharged 
from the volunteer service. He is a mem- 
ber of the S. A. R., G. A. R., Loyal Le- 
gion, Army of the Cumberland, Regular 
Brigade, and the Fourteenth Army Corps. 
On October 4, 1871, he married, at Zanes- 
ville, Ohio, Leila Cassel. Address: War 
Department. 

KLINE, MARCUS C. L., lawyer. Con- 
gressman, was born in Lehigh County, 
Pa., on March 26, 1855. After attend- 
ing the schools in the borough of Emanus. 
Pennsylvania, he entered Muhlenburg 
College, and was graduated in 1874, after 
which he took up the study of law, and 
was admitted to practice In the court 
of Lehigh County in 1876, and was admit- 
ted to the superior courts the following 
year. In 1877 he was elected City Solic- 
itor of Allentown, Penn., and from 1887 
to 1890 was District Attorney for Lehlgii 



County. From 1895 to 1899 he w-as chair- 
man of the Democratic County Committee 
of Lehigh County. He represented the 
Thirteenth Pennsylvania Congressional 
District in the Fifty-eighth and Fifty- 
ninth Congresses. Legal residence: Allen- 
town, Penn. Washington address: House 
of Representatives. 

KLOCK, RAYMOND ADAMS, electrical 
engineer, was born at Charleston, Tioga 
County, Pennsylvania, on December 14, 
1875. He attended the Wellsboro (Pa.) 
High School, graduating in 1892, and later 
attended Pennsylvania State College, 
graduating with the degree of B. E. in 
1896, since when he has been in the engi- 
neering department of the New York and 
New Jersey Telephone Connpany and the 
Pennsylvania Railroad. At the present 
time he is an electrical engineer in the 
United States Signal Service-at-large, 
stationed in the office of the Chief Signal 
Officer of the Army. During the Spanish- 
American War he enlisted as a volunteer 
electrician in the Navy. He is a member 
of the American Society of Electrical En- 
gineers, and the National Geographic So- 
ciety. He is a member of the Roman 
Catholic Church, and, on June 9, 1902, 
married Helen Frances Lewis. Residence: 
1466 Chapin street, n.w. Office: Lemon 
Building. 

KNAPP, CHARLES LUMAN, lawyer. 
Congressman, was born at Harrisburg, 
New York, on July 4, 1847. After attend- 
ing Lowville (N. Y.) Academy, he en- 
tered Rutgers College, at New Brunswick, 
N. J., graduating with the class of 1869, 
after which he took up the study of law, 
and was admitted to the bar at Low- 
ville, N. Y., in 1873, where lie has since 
been engaged in the practice of his pro- 
fession. He was a member of the New 
York State Senate from 1885 to 1887, and 
in 1889 was appointed by President Har- 
rison as Consul-General to Montreal, 
where he served until 1893, when he re- 
turned to his home to again take up the 
practice of law. He was elected to the 
Fifty-seventh Congress bo fill the va- 
cancy caused by the death of the Hon. 
A. B. Shaw, and was re-elected to the 
Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth 
Congresses from the Twenty-eighth New 
York Congressional District. In politics 
he is a Republican. On June 26, 1887, 
he married Sarah Dorrance, of Oneida 
Castle, N. Y. Legal residence: Lowville, 
N. Y. Washington address: House of 
Representatives. 

KNAPP, MARTIN AUGUSTINE, law- 
yer, and member of the Interstate Com- 
merce Commission, was born at SpafCord. 
Onondaga County, New York, on Novem- 
ber 6, 1843, son of Justus Norton and 
Polly (McKay) Knapp. He was educated 
in the Homer Academy, Cazenovia Semi- 
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Ing from the latter Institution in 1868, 
and holds the honorary degree of A, M. 
from Syracuse University, 1892, and, LL. 
D., from Wesleyan, 1892. For a number 
of years he was engaged in the practice 
of law at Syracuse, N. Y., but since 1891 
has been a member of the Interstate 
Commerce Commission, and chairman of 
that body since 1898. He is the author 
of a number of articles and addresses, 
that have appeared In the leading maga- 
zines and dally newspapers. He is a 
member of tbe Cosmos Club of Washing- 
ton; University and Citizens' Clubs ot 
Syracuse, and 'the Union League, City, 
and Transportation Clubs of New York 
City, and, In politics, is a Republican. He 
is an attendant of the Unitarian Church, 
and, on December 29, 1869, he married 
Marian Hotchklss, of Mlddletown, Conn., 
who died on December 4, 1904. On Au- 
gust 10, 1907, he married Mrs. Nellie 
Maynard Gardner. Residence: Stonelelgh 
Court. Office: Interstate Commerce Com- 
mission. 

KNIFFIN, GILBERT CRAWFORD, 

government official, was born at Le- 
Roy, Genessee County, New York, on 
October 10, 1831, son of Rev. William C. 
and Catherine (Ward) Knlffln. His edu- 
cation was obtained in the public schools 
of Michigan and Ohio. He Is now engaged 
as chief of division in the Bureau of Pen- 
sions. He served in the Civil War with 
the Army of the Cumberland. He is 
the author of a history of the State 
'Of Kentucky and has contributed ar- 
ticles to magazines and newspapers. 
He is president of the Takoma 
Park Citizens' Association; a mem- 
ber of the Knights of Pythias; Loyal Le- 
gion; Sons of the American Revolution; 
Grand Army of the Republic; Massachu- 
setts Historical Society, and is a Repub- 
lican In politics. He is a member of the 
Foundry Methodist Episcopal Church, and 
on August 5, 1852, he married Louisa Jane 
Shaw. Residence: Takoma Park, D. C. 
Office: U. S. Bureau of Pensions. 

KNIGHT, HERVEY, patent lawyer, was 
born In Georgetown, D. C, on January 
8, 1866. After attending the Washington 
public schools he entered the law depart- 
ment of Georgetown University, from 
which Institution he was graduated. He 
was admitted to the bar of the District 
of Columbia, and later to the United 
Staites Supreme Court, since wlien he has 
devoted his entire time to the practice 
of patent law. He is now the proprietor 
of Knight Bros., patent attorneys, and 
during its existence has handled many 
large litigation cases for the Krupp Gun 
Works, of Essen, Germany. He is an as- 
sociate member of the American Society 
of Mechanical Engineers, and a member 
of the Washington Patent Law Associa- 
tion, etc. Residence: 7208 Plney Branch 
Road, Takoma Park, D. C. Office: McGiil 
Building. 



KNOPF, PHILIP, Congressman, was 
born on a farm in Lake County, Illinois, 
on November 18, 1847. At the outbreak 
of the Civil War he enlisted in the One 
Hundred and Forty-seventh Regiment, 
Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and served 
until the regiment was mustered out of 
service at Savannah, Ga. In 1866 he re- 
turned to Chicago, where he attended 
Bryant & Stratton's College for one year, 
after which he engaged in the teaming 
business until 1884. He was elected to 
the State Senate in 1886, and was re- 
elected in 1890, and later served as 
County Clerk of Cook County, Illinois, and 
in 1896 was a delegate to the National 
Republican Convention in St. Louis. He 
has represented the Seventh 'Illinois Con- 
gressional District in the Fifty-eighth and 
Fifty-ninth Congresses, and has been re- 
elected to the Sixtieth Congress. On De- 
cember 23, 1880, he married Carrie Fehl- 
man, of Lake County, Illinois. Legal ad- 
dress: Chicago, 111. Washington address: 
House of Representatives. 

KNOWLAND, JOSEPH RUSSELL, 

Congressman, was born at Alameda, 
California, on August 5, 1873. He was 
educated in the public and private schools 
of his native town, and In the University 
of the Pacific, after which he entered the 
lumbering business with his father, which 
business he is still Interested in. At the 
age of twenty-five he was elected to the 
State Legislature, with which body he 
served three terms, and later was elected 
to the Senate, resigning in 1904. He was 
nominated to fill out the unexpired term 
in the Fifty-eighth Congress of Hon. Vic- 
tor H. Metcalf, who was appointed Sec- 
reary of Commerce and Labor, and was 
re-elected to the Fifty-ninth Congress, 
and also to the Sixtieth Congress, from 
the Third California Congressional Dis- 
trict. In politics he is a Republican. Le- 
gal residence: Alameda, Cal. Washington 
address: House of Representatives. 

KNOWLTON, FRANK HALL, botanist, 
was born at Brandon, Vermont, on Sep- 
tember 2, 1860. He attended Middlebury 
(Vt.) College, graduating, B. S., 1884; M. 
S., 1887, and received a Ph. D. degree from 
Columbian (now George Washington) 
University in 1896. He became an aide in 
the United States National Museum in 
1884; was promoted to assistant curator 
of botany in 1887; from 1889 to 1890, as- 
sistant palaeontologist, and since 1900 has 
been palaeontologist in the United States 
Geological Survey. From 1887 to 1896 
he was professor of botany at Columbian 
(now George Washington) University. He 
has been assistant editor of the Century, 
Standard, and Webster's Dictionaries, 
writing the definitions In botany. He Is 
the author of a number <ot 'books of a 
scientific nature, and bulletins that have 
been issued by the Government, and Is 
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ber of the Cosmos Club, ana many lead- 
ing scientific societies of the country. He 
has been twice married; first, to Annie 
F. Moorhead, who died in 1890, and, sec- 
ond, to Rena G. Ruff, on October 3, 1892. 
Residence: Laurel, Md. Office: U. S. 
National Museum. 

KNOX, HARRY, naval officer, was born 
in Ohio, and was graduated from the 
United States Naval Academy in 1867. 
He was promoted to the ranlc of Com- 
.mander in October, 1896, and Captain on 
September 22, 1901, commanding the The- 
tis, 1894-96; Princeton, 1899; Concord, 
1899-1901, later commanding the Pacific 
Naval Defense District, and the U. S. S. 
Brooklyn, 1903. Address: Navy Depart- 
ment. 

KNOX, PHILANDER CHASE, lawyer. 
United States Senator, was born at 
Brownsville, Penn., on May 6, 1853, son 
of David S. and Rebekah (Page) Knox. 
He was graduated from Mount Union Col- 
lege, at AllLance, Ohio, in 1872, after which 
he took up the study of law in the officc 
of H. B. Swope, at Pittsburg, Penn., and 
was admi'tted to the bar in 1875. In 1876 
he was Assistant United States District 
Attorney for the Western District of 
Pennsylvania, and in 1897 was elected 
president of the Pennsylvania Bar Asso- 
ciation. In 1901 he was appointed Attor- 
ney-General in President McKinley's Cab- 
inet, to succeed John William Griggs, of 
New Jersey, who had resigned, and served 
in President Roosevelt's Cabinet until 
1904, when he resigned to accept the ap- 
pointment of United States Senator, ten- 
dered by Governor Pennypacker, to fill 
out the unexpired term of M. S. Quay, 
of Pennsylvania, who died. In 1905 he 
was elected by the Legislature to suc- 
ceed himself in the Senate, and his pres- 
ent term of office will expire on March 
3, 1911. Legal residence: Pittsburg, 
Penn. Washington residence: 1527 K 
street, n.w. 

KNOX, WILLIAM S., President of the 
George W. Knox Express Company, son 
of George W. Knox, was born in Vermont, 
and graduated from Swarthmore College 
(Penn.). In 1861 he entered the service 
of the George W. Knox Express Company, 
was promoted to general manager in 1892, 
and since 1894 has been president of the 
company. In addition to his connection 
with the Knox Express Company, he is 
prominently identified with a number of 
other business enterprises in Washington. 
He is a Knight Templar, and a member 
of many other fraternal organizations, 
and the Sons of the American Revolution, 
Society of Colonial Wars, etc. Residence. 
1804 New Hampshire avenue, n.w. Office: 
1417 Pennsylvania avenue, n.w. 

KOBBE, WILLIAM A., army ofl[icer, 
was born in New York, on May 10, 1840, 



son of William A. and Sarah Lord (Sis- 
tare) Kibbe. He was educated at Wies- 
baden, Germany, until 1857; studied min- 
ing engineering, Freiberg and Clausthal, 
Germany, until 1862; was graduated 
from the United States Artillery School 
in 1873; served in the Civil War, 1862- 
65, and in the Spanish-American War in 
the Philippines. He has been a Major 
of the Third United States Artillery and 
a Brigadier-General, United States Army, 
am Military Governor of the Hemp ports 
and of Mindanao and Jolo. From 1885 to 
1896 he was an instructor at the United 
States Artillery School, and commanded 
the Department of Dakota, 1902-04. Was 
married, at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, 
June 26, 1867, to Isabella Hoffman. Ad- 
dress: War Department. 

KOBER, GEORGE MARTIN, physi- 
cian, surgeon, was born at Alsfield, Ger- 
many, March 28, 1850. He attended the 
public and high schools of his native 
town, and after coming to America en- 
tered the Georgetown University Medical 
School, graduating with the class of 1873, 
and took a post-graduate course in the 
same institution the following year. In 
1874 he was appointed Acting Assistant 
Surgeon, U. S. Army, and also practiced 
his profession in California. In 1889 he 
returned to Washington and was appoint- 
ed professor of hygiene in the George- 
town Medical School, and has been dean 
of that school since 1900. He has served 
as consulting physician to the Central 
Dispensary and Emergency, Children's, 
Georgetown University, Providence, and 
Washington Asylum Hospitals. In 1895 
he was special medical examiner to Inves- 
tigate the cause of typhoid fever in the 
District of Columbia, and was awarded 
a gold medal at the Paris Exposition in 
1900 for work in connection with the 
housing of wage earners. He is the au- 
thor of a number of papers of a scien- 
tific nature. He is a member of the Cos- 
mos Club and leading scientific societies. 
Residence: 1600 T street, n.w. 

KOUDACHEFF, NICHOLAS, First 
Secretary, Russian Embassy. Resi- 
dence: 824 Eighteenth street, n.w. 

KRAEMER, CHARLES, Vice-President 
Merchants' and Mechanics' Savings Bank. 
Residence: 1841 Park Road. Business ad- 
dress: 735 Seventh street, n.w. 

KROUPENSKY, Chamberlain to H. M. 
the Emperor of Russia, Counselor of Rus- 
sian Embassy. Residence: The Port- 
land. 

KRUGG, JAMES E,, clergyman, assist- 
ant rector of St. Paul's Catholic Church. 
Residence: 1425 V street, n.w. 

KUBEL, STEPHEN JOSEPH, chief 
engraver. United States Geological Sur- 
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Washington, D. C, on April 2, 1858, son 
of Edward and Josephine Kubel. He was 
educated at Gonzaga College, 1865-74, and 
at Scharwenka Conservatory of Music, 
Berlin, Prussia, Germany. Was in the 
hydragraphic office, Navy Department, 
1878-83; cartographic division, Prussian 
General's Staff, Berlin, 1883-85, when he 
again returned to the United States 
Hydrographic Office. He has been an or- 
ganist in prominent Catholic Churche.' 
in Washington since 1880. Member of 
the Washington Academy of Science, the 
National Geographic Society, and of the 
Cosmos and Saengerbund Clubs. Was 
married, at Berlin, Germany, July 5, 1884, 
to Louise Griffith, of Delaware. Resi- 
dence: 1000 East Capitol street. 

KUSTERMAN, GUSTAV, capitalist. 
Congressman, was born in Detmold, 
Germany, on May 24, 1850, son of Carl 
Kustermann. He was graduated from the 
Detmold Academy when fourteen years 
of age, and in 1868 emigrated to the 



United States, settling in Green Bay, Wis- 
consin, where he has since resided. Until 
1872 he was employed as a bookkeeper 
in the Green Bay Advocate office, later 
starting in business for himself in the 
stationery and musical instrument busi- 
ness. From 1892 to 1896 he served as 
postmaster of Green Bay; has been a 
member of the City Council; City Treas- 
urer, and member of the Town Board. 
In 1901 he was appointed a member of 
the State Board of Control, and was 
elected president of the same board in 
1904. He is a director of the Citizens' 
National Bank at Green Bay, Wis.; vice- 
president of the Green Bay Cornice and 
Corrugating Company, and is connected 
with the Green Bay Paper and Fiber 
Company. In November, 1906, he was 
elected a member of the Sixtieth Con- 
gress from the Ninth Wisconsin District, 
as a Republican. In 1875 he married 
Emma Schellenbeck, of Green Bay, Wis. 
Legal residence: Green Bay, Wis. Wash- 
ington address: House of Representa- 
tives. 



LACEY, JOHN FLETCHER, lawyer, 
ville, West Virginia, on May 30, 1841. 
son of John M. and Eleanor (Patten) 
Lacey. His grandfather was also named 
John M., and was descended from Spen- 
cer Lacey, who served as a soldier in the 
War of the Revolution, from Delaware. 
The parents of John F. moved to Iowa 
in 1855, where they located on a farm 
near Oskaloosa. His early education was 
limited to the public schools of tnat day, 
but was afterwards improved by study 
in private schools and persistent study 
in after life. He was compelled, by lack 
of means and the time spent in the 
army, to forego the advantages of a col- 
legiate education. He worked on his 
father's farm, and also learned the trade 
of bricklaying. When the Civil War be- 
gan he enlisted in Company H, Third 
Iowa Infantry, and immediately went into 
active service. At the battle of Blue Mills 
he suffered capture, but subsequently ob- 
tained his release on parole, was dis- 
charged, and returned home to begin the 
study of law with Hon. Samuel A. Rice, 
then Attorney-General of Iowa. After be- 
ing exchanged in 1862, he re-enlisted in 
Company D, Thirty-t'hird Iowa Volunteers, 
ot which regiment his preceptor was ap- 
pointed Colonel. He was soon promoted 
to Sergeant-Major and then to First Lieu- 
tenant of Company C, and afterwards way 
appointed Assistant Adjutant-General on 
the staff of Brigadier-General Samuel A. 
Rice, serving in that position until the 
death of his chief, and afterwards was 
assigned to duty on the staff of Major- 
General Frederick Steele until the close 



of the war. He also participated in the 
battles of Helena, Little Rock, Terrenoir, 
Poison Springs, Elkins' Ford, Prairie 
d'Anne, Camden, Jenkins' Ferry, and 
Blakely. After the war he finished his 
law studies and was admitted to practice 
in the courts of Iowa in 1865. Four years 
later he was elected a member of the 
Iowa State Legislature, serving one term, 
and subsequently filled the office of City 
Solicitor for Oskaloosa. In 1888 he was 
elected to the Fifty-first Congress from 
the Sixth Iowa District, and was re- 
elected to all subsequent Congresses, in- 
cluding the Fifty-ninth. In 1898 he was 
temporary chairman of the Republican 
State Convention of Iowa. During his 
career in Congress he was particularly 
identified with the committees on Elec- 
tions, Indian Affairs, Reform in the Civi! 
Service, and Public Lands, of which lat- 
ter committee he was chairman for 
twelve years. He has taken a deep in- 
terest in national parks, archaeology, in 
the preservation of the forests, birds and 
animals of the country, and is the au- 
thor of numerous important laws on these 
subjects. He is also the author of Lacey's 
Railway Digest, and of Lacey's Third Iowa 
Digest. He married Martha J. Newell, 
of Oskaloosa, Iowa, on September 19, 
1865, and has two living children. Legal 
residence: Oskaloosa, Iowa. Washington 
address: The Riggs. 

LACKEY, JAMES B., Secretary of the 
Washington Railway and Electric Com- 
pany. Residence: 1725 Lamont street, 
n.w. Office: Fourteenth and East Cap- 
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LAFAEN, DANIEL FRANKLIN, Con- 
gressman, was born at York, Pennsylva- 
nia, on February 7, 1861. After attending' 
tiie public and high schools of his home 
city 'he engaged in the manufacturing 
business, and lias since been connected 
with many of the prominent manufac- 
turing concerns of his city. In addition 
to his manufacturing business, he is pres- 
ident of the Security Title and Trust 
Company, of York, Penn. ; a director of 
Gettysburg College, and a trustee of 
Gettysburg Seminary. He has represented 
the Twentieth Pennsylvania Congres- 
sional District in the Fifty-eighth and 
Fifty-ninth Congresses, and has been re- 
elected to the Sixtieth Congress. In poli- 
tics he is a Republican. In 1882 he mar- 
ried Emma B. Krone, and is the father 
of three children. Legal residence: York, 
Penn. Washington address: House of 
Representatives. 

LAFINUR, LUIS MELIAN, Envoy Ex- 
traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary 
from Uruguay to the United States. Ad- 
dress: 1529 Rhode Island avenue. 

LA FLESCHE, FRANCIS, government 
official, was born on the Omaha Indian 
Reservation, in Nebraska, about 1860, 
son of Joseph La Flesche, who was for- 
merly chief of the Omaha tribe. He at- 
tended the Presbyterian Mission School 
on the Omaha Reservation, and was later 
graduated from the National University 
Law School, in Washington. He has con- 
tributed many articles of a scientific na- 
ture to magazines, and is the author of 
The Middle Five, and is a joint author 
of The Omaha Indian Music, which was 
published by the Peabody Museum of 
Harvard University. Since 1881 he has 
been connected with the United States 
Indian Bureau. He is a fellow of the 
American Association for the Advance- 
ment of Science. Residence: 214 First 
street, s.e. Office: U. S. Indian Bureau. 

LA FOLLETTE, ROBERT MARION, 

lawyer. United States Senator, was born 
at Primrose, Dane County, Wisconsin, on 
June 14, 1855. He was graduated from 
the State University of Wisconsin with 
the class of 1879, after which he took 
up the study of law, and was admitted 
to the bar in 1880. In 1880 he was elected 
District Attorney of Dane County, Wis- 
consin, and was re-elected in 1882; served 
as a member of the Fiftieth and Fifty- 
first Congresses, and was defeated for re- 
election in 1890. In 1896 he was a dele- 
gate from the Second Congressional Dis- 
trict of Wisconsin to the National Re- 
publican Convention held in St. Louis, 
and was a delegate-at-large to the con- 
vention held in Chicago in 1904. He was 
elected Governor of the State of Wiscon- 
sin in 1900, 1902, 1904, and was elected 
to the United 'States Senate, to succeed 
Joseph Very Quarles, in 1905, taking his 



seat on January 4, 1906. His term of office 
in the Senate will expire March 3, 1911. 
Legal residence: Madison, Wis. Wash- 
ing-ton address: U. S. Senate. 

LAGERCRANT2, HERMAN LUDVIG 
FABIAN, de. Envoy Extraordinary and 
Minister Plenipotentiary from Sweden to 
the United States, was born in Stock- 
holm, Sweden, on July 29, 1859, son of 
C. G. and Augusta Zethelius Lagercrantz, 
his father having been Secretary of 
Finance. After obtaining his preparatory 
education in the private schools of his 
native city, he entered Stockholm Uni- 
versity, from w'hich he was graduated. He 
has seen five years' military service at 
Stockholm, as Lieutenant, and before en- 
tering the diplomatic service he was 
engaged in superintending his own es- 
tate, and iron works, etc. He is presi- 
dent of several iron and railway com- 
panies in his native country, and has 
been a member of the royal committee 
for reorganizing the state railways and 
telegraph in Sweden. He has always 
la'ken a great interest in philanthropic 
work; 'has furnished buildings for a 
number of branches of the Salvation 
Army, and other religious organizations, 
being an honorary Colonel of the Salva- 
tion Army. He is a member of the Lu- 
theran Church; a Knight of the Polar 
Star, and an honorary member of the 
Metropolitan Club in Washington. In 
1886 he married Hedvig de Croneborg, of 
Ostanas, Wermland, Sweden, to which 
union have been born seven children, all 
of whom are living. Home: Wirsbo, 
Sweden. Wasliington address: Legation 
of Sweden. 

LAMAR, EDWARD H., clergyman, 
pastor of the Wilson Memorial Independ- 
ent Methodist Episcopal Church. Resi- 
dence: 756 Eleventh street, s.e. 

LAMAR, ROBERT, lawyer. Congress- 
man, was born at Edgar Springs, Phelps 
County, Missouri, on March 28, 1866, son 
of Charles T. and Nancy J. Lamar. Hi.> 
early education was received in the com- 
mon schools of Phelps County, Missouri, 
after which he attended the Licking 
(Mo.) Academy. He read law, and was 
admitted to the Missouri bar in May, 
1889. From 1891 to 1895 he was Prose- 
cuting Attorney of Texas County, Mis- 
souri. In 1894 he was chairman of the 
Democratic Congressional Committee for 
the Thirteenth Missouri District; pres- 
idential elector of the Thirteenth Missouri 
District in 1896. He was a member of 
Congress from the Sixteenth Missouri. 
Congressional District from 1903 to 1905. 
and in November, 1906, he was elected 
a member of the Sixtieth Congress from 
the same district. In politics he is a 
Democrat. He married Jennie Rice, Octo- 
ber 10, 1889, at Licking, Mo. Member of 
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Legal residence: Houston, Mo. "Wash- 
ington address: House of Representa- 
tives. 

LAMAR, WILLIAM BAILEY, lawyer, 
Congressman, was born in Jefferson 
County, Florida, on June 12, 1853, son 
of Colonel Thiomas B. and Sarah B. (Bai- 
ley) Lamar. He obtained his education 
at the Jefferson Academy, at Monticello, 
Fla.; attended the University of Georgia, 
and later the Cumberland University Law 
School, at Lebanon, Tenn., graduating in 
1875. For a short time he was a junio" 
law partner of Hon ("Private") John M. 
Allen, in Tupelo, Miss.; in 1876 he was 
admitted to practice in the State of Flor- 
ida, and was soon after admitted to the 
Supreme Court of the United States. In 
1877 he was elected Cleric of the Circuit 
Court of Jefferson County, Florida, and 
from 1883 to 1886 was Judge of the same 
county, and was elected a member of the 
State Legislature in 1886, where he de- 
clined the honor of Spsalcer of that body. 
He was elected Attorney-General for 
Florida, serving four terms of four years 
each, and has represented the Third Flor- 
ida Congressional District in the Fifty- 
eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses, and 
has been re-elected to the Sixtieth Con- 
gress. In politics he is a Democrat. He 
married a daughter of Robert Boyte Toy, 
of Monticello, Fla. Legal residence: Mon- 
ticello, Fla. Washington address: House 
of Representatives. 

LAMB, DANIEL SMITH, physician, 
was born in Philadelphia, Penn., on May 
20, 1843, son of Jacob Matlack and Deli- 
lah Mick (Rose) Lamb. He was educated 
in the public schools of that city, and 
graduated, as A. B., in 1859, at the Cen- 
tral High School; A. M., 1864. Graduated 
in medicine, 1867, from the Georgetown 
Medical School. Served in the Eighty- 
first Pennsylvania Volunteers and as hos- 
pital steward and Acting Assistant Sur- 
geon, U. S. A., from 1861 to 1892. Is 
pathologist at the Army Medical Museum 
and Freedmen's Hospital, District of Co- 
lumbia; has made many autopsies, nota- 
bly, on President Garfield, his assassin, 
and on Vice-President Henry Wilson; for 
some time professor of pathology. United 
States College of Veterinary Surgeons, 
Washington; is professor of anatomy, 
Howard Medical School; one of the ex- 
aminers for registration for the District 
of Columbia; chairman Editorial Commit- 
tee, Washington Medical Annals, and of 
Historical Committee of the Medical So- 
ciety, District of Columbia; treasurer of 
the Woman's Clinic, Washington; ex- 
president of the Medical Society, of the 
Washington Anthropological Society, and 
of the Association of Acting Assistant 
Surgeons, U. S. A.; fellow of the Amer- 
ican Association for the Advancement of 
Science; ex- Vice-President of Washington 
Academy of Sciences, and Association of 



Amerian Anatomists; member of other 
scientific societies. Author of many mon- 
ographs and articles in medical and other 
scientific journals, and of a History of 
the Medical Department of Howard Uni- 
versity. Twice married, first, to Eliza- 
beth Scott, of Philadelphia, May 20, 1868; 
next, to Isabel Haslup, of Washington, 
July 3, 1899; two living children — Dr. 
Robert Scott Lamb and Lillie Fraley 
Lamb Carney, of Washington. Residence: 
2114 Eighteenth street, n.w. 

LAMB, ISABEL HASLUP (Mrs.), phy- 
sician, was born at Laurel, Prince George 
County, Md., September 16, 1864, daugh- 
ter of Jonathan W. and Susannah (Hir- 
rison) Haslup. Her early education was 
obtained in the public schools of Mary- 
land, the Maryland State Normal School, 
and by private tutors. She later attend- 
ed the Howard University Medical School, 
graduating in 1897. She has been as- 
sistant in gynecology in Freedman's Hos- 
pital; is a medical inspector of public 
schools; a member of the executive com- 
mittee of the Colored Orphan's Home, and 
of the board of directors of Woman's 
Clinic. She is a member of the Medical 
Association and the Medical Society of 
the District of Columbia, and the Thera- 
peutic Society. On July 3, 1899, she was 
married to Dr. D. S. Lamb, and is a mem- 
ber of the Methodist Episcopal Chutch. 
Residence: 2114 Eighteenth street, n.w. 

LAMB, JOHN, Congressman, was born 
in Sussex County, Virginia, on June 12, 
1840, and was educated by his father, who 
was the teacher of a private school. Dur- 
ing the Civil War he served with the 
Third Virginia Cavalry, and was in com- 
mand of a company for three years. After 
the war he engaged in business, and he 
served as Sheriff, Treasurer, and Sur- 
veyor of his county. He has represented 
the Third Virginia Congressional District 
in the Fifty-fifth and subsequent Con- 
gresses. In politics he is a Democrat. 
Legal residence: Richmond, Va. Wash- 
ington address: House of Representa- 
tives. 

LAMBERT, TALLMADGE AUGUS- 
TINE, lawyer, was born in Madison, Wis- 
consin, on December 20, 1842. He attended 
Georgetown University, graduating in 
1862, and later attended the Columbian 
(now George Washington) University 
Law School, graduating in 1869, and the 
honorary degree of LL. D. has been con- 
ferred upon him. In 1869 he was admit- 
ted to the bar of the District of Colum- 
bia, since when he has been connected 
with many leading cases in the Supreme 
Court of the United States, and since 
1893 has been professor of civil law in 
the Georgetown University Law School. 
In addition to his law practice, he is 
identified with a number of business en- 
terprises in the city, among them being 
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Ice Company, Lincoln National Bank, ecc. 
He Is a member of the Board of Trade, 
American Bar Association, Bar Associa- 
tion of the District of Columbia, Geo- 
graphic Society, and the Columbia His- 
torical Society. On April 30, 1870, he 
married Avarilla Van Rlswick, in Wash- 
ington. Residence; 2209 Massachusetts 
avenue, n.w. Office: 410 Fifth street, n.w. 

LAMBERT, WILTON J., lawyer, was 
born in Washington, in 1871, son of Tall- 
madge A. Lambert. His preparato y edu- 
cation was obtained at the Emerson In- 
stitute, in Washington, after which he 
entred Princeton University, graduating 
with the class of 1892; entered the law 
department of Georgetown University. 
and was graduated in 1894, being admit- 
ted to the bar of the District of Colum- 
bia the same year. In addition to his 
law practice, he is prominently Identi- 
fied with several leading business enter- 
prises of the city, among them being: 
The Union Savings Bank, National City 
Bank, etc. In 1896 he married Bessie 
Gorman, a daughter of the late Senator 
Arthur P. Gorman. Residence: 1620 S 
street, n.w. Office: 410 Fifth street, n.w. 

LAMBERTON, BENJAMIN PEFFER, 

naval officer, was born in Pennsylvania. 
He attended the United States Naval 
Academy, graduating in 1865; promoted 
to Master in 1866; commissioned Lieu- 
tenant in 1867; Lieutenant-Commander 
in 1868; Commander in 1885, and Cap- 
tain in 1898. He has served on many sta- 
tions and duties; during 1898 he served 
as chief of staff of Admiral Dewey at 
the battle of Manila, and was in command 
of the flagship Olympia. Since 1900 hi, 
has been a member of the Lighthouse 
Board. Address: Navy Department. 

LA MOTHE, JOHN D., Episcopal cler- 
gyman, assistant pastor of the Church 
of the Epiphany. Residence: 1623 K 
street, n.w. 

LAMPTON, JAMES JANES, real es- 
tate, was born at Cedartown, Polk 
County, Georgia, April 16, 1865, son of 
William M. and Janas (Janes) Lamp- 
ton. He was educated in the public 
schools of Cedartown, Georgia, and at the 
Horn Male School, at Cove Spring, Geor- 
gia. In 1886, when but twenty-one years 
of age, he was elected Mayor of his home 
town, serving until 1888. Since removing 
to Washington he has been engaged in 
the real estate business. He is a Mason, 
a Knight of Honor, a Knight of Pythias, 
and, in politics, a Democrat. On Octo- 
ber 28, 1896, he married Amie Lauder 
Ring, and is a member of the First Bap- 
tist Church. Residence: 2016 Wyoming 
avenue, n.w. Office: 615 Fourteenth 
street, n.w. 
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LANDER, EDWARD, jurist, was born 
at Salem, Mass., on August 11, 1816, son 
of Edward and Eliza (West) Lande-. He 
was graduated from Harvard in 1835, A. 
M. in 1838, and LL. B. in 1839. In 1841 
he removed to Indiana, and was prose- 
cuting attorney for eight counties, includ- 
ing Indianapolis. He organized a com- 
pany and se ved for fourteen m^onths as 
Captain of the Fourth Indiana Volunteers 
in the Mexican War. In 1850, Governor 
Wright appointed him, and at the next 
session of the Legislature he was elected 
a Judge in the Court of Common Pleas 
for the full term. On Mach 17, 1853, he 
was appointed Chief Justice of the Su- 
preme (Tourt of Washington Territory by 
President Pierce, but declined renomina- 
tion in 1857, intending to practice law in 
San Francisco, but received an injury to 
his spine from which he did not recover 
for many years. From 1865 to 1870 he 
was counsel for the Hudson Bay Com- 
pany in their case before the Interna- 
tional Commission at Washington, re- 
maining 3t the latter city to practice law. 
He has been president of the Harvard 
Society of Washington fo^r many years. 
Residence: 1903 H street, n.w. 

LAMSON-SCRIBNER, FRANK, bot- 
anist, was born at Cambridgeport, Mas- 
sachusetts, on April 19, 1851, son of Jo- 
seph H. and Ellen E. (Winslow) Lamson. 
He was graduated from the Maine State 
College of Agriculture in 1873; was an 
officer of Girard College, 1876-84; chief 
of vegetable pathology. United States De- 
partment of Agriculture, 1887; chief, di- 
vision agrostology, 1894-1901; chief. In- 
sular Bureau of Agriculture, Philippine 
Islands, 1901-04. Received, January, 1899, 
from the French Minister of Agriculture, 
the Cross of Chevalier du Merite Agri- 
cole; member of Academy of Sciences, 
Philadelphia; Portland (Oregon) Acad- 
emy of Science; corresponding member 
of Buffalo Academy of Science; New 
England Botanical Club, and Torrey 
Botanical Club. Author of a large num- 
ber of books, reports, bulletins and 
pamphlets on grasses, plant diseases, and 
other agricultural subjects. Special agent 
in charge of exhibits Bureau of Plant In- 
dustry, Department of Agriculture, St. 
Louis Exposition, in 1904, and Lewis and 
Clarke Exposition, Portland, Oregon, in 
1905, and chief special agent Jamestown 
Ter-Centennial Exposition, 1907. Was 
married, in 1877, to Ella August New- 
march, of Bangor, Maine. Residence: The 
Westover. Office: Department of Agri- 
culture. 

LANDER, LOUISA (Miss), sculptor, 
was born at Salem, Massachusetts, on 
September 1, 1826, daughter of Edward 
and Eliza (West) Lander. She first be- 
gan art by modeling likenesses of members 
of her family, and later studied in Rome 
under Thomas Crawford. Among her 
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tioned: Today; Galatea; Governor Gore, 
of Massachusetts; Hawthorne; Virginia 
Dare; Undine; Virginia; Evangeline; 
Elizabeth, the Exile of Siberia; Ceres 
Mourning for Proserpina; A Sylph Alight- 
ing; The Captive Pioneer, etc. Residence: 
1608 Nineteenth street, n.w. 

LANDIS, CHARLES BEARY, journal- 
ist, Congressman, was born in Millville, 
Butler County, Ohio, on July 9, 1858, son 
of Abraham H. and Mary L. (Kumler) 
Landis, and grandson of Daniel Kumler 
He is of Anglo-German descent, was ed- 
ucated in the public schools of Logans- 
port, Indiana, and Wabash College, at 
Crawfordsviile, Indiana, from which he 
was graduated in 1883. He immediately 
engaged in newspaper work, and from 
1883 to 1887 edited the Logansport Jour- 
nal. From 1887 to 1897 he was editor 
of the Delphi Journal, and in the latter 
year was elected to the Fifty-fifth Con- 
gress from the Ninth Indiana District. 
and has been re-elected to subsequen. 
Congresses. During 1894 and 1895 he was 
president of the Republican Editorial As- 
sociation of Indiana. He has been much 
in demand as a campaign speaker, and 
has delivered numerous addresses in va- 
rious parts of the country on political and 
economic subjects, and on questions of 
public policy. On October 23, 1887, he 
married Cora B. Chaffin, daughter of J. 
B. Chaffin, of Logansport, Ind. Legal ad- 
dress: Delphi, Ind. Washington address: 
House of Representatives. 

LANDIS, FREDERICK, lawyer, Con- 
gressman, was born at Sevenmile, Butler 
County, Ohio, in 1872, son of Abraham H. 
and Mary (Kumler) Landis. When three 
years of age he removed to Logansport, 
Ind., with his parents, where he was edu- 
cated, and admitted to the bar in 1893. 
He has represented the Eleventh Indiana 
Congressional District in the Fifty-eighth 
and Fifty-ninth Congresses. In politics 
he is a Republican. Legal residence: Lo- 
gansport, Ind. Washington address: House 
of Representatives. 

LANDON, HAL D., journalist, was 
born at Columbus, Ohio, on February 1, 
1862, son of Dr. Chauncey P. and Alara, 
(Slaughter) Landon. He attended the 
public schools, Reynoldsburg (Ohio) Acad- 
emy, and later Oberlin University, after 
which he learned the printing trade. Since 
1879 he has been in the newspaper busi- 
ness, having been telegraph editor of the 
Columbus Press, editorial writer on the 
Columbus Evening Dispatch, managing 
editor of the Fort Wayne Press, and since 
1897 has been political correspondent for 
the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette and 
Commercial Tribune at Washington. In 
1891 he married Edith G. Fairlamb. Res- 
idence: 1352 Park Road, n.w. 



LANE, CLARENCE BRONSON, agri- 
culturist, was born at Killingworth, Mid- 
dlesex County, Connecticut, on January 
6, 1870, son of Johnathan H. and Angenette 
E. (Barnum) Lane. He was educated at 
Storrs Agricultural School, at Storrs, 
Conn., and the Massachusetts Agricul- 
tural College, at Amherst, graduating, B. 
S., in 1895, and received the same degree 
from Boston University. He was for- 
merly assistant agriculturist at Storrs 
(Conn.) Experiment Station; dairy hus- 
bandman at the New Jersey Experiment 
Station, and has been a member of the 
faculty of the Columbian Correspondence 
School, and is now assistant chief of the 
Dairy Division of the United States De- 
partment of Agriculture. He has been a 
lecturer on timely subjects pertaining to 
the dairy industry in different parts of 
the country, at State meetings, etc. He 
is the author of a number of bulletins 
that have been issued by he New Jer- 
sey Experiment Station and the United 
States Agricultural Department, among 
them being: The Cold Storage of Cheese; 
Records of Dairy Cows in the United 
States; Dairy Experiments, etc. He is 
a member of the Phi Kappa Psi frater- 
nity; the Presbyterian Church, and is 
secretary and treasurer of the National 
Association Dairy Instructors and Inves- 
tigators. On August 21, 1901, he married 
Nellie La Rue Lefferts, and is the father 
of two sons. Residence: 4026 Fifth 
street, n.w. Office: Department of Agri- 
culture. 

LANE, FRANKLIN K., member of the 
Interstate Commerce Commission. Res- 
idence: 2132 Wyoming avenue, n.w. Office: 
American National Bank Building. 

LAN GEN BECK, KARL, factory engi- 
neer and specialist in clay products, was 
born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on October 7, 
1861, son of Adolph and Emma (Roelker) 
Langenbeck. He studied under Victor 
Meyer, Zurich and Carl Liebermann, Ber- 
lin, former superintendent of Rookwood 
Pottery, Cincinnati, and originator of 
Rookwood faience and aventurine pot- 
tery glazes. He has been consulting chem- 
ist and manager of several potteries, tile 
and mosaic works. Member of the Amer- 
ican Chemical Society; fellow of the 
American Association for the Advance- 
ment of Science; author of. Chemistry of 
Pottery. He married Mildred Roelker, 
at Washington, D. C, on February 4, 1899. 
Residence: 3038 Highland avenue. Busi- 
ness address: 313 Corcoran Building. 

LANGFITT, WILLIAM CAMPBELL, 

Major, Corps of Engineers, U. S. A., 
was born in Virginia, on August 10, 1860. 
He was admitted to the United States 
Military Academy from Ohio on July 1. 
1878, graduating in 1883, ranking second 
in his class, and also graduated from the 
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He was appointed Second Lieutenant, En- 
gineers, June 13, 1883; First Lieutenant 
September 30, 1884; Captain March 31, 
1895, and Major April 21, 1903. On June 
7, 1898, he was appointed, and, on June 
13, 1898, accepted, the position of Major, 
Second Volunteer Eng-ineers, being hon- 
orably mustered out on May 16, 1899. 
From 1883 to 1886 he was stationed at 
the Engineer School of Application; 1886 
to 1888, Engineer Officer, Department of 
Columbia; 1888 to 1893, at Galveston, 
Texas, as assistant to officer in charge 
of river and harbor works; 1893 to 1895, 
at Cincinnati, Ohio, assistant to officer 
in charge of river and harbor works; 1895 
to 1898, at Willefs Point, New York, in 
command of Company B, Battalion of En . 
gineers, and instructor of electrical engi- 
neering, United States Engineer School 
of Application, and a member of the hoard 
to revise submarine mine system. On May 
28, 1898, he was transferred to the com- 
mand of Company A, Battalion of Engi- 
neers, and ordered to join the expedition 
to the Philippine Islands in the Spanish- 
American War; June 7, 1898, appointed 
Major, Second United States Volunteer 
Engineers, and organized the Third Bat- 
talion of regiment at San Francisco, Cal.; 
July 26, 1898, ordered to Honolulu, H. I., 
and served with battalion as part of 
garrison with the First New York Volun- 
teer Infantry until December, 1898, when 
he assumed command of the United States 
forces in the Hawaiian Islands, the First 
New York Volunteer Infantry having 
been ordered to the United States. Was 
a member of the boards on selection of 
sites for post and general hospital near 
Honolulu, H. I., and for the selection of 
harbor lines. On April 20, 1899, he re- 
turned to San Francisco with Volunteer 
Engineer Battalion. From May 26, 1899, 
to June 17, 1899, he was on temporary 
duty in the office of the Chief of Engi- 
neers, Washington, D. C; from July 1, 
1899, to August 15, 1905, he was at Port- 
land, Oregon, in charge of fortification, 
river and harbor works (Columbia Riv- 
er, etc.), and Engineer of the Thirteenth 
Lighthouse District; August 24, 1905, to 
November 15, 1905, he was stationed at 
Washington, D. C, as assistant to the 
Chief of Engineers, U. S. A.; November 
15, 1905, to June 12, 1906, at the Engineer 
School, Washington Barracks, D. C, as 
instructor of civil engineering; July 18, 
1905, to December 8, 1906, member Board 
of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors; 
June 12, 1906, was appointed Commandant 
of Engineer School, the Second Battalion 
of Engineers, and the Post of Washington 
Barracks, D. C, in charge of the Fort 
Foot Military Reservation, Md., and of 
the Engineer Depot, Washington Barracks, 
D. C, and a member of the Board of Engi- 
neers to consider and report upon the 
subject of field equipment for engineer 
troops; October 2, 1906, to July 11, 1907. 
Chief Engineer, Army of Cuban Pacifica- 



tion, with station at Havana, Cuba. On 
July 11, 1907, he was relieved from duties 
in Cuba, and under orders to resume com- 
mand of the Engineer School, Post of 
Washington Barracks, D. C, etc., August 
10, 1907. Address: Washington Bar- 
racks. 

LANGLEY, CHARLES ALBION, build- 
ing contractor, was born at Dover, New 
Hampshire, on March 16, 1850, son of 
Moses and Sarah (Gear) Langley. In 
1875 he came to Washington, and for four 
years was in the employ of the Govern- 
ment, engaged in the construction of the 
State, War and Navy Building. In 1879 
he engaged in business for himself, hav- 
ing associated with him James G. Get- 
tinger, and since 1889 he has been con- 
ducting his business independently. 
Among the more prominent residences in 
the city that have been erected by him 
may be mentioned the residences of Mrs. 
A. C. Barney, Herbert Wadsworth, Glf- 
ford Pinchot, William J. Boardman, for- 
mer Senator George Hearst, the Army 
and Navy Club, etc. In 1880 he married 
Annie E. MoShea, of Wasliington. Resi- 
dence: Blair Road, D. C. Office: 310 
Twelfth street, n.w. 

LANGLEY, JOHN WESLEY, Congress- 
man, was born at Prestonburg, Ken- 
tucky, on January 14, 1863, son of Joseph 
R. and Susan Langley. After receiving 
a common and high school education he 
attended the National Law School, 1884- 
86, graduating, LL. M., in the latter year; 
Georgetown University, graduated, LL. 
M., in 1894, and the Columbian (now 
George Washington) University, graduat- 
ing, LL M., 1895; D. C. L., 190L and M. 
Dip., in 1902. He was a member of the 
Kentucky House of Representatives, 1887- 
90; a member of the Board of Pension 
Appeals, 1890-94; disbursing and appoint- 
ment clerk, Census Office, 1889-1906, and 
a delegate to the Republican National 
Conventions of 1888 and 1900. He has 
written several books, among them be- 
ing: Legal Status of Married Women; 
Origin of Municipal Government in Eng- 
land; Constitutional Power of the United 
States to Acquire, Hold, Govern, and Dis- 
pose of New Territory, and Our Duty 
Toward Our Possessions. In November, 
1906, he was elected a member of the 
Sixtieth Congress from Kentucky. He 
married, November 23, 1904, Emma Kath- 
erine Gudger. Legal residence: Preston- 
burg, Ky. Washington address: House 
of Representatives. 

LANGLEY, SAMUEL PIERPONT, 

scientist, and formerly secretary of 
the Smithsonian Institution, was born 
at Roxbury, Boston, Massachusetts, on 
August 22, 1834. He was graduated from 
the Boston High School, Oxford, D. C. L.; 
Cambridge, D. Sc, and holds honorary 
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Universities of Wisconsin and Michigan, 
and the Stevens Institute of Technology. 
For several years he was engaged in 
architecture and civil engineering; In 1865, 
assistant In the Harvard Observatory, 
and later assistant professor of mathe- 
matics in the United States Naval Acad- 
emy. While director of the Allegheny 
Observatory, 1867-69, he founded the sys- 
tem of railway time service which has 
since become general, and about the same 
time he founded the volometer, which is 
also general in use. He organized an ex- 
pedition to Mount Whitney in 1881, and 
for several years before his death spent 
much of his time in experiments on the 
problem of aerial navigation. In 1887 he 
was appointed secretary of the Smithso- 
nian Institution, which office he held until 
his death. In 1905, He established the 
As'trophysical Observatory; the National 
Zoological Park in' Washington; was a 
correspondent of the Institute of France, 
and was a foreign member of the Royal 
Society of London, Royal Society of Edin- 
burgh, and the Academla Dei Lincei of 
Rome, and was a memiber of many of 
the leading American scientific societies. 
He was awarded the Rumford Medal of 
the Royal Society of London; Janssen 
of the Institute of France, and the Henry 
Draper Medal of the National Academy 
of Sciences, and many others. He was 
the author of a numher of boolis and 
scientific articles that appeared in the 
leading magazines and daily newspapers. 
Among his books may be mentioned: The 
New Astronomy; Researches on Solar 
Heat; Experiments in Aerodynamics; In- 
■ternational Work of the Winds, etc. 

LANGWORTHY, CHARLES FORD, 

associate editor, was born at Middle- 
bury, Vermont, on August 9, 1864, son 
of Charles P. and Ann E. (Ford) Lang- 
worthy. He attended the Middlebury 
(Vt.) College, graduating in 1887, and 
received an M. A. degree in 1890, and, 
from 1889 to 1893, made a special study 
of Chemistry in the Emperor William 
University, of Strasburg, Germany, re- 
ceiving the degree of Ph. D. in 1893. Prom 
1893 to 1895 he was instructor of chem- 
istry in Wesleyan University at Middle- 
town, Conn., since when he has been as- 
sociate editor of The Experiment Station 
Record. He is the author of a number 
of bulletins and monographs, and has 
contributed to leading scientific journals. 
He is unmarried, and resides at 1604 Sev- 
enteenth street, n.w. Office: U. S. De- 
partment of Agriculture. 

LANING, JAY FORD, Congressman. In 
November, 1906, he was elected a mem- 
ber of the Sixtieth Congress from the 
Fourteenth Congressional District of Ohio, 
■on the Republican ticket. Legal resi- 
dence: Norwalk, Ohio. Washington ad- 
dress: House of Representatives. 



LANSBURGH, JAMES, junior member 
of the firm of Lansburgh & Bro., was 
born in Hamburg, Germany, on January 
14, 1843, and emigrated to Baltimore, Md., 
in 1856, to go into the dry goods business 
with his brother. They prospered, and in 
1860 opened a branch store in Washing- 
ton, under the charge of his brother, 
Gustave, James remaining in Baltimore 
until 1866, when that business was 
merged with the Washington branch. He 
is a member of the Scottish Rite, and a 
Thirty-third degree Mason. Residence: 
2511 Fourteenth street. Business address: 
420-426 Seventh street, n.w. 

LANTZ, FRANKLIN W., Chief of the 
Redemption Division, Office of the Treas- 
urer of the United States. Residence: 
1319 Nineteenth street, n.w. Office: Treas- 
ury Department. 

LANZA, Dl BROLO MARQUISE 
CLARA, author, was born at Port 
Riley, Kansas, on February 12, 1853, 
daughter of William Alexander and Helen 
(Nisbit) Hammond. Her father was 
Surgeon-General, U. S. A., during the 
Civil War, the founder of the Army Med- 
ical Museum, Washington, and the Post- 
Graduate School, and Hospital, New York 
City. Her earliest ancestor in America 
was Ralph Harmon, one of the twelve 
gentlemen appointed by James I., in 1624, 
to establish a colony in Virginia. She 
was educated privately and at Mrs. 
Williams' School, in New York City, and 
later ^studied in Dresden and Paris. She 
engaged in literary work in early girl- 
hood, her first published works being 
translations from the German in the 
Popular Science Monthly. In 1900 she 
became a convert to the Roman Catholic 
faith. Her books are: Mr. Parkin's 
Daughter; A Righteous Apostate; Basil 
Morton's Transgression; A Modern Mar- 
riage; A Golden Pilgrimage, and, Hor- 
ace Everett. In collaboration with James 
Clarence Harvey, she wrote Scarabeaus, 
the Story of an African Beetle, and, 
with her father, Tales of Eccentric Life. 
She has heen identified with the Nine- 
teenth Century Club, and is a Daughter 
of the American Revolution. On May 
10, 1878, she was married to Marquis 
Manfredi Lanza Di Brolo, and three liv- 
ing children — all sons — have been born 
to them. Two of the sons are officers 
in the United States Army. The third 
is a physician, attached to the Marine 
Hospital Service. Residence: 1716 H 
street, n.w. 

LARCOMBE, JOHN SOUTHEY, real 

estate broker and builder, was born In 
Washington, D. C, on October 3, 1850, 
son of John and C. S. (Parker) Lar- 
combe. After attending the public and 
private schools of Washington, he en- 
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ers, where he remained for eight years, 
resigning to enter the real estate and 
building business. A number of build- 
ings in Washington have been erected 
under his direction, among them being: 
The Riggs National Bank, Catholic Uni- 
versity, C. C. Glover's town and coun- 
try residences, etc. He is a trustee of 
the Columbia Insurance Company; a di- 
rector of the Capital Traction Company, 
and is a trustee of several charitable in- 
stitutions of the city. On December 19, 
1876, he married Mary Alice Griffith, of 
Montgomery County, Maryland. Resi- 
dence: 1817 H street. Office: 808 Sev- 
enteenth street, n.w. 

LARNER, JOHN BELL, lawyer, was 
born in Washington, D. C., on August 
3, 1858, son of Noble D. Larner. He was 
educated in the Junior Department of 
Columbian University, and was admitted 
to the bar of the Supreme Court of the 
District of Columbia in May, 1879, three 
months before becoming of age, taking 
a prize for an essay, The Law of Mort- 
gages. He was appointed junior counsel 
of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad for 
the District of Columbia, and admitted 
to the bar of the United States Supreme 
Court April 28, 1886. His specialty has 
been the law of private corporations, the 
Washington Loan and Trust Company, 
the first trust company in the Disftrict, 
having been organized under his counsel. 
He is a director of the Equitable Co- 
Operaitive Building Association; the Na- 
tional Metropolitan Bank; the National 
Galleries of Art, and of the Columbian 
University; member of the New York 
Avenue Presbyterian Church, and a di- 
rector of the Washington Hospital for 
Foundlings. He is also the author of a 
translation of Alexander Dumas' Life of 
Napoleon, never before published in Eng- 
lish. He is a member of the London Ex- 
Libris Society, and treasurer of the Wash- 
ington Society, Ins'titute of American 
Archaeology. He married Anna, daugh- 
ter of E. Southard Parker, and they have 
three children. Residence: 1709 Nine- 
teenth street, n.w. Office: 1335 F street, 
n.w. 

LARNER, ROBERT MARTIN, journal- 
ist, was born in Washington, D. C, on 
July 14, 1856, son of Andrew Jackson and 
Mary L. Larner. After attending the 
public schools he served as a page in 
the Capitol for five years, when he took 
up the printing trade, and worked as a 
newspaper reporter during odd moments 
Since 1880 he has been a newspaper cor- 
respondent, having been employed by the 
United Press, Baltimore Sun, and New 
York Sun, and is at the present time in 
the employ of the New York Herald and 
Telegraph, Savannah News, Buffalo Ex- 
press, Charleston News and Courier. He 
is a membrT of the Gridiron and Colum- 
bia Golf clubs. In April, 1896, he mar- 



ried H. Adelaide De Freest, of Troy, N. 
Y. Residence: 519 Eighteenth street! 
Office: 1407 G street, n.w. 

LARRINAGA, TULIO, Commissioner 
from Porto Rico to Congress, was born 
in Trujillo, Alto, Porto Rico, on January 
15, 1847. He was educated in the Semi- 
nario Consiliar of San Ildefonso, at San 
Juan, where he obtained the degree of 
B. S., with the highest honors, and later 
studied civil engineering at the Poly- 
technic Institute of Troy (N. Y.), and the 
University of Pennsylvania, from which 
he was graduated in 1871, and practiced 
engineering in the United States for some 
time. In 1872 he returned to Porto Rico, 
and was appointed architect for the city 
of San Juan; built the first railroad in 
Porto Rico, in 1880; was for ten years 
chief engineer of the provincial works, 
and built most of the important structures 
(especially bridges) in the islands; one 
of the founders of the Atheneum of San 
Juan, in 1876, and the Society for th-j 
Education of Intelligent Young Men of 
the Poorer Classes, and took a prominent 
part in the intellectual uprising tha: 
marked that period in Porto Rico. In 
1898 he became Assistant Secretary of 
the Interior under the autonomic govern- 
ment, serving until the American occu- 
pation of the island, when he resigned to 
resume bis position as chief engineer ol 
the harbor works of San Juan. In 1902 
he was elected a member of the House 
of Delegates of Porto Rico, and wa^ 
elected a Commissioner to the Fifty-ninth 
Congress from Porto Rico, and re-elected 
to the Sixtieth Congress as a member of 
the Unionist party. He was appointed by 
the President a delegate to represent the 
United States at the Third Pan-American 
Congress, held at Rio de Janeiro in July, 
1906. Legal residence: San Juan, Porto 
Rico. Washington address: House of 
Representatives. 

LASSITER, FRANCIS RIVES, lawyer. 
Congressman, was born in Petersburg, 
Virginia, on February 18, 1866, son of 
Daniel W. and Anna Rives (Heath) Las- 
siter. After obtaining his preparatory 
education in the public and private schools 
of his native town he attended the Uni- 
versity of Virginia from 1883 to 1886, and 
was graduated, LL. B., from that insti- 
tution. In 1887 he was admitted to th^ 
Suffolk bar at Boston, Mass., and the Vir- 
ginia bar the following year. Since 1888 
he has been a member of the Virginia 
State Democratic Committee; elected 
City Attorney of Petersburg, 1888; re- 
elected 1890 and 1892; presidential elector 
1892; United States Attorney for Jie 
Eastern District of Virginia 1393-97; de- 
feated for the Democratic nom:.iacion f.>r 
Attorney-General of Virginia 1897; super- 
visor of the Twelfth Census for the Fourth 
District of Virginia 1899. In April, 1900, 
he was elected a member of the Fifty- 
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was re-elected to the Fifty-seventh Con- 
gress. In November, 1906, he was fleeted 
a member of the Sixtieth Congress from 
the Fourth Virginia District, as a Demo- 
crat. Legal residence: Petersburg, Va. 
Washington address: House of Repre- 
sentatives. 

LATIMER, ASBURY CHURCHWELL, 

farmer. United States Senator, was born 
near Lowndesville, Abbeville County, 
South Carolina, on July 31, 1851. Much 
of his early life was spent on his father's 
farm, being educated in the common 
schools. In 1876 he took an active part 
in the memorable campaign, and in 1880 
removed to Belton, Anderson County, 
South Carolina, his present home, where 
he has since devoted much of his time 
to farming. He was elected councy 
chairman of the Democratic party in 
1890; re-elected in 1892, and declined the 
nomination for Lieutenant-Grovernor of 
the State. He served as a member of 
the Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, 
Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh Congresses, 
and was elected to the United States Sen- 
ate in 1903, over J. G. Evans, to succeed 
John L. McLaurin. His present term of 
office will expire March 3, 1909. Legal 
residence: Belton, S. C. Washington ad- 
dress: U. S. Senate. 

LAW, CHARLES BLAKESLEE, law- 
yer. Congressman, was born at Hanni- 
bal, New York, on February 5, 1872. In 
1891 he was graduated from Colgate 
Academy, at Hamilton, N. Y., and Am- 
herst College in 1895, after which he took 
up the study of law at Rome, N. Y., and 
later attended the Cornell Law School. 
He was admitted to the bar in 1897, at 
Rochester, N. Y., after which he removed 
to Brooklyn, where he has since been 
engaged in the practice of his profes- 
sion. He had never 'held any ipublic 
office before being elected to the Fifty- 
ninth Congress from the Fourth New 
York Congressional District; re-elected 
to the Sixtieth Congress. In politics he 
is a Republican. In 1901 he married lima 
Best, of Jordan, N. Y. Legal residence: 
Brooklyn, N. Y. Washington address: 
House of Representatives. 

LAWRENCE, GEORGE PELTON, law- 
yer. Congressman, was born in Adams, 
Massachusetts, on May 19, 1859. After 
graduating from Drury Academy in 1876, 
and Amherst College in 1880, he took up 
the study of law at the Columbia Law 
Sc'hool (N. Y.), and was admitted to the 
bar in 1883, at North Adams, Mass., where 
he has since practiced his profession. In 
1885 he was appointed Judge of the Dis- 
trict Court of Northern Berkshire County, 
serving until 1894, when he resigned, after 
being elected to the State Senate, with 
which body he served three terms, being 
president the last two. He has repre- 
sented the First Massachusetts Congres- 



sional District in the Fifty-fifth and sub- 
sequent Congresses. In politics he is a 
Republican. Legal residence: North Ad- 
ams, Mass. Washington address: House 
of Representatives. 

LAWRENCE, JAMES PEYTON STU- 
ART, naval officer, was born in Phila- 
delphia, Penn., on August 16, 1852, son 
of Edward and Aramintha Margaret 
Annie Peyton (Stuart) Lawrence. Ha 
was educated at the Episcopal Academy, 
Philadelphia; was graduated from Lehigh 
University in 1873, and took a special 
chemical course at Towne Scientific 
School, University of Pennsylvania, 1878- 
79. He entered the navy, became Chief 
Engineer, 1898, and Lieutenant-Com- 
mander, 1899; has seen extensive sea 
service on China and Pacific stations, and 
made three cruises around the world. In 
the Spanish War he took part in tho 
battles of Carderas and Manzarillo, Cuba; 
was promoted Commander in October, 
1903; now Captain and Naval Inspector 
of Engineering Material, in charge of 
the Pittsburg and Middle West Districts 
Member of the American Society of 
Mechanical Engineers, American Associ- 
ation for the Advancement of Science, and 
Franklin Institute. He married, July 17. 
1901, Prank Isabelle Glavis, daughter of 
Dr. George O. Glavis, of Washington, D. 
C. Address: Metropolitan Club. 

LAWS, SAMUEL SPAHR, educator, 
was born in Ohio County, Virginia, on 
March 23, 1824. He attended Miami Uni- 
versity, graduating in 1848, with the de- 
grees of A. B. and A. M., later graduat- 
ing from the Princeton Theological Sem- 
inary, receiving a certificate for the full 
three years' course in 1851; graduated 
from the Columbia College Law School, 
with the degree of LL. B., and in 1874 
was graduated from Bellevue Hospital 
Medical College with the degree of M. D., 
and holds the honorary degrees of LL. D., 
from Westminster College, and, D. D., 
from Washington and Lee University. 
From 1851 to 1853 he was pastor of the 
West Church, in St. Louis, and from 1884 
to 1888 professor of phyclcal science; from 
1855 to 1861, president of Westminster 
Synodical College, of Fulton, Missouri, 
and was president of the Missouri State 
University from 1876 to 1889, when he 
resigned. In 1870 he was admitted to the 
New York State Bar, and from 1893 to 
1898 was professor of Natural Science in 
in connection with Revelation and Chris- 
tian Apologetics in the Presbyterian The- 
ological Seminary at Columbia, S. C. He 
is the inventor and introducer of the 
simultaneous system of telegraphing mar- 
ket (reports, "the tickers." In 1860 he mar- 
ried a daughter of William Broadwell, of 
Fulton, Mo. Residence: 1733 Q street, 
n.w. 

LAWSHE, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, 

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was born in Somerset, Indiana, in 
1860. He attended the public schools, 
and was graduated from the high school 
of Somerset. At an early age he went 
to Wabash, Indiana, to learn the print- 
er's trade. He began as a printer's 
"devil" and gradually worked his waj- 
up until he became a job foreman. He 
married while in Wabash, and in 1883 
moved to Converse, Indiana, where he 
published the Converse Journal, and held 
various public offices, including that of 
postmaster. In 1896 he was a delegate 
to the Republican National Convention a: 
St. Louis. In 1897 he was appointed 
Deputy Auditor for the Post Office Depart- 
ment, and has been in the Government 
service ever since. While serving as 
Deputy Auditor for the Post Office De- 
partment he was sent to Cuba as Audi- 
tor for the Department of Posts, to in- 
vestigate the postal frauds. For six years 
Mr. Lawshe was Auditor for the Philip- 
pine Islands, and while in the United 
States on leave in 1904 he was sent to 
the St. Louis Exposition to take charge 
of the Philippine exhibit as chairman 
of the Philippine Exposition Board. Hy 
resigned his position as Auditor in 1907, 
to accept that of Third Assistant Post- 
master-General, which he now holds. Res- 
idence: 1343 Chapin street, n.w. Office: 
Post Office Department. 

LAWSON, HURON WILLIS, physician, 
was born at Disco, Michigan, on March 
15, 1873, son of James S. and Paulina 
T. (Cannon) Lawson. He was graduated 
from the Michigan State Agricultural Col- 
lege, B. S., in 1895, and Columbian (now 
George Washington) University, M. D., 
1903; M. S., 1904, and studied in Vienna 
and Berlin hospitals in 1904. During 
1896-97 he was superintendent of public 
schools at Lawton, Michigan; principal 
of high school, Maywood and Melrose 
Park, Illinois, 1898; since 1898 he has 
been associate editor of the Experimental 
Station Record, a technical journal, pub- 
lished by the United States Department of 
Agriculture, and since 1905 instructor in 
bacteriology and pathology in the medical 
department of George Washington Uni- 
versity. Residence: 3105 Sixteenth screet, 
n.w. Office: Columbia Hospital. 

LAWTON, LOUIS BOWEN, army offi- 
cer, was born at Independence, Iowa, on 
March 13, 1872, son of Albert W. and Mary 
(Vorhis) Lawton. His preparatory edu- 
cation was obtained at Owasco and Au- 
burn, New York; graduated from United 
States Military Academy with the class 
of 1893. On June 12, 1893, he was ap- 
pointed a Second Lieutenant; First Lieu- 
tenant in 1898; Captain in 1901, and 
Major in 1903. During the Spanish- 
American War he saw service in Cuba, 
Porto Rico and the Philippines, and in 
1900 he took part in the battle of Tien- 
Tsin, China, viihere he was wounded; for 



gallant services in this battle he was 
awarded a medal of honor. In 1903 he 
was retired from the service on account 
of wounds. On July 26, 1893, he married 
Theresa M. Kelsey, at Auburn, N. Y. Ad- 
dress: War Department. 

LAYTON, CALEB R., Auditor for the 
State Department. Residence: 1435 Eu- 
clid street. Office: Treasury Depart- 
ment. 

LAZELLE, HENRY MARTYN, retired 
army officer, was born at Enfield, Massa- 
chusetts, in 1832, son of Joseph and Rox- 
ana Lazelle. In 1855 he was graduated 
from West Point; entered the Eighth In- 
fantry the same year as Lieutenant, serv- 
ing until 1859, on expeditions against the 
Indians, having been wounded through 
the lungs in 1859. From 1861 to 1866 he 
served in the Civil War; was a prisoner 
of war in 1861. Assistant Commissary- 
General, 1862-63, and in 1864 was Colonel 
of the Sixty-fourth New York Cavalry, 
commanding the Twenty-second Cavalry 
Brigade of the Army Corps. During 1872- 
73 he was on the survey of the Northern 
Pacific Railroad; Sioux Expedition, in 
1878; Commandant at West Point from 
1879 to 1882. He has served as Assist- 
ant Inspector-General in the Department 
of Columbia, and in 1885 was sent to In- 
dia on special service. In 1889 he was 
made Colonel of the Eighteenth United 
States Infantry, and was retired for dis- 
ability in 1894. From 1887 to 1889 he 
edited the Records of the Rebellion, and 
is the author of several books and mon- 
ographs, among them being: One Law 
and Nature; Gold Medalist of Military 
Service Institution; Matter, Force, and 
Spirit, etc. Address: War Department. 

LEACH, FRANK A., Director of the 
Mint. Previous to his appointment of 
Superintendent of the Mint at San Fran- 
cisco he was the editor and owner of a 
newspaper at Oakland, Cal., subsequently 
being promoted to the position of Director 
of the Mint, in the United States Treas- 
ury Department, in August, 1907. Ad- 
dress: U. S. Treasury Department. 

LEADLEY, GEORGE W., Chief of Ap- 
pointment Division, Department of Com- 
merce and Labor, was born at Webster, 
New York, in 1867, and received his early 
education at the State Normal and 
Training School, at Geneseo, N. Y. Was 
graduated from the Columbian (now 
George Washington) University Medical 
School in 1893. He served for fifteen 
years on the Civil Service Commission, 
going about the country holding exam- 
inations and conducting investigations, 
and, among other things, es'tablishing the 
Civil Service on the Island of Porto Rico. 
He was transferred three years ago to 
the Department of Commerce and Labor. 
Residence: 1726 Willard street. Office: 
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LEAKE, EUGENE W., lawyer. Con- 
gressman, was born in Jersey City, New 
Jersey, on July 13, 1877. After obtaining 
his preparatory education at Andover 
Academy he studied law at the New 
York Law School. In 1898 he was admit- 
ted to the New Jersey State bar, and 
has since practiced his profession in Jer- 
sey City. He was elected a member of 
the House of Representatives from the 
Ninth New Jersey Congressional District 
in November, 1906, to serve in the Six- 
tieth Congress. Democrat. Legal resi- 
dence: Jersey City, N. J. Washington 
address: House of Representatives. 

LEBO, THOMAS C, army officer, was 
born in Pennsylvania, on November 17, 
1842. He enlisted as Second Lieutenant, 
First Pennsylvania Cavalry, on November 
28, 1861; promoted to Captain, Second 
Pennsylvania Cavalry, on June 17, 1865; 
■Major, Sixth United States Cavalry, on 
July 26, 1893; Colonel, Fourteenth Cav- 
alry, on February 19, 1901, and Brigadier- 
General, and retired, 1905. Address: War 
Department. 

LECKIE, A. E. L., lawyer, was born In 
Aryshire, Scotland, in 1867. When twelve 
years of age he removed to America, and 
settled in Schuylkill County, Pennsylva- 
nia, where he attended the common 
schools and the Bloomsburg State Normal 
School, after which he was employed as 
a school teacher for several years. Upon 
coming ito Washington he entered tho 
Georgetown University Law School, grad- 
uating with the degrees of LL. B. and 
LL. M., and was admitted to the bar of 
the District of Columbia in 1894, since 
when he has been actively engaged in 
the practice of his profession. He has 
been connected with a number of prom- 
inent cases in the District, among them 
being the famous Bonine-Ayers case, in 
1901, he being one of the defending at- 
torneys. Residence: 1335 Harvard street, 
n.w. Office: Fendall Building. 

LEDERER, PHILIP, Methodist Episco- 
pal clergyman, dyer and cleaner, was bor»\ 
ait Lancaster, Pennsylvania, on June 10, 
1860, son of Philip Jacob and Regina 
Mary (Widderle) Lederer. After attend- 
ing the private schools in his native town 
he finished a business course at the Spen- 
cerian College at Lancaster, Penn., and 
after considerable private study he took 
up the study of theology in Howard Uni- 
versity, and was admitted to the min- 
istry of the Methodist Episcopal Church 
of the Baltimore Conference. He waa 
engaged in the bakery and confectionery 
business for ten years; carpenter three 
years; a machinist on the B. & O. Rail- 
road for four years; with Anton Fischei, 
of Washington, in the dying and clean- 
ing business for four years, and has be?n 
in the same business independently for 
eleven years. For four years he served 



as minister of the Rosedale Mission, and 
for seven years was chaplain of the 
Myron M. Parker Lodge, No. 27, F. A. 
A. M. He is a member of all Masonic 
orders and many other fraternal and re- 
ligious organizations, and, in politics, is 
a Republican, and is a tireless worker in 
the Order of Rachabites. On January 17, 
1884, he married Caroline Gleisner, of 
Lancaster, Penn., to which union have 
been born six boys and one girl. Resi- 
dence: 1348 Maryland avenue, n.e. Busi- 
ness address: 1241 H street, n.e. 

LEE, GEORGE HYDE, physician, was 
born in Mantua, Portage County, Ohio, 
on November 26, 1847, son of Samuel and 
Susan (Hyde) Lee. He obtained his early 
education in the common schools and the 
Western Preparatory School, later attend- 
ing Western Reserve College and the Horn 
Medical College, at Cleveland, Ohio. 
After leaving college he engaged in news- 
paper work for several years, after which 
he took up the practice of medicine, being 
engaged in that profession at the pres- 
ent time. Among some of his books that 
have appeared may be mentioned: The 
Mantle of Elijah; Kith and Kin, and, 
What Was His Duty? He is a member 
of the Delta Upsilon college fraternity; 
National Geographic Society; Horn Med- 
ical Society; American Institute of Hom- 
eopathy, and the Short Story Club of 
Washington. On August 20, 1873, he mar- 
ried Alice Amelia Smith, and he is a 
member of the Presbyterian Church. Res- 
idence: The Edward, 816 Fifteenth street, 
n.w. 

LEE, GORDON, farmer, manufacturer. 
Congressman, was born on a farm near 
Ringgold, Catoosa County, Georgia, on 
May 29, 1859. After attending the com- 
mon schools of his native county he en- 
tered Emory College, at Oxford, Georgia, 
and was graduated in 1880, since when 
he has been engaged in farming and man- 
ufacturing. Du:ing 1894 and 1895 he was 
a member of the State Legislature, and 
■a member of the State Senate during 
1902, 1903, 1904 and 1905, and was ap- 
pointed a member of the State Memorial 
Board by Governor Atkinson. He rep- 
resented the Seventh Georgia Congres- 
sional District in the Fifty-ninth Con- 
gress, and has been re-elected to the Six- 
tieth Congress. Legal residence; Chicka- 
mauga, Ga. Washington address: House 
of Representatives. 

LEE, JESSE MATLOCK, army officer, 
was born in Putnam County, Indiana, on 
January 2, 1843, son of John W. and Effey 
W. Lee. After attending the schools at 
Grencastle, Indiana, he enlisted in the 
army as a private at the outbreak of the 
Civil War, serving from 1861 to 1865, an.l 
had advanced to the rank of Captain be- 
fore the close. In 1866 he was appointed 
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and was promoted to First Lieutenant the 
following year; Captain in 1879; Major 
in 1898; Colonel in 1901, and Brigadier- 
General in 1902. On December 23, 1868, 
he married Lucy W. Hathaway, at Green- 
castle, Ind. Legal residence: Greencas- 
tle, Ind. Address: War Department. 

LEE, ROBERT EDWARD, JR., lawyer, 
was born in Petersburg, Vi:ginia, on Feb- 
ruary 11, 1869, son of W. H. F. and Mary 
T. (Boiling) Lee. After attending the 
Episcopal High School at Alexandria, Va., 
he entered Washington and Lee Univer- 
sity, and after graduating from the aca- 
demic department he entered the law de- 
partment of the same institution, grad- 
uating in 1892, being admitted to the 
bar the same year. During the elections 
of 1892, 1896 and 1900 he took an active 
part in the presidential campaigns, and 
in 1901 was elected to the Virginia State 
Legislature; re-elected in 1903 and 1905. 
Residence: Ravensworth, Bucke's Sta- 
tion, Virginia. Office: Wyatt Building. 

LEE, THOMAS SIM, Roman Catholic 
clergyman, was born in Baltimore, Mary- 
land, on January 8, 1842, son of John 
and Harriet (Carroll) Lee. His early ed- 
ucation was obtained in the private 
schools of Baltimore, at Mt. St. Mary's 
College, and later he attended the Amer- 
ican College at Rome, being ordained in 
1866. From 1866 to 1868 he was an as- 
sistant at St. Vincent's Church, in Bal- 
limore; Archbishop's secretary and as- 
sistant at Cathedral, 1868-73; Rector of 
the Cathedral from 1873 to 1891, since 
which time he has been rector of St. 
Matthew's, in Washington. Residence: 
1739 Rhode Island avenue, n.w. 

LEETCH, FRANK P., Secretary and 
Treasurer of the Georgetown Gas Light 
Company. Residence: 1696 Thirty-first 
street, n.w. Office: 1118 Twenty-nintn 
street. 

LE FEVRE, FRANK JACOB, Congress- 
man, was born at New Paltz, Ulster 
County, New York, on November 30, 1874, 
where he has since resided. His edu- 
cation was obtained in the public schools 
of his native town and the New Paltz 
Normal School. From 1892 to 1896 he 
was private secretary to his father, the 
Hon. Jacob Le Fevre, who was a member 
of Congress. Since that time he has 
been engagsd in the banking business in 
his native town, and has been a delegate 
to many political conventions, and was 
elected to the State Senate in 1902. Dur- 
ing the St. Louis Exposition he was there 
as superintendent of the New York State 
Building, and represented the Twenty- 
fourth New York Congressional District 
in the Fifty-ninth Congress. In politics 
he is a Republican. Legal residence: New 
Paltz, N. Y. Washington address: House 
of Representatives. 



LEGARE, GEORGE S., lawyer. Con- 
gressman, was born in Rockville, Charles- 
ton County, South Carolina, in 1870. In 
1889 he was graduated with honors from 
■the Porter Academy, at Charleston, S. C, 
■after which he attended South Carolina 
College for two years, and later entered 
the Georgetown University Lraw School, 
in Washington, graduating in 1893, with 
the degree of LL. B., and was admitted 
to practice in Charleston in the same 
year. He was elected Corporation Coun- 
sel in 1898, serving in that office for five 
years, resigning after his election to Con- 
gress. He represented the First South 
Carolina Congressional District in the 
Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses, 
and has been re-elected to the Sixtieth 
Congress. Legal residence: Chaileston. 
S. C. Washington address: House of 
Representatives. 

LEGARE, HUGH S., banker, was born 
in South Carolina, on February 4, 1863, 
son of George Washington Seabrook and 
Alice (Brown) Lagare, and is named after 
the Hon. Hugh S. Legare, his cousin, 
who was Secretary of State under Presi- 
dent Tyler. After attending the schools 
at Charleston, S. C, he entered the West 
Point Military Academy, but left before 
graduation, to accept an appointment in 
the State Department. After serving in 
the State Department for some time he 
resigned to become a silent partner in the 
'banking house of Crane, Parris & Co 
In 1892 he married Alberta Kent, of Chi- 
cago. Residence: 1714 Massachusetts 
avenue, n.w. 

LEGER, JACQUES NICHOLAS, Envoy 
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten- 
tiary of Haiti to the United States, was 
born at Aux Cayco, Haiti, on July 20, 
1859. He practiced law in Port au Prince, 
Haiti; has been Secretary of Legation 
and Charge d' Affaires at Paris; Assist- 
ant Secretary of State; a member of the 
House of Representatives, and Chairman 
of Foreign Affairs in Haiti. Address: 1429 
Rhode Island avenue. 

LEIGHTON, BENJAMIN FARNS- 
WORTH, lawyer, was born in Pem- 
broke, Washington County, Maine, on 
November 1, 1847, son of Charles H. and 
Sarah Farnsworth Leighton. His early 
education was obtained at Monmouth 
Academy and Kents Hill Seminary, 
Maine. At the age of seventeen he en- 
listed in Company I, First District of 
Columbia Cavalry, afterwards consoli- 
dated with Company G, First Maine Cav- 
alry. He was wounded at the battle of 
Ream's Station, taken prisoner and con- 
fined in Libby Prison for three months. 
At the close of the Civil War he entered 
Eastman's Business College, Poughkeep- 
sie, N. Y. He came to Washington In 
1873, entered the National Unive;sity Law 
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once admitted to the bar of the District 
of Columbia. Since ithat time he has 
been actively engaged in the practice of 
his profession. In addition to his law 
practice, he is prominently identified with 
several business enterprises in Washing- 
ton. He is a director of the Columbia 
National Bank. He organized the People's 
Fire Insura.nce Company, of which he is 
the vice-president; also was incorporator 
of the Columbia Title Insurance Com- 
pany. He has been a trustee of the 
American University since its organiza- 
tion; has served as president of the Bar 
Association of the District of Columbia. 
He is a member of the National Geo- 
graphic Society, and of the Soldiers' Alli- 
ance, G. A. R.; also of the Burnside Post, 
G. A. R. He has been dean of the Law 
Department of Howard University since 
1881. He served on the Executive Com- 
mittee of the first and second McKinley 
inaugural ceremonies. On August 8, 1879, 
he married Sarah Adams Foss, daughter 
of Hon. Cyrus King Foss, of Fairfield, 
Maine: Residences: 1715 Twenty-second 
street, n.w.; Woodside, Md., and Mon- 
mouth, Me. Office: Columbia Building, 
n.w. 

LEITER, LEVI ZEIGLER, merchant, 
was born November 22, 1834, at Leiters- 
burg, Maryland. At eighteen he settled 
in Springfield, Ohio, and in 1854 removed 
to Chicago, first entering the employ of 
Downs & Van Wyck, but soon, with Mar- 
shall Field, bought an interest in the 
business of Potter Palmer. The firm did 
business for two years under the name 
of Field, Palmer & Leiter, and was then 
reorganized under the name of Field, 
Leiter & Co. On January 1, 1881, he 
sold his interests to his partners, and 
devoted his wealthy leisute to travel, col- 
lecting, among other treasures, the best 
iwivate collection of "Americana" in the 
United States. When Chicago was re- 
built in 1871 he was one of the most 
progressive and energetic of her citizens. 
He has been a director of the Chicago 
Relief and Aid Society, and in 1855 was 
the president of the Chicago Art Insti- 
tute. He was first president of the Com- 
mercial Club, and a leading member of 
the Chicago Calumet, Washington Park, 
Metropolitan, Cosmos, and Union League 
Clubs. In addition to his home in Wash- 
ington, he had a residence in Chicago, on 
Lake Geneva, Wis., and a ranch in 
Wyoming. On October 18, 1886, he mar- 
ried Mary Theresa, daughter of Benjamin 
Carver, a descendant of John Carver, first 
president of Plymouth Colony, and they 
have four children, one of whom, Mary 
Victoria, was married to Lord Curzon of 
Kedleston, Viceroy of India. Deceased. 
Late residence: Dupont Circle. 

LEJEUNE, JOHN A., Major, Com- 
mander of the Marine Barra.cks. Resi- 



dence: 1849 U street, n.w. Office: Marine 
Barracks. 

LEMLY, HENRY ROWEN, retired 
army officer, was born in North Caro- 
lina, on January 12, 1851, son of Henry 
Augustus and Amanda S. (Conrad) Lemly. 
After graduating from the United States 
Military Academy in 1872 he was ap- 
pointed Second Lieutenant in the regular 
army; promoted to First Lieutenant in 
1880, and Captain in 1898. During the 
Spanish-American W^ar he commanded 
Battery C, Seventh Artillery, in the Porto 
Rico campaign. He has been on many 
expeditions against tbe Indians, and for 
several yeairs was director of the National 
Milit'ary School at Bogota, Colombia; held 
the local rank of Colonel, and served Co- 
lombia as Commissioner-General at the 
World's Columibian Exposition in 1893. He 
is the author of a number of books and 
articles that have appeared in magazines, 
among them being: Who Was El Dorado? 
Among the Arapahoes; The Story of 
Featherhead; Santa Fe de Bogota; A 
West Point Romance, etc. In 1899 he re- 
tired from active service, with the rank 
of Captain. On December 1, 1874, he 
married Katherine Palmer. Address: War 
Department. 

LEMLY, SAMUEL CONRAD, ex- 
Judge Advocate-General, U. S. N., was 
born at Salem, North Carolina, on March 
14, 1853. He was graduated from the 
United States Naval Academy in June, 
1873; promoted to Ensign one year later; 
Master, in February, 1880; Lieutenant, 
in January, 1886, and served on various 
staitions and duties until appointed, with 
the rank of Captain, June 5, 1892, to be 
Judge Advocate-General of the Navy. 
Reappointed in 1896 and 1900. While 
serving in this capacity, was advanced 
in the regular line of promotion to the 
grade of Lieutenant- Commander, March, 
1899. Retired in 1904. Address: Navy 
Department. 

LENAHAN,JOHN T., Congressman. He 
was elected, in November, 1906, a mem- 
ber of the Sixtieth Congress from the 
Eleventh Pennsylvania Congressional Dis- 
trict, on the Democratic ticket. Legal 
residence: Wilkesbarre, Penn. Washing- 
ton address: House of Representatives. 

LEONARD, BERNARD, real esta;te, 
was born in Ireland, and came to the 
United States in the early sixties. He 
located in Washington in 1868, where he 
has since been engaged in the real estate 
business. He is president of the Mutual 
Investment Fire Insurance Company, and 
is identified with the Enterprise Building 
Association. Residence: 485 F street, 
s.w. Office: 530 Fouir-and-a-Half street, 
s.w. - 

LEUPP, FRANCIS ELLINGTON, jour- 
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New York City, on January 2, 1849, son 
of John P. Li. and Emeline M. (Davis) 
Leupp. His ear'ly education was ob- 
tained at Dr. Gercke's German School, in 
New York City; at the Sedgwick Insti- 
tute, Great Harrington, Mass., and Law- 
renceville, N. J., later attending Williams 
College, graduating in 1870, and later Co- 
lumbia Law 'School, at New York, grad- 
uating in 1872. He took up journalism 
as a profession; from 1874 to 1878 was 
assistant editor of the New York Even- 
ing Post; editor of the Syracuse (N. Y."t 
Herald from 1878 to 1885, and from 1885 
to 1904 was Washington correspondent 
for the New York Evening Post. From 
1895 to 1897 he was a member of the 
United States Board of Indian Commis- 
sioners, and since January 1, 1905, h*- 
has been United States Commissioner ot 
Indian Affairs. He is the author of sev- 
eral books, among them being: How to 
Prepare for a Civil Service Examination 
(1899); The Man Roosevelt (1904), etc. 
He is a member of the Kappa Alpha col- 
lege fraternity; Cosmos, Gridiron, and 
Chevy Chase Clubs. On October 13, 1874, 
he married Ada Lewis Murdock, of New 
York City, and is the father of five chil- 
dren, four living. Residence: 1813 Six- 
teenth street, n.w. Office: Bureau of In- 
dian Affairs. 

LEUTZE, EUGENE C, naval officer, 
was born at Dusseldorf, Germany, on No- 
vember 16, 1847, son of an artist, Emman- 
uel, and Julia Leutze. He was graduated 
from the United States Naval Academy 
in 1867; promoted to Commander Janu- 
ary, 1897, and, Captain, October 6, 1901. 
Commanded U. S. S. Alert December, 
1897, in surveying Brito Harbor, Nicara- 
gua, for the Isthmian Canal Commission; 
present with Admiral Dewey at the cap- 
ture of Manila; commanded Cavite Navy 
Yard, 1898-1900. He has been superin- 
tendent of the Naval Gun Factory, Wash- 
ington Navy Yard, and commanded bat- 
tleship Maine, 1902-04; now member of 
the Board of Inspection and Survey. Was 
married, at Pittsfield, March, 1873, to 
Julia Jarvis McApline. Address: Navy 
Department. 

LEVER, ASBURY FANCIS, lawyer. 
Congressman, was born near Spring Hill, 
Lexington County, South Carolina, on 
January 5, 1875. He attended the com- 
mon schools near his home, entered New- 
berry College, graduated in 1895 with 
highest honors, after which he taught 
school, and acted as private secretary to 
Hon. J. William Stokes, whom he suc- 
ceeded in Congress. He attended the 
Georgetown University Law School, grad- 
uating in 1899, after which he was ad- 
mitted to practice in the Supreme Court 
of South Carolina. He has been a dele- 
gate to Democratic State Conventions, 
and in 1900 was elected to the State Leg- 



islature, which office he filled until he 
resigned to fill out the unexpired term of 
Hon. J. William Stokes in the Fifty- 
seventh Congress, and has been re-elected 
to the Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth and Six- 
tieth Congresses from the Seventh South 
Carolina Congressional District. Legal 
residence: Lexington, S. C. Washington 
address: 118 Maryland avenue, n.e. 

LEWIS, ELIJAH BANKS, banker, Con- 
gressman, was born in Dooley County, 
Georgia, on March 27, 1854, and at the 
age of seventeen removed to Montezuma, 
Georgia; attended the common schools in 
Dooley and Macon Counties, after which 
he became a partner in his father's bank- 
ing and mercantile business, which busi- 
ness he is still interested in. In 1894 he 
was elected to the State Senate, and re- 
elected the following year, and has rep- 
resented the Third Georgia District in the 
Fifty-flfth and subsequent Congresses. 
Democrat. Legal residence: Montezuma. 
Ga. Washington address: House of Rep- 
resentatives. 

LEWIS, HENRY CARLETON, lawyer, 
government official, was born in Wash- 
ington, D. C, on January 16, 1873, son 
of Edward N. and Annie (Oakshott) 
Lewis. After finishing in the public 
schools of Washington, he began the read- 
ing of law in the office of Judge Joseph 
K. McCammon, where he remained for 
two years, when he entered the service 
of the Southern Railway, being promoted 
to chief clerk. In 1894 he resumed his 
law studies, attending the National Uni- 
versity L.aw School, graduating in 1896, 
with the LL. B. degree, and the follow- 
ing year LL. M.; the same year he was 
admitted to the bar of the District of 
Columbia, and later the Court of Appeals 
of the District of Columbia, the Court of 
Claims, and the Supreme Court of the 
United States. He practiced his profes- 
sion from 1897 to 1900, when he entered 
the Department of Justice. He was pro- 
moted to the office of Special Assistant 
to the Attorney- General March 1, 1902, 
which position he now holds; has taken 
an active part in the preparation and 
trial of many important government 
cases. He is the author of articles that 
have appeared in magazines and news- 
papers, and is second vice-chancellor of 
the Sigma Nu Phi legal fraternity. Res- 
idence: 1918 K street. Office: Depart- 
ment of Justice. 

LEWIS, HERBERT CECIL, editor and 
publisher of the Army and Navy Maga- 
zine, was born in London, England, in 
1866, and was educated abroad and in 
this country. At seventeen years of age 
he was editing a weekly paper in Virginia- 
He married Miss Freeman, youngest 
daughter of Colonel Walton Freeman, of 
Virginia. Residence: 1303 N street, n.w. 
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LIEBER, G. NORMAN, army officer, 
was born in Columbia, South Carolina, 
on May 21, 1837, son of Francis L. Lieber. 
He was graduated from South Carolina 
College in 1856, afterwards attending the 
Harvard Law School, graduating with the 
class of 1859. At the outbreak of the 
Civil War he enlisted as a Lieutenant in 
the Eleventh United States Infantry, and 
in 1862 had been advanced to Major and 
Judge-Advocate. From 1895 to 1901 he 
was Judge Advocate-General of the 
United States Army, and has served as 
professor of law in the United States Mil- 
itary Academy. In 1901 he was retired 
from active service. He is the author of: 
Remarks on the Army Regulations; The 
Use of the Army in the Aid of the Civil 
Power, etc. He married a daughter of 
General E. B. Alexander. Address: War 
Department. 

LILLEY, GEORGE LEAVENS, Con- 
gressman, was born in Oxford, Massachu- 
setts, on August 3, 1859. He was educated 
in the common schools of his native 
town, Worcester High School, and the 
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and in 
1881 took up his residence in Waterbury, 
Conn., where he still resides. He has 
served on the Republican State Commit- 
tee, was a member of the Connecticut 
State Legislature in 1901, and served as 
Delegate-at-Large from Connecticut in the 
Fifty- eighth and Fifty- ninth Congresses; 
re-elected to the Sixtieth Congress. In 
addition to his interests in Waterbury, 
he is a director of the Torrington Na- 
tional Bank, at Torrington, Conn. In pol- 
itics he is a Republican. Legal residence: 
Waterbury, Conn. Washington address: 
House of Representatives. 

LILLEY, MIAL E., lawyer. Congress- 
man, was born in Canton, Bradford 
County, Pennsylvania, on May 30, 1850. 
After attending the public and private 
•schools of his native town he worked in 
a blacksmith shop for several years, and 
■then began the reading of law in the office 
of J. W. Stone, at Canton, and was ad- 
mitted to the Bradford County bar in 
1880, since when he has been engaged 
in the practice of his profession. He was 
chairman of the Republican County Com- 
mittee for a number of years, and in 1890 
was a candidate for prothonotarj'-, and 
was defeated as a result of a division in 
the party; in 1893 he was elected to the 
office, and re-elected in 1896. He was 
appointed Assistant United States District 
Attorney for the Middle District of Penn- 
sylvania in 1893, and in 1904 was elected 
to the Fifty-ninth Congress from the 
Fourteenth Pennsylvania Congressional 
District. Legal residence: Towanda, 
Penn. Washington address: House of 
Representatives. 

LILLiE, ABRAHAM BRUYN HAS- 
BROUCK, naval officer, was born in New 



York. He was graduated from the United 
.States Naval Academy in 1866; promoted 
to Commander September, 1895, and Cap- 
tain March 3, 1901. Served as Command- 
ant at the United States Naval Station, 
Key West, Fla., 1901-03. He was retired 
March 6, 1903, with the rank of Rear 
Admiral. Address: Navy Department. 

LIMA, d'ARENAS de. Secretary and 
Charge d'Affaires, Portuguese Legation. 
Address: 1423 I street, n.w. 

LINCOLN, JEANIE GOULD (Mrs.), 

author, was born in Troy, New York, 
daughter 'of Judge George Gould, of the 
New York Court of Appeals. She was 
educated at home by private tutors. She 
is the author of: Marjorie's Quest; Her 
Washington Season; A Genuine Girl; An 
Unwilling Maid; A Pretty Tory, etc. 
She has also written a number of shore 
stories and poems for leading American 
and English magazines. On January 10, 
1877, she was married to Nathan Smith 
Lincoln, of Washington. Residence: 1514 
H street, n.w. 

LINCOLN, SUMNER H., army officer, 
was born in Gardner, Massachusetts, on 
December 21, 1840, son of Rev. Sumner 
and Eliza G. (Smith) Lincoln. After at- 
tending Norwich (Vt.) University he en- 
listed as a private in the Sixth Vermont 
Volunteers at the outbreak of the Civil 
War, serving throughout the war. In 
1866 he was appointed a First Lieutenant 
in the regular army; promoted to Cap- 
tain in 1878; Major in 1898; Lieutenani- 
Colonel in 1899; Colonel in 1901, and 
Brigadier-General in 1902. On June 9, 
1902, he was retired from active service, 
with the rank of Brigadier-General. He 
is a member of the Loyal Legion, Grand 
Army of the Republic, Society of Santi- 
lago, and the Army and Navy Club. He 
married Ruth A. Goodin, of Cincinnati. 
Residence: Fern Bank, Ohio. Address: 
Care Adjutant, U. S. Army. 

LINDBERGH, CHARLES A., Congress- 
man. In November, 1906, he was elected, 
from the Sixth Congressional District of 
Minnesota, a member of the Sixtieth 
Congress, on the Republican ticket. Legal 
residence: Little Falls, Minn. Washing- 
ton address: House of Representatives. 

LINDGREN, WALDEMAR, geologist, 
and mining engineer, was born in Kal- 
mar, Sweden, on February 14, 1860, son 
of J. M .Lindgren, who was a jurist and 
a member of the Swedish Parliament. 
His early education was obtained in the 
schools of his native town, later attend- 
ing the Freiberg (Saxony) Mining School, 
graduating in 1883. He was appointed 
an assistant geologist in the United States 
Geological Survey in 1884; since 1890 
he has been a geologist in the same bu- 
reau, and is now in charge of the sec- 



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tion of metalliferous deposits and gold 
and silver statistics. He is the author 
of a number of Government reports on 
the mining: districts of the country; mem- 
ber of the American Institute of Mining 
Engineers; Geological Society of America; 
the Cosmos Club, etc. On March 8, 1883, 
he married Ottolini Allstrin, of Gothen- 
burg, Sweden. Residence: The Cecil. 
Office: U. S. Geological Survey. 

LINDSAY, GEORGE HENRY, Con- 
gressman, was born in New Yo'rk City, 
and in 1843 removed to Brooklyn, where 
he has since resided. He was educated 
in the public schools, and for a number 
of years was engaged in the hotel busi- 
ness. Member of the New York State 
Legislature from 1882 to 1886; served two 
terms as Coroner of the Second District 
of Kings County, Long Island, and in 
1898 was appointed Tax Commissioner in 
the Department of Taxes and Assess- 
ments of New York City. He has rep- 
resented the Second New York Congres- 
sional District in the Fifty- seventh. Fifty- 
eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses, and 
has been re-elected to the Sixtieth Con- 
gress. In politics he is a Democrat. Legal 
residence: Brooklyn, N. Y. "Washington 
address: House of Representatives. 

LINDSAY, RICHARD HERNDON, cor- 
respondent for the Kansas City Star, was 
born in Owen County, Kentucky, on De- 
cember 13, 1865. When eleven years of 
age he removed to Plattsburg, Missouri, 
with his parents. He was graduated from 
the William Jewell College, at Liberty, 
Missouri, in 1886, immediately entering 
newspaper work on the Kansas City Star. 
In 1888 he removed to St. Joseph, Mis- 
souri, where he was a reporter and later 
city editor of the St. Joseph Herald; re- 
turned to Kansas City in 1890 to be- 
come a reporter for the Kansas City 
Times, and was appointed Kansas cor- 
respondent, and, in 1893, Washington cor- 
respondent. Returning to Missouri, he 
v/as employed by the St. Louis Republic 
as a legislative correspondent and editor- 
ial writer, and in 1896 again returned to 
Kansas City to become managing editor 
of the Kansas City Times, which posi- 
tion he held for four years. With the 
change of ownership of the latter paper 
he retired to accept the position of staff 
correspondent for the Kansas City Star, 
and in 1901 was made its Washington cor- 
respondent. He is a member of the 
Gridiron and the Columbia Golf Clubs. 
On April 25, 1894, he married Grace Clem- 
ent Ham, of Kansas City, Mo. Residence: 
The Rockingham. Office: 15 Post Build- 
ing. 

LIN KINS, GEORGE R., lawyer, cashier 
of the District Title Insurance Company, 
and the Washington Title Insurance Com- 
pany. Residence: 136 Thirteenth street, 
n.e. Office: 610 Thirteenth street, n.w. 



LIN KINS, GEORGE W., cashier of the 
District and Washington Title Insurance 
Companies. He entered the real estate 
business in Washington in 1886, and has 
since become prominently Identified with 
many other business enterprises of the 
city. He' is president of the Home Life 
Building Association. Residence: 1923 G 
street, n.w. Office: 800 Nineteenth street, 
n.w. 

LINTON, IRWIN BREECE, lawyer, 
was born in Norristown, Pennsylvania, 
on September 4, 1852, son of Samuel and 
Maria (Hoover) x^inton. Hon. Frederick 
W. Conrad, who was a member of Con- 
gress from 1803 to 1807, was an ancestor, 
as well as James Linton, who distin- 
guished himself in the Revolutionary War. 
He came to Washington when three 
years of age with his parents, and has 
resided here continuously since, with the 
exception of five yea,rs that he spent in 
Maryland during boyhood. After finish- 
ing his preparatory education in the pub- 
lic schools of Washington he entered the 
Columbian (now George Washington) 
University Law School, from which ha 
was graduated, LL. B., in 1875. Since 
graduating from the law school he has 
been engaged in the general practice of 
law, and is interested in several business 
enterprises in Washington, 'being a di- 
rector of the American National Bank. 
He is a member of the Presbyterian 
Church, and, in politics, a Democrat. On 
December 11, 1877, he married Kate M. 
Helffenstein, of North Wales, Penn., to 
which union have been born two children. 
Residence: 1825 Second street, n.e. Office: 
1407 F street, n.w. 

LIPSCOMB, WILLIAM P., building 
contractor, was born in King William 
County, Virginia, in 1847. Jie served In 
the latter portion of the Civil War, and 
took part in the battle of Appomatox. 
In 1871 he came to Washington and was 
in the employ of a prominent builder 
until 1873, when he- started his own busi- 
ness. Many handsome residences of 
Washington have been erected by him, 
among them being those of the late 
Admiral Sampson, H. C. Perkins, Charles 
W. Richardson, Admiral Crosby, Thomas 
M. Gale, the Will'ard Building, etc. He 
married Lulie K. Wade, daughter of John 
Wade, of Washington. Residence: 929 S 
street, n.w. Office: 1405 F street, n.w. 

LISNER, ABRAHAM, merchant, wa.s 
born in Meningen, Germany, on October 
5, 1852. Coming to America, he took a 
positon with Altman & Co., dry goods 
merchants, in New York, and became 
buyer for the firm. In October, 1877, he 
came to Washington and opened a small 
dry goods store on the present site of 
the Raleigh Hotel. He gradually built 
up a large trade, and built and moved 
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called the Palais Royal. Residence: 1723 
Massachusetts avenue. Business address; 
Eleventh and G streets, n.w. 

LITCHFIELD, GRACE DENIO, author, 
was born in New York City, on Novem- 
ber 19, 1849, daughter of Edwin Clairk 
and Grace H. (Hubbard) Litchfield. Her 
earliest ancestor to settle in America was 
Lawrence Litchfield, in 1636, who cam^- 
from Kent, England, settling in Massa- 
chusetts. Her eaxly education was ob- 
tained in her own home, and later she 
spent many yeairs abroad under private 
tutors. Lippincott's Magazine, in 1882. 
published her first literary work, The 
Milky Way (a poem), and in 1883 her 
first book was published by G. P. Put- 
nam's Sons. Prominent among her works 
are: The Knight of the Black Forest; 
Criss Cross; A Hard-Won Victory; Lit- 
tle He and She; Mimosa Leaves; Little 
Venice; In the Crucible; The Letter D. 
In the Crucible contains a description 
of the great earthquake of February 23. 
1887, on the Riviera, where she was liv- 
ing at the time. Residence: 2010 Massa- 
chusetts avenue. 

LITSINGER, J. E., clergyman, pastor 
of the Mt. Tabor Methodist Protestant 
Church. Residence: 1921 Thirty-fifth 
street, n.w. 

LITTAUER, LUCIUS NATHAN, man- 
ufacturer, Congressman, was born in 
Gloversville, Fulton County, New York 
on January 20, 1859, son of Nathan and 
Harriet (Sportborg) Littauer. His early 
education was obtained in the Carlisle 
Institute, New York, and later he attended 
Harvard University, graduating with the 
class of 1878. After graduating from col- 
lege he engaged in the glove manufac- 
turing business, the business of his 
father, which has since been his lead- 
ing business. In addition to his glove 
business, he is president and director 
of many other manufacturing corpora- 
tions, banks and trust companies. Previ- 
ous to entering Congress he had never 
held any public office. He represented 
the Twenty-'fifth New York District in 
Congress continuously from the Fifty- 
fourth to the Fifty-ninth Congresses, in- 
clusive. He is the founder of the Nathan 
Littauer Hospital, at Gloversville, New 
York, and is a member of the Metropol- 
itan, University, and Chevy Chase Clubs 
of Washington, and, in politics, is a Re- 
publican. He is a member of the Jew- 
ish Church. Legal .residence: Glovers- 
ville, N. Y. Washington address: House 
of Representatives. 

LITTELL, FRANK BOWERS, educator 
and scientist, was born in Scranton, Penn- 
sylvania, on February 21, 1869, son of 
Henry W. and Marie A. (Bowers) Littell. 
His early education was obtained in the 



public schools of his native town, and, 
from 1887 to 1891, he attended Wesleyan 
University, and, during 1893 and 1894, 
Columbian (now George Washington) 
University, graduating from the latter in- 
stitution with the degree of M. A. From 
1891 to 1896 he was a computer at the 
United States Naval Observatory; during 
1896 and 1897, teacher of mathemacics au 
the Scranton (Penn.) High School, and 
again, from 1897 to 1901, was a computer 
and assistant astronomer in the United 
States Naval Observatory; since 1901, 
has been a professor of mathematics in 
the United States Navy. He is a .mem- 
ber of the Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha 
Delta Phi college fraternities; American 
Association for the Advancement of 
Science; Astronomical and Astrophysical 
Society of America; National Geographic 
Society; Philosophical Society of Wash- 
ington, etc. On April 9, 1902, he mar- 
ried Josephine La Monte Mercereau, and 
is the father of one child. Residence: 2507 
Wisconsin avenue, n.w. 

LITTLE, GEORGE O., Presbyterian 
clergyman, was born in Madison, Indi- 
ana, on May 2, 1839, son of Rev. Henry 
Little, D. D.. His education was obtained 
in the Kimball-Union Academy, at Meri- 
den, N. H., and in Amherst College, at 
Amherst, Mass., graduating in 1860, after 
which he entered the Lane Theological 
Seminary, at Cincinnati, Ohio. Park Col- 
lege, at Parksville, Mo., conferred the de- 
gree of D. D. upon him in 1894. In 1863 
he was ordained to the ministry, and 
from that time until 1873 he served as 
pastor of churches at Vevay, Fort Wayne, 
and Connersville, Indiana. From 1873 to 
1898 he was pastoir of the Assembly's 
Presbyterian Church in Washington, since 
when he has been a professor in the Col- 
lege of Arts and Sciences and the School 
of Theology of Howard University. He 
is the author of The Royal Houses of 
Israel and Judah (1900). On September 
3, 1863, he married Martha H. Mitchell, 
of Mt. Auburn, Cincinnati, Ohio. Resi- 
dence: 1363 Columbia Road, n.w. 

LITTLE, JOHN SEBASTIAN, lawyer. 
Congressiman, was born at Jenny Llnd, 
in Sebastian County, Arkansas, on March 
15, 1853. He attended the common schools 
and the Cane Hill College, in Arkansas, 
and was admitted to the bar in 1874. 
In 1877 he was elected District Attorney 
for the Twelfth Circuit of Arkansas, and 
was re-elected four successive times. He 
was elected to the State Legislature in 
1884, elected Circuit Judge in 1886, and, 
in 1893, he was chosen chairman of the 
State Judicial Convention. In 1894 he 
was elected, without opposition, to fill 
out the unexpired term of C. R. Breck- 
inridge in the Fifty-third Congress, and 
has been ae-elected from the Fourth 
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presses, including' the Fifty-ninth. In 
politics he is a Democrat. Legal resi- 
dence: Greenwood, Ark. Washington ad- 
dress: House of Representatives. 

LITTLEFIELD, CHARLES EDGAR, 

lawyer. Congressman, was born in Leb- 
anon, York County, Maine, on June 21. 
1851. After attending the common schools 
lie took up the study of law, and was 
admitted to the bar in 1876. In 1885 he 
was elected to the Maine State Legisla- 
ture, and was Speaker of that body in 
1887. From 1889 to 1893 he was Attorney- 
General of the State, and, in June, 1899, 
was elected to fill the vacancy in Con- 
gress caused by the death of Hon. Nelson 
Dingley, and was re-elected to represent 
the Second Maine Congressional Districi 
in the Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, Fifty- 
ninth and Sixtieth Congresses. Legal 
residence: Rockland, Maine. Washing- 
ton address: Houes of Representatives. 

LITTLEHALES, GEORGE WASHING- 
TON, hydrographer, was born in Schuyl- 
kill County, Pennsylvania, on October 14, 
1860, son of William H. and Margaret 
(Reber) Littlehales. In 1883 he was 
graduated from the United States Naval 
Academy, and in 1888 (received the de- 
gree of C. E. from Columbian (now George 
Washington) University. For several 
years he has been hydrographic engineer 
of the United States Navy Department, 
and is one of the founders and editors 
of The International Jouirnal of Terres- 
trial Magnetism. He is the author of a 
number of books of a scientific nature, 
among them being: The Development of 
Great Circle Sailing; The Methods and 
Results of the Survey of Lower Califor- 
nia; Sub-Marine Cables; The Forms of 
Isolated Sub- Marine Hear, etc. He is a 
member of the American Association for 
the Advancement of Science; Washing- 
ton Academy of Sciences; Philosophical 
Society of Washington; National Geo- 
graphic Society, and the Cosmos Club. 
On January 26, 1896, he married Helen 
Powers Hill. Residence: 2132 Le Roy 
Place. Office: Navy Department. 

LIVERMORE, WILLJAM R., engineer, 
and army officer, was born in Cambridge, 
Massachusetts, on January 11, 1843, son 
of George L. Livermore. He attended 
the public schools at Cambridge; finished 
the freshman year at Harvard, and grad- 
uated from West Point in 1865, the same 
year toeing appointed a First Lieutenant 
in the Engineer Corps. In 1870 he was 
promoted to Captain; Major in 1884; 
Chief Engineer in 1898, with the rank of 
Lieutenant-Colonel of Volunteers, and as- 
signed to the Seventh Army Corps, and 
later in the same yea.r was advanced to 
Lieutenant-Colonel of the United States 
Engineers. He has been connected with 
fortification work in many parts of the 
country, and has been in charge of many 



important river and harbor surveys of 
the country, and, with English engineers, 
laid the cable from this country to Ha- 
vana in 1868. He Is the author of a sys- 
tem of army tactics and of American 
Kraigsspiel; A Method of Practicing the 
Art of War on a Map, and, Manoeuvers 
for Infantry, etc. On January 18, 1883, 
he married Augusta Keen, of Philadel- 
phia, Penn. Address: War Department. 

LIVINGSTON, LEONIDAS FELIX, 

farmer, Congressman, was born In 
Newton County, Georgia, on April 3, 
1832. His father emigrated to America 
from North Ireland, and during the Rev- 
olutionary War served under General 
Washington. He attended the common 
schools of his native county, and has since 
been engaged in farming. From 1861 t<J 
1865 he served as a private in the Con- 
federate Army; served two terms as a 
member of the State Legislature, and 
one term as a member of the State Sen- 
ate. For eleven years he was vice-pres- 
ident of the Georgia State Agricultural 
Society, and president of the same asso- 
ciation for four years, and president of 
the Georgia State Alliance for three years. 
He has represented the Fifth Georgia 
Congressional District in all Congresses 
since the Fifty-second Congress. In pol- 
itics he is a Democrat. Legal residence: 
Covington, Ga. Washington address: 
House of Representatives. 

LIVINGSTONE, COLIN HAMILTON. 

banker, real estate broker, was born ac 
St. John, New Brunswick, on June 3. 
1863, son of Walter Hamlin and Margaret 
Ellen (Eraser) Livingstone. His direct 
paternal ancestor was Viscount Kileyth 
(Low Livingstone), who was beheaded In 
1745. He was educated at McGill Uni- 
versity, Montreal, graduating in 1886, and 
after graduation became professor of nat- 
ural science at Gramercy Park Polytech- 
nic Institute, New York City, and con- 
ducted private scientific laboratories 
Then he became a publisher, and secre- 
tary of the Committee on Geological Sur- 
vey and of the Interstate Commerce Com- 
mittee of the United States Senate. He 
is now president of the Washington and 
Virginia Real Estate Company, vice- 
president of the American National 
Bank, and of the Great Falls and Old 
Dominion Railroad Company. He has 
been an officer of the West Virginia 
National Guard, and a member and one 
of 'the Incorporators of the University 
Club. He has written. Guide to New 
York City, and. Guide to Brooklyn and 
Long Island. Residence: 1249 Kenyon 
street, n.w. 

LLOYD, DANIEL BOONE, shorthand 
reporter, United States Senate, and 
farmer, was born in Anne Arundel 
County, Maryland, on July 4, 1860, son 
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tended the public schools at Laurel, Md., 
until thirt'en years of age, then assisted 
his father in working the farm on which 
he had been born until the autumn of 
1877, when, having acquired some pro- 
ficiency as a phonographic shorthand 
Wiriter during his intervals of farm worlc 
and at night, he obtained a position a.3 
amenuensis in the office of Dennis F 
Murphy, who was at that time official re- 
porter of the United States Senate. He 
continued in his employ until the death 
of Mr. Murphy, in March, 1896. In 1879 
he settled permanently in Prince George's 
County, Maryland, and only sp?nds such 
time in Washington as is necessary to 
do his shorthand work during the ses- 
sions of Congress. In July, 1881, he went 
to Atlanta, Ga., for six months to assist 
Sam W. Small ("Old Si"), acting as sec- 
retairy to H. I. Kimball, the Director- 
General of the International Cotton Ex- 
position; reporter and editor of the Official 
Expositon Gazette and Post-Appeal, and 
doing miscellaneous reporting; August. 
1882, was appointed stenographer in the 
office of W. B. Thompson, General Super- 
intendent of the Railway Mail Servici^ 
of the Post Office Department. On De- 
cember 1, 1882, he was appointed junior 
member of the corps of official reporters 
of the United States Senate; during the 
next recess of Congress resumed his work 
in the Post Office Department, and on 
June 1, 1883, was, at his own request, 
transferred to the office of H. J. Mc- 
Kusick, Division Superintendent of the 
Railway Mail Service at San Francisco, 
acting as Mr. McKusick's private secre- 
tary. He resigned that position on No- 
vember 1, 1883, to resume his old work 
as a reporter on the Congressional Rec- 
ord. He was clerk of the United States 
Senate Committee on Contingent Expenses 
during the recess of Congress in 1889, and 
was one of the reporters for The Church- 
man, of the Tri-ennial Episcopal Conven- 
tion, which met at Minneapolis, Minn., 
in October, 1895. When, after the death 
of Mr. D. F. Murphy, Mr. Theodore F. 
Shuey and Mr. E. V. Murphy were chosen 
as the official reporters of the Senate, they 
retained Mr. Lloyd as one of their assist- 
ants, which position he now holds. In 
1895 and 1896 he traveled extensively jn 
Europe and the British Isles. During the 
recesses of Congress he spends most of 
his time living on and managing his 
Buena Vista Farm, which is located in 
"The Forest," of Prince George County, 
Maryland, about sixteen miles from 
Washington. On September 12, 1900, he 
married Anna Belle Gray, of Prince 
George County, Maryland, to which union 
have been born a boy and a girl. Resi- 
dence: Buena Vista Farm. Country ad- 
dress: Mitchellville, Md. City office: 
Room Official Reporters, U. S. Senate. 

LLOYD, JAMES TIGHLMAN, lawyer, 
Conugressman, was born in Canton, Lewis 



County, Missouri, on August 28, 1857, son 
of Jere and Frances (Jones) Lloyd. He 
attended the common schools of his na^ 
tive county and later Christian Univer- 
sity, at Canton, Mo., graduating with the 
class of 1878, after which he took up the 
study of law. From 1889 to 1893 he was 
Prosecuting Attorn?y of Shelby County, 
Missouri, and since 1897 has represented 
the First Missouri Congressional District 
in the United States House of Repre- 
sentatives. In 1904 he was chairman 
of the Democratic State Convention, and 
was delegate-at-large to the National 
Democratic Convention. He Is a member 
of the Odd Fellows. Knights of Pythias, 
and the Modern Woodmen of America, 
and a Democrat in politics. On March 
1, 1881, he married Mary B. Graves, be- 
ing the father of four chldren, three of 
whom are living. He is a member of 
the Southern Methodist Episcopal Church. 
Legal residence: Shelbyville, Mo. Wash- 
ington address: House of Representatives. 

LOCKWOOD, BELVA ANN BEN- 
NETT, la(wyer, was born in Royalton, 
New York, on October 24, 1830, daughter 
of Lewis J. and Hannah (Green) Ben- 
nett. She attended Genessee College, at 
Lima, N. Y., graduating with the class 
of 1857, and in 1871 received an M. A. 
degree from Syracuse University. For 
several years after leaving college she 
was engaged in school teaching, and later 
took up the study of law in Washington, 
graduating from the National University 
Law School in 1873, and was admitted to 
the bar of the District of Columbia in 
September of that year. In 1873 she se- 
cured the passage of a bill giving to the 
women employes of the Government equal 
pay iwith men for the same work; in 1875 
secured from Congress an appropriation 
of $50,000 for the payment of bounties 
to sailors and marines, and, in 1879, se- 
cured the passage of a bill admitting 
women to practice in the United States 
Supreme Court, also to the United States 
Court of Claims, having been admitted 
to both courts herself. She has been 
engaged in many important law cases, 
having had charge of several before the 
United States Supreme Court, including 
claims of the Eastern and Emigrant 
Cherokee Indians versus United States, 
assisting other attorneys to secure judg- 
ments amounting to about $5,000,000. In 
1890 she took a course of lectures at 
Oxford, England, and has been promi- 
nent in the temperance, peace, and woman 
suffrage movements in this country, hav- 
ing represented this country at six in- 
ternational peace congresses in Europe, 
including Paris, London, Berne, Antwerp, 
Euda-Pesth, and Milan, Italy. She is 
past president of the Woman's National 
Press Association and the District of 
Columbia Woman's Suffrage Association; 
secretary, American Branch, International 
Peace Bureau, and a member of the gov- 



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erning board of th? League of Press Clubs. 
In 1876 she W3.s sent by the Government 
to r present the United States at thP 
Congress of Charities and Corrections at 
Geneva, Svvitze;Iand. She is the author 
of a number of monographs on peace, 
arbitration, political and social subjects 
and prepared an amendment to the state- 
hood bill before Congress granting suf- 
frage to women in Oklahoma, Arizona and 
New Mexico. She has been twice mar- 
ried, ft st, to Uriah H. McNall, in 1848, 
who died in 1853; second, to Dr. Ezekiel 
Lockiwood, in 1868, who died on April 23, 
1877. Office: 619 F street, n.w. 

LOCKWOOD, MARY SMITH, author, 
was born in Hanover, New York, on Oc- 
tober 24, 1831, daughter of Henry and 
Eeulah (Blodgett) Smith. She is one of 
the founders of the Daughters of the 
American Revolution, and was com - 
mander-at-large of that body at the 
World's Columbian Exposition. She was 
th^ first historian-general of the society, 
which was formed at her home. She is a 
member of the Woman's Suffrage Club 
of Washington; American Historical As- 
sociation; International Press Woman's 
Union, being one of the committee whica 
prepared the History of Woman's Work 
at th^ Exposition. She is the author of 
Historic Homes of Washington; Hand- 
book of Ceramic Art, etc. On September 
15, 1851, she married Henry C. Lockvvood 
Address: The Columbia. 

LODGE, HENRY CABOT, lawyer, au- 
thor. United States Senator, was bo;n 
in Boston, Mass., on May 12, 1850, son 
of John Ellerton and Anna (Cabot) 
Lodge. He fitted for coll ge at Dixwell's 
Latin School; was graduated from Har- 
vard University in 1871, and, after a 
year's travel abroad, entered the Har- 
vard Law School, from which he received 
his degree in 1874. During the succeed- 
ing two years he pursued special studie.; 
in history and jurisprudence, and, in 1876. 
iieceived the degree of Ph. D. for his 
thesis, The Land Law of the Anglo- 
Saxons. In the same year he was ad- 
mitted to the Suffolk bar, and from that 
time on his career has been confined 
chiefly to literature and the public serv- 
ic?. During 1880-81 he was a Represent- 
ative in the Massachusetts Legislature; 
from 1877 to 1893 he was a member of 
the lower house of Congress from the 
Sixth Massachusetts District; in 1893 he 
succeeded Hon. Henry L. Dawes in the 
United Staces Senate, and took his seat 
March 4, 1893. He was le-elected in 1899 
and 1905. He was a delegate to the Re- 
publican National Conventions of 1884. 
1888, 1892, 1896 and 1904; placed Thomas 
B. Reed in nomination for President in 
1896; was permanent chairman of the 
Republican National Convention in Phil- 
adelphia in 1900; was chairman of tho 
Committee on Resolutions in the conven- 
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tion of 1904 at Chicago, and was a mem- 
ber of the Alaskan Boundary Commission, 
under appointment of President Roose- 
velt. He is the author of: Life and Let- 
ters of George Cabot; Short History of 
the English Colonies in Amj-rica; Life of 
Alexander Hamilton; Life of Daniel Web- 
ster; Studies in History; Life of Wash- 
ington (two volumes); History of Bos- 
ton; Historical and Political Essays: 
Hero Tales from American History (with 
Theodore Roosevelt); Certain Acc?pted 
Heroes, and Other Essays; Story of the 
Revolution (two volumes); Story of the 
Spanish War; A Fighting Frigate, and 
Other Essays and Addresses. He has ed- 
ited: Ballads and Lyrics; CompLte 
Works of Alexander Hamilton (nine vol- 
umes); Andre's Journal, and. The Fed- 
eralist. During 1876 and 1879 he lectured 
on American History at Harvard Univer- 
sity; edited the North American Review, 
1879-81; lectured before Lowell Institute, 
Boston, on American Colonial History; 
elected overseer of Harvard College, 1884, 
and was regent of the Smithsonian In- 
stitute, 1889-95. He is a member of the 
Massachusetts Historical Society, the "Vir- 
ginia. Historical Society, the American 
Academy of Arts and Science, the New 
England Historic and Genealogical Soci- 
ety, and the American Antiquarian Soci- 
ety. He has received the degree of LL D 
from Williams College, and Clark, Yale, 
and Harvard Universities. On June 29, 
1871 he married Anna Cabot Mills Davis, 
daughter of Rear Admiral Charles H. 
Davis, and has three children — Mrs. G. P. 
Gardner, George Cabot Lodge, and John 
Ellerton Lodge. Legal residence: Nahant. 
Mass. Washington address: 1765 Mas- 
sachusetts avenue. 

LODOR, RICHARD, army officer, was 
born in New York, on October 29, 1832. 
In 1852 he entered the United States Mil- 
itary Academy from New Jersey, grad- 
uating in 1856. On July 1, 1856, he was 
appointed brevet Second Lieutenant in 
the Fou (th United States Artillery; Sec- 
ond Lieutenant, October 31, 1856; pro- 
moted to First Lieutenant on February 
1, 1861; Captain on November 29, 1861; 
Major in the Third Artillery, 1879; Lieu- 
tenant-Colmel of the Fifth Artillery, 1888. 
On May 1, 1890, he was transferred to the 
First Artillery; Colonel of the Second 
Artillery, 1892, and retired on October 29, 
1896. Later he was advanced to the rank 
of Brigadier-General, U. S. A., retired. 
On December 31. 1S62, he was brevetted 
a Major for gallant and meritorious serv- 
ices in the battle of Stone River, Tenn.. 
and on March 13, 1865, a brevet Colonel 
and Lieutenant-Colonel for gallant and 
meritorious services during the war. Ad- 
dress: War Department. 

LOEB, JULIUS TUKACHINER, Jew- 
ish Rabbi, was born at Brest-Litovvsk, 
Russia, on April 22, 1869, son of Aaron 
and Taube Loeb. His brother. Rev. 



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Jechiel Michel Tukazinski, a son-in-law 
of the venerable Chief Rabbi Samuel 
Salant, of Jerusalem, is supervisor of thf 
two great rabbinical institutions of that 
city, Beth-Talmud-Torah-Hakelali, and 
Yeshibath - Etz - Chayim - Hagedolah. He 
was educated in a private school from 
1874 to 1880; at the Talmud-Torah, at 
Brest, in Talmudic and secular studies; 
under the private tutorship of Herr 
Lazereff, superintendent of schools of 
Brest, and the Yeshiba at Volozin, where 
he completed a rabbinical course. He way 
ordained in 1887, and, on account of his 
liberal views on politics and social con- 
ditions in Russia, came to the United 
States in 1890. He was rabbi of the Con- 
gregation Bikur-Cholim, Brooklyn, N. Y., 
for five years; from April, 1887, to Octo- 
ber, 1889, of Adath Israel, Nashville, 
Tenn.; of B'nai Jacob, South Brooklyn, 
for two years; and, on August 1, 1901. 
accepted a call from Adath Israel, Wash- 
ington, D. C, with which he has since 
■remained. Through his efforts and zeal. 
a commodious house of worship is now 
being erected and the orthodox commu- 
nity firmly established. He is a member 
of Harmony Lodge, F. A. A. M.; pres- 
ident of Grace Aguilar Lodge, I. O. B'nai 
B'rith; member of the Board of United 
Hebrew Charities; one of the directors 
of the Hebrew Relief Society; member of 
the I. O. B'rith Abraham, and of the local 
Zionist societies. From early youth he 
has been a prolific contributor to the 
periodical press; has been a vigorous 
defender of the Zionist movement, and 
has been untiring in his efforts to pre- 
vent the persecution of his own race, and 
to insure humanitarian safeguards wher- 
ever needed. He was a member of the 
Committee of Five to collect funds for 
the relief of the victims of the Kishineff 
and other Russian outrages. He is a 
master of several languages; has in man- 
uscript form for publication the following 
books: The Universal Bearing of the 
Hebrew Faith; Jesus, the Nazarine, from 
a Scientific Standpoint (translated from 
Yiddish of M. Bukansky), and. Queen 
Esther, a dramatization of the Biblical 
narrative in five acts, fourteen scenes. 
In March, 1890, he married Gertrude 
Lifshitz, of Russia, and has six children. 
Address: 1509 First street, n.w. 

LOEB, WILLIAM, JR., Secretary to the 
President of the United States, was born 
in Albany, New York, on October 9, 1866. 
He was educated in the common and 
high schools, and became stenographer 
for the New York State Assembly in 1883 
later law and general reporter. He ha« 
acted as private secretary to a numbei- 
of public men, among them being presi- 
dent pro tempore of the New York State, 
Senate, Speaker of the Assembly, and 
the Lieutenant-Governor. In 1894 he was 
one of the stenographers of the New 
York State Constitutional Convention; 



stenographer for the grand jury and the 
District Attorney of Albany County in 
1895. On January 1, 1899, he was ap- 
pointed stenographer and private secre- 
tary to Theodore Roo.sevelt, when he was 
Governor of New York, and continued in 
the same capacity while he was Vice- 
President. When Mr. Roosevelt succeeded 
President McKinley in the White House 
Mr. Loeb acted as assistant secretary 
until February 18, 1903, when he became 
private secretary to the President. Resi- 
dence: 1218 New Hampshire avenue, n.w. 
Office: The White House. 

LOFTON, WILLIAM S., dentist, was. 
born in Batesville, Arkansas, on March 2, 
1862, son of William and Martha Lofton. 
He was educated in the Washington pub- 
lic schools, the Spencerian Business Col- 
lege, and was graduated from Howard 
University Dental School (D. D. S.) in 
1888. From 1891 to 1894 he was demon- 
strator of prosthetic dentistry in Howard 
University, and is now engaged in the 
general practice of dentistry in Washing- 
ton. He is corresponding dental secre- 
tary of the National Medical Association- 
of Physicians, Dentists and Pharmacists. 
Republican. Unmarried. Residence: 1523 
M street, n.w. 

LOFTUS, EDWARD H., First Secretary 
of Siamese Embassy. Address: The Arl- 
ington. 

LOGAN, MARY SIMMERSON CUN- 
NINGHAM, (Mrs. John A.), author, was 
born in Petersburg, Boone County, Mis- 
souri, on August 15, 1838, daughter of 
Captain John M. and Elizabeth H. Cun- 
ningham. She was educated at the Con- 
vent of St. Vincent, in Kentucky. She 
edited the Home Magazine when published 
in Washington, and has been a member 
of the editorial staff of the New York 
American-Journal, and has been a con- 
tributor to leading magazines and daily 
newspapers. On November 27, 1855, she 
married John A. Logan, at Shawneetown, 
Illinois, who was at that time a crim- 
inal lawyer, subsequently a member of 
the Illinois State Legislature; member 
of Congress from Illinois; Colonel of the 
Thirty-first Regiment of Illinois Volun- 
teers, 1861, and a General in the Civil 
War, and later United States Senator. 
Residence: Calumet Place, Thirteencii 
and Clifton streets. 

LOGAN, OLIVE, author, was born in 
Elmira, New York, on April 22, 1839, 
daughter of Cornelius A. and Elizabeth 
Logan. She was educated in the Meth- 
odist Female Seminary and the Academy 
of the Sacred Heart, in Cincinnati, soon 
afterward becoming a successful lecturer, 
and was prominent on the stage. She is 
the author of a number of books, and has 
written much for leading magazines in 
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works may be mentioned: Photographs 
of Paris Life (1861); Chatteau Frissac 
(1865); Women and Theaters (1869); 
The Memic World (1871); Get Thee Be- 
hind Me, Satan (1872), etc.; also a com- 
edy, called, Surf, or Life at Long Branch, 
which was produced by one of Augustine 
Daly's companies, and a dramatization of 
Wilkie Collins' Armadale, and transla- 
tions of Francois Coppee's Le Passant, 
which was produced at the Princess The- 
ater, in London, in 1887. In 1872 she was 
married to William Wirt Sikes, who was 
later appointed United States Consul to 
Cardiff, Wales, by President Grant, and 
died in 1883; in 1892 she married James 
O'Neill Logan. 

LOMAX, LUNSFORD LINDSAY, army 
officer, was born at Newport, Rhode Is- 
land, on November 4, 1835, son of Majoj 
Mann Page and Elizabeth (Lindsay) Lo- 
max. His preparatory education was ob- 
tained at Norfolk, Va., after which he 
entered the United States Military Acad- 
emy, graduating with the class of 1856, 
at which time he entered the regular 
army as a First Lieutenant of United 
States Cavalry; served until 1861, wher 
he resigned to enter the Confederate serv- 
ice, where he attained the rank of Major- 
General, and commanded the division cf 
cavalry in the Army of Northern Virginia. 
For several years he has been a clerk in 
the United States War Department. On 
February 17, 1873, he married Miss B. M. 
Payne, at Markham, Va. Residence: 
Warrenton, Va. Office: War Depart- 
ment. 

LONDON, JOHN H. (D. D. S.), Presi- 
dent of the Board of Dental Examiners 
of the District of Columbia. Address: 926 
Farragut Square. 

LONG, CHESTER L, lawyer, United 
States Senator, was born in Perry County, 
Pennsylvania, on October 12, I860, and 
removed with his parents to Daviess 
County, Missouri, in 1865, where he re- 
sided until 1879, when he located at 
Paola, Kansas. After receiving an aca- 
demic education he took up the study of 
law, and was admitted to the bar in 1885. 
at which time he took up his residence 
at Medicine Lodge, where he has since 
resided. In 1889 he was elected to the 
State Senate, and was a member of the 
Fifty-fourth, Fifty-sixth and Fifty- 
seventh Congresses, and was elected tJ 
the Fifty-eighth Congress. In 1903 he 
was elected to the United States Senate, 
to succeed William A. Han is, a Demo- 
crat. In politics he is a Republican. His 
term of office in the United States Sen- 
ate will expire March 3, 1909. Legal res- 
idence: Medicine Lodga, Kansas. Wash- 
ington residence: 1455 Massachusetts av- 
enue, n.vv. 

LONGENECKER, EDWIN, naval offi- 
cer, was born in Pennsylvania, and was 



graduated from the United States Naval 
Academy In 1865. In 1866 he was pro- 
moted to Ensign; Master In 1868; Lieu- 
tenant in 1869; Lieutenant-Commander 
in 1881, and Captain in 1899. He has 
served on many duties and stations, and 
in 1878 saw service at the Paris Expo- 
sition. In 1898 he was Commander of 
the League Island Navy Yard; Naval 
Station at Port Royal, 1901, and the 
Naval Station at Charleston, S. C, in 
1903. Address: Navy Department. 

LONGSTREET, JAMES, ex-soldier, 
and, since November 2, 1897, United 
States Commissioner of Pacific Railroads, 
was born in Edgefield District, South 
Carolina, on January 8, 1821, son of James 
L. Longstreet. After graduating from the 
United States Military Academy, in 1842, 
he saw service in the Mexican, Indian, 
and Civil Wars, and during the Mexican 
War won the title of Major at the bat- 
tle of Molino del Rey. At the outbreak 
of the Civil War he entered the Con- 
federate Army, and served as Brigadier- 
General and Major-General, and, from 
1862 to 1865, was Lieutenant-General, in 
command of the First Army Corps of the 
Army of Northern Virginia. He was in 
command at many battles, and at the 
battle of the Wilderness May, 1864, was 
wounded by his own troops. After the 
war he was appointed Supervisor of Cus- 
toms at New Orleans by President Grant, 
and later Supervisor of Internal Revenue 
and Postmaster at Gainesville, Georgia. 
He has been United States Minister to 
Turkey and United States Marshal for 
Geoigia. On September 8, 1897, he mar- 
ried Helen Dortch, of Georgia. Address: 
Old Post Office Building. 

LONGWORTH, NICHOLAS, lawyer, 
banker, Congressman, was born in Cin- 
cinnati, Ohio, on November 5, 1869, son 
of Judge Nicholas and Susan (Walker; 
Longworth and great-grandson of Niche- 
las Longworth, a lawyer of note who re- 
moved to Cincinnati from New Jersey 
in 1803, and subsequently attained to 
large wealth through successful real es- 
tate and other business transactions. Hi.s 
father was a successful lawyer and 
judge of common pleas; afterwards 
served on the supreme bench of Ohio; 
gave liberally of 'his time to literary and 
art studies; trave-led abroad extensively; 
was an enthusiastic canoeist, and was 
the author of a translation of the Plec- 
tra of Sophocles, and a descriptive ro- 
mance, entitled, A Fanciful Adventure in 
the Moon. Nicholas, Jr., fitted for col- 
lege at the Franklin School, in Cincin- 
nati, and was graduated from Harvard 
University, A. B., in 1891. He attended 
Harvard Law School one year, then en- 
tered the Cincinnati Law School, from 
which he received the degree of LL. B.. 
in 1894, and was admitted to the bar 
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a member of the Board of Education af 
Cincinnati; in 1899 and 1901, was a Re- 
publican member of the Ohio House of 
Representatives; 1901-03, was a mem- 
ber of the Ohio Senate, and was elected 
to the Fifty-eig-hth Congress from the 
First Ohio District in 1902, and 'has been 
re-elected to subsequent Congresses. He 
is at present member of the House Com- 
mittees on Foreign Affairs, and Pensions. 
In 1905 he was a member of the Tafc 
party on its tour of inspection to the 
Philippine Islands and other Oriental 
countries. On February 17, 1906, he mar- 
ried Alice, daughter of President Theo- 
dore Roosevelt. Legal residence: Cincin- 
nati, Ohio. Washington address: 831 
Eighteenth street, n.w. 

LORD, EDWIN CHESLEY ESTES, 

geologist, petrographer, was born m 
Brooklyn, New York, on May 7, 1868, 
son of Charles W. and Mary A. T. Lord. 
He was prepared for college in Brooklyn. 
N. Y., and graduated in Brunswick, Ger- 
many, and holds an M. S. degree from 
Harvard and a Ph. D. from Heidelberg. 
From 1898 to 1901 he was professor of 
geology and mineralogy in Hamilton Col- 
lege (N. Y.), and assistant in mineralogy 
and petrography in Harvard University, 
and since November 1, 1901, has been 
appointed petr grapher in the United 
States Department of Agriculture. He 13 
the author of a number of bulletins and 
scientific papers, among them being: Dis- 
sertation on the Basalts of the Fichtel- 
gebirge, Bavaria (published in Heidel- 
berg), etc. He is married, and a mem- 
ber of the Cosmos Club. Residence: The 
Sheridan. Office: U. S. Department of 
Agriculture. 

LORIMER, WILLIAM, building contrac- 
tor. Congressman, was born in Manches- 
ter, England, on April 27, 1861, and when 
five ye^rs of age removed with his parents 
to America. At the age of twelve he 
was a sign painter's apprentice, and later 
worked in packing-houses and for a 
street railway company in Chicago. In 
1866 he embarked in the real estate 
business, and soon after became a mem- 
ber of the firm of Murphy & Lorimer, 
builders and manufacturers, and is now 
the senior member of the firm of Lorimer 
& Gallagher, contractors, in Chicago. He 
has served as supe:intendent of water 
main extensions and superintendent of 
the water department of Chicago. Since 
1895 he has represented the Sixth Illi- 
nois Congressional District in Congres.-s. 
Legal residence: Chicago, 111. Washing- 
ton address: House of Representatives. 

LOTHROP, ALVIN M., merchant, was 
born in South Acton, Massachusetts, 
about 1849. Since 1870 he has been the 
junior member of the firm of Woodward 
& Lothrop, proprietors of the Boston 



House. In addition to his connection with 
the above mentioned firm, he is promi- 
nently identified with many other lead- 
ing business enterprises of the city, 
among them being the Union Savings 
Bank, Equitable Building and Loan Asso- 
ciation, Acetylene Company, etc. He is 
a Mason and prominent in many other 
fraternal organizations. Resirlence: 1303 
K street, n.w. Office: Eleventh and F 
streets, n.w. 

LOUD, GEORGE ALVIN, Congress- 
man, was born in Geauga County, Ohio, 
on June 18, 1852. For a number of years 
he has been associated with his father 
and bothers in the lumber business in 
the State of Michigan. He has repre- 
sented the Tenth Michigan Congressional 
District in the Fiftv-eighth and F<"ifty- 
ninth Congresses, and has been re-elected 
to the Sixtieth, the Democrats having 
offer d no opposition to his re-electi'^n. In 
politics he has always been a Republican. 
Legal residence: Au Sable, Michigan. 
Washington address: House of Repre- 
sentatives. 

LOUDENSLAGER, HENRY CLAY. 

Congressman, was born in Maurice- 
town, New Jersey, on May 22, 1852. In 
1872 he removed to Philadelphia, Penn., 
where he engag3d in business for ten 
years. In 1882 he was elected County 
Clerk, and re-elected in 1887. He has 
represented the First New Jersey Con- 
gressional District in the United States 
Cong; ess continuously since 1893. In pol- 
itics he is a Republican. Legal residence: 
Paulsboro, N. J. Washington address: 
House of Representatives. 

LOVERING, WILLIAM 0., manufac- 
turer, Congressman, was born in Rhode 
Island in 1835. He attended the Cam- 
bridge (Mass.) High School and the Hop- 
kins Classical School, after which he 
engaged in the cotton manufacturin.g 
busln ss, and is now interested in a num- 
ber of the leading manufacturing concern.^ 
of New England. During the Civil War 
he served as an engineer at Fort Mon- 
roe, but was retired from service as an 
invalid. In 1874 and 1875 he was a mem- 
ber of the Massachusetts State Senate, 
and was a delegate to the National Re- 
publican Convention in 1880. He ha^ rep- 
resented the Fourteenth Massachusetts 
Congressional District in the Fifty-fifih 
and subsequent Congresses. In politics 
,he is a Republican. Legal \residence: 
Taunton, Mass. Washington address: 
House of Representatives. 

LOW, A. MAURICE, journalist, was 
born in London, England, in 1860, and was 
educated in King's College, London, and 
in Austria. He has been in charge of 
the Washington bureau of the Boston 
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was chief American correspondent for 
the London Chronicle. International and 
political topics have been his specialty, 
and since 1896 he has written regularly 
for the National Review, of London, upon 
these subjects. He has been a contribu- 
tor to many leading English and Amer- 
ican magazines, and is the author of The 
Supreme Surrender, which appeared in 
1901. Residence: 1730 Connecticut ave- 
nue, n.w. Office: 1412 G street, n.w. 

LOWDEN, FRANK ORREN, lawyer, 
farmer. Congressman, was born in Sun- 
rise City, Minn sota, on January 26, 1861, 
son of Lorenzo Orren and Nancie E. 
(Breg) Lowden. He was educated in the 
common schools at Point Pleasant, Iowa, 
and was graduated from the Iowa State 
University as valedictorian of his class 
in 1885, and from the Union College of 
Law in Chicago, with the same honor, 
in 1887. He was admitted to the Illinois 
bar in July, 1887, in which State he has 
since practiced his profession. He was 
president of the Law Club of Chicago 
in 1898; Lieutenant-Colonel, First Infan- 
try, Illinois National Guard, 1898, and 
professor in the Northwestern University 
Law School in 1899. In 1900 he was ten- 
dered the office of First Assistant Post- 
master-Geneial, and was a delegate t) 
the National Republican Convention in 
1900 and 1904. He was a member of the 
Illinois Republican National Committee, 
and its executive committee, during the 
campaign of 1904. He was elected to tha 
Sixtieth Congress from the Thirteenth 
Illinois District. He is a trustee of Knox 
College, University of Chicago, Chicago 
Iowa Association, Northwestern Univer- 
sity Law School, and a member of a num- 
ber of social clubs. He is a member of 
the American, Illinois and Chicago Bar 
Associations. On April 29, 1896, he mar- 
ried Florence, daughter of George M. 
Pullman, in Chicago. Legal residence; 
Oregon, 111. Washington address: Housj 
of Representatives. 

LOWE, JOHN, retired naval officer, was 
born in Liverpool, England, on December 
11, 1838, son of John Lowe. He w.as edu- 
cated at Liverpool and at Columbus, 01;iio, 
preparing for a civil engineering career. 
In 1861, at the outbreak of the Civil War, 
he enlisted as a private in the S cond 
Ohio Regiment, and in August of the 
same year received an appointment to the 
United States Naval Academy through 
S. S. Cox, a member of Congress. He 
was a member of the Greeley relief ex- 
pedition in 1884, and has served at vari- 
ous stations; in 1898 he was the li.st 
naval officer of any nationality to see 
submarine seivice in a submarine tor- 
pedo boat, and made the first report ever 
made to the Secretary of the Navy oa 
the subject. On December 11, 1900, ne 
was retired from active service, with the 



rank of Rear Admiral. After retirement 
he participated in experiments, with a 
few other men, in a submarine boat sub- 
merged to the bottom of the Peconic Bay 
for fifteen hours. He is an honorary mem- 
ber of the American Yacht Club; mem- 
ber of the Naval Architects' and Engi- 
neers' Society; American Society of Naval 
Engineers; Loyal Legion; Grand Army 
of the Republic, etc. He married Jose- 
phine L., daughter of George B. Dyer, of 
Washington. Address: Navy Depart- 
ment. 

LUCAS, ANTHONY FRANCIS, mining 
engineer, was born at Trieste, Austria, 
on S?ptember 9, 1855, son of Captain 
Francis Stephen and Johanna (Giovan- 
izio) Lucas. He was educated at the 
Polytechnic Academy of Gratz, Austria, 
1874-77, and took a post-graduate course 
in mining engineering. He is a member 
of the Cosmos Club, the American Insti- 
tute of Mining Engineers, the Franklin 
Institute, and the American Association 
for the Advancement of Science. He has 
written various monographs an economic 
geology, and discovered several beds of 
crystal salt rock, among which was one 
for the actor, Joseph Jefferson, which 
proved very profitable. He cieated a 
precedent in finding and producing petro- 
leum in Texas and Louisiana. On the 
22d of September, 1887, he married Caro- 
line We d Fitzgerald, by whom he has 
one living child. Residence: 1406 Six- 
teenth street, n.w^. 

LUCE, STEPHEN BLEECHER, naval 
officer, was born in Albany, New York, 
on March 25, 1827, son of Vinal and 
Charlotte (Bleecher) Luce. He was ap- 
pointed Midshipman on October 19, 1841; 
circumnavigated the glove on the Colum- 
bus with Commodore James Biddle, 1845- 
48; served on the coast of California dur- 
ing the Mexican War, 1846-47; was at- 
tached to the astronomical party under 
Lieutenant James M. Gillis in December, 
1852, and to the United States Coast Sur- 
vey, 1854-57. He was promoted Lieuten- 
ant September 16, 1855; Third Lieutenant 
of the Wabash, flagship of the blockading 
squadron off the coast of South Carolina, 
1861, and participated in the battle of 
Port Royal. He took command of the 
practice ship Macedonian on 'the Euro- 
pean cruise, June 1, 1863, and from 1863- 
65 on the North Atlantic Blockading 
Squadron, engaged the Confederate forts, 
Sumter, Moultrie, and Battery Marshall. 
He relieved Commodore Fairfax at the 
Naval Academy as Commandant of Mid- 
shipment in October, 1865; commanded 
the Mohongo and the Juanita, 1866-72; 
was commissioned Captain December 28, 
1872; commanded the Hartford, flagship 
of the North Atlantic Squadron, in No- 
vember, 18(5; the training ship Minnesota, 
1878-81, and was commissioned Commo- 



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dore November 25, 18S1. He was made 
president of the Naval War College Sep- 
itember 20, 1864; promoted Rear Admiral 
October 5, 1885, and retired March 25, 
1889. He was Commissioner-General to 
the Columbian Historical Exposition at 
Madrid in 1892, and the next year the 
Queen Regent conferred the Grand Cross 
of Naval Merit, with the whi'te distinctive 
m.ark, for services as a delegate. H^ 
was an associate editor of Johnson's Uni- 
versal Encyclopedia. He was married, on 
December 7, 1854, to Eliza, daughter of 
Commodore John D. Heuley. Address: 
Navy Department. 

LUDLOW, N I COLL, naval officer, was 
born at Riverside, Long Island, on Sep- 
tember 11, 1842, son of William Handy 
land Francis Louisa (NicoU) Ludlow. He 
entered the Naval Academy October 28, 
1859; served on the Iroquois, of the Asi- 
atic Squadron, 1866-70, and was an In- 
structor in gunnery at the Academy, 1870- 
73. He was on the Trenton, flagship of 
the European Station, 1877-80, and re- 
turned to the U. S. S. Constellation; was 
promoted Commander October 1, 1881, and 
in command of Mohican, of the Pacific 
Squadron, January to November, 1893, 
being senior officer in command of the 
Bering Sea Squadron during that time. 
He commanded the monitor Terror in 
the war with Spain up to September 22, 
1898; was then transferred to the Mas- 
sachusetts till June, 1899; was promoted 
Rear Admiral November 1 of the same 
year, and retired voluntarily after forty 
years' sevice. He was married, first, on 
May 12, 1870, to Frances Mary Tnomas, 
of Bloomfield, New York, and, second, 
on February 15, 1897, to Mrs. Mary Mc- 
Lean Bugher, of Cincinnati, Ohio. Resi- 
dence: 14 Lafayette Square. 

LUDLOW, WALTER WELLS, Chief 
Clerk of the Treasury Department, was 
born on February 26, 1856, son of Rho 
Denton and Phoebe J. (Hopkins) Ludlow. 
He was educated at the Penn Yan 
(N. Y.) Academy and at the National Uni- 
versity Law School, Washington, whero 
'he was graduated in 1889, taking a post- 
graduate course ii> 1890, and received the 
honorary degrees of M. A. and LL. B. 
He became Master of Masonic Lodge, No. 
7, Washington, in 1894, iand since then 
has been its secretary, and was Hign 
Priest of Lafayette Chapter of Royal Arch 
Masons in 1892. Residence: 712 Twenti- 
eth street, n.vv. Office: Treasury Depart- 
ment. 

LUEBKERT, OTTO, Washintgon Man- 
ager of the American Audit Company and 
Treasurer of the American Forestry As- 
sociation. Residence: 1804 R street, n.w. 
Office: Colorado Building. 

LUNG, GEORGE AUGUSTUS, medical 
officer, U. S. N., was born at Canandaigua, 



New York, on December 21, 1862, son of 
Rev. A. H. and Catherine (Deck) Lung 
He was graduated from the University 

of Rochester with the class of 1883; M. A., 
in 1901, and was graduated from the 
University of Pennsylvania, medical de- 
partment, in 1886. In 1888 he was ap- 
pointed an Assistant Surgeon in the 
United States Navy; was promoted to 
Past Assistant Surgeon in 1892, and Sur- 
geon in 1900. He bias served on various 
vessels and stations, and was with 
Sampson's squadron in Cuban waters dur- 
ing the Spanish-American War, after- 
ward seeing service on the U. S. S. Phil- 
adelphia in the annexation of Hawaii and 
in the Samoan difficulties. In 1900 he was 
with the China relief expedition, and was 
the senior medical officer with the First 
Regiment of United States Marines to 
Peking, and was District Surgeon of the 
Peninsula of Cavite, in the Philippine Is- 
lands in 1901. He is a member of thb 
Society of Military Surgeons, the Chevy 
Chase and Army and Navy Clubs. Ad- 
dress: Army and Navy Club. 

LUSK, JAMES LORING, army officer, 
was born in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, on 
February 1, 1855, son of Ames and Agnes 
S. (Clow) Lusk. After graduating from 
West Point in 1878 he was appointed a 
Second Lieutenant; promoted to First 
Lieuteinant in 1881; Captain in 1888; 
Major in 1898, and Lieutenant-Colonel 
and Chief Engineer of the United States 
Volunteers the same year. He has served 
on various duties with the army engi- 
neers, and has been assistant instructor 
and instructor of military engineering at 
the United States Military Academy. 
Since 1899 he has been a member of the 
United States Board of Geographic 
Names, and Assistant to the Chief of 
Engineers of the United States Army 
since September 19, 1898. He is a mem- 
ber of the American Society of Civil En- 
gineers, the National Geographic Society, 
Sons of the American Revolution, the 
Chevy Chase Club, etc. Residence: The 
Mendota. Office: War Department. 

LYDECKER, GARRETT J., army of- 
ficer, was born in New Jersey, on No- 
vember 15, 1843. He was graduated from 
the United States Military Academy m 
1864; promoted to Captain August 8. 
1866; Colonel, May 2, 1901, and was ati 
engineer officer in the last year of the 
Civil War. Brevetted Captain April 2, 
1865, for gallant and meritorious serv- 
ices in the siege of Petersburg, Va. Has 
been engineer on river and harbor work 
at Galveston, Michigan City, New Or- 
leans, Chicago, Detroit, etc. Address: 
War Department. 

LYMAN, CATALENA YATES HAM- 
LIN, was born at Saugerties, New York, 
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Tompkins and Sarah (Van Dyck) Hamlin. 
Her maternal ancestors came to the New 
York Colony with the Duke of York, 
whose name was James Yeates, under 
whom Henry Van Dyck was "Shoute 
Fiscal" (treasurer). She is a member of 
the Protestant Episcopal Church, and a 
Daughter of the American Revolution. She 
was married, May 22, 1869, to Dr. William 
Cullen Lyman, U. S. N. Residence: 1822 
New Hampshire avenue, n.w. 

LYMAN, CHARLES, Government offi- 
cial, was born in Bolton, Tolland County, 
Connecticut, on April 10, 1843, son of 
Jacob and Dorcas C. (Chapman) Lyman. 
His earliest ancestor, Richard Lyman, 
came to America in 1631, and was one 
of the originial settlers of Connecticut at 
Hartford. His early education was ob- 
tained in tho, common and high schools 
of his native town, Bryant & Stratton 
Business College, in Connecticut, and he 
later entered the National University Law- 
School, graduating in 1874. Much of his 
life has been spent in public service; has 
been president and chief examiner of the 
United States Civil Service Commission; 
assistant chief and chief of the Division 
of Printing and Stationery in the Treas- 
ury Department; chief clerk in the 
Treasurer's office, and is now chief of the 
Division of Appointments in the United 
States Treasury Department. At the out- 
break of the Civil War he enlisted as n, 
private, and commanded a company at 
the age of nineteen. He is the author jf 
a number of Government reports, and 
compiled the book entitled. Laws Relat- 
ing to Loans, Currency and Coinage. For 
twelve years he has been president of 
the International Building and Loan Asso- 
ciation; la member of the Army and Navj' 
Club of Connecticut; Loyal Legion; Sons 
of the American Revolution; Nationa' 
Geographic Society; Washington Society 
of the American Institute of Archaeology, 
and, in politics, a Republican. On June 
7, 1865, he married Amelia B. Campbell, 
and is a member of the Presbyteriaa 
Church. Residence: The Ontario. Office: 
U.S. Treasury Department. 

LYNN, R. HENRY, banker, was born 
in 1867, in Loudoun County, Virginia. He 
was graduated from the Richmond Bap- 
tist College; spent a year in Iowa in 
banking, and then returned to become 
cashier of the Loudoun National Bank, 
at the age of twenty-two. He soon after 
came to Washington to become cashier 
of the American National Bank. He is 
a director in the Bank of Commerce of 
Richmond, and of the Consolidated Na- 
tional Bank of New York City, and is a 
member of the Washington Stock Ex- 
change. Residence: The Farragut. Office: 
American National Bank. 

..LYNN, WILLIAM LEE, Methodist- 
Episcopal clergyman, was born in Occo- 



quan. Prince William County, Virginia, 
on May 19, 1875, son of William A. and 
Rebecca A. Lynn. After finishing his 
preliminary education in the Virginia and 
District of Columbia private and public 
schools he began study for the ministry. 
During 1899 and 1900 he was pastor of 
Congress Heights Churches; Bradburn 
Memorial Church, in Washington, 1901- 
04, and from 1905 to the present time ha.s 
been pastor of the Gorsuch Methodist- 
Episcopal Church, in Washington. He is 
a Mason, and a member of the Mount 
Vernon Council of the Junior Order of 
the American Mechanics. On May 19, 
1903, he married A. T. Gardner, of Wash- 
ington, D. C, to which union has been 
born one child. Residence: 1132 Four- 
and-a-Half street, s.w. 

LYON, HENRY WARE, naval officer, 
was born in Massachusetts, and gradu- 
ated from the United States Naval Acad- 
emy in 1S66. In 1866 he was promoted to 
Ensign; Master in 1869; Lieutenant in 
1870; Lieutenant-Commander in 1884; 
Commander in 1893, and Captain in 1890. 
He saw his first sea service on the Sac- 
ramento, which was lost off the coast of 
India. In 1901 he was in command of 
the U. S. S. Olympia. Address: Navy 
Department. 

LYONS, JUDSON WHITLOCKE, law- 
yer, was born in Burk County, Georgia, 
on August 15, 1858. He was graduated 
from the Howard University Law School 
in 1884, and was admitted to the bar at 
Augusta, Ga., the same year, where he 
was engaged in the practice of his pro- 
fession until 1898, when he was appointed 
Register of the United States Treasury 
by President McKinley. He served until 
1905, when he retired, to again take 
up the private practice of law. He was 
a delegate to the Republican National 
Conventions of 1880, 1892, 1896 and 190U 
and represented the Republican National 
Committee for Georgia in the National 
Conventions of 1896 and 1900. In 1890 
he married Janip Hoke. Residence: 132" 
T street, n.w. 

LYONS, TIMOTHY AUGUSTINE, 

naval officer, was born in Ireland, 
on May 25, 1845. He was graduated from 
the United States Naval Academy in 
1865, and has served on ships in the 
North Atlantic, European, Pacific, and 
Asiatic Squadrons, and has seen duty at 
the Naval Academy, Navy Department, 
and in New York. In 1897 he was retired 
on account of physical disability, with 
the rank of Commander. He is the authj-- 
of a number of books, and has contributei 
to many of the leading scientific journals. 
Among his books may be mentioned: 
Meteorological Charts of the North Pa- 
cific Ocean (1878); Magnetism of Iron 
and Steel Ships (1884)j Treatise on 



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Electro-Magnetic Phenomena and on the 
Compa?s and Its Divinations Aboard Ship 
(two volumes, 1901-03), etc. On Septem- 



ber 14, 1871, he married Marie BUnche 
Humbert, in New York. Add.ess: Navy 
Department. 



M 



McAEGY, THEODORE NEVIN, ac- 
countant, was born in Allegheny, Penn- 
sylvania, on January 25, 1855, son of Re'^ 
Dr. Leland Reid and Ma:y (Christy) Mc- 
Aboy. He was educated at the Wither- 
spoon Institute, at Butler, Penn.; Duff's 
College, Pittsburg, Penn., and by private 
tutor. For several years he has been 
•accountant for the Chesapeake and Ohio 
Canal and Canal Towage Company. He 
is a member of the Protestant Episcopal 
Church, the Chevy Chase Club, and, in 
politics, is a De>moc:at. On November 23, 
1898, he married Alice Bland (Plater) 
Brockenbraugh, who died August 16, 1905. 
Residence: Hammond Court. 

McARDLE, THOMAS EUGENE, physi- 
cian, was born in Washington, D. C, ou 
April 12, 1852, son of Owen and Ann 
(Toumey) McArdle. In 1875 he was grad- 
uated f. om the University of St. Mary, 
at Baltimore (A. M., in 1879), and began 
the study of medicine in Georgetown Uni- 
versity, graduating in 1879. In 1880 he 
was assistant editor of the Walsh Retro- 
spect, and since 1898 has been editor an(\ 
publisher of the National Medical Review, 
and has contributed many articles to the 
leading medical journals. He is a mem- 
ber of the Washington Academy of 
Science, Medical Society of the District 
of Columbia, Medical Association of the 
District of Columbia, Ameiican Medical 
Association, University Club, etc. On June 
14, 1888, he married Marion V. Thompson, 
of Washington. Residence: 1604 Nine- 
teenth street, n.w. 

McCALL, SAMUEL WALKER, lawyer, 
Cong.essman, was born in East Provi- 
dence, Pennsylvania, on February 28, 
1851, and was graduated from the New 
Hampton (N. H.) Academy in 1870, and 
Dartmouth ColLge in 1874, after which 
he took up the study of law, and after 
being admitted to the bar began practice 
in Boston. At one time he was editor- 
in-chief of the Boston Daily Advertiser, 
and srved as a member of the Massa- 
chusetts State Legislature for three 
terms, and was twice a delegate to the 
Republican National Convention. Among 
his literary contributions is the Biogra- 
phy of Thadd us Stevens, in the Amer- 
ican Statesman Series. In politics he is 
a Republican, and has represented the 
Eighth Massachusetts Dist.ict in all Con- 
gr sses since the Fifiy-second. Legal res- 
idence: Winchester, Mass. Washington 
address: House of Representatives. 

McCALLA, BOWMAN H., retired navai 
officer, was born in Camden, New Jer- 



sey, on June 19, 1844, son of Auley and 
Mary Duffield (Hendry) McCalla. He was 
graduated f-om Annapolis in 1864; pro- 
moted to Master, 1866; Lieutenant in 
1868; Liutenant-Commander in 1869; 
Commander in 1884, and. Captain, in 1898. 
During the Spanish-American War he 
served in the North Atlantic Squadron; 
was Captain of the Norfolk Navy Yard 
in 1899; the same year went to Manila, 
whe.e he commanded a division of six 
cruisers and gunboats on the north and 
west coasts of Luzon, and, with two hun- 
dred and fifty men, relieved the city of 
Vigan, which was held by a small force 
of the Thirty-third Volunteer Infantry, 
and soon after he received the surren- 
der of all military forces of insurrection 
in the provinces of Isabella and Cagayan 
and in the Batan Island. In 1900, witn 
112 men from the Newark, he formed part 
of the column under Vice-Admiral Sey- 
mour in an attempt to relieve the lega- 
tions at Peking. For gallantry shown in 
this instance he was offered by the Kaiser 
the decorations of the R:d Eagle of the 
second class, with swords. On March .". 
1899, he was retired from active service, 
with the lank of Captain. On March 3, 
1875, he married Elizabeth H. Sargent, 
of Boston, Mass. He is a mimber of the 
Loyal Legion, Order of Foreign Wars, the 
Grand Army of the Republic, etc. Ad- 
dress: Navy Department. 

McCALLA, ELIZABETH HAZARD 
SARGENT (Mrs.), was bo:n in Bos- 
ton, Mass., on January 30, 1850, daugh- 
ter of Horace Binney and Elizabeth 
(Swett) Sarg.nt. She was educated In 
the private schools of Eosto.i, *\euf- 
chatel, Switzerland, and Dresden, Ger- 
many. She is a member of the Society 
of Colonial Dames, Daughters of tne 
American Revolution, Dames of the Loyal 
Legion, one of the vice-presidents of the 
Ma.y Washington Society, and a mem- 
ber of many literary societies. On Marcii 
3, 1875, she was married to Captain Bow- 
man H. McCaJa, of tlie United States 
Navy. Residence: 1502 Twentieth street, 
n.w. 

McCAMMON, JOSEPH KAY, lawyer, 
was born in Philadelphia, Penn., on Oc- 
tober 13, 1S45, son oi David C. and Jose- 
phine Kay (Drummond) McCammon. 
After attending the private schools of 
Philadelphia he ente.ed Princeton Uni- 
versity, graduating with the class of 1866, 
and lat r attended the law school of 
the University of Pennsylvania, after* 
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profession in Washington. In 1870 ne 
was appointed R gister in Bankruptcy; 
Consul of United States in Wasliington 
in 1S71, and, in 1877, was president of 
tlie board to investigate the Indian Serv- 
ice. F cm 1880 to 18S5 he wis A.s^istant 
Attorney-General of the United States; 
18S1, United States Commissioner of Rail- 
roads, and the same year was appointed 
by President Garfield to treat with Ban- 
nock and Shoshone Indians; in 1882, ap- 
pointed by President Arthur to treat with 
Flathead and affiliated Indians. During 
the Civil War he was a member of the 
Washington Grays, of Philadelphia, as 
Sergeant; he was also Judge-Advocat? 
of Pennsylvania, and later Judge Advo- 
cat:-General of the District of Columbia, 
He was the author of .a report of con- 
suls with Flathead and other Indians in 
1882, and arguments in cases affecting ail 
Pacific and other railroads. He was pres- 
ident of the class of 1865 of Princeion 
University up to the time of his death, 
and was a member of many charitable 
and social clubs of Washington, among 
them being: The Garfield Memorial Hos- 
pital, of which he was president, and the 
Cosmos Club, and officer of the Metro- 
politan and Chevy Chase Clubs, and th^ 
Phi Kappa Sigma college fraternity. He 
was a member of the Protestant Epis- 
cci-al Church, and, in politics, a Rebjub- 
lican. On September 22, 1870, he mar- 
ried Catherine McKnight, to which union 
have been born four children, three of 
whom are living. Mr. McCammon died 
January 2, 1907. 

McCarthy, CHARLES a., secretary 
and Treasurer of the East Washington 
Savings Bank. Residence: 408 SewarJ 
Square, s.e. Office: 312 Pennsylvania av- 
enu?, s.e. 

McCarthy, FRANCIS (S. J.), clergy- 
man, assistant rector of St. Aloysius Cath- 
olic Church. Residence: 19 I street, n.w. 

McCarthy, JOHN jay, lawyer. Con- 
gressman, was born in Stoughton, Wis., 
on July 19, 1857, and after attending the 
common schools and Albion Academy, in 
Wisconsin, he removed to the State of 
Nebraska, in 1879. In 1882 h located 
in Dixon County, Nebraska, where he has 
since resided; was admitted to the bar 
in 1884, and has since be:n actively en- 
gaged in the practice of his profession. 
He served three terms as attorney for 
Dixon County, and was a member of the 
State Legislature two term?:, and rep.e- 
sented the Thi;d Nebraska Congressional 
District in the Fifty-eighth and Fifty- 
ninth Congresses. In politics he is a Re- 
publican. Legal residence: Ponca, Neb. 
Washington address: House of Repre- 
sentatives. 

McCAULEY, CHARLES ADAMS 
HOEKE,. army officer, was born at 



Middletown, Maryland, on July 13, 1847. 
He was graduated from the United States 
Military Academy in 1870, and p omoteJ 
to Second Li utenant, Third United States 
Artillery, June 15, 1870; Major and 
Quartermaster, Third Cavalry, August 8, 
1894; Colonel and Assistant Quarterm as- 
ter-Gene: al, P'ebruary 24, 1903. On gar- 
rison duty 1870-75, and assistant to the 
chief engineer, Dr>partment of the Mis- 
souri, 1877-79; Quartermaster, Depart- 
ment of the Plat'te, 1883-87. Invented sys- 
tem of signaling by means of mirror.s, 
1871. He is the author of The San Juan 
Reconnoissance in Coljrado and New Mex- 
ico (1877); Pagasa Springs, Colorado: 
Its Geology and Botany (1897). Address: 
War Department. 

McCLEARY, JAMES THOMPSON, 

Second Assistant Postmaster-Gneral, 
was born in Ingersoll, Ontario, on Feb- 
ruary 5, 1853. After attending the com- 
mon and high schools in his native town 
he entered McGill University, at Mon- 
treal. He taught school in the State 
of Wisconsin until 1881, when he re- 
signed to become conductor of the SLala 
Institute in Minnesota, and prof s~or of 
history and civics in the State Normal 
School, at Mankato. Minn?so-ta, holding 
this position until 1892. During summer 
vacations he conducted institutes in a 
number of States. He is the author of 
Studies and Civics (1888); Manual of 
Civics (1894), etc. In 1901 he was elected 
president of the Minnesota Educational 
Association, and rep.esented the Scond 
Minnesota Congressional District in the 
Fifty - third. Fifty - fourth. Fifty - fifth, 
Fifty-six-th, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eightn 
and Fifty-ninth Congresses. In politics 
he has always been a Republican. In 
March, 1907, 'he was appointed Second 
Assistant Postmaster-General, to succeed 
Hon. W. S. Shallenberger, resigned. Legal 
residence: Mankato, Minn. Washington 
residence: The Willard. Office: Pos't 
Office Department. 

McCLERNAND, EDWARD JOHN, sol- 
dier, was born in Jacksonville, Illinoi-;, 
on December 29, 1848, son of Major- 
General John A. McClernand. After at- 
tending the schools at Jacksonville and 
Springfield, Illinois, hi entered the United 
States Military Academy, graduating wirh 
the class of 1870, when he was appointed 
Second Lieutenant in the r gula army. 
For several years he took part in the 
Indian campaigns; participated in the 
battles and engagements at Pryor Creek 
in 1872 and in 1876; rescued a portion 
of Custer s command, and the following 
year took part in the capture of Chief 
Joseph and the Nez Perces Indians. For 
gallant services in the latter campaign 
he was awarded a medal of honor. From 
1885 to 1890 he was aide-de-camp for 
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served as Captain in Idaho, Arizona and 
New Mexico. In 1898 he was appointed 
Lieutenant-Colonel and Assistant Adju- 
tant-General of United States Volunteers, 
and was Adjutant-General of the Fifth 
Army Corps and Army of Santiago de 
Cuba from May until October, 1898, ana 
later served as Adjutant-General of the 
Second Corps and Mustering District of 
South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama 
and the Department of Matanzas and 
Santa Clara, Cuba. In 1900 he was ap- 
pointed Colonel of the Forty-fourth United 
States Volunteer Infantry and commanded 
the attack on Sudlon Mountain, Cebu, P. 
I., dispersing the insurgents. On June 30, 
1901, he was mustered out of the volun- 
teer service, since when he has been Ad- 
jutant-General of the Department of Mis- 
souri. On November 14, 1888, he married 
Sarah Pomp, at Easton, Penn. Address: 
Care Adjutant-General: War Depart- 
ment. 

McCOMAS, LOUIS EMORY, Justice of 
the Court of Appeals of the District since 
1905, was born in Washington County, 
Maryland, on October 28, 1846, son of 
Frederick C. and Catherine (Angle) Mc- 
Comas. He was educated at St. James 
College (Md.), and was graduated from 
Dickinson College, at Carlisle, Penn., with 
the class of 1866. The same institution 
confe:red the degree of LL. D. in 1898, 
and Georgetown University the same in 
1901. In 1868 he was admitted to the 
bar, and was a Republican member of 
Congress from 1883 to 1891. He was ap- 
pointed by President Harrison, in 1892, 
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court 
of the District of Columbia, and served 
until 1899, when 'he was elected United 
States Senator from Maryland, serving 
until 1905. For several years he was 
professor of international law in George- 
town University Law School. On Sep- 
tember 23, 1875, he married Leah M. 
Humrichhouse. Judge McComas died No- 
vember 10, 1907. Legal residence: Will- 
iamsport, Maryland. Washington ad- 
dress: 1628 K street, n.w. 

McCREA, TULLY, army officer, was 
born in Natchez, Mississippi, in 1839, son 
of John and Mary McCrea. He was grad- 
uated from the United States Military 
Academy in 1862, and the same year was 
appointed Second Lieutenant; in 1863, 
First Lieutenant; Captain in 1866; Major 
in 1888; Lieutenant-Colonel in 1898; Col- 
onel in 1900, and Brigadier-General in 
1903. In the Civil War he served with 
the Army of the Potomac, taking part in 
the battles of Antietam, Fredericksburg, 
Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, etc., and was 
brevetted several times for gallant serv- 
ices. On May 20, 1868, he was married 
to Harriet Hale Camp, at Sackets Harbor, 
New York. On February 22, 1903, he was 
retired from active service, with the rank 



of Brigadier-General. Address: War De- 
partment. 

McCREARY, GEORGE DEARDORFF, 

coal operator, Congressman, was born ac 
York Springs, Adams County, Pennsyl- 
vania, on September 28, 1846, and his 
early youth was spent in the coal regions 
where his father, John B. McCreary (pio- 
neer coal operator) was engaged in coal 
mining. After attending the public and 
private schools be removed to Philadel- 
phia with his parents in 1864, when he 
entered the University of Pennsylvania, 
w^here he remained until his junior year, 
leaving to accept a position with the 
Honej^ Brook Coal Company, of which 
his father was president. In 1870 he be- 
came a member of the newly organized 
firm of Whitney, McCreary, & Kemmerer, 
coal operators, remaining with this firm 
until 1879, when he retired to take charge 
of his father's estate. He became inter- 
ested in municipal affairs in the city of 
Philadelphia in 1882; was an original 
member of the committee of one hundred, 
and was elected Treasurer in 1891 of the 
city and county of Philadelphia,and dur- 
ing his term of office introduced and car- 
ried out many needed measures which re- 
sulted in financial gain to the city. He 
is an officer and director in many finan- 
cial, mining and business concerns. Rep- 
resented the Sixth Pennsylvania District 
in the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Con- 
gresses, and has been re-elected to the 
Sixtieth. He is a Republican in politics 
On June 18, 1878, he married Kate R. 
Howell. Legal residence: Philadelphia, 
Penn. Washington address: House of 
Representatives. 

McCREARY, JAMES BENNETT, law- 
yer, United States Senator, was born in 
Richmond, Kentucky, on July 8, 1838, sop 
of Robert and Sabrina (Bennett) Mc- 
Creary. After graduating from Centre 
College, at Da'nville, Ky., in 1857, 'he took 
up the 'study of law at Cumberland Uni- 
versity, in Tennessee, and was graduated 
with hig'hest honors in 1859, beginning 
the practice of his profession at Rich- 
mond, Ky., the following year. At the 
outbreak of the Civil War he enterea 
the Confederate Army, and served as 
Lieutenant-Colonel of the Eleventh Ken- 
tucky Cavalry until the close. He was 
once selected as a presidential elector on 
the Democratic ticket, and was delegate 
to 'the National Democratic Convention 
from the Eighth Congressional District In 
1868, and served five terms in the Ken- 
tucky State Legislature, and was Speaker 
of the House of Representatives in 1871 
and 1873. In 1875 he was elected Gov- 
ernor of Kentucky, serving until 1879, 
and in 1892 was appointed by the Presi- 
dent of the United States to serve as 
a delegate to the International Monetary 
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served as Representative in the Forty- 
ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-first, Fifty-second, 
Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth Congresses, 
and was elected to the United States 
Senate in 1902, to succeed William J. De- 
boe, a Republican, taking his seat on 
March 4, 1903. His present term of office 
in the Senate will expire March 3, 1909. 
In 1900 and 1904 he was a delegate-ai- 
large to the Democratic National Con- 
ventions, and was chairman of the State 
Democratic Committee in 1900. On June 
12, 1867, he married Katie Hughes. Legal 
residence: Richmond, Ky. Washington 
address: U. S. Senate. 

McCULLOUGH, GEORGE W., clergy- 
man, pastor of the Columbia Baptise 
Church. Residence: 'Tenleytown, D. C. 

McCUMBER, PORTER JAMES, lawyer. 
United States Senator, was born in Illi- 
nois, on February 3, 1858, and removed 
to Rochester, Minnesota with his parents 
the same year, where he lived on a farm 
and attended the district schools, and 
later the city schools near his home. After 
teaching school for a few years, he took 
up the study of law in the University of 
Michigan, graduating with the class of 
1880, and removed to Wahpeton, North 
Dakota, the following year, where he has 
since practiced his profession. He served 
two terms in the Territorial Legislature, 
and in 1899 was elected to the United 
States Senate, and was re-elected in 1905. 
His present term of office will expire on 
March 3, 1911. In politics he is a Re- 
publican. Legal residence: Wahpeton, N. 
D. Washing'ton residence: 1534 Twenty- 
second street. 

McDERMOTT, ALLEN LANGDON, 

lawyer. Congressman, was born in South 
Boston, Massachusetts, on March 30, 
1854. From 1879 to 1883 he was corpora- 
tion attorney of Jersey City; District 
Court Judge from 1883 to 1886, and pres- 
ident of the Jersey City Board of 
Finance and Taxation. During 1880-81 he 
was a member of the State Assembly; 
Corporation Counsel of Jersey City, 1897- 
1902, and during 1899-1900 was a mem- 
ber of the State Senate. He was chair- 
man of the New Jersey State Democratic 
Committee in 1885 and 1895, and in 1894 
was a member of the commission to 
revise the Constitution of New Jersey. 
In 1895 and 1902 he was the Democratic 
candidate for the legislative caucus for 
the United States Senate, and was elected 
to the Fifty-sixth Congress from the 
Tenth District, to fill out the unexpired 
term caused by the death of Hon. William 
B. Daly, and was re-elected to the Fifty- 
seventh, Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth 
Congresses. In politics he has always 
been a Republican. Legal residence: Jer- 
sey City, N. J. Washington address: 
House of Representatives. 



McDERMOTT, JAMES T., Congres.s- 
man. In November, 1906, he was elected 
a member of the Sixtieth Congress from 
the Fourth Congressional District of Illi- 
nois. In politics he is a Democrat. Legal 
residence: Chicago, 111. Washington ad- 
dress: House of Representatives. 

McDonald, EUGENE D. L., clergy- 
man, assistant rector of St. Aloysius 
Catholic Church. Residence: 19 I street, 
n.w. 

McDonald, H. BOYER, chief Clerk 
of the United States Senate. Residence: 
The Bachelor. Office: U. S. Senate. 

McDowell, Alexander, cierk of 

the House of Representatives. Residence: 
The Dewey. Office: The Capitol. 

McELROY, JOHN, editor, was born in 
Greenup County, Kentucky, on August 
25, 1846, son of Robert and Mary (Hen- 
derson) McElroy. His education was ob- 
tained in the common schools of his home 
county, after which he learned the print- 
ing trade. During the Civil War he 
jerved with the Lawrence Legion, Mc~ 
Cleenand Guards, and Company L, of the 
Sixteenth Illinois Cavalry. In 1886 he was 
president of the ex-Pioneers of War As- 
sociation; Commander, Department of 
Potomac, G. A. R., in 1896, and, in 1901, 
was Senior Vice-Commander-in-Chief of 
the G. A. R. He is the author of: An- 
dersonville; The Red Acorn; Li Klegg, 
and many short stories. After the war 
he was employed as a reporter on St. 
Louis and Chicago papers, and for ten 
years was managing editor of the Toledo 
(Ohio) Blade, and for the last twenty- 
one years has been managing editor of 
the National Tribune. He is a member 
of the Presbyterian Church, a Mason, and, 
in politics, a Republican. He married 
Elsie Pomeroy, to which union have been 
born four children, two of whom are liv- 
ing. Residence: 1412 Sixteenth street. 
Office: 519 Thirteenth street, n.w. 

MckNERY, SAMUEL DOUGLAS, law- 
yer, United States Senator, was born 
at Monroe, Louisiana, on May 28, 1837. 
He was educated at Spring Hill Collegf, 
near Mobile, Ala., the United States 
Naval Academy, and the University of 
Virginia, and was graduated from tha 
State and National Law School at 
Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Served in the Con- 
federate Army under Magruder, and in 
the Trans-Mississippi Department. He 
is a lawyer by profession; was elected 
Lieutenant-Governor of Alabama in 1879, 
and, on the death of Governor Wilts, in 
October, 1881, succeeded to that office, 
and was again elected in 1884. He was 
appointed to be Associate Justice of the 
Supreme Court in 1888, and was elected 
to the United States Senate in March, 
1897, and re-elected in 1902. Legal resi- 



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dence: New Orleans, La. Washington 
address: U. S. Senate. 

McGAVIN, CHARLES, lawyer, Con- 
gressman, was born in Riverton, Sang-a- 
mon County, Illinois, on January 10, 1874. 
After attending the common and high 
schools at Springfirld and Mt. Olive, 111., 
he began the study of law and was ad- 
mitted to the bir in 1S9T. After prac- 
ticing law in Springfield for two years 
he located in Chicago, where he has since 
■practiced his profession and resid-d. In 
1903 he was Assistant City Attorney of 
Chicago, and in 1904 was elected a mem- 
ber of the Fifty-ninth Congress on the 
Republican ticket from the Eighth Illi- 
nois District, his opponent being William 
Preston Harrison, a brother of the Mayor 
of Chicago; re-elected to the Sixtieth 
Congress. Legal residence: Chicago, lii. 
Washington address: House of Repre- 
sentatives. 

McGAW, JOHN EVANS, ice manufac- 
turer, was born in Baltimore, Md., in 
1859. He was educated in the public 
schools and at Eton & Burnett's Busi- 
ness Ool ege, in Baltimore. After his 
father died, in 1879, he engaged in the 
commission business and agricultural 
pursuits, and later engaged in the ice 
manufacturing business in Baltimore and 
other towns in Maryland, and was for 
a time in the same business in Mexio. 
The Mexican climate not agreeing with 
him, he returned to this country, and en- 
gaged in the same business at Asbury 
Park, N. J., from which place he came 
to Washington, soon after forming th.i 
Purity Ice Company, which business was 
reorganized a few years ago under the 
name of the Columbia Ice Company, he 
being its general manager. Residence: 
503 M street, n.w. Office: Fifth and L 
streets, n.w. 

McGEE, ANITA NEWCOMB, formerly 
Acting Assistant Surgeon, U. S. A., was 
born in Washington, D. C, on November 
4, ISA, the daughter of Professor Simon 
(D. S., LL. D., Ph. D.) and Mary Carolina 
Hassler Newcomb, her earliest American 
ancestor being Elder William Brewster, 
of the Mayflower. She was graduated 
from George Washington University 
(medical department) in 1892, with post- 
graduate cou se at Johns Hopkins Uni- 
versity in the same year. She was Act- 
ing Assistant Surgeon, U. S. A., 1898 to 
1901, in charge of Army Nurse Corps, 
which she organized and managed, under 
Surgeon-General Sternberg, until it was 
officially recognized by Congress by be- 
ing made a permanent part of the Army- 
Medical Department. About two thou- 
sand women served in the Nurse Corps 
while she was in chage of it. In the 
Russo-Japanese War she served as su- 
pervisor of nurses of the Red Cross Soci- 
ety of Japan, by appointm nt of the 
Japanese Minister of War. The Japanese 



Emperor bestowed upon her the Order 
of the Sacred Crown, a very rare distinc- 
tion, and she also holds the "special" 
decoration of the Red Cross of Japan, 
and the War Medal. She has be n elected 
to national offices in the Daughters of 
the American Revolution five times, in- 
cluding Vice-President-GenerJl. After re- 
turning from Japan she lectured on, A 
Woman's Experience in the Japanese 
Army. She is a member of the United 
Spanish War Veterans (the only woman 
eligible), and of the Association of Mil- 
itary Surgeons of the United States, and 
founder and first president of the Span- 
ish-American War Nurses. Residence: 
1620 P street, n.w. 

McGEE, JOSEPH F., clergyman, pas- 
tor of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church. 
Residence: Fourteenth street and Whit- 
ney avenue, n.w. 

McGEE, W. J., anthropologist, geolo' 
gist, and secretary of the United States 
Inland Waterways Commission, was born 
in Dubuque County, Iowa, on April 17, 
1853, son of James and Martha (And3r- 
son) McGee. He was engaged in land 
surveying and Justice Court practice f.om 
1874 to 1876, and later invented, patented, 
and manufactured agricultural imple- 
ments. From 1877 to 1881, made a geo- 
logic and topographic survey of North- 
eastern Iowa; in 1883 b;came geologist. 
United States Geol gical Survey and, 1885- 
92, surveyed and mapoed 300 000 square 
miles in Southeastern United States. He 
compil d geologic maps of the United 
States and New York, and was first edi- 
tor of the Geological Society of America. 
In 1893 he became ethnologi-st in charge 
of the B'ur?au of American Ethnology; 
explored, 1894-95, Tiburon Island, home 
of savage tribe never before studied. He 
was chief of the Department of Anthro- 
pology, Exposition, 1904. He is the lead- 
ing founder of the Columbia Historical 
Society; was president of the National 
Geographic Society, 1904-05; senior 
speaker. Department of Anthropology, 
World's Congress of Arts and Sciences, 
1904; director St. Louis Public Museum, 
1905-07. He is the author of: Pleisto- 
cene History of Northea-tern Iowa 
(1891); The Seri Indians (1900); Prim- 
itive Numbers (1901), etc.; editor of the 
Department of Anthropology, Interna- 
tional Cyclopedia. H? was married, in 
1888 to Anita, daughter of Professor 
Simon Newcomb. Residence: 1620 P 
street, n.w. Office: U. S. Department ol' 
Ag.icullure. 

McGILL, J. NOTA, patent lawyer, was 
born in Washington, D. C, on January 6. 
1867, son of J.ihn D. and Mary J. Mc- 
Gill. After attending the public and pri- 
vate schools he entered the Georgetown 
University Law School, graduating in 
1887, and received the degree of LL. M. 
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birthday he was admitted to practice, and 
in 1895 was appointed Register of Willa 
for the District of Columbia by Presi- 
dent Cleveland, and resigned in 1899, to 
again engage in the private practice oi' 
patent law. For several years he has 
been a lecturer on patent law in the 
Georgetown Law School, and is a mem- 
ber of the Chevy Chase Club. On Sep- 
tember 27, 1895, he married Francis 
Maloy, at Morris Plains, N. J. Residence: 
Woodley Lane. Office: McGill Building. 

McGOWAN, JOHN, naval officer, was 
born at Port Penn, Delaware, on August 
4, 1843, son of John and Catherine (Cald- 
well) McGowan. He attended the public 
and private schools of Philadelphia and 
Elizabeth, N. J., and at the outbreak of 
the Civil War enlisted as an Acting Mas- 
ter's Mate in the United States Navy, 
and was promoted to Acting Master in 
1862; Master (regular service), in 1868; 
Lieutenant the same year; Lieutenant- 
Commander in 1870; Commander in 
1887; Captain in 1899, and Rear Admiral 
in 1901. He is a member of the Sons of 
the Revolution; Society of Marine Engi- 
neers and Naval Architects; Foreign 
Wars; Loyal Legion; Metropolitan and 
Chevy Chase Clubs, etc. In October, 1871, 
he married Evelyn Manderson, of Phila- 
delphia. Residence: 1739 N street, n.w. 

McGOWAN, JONAS HARTZELL, law- 
yer, was born in North Benton, Mahon- 
ing County, Ohio, on April 2, 1837, son of 
Samuel and Susan (Hartzell) McGowan. 
He attended the University of Michigan, 
graduating in 1861, with the degree of 
A. B.; M. S., in 1865, and LL. B. in 
1868; the degree of LL. D. was con- 
ferred upon him in 1901. He served two 
terms as Prosecuting Attorney for Branch 
County, Michigan; two years as a mem- 
ber of the Michigan State Senate, and 
represented the Third Michigan District 
in the Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Con- 
gresses. At the outbreak of the Civil 
War he enlisted as a private, and was 
promoted to the rank of Captain of the 
Ninth Michigan Volunteer Cavalry be- 
fore being mustered out of the service. 
Since 1881 he has practiced law in Wash- 
ington, and is senior member of the 
firm of McGowan, Serven & Mohun. He 
served seven years as regent of the Uni- 
versity of Michigan, and in 1901 his 
Handbook of Federal Practice was pub- 
lished. He is a Mason, a member of the 
Cosmos Club, Loyal Legion, and the G. 
A. R., and, in politics, a Republican. On 
September 22, 1862, he married Josephine 
Pruden, to which union have been born 
three children, one of whom is living. 
Residence: Cleveland Park, D. C. Office: 
1419 F street, n.w. 

McGregor, JOHN, building .con- 
tractor, was born in Fortingall, Perth- 
shire, Scotland, in April, 1847. After at- 
tending the schools near his home ha 



learned the carpenter's trade, was lo- 
cated at Glasgow, Scotland, until 1869, 
when he came to America, settling ac 
Hartford, Conn. In 1871 he located in 
Washington, and for ten years was en- 
gaged as a carpenter under Superintend- 
ent Smith at the Botanical Gardens, and 
since 1881 has been engag :d in the gen- 
eral building and contracting business in- 
dependently. Many well-known buildings 
and residences in the city have been 
erected by him, among them being: res- 
idences of Wayne MacVeagh, Mrs. Mary 
D. Heyl, M. S. Quay, Charles W. Need- 
ham, Stephen B. Elkins; the Gunton 
Temple Memorial Church, First Baptist 
Church, George Washington School of 
Diplomacy, etc. He is a member of the 
Master Builders' Association, a Thirty- 
second d gree Mason, and a member of 
the Royal Order of Scotland. In 1875 
he married Maggie Cameron, of Wash- 
ington, to which union have been born 
two children. Residence: 212 Maryland 
avenue, n.e. Oftice: 729 Twelfth street, 
n.w. 

McGregor, THOMAS, army officer, 
was born in Scotland, on June 26, 1837. 
He entered the service as Sergeant of 
the First Dragoons on April 8, 1858; pro- 
moted to Colonel, Ninth Cavalry, July 5, 
1898, and Brigadier-General, Act of April 
23, 1904; brevetted Captain for gallant 
and meritorious service in battle at 
Todd's Tavern, Virginia, and Major for 
gallant services at Santa Marie Mountain. 
Address: War Department. 

McGUFFEY, MARGARET D., Secre- 
tary of the Library of Congress. Res- 
idence: 1513 Rhode Island avenue. Office: 
Library of Congress. 

McGUIGAN, THOMAS E., clergyman, 

assistant rector of St. Patrick's Cath- 
olic Church. Residence: 619 Tenth 
street, n.w. 

McGUIRE, BIRD SEGLE, T-ritorial 
Delegate to Congress f:om Oklahoma, 
was born in Belleville, 111., in 1864, and 
when two years of age removed with his 
parents to Randolph County, Missouri, 
where he resided on a farm until the 
spring of 1881, when they removed to 
Chautauqua County, Kansas. Soon after 
he left home, and for three years lived 
in different parts of Indian Territory, a 
part of which is now Oklahoma, where 
he was engaged a greater portion of tne 
time in the cattle business. After sav- 
ing a small sum of money he returned 
home and entered the State Normal 
School at Emporia, Kansas, where he 
remained for two years; taught scho.n 
several terms, and then entered the law 
department of the University of Kansas, 
where he remained one year, again re- 
turning to his home in Chautauqua, Kan- 
sas. In 1890 he was elected County At- 
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each, after which he again removed tj 
Oklahoma, in the spring of 1895 settling 
in Pawnee County, where he continued 
the practice of his chosen profession. In 
1897 he was appointed Assistant United 
States Attorney for Oklahoma Territory, 
in which capacity he served until after 
his nomination to Congress; elected a 
delegate to the Fifty-eighth Congress, and 
re-elected to the Fifty-ninth. Republi- 
can. Legal residence: Pawnee, Oklahoma,. 
Washington address: House of Repre- 
sentatives, 

McGUIRE, FREDERICK B., President 
Columbia Fire Insurance Company, and 
director of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. 
Residence: 1333 Connecticut avenue. 

McGUIRE, JOSEPH D., lawyer, was 
born in Washington, D. C, on November 
26, 1842, son of James C. McGuire. After 
attending Georgetown College he entered 
Princeton University with the class of 
1863, but left at the beginning of the 
Civil War, in 1861, after which he made 
a special study of languages for three 
years in France and Germany, and in 
1901 received an M. A. degree from Prince- 
ton University. On September 1, 1876, 
he was admitted to the bar, and from 
1884 to 1900 was State's Attorney for 
Howard County, Maryland. He has writ- 
ten considerably on American archaeol- 
ogy and ethnology. On December 19, 
1866, married Anna Chapman, at Staun- 
ton, Va. Residence: 1834 Sixteenth 
street, n.w. 

McHENRY, JOHN GEISER, farmer. 
Congressman, was born on April 26, 1868. 
In November, 1906, he was elected to the 
Sixtieth Congress from Sixteenth Penn- 
sylvania. District. Democrat. Legal resi- 
dence: Benton, Penn. Washington ad- 
dress: House of Representatives. 

MclLHENNY, JOHN A., member of the 
United States Civil Service Commission. 
Residence: The Arlington. OfHce: Eighth 
and E streets, n.w. 

McKEE, FRED, lawyer, was born in 
Washington, D. C, on August 22, 1873, 
son of James W., Sr., land Anna C. J. 
McKee. His early education was received 
in the Washington public and high 
schools, graduating from the latter with 
the class of 1890, and the Columbia School 
of Commerce in 1892, after which he at- 
tended the Georgetown Law School, grad- 
uating, LL. B., 1895, and, LL. M., in 1896. 
He has served in the District of Colum- 
bia Militia, and is a member of the Co- 
lumbia Historical Society. On October 
5. 1901, he married Amo L. Sanford, of 
Washington, D. C, to which union one 
child has been born. Residence: River- 
dale, Md. Office: 610 Thirteenth street, 
n.w. 



McKENNA, JOSEPH, jurist, was born 
in Philadelphia, Penn., on August 10, 1843. 
He attended St. Joseph's College in Phil- 
adelphia, until 1855, when he removed 
with his parents to Benicia, Cal., where 
he finished his academic education, and 
took up the study of law. In 1865 he was 
admitted to the bar; was twice elected 
District Attorney for Solano County, Cal- 
ifornia; a member of the State Legis- 
lature, 1875-76, and a member of Con- 
gress from 1885 to 1893. From 1893 to 
1897 he was United States Circuit Judge, 
and from March, 1897, to January, 1898, 
was Attorney-General of the United 
States. Since January, 1898, he has been 
an Associate Justice of the Supreme 
Court of the United States. Residence: 
1705 Rhode Island avenue, n.w. 

McKENNEY, FREDERIC DUNCAN, 

lawyer, was born in Washington, D. C, 
on March 11, 1863, son of James Hall and 
Virginia D. McKenney. He was grad- 
uated from Princeton University in 1884, 
after which he took up the study of law 
at Columbian (now George Washington) 
University, since when he has been en- 
gaged in the practice of law in Wash- 
ington. He is an attendant of the Epis- 
copal Church, and, in politics, a Repub- 
lican. On July 10, 1899, he married Kath- 
leen May Handley. Residence: 1336 New 
Hampshire avenue, n.w. Office: 723 Fif- 
teenth street, n.w. 

McKENNEY, JAMES HALL, Clerk of 

the United States Supreme Court, was 
born near Belair, Maryland, on July 12, 
1837, son of John and Mary J. (Hall) 
McKenney. He was a student at Rugby 
Academy, and in 1853 became assistant 
to the clerk of the United States Cir- 
cuit Court, Washington. On November 
15, 1858, he was appointed junior assist- 
ant to the Clerk of the Supreme Court 
of the United States, and in 1863 became 
acting deputy. In 1872 he was made 
deputy clerk, and on May 6, 1880, by the 
unanimous vote of the full bench of the 
judges, he was elected clerk. He was 
secretary to the electoral commission in 
1877. He married Virginia D. Walker. 
Residence: 1523 Rhode Island avenue, 
n.w. Office: U. S. Supreme Court. 

McKENNEY, WILLIAM A., attorney 
and trust officer for the American Secur- 
ity and Trust Company. Residence: The 
Mendota. Office: Fifteenth street and 
Pennsylvania avenue. 

McKENZIE, ALEXANDER, member of 
the Permanent Board of Assessors of the 
District of Columbia, was born in Bal- 
timore, Md., on May 9, 1848, son of David 
McKenzie, Sr., of Southeast Washington. 
In 1862 he removed to Washington, where 
he attended the public schools and the 
Columbian (now George Washington) 
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terested in the organization and manage- 
ment of several business enterprises, 
among tiiem being tlie Washington 
Asphalt and Tile Company, serving as 
its secretary. In politics he is a Repub- 
lican, and since 1868 has been, in one 
capacity or another, connected with the 
City Government. He served as Deputy 
Auditor from 1884 to 1902, and has serve! 
under every Auditor since the office was 
created in 1870. He is a Mason. Mar- 
ried Alice E. Guinand, of Washington. 
Residence: 1446 Harvard street, n.w. 
Office: District Building. 

McKIBBIN, CHAMBERS, army officer 
was born at Pittsburg, Penn., on No- 
vember 2, 1841, son of Chambers and 
Jane (Bell) McKibbin. He was appointed 
Second Lieutenant in the Fourteenth 
United States Infantry September 24, 
1862; Captain Thirty-fifth Infantry July 
28, 1866; Colonel Twenty-fifth Infantry 
April 1, 1899; brevetted Captain August 
18, 1864, for gallantry at North Anna 
River, Virginia; Brigadier-General, U. S. 
v., July, 1898. Took part in the battle 
of Santiago, and was Military Governor 
there; appointed Brigadrer-General for 
gallantry on field July 1, 1898; com- 
manded First Brigade, First Division, 
Second Corps, September 22, 1898 to April 
1, 1899; commanded the Department of 
Texas, 1899; retired October 3, 1902. Ad- 
dress: War Department. 

McKIM, RANDOLPH HARRISON, 

Protestant-Episcopal clergyman, was 
born in Baltimore, Md., on April 15, 1842, 
son of John S. and Catherine L. McKim. 
Descended on his mother's side from the 
Randolph and Harrison families, famous 
in early Colonial history. In 1861 he was 
graduated from the University of Vir- 
ginia; was ordained a deacon in 1864, 
and priest in 1866, and became assistani 
at Emmanuel Church in Baltimore in 
1865. He served in the Confederate army 
from 1861 to 1865 as private soldier, staff 
officer, and, lastly, as Chaplain, and was 
frequently commended for gallantry in ac 
tion. In 1871 he received the degree of 
D. D. from Washington and Lee Uni- 
versity, and in 1904 the degree of LL. D. 
from George Washington University. He 
has been rector of St. John's, Portsmouth, 
Va.; Christ Church, Alexandria, Va.; Holy 
Trinity Church, Harlem, N. Y.; Trinity 
Church, New Orleans, and since 1889 of 
the Epiphany Church, in Washington. 
While in New York he was instrumental 
in founding the Church Temperance Soci- 
ety, which, under his direction has greatly 
expanded his work in the city. In 1897 
he was elected dean of the Theological 
Seminary of Virginia, but declined the po- 
sition. He has for years been prominent 
in the General Convention of the Epis- 
copal Church, and in 1904 was elected its 
president. Among his publications hava 
been the following: A Vindication of 
Protestant Principles (1879); The Nature 



of the Christian Ministry (1880); Future 
Punishment (1883); Bread in the Deserr 
(a volume of sermons, 1886); Christ and 
Modern Unbelief (1893) ; Leo XIIL at the 
Bar of History (1897); Present Day 
Problems of Christian Thought (1900); 
The Gospel in the Christian Year (a vol- 
ume of sermons, 1904); The Problem of 
the Pentateuch (1906), and. The Confed- 
erate Soldier (an oration, 1904). He is 
a member of the Cosmos Club, Chaplain 
of the Sons of the Revolution; Chap- 
lain of the Confederate Veterans in 
Washington; president of the Standing 
Committee of the Diocese of Washington, 
and a member of the Board of Trustees 
of the Washington Cathedral of St. Peter 
and St. Paul. Residence: 1623 K street, 
n.w. 

McKIM, WILLIAM DUNCAN, physi- 
cian, author, was born in Baltimore, Md., 
on February 14, 1855, son of Haslett anJ 
Sally (Birckhead) McKim. He obtained 
his preliminary education in the schools 
of Baltimore and New York, after which 
he entered Columbia College (N. Y.), from 
which he was graduated, A. B., in 1875, 
and in 1878 was graduated, M. D., from 
the College of Physicians and Surgeons 
in New York. After spendinir a year 
and a half as interne at Bellevue Hos- 
pital In New York City, he spent two 
years in professional study at Vienna., 
Paris and London, and from 1882 to 1892 
he practiced his profession in New York 
City, after which he retired from yr.ic- 
tice and again spent two years ab-oai 
In the study of biology at the universities 
of Freiburg and Leipzig, receiving a Ph. 
D. degree from the latter in 1895. Since 
returning to this country he has devoted 
much of his time to literary work His 
book. Heredity and Human Progress, 
was published in 1900. He Is a moaiber 
of the Delta Phi college fraternity. New 
York Academy of Medicine, Archaeo- 
logical Society, National Geographic So- 
ciety, Washington Society of Fini Arts, 
the Metropolitan, Cosmos, University and 
Chevy Chase Clubs in Washington, and 
the Union Club of New York. He has 
been twice married, first, on Novemoer 23, 
1882, to Roge Coolidge, of Boston, Mass., 
and, second, on April 26, 1900, to Marina 
A. Moran, of New York City. Resil^nof; 
1701 Eighteenth street, n.w. 

McKINLAY, DUNCAN E., lawyer. Con- 
gressman, was born in Orlllia, Ontario, 
Canada, on October 6, 1862. After at- 
tending the common schools of his native 
town until he was twelve years of age, 
he removed to Flint, Michigan, where he 
learned the trade of caniage painting, 
and when twenty-one years of age he 
embarked for San Francisco, where he was 
engaged at his trade until 1884, when ha 
took up his residence in Sacramento for 
one year, after which he removed to 
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He there began the study of law, was 
admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court 
of California in 1S92, and has since b en 
engaged in the active practice of his 
profession. He has served as a presiden- 
ti.il elector, and in 1901 was appointed by 
President McKinly as United States At- 
torney for San Francisco. In 1904 ho 
was elected to the Fifty-ninth Congress 
from the Second California District on 
the Republican ticlvet, and re-elected to 
the Sixtieth Congress. He is married and 
the father of four children. Legal resi- 
dence: Santa Rosa, Cal. "Washington ad- 
dress: House of Representatives. 

McKINLEY, JOHN WILLIAM, Presi- 
dent of the National Correspondence In- 
stitute, was born in Russellville, Brown 
County, Ohio, on November 14, 1866, son 
of Amos and Evaline (Williamson) Mc- 
Kinley. After attending the public schools 
he was employed as a t acher for sev- 
eral years during the winter months, at- 
tending the normal schools during tie; 
summer, and in 1SS5 was graduated from 
Oberlin Coll ge. After gr-duating from 
Oberlin he taught in Columbus and 
Springfield, Ohio, and later Wittenburg 
(Ohio) College, after which he took u;- 
the study of law in the National Uni- 
versity Law School, in Washington, grad- 
uating in 1S92, with the degree of LL. B.. 
and, LL. M., in 1893. After practicing 
law for one y:ar he founded the Na- 
tional Correspondence Institute, which 
business he is engaged in at the present 
time. In 1900 he received the degree of 
D. C. L. from George Washington Uni- 
versity, and was a member of the firs 
class of the School of Comparative Juris- 
prudence and Diplomacy, and in 1902 re- 
ceived the degree of Master of Diplomacy 
from the same institution. In 1900 he 
purchased the Postmaster's Advocate, 
which he has since conducted, as editor 
and publi?he-. He is a Mason, and a 
member of many of the leading educa- 
tional and social clubs of the city. On 
October 22. 1901, he mariied Carrie Eliz- 
ab:th Brigham, of Marietta, Ohio, :o 
which union have been born two chil- 
dren. Residence: 1351 Harvard street. 
Office: Second National Bank Building. 

McKINLEY, WILLIAM BROWN, farm- 
er, banker. Congressman, was born i:i 
Petersburg, Illinois, on September 5, 1856. 
After attending the common schools of 
his native town he entered the Univer- 
sity of Illinois, where he remained two 
years, since when he has been engaged 
in farming and the banking business at 
Champaign, III. He is a trustee of the 
University of Illinois, and in 1904 was 
elected to the Fifty-ninth Congress from 
the Nineteenth Illinois District, on the 
Republican ticlvet; re-elected to the Six- 
tieth Congress. Legal residence: Cham- 
paign, 111. Washington residence: 1221 
Connecticut avenue, n.w. 



McKINNEY, JAMES, banker. Con- 
gressman, was born at Oquawka, Illinol's, 
on April 14, 1852, son of John McKinney, 
one of th? early settlers of Western Illi- 
nois. After attending the public schools 
he entered Monmouth College, graduat- 
ing in 1874, and received the degree of 
A. M. a f w years later. After leaving 
college he entered his father's business, 
■and, after his death, was elected presi- 
dent of the Aledo Bank (in the city in 
which he has since resided), and still 
holds that position. He has been a mem- 
ber of the Republican State Central Com- 
mitte? since 1894; was chairman of the 
Managing Committee in the campaign of 
1904, having direct charge of the pres'- 
dential campaign in Illinois. In 1901 he 
was appointed by Governor Yates a mem. 
ber of the State Riilroad and Warehouse 
Commission, serving until 1902, when he 
resigned, and has been president of the 
Aledo Board of Education. By special 
elrction on November 7, 1905, he was 
elected a member of the Fifty-ninth Con- 
gress, to fill out the unexpired term 
caused by the death of Hon. B. F. Marsh, 
and was re-el-cted to the Sixtieth Con- 
gress, On the Republican ticket, from the 
Fourteenth Illinois District. Legal resi- 
dence: Aledo, 111. Washington address: 
House of Representatives. 

McLACHLAN, JAMES, lawyer. Con- 
gressmin, was born in Aroryl'shi e, Scot- 
land, in August, 1852, and when threw 
years of age removed with his parents 
to Tompkins County, New York, where 
he lived on a farm. He attended the 
public schools, after which he taught 
school, and later entered Hamilton Col- 
lege, graduating in 1878, after which ha 
took up the study of law, and was ad- 
mitted to the bar of the New York Su- 
preme Court in 1880, beginning practice 
in 1881 at Ithaca. In 1888 he removed 
to Pasadena, Cal.. where he has since re- 
sided and practiced his profession. In 
1890 he was elected District Attorney o? 
Los Angeles County, California, and has 
represented the Seventh California Dis- 
trict in the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-seventh, 
Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses; 
re-elected to the Sixtieth Congress. H.? 
is a Republican in politics. Legal resi- 
dence: Pasadena, Cal. Washington 'ad- 
dress: House of Representatives. 

McLAIN, FRANK ALEXANDER, law- 
yer. Congressman, was born on a farm 
in Amite County, Mississippi, and at- 
tended the common schools in his native 
county, and was g aduated from the Uni- 
versity of Mississippi in 1874. In 1880 
he took up the practice of law in Lib- 
erty, Miss.; was elected to the Staie 
Legislature in 1881, and in 1883 was 
elected District Attorney, in which capac- 
ity he served twelve consecutive year^, 
and in 1890 was a delegate to the Con- 
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Amite and Pik^ Counties. In 1896 he 
voluntarily retired from the office of Dis- 
tict Attorney, to again take up the pri- 
vate practice of liw, at Gloste". Miss., 
where he has since resided. H^ was 
elected to fill out the unexpired term in 
the Fifty-fifth Congress of William F. 
Love, who died, and was r--elected t'> 
the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty- 
eighth, Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Con- 
gresses from the Seventh Mississippi Dis- 
trict, on the Democratic ticket. LegaT 
residence: Gloste-, Miss. Washington ad- 
dress: House of Representatives. 

McLAIN, JOHN SPEED, physician, was 
born in Washingrton. D. C, on August 9, 
1848, son of William and Maria Louisa 
(Mosby) McLain. Hiy early education 
was obtained at the Rittenhouse Acad- 
emy, in Washington, and by private tu- 
tors, afte- which he entered the Na- 
tional Medical College, graduating in 1871, 
since when he has been engaged in th-j 
practice of his profession. He has been 
a member of the Brard of Medical Ex- 
aminers of the District of Columbia, and 
was for several years president of the 
Board of Medical Suprvisors of the Dis- 
trict of Columbia, and professor of tox- 
icology in the National Medical School. 
From 1874 to 1877 he was an Acting As- 
sistant Surgeon in the United States 
Army, stationed in New Mexico. Colorado 
and Texas, and from 1878 to 1883 served 
in numrous Indian campaigns. He is 
the author of a number of articles of a 
scientific nature that have appeared in 
leading medical journals. He is a mem- 
ber of the Presbytrian Church, and of 
leading local and n tional medical soci- 
eties. Residence: 1320 Nineteenth street, 
n.w. 

McLaughlin, JAMES, congressman. 
He was elected, in November, 1906, a, 
member of the Sixtieth Congress from the 
Ninth Michigan Congressional District, oa 
the Republican ticket. Legal residence: 
Muskegon, Mich. Washington address: 
House of Representatives. 

McLaughlin, JAMES B., lawyer, 
clergyman, was born in Pittsburg, Penn., 
on September 3, 1836, and came to Wash- 
ington from the Southwest in 1899. He 
practiced law in Ohio and Arkansas, and 
was connected with many important crim- 
inal cases. In 1884 he was ordained to 
the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, followed that vocation in the 
West for some years, and then settled ia 
Washington, and still remains an o;dalned 
minister. Member of the bar of the Su- 
preme Court of the United States, and of 
the Supreme Court of the District if 
Columbia. Residence: 19 Fifth street. 
n.e. Office: Columbian Building, 416 Fifth 
street, n.w. 

McLaughlin, thomas n. (m. d.). 

President of the Medical Society of the 
20 



District of Columbia. Residence: 1226 
N street, n.w. 

McLAURIN. ANSELM JOSEPH, law- 
yer. United States Senator, was born at 
Brandon, Rmkin County, Mississippi, on 
March 26, 1848, son of Lauchlin and Ell-^n 
Caroline (Tullus) McLaurin. His educa- 
tion was obtained at the Summerville In- 
stitute, remaining there until 1867, his 
junior year, after which he took up tho 
study of law. He has served as District 
Attorney; member of the Mississippi 
State Legislature; delegate-at-large to 
the Democratic National Conventions, and 
in 1890 was a delegate to the Constitu- 
tional Convention. In 1894 he was el-cted 
to the United States Senate; the follow- 
ing year was elcted Governor of Mis- 
sissippi, and in 1900 was again elected 
to the United States Senate, and was re- 
elected in 1904. which term will expire 
on March 3, 1913. He is a member of 
the Methodist-Episcopal Church, and, on 
February 22, 1870, he imarried Laura 
Rauch. Legal residence: Brandon, Miss, 
Washington address: U. S. Senate. 

McLEAN, JOHN ROLL, journalist, cap- 
italist, ownf-r of th-^ 'Cincinnati Enquirer 
and the Washington Post, president of 
the Washington Gas Light Company, wa? 
born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on September 
17, 1848, son of Washington and Mary 
L. McLean. His father was of Scotch de- 
scent, a large manufacturer, a prominent 
leader in Ohio politics, and later a pub- 
lisher and journalist. He was educated 
in the public schools of Cincinnati and 
at Harvard University, and subsequent to 
his graduation studied and traveled for 
several years in Germany, France and 
other European countries. On his return 
from abroad he entered the office of the 
Enquirer at the bottom of the ladder, and 
passed by gradations through all the de- 
tails of the newspaper management until 
he reached the post of editor. In 1873 
he acquired his fath-^r's interest in the 
paper, in 1877 assuming charge of it3 
editorial control, and, in 1881, became sole 
owner. Immediately after taking entir*- 
charge of the Enquirer he began to take 
a prominent part in the politics of his 
native State, and for many years there- 
after wielded a dominant influence in the 
party councils. He was d?legate-at-large 
from Ohio to the Democratic National 
Conventions of 1884, 1888, 1892. 1896 and 
1900, as well as the Ohio member of the 
Democratic National Committee. In 1885 
his party made him its candidate for 
LTnited States Senator from Ohio, and, 
in 1899, he was the Democratic candidat-,- 
for Governor, but was defeated by Judge 
George K. Nash. In 1896 he was sup- 
ported by his State delegation in the Na- 
tional Democratic Convention for che 
presidential nomination, and received 
fifty-four votes on the first ballot. In the 
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Ination he led all others on the four:h 
ballot, and the impression was widespread 
at the time that he could have had che 
nomination had he desired it. In 1905 
he obtained a controlling interest in the 
Washington Post. He married Emily 
Beale. Washington residence: 1500 I 
street, n.w. Country residence: "Friend- 
ship," D. C. 

McMillan, Alexander f., Auditor 

for the Treasury Department, was born 
in Northeastern Ohio, in 1841. He en- 
listed as a private in Company G, Firsc 
Ohio Regiment, and served throughout the 
Civil War, being mustered out as Cap- 
tain in April, 1865. Under President Har- 
rison he was Deputy First Auditor, and 
resigned when President Cleveland be- 
came President for the second time, being 
at once made Disbursing Clerk of the 
World's Fair at Chicago in 1893. In May, 
1895, he re-entered the Treasury Depart- 
ment, becoming Chief of Division, Assist- 
ant Superintendent, and now Auditor. He 
is a member of the Grand Army of the 
Republic, and the Military Order of the 
Loyal Legion. Residence: 1447 Hunting- 
ton Place. Office: Treasury Depart- 
ment. 

McMillan, SAMUEL, congressman. 
In November, 1906, he was elected a mem- 
ber 'of the Sixtieth Congress from the 
Twenty-first Congressional District of 
New York, on the Republican tickei. 
Legal residence: Lake Mahopac, N. Y. 
Washington address: House of Repre- 
sentatives. 

McMORRAN, HENRY, Congressmai:. 
was born in Port Huron, Michigan, on 
June 11, 1844. He attended the public 
schools until he was thirteen years of 
age, when he engaged in the grocery 
business, later becoming interested in the 
grain, milling and elevator trade, and is 
connected with many commercial, manu- 
facturing and transportation companies. 
From 1878 to 1889 he was general man- 
ager of the Port Heron and Northwest- 
ern Railway, when it was bought by the 
Flint and Pere Marquet Company. He 
has held the offices of Alderman and 
City Treasurer of Port Heron, and was 
a member of the Canal Commission. He 
married Emma C. Williams, of Marys- 
ville, Mich., to which union has been 
born one son and two daughters. In 
1902 he was elected a member of Con- 
gress from the Seventh Michigan Dis- 
trict, on the Republican ticket, and was 
re-elected to the Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth 
Congresses. Legal residence: Port Heron, 
Mich. Washington address: House of 
Representatives. 

McNAMARA, STUART, lawyer. As- 
sistant District Attorney. Residence: 
2409 Eighteenth street, n.w. Office: Fen- 
dall Building. 



McNARY, WILLIAM SARSFIELD, 

journalist, Congressman, was born In 
Abington, Mass., on March 29, 1863. He 
obtained his education in his native town 
and Boston, graduating from the Boston 
English High School. He has been en- 
gaged in newspaper work and the in- 
surance business, and has been a mem- 
ber of the Massachusetts State Legisla- 
ture and Senate. During 1893 and 1894 
he was Water Commissioner of Boston, 
and a delegate to the National Democratic 
Convention in 1900 and 1904. Prom 1898 
to 1900 he was secretary of the Massa- 
chusetts State Central Committee, and 
from 1901 to 1904 chairman of that com- 
mittee. In 1902 he was elected to the 
Fifty-eighth Congress from the Tenth 
Massachusetts District, and re-elected to 
the Fifty-ninth, on the Democratic ticket 
On June 30, 1892, he married Albertine 
A. Martin, to which union have been born 
two children, a boy and a girl. Legal 
residence: Boston, Mass. Washington ad- 
dress: House of Representatives. 

McNeill, ROBERT HAYES, lawyer, 
was born at Kendall, Wilkes County, 
North Carolina, on April 25, 1877, son of 
Milton and Martha McNeill. After ob- 
taining his preparatory education in the 
public schools at Wilkesboro, N. C, where 
his family then resided, and still resides, 
he entered Wake Forest College, at Wake 
Forest, N. C, from which he was grad- 
uated, A. B. and LL. B., in 1897, and later 
entered the Columbian (now George 
Washington) University, in Washington, 
for a special course. Mr. McNeill was 
licensed to practice law in North Carolina 
in 1898, and served as attornej'^ for Ashe 
County, North Carolina. Was the Re- 
publican candidate for Judge of the Supe- 
rior Court of North Carolina in 1903; sec- 
retary of the North Carolina Republican 
State Committee, 1902 and 1903, and was 
priv^ate secretary to United States Sena- 
tor J. C. Pritchard during the last years 
of his service in the Senate. He is now 
the senior member of the law firm of 
McNeill & McNeill, having offices in 
this city, Statesville and Wilkesboro, N 
C, and Upper Marlboro, Md. He is a 
member of the Baptist Church, an Odd 
Fellow, member of the Sons of the Amer- 
ican Revolution, and, in politics, a Re- 
publican. On December 17, 1902, he mar- 
ried Cora Beatrice Brown, of Statesville, 
N. C. Residence: 1715 N street, n.w 
Office: Bond Building. 

McNEIR, WILLIAM, Chief, Bureau of 
Rolls and Library, Department of State, 
was born in Washington, on October 14, 
1864. He was appointed temporary clerk 
in the State Department in 1881, and 
clerk in 1886, and chief of bureau in 1905; 
appointed member of the United States 
Board of Geographic Names in 1907. He 
1*5 a member of the Washington Board of 
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National Geographic Society, American 
Society of International Law, and Is 
prominently identified with Masonic bod- 
ies. He married, in 1893, Ethel A., daugh- 
ter of Mrs. Emma J. Young, of Wa-^h- 
ington. Residence: 3413 Brown street, 
n.w. Office: Department of State. 

McNESS, GEORGE T., expert, in charge 
of tobacco investigations in the Bureau 
of Soils, United States Department of 
Agriculture. Residence: 41 T street, n e. 
Office: Department of Agriculture. 

Mcpherson, william lenhart, 

journalist, was born at Gettysbui;?, Penn., 
on May 23, 1865, son of Edward and Annie 
(Crawford) McPherson. After gradui't- 
ing from Pennsylvania College, at Gettys- 
burg, Penn., in 1883, he attended Harvard 
Uni\ersity the two years follDwiajr, re- 
ceiving the degrees of A. B. and A. M. 
Prom 1885 to 1902 he was a member of 
the staff of the New York Tribune; from 
1889 to 1902, one of its Washington cor- 
respondents, and spent 1899 as a corre- 
spondent in Cuba. In 1902-03 was an 
editorial writer on the Washington Time?. 
Since July, 1903, he has been an editorial 
writer on the New York Tribune, and 
editor of the Tribune Almanac. He is 
a member of the Metropolitan Club, Wash- 
ington, and of the Harvard Club, New 
York. Address: Care New York Tribune, 
New York, N. Y. 

McREYNOLDS, JAMES CLARK, law- 
yer, Government official, was born at Elk- 
ton, Todd County, Kentucky, on February 
3, 1862, son of Dr. John O. and Ellen 
(Reeves) McReynolds. After finishing 
the academic course in Vanderbilt Uni- 
versity, Nashville, Tenn., he entered the 
law department of the University of Vir- 
ginia, graduating in 1884, and was en- 
gaged in the practice of his profession 
at Nashville, Tenn., until 1903, when he 
was appointed Assistant Attorney-General 
of the United States. He is a member 
of the University Club in Nashville, Tenn., 
and the Metropolitan Club in Washing- 
ton. Residence: The Shoreham. Office: 
Department of Justice. 

McROBERTS, CHARLES GREGORY, 

lawyer, was born in Washington, D. C, 
on November 9, 1872, son of Thomac 
Mount and Ann (Hoomes) McRoberti. 
After graduating from the Washington 
High School in 1891, he entered the law 
department of Columbian (now George 
Washington) University, from which in- 
stitution he holds the degiees of LL. B. 
LL. M. and D. C. L. F.om 1894 to 1901 
he was chief clerk for the treasurer ot 
the Southern Railway Company. He is 
a member of the Episcopal Church, the 
Kappa Alpha college fraternity, and, in 
politics, is a Republican. Residence: 302 
C street, n.w. Office: 416 Fifth street, 
n.w. 



MacARTHUR, ARTHUR, army officer, 
was born at Springfield, Massachusetts, 
on June 1, 1845, son of Judge Arthur Mac- 
Arthur. He was appointed First Lieu- 
tenant and Adjutant of the Twenty-fourth 
Wisconsin Volunteers; was second ia 
command at the battle of Stone River, 
and again at Chicamauga, gaining a medal 
of honor for conspicuous bravery In ac- 
tion November 25, 1863; was promoted 
Major January 25, 1864, and commanded 
the regiment at Kenesaw Mountain June 
27, 1864. He was severely wounded, and 
could not take part in the battle of Nash- 
ville. Was promoted Lieutenant-Colonel 
May IS, 1865; mustered out June 10, 
1865; brevetted Lieutenant-Colonel of 
Volunteers for services at the battle of 
Franklin, Tenn; Lieutenant-Colonel, U. 
S. A., May 26, 1896; Brigaaier-General 
January 2, 1900, and Major-General Feb- 
ruary 5, 1901. He succeeded General Otis 
in command of the Division of the Phil- 
ippines, February 5, 1901, and on June 
15, 1901, issued a proclamation of am- 
nesty to the natives. He assumed com- 
mand of the Department of the Lakes or 
March 25, 1902. Address: Adjutant-Gen- 
eral's Office. 

MacDONALD, ARTHUR, author, social 
pathologist, was born at Caledonia, New 
York, on July 4, 1856, son of Angus and 
Virginia (Dibble) MacDonald. He was 
graduated from the Rochester Free 
Academy in 1874; University of Roches- 
ter, 1879 (A. M.. 1883), and during 1879- 
80 studied law. In 1883 he was graduated 
from the Union Theological Seminary, 
after which he took a two years' post- 
graduate course at Harvard, and was ap- 
pointed fellow in psychology in Johns 
Hopkins University, but declined in or- 
der to spend four years in special study 
at Berlin, Leipzig, Paris, Zurich, and 
Vienna in medicine, psycho-physics, in- 
sanity, hypnotism and criminology. From 
1889 to 1891 he was "Docent" ( a title 
beyond the Doctorate) in criminology at 
Clark University, and from 1892 to 1903 
was a specialist in the United States Bu- 
reau of Education, making studies in re- 
gard to the education of the abnoimal 
and weakling classes. He has studied 
the European prisons and slums for the 
United States Bureau of Education, and 
has been United States delegate to several 
international psychological and crimin- 
ological congresses. Was made honorary 
president of the Third International Con- 
gress of Criminal Anthropology of Eu- 
rope. He has contributed many articles 
to American and foreign publications on 
medico-social subjects, criminology, hu- 
man abnormalities, hynotism, etc., and i-i 
the author of many books and brochures, 
among them being: Abnormal Man 
(1893); Criminology (1894); Le Criminel- 
Type (1895); Education and Patho- 
Social Studies (1896); Experimental 
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Crime, Suicide and Insanity (1903); Man 
and Abnormal Man (1905), etc. On Sep- 
tember 29, 1904, lie married Marg-areL 
Jane Po:terfield, artist, of Washington, U. 
C. Residence: 127 A street, n.e. 

MACEY, JAMES T., Chief Clerk of the 
General Land Office, Department of the 
Interior, was born in New York, in 1870. 
He received his early education at Bing- 
ham pton, N. Y., and was graduated from 
George Washington University in 1894, 
and was admitted to the District bar, 
the Court of Appeals and the Supreme 
Court of the United States. His original 
appointment in the Land Office was re- 
ceived December 1, 1890, and he has 
worked up through all the g;ades to tha 
present position, which he reached April 
1, 1903. Residence: The Ontario. Office: 
General Land Office. 

MACFARLAND, HENRY B. F., Pres- 
ident of the Board of Commissioners of 
the District of Columbia, was born in 
Philadelphia., on February 11, 1861, son 
of Joseph Macfarland, the well-known 
journalist. He removed to Washington 
with his family soon after the close of 
the Civil War, where he was educatc-d 
in private schools. He was graduated 
from the Rittenhouse Academy, Washing- 
ton, and read law in the office of the 
late Hon. W. B. Webb. In December, 1879, 
he entered the Washington bureau of the 
Boston Herald, becoming chief of the 
bureau in 1892, and being otherwise en- 
gaged as Washington correspondent and 
general writer. For years he has taken 
a deep interest in the civic affairs of 
the District of Columbia, and has been 
active in all movements for its improve- 
ment. Appointed by President McKinley 
Commissioner of the District of Co- 
lumbia, on May 2, 1900, entered upon his 
duties and was elected president of the 
Board of Commissioners May 9, of the 
same year. He was chairman of the Na- 
tional Capital Centennial Committee in 
1900, and delivered the Centennial ad- 
dress lat the White House December 12, 
1900. He delivered the District of Co- 
lumbia Day address at the Pan-American 
Exposition on September 3, 1901, and 
made the address on District of Colum- 
bia Day at the Louisiana Purchase Expo- 
sition on October 19, 1904. He is pres- 
ident of the William McKinley National 
Memorial Arch Association; president of 
the Rock Creek Park Board of Control 
and of the Washington Public Library 
Commission, and chaiirman oi the Na- 
tional Committee on the proposed change 
of inauguration day. He was re-appointed 
Commissioner of the District of Colum- 
bia by President Roosevelt March 2, 190", 
and entered upon his second term May 
5, 1903, when he was re-elected president 
of the Board of Commissioners, and waii 
again re-appointed in May, 1907. In Octo- 
ber, 1888, he married Mary Lyon Doug- 



lass, daughter of the Hon. John W. Doug- 
lass (formerly of Erie, Penn.), for some 
time Commissioner of th=> District of Co- 
lumbia. Residence: 1813 F street, n.w. 
Office: District Building. 

MACKENZIE, ALEXANDER, army of- 
ficer, was born in Wisconsin, and was 
graduated troxn West Point in 1864. In 
1864 he was appointed First Lieutenant 
in the Engineer Corps; was brevetted . 
Captain in 1865, for gallant services dur- 
ing the war, and was commissioned Cap- 
tain in 1867; Major in 1882; Lieutenant- 
Colonel in 1895, and Colonel in 1901. He 
is a membeir of the General Staff and the 
Lighthouse Board. Residence: 1836 Jef- 
ferson Place, n.w. Office: War Depart- 
ment. 

MACKENZIE, MORRIS R., naval offi- 
cer, was born in New York, and wa? 
graduated from the United States Naval 
Academy in 1866. Was promoted 'o 
Commander on April 16, 1894, and Cap- 
tain July 1, 1900; commanded Prairie, 
1898-1900; U. S. S. New York, 1901; Navy 
Yard, Portsmouth, N. H., 1903; Inspector, 
in charge 'Of Third Lighthouse District, 
1905. Address: Navy Department. 

MACKSEY, CHARLES B., Catholic 
clergyman, prefect of studies, Georgetown 
University. Address: Georgetown Uni- 
versity. 

MACON, ROBERT BRUCE, .lawyer. 

Congressman, was born near Trenton. 
Phillips County, Arkansas, on July 6, 
1859. When nine years of age his 
parents died. He worked on a farm and 
attended the common schools in his na- 
tive county. He was admitted to the 
bar in 1891; served two terms in the 
Arkansas State Legislature; in 1892 and 
1894 was elected Cle k of the Circuit 
Court. From 1898 to 1902 he was Prose- 
cuting Attorney of the First Judicial Dis- 
trict of Arkansas, and in 1902 was elected 
to the Fifty-eighth Congress from the 
First Arkansas District, and re-elected to 
the Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Congresses, 
on the Democratic ticket. Legal residence: 
Helena, Ark. Washington address: House 
of Representatives. 

MAC VEAGH, WAYNE, lawyer, diplo- 
mat, publicist, was born near Phoenix- 
ville, Chester County, Pennsylvania, on 
April 19, 1833. When sixteen years of age 
he entered Yale College, from which he 
was graduated in 1853, and immediately 
thereafter took up the study of law. He 
was admitted to the Chester County, 
Pennsylvania bar in 1856, and first set- 
tled to practice in West Chester. From 
1859 to 1862 he served as District Attor- 
ney for Cheste,r County, the year fol- 
lowing was made chairman of the Re- 
publican State Committee, and rose rap- 
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The threatened invasion of Pennsylvania 
in that year by the Confederate troops 
impelled him to volunteer his services 
as Captain of Emergency Infantry, and 
he subsequently seived as a Major of 
Cavalry on the staff of General Couch. 
President Grant appointed him United 
States Minister to Turkey in 1870, but 
after a brief diplomatic career at the 
Ottoman court, he returned to Pennsylva- 
nia and resumed his protessional course, 
and in 1872 was elected a delegate to the 
Crnstitutional Convention of Pennsylva- 
nia President Hayes, in April, 187/. ap- 
pointed him head of the cimmituee known 
as the "Mac Veagh Commission, to har- 
nioj:ii;^e certain disputes arising from con- 
flicting State Governments in the State 
of Louisiana, the efforts of which com- 
mittee 'resulted in the withdrawal of the 
United States troops f.om New Orleans, 
and a final amicable adjustment. On 
March 4, 1881, Mr. Mac Veagh was made 
Attorney-General of the United States 
by President Garfield, and continued in 
that portfolio until September 9, of the 
same year, when he resigned and agair. 
returned to the practice of law in Phila- 
delphia. He supported Grover Cleveland 
for the presidency in 1892, departing 
somewhat from his previous political 
status as an Independent Republican, and 
after the election of Mr. Cleveland he 
received the appointment of United States 
Ambassador to Italy, which post he held 
from 1893 to 1897. Since the latter date 
he has .resided in Washington, in the 
practice of law. For many years he was 
identified with various political and civic 
reform movements, and held the chair- 
manship of the Civil Service Reform As- 
sociation of Philadelphia, and the Indian 
Rights Association of the same city. He 
has been awarded the degree of LL. D. 
by Amherst College (1881), University of 
Pennsylvania (1877), and Harvard Uni- 
versity (1901). He married a daughter 
of the late General Simon Cameron, for 
■many years United States Senator from 
Pennsylvania. Residence: 1719 Massa- 
chusetts avenue. Oflftce: 1317 F street. 

MADDEN, EDWIN CHARLES, gov- 
ernment official, was born at Montreal, 
Canada., November 25, 1855, son of John 
B. and Annie M. Madden. He was edu- 
cated in the public schools of Detroit and 
the Detroit Business College, graduating 
in 1878. From 1876 to 1890 he was em- 
ployed as a locomotive engineer, when ho 
was appointed a clerk in the Detroit post- 
office, and was soon after promoted to 
superintendenit, which position he held 
until July 1, 1899, when he was appointed 
Third Assistant Postmaster-General of the 
United States; resigned March 22, 1907. 
On January 26, 1888, he married Kate R. 
Strong of Detroit. Republican. Residence: 
1303 Clifton street. 



MADDEN, MARTIN B., lawyer. Con- 
gressman, was born March 20, 1855. He 
received his education in the public schools 
and business colleges. From 1889 to 1897 
he was a member of the Chicago City 
Council, and was the presiding officer of 
that body f:om 1891 to 1893, and chairman 
of the finance commit)tee, 1892-1897. In 
1896, he was chairman of the Illinois Re- 
publican State Convention, and in 1896 
and 1900 a delegate to the National Re- 
publican Conventions. He is a director 
of the Metropolitan Trust and Savings 
Bank, and president of the Western Stone 
Company, both of which are located in 
Chicago. In 1904, he was elected to the 
Fifty-ninth Congress from the First Illi- 
nois District on the Republican ticket 
and has been re-elected to the Sixtieth 
Congress. Legal residence: Chicago, Illi- 
nois. Washington address: House of 
Representatives. 

MADISON, ED. H., Congressman. He 
was elected to the Sixtieth Congress from 
the Seventh Kansas Congressional Dis- 
trict as a Republican in November, 1906 
Legal residence: Dodge City Kans. Wash- 
ington address: House of Representatives. 

MAEDEL, JULIUS A., lawyer, presi- 
dent 'Of the Lawyers' Title and Guaranty 
Insurance Company. Residence 2619 
Fourteenth street. Office: Columbian 
Building. 

MAGEE, CHARLES L., Secretary of 
the American National Red Cross. Resi- 
dence: 116 Tennessee avenue, n.e. Office- 
Room 341. State, War and Navy Building. 

MAGRUDER, GEORGE LLOYD, phy- 
sician, was born in Washington, D. C , 
November 1, 1848, son of Thomas C. and 
Elizabeth Olivia (Morgan) Magruder. His 
eairliest ancestor, Alexander McGregor, 
changed his name to Magruder soon after 
landing in America in 1652. His early 
education was obtained in the priva^-i 
and public schools of Washington. He 
was graduated, with the degree of A. B., 
from Gonzaga College and received the 
degrees of A. M. and M. D. from George- 
town University. During 1871 and 1S72 
he scived as physician to the poor of the 
District, and has been physician to 'iie 
Police and Fire Departments of the Dis- 
triot. He has had active connection with 
the School of Medicine of Georgetown 
University since the date of graduation — 
was Dean and Professor of Materia 
Medica and Therapeutics for a number of 
years, and is now Emeritus Professor of 
Materia Medica and Therapeutics. He 
has taken an active part in committees 
before Congress on sanitary and medical 
matters, for the welfare of the city, and 
was one of the originators of the Central 
Dispensary, Emergency and Georgetown 
University Hospitals, and has been an 
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cation. He Is a member of the Consulting 
Staff of Providence and the Emergency 
Hospitals, and of the Board of Visitors 
of ithe Government Hospital for the In- 
sane. He is the author of many medical 
papers. He was chairman of the com- 
mittee which prepared a report on ty- 
phoid fever in the District of Columbia 
in 1894, which was isubrrbitited 'to the 
Medical Society of the District of Colum- 
bia, and afterwards to Congress, which 
resulted in the installation of ithe present 
filtration plant of the city. He is .a 
member of the leading local and national 
medical, and scientific societies, and the 
Metropolitan and Chevy Chase Clubs. 
On November 22, 1882, he married Belle 
Burns, and is a member of the Roman 
Catholic Church. Residence: Stoneleigh 
Court. 

MAGRUDER, JULIA, author, was born 
in Charlottsville, Va., on September 14, 
1854, daughter of Allen B. and Sarah 
Magruder. She was educaited at home by 
a private tutor. She is the author of 
Across the Chasm; The Princess Souia; 
Dead Selves; The Violet, etc. Died on 
June 9, 1907, at St. Luke's Hospital, Rich- 
mond, Va. 

MAGUIRE, JOSEPH I., pasitor of the 
Holy Comforter Catholic Church. Resi- 
dence: 1 Fourteenth street, s.e. 

MAHON, THADDEUS MACLAY, law- 
yer, Congressman, was born at Green- 
village, Franklin County, Pa., in 1840. 
When he finished his academic education, 
he enlisted as a private in the One Hun- 
dred and Twenty-sixth Pennsylvania Vol- 
unteers in 1862, and was later transferred 
to the Twenty-first Pennsylvania Cavalry, 
and participated in many battles with the 
Army of the Potomac. After the close 
of the war, he read law and was admitted 
'to the bar in 1871, since when he has 
been actively engaged in the practice of 
'his profession. During 1870 and 1871, he 
was a member of the Pennsylvania State 
Legislature, and for several years has 
been president of the Baltimore and 
Cumberland Valley Railroad, and presi- 
dent of the S't. Thomas Bank at Chani- 
bersburg, Pa. He is a member of the 
Pennsylvania Soldier's Orphans Schools 
Commission, and in 1876 was a candidate 
for Congress, but was defeated by 
Hon. W. S. Stenger, who was supported 
by the "Greenbackers." In politics he 
has always been a Republican, and 'has 
represented 'the Seventeenth Pennsylvania 
Congressional District in all Congresses 
since the Fifty-second, inclusive of the 
Fifty-ninth. Legal residence: Chambers- 
burg, Pa. Washington address: House 
of Representatives. 

MAIN (MRS.), CHARLOTTE EMER- 
SON, president Aid Association for the 
Blind; President District of Columbia 



Federation of Women's Clubs; Vice- 
President General Daughters of the 
American Revoluiton — and an officer ard 
member of many other associations. She 
was born in Westminster, Mass., and 
educated in Massachusettss and New 
York; married to Herschel Main, Chijf 
Engineer of U. S. Navy. Residence: 
2009 Massachusetts Avenue, n. w. 

MAIN, HERSCHEL, retired naval of- 
ficer, was born in Illinois, July 6, 1845, 
son of Prof. James Main. From 1851 
to 1857 he attended schools in Washing- 
ton, and from 1858 to 1861 Phillips-Exeter 
Academy, and was graduated from the 
U. S. Naval Academy in 1866, after which 
he took special courses in marine engi- 
neering. He was appointed a Third As- 
sistant Engineer in 1866, and Chief En- 
gineer in 1892, and was retired from 
(a'Ctive service on September 10, 1895. 
On June 1, 1875, he married Charlott-. 
E. Bradbury at Cambridge, Mass. Resi- 
dence: 2009 Massachusetts avenue, n.w. 

MALBY, GEORGE R., Congressman. 
In November, 1906, he was elected to the 
Sixtieth Congress from the Twenty-sixth 
Congressional District of New York on 
the Republican ticliet. Legal residence: 
Ogdensburg, N. Y. Washington address: 
House of Representatives. 

MALLERY, ALLEN WHITTAKER, 

real estate, was born on Long Island, 
N. Y., August 27, 1862, son of the Rev. 
Richard and Annie E. (Pitman) Mallery. 
He attended the Milford (Del.) Academy, 
after which he entered the employ of the 
Milford Basket Company as a bookkeeper, 
remaining with that concern about six 
years, when he became a purser with 
the Newburgh Steamboat Company in 
New York, and later was bookkeeper 
for the Wallhill Hat Works at Middle- 
town, N. Y., after which he came to 
Washington. Since taking up his res- 
idence in Washington, he has been en- 
gaged in the real estate business, and 
has negotiated many large transactions 
in that line of business. He married 
Miss Place, of Fishkill-on-the-Hudson, 
N. Y., to w'hich union have been born four 
children — three daughters and one son. 
In politics he is a Republican. Residence: 
Kenilworth, Md. Office: 1417 G street, 
n.w. 

MALLON, JOSEPH C, Catholic clergy- 
man, pastor of St. Ann's Catholic Church. 
Residence: Wisconsin Avenue, Tenley- 
town, D. C. 

MALLORY, STEPHEN RUSSELL, 

lawyer, U. S. Senator, was born Novem- 
ber 2, 1848. He served in the Confederate 
Army during the fall of 1864, taking part 
in the Virginia campaign, and the fol- 
lowing year, was appointed a midshipman 
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Georgretown University in the fall of the 
same year, and was graduated in 1869. 
after which he taught in the same insti- 
tution for two years. He was admitted 
to the bar in 1873, at New Orleans, the 
following year nemoving 'to Pensacola, 
Fla., where he took up the practice of his 
profession. In 1876 he was elected to the 
Florida State Legislature; the State Sen- 
ate in 1880-84; and represented the 
First Florida Congressional District 
in the Fifty-second and Fifty-third Con- 
gresses. He was elected to the U. S. 
Senate in 1897, and re-elected in 1903; 
his present term of office will expire on 
March 3, 1909. In politics he is a Demo- 
crat. Legal residence: Pensacola, Fla, 
Senator Mallory died December 23, 1907. 

MALONEY, ELBERT SEVER, lawyer, 
was born in Washington, D, C, March 
27, 1880, son of Elbert Sever and Nannio 
B. (Mills) Maloney. He was educated 
at the Randolph-Macon Acadiemy and 
the University of Virginia, graduating 
from the law department of the latter 
institution in 1902, since when he has been 
actively engaged in the practice of his 
profession in "Washington. At the out- 
break of the Spanish War, he enlisted 
as a private and saw service in Cuba and 
had been promoted to the rank of Second 
Lieutentant before being mustered out of 
the service. He is a member of the Pres- 
byterian Church, the Kappa Alpha college 
fraternity, and in politics is a Republican. 
Residence: The Benedict. Office: Colorado 
Building. 

MANN, BENJAMIN PICKMAN, educa- 
tor and government official, was born at 
West Newton, Mass., April 30, 1848, son 
of Horace and Mary (Peabody) Mann. 
He was educated by private tutor and 
at the Concord (Mass.) High School, until 
1866 when he entered Harvard University, 
graduating A. B. in 1870. After serving 
as a private tutor in botany and ento- 
mology he was an instructor in botany at 
Bowdoin College, and served as entomol- 
ogist to the government of Brazil, and 
from 1881 to 1886 was an assistant ento- 
mologist in the Entomological Division of 
the U. S. Department of Agriculture. 
Since 1887, he has been assistant examiner 
in the U. S. Patent Office. He is a mem- 
ber of the Board of Children's Guardians 
of the District of Columbia, and has at 
different times served as secretary and 
president of the board. He is the author 
of a number of pamphlets, newspaper and 
and magazine articles, and was editor of 
"Psyche" from 1874 to 1884. He is a 
member of the University and Harvard 
Clubs. On July 12, 1878, he married Lou- 
isa C. F. van de Sande. Residence: 1918 
Sunderland Place. Office: U. S. Patent 
Office. 

MANN, JAMES R., lawyer. Congress- 
man, was born in 1856. After attending 



the public schools, he entered the Univer- 
sity of Illinois, and after graduation took 
up the study of law at the Union College 
of Law in Chicago. He is a member of 
the law Arm of Mann & Miller, of Chi- 
cago, and has been attorney for Hyde Park 
and South Park Commission of that city. 
He was four years a member of the City 
Oouncil, and in 1894 was chairman of 
the Illinois State Republican Convention, 
and in 1895 and 1902 was chairman of the 
Republican County Convention, in Chi- 
cago. He has always been a Republican 
in politics, and has represented the Second 
Illinois District in the Fifty-fifth, Fifty- 
sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth and 
Fifty-ninth Congresses and has been re- 
elected to the Sixtieth. Legal residence: 
Chicago, 111. Washington address: House 
of Representatives. 

MANNEY, HENRY NEWMAN, naval 
officer, was born in Indiana, January 22, 
1844, and was graduated from the U. S 
Naval Academy in 1866. Promoted to 
Commander, May, 1895; Captain, March 
3. 1901, and Chief of the Bureau of 
Equipment, March 15, 1904, with the rank 
of Rear Admiral. Residence: 1916 N 
street, n. w. 

MANNING, ESTELLE HEMPSTED, 

author, was born at Frankfort, Ky., on 
April 27, 1879, daughter of William Thomp- 
son and Clarissa (Campbell) Manning. 
She obtained her education in the schools 
of Kentucky, and Washington after which 
.she served as secretary to Willis Brewer, 
who was a member of Congress from 
1897 to 1901. She has contributed to 
newspapers and magazines, and is the 
author of Hafiz which was published in 
1902. She is a member of the Daughters 
of the American Revolution. Residence: 
1330 Columbia Road. 

MANSFIELD, HENRY BUCKINGHAM, 

naval officer, was born in Brooklyn, N. 
Y., March 5, 1846, son of Capt. Charles 
and Eliza Maria (Buckingham) Mansfield 
and was graduated from the U. S. Naval 
Academy in 1867. He was on the yacht 
America in search of Confederate priva- 
teers in 1863; served on Marion, Mace- 
donian, Winnepeg and Minnesota. Saw 
special service 1867-68 on Mohongo and 
Mohican; Pacific Fleet, 1869-70; eclipse 
expedition to Siberia, 1869. He com- 
manded receiving ship Vermont 1893-97; 
U. S. S. Celtic, in North Atlantic Squad- 
ron, May- September, 1898. Was at the 
Naval War College April to October, 1903; 
Naval Examining and Retiring Board co 
November, 1903; and commanded battle- 
ship Iowa to January, 1905, and has been 
on duty at the New York Navy Yard 
since that time. Was married at LeRoy, 
N. Y., October 23, 1872 to Harriet Shel- 
don. Address: Navy Department. 



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MANY, JAMES W., clergyman, pastor 
of the East Washington Heights Baptist 
Church. Residence: 129 Bowen Road, D. C. 

MARBURY, CHARLES CLAGETT, 

physican, was born near Upper Marlbor- 
ough, Piince George County, Md., on Juiy 
11, 1870, son of Fendall M. and Sallie 
Ciageit (Berry) Marbury. After grad- 
uating from St. John's College at Annap- 
olis in 1890, with the degree of B. A., ho 
entered the Georgetown University Med- 
ical School, graduating in 1893, and late'- 
toolc a post-graduate course in the New 
York Polyclinic. He is a professor of 
clinical medicine in the Georgetown Med- 
ical College, and an attending physician 
to the Providtnce Hospital, and since 
1900 has been surgeon to the Police anu 
Fire Departments of the Distiict of Co- 
lumbia. During the Spanish-American 
War, he served as an acting assistant 
surgeon at Santiago, and was later placed 
in command of the Leiter U. S. General 
Hospital at Chickamauga, Georgia. He 
is a member of many leading medicji 
societies, the Sons of the American Revo- 
lution, Metiopolitan, Chevy Chase and 
University Clubs. Residence: 1121 Four- 
teenth street, n.w. 

MARCH, PEYTON CONWAY, armiy 
officer, was born at Easton, Pa., on De- 
cember 27. 1864, son of Francis A. and 
Mildred S. March. His preparatory edu- 
cation was obtained at tne Ji.abton (.Penn- 
sylvania) public and high schools, after 
which Le entered Lafayette College, grad- 
uating with the cliss of 1884, when he 
entered West Point Military Academy, 
graduating in 1888. In 1888, he was ap- 
pointed Second Lieutenant, and was pro- 
moted to First Lieutenant in 1894, in 189tj 
served as Captain of the Astor Battery, 
and in 1899, when the battery was mus- 
tered out of service, he returned to the 
Philippines as aidcon the staff of Gen. Mc- 
Arthur. In 1899 he commanded the Amer- 
ican forces in "The Battle of the Clouds" 
and it was during this expeaition that 
Gen. Venancio Conception, Chief of Stalf 
to Aguinaldo, surrendered to him, at the 
same time capturing Aguinaldo s wife and 
escort. In 1900 he was promoted to Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel of the Thirty-thi:d Volun- 
teer Infantry, and after being mustered 
out of the volunteer service he was ap- 
pointed Captain of Field Artillery, com- 
manding the Nineteenth Field Battery. 
In 1902 he was brevetted by the President 
for distinguished gallantry in action, 
since when he has been a member of the 
First General Staff of the U. S. A. He 
is a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon 
college fraternity and Army and Navy 
Clubs of Washington and Manila. On 
July 4, 1891, he man led Josephine M. 
Cunningham, to which union have been 
born six children, five of whom are living. 
Address: War Department. 



MARCHETTI, FRANCIS (D. D.), Aud- 
itor The Apostolic Delegation. Address: 
201 I street, n.w. 

MARK, AUGUSTUS M., clergyman 

assistant rector of St. Anthony's Catholic 
Church, Residence: Brookland, D. C. 

MARKHAM, EDWARD M., captain. 
Engineer Corps, U. S. A., assistant to thg 
Engineer Commissioner of the District of 
Columbia. He vvas graduated from West 
Point Military Academy with the class 
of 1899, being the fifth in the class, since 
when he has seen much active service in 
this country, Cuba and the Philippines. 
Address: District Building. 

MARLATT, CHARLES LESTER, en- 

tomologist, was born at Atchison, Kans., 
on September 26, 1863, son of Washing- 
ton M. and J. A. (Bailey) Marlatt. He 
was graduated from Manhattan (Kans.) 
Agricultural College, with the degree of 
B. S., in 1884, and M. S., in 1886, and the 
two years following was an assistant pro- 
fessor in the same institution. Was ap- 
pointed an assistant in the U. S. Division 
of Entomology in 1889, and was gradually 
promoted to the office of Assistant Chief 
> f Division, which office he his held since 
1894. He is a fellow of the Ameilcaii 
Association for the Advancement of 
Science; an ex-president of Entomological 
Society of Washington; ex-secretary ami 
president of the Association of Economic 
Entomologists; and is a member of many 
leading scientific societies of Washington 
and elsewhere. Several trips have been 
made by him for the U. S. Department of 
Agricultu;e in the interests of science, to 
Japan, China, Java, and elsewhere. He 
is the author of many articles and bulle- 
tins on the subject of entomology, that 
have been published by the Agricultural 
Department, and is a member of the 
Cosmos and Chevy Chase Clubs. On De- 
ctmber 1, 1896 he mar; led Florence L. 
Brown, of Boston, Mass. Residence: 1440 
Massachusetts Avenue. Office: Depart- 
ment of Agriculture. 

MARMION, ROBERT AUGUSTINE, 

officer in the Naval Hospital Corps, was 
born at Harper's Feiry, Va., on September 
6, 1844, son of Nicholas and Lydia G. 
(Hall) Marmion. He attended the private 
schools of his native town until 1858, 
when he entered Mt. St. Mary's College, 
(Md.), graduating in 1861, with the de- 
grees of A. B. and A M., and later at' 
tended the Medical Department of the 
University of Pennsylvania, graduating 
in 1868, after which he took post-graduate 
courses in several hospitals. During hi." 
early life, he was employed as a telegraph 
operator, and since 1868, he has been in 
the U. S. Naval Medical Corps. He is the 
author of many monographs and articles 
of a scientific nature. He is a member 
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American Revolution, Society of Spanish 
War and Society of Foreign Wars, etc. 
On October 7, 1885, he married Beatrice 
Paul. Address: Navy Department. 

MARR, JAMES D., clergyman, was 
born in Washington, D. C, September 
16, 1854. He was educated at St. Charles' 
College, Maryland, and St. Mary's College, 
Baltimore, and was ordained December 
22, 1883 and appointed assistant to Mon- 
signor McMannus, of St. John's, Balti- 
more, where he remained ten years. After 
three year's service as pastor of St. 
Edward's Calverton Church, Baltimore, he 
was appointed to the Church of Our Lady 
of GO'Jd Counsel, at Locust Point, Balti- 
more, and after nineteen years in Balti- 
more, retu:ned to Washington to become 
Pastor of the Church of the Immaculate 
Conception. Residence: 1315 Eighth 
street, n.w. 

MARSH, WILLIAM JOHNSTON, ar- 
chitect, was born in Washington, D. C, 
son of Otis W. and Harriet (Haliday) 
Marsh. After finishing his education in 
the public schools he began the study of 
architecture and building construction in 
Boston and Washington offices, and for 
eight years :^as with Hornblower & 
Marshall, architects, as assistant and head 
draftsman. In 1892, he eng-igsd in the 
same business independently, and after 
five years formed a partnership with Wal- 
ter G. Peter under the firm name of Marsh 
& Peter. He is a fellow of the American 
Institute of Architects; a member of the 
Washington A:chit?ctural Club; Wash- 
ington Chapter of the American Institute 
of Architects and the Cosmos Club. In 
1898, he married Margaret Lamond, of 
Washington, to which union have been 
born two children. Residence: 1446 
Fairmont street, n.w. Office: 520 Thir- 
teenth street, n.w. 

MARSHALL, JAMES L., contracting 
builder, was born at Woodstocli in Shen- 
andoah County, Va., on May 22, 1866 and 
obtained his education in the public 
schools of his native county, after which 
he learned the carpenter trade. In 1885 
he removed to Washington, where he was 
in the employ of leading builders of the 
city, and was assistant superintendent, 
representing the building committee in 
the construction of the Corcoran Gallery 
of Art, and when this work was completed 
in 1897, engaged in business as a con- 
tracting builder, ind?pendently. He has 
erected many well-known buildings, 
among them being the Century Building, 
Dewey Hotel; Mendota, and Carolina 
apartment liouses; etc. He is treasurer 
of the Master Builders' Association, a 
Thirty-second degree Mason, and Knight 
of Pythias. He married Lula Fuller, of 
Front Royal, Va., to which union have 
been born two children. Residence: 1310 



Q street, n. w. Office: 614 Thirteenth 
street, n. w. 

MARSHALL, JAMES M., army officer, 
was born in Charleston, 111., on May 31, 
1844, son of Colonel Thomas A. and Ellen 

1. Marshall. He was graduated from the 
West Point Military Academy in 1865; 
was promoted to the ranks of Second and 
First Lieutenants the same year; Cap- 
tain and Assistant Quartermaster in 
1875; Major and Quartermaster in 1891; 
Lieutenant-Colonel and Deputy Quarter- 
master-General in 1897; and Colonel and 
Adjutant-Quartermaster-General in 1901. 
He has been twice married — first, on July 

2, 1867, to Katherine Fisher, at York, Pa.; 
and second, to Miss M. Kathleen Jones 
on December 31, 1885, at Howard Lake, 
Minn. Address: War Department. 

MARSHALL, THOMAS FRANK, sur- 
veyor, banker, congressman, was bora 
in Hannibal, Mo., March 7, 1854. After 
attending the Stale Normal School at 
Platteville, Wis., he became a surveyor, 
in which business he was engaged abou^ 
twenty-five yea s, and is at the present 
time engaged in the banking, and farming, 
and stock business. In 1873, he became 
a resident of North Dakota, has served 
two terms as mayor of Oakes, N. D., and 
was State Senator one term. In 1892, he 
was a delegate to the Republican National 
Convention, and in 1899 was a candidate 
for the U. S. Senate. In politics he has 
always been a Republican, and has been 
one of the Representatives from North 
Dakota in the Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, 
and Fifty-ninth Congresses. Re-elected 
to the Sixtieth Congress. Legal Residence: 
Oakes, North Dakota. Washington ad- 
dress: House of Representatives. 

MARSHALL, THOMAS WORTH, civil 
engineer, was born at Economy, Ind., 
March 24, 1872, son of Swain and Cynthia 
Marshall. He was graduated from Purdue 
University, B. C. E., 1894, and since 1895 
engaged in practice as civil engineer, giv- 
ing particular attention to the design of 
structural steel work. Author of Log- 
arithmic Tables of the Measures of 
Length extending from to 50 feet at 
intervals of one-sixteenth of an inch. He 
was married October 4, 1897 to Kathleen 
C. Huff, of Barnesville, Georgia. Resi- 
dence: Takoma Park, D. C. Office: 1321 
G street, n.w. 

MARTIN, ARTEMAS, mathematician, 
was born in Steuben County, N. Y., on 
August 3, 1835, son of James M. and 
Orenda Knight (Bradley) Martin. His 
early education was obtained at home. In 
the district schools, Franklin Select 
School and Franklin Academy. For some 
years he work d as a fii:m hand in the 
summer, chopped wood and taught in the 
different schools in the winter, devoting 
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ics, contributing problems and solutions 
to mathematical journals. From 1871 to 
1885, he conducted a market garden, since 
when he has been employed in the U. S. 
Coast and Geodetic Survey, and is editor 
and publisher of the Mathematic Maga- 
zine and the Mathematic Visitor. Hon- 
orary M. A. Yale, 1877; Ph. D., Rutgers, 
1882; LL. D., Hillsdale, 1885. He is a 
member of many leading scientific socie- 
ties in this country and Europe. Library: 
1534 Columbia street, n.w. Residence: 
1312 Ninth street, n.w. Office: U. S. Coast 
and Geodetic Survey. 

MARTIN, EBEN WEVER, lawyer, 
congressman, was born in Maquoketa, 
Jackson County, la., April 12, 1855, and 
was graduated from Cornell (Iowa) Col- 
lege in 1879, with the degree of B. A. 
and three years later received the degree 
of A. M. from the same institution after 
which he entered the law department .<f 
the University of Michigan when he was 
elected president of his class. In 1880, 
he was admitted to the bar, and the .'^ame 
year removed to Deadwood, S. D., where 
he has since been actively engaged in the 
practice of his profession. During 1884 
and 1885 he was a member of the Ter- 
ritorial Legislature, and for several years 
was president of the board of education 
in the city of Deadwood. He is a mem- 
ber of the Sons of the American Revolu- 
tion and the Loyal Legion. Cornell Col- 
lege conferred the degree of LL. D. in 
1904. In politics he has always been a Re- 
publican, and has been a representative- 
at-large from South Dakota in the Fifty- 
seventh, Fifty-eighth and Fifty-nmrh 
Congresses. On June 13, 1883, he married 
Jessie A. Miner, of Cedar Falls, Iowa, to 
which union have been born five children, 
three boys and two girls. Legal resi- 
dence: Deadwood, S. D. Washington ad- 
dress: House of Representatives. 

MARTIN, GEORGE CURTIS, geologisz, 
was born at Cheshire, Mass., July 18,' 
1875, son of William P. and Fannie M. 
(Hare) Martin. He was graduated from 
Cornell University, 1898; Ph. D., from 
Johns Hopkins, 1901. He was an instruc- 
tor in geology at Johns Hopkins, 1901-04; 
geologist, Maryland Geological Survey, 
1901-04, and has been assistant geologist' 
United States Geological Survey, since 
1904; investigated coal and petroleum, 
Pacific Coast of Alaska, 1903-05. Fellow 
of the Geological Society of America; 
member of Geological Societies of Wash- 
ington and Baltimore. Was married Oc- 
tober 12, 1903, to Estella A. Wood, of 
Adams, Mass. Residence: 3267 N street, 
n.w. Office: Geological Survey. 

MARTIN, THOMAS STAPLES, lawyer, 
U. S. Senator, was born in Scottsville, 
Albemarle County, Va., July 29, 1847. 



He attended the Virginia Military In- 
stitute and the University of Virginia, 
after which he took up the study of law, 
and was admitted to the bar in 1869, 
since when he has practiced. For several 
years he has been a member of the Board 
of Visitors of the Manual Labor School 
in Albemarle County, Va., and Board of 
Visitors of the University of Virginia. 
Previous to being elected to the U. S. 
Senate in 1893, he had never been a can- 
didate for any political office; was re- 
elected in 1899 and 1907; his present term 
of office will expire on March 3, 1913. In 
politics he is a Democrat. Legal 'resi- 
dence: Scottsville, Va. Washington ad- 
dress: U. S. Senate. 

MARVIN, CHARLES FREDERICK, 

meteorologist, was born in Putnaon, O., 
October 7, 1858, son of George F. and 
Sarah A. Marvin. After attending the 
public schools at Columbus, O., he entered 
the Ohio State University, and was grad- 
uated from the Mechanical Engineering 
Department in 1883, and from 1879 to 1883 
was instructor of mechanical drawing and 
mechanical and physical laboratory prac- 
tice at the same place. In 1884 he was 
appointed to the Civilian Corps of the 
Signal ^Service, since w'hen he has been 
professor of meteorology in the U. S. 
Weather Bureau. He has made important 
investigations, and conducted experi- 
ments, upon which are based tables used 
by the Weather Bureau for deducing the 
moisture in the air from readings of wet 
and dry bulb thermometers, and invented 
important instruments to measure auto- 
matically rain and snow fall, sun-shine, 
atmospheric pressure, etc. He was among 
the first to perfect the modern kite and 
accessory apparatus employed in the ex- 
ploration of the upper air. On June 27, 
1894 he married Nellie Limburner. Resi- 
dence: 1404 Binney street, n.w. Office: 
U. S. Weather Bureau. 

MASON, BEVERLEY R., educator. He 
graduated from a university preparatory 
school in Virginia, and was professor of 
mathematics and Latin in a military 
school in New York, in 1879; held the 
same position in the Archer Institute for 
Young Ladies, and in the Norwood In- 
stitute until 1892 when he founded the 
Gunston School for Young Ladies in 
Georgetown, later removing the school to 
Thomas Circle. In 1905 the school was 
removed to a new building on Florida 
avenue, n.w- The name of the school is 
derived from Gunston Hall, Fairfax 
County, Va., the home of George Mason, 
author of the Declaration of Rights, great- 
grandfather of the subject of this sketch. 
Residence: Nineteenth street and Florida 
avenue. 

MASON, EMILY VIRGINIA, author, 
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1815, daughter of John Thomson, of Lees- 
burg, Va., and Eliza Baker (Moir) Mason, 
of Wiliamsburg, Va. She attended the 
Troy Female Seminary at Troy, N. Y. 
From 1861 to 1865 she was nurse in the 
hospitals of the Confederate States. She 
Is the author of: Popular Life of Gen- 
eral Robert E. Lee; and edited Southern 
Poems of War; Journal of the Young 
Lady of Virginia; etc. She is a member 
of the Roman Catholic Church; an hon- 
orary member of the Richmond Chapter 
of the Daughters of the Confederacy, and 
the Woman's Literary Club, of Balti- 
more; and a member of the Mary Curtis 
Lee Chapter of the United Daughters of 
the Confederacy at Alexandria, Virginia. 
Residence: 2805 P street, n.w. 

MASON, NEWTON E., naval officer, 
was born at Monroeton, Pa., October 14, 
1850, son of Gordon Fowler and Mary Ann 
Mason, and was graduated from the U. S. 
Naval Academy in June, 1869. He served 
on the U. S. S. Wabash, European Station 
1871-72; Irish famine relief ship Consti- 
tution, 1880; U. S. S. Brooklyn, 1896-99, 
including Spanish War; commander No- 
vember, 1899; commanded U. S. S. Cin- 
cinnati, 1902-04; Chief Bureau of Gid- 
nance since August 3, 1904, with rank of 
Rear Admiral. He was awarded Santiago 
medal in 1898. Member of Pennsylvania 
Commandery Military Order of Foreign 
Wars, and of Army and Navy Club. He; 
was married at Washington, April 4, 1894 
to Dora E. Hancock. Residence: 1724 
P street, n.w. 

MASON, OTIS TUFTON, ethnologist, 
was bo:n in Eastport, Me., April 10, 1838, 
son of John and Rachel Thompson (Lin- 
coln) Mason. In 1861 he was graduated 
from Columbian (now George Washing- 
ton) University, (A. M., 1862; Ph. D., 
1879; LL. D., 1898), from which, until 
1884, he was principal of the Preparatory 
Department of the same institution. 
Since 1884 he has been a curator of 
ethnology in the U. S. National Museum, 
and since 1904, head curator of the De- 
partment of Anthropology. He is the 
author of many books and bulletins of a 
scientific nature, among them being: The 
Hupa Indian Industries; Woman's Share 
in Primitive Culture, (1894); Origin of 
Inventions, (1895); Primitive Transpor- 
tation; The Land Problem; Cradles of the 
North American Indians; Aboriginal 
•American Basketry, (1904), etc. He is a 
member of many of the leading scientific 
societies in this country and Europe. 
Residence: 1719 DeSales street, n.w. 
Office: U. S. National Museum. 

MASON, WILLIAM MADISON, jour- 
nalist, was born in Washington, D. C, 
September 21, 1877, son of James Madison 
and Laura Elizabeth (Pepin) Mason. He 
was educated at Tufts College, Mass., and 



was a newspaper correspondent In the 
Philippine Islands, 1899; special corre- 
spondent for the Publishers' Press Asso- 
ciation, on U. S. S. Dixie, First Relief 
Expedition. Washington correspondent 
for the Army and Navy Journal of New- 
York since 1900. He has written special 
international and military articles for the 
Baltimore Sun, and numerous articles on 
eruption of Mt. Pelee in Martinique, 
and on Philippine affairs. Member Theta 
Delta Chi college fraternity, and the Sons 
of the American Revolution. Residence: 
The Rochambeau. 

MASTERS, SAMUEL J., president of 
the National Investment Company, wa.s 
■born in Greenbrier County, Va., in 1863. 
He mastered telegraphy early in life and 
entered the railroad business, and after 
seven yea;s he entered the insurance bus- 
iness. In 1890, his wife's health took him 
to Denver, and while there he placed the 
stock of a building and loan association. 
He came to Washington in 1899, and en- 
tered the realty and insurance business, 
and when the People's Savings Bank was 
organized he was chosen its president. 
He is president of the Modern Workmen 
of the World; treasurer of the Piedmont 
Heights Land Company, and the South- 
ern Banking and Trust Company, of Nor- 
folk, Va. Residence: 3340 Sixteenth street, 
n. w. Office: Warder Building. 

MATILE, LEON ALBERT, army officer, 
was born at Neucatel, Switzerland, Sep- 
tember 28, 1844, son of George A. and 
Marie Eugenia (Schaffter) Matile, and 
was educated at private schools in Prince- 
ton, N. J., and Philads-lphia. He served 
in the U. S. Army 1863-1903; wounded in 
the Battle of Atlanta, August 1864; par- 
ticipated in campaigns against Comanche, 
Kiowa, Cheyenne and Sioux Indians; 
served in Alaska and the Philippines, and 
was recommended for brevet in battle 
against insurgents, Manila, February, 
1899. He commanded Fourteenth In- 
fantry at Battle of Zapota River, June 
13, 1899; promoted Brigadier-General, 
and retired August 17, 1903. Was mar- 
ried in Washington, D. C, April 10, 1875, 
to Katherine Agnes FIe:cher Residence: 
The Portner. 

MATTHES, FRANCOIS EMILE, to- 
pographer, was born in Amsterdam, Hol- 
land, March 16, 1874, son of William E. 
and Johanna S. (van der Does de Bije) 
Matthes. His early education was ob- 
tained in Holland, Switzerland and Ger- 
many; came to the, United States in 1881, 
and was graduated from the M-issachus- 
etts Institute of Technology in 1S:<5 with 
the degree of B. S. During pare of 1895 
and 1896 he served as chief daftsman 
with the city engineer of Rutland, Vt., 
June 1, 1896, he was appointed a field 
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the U. S. Geological Survey, and since 
1899 has been topographer. Ho is a 
member of the American Association for 
the Advancement of Science, National 
Geographical Coclety, Society of Civil 
Engineers, and other leading scientitic 
organizations. He is the author of several 
bulletins that have been issued by the 
above department, among them beiiig: 
Glacial Sculpture of the Bighorn Moun- 
tains, Wyoming. Residence: The Var- 
num. Office: U. S. Geological Survey. 

MATTHEWS, EDMUND ORVILLE, 

retired naval officer, was born in Balti- 
more, Md., on October 24, 1836, son of 
John, Jr., and Mary Righter (Levering) 
Matthews. He graduated from the U. S. 
Naval Academy in 1855; was promoted to 
Master in 1858; Lieutenant dn 1860; 
Lieutenant-Commander in 1862; Com- 
mander in 1870; Captain in 1871; Commo- 
dore in 1894 and Rear Admiral in 1897. 
During the Civil War, 'he tooli part in 
(many engagements, assisted in the cap- 
ture of the forts alt Hatteras Inlet, and in 
1869 under Admiral Porter, selected Goat 
Island, Newport Harbor as the Torpedo 
Corps Headquarters, which station he 
commanded until 1873. In 1898, he was 
president of the Examining Board serving 
until October 24, 1898 when he was re- 
tired from active service. On May 20, 
1878, he married Hattie R. Hammond ai 
Newport, R. I. Address: Navy Depart- 
ment. 

MATTHEWS, WASHINGTON, retired 
airmy officer, was boirn in Killiney, near 
Dublin, Ireland, July 17, 1843, and came 
to America when quite young, living in 
Wisconsin, and later Iowa, where he at- 
tended the common schools, and later the 
medical department of the University of 
Iowa, graduating in 1864 (LL. D. 1888). 
During 1864 and 1865 he was an acting 
Assistant Surgeon in the U. S. Army; 
promoted to Assistant Surgeon in 186S; 
Captain and Assistant Surgeon in 1871 
a.nd Major and Surgeon in 1889. From 
1884 to 1890, he was on duty at the Army 
Medical Museum, and has made numerous 
investigations, in ethnology and philologj^, 
of the Navajo. Indians and other American 
races. On September 25, 1895, he was re- 
tired from active service on account of 
disability, contracted while in the ser- 
vice. He iis the author of a number of 
books and monographs, on the American 
Indians among them being: Ethnology 
and Philology of the Hidatsa Indian 
(1877); Navajo Silversmiths; Navajo 
Weavers (1884); The Mountain Chant, a 
Navajo ceremony, (1887); Navajo Le- 
gions (1897); The Night Chant, a Navajo 
ceremony (1902); etc. Residence: 1262 
New Hampshire avenue, n. w. 

MATTHEWS, WILLIAM BAYNHAM, 

lawyer, author, was born in Lynchburg, 
Va., dn July, 1850, son of James M. and 



Ellen B. Matthews. He took the law 
course at the University of Virginia Lav/ 
School, session of 1870-71 and received 
the degrees of B. L. and LL. M. from 
Columbian (now George Washington) 
University in 1882. In 1888, he was editor 
and publisher of the National Domain; 
from 1892 to 1896 attorney for the State 
of Idaho; in 1898-9 was the Washington 
attorney for the Rio Grande Western 
Railway Co. He is the author of several 
law books, among them being: Mat- 
thew's Forms of Pleading (1873); Guide 
foir Executors and Administrators (1872); 
Digest Land Decisions (1888); Matthew's 
Guide (1889-95). He is a member of the 
D:lta Kappa Epsilon fraternity and the 
Jefferson Literary Society of the Univer- 
sity of Virginia and a thirty-second de- 
gree Mason. On January 12, 1875 he 
mar:iied Alice P. Turner at Belle Grove, 
Virginia. Residence: The Woodley. Of- 
fice: Evans Building. 

MATTINGLY, WILLIAM F., lawyer, 
was graduated from Columbian (now 
George Washington) University Ph. B. 
(LL. D. 1901). He is a member of the 
Bar Association of the District of Colum- 
bia and a member of the Board of Gov- 
ernors of George Washington University 
Hospital; delegate to Universal Congres.s 
of Lawyers and Jurists, St. Louis, 1904. 
He is a professor of practical commercial 
law in George Washington University. 
Residence: 1767 H street. Office: 435 
Seventh street, n. w. 

MAULEY, WILLIAM, chief clerk in the 
Paymaster-General's Office, War Depart- 
ment, was born in 1849 in Ireland and 
came to America after being educated iu 
his native country at the age of nineteen, 
and went to work in New York City. He 
was soon appointed to a clerkship in the 
Adjutant-General's Office 'Of the Army, 
and became a Paymaster's clerli after 
about eight years service in 1878. Since 
then he has had some fifteen different 
stations, some of them in Minnesota, Cal- 
dfornla and Nebraska, serving with Gen- 
erals Asa B. Covey, Coxe and Sprague, 
and traversing many thousands of miles 
by eve:y variety of transportation. He 
succeeded T. M. Exley as Chief Clerk in 
Paymaster-General's Office, February 9, 
1905. Address: War Department. 

MAURY WILIAM A., is a member of 
U. S. Spanish Treaty Claims Commission. 
From May 1882 to September 1893 he was 
Assistant U. S. Attionney- General. In 
1904 he was a delegate to th? Universal 
Congress of Lawyers and Jurists at St. 
Louis. He is a member of the Washin- 
ton National Monument Society, and was 
a Professor of Common Law Pleading, 
Federal Procedure, Evid?nce and Insur- 
ance in George Washington University 
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Residence: 1767 Massachusetts avenue, 
n. w. Office: 1415 H street, n. w. 

MAUS, MARION P., army officer, was 
born in Maryland on August 25, 1850 and 
was graduated from West Point in 1874. 
He has seen many years of service cam- 
paigning- against Indians, and for gallant 
services rendered in Indian battles he was 
awarded a medal of honor by Con- 
gress. He went with Gen. Miles to 
observe the Graeco-Turkish War, and 
represented the United States Govern- 
ment at the Queen's Jubilee in England 
in 1897. At the outbreak of the Span- 
ish War he was p-omoted from Cap- 
tain to Lieutenant-Colonel; was present 
at the surrender of Santiago de Cuba and 
was a member of the Porto Rican Expe- 
dition, and after the protocol of peace 
was signed, was om duty as Inspector- 
General of the Departments of California 
and the Columbia; since 1901 he has been 
aide-de-camp on the staff of the Lieu- 
tenant-General commanding the army. 
In June 1899, he married Lindsay Poor. 
Address: War Department. 

MAY, HENRY, Colonel of First Regi- 
ment, District of Columbia National 
Guard, was born in Baltimore in 1855, 
son of Henry May, of Washington, whose 
ancestry dates back to William the Con- 
queror, in whose time came Knights of 
his name. These gentlemen, for valorous 
services at the Battle of Hastings, were 
by Royal charter granted the manor 
known as King's Chase, afterward May- 
fleld, the county of Sussex where they 
lived in opulence till the close of the 
Wars of the Roses. Henry May, the sub- 
ject of this sketch is a member of the 
Pacific Union, of San Francisco; Mary- 
land Club, of Baltimoire; Social Science 
and Union, of New York; New York and 
Southhampton, Long Island, Yacht Clubs; 
Pequot Club, of New London; Aztec 
Club; Metropolitan, Golf and Country 
Clubs, of Washington. In 1881 he mar- 
ried Isabel Teresa Coleman, of New Jer- 
sey, to which union ha.ve been born four 
children. Residence: 1325 K street, n.w. 

MAYDWELL, GEORGE E., Methodis. 
Episcopal Clergyman, pastor of Waugh 
Chapel. Residence: 308 A street, n. e. 

MAYFIELD, CLIFTON, (M. D.) pres- 
ident of the Medical Association of the 
District of Columbia. Residence: 1511 
Thirtieth street, n.w. Office: 1335 Thir- 
tieth street, n.w. 

MAYNARD, HARRY LEE, congress- 
man, was born in Portsmouth, Va., June 
8, 1861, and was graduated from the Vir- 
ginia Polytechnic Institute in 1880. He 
is president of the Norfolk, Portsmouth 
and Newport News R. R. Co., and the 
Virginia Realty and Investment Co., ami 



a director in the Portsmouth Dime Sav- 
ings Bank, etc. Prom 1890 to 1894 he 
was a member of the Virginia State Leg- 
islature; the State Senate from 1894 to 
1901; and has represented the Second 
Virginia District in the Fifty-seventh, 
Fifty-eighth, and Fifty-ninth Cong esses, 
and has been re-elected to the Sixtieth. 
In politics he is a Democrat. On August 
5, 1855, he married Mary Eleanor Brooks. 
Legal residence: Portsmouth, Va. Wash- 
ington address: House of Representatives 

MAYO, AMORY DWIGHT, clergyman 
and educator, was born at Warwick, 
Mass., January 31, 1823, son of Amory 
and Sophronia (Cobb) Mayo. He was 
educated at Amherst College, l''43-44, 
and was pastor of the Independent Chris- 
tian Society, the First Universallst 
Church in the United States at Gl ucest^r, 
Mass., 1846-54. He was pastor of the 
Church of the Unity, Springfield, Mass.. 
1872-79; a lecturer at Meadville, Penn- 
sylvania Theological School, 1868-98; a 
member of the Board of Education, Cin- 
cinnati, O., 1863-72, and at Springfield, 
Mass., 1872-79. The degree of A. M. was 
conferred by Amherst College, 1874, and 
LL. D. by Berea (Ky.) Collge, 1897. He 
has lectured in thirty states; was asso- 
ciate editor and editorial w. iter of the New 
England and National Journal of Educa- 
tion (1880-86), and is the author of The 
Balance (1850); Symbols of the Capital 
(1859); Religion in the Common Schools 
(1869); Talks with Teachers (1878); 
Industrial Education in the South (1882); 
and History of the Common School. Ho 
married, first, July 28, 1846, Sarah Carter 
Edgerton, of Shirley, Mass., and, second, 
in December, 1853, Lucy Caroline Cl<jrk, 
of New Broghton, Penn. Residence: 1416 
Rhode Island avenue. 

MEAD, ELWOOD, civil engineer, gov- 
ernment official, was born' in Patriot, Ind., 
on January 16, 1858, son of Daniel and 
Lucinda (Davis) Mead. He was educate! 
ai Purdue University, and the Iowa S'^ato 
College, and the honorary degree of D. 
E. was conferred upon him in 1901 by 
Purdue University. From 1883 lo 1S85 
he was professor of engineering in the 
Colorado Agricultural College; Assistant 
State Engineer of Colorado in 1886; and 
from 1888 to 1898 was State Enginee;- of 
Wyoming. Since 1898, he has been Chief 
of Irrigation Investigations in the U. S. 
Department of Agriculture. He is the 
author of Irrigation Institutions, and has 
written many articles that have appeared 
in leading magazines. He is a Mason, a 
director of the American Society of Civil 
Engineers, and a member cf the Cosmos 
Club. Residence: 221 East Capitol street. 
Office: U. S. Department of Agriculture. 

MEAD, WILLIAM WHITMAN, naval 

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February 8, 1845, son of Sackett and Anna 
A. Mead. He was graudated from the 
U. S. Naval Academy in 1865; was pro- 
moted to Ensign in 1866; Master in 1868; 
Lieutenant in 1869; Lieutenant-Comman- 
der in 1881; Commander in 1891, and Cap- 
tain in 1899. He has seen service on 
many stations, and during the Spanish 
War he was in command of the U. S. S. 
Machaiis; in 1899 ooimmanded the Brook- 
lyn, and in 1900 the Philadelphia. He 
married Julia B. Watts, of Kentucky. 
Address: Navy Department. 

MEADOR, CHASTAIN, CLARK, editor, 
clergyman ,was born in Bedford County, 
Va., son of Jeremiah and Rachael Meador. 
After attending the common schools, he 
entered the Columbian (now George 
Washington) University, from which in- 
stitution he holds the degrees of A. B., 
A. M., and LL. D. In 1844, he became 
a clergyman in the Baptist Church, and 
in 1857 founded the Fifth Baptist Church 
of Washington, since when he has been 
•Its pastor. Since 1881 he has been the 
editor and proprietor of the Baptist 
Beacon. In August, 1857, he married 
Anna C. Shields, of Washington, who 
died in 1900. Residence: 903 Fifteenth 
street, n.w. 

MEANS, THOMAS HEBERT, geolo- 
gist, was born in Waterford, Va., on No- 
vember 15, 1875, son of Samuel C. and 
Rachael A. Means. He attended Colum- 
bian (now George Washington) Univer- 
sity, graduating B. S. in 1898, and M. S 
in 1901, having made a specialty of 
geology. Since 1900, he has been in 
charge of the U. S. Government Soil Sur- 
veys. He is the author of many mono- 
g'raphs and bulletins that have been pub- 
lished by the U. S. Agricultural Depart- 
ment, and has contributed many articles 
of a scientific nature to leading' maga- 
zines. In 1900, he married Constanco 
Adams, of Washington. Address: Bureau 
of Soils, U. S. Department of Agriculture. 

MEARNS, EDGAR ALEXANDER, 

airmy surgeon, was born at Highland 
^al'ls, N. Y., on September 11, 1856, son 
of Alexander (Jr.) and Nancy R. (Cars- 
well) Mearns. After attending the Don- 
ald Highland Institute he was graduated 
from the Columbia College Medical School 
in New York in 1881, and later took post- 
g-raduate work in the Physicians and 
Surgeons and Polyclinic. In 1883, he wat 
appointed a First Lieutenant and As- 
sistant Surgeon in the U. S. Army; pro- 
moted to Captain and Assistant Surgeon 
in 1888, and in 1898 Major and Brigade- 
Surgeon of Volunteers. Duting the Span- 
ish War he was located at Camp George 
H. Thomas in Chickamauga Park, Ga., 
and was for a time Surgeon-in-Charge of 
the John Blair Gibbs general hospital at 
Lexintgon, Ky. In 1899, he wasi promoted 



to Major and Chief Surgeon of the U. S. 
Volunteers; in 1901 he was promoted to 
Major and Surgeon in the U. S. Army. 
He is a member of many of the leading 
scientific societies in Washington and 
elsewhere, and has written many mono- 
graphs of scientific nature. He married 
Ella Wittich, of Circleville, O. Address: 
War Department. 

MEARNS, WILLIAM A., junior member 
of the firm of Lewis Johnson & Company 
(bankers), was born in Philadelphia, Pa., 
July 16, 1870, son of Robert K. and 
Martha (Poole) Mearns. He was educated 
at the Chester (Pa.) High School, ^and was 
graduated from the Law School o£ Co- 
lumbian (now George Washington) Uni- 
versity in 1892, and admitted to the bar. 
For ten years he was in the empl.iy of 
Carson & McCartney, and in 1898 he 
joined the firm of Lewis Johnson & Co. 
He was president of the Washington 
StocK Exchange, director in the Wash- 
ington Safe Deposit Savings & Tru.st Co.; 
secretary of the Bankers Association; 
treasurer of the Columbian Historical 
Society; a member of the New York Stock 
Exchange, and a. member of the Chevy 
Chase and Columbia Golf Clubs. In No- 
vember 1897, he married Mary B. Cham- 
bers, and they have two children. Resi- 
d?nce: 1801 California avenue. Office: 
1319 F street, n.w. 

MEEM, HARRY G., asistant treasurer 
of the Washington Loan and Trust Co. 
Residence: 2011 F street, n. w. Office: 
Ninth and F streets, n. w. 

MEJIA, DON FREDERICO, Envoy Ex. 
traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary 
from Salvador to the United States. Ad- 
dress: The Arlington. 

MELINE, JAMES FLORANT, Assist- 
ant Treasurer of the United States, was 
born in Ohio June 3, 1841, son of Florant 
M. and Ellen M. (Reilly) Meline. At the 
outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted as 
a private in the Sixth Ohio Volunteer In- 
fantry, and attained the rank of First 
Lieutenant, before being mustered out of 
the service with that regiment; he was 
wounded in the battle of Stone's River in 
1863. He left the army for a while, but 
returned as Captain of Company I, Sec- 
ond U. S. Veteran Infantry, Hancock's 
Corps, serving until March, 1866; he was 
brevetted Major of Volunteers for faithful 
and contmued service. He entered the 
U. S. Treasury Department as a clerk in 
March, 1866, and was made Assistant 
Treasurer of the United States in April, 
1893. Residence: 2111 O street, n.w. Of- 
fice: U. S. Treasury Department. 

MELVILLE, GEORGE WALLACE, 

naval officer, was born in New York, on 
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Sarah Melville. After attending the cm- 
mon schools, he ente'red the Brooklyn 
Polytechnic Institute (LL. D., E. D., E. 
M.). In 1861 he was appointed an as- 
sistant engineer in the U. S. Navy, and 
served throughout the Civil War. In 1879, 
he sailed with deLong in the Jeanette, 
from San Francisco, and was in command 
of the crew which escaped from the Lena 
Delta, and later headed an expedition to 
recover records of the Jeanette expedi- 
tion, and found the Temains of deLong 
and his companions. He has been on 
three Arctic expeditioins, and for bravery 
shown on these voyages, was awarded a 
gold medal, and advanced fifteen numbers 
■by Congress in 1890. In 1887, he was ap- 
pointed Chief Engineer of the Navy, and 
was reappointed to the same office in 1892 
and 1896, since 1899 he has ranked as 
Rear- Admiral. During his term as Chief 
Engineer, designs were gotten out for one 
hundred and twenty ships, and seven 
hundred thousand horsepower; perhaps 
the greatest designs turned out during his 
regime wete the triple screw ships Co- 
lumbia and Minneapolis. He is the in- 
ventor of many mechanical appliances; 
author of In the Lena Delta; and is ex- 
president of the American Society of 
Mechanical Engineers. In 1903, he was 
retired from active service with the rank 
of Rear- Admiral. Address: 1720 H street, 
n. w. 

MELVIN, ALONZO D., Chief of the 
Bureau oif Animal Industry, U. S. De- 
partment of Agriculture. Residence: 1751 
Park Road. Office: Department of Agri- 
culture. 

MENDENHALL, WALTER CURRAN, 

geologist, was born iji Marlboro. Stark 
County, O., February 20, 1871, son of Wil- 
liam King and Emma P. (G<arrigues) 
Mendenhall. His early education was ob- 
tained in the public schools of Ohio and 
Portland, Oregon, later attending Ohio 
Normal University at Ada, Ohio, 1S91-9:J; 
afterward studying at Harvard Univer- 
sity, and Heidelberg, Germany. For sev- 
eral years he was assistant geologist in 
the U. S. Geological Survey, and since 
1901 has been geologist in that bureau. 
He is the author o£ a number of pro- 
fessional papers that have been issued by 
the above department, and is a member 
of the Geological Society of America; the 
American Association for the Advance- 
ment of Science, and the Cosmos Club. 
Residence: Hollywood, Cal. Office: U. S. 
Geological Survey. 

MENDOZA, DIEGO, college pr-^fessor 
and lawyer, was born at Funja, Colombia, 
December 24, 1859, son of Dr. Diego Men- 
doza and Teresa Perez; two of his uncles 
having been presidents 'Of Colombia. His 
father was prominent in the Colombian 
Conservative party, a member of the Ju- 
diciary, and Congressman and Senator of 



the Republic. He was graduated from the 
National University of Colombia in ISiO, 
and the degree of LL. D. has been con- 
ferred by that institution. He has boon a 
member of the Academy of Jurisprudence 
of Colombia since 1896, and of the Acad- 
emy of History, and 'honorary member of 
the Academy of Jurisprudence of Madrid 
and Barcelona, Spain. Been president of 
the Agricultural Institute of Boyaca, and 
of the Republican University of Colombia, 
and Professor of International Law and 
Political Economy at the latter; also a 
member of the National Committee of 
the Liberal Party since 1892, a represen- 
tative in its Congress 1904-5, and Envoy 
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten- 
tiary from Colombia to the United States. 
He has written: A Grammatical Word 
Book; Essay on the Evolutioa of Real 
Estate Property In Colombia; The Inter- 
Oceanic Canal and Its Treaties; trans- 
lations of Smiles' Thrift, and Chapters 'Of 
the Diplomatic History of Colombia, and 
has been editor of El Republicano and El 
Relator, two leading Liberal papers. He 
is a prominent orator. On November 30, 
1895, he married Maria Perez. Address: 
Colombian Legation. 

MENEFEE, FLOURNOY, president ot 
Washington College. Residence: Third 
and T streets, n.e. 

MENZEL, PAUL A., clergyman, pastor 
of the Concordia Lutheran Church. Resi- 
dence: 1920 G street, n.w. 

MEREDITH, WILLIAM MORTON, gov- 
ernment official, was born in Centreville, 
Wayne County, Ind., on April 11, 1835, 
son of Samuel C. and Margaret (Ballard) 
Meredith. He was educated in the public 
schools and later attended Whitewater 
College in his home town but did not 
graduate. He left at the age of eighteen 
to serve out an apprenticeship in a print- 
ing 'Office. At the outbreak of the Civil 
War, he enlisted as a private in the 
Eleventh Indiana Volunteers, served one 
year as Assistant Commissary-General of 
Indiana, and was commissioned Second 
Lieutenant; helped to enlist Company E 
of the Seventeenth Indiana Volunteers 
(of which regiment Benjamin Harrison 
was Colonel), serving las Captain, and af- 
ter two years service, was honorably dis- 
charged for disability, contracted in ser- 
vice. From 1862 to 1872, he was foreman 
of the Indiana Journal; 1872 to 1875 St. 
Louis Globe-Democrat, and from 1879 to 
1889, and from 1893 to 1901 he was super- 
intendent of plate printing for the West- 
ern Bank Note Company. From 1889 to 
1903, he was director of the U. S. Bureau 
of Engraving and Printing, and again in 
1901 he was re-appointed, which office he 
still holds. He is a member of the G. A. 
R. ; Union Veteran's League, and is a 
member of the Methodist Church, and in 
politics a Republican. On April 23, 1867 
he married Terressa A. Richey, of Indian- 



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apolis, Ind. Residence: 1219 Princeton 
street, n. w. Office: U. S. Bureau of 
Engraving and Printing. 

MERIWETHER, COLYER, educator, 
autlior, was born at Clailc's Hill, S. C. 
He attended the country schools, Furman 
University at Greenvil\e, S. C, Vand?r- 
bilt University at Nashville, Tenn., and 
Johns Hopltins University, graduating in 
1886, and received the degree of Ph. D. 
in 1893. From 1889 to 1892 he was in the 
employ of the Japanese Government, do- 
ing educational work at Sendai, Japa^i, 
since when his time has been devoted to 
education and writing. He is the author 
of a number of books and monographs, 
among them being: A History of Higher 
Education in So'uthern Carolina (1889); 
Japan and Her National Leaders (1894); 
Washington City Government (1897); 
Social Changes in the Black Belt (1897); 
Charity in Japan (1892); Our Colonial 
Curriculum (1907), etc. In 1893 he mar- 
ried Elizabeth S, Quynn, in Baltimore. 
She died in 1903. Residence: 1534 Fif- 
teenth street, n. w. 

MERRIAM, CLINTON HART, Chief of 
the U. S. Biological Survey, since 1885, 
was born in New York on December 5, 
1855, son of Clinton L. and Caroline 
(Hart) Merriam. He attended the Willis- 
ton Seminary at East Hampton, Mass., 
Yals Scientific School, class of 1877, and 
was graduated from the College of Phy- 
sicians and Surgeons in New York in 
1879, and practiced his profession at Lo- 
cust Grove, Lewis County, N. Y., from 
1878-85. In 1872 he was naturalist of 
Hayden's Survey; 1875 an assistant in the 
U. S. Fish Commission, and in 1883 visited 
the Arctic seal fishery from Newfoundland 
as surgeon on the S. S. Proteus. In 1891 
he visited Alaska as U. S. Bering Sea 
Commissioner and investigated the fur 
seal of the Pribilof Islands, since when 
he has conducted many exploring parties 
in varidus parts of the far west. He is 
the author of many books and bulletins, 
and has contributed articles to leading 
magazines. Among his more prominent 
writings are: The Birds of Connectictut 
(1877); Mammals of the Adirondacks 
(1882-4); Revision of the American 
Shrews (1895); Biological Survey of 
Mount Shasta, Calif. (1899); etc. Resi- 
dence: 1919 Sixteenth street, n. w. Of- 
fice: U. S. Department of Agriculture. 

MERRIAM, WILLIAM RUSH, financier, 
ex-Governor of Minnesota, was born 
at Wadham's Mills, N. Y., July, 1849, son 
of John L. and Mahala (de Lano) Mer- 
riam. He graduated from Racine Col- 
lege in 1871 and was cashier in 1873, and 
vice-president in 1880, and since 1882 has 
been President of the Merchants' National 
Bank, of St. Paul, Minn.; Speaker of the 
Minnesota Legislature in 1886; Governor 
of Minnesota 1889-92; Director U. S. Cen- 



sus 1898-1903; President of the Shenan- 
doah Iron and Coal Company, Liberty 
Furnace, Va., and th? Tabulating Machine 
Company, of Washington, D. C. He is 
a member of the Metropolitan and Chevy 
Chase Clubs, of Washington, and of the 
Lotos and University Clubs, of New York. 
He was married at St. Paul, Minn., Oc- 
tober 2, 1873, to Laura E. Hancock. Res- 
idence: 1414 Eleventh street. 

MERRILL, GEORGE PERKINS, geol- 
ogist, was born at Auburn, Maine, May 
31 1854, son of Lucius and Annie E. 
(Jones) Merrill, grandson of Moses and 
Sallie Merrill and of the Rev. Elijah 
Jones, for forty years pastor of First 
Church, Minot, Maine. He was graduated 
from the University of Maine, B. S., 1879, 
receiving the degree of M. S. in 1883 and 
Ph. D. in 1889, and took post-graduate 
courses at Wesleyan and Johns Hopkins 
Universities. He also served as an as- 
sistant in chemistry at Wesleyan in 1879- 
80. He was an assistant on the Fisheries 
Census, at Washington, in 1880-81; be- 
came connected with the geological de- 
partment of the U. S- National Museum, 
Smithsonian Institution, in 1881, and in 
1897 became Head Curator of the De- 
partment of Geology. He was lecturer 
on the economic aspects of geology in the 
Maryland Agricultural College, 1890-91; 
professor of geology and mineralogy in the 
Corcoran Scientific School of Columbian 
(now G'orge Washington) University 
since 1893. He is the author of several 
standard works, including Stones for 
Building and Decoration (1891, 1897 and 
1903); Rocks, Rockweathering and Soils 
(1897 and 1907); the Non-Metallic Miner- 
als (1901, 1904); Contributions to a His- 
tory of American Geology (1904), and 
many papers in the scientific journals. 
Was a contributor to the Standard Dic- 
tionary; Johnson's Universal Cyclopedia, 
Russel Sturgis' Dictionary of Architecture 
and Building, and Bailey's CyclO'pedia of 
Agriculture. He was married in Novem- 
ber, 1883. to Sarah, daughter of Jos ph 
R. Farrington, of Portland, Maine. His 
wife died in 1894, and in February, 190a 
he was again married to Katherine L. 
Yancey, lof Virginia. Residence: 1422 
Staughton street, n.w. Office: U. S. Na- 
tional Museum. 

MERRIMAN, GEORGE BENJAMIN, 

lawyer, educator, assistant. Nautical Al- 
manac Office, was born in Pontiac, Mich., 
on April 15, 1834, son of Isaiah and Caro- 
line (Dean) Merriman. He was graduated 
from Ohio Wesleyan University, at Dela- 
ware, Ohio, A. B. in 1863, and from the 
University of Michigan, A. M. in 1864. 
He was admitted to the bar in 1861, but 
never practiced. He served as college 
professor for thirty years; assistant pro- 
fessor of mathematics and later professor 
of physics at the University of Michigan; 
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at Rutgers College, New JeTsey, and held 
the chair of mathematics and astronomy 
at Lawrence University, Wisconsin. From 
1857 to 1861 he served as County Court 
Clerk of Genesee County, Mich. Before 
'his graduation in 1864 he was appointed 
assistant on the work of the Chili Astro- 
nomical expedition. He is a member of 
the Cosmos Club, Protestant Episcopal 
Church, and in politics an independent 
Republican. On August 11, 1891, he mar- 
ried S. Gertrude Wright, of Baltimore, 
Md. Residence: The Rochambeau. 

M ERR ITT, JOHN A., Collector of Cus- 
toms at Niagara Falls and ex-postmaster 
of Washington, was born in 1851 at Te- 
cumseh, Mich., and removed to western 
New York in 1859 with his parents. He 
was graduated from the Lockport (N. Y.) 
High School, and early took a hand in 
politics; is a member of the Republican 
State Committee; studied law after being 
admitted to practice, formed a partner- 
ship with A. A. Bradley at Lockport, N. 
Y.; defeated for sheriff in 1875; elected 
County Clerk of Niagara County in 1880, 
and three years later re-elected. After 
serving as postmaster at Lockport, he 
again toiok up the practice of law; also 
became secretary and treasurer of the Ni- 
agara Paper Mills. He was appointed by 
President McKinley Third Assistant Post- 
master General of the United States in 
1897, later becoming Postmaster of Wash- 
ington, and re-commissioned by President 
Roosevelt. In 1906 he resigned to become 
Collector of Customs at Niagara Falls, 
New York. 

MERRITT, WESLEY, retired army 
officer, was Iporn in New York, January 
16, 1836, son of John W. and Julia Anne 
Merritt. After graduating from West 
Point in 1860, he was assigned to the 
dragoons and promoted to First Lieuten- 
ant in 1861; Captain in 1862; served in 
the Army of the Potomac until 1864, tak- 
ing part in all battles, and was brevetted 
six times for gallant services rendered. 
He was in command of the cavalry divi- 
sion during the Shenandoah and Appo- 
mattox campaigns and was one of three 
commanders from the Union Army to ar- 
range with the Confederate commanders 
for the surrender of Northern Virginia. 
After the war, he served in various de- 
partments, including Indian campaigns; 
superintendent lof the U. S. Military 
Academy from 1882-87. He was in com- 
mand of the Department of the Atlantic 
until 1898, when he was assigned t--" com- 
mand the United States forces in the 
Philippines, where he continued until 
called to the aid of the American Peace 
Commissioners, which was in session at 
Paris, December of the same year. He 
afterwards returned to the United States, 
was put in command of the Department 
of the East on Governor's Island, until 
he was retired from active service on 
June 16, 1900, with the rank of Major- 
General. He is a member of the Metro- 
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politan and Chevy Chase Clubs. Address: 
War Department. 

MESSENGER, LILLIAN ROZELL, 

author, was born near Milburn, Ballard 
County, Kentucky, daughter of Dr. F. O. 
and Cafoline (Cole) Rozell. After gradu- 
ating from the Forest Hill Institute near 
Memphis, Tenn., she took up the study 
of music and painting. For several years 
she engaged in newspaper work. She re- 
moved to Arkansas, where she was the 
first lady elected to membership in the 
State Press Association, after which she 
took vip her residence in Washington, 
where she was engaged as correspondent 
and doing general literary work. She is 
the author of several books, among them 
being: Threads of Fate (poem) (1872), 
Fragments from the Old Inn (1875), The 
Vision of Gold (1886), The Southern 
Cross (1891). She was married to North 
A. Messenger, an editor of Tuscumbia, 
Ala. (now deceased), of this union one 
son was born. Residence: The Fredonia. 

METCALF, VICTOR HOWARD, Secre- 
tary of the Navy, was born in Utlca, 
Oneida County, New York, October 10, 
1853. He was graduated from the Utica 
Free Academy, also from Russell's Mili- 
tary Academy, New Haven, Conn., and 
then entered the class of 1876 at Yale. 
During the college vacations he studied 
law in the office of Senator Francis Ker- 
nan, also in the offices of Horatio and 
John F. Seymour, at Utica, N. Y. He left 
the academical department of Yale in his 
junior year and entered the Yale Law 
School, graduating therefrom in 1875; 
was admitted to practice in the Supreme 
Court of Connecticut in June 1876, and in 
the Supreme Court of New York in 1877. 
He practiced law in Utica, N. Y., for two 
years, and then moved to California, lo- 
cating in Oakland; formed a law part- 
nership in 1881 with George D. Metcalf 
(who is also a graduate of Yale) und^r 
the firm name of Metcalf & Metcalf. He 
was elected to the Fifty- sixth. Fifty- 
seventh and Fifty-eighth Congresses; re- 
signed from the Fifty-eighth Congres.s 
and was appointed Secretary of Com- 
merce and Labor July 1, 1904, and Secre- 
tary of the Navy, December 17, 1906. Re- 
publicam. Residence: 2009 N street, n.w. 
Office: Navy Department. 

METCALF, WILLIAM PARK, lawyer, 
was born in Washington, D. C, on De- 
cember 2, 1861, son of William W. and G. 
Helen (Maynard) Metcalf. William Wil- 
liams, an ancestor, was one of the signers 
of the Declaration of Independence. Af- 
ter finishing his preparatory education in 
the Emerson Institute of Washington, he 
entered the Columhian (now George 
Washington) University Law School from 
which he was graduated with the degree 
of LL. B., in 1885. Since graduating from 
college, he has been engaged in the active 
practice of law, and the management of 
real estate properties in Washington. He 
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Presbyterian Church; Society of the May- 
flower; Colonial War; Sons of the Revo- 
lution; Colonial Governofs, etc. Unmar- 
ried. Residence 1531 Vermont avenue, 
n.w. Office: 1320 New York avenue, n.w. 

MET2ER0TT, JOHN HITZ, physician. 
He is a member of the Washington 
Academy of Science and the Washington 
Medical Society. Residence: Berwyn, 
Md. Office: 1110 F street, n.w. 

METZGAR, CHARLES WATSON, 

journalist, was born in Latrobe, Pa., on 
April 11, 1860, son of William H. and Min- 
nie M. (Albright) Metzgar. After obtain- 
ing his education at Centralia, 111., he Im- 
mediately entered newspaper work. Dur_ 
ing 1881 and 1882, he was editor of the 
Marion (111.) Monitor; was editor and part 
owner of the Lebanon (111.) Journal, and 
afterwards connected with Chicago and 
New York papers. He was for a time 
Washington correspondent for the Pitts- 
burg Commercial Gazette, and for several 
years since has been correspondent for 
the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. He 
is one of the organizers of the National 
Capital Press Club, and in politics is a 
Republican. On Sept. 19, 1901, he mar- 
ried Bessie Darling Sueyser, of York, Pa. 
Residence: 2475 Eighteenth street, n.w. 
Office: Corcoran Building. 

MEYER, ADOLPH, planter, Congress- 
man, was born on October 19, 1842, and 
was a student at the University of Vir- 
ginia at the outbreak of the Civil War. 
He enlisted in the Confederate Army, and 
served throughout the war, on the statT 
of Brigadier-General John S. Williams, of 
Kentucky, and before the close of the war 
had been advanced to the rank of Assist- 
ant Adjutant-General. For many years 
he has been largely engaged in the grow- 
ing of cotton and sugar-cane in Louisiana, 
and is engaged in many commercial en- 
terprises in the city of New Orleans. In 
1879, he was elected Colonel of the Firs^ 
Regiment of the Louisiana State National 
Guard, and was appointed Brigadier- 
General in 1881, to command the First 
Brigade, which embraced all of the uni- 
formed regiments in the State. In poli- 
tics, he has always been a Democrat, and 
has represented the First Louisiana Dis- 
trict in all Congresses since the Fif.y- 
first Congress. Legal residence: New 
Orleans, La. Washington address: House 
of Representatives. 

MEYER, GEORGE V. L., Postmaster- 
General, son of the late George A. Meyer. 
was born in Boston, Ju-ne 24, 1858. His 
father was a native of New York, and his 
mother, Grace Helen Parker, a native of 
Boston, a granddaughter of the late 
Bishop Parker. He entered Harvard Col- 
lege with the class af 1879, and on gradu- 
ating, went into the office of Alpheus H. 
Hardy & Co., remaining in this house un- 
til 1881, when he became a member of 
the firm of Linder & Meyer, East India 
merchants, a firm which his father had 



established in India wharf, Boston, in 
1848. Mr. Meyer is also president of the 
Ames Plow Company, a director of the 
Old Colony Trust Company, the Bank of 
Commerce, Amoskeag Manufacturing 
Company, Electric Securities Company, 
Electric Corporation, and a trustee of the 
Providence Institution for Savings. He 
has taken an active interest in politics, 
and in 1889, was elected on the Republican 
ticket to the common council, in which 
he served two years. During this time 
he was a member of the finance commit- 
tee, the committee on water, on laying out 
and widening streets, and on the Charles 
River bridges. In the fall of 1890, he was 
elected to the board of aldermen from the 
Fourth District, receiving the nomination 
of both the Dem.ocrats and Republicans; 
and in 1891, he was elected on the Re- 
publican ticket to the lower house 'of the 
legislature. In 1893, he was chosen 
Speaker of the House and re-elected for 
three consecutive years. Member of the 
Republican National Committee for eight 
years; appointed Chairman of the Massa- 
chusetts Paris Exposition managers by 
Governor Wolcott; appointed American 
ambassador to Itily by President McKin- 
ley in the fall of 1900. Was transferred 
from Rome to be Ambassador to Russia. 
iby President Ro'osevelt in March, 1905. 
He was recalled in February, 1907, to en- 
ter the Cabinet of President Roosevelt, 
and took the oath of office as Po<^tmaster- 
General on March 4, 1907. While in col- 
lege Mr. Meyer took an active part in 
athletics, and was on the winning class 
senior crew of 1879. He is a member of 
the St. Botolph and Somerset Clubs, Bos- 
ton; the Harvard Club, New York, and 
Metropolitan Club, Washington. Resi- 
dence: Connecticut avenue and S street. 
Office: Postoffice Department. 

MICHAEL, WILLIAM HENRY, Consul- 

General at Calcutta, formerly Chief Clerk 
of the Department of State, and prior to 
that Clerk of Printing Records of the 
Senate, and compiler and editor of the 
Congressional Directory, and the Abridg- 
ment of Message and Documents, was 
born in 1845 in Marysville, Union county, 
Ohio; was taken to Iowa by his parents 
when three years of age; was educated 
in the common schools, the University 
of Iowa, and at Bacon's College, Cincin- 
nati, Ohio; taught school four months In 
1861, and in September of that year en- 
listed in the Eleventh Iowa Infantry; was 
badly injured in the battle of Shiloh, on 
account of which he was discharged, hav- 
ing served one year; when he was able 
to walk without crutch or cane he was 
appointed Master's Mate in the navy In 
1863; was promoted to Ensign in 1864 
"for gallant conduct in action off Claren- 
don, Arkansas;" was in probably twenty 
fights along the Mississippi River; re- 
signed in 1866, receiving the thanks of 
the Government; returned to school at 
Iowa City, Iowa, In 1866, and studied un- 
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due to his army service, he was com- 
pelled to leave school, and take to an out- 
door life; he engaged in land surveying; 
afterwards became city editor of the 
Sioux City (Iowa) Daily Journal; owned 
and edited four newspapers in Nebraska, 
of which state he became a citizen in 1875; 
was presidential elector in 1876; declined 
nomination for Secretary of State that 
year, and later declined the position of 
United States Marshal for his state; was 
admitted to the bar in 1882, and practiced 
his profession until 1887, when he re- 
moved to Washington to accept the posi- 
tion made vacant by the death of Major 
Ben Perley Poore; is the autbor of "Cus- 
toms Laws from 1789 to 1897," "The Laws 
Relating to the Navy and Marine Corps, 
with decisions of Federal Courts and 
Opinions of Attorneys-General," "History 
of the Department of State, Illustrated, 
with Biographical sketches of all the 
Secretaries of State and of the officers 
of the Department, 1900," "History of the 
Declaration of Independence, Illustrated," 
"Better Dead Than Homeless — Tariff in 
Story," and "The Homesteader's Daugh- 
ter." Mr. Michael married Emily J. Quinn 
in 1871, and has three daughters, the 
eldest being the wife of Mr. Arlon V. 
Cushman, of the law firm of Meyers, Cush- 
man & Rea, Washington, D. C, the young- 
er the wife of Charles H. McHugh, who 
is connected with the government service, 
and the youngest unmarried. Is a mem- 
ber of the military order of the Loyal 
Legion and of the Grand Army of the Re- 
public. Residence: Corner of Euclid ave- 
nue and Thirteenth street, n.w., Columbia 
Heights. 

MICHALEK, ANTHONY, Congress- 
man, was born in Bohemia (Europe), on 
January 16, 1878, and when three months 
old, his parents removed to the United 
States, locating in Chicago, where he has 
since resided. He attended the common 
schools, after which he became a book- 
keeper, and has since followed that pro- 
fession. He is the first Bohemian to be 
elected to the U. S. Congress. In 1904, 
he was elected a member of the Fifty- 
ninth Congress from the Fifth Illinois 
District on the Republican ticket. Legal 
residence: Chicago, 111. Washington ad- 
dress: House of Representatives. 

MICHENER, LOUIS THEODORE, law. 
yer, was born in Fayette, county, Ind., 
on December 21, 1848, son of William and 
Mary A. Michener. His early education 
was obtained in the public schools of his 
home county, until 1867, when he entered 
Brookville (Ind.) College, after which he 
took up the study of law, and was ad- 
mitted to the bar in 1871. In 1883, he was 
a delegate to the National Educational 
Convention at Louisville, Ky., and in 1884, 
was a delegate to the National Republican 
Convention. From 1884 to 1892, inclusive, 
he was political manager for Benjamin 
Hafrison, and in 1884 and 1886, was sec- 
retary of the Indiana Republican State 



Committee; 1886 to 1890, was Attorney 
General for Indiana, and during 1889 and 
1890, cbairman of the Republican State 
Committee of Indiana. He is a Mason, 
an Odd Fellow and a member of several 
social clubs. On Mav 30, 1872, he married 
Mary E. Adams, of Brookville, Ind. Resi- 
dence: 1624 Nineteenth street, n.w. Office; 
Pacific Building. 

MIDDAUGH, RAY E. lawyer, was born 
in Portville. N. Y., on April 28, 1870. and 
obtained his early education in the schools 
of his native town, after which he served 
as principal of the public school at Stat'3 
Line, Pa. He began the study of law in 
the offices of W. V. & J. E. Smith at 
Olean, N. Y., and secured by comp-titive 
examination from Alleghany and Catta- 
raugus counties, a scholarship to Cornell 
University. After graduating from Cor- 
nell, he removed to Washington, whert? 
he was engaged in the real estate busi- 
ness until he finished his law course, and 
was admitted to the bar on Dec. 22, 1893, 
since when he has been engaged in the 
])ractice of his profession. Residence: 
2405 First street, n.w. 

MIERSCH, CARL ALEXANDER 

JOHANNES, concert violinist and musi- 
cal conductor, was born in Dresden, Ger- 
many on August 23, 1865, son of Carl 
Frederick August and Augusta (Richter) 
Miersch, his father being an artist and 
portrait painter, who invented new 
methods for determining spectral analysis 
for which he received the title of Pro- 
fessor from Paris University. He was 
educated at the Conservatories of Music 
in Dresden, Munich and Paris, and was 
graduated from the latter in 1887. He 
was Concert Master. Graz, Austria; 
professor at the College of Music, Aber- 
deen, Scotland, and First Violin of the 
Wagner Orchestra at Bayreuth. Coming 
to America, he became Soloist of the New 
York Philharmonic Club and later ap- 
peared in concerts before Prince Ludwig 
Ferdinand of Bavaria, King Albert of 
Saxony, King George of Greece and their 
families, receiving valuable: gifts and the 
title of Royal Court Violinist to His 
Majesty (1898), and that of Professor 
from the Athens Musical and Dramatic 
Society. In 1890, he was honorary ex- 
aminer of the Royal College of Music, 
Dondon, England; between 1894-98, con- 
ducted Symphony concerts in Athen.? 
Greece. He combines the principles of the 
German and Franco Belgic Schools in hlj 
style of playing and his methods of teach- 
ing. Residence: The Sherman, corn-^r 
Fifteenth and L streets, n.w. 

MILES, NELSON APPLETON, retired 
army ofTicer, was born in Westminster, 
Mass., on August 8, 1839, son of Daniel 
and Mary (Curtis) Miles. At the out- 
break of the Civil War, he enlisted in the 
volunteer service, and was gradually pro- 
moted to the rank of Major-General of 
Volunteers, and at the age of twenty- 
five, wa,s commanding an army corps of 



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26,000 men. After the close of the Civil 
War, he entered the regular army, an,i 
gradually advanced to the rank of Lieu- 
tenant General, and by Oct. 5, 1895, was 
in command of the U. S. Army. He con- 
ducted several campaigns against the In- 
dians, and was in command of the Fed- 
eral troops at Chicago, during the rail- 
road strike' in 1884. In 1897, he repre- 
sented the U. S. Army at the Turko- 
Grecian War, and also attended Queen 
"Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, and in 1898 
was in command of the U. S. Army 'n 
the Spanish War. On Aug. 8, 1903, he 
was retired from active service. He 's 
the author of a number of book?, among 
them being: Personal Recollections, or 
From New England to the Golden Gat^, 
(1896), Military Europe (1898), etc., and 
has written many articles for the leading 
magazines. Residence: 1736 N street, 
n.w. 

MILLARD, JOSEPH HOPKINS, bank- 
er, U. S. Senator, was born in Hamilton, 
Can., in April, 1836, and after residing 
abroad a few years, with his parents, 
removed to Iowa, settling near Sabula, 
in Jackson county. When eighteen years 
of age, he became a clerk in a store 
at Dubuque, la., where hei was employed 
for two years-, af:er which he removed to 
Omaha, where he has since resided. For 
several years he was engaged in the land 
business, and later became a director in 
the Omaha National Bank, in 1867 he 
was elected its 'cashier, and since 1885, 
has been president of the institution. He 
served one term a,s Mayor of Omaha, and 
for six years was a government director 
of the Union Pacific Railroad Company, 
and subsequently served the stockholders 
as one of their representatives lon the 
boird. On March 28, 1901, he was elected 
to the U. S. Senate by the Republican 
party, to succeed John M. Thurston; his 
term of office expired on March 3, 1907. 
He is a widower and is the father of two 
children, a son and daughter. Legal resi- 
dence: Omaha, Neb. 

MILLER, ALEXANDER MACOMB, 

army mfflcer, was born in Washington, D. 
C, son of General Morris S. Miller, and a 
grandson of General Alexander Macomb. 
He was graduated from West Point in 
1865, when he was appointed a First Lieu- 
tenant in the Engineer Corps of the reg- 
ular army; promoted to Captain in 1869; 
Major in 1883; and Lieutenant-Colonel 
in 1898. He has been connected with 
many government engineering works, an J 
has for some years been in charge of 
the office of the Washington Acqueduct. 
Residence: 2123 R street, n.w. Office: 
2728 Pennsylvania avenue, n. w. 

MILLER (MRS.), ANNA JENNESS. 

See Jenness-Miller. 

MILLER ELEAZER, H., artist, was 
born at Shepherdstown, West Virginia, in 
1831, his ancestors coming of Palatine 
stock. Both his grandfathers fought in 
the Revolution, and his father in the 



War of 1812. At fifteen he made portraits 
in oil without tuition, and in 1848, when 
only seventeen, he came to Washington 
to study for an artist's career. Aboui 
1855 he opened his own studio, an'^ paint- 
ed many portraits of residents and prom- 
inent public men, the late John R. Bing- 
ham being one of his patrons. He has 
frequently been represented at the exhi- 
bitions of the New York Etching Club. 
He was a member of the old Washing- 
ton Art Club, serving as its vice-presi- 
dent for several seasons and chairman 
of its executive committee. When the 
Society of Washington Artists was or- 
ganized, he was chosen its first President, 
and twice afterward served in the samt 
capacity. Residence: 1109 M street, n.w. 

MILLER, EMILY VAN DORAN (MRS. 
W. T.), author, was born at Port Gibson, 
Miss., and was educated at Shelbyvllle, 
Ky., and at the Collegiate Academy in her 
home town. Much of her time has been 
devoted to writing articles on education, 
and she composed a new anthem to 
America to an offer of a gold medal prize 
by the Society of the Cincinnati of Rhode 
Island, for a new air to replace the Ger- 
man which is now being used. A Soldier' -? 
Honor, (a sketch of the life of her brother. 
Major-General Earl Van Doran, C. S. A.), 
was edited by her. She married W. T. 
Miller at Port Gibson, Miss., and Hon. 
Thomas Marshall Miller, formerly an At- 
torney-General of the state of Mississippi, 
and Eatl V. Miller, of New Orleans, are 
her sons. Residence: 941 Massachusetts 
avenue, n.w. 

MILLER, FRANCIS, president of the 
Home Plate Glass Insurance Company, 
and treasurer of the Home Savings BanK. 
Residence: 636 L street, n.w. 

MILLER, FREDERICK ABERCROM- 
BIE, retired naval officer, was born at 
Elkton, Cecil county, Maryland., June 12. 
1842, son of Frederick A. and Martha Ma- 
son (Abercrombie) Miller. His early edu- 
cation was obtained at the Episcopal 
Academy, Philadelphia, Pa., and Thomp- 
son's Military Academy, after which he 
attended Trinity College at HartforJ, 
Conn. At the outbreak of the Civil War, 
he declined an appointment to the U. S. 
Naval Academy, but entered the navy as? 
a Master's Mate in 1861, and took part 
in the battles of Mobile Bay, Donaldson- 
ville and on the Mississippi. He was pro- 
moted many times, reaching the grade or 
Lieutenant-Commander in 1882, and was 
retired from active service Nov. 30, 1885, 
to Commander, June 29, 1906 for Civil 
War service. He was, until his health 
broke down, interested in many charita- 
ble institutions in Washington, being 
treasurer of St. John's Orphanage; vestry- 
man of St. John's Church; a director in 
the Workingman's Club; was vice-presi- 
dent of the Emergency Hospital and was 
a member of the board of directors of the 
American Security and Trust Company. 
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Newsboy's Home, having been president 
of its board of trustees. He is a mem- 
ber of the Metropolitan, Cosmos and 
Chevy Chase Clubs. His wife is a daugh- 
ter of Charles A. Towns;end, of Brooklyn 
and they have three children, two daugh- 
ters and one son. Residence: 2201 Massa- 
chusetts avenue, n.w. 

MILLER, GERRIT SMITH, JR., scien- 
tist, was born in Peterboro, N. Y., on 
Dec. 6, 1869, son of Gerrit Smith and 
Susan (Dixwell) Miller. After attendint? 
the private schools in Boston, he entered 
Harvard University, graduating with the 
class of 1894. He is one of the founder:? 
of the Washington Academy of Science3, 
and he is the author of many bulletins 
and monographs lof a scientific nature, 
among them being: Genera and Sub- 
genera of Voles and Lemmings (1896); 
Revision of the American Bats of the 
Family Vespertilionidae (1897); Key to 
the Land Mammals of Northeastern North 
America, and The Families and Genera 
of Bats (1907). Since 1898 he has been 
Assistant Curator of Mammals in the U. 
S. National Museum. In July, 1897 hs 
married Elizabeth Eleanor Page of Wash- 
ington. Address: U. S. National Museum. 

MILLER, JAMES MONROE, lawyer, 
Congressman, was born at Three Springs, 
Huntingdon County, Pa., and was grad- 
'lated from the Dickinson Seminary at 
vViu-ainsport, Pa., after which he took 
up the study of law and was admitted to 
the 'bar. He served three terms as at- 
torney for Morris County, Kans.; was a 
member of the Kansas State Legislature 
in 1S94; a Republican presidential elec- 
tor in 1884; and was selected to carry the 
Kansas vote to Washington. In 1896 he 
was a delegate to the General Conference 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He 
has always been a Republican in poli- 
tics, and has represented the Fourth Kan- 
sas District in the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-sev- 
enth, Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Con- 
gresses; re-elected to the Sixtieth Con- 
gress. Legal residence: Council Grove, 
Kans. Washington address: 3213 Thir- 
teenth street, n.w. 

MILLER, JOSEPH NELSON, retired 
naval officer, was born in Ohio on Nov. 
22, 1836, and entered the U. S. Naval 
Academy in 1851; was promoted to Mid- 
shipman in 1856; Master in 1858; Lieuten- 
ant in 1860; Lieutenant-Commander in 
1862; Commander in 1870; Captain in 
1881 and Rear-Admiral in 1897. During 
the Civil War, he was the officer in charge 
of the "Passaic," when the attacks were- 
made on Fort McAllister and Fort Sum- 
ter and was on the "Monadnock" during 
the two attacks on Fort Fisher. He was 
in command of the "Tuscarora," making 
deep sea soundings from the Hawaiian 
Isl-.nds to the Fiji Islands in 1875, and 
was a representative at Queen Victoria'.^ 
Jubilee in 1897. In 1897, he was Com- 
mander-in-Chief of the Pacific Station ai 
Honolulu, and organized naval reserves 



on the Pacific during the Spanish-Ameri- 
can War. He has been twice married, 
first on Nov. 22, 1866, in New York and 
second in Baltimore on Nov. 13, 1877. On 
Nov. 22, 1898. he was retired from active 
service. Address: Navy Department. 

MILLER, J. PRESTON, physician, was 
born in Fayette County, Pennsylvanid, 
Jan. 19, 1853, and at sixteen engaged in 
school teaching for four years, at the 
same time reading medicine and attend- 
ing medical lectures in Philadelphia ana 
Cincinnati, and was graduated from the 
Ohio Medical College. For eighteen years 
he practiced medicine at Buckhannon, W. 
Va., After a season as manager of agen .s 
in Building and Loan Association work, 
he removed to Washington, going abroad 
later to do practical post-graduate work, 
then returning, to practice in Washingtoiv 
In the Medicar Society of West Virginia, 
he served on its most important commit- 
tees, and was several times its vice-presi- 
dent. In 1880 he was a delegate to the 
American Medical Association, and .was 
frequently appointed to represent th'» 
state society in the National Medical As- 
sembly. In 1887, he became a member ot 
the International Medical Congress, and 
in 1888, joined by invitatiion the British 
Medical Association. He is a member ot 
the Medical Society, District of Columbia 
since 1893, and of the Medical Associa- 
tion of the District of Columbia. For 
more than five years he was connected 
with the service of the Dispensary Clinic 
of the Garfield Hospital, and also the 
Episcopal Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital. 
He has been a frequent contributor to 
the medical societies and medical jour- 
nals, and in 1883, his paper on The 
Successful Treatment of Phthisis Pul- 
monalis appeared. In 1891, he marriea 
Debra Anna Gore, of Clarksburg, W. Va. 
Residence and office: 2621 Fourteenth 
street, n.w. 

MILLER, KELLY, mathematician 
and sociologist, was born in Winnsboro, 
S. C, on July 23, 1863, son of Kelly and 
Elizabeth Miller. He was graduated from 
Howard University in 1886 after, whicn 
he took a two years' post-graduate course 
in mathematics, and physics at Johns 
Hopkins University. He was in the gov- 
ernment service while at Howard Uni- 
versity; during 1889 taught mathemadcs 
in the Washington High School, and since 
1890 has been professor of mathematics 
in Howard University. He is known 
widely as a lecturer on the race problem, 
and lias written a number of articles, £->r 
magazines and newspapers on the samo 
subject. On July 17, 1894, he married An- 
nie May Butler, of Baltimore. Address: 
Howard University. 

MILLER, MARCUS P., army officer, 
was born in Massachusetts, and entered 
the U. S. Military Academy in 1854. He 
was brevetted Second Lieutenant in 1858, 
commissioned Second Lieutenant in 1853, 
First Lieutenant in 1861; Captain In 1864; 



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Lieutenant-Colonel in 1894, and Colonel 
in 1897. In 1898 he was appointed Briga- 
dier-General of U. S. Volunteers, t^nd dur- 
ing 1898-99 commanded a brigade in the 
Philippines. He was several times brevet- 
ted for display of gallantry during che 
Civil War, and in the Indian Campaigns, 
Address: War Department. 

MILLER, MELVILLE WINANS, jour- 
nalist, government official, was born at 
Lafayette, Ind. on June 23, 1856, son of 
John L. and Amanda Miller. He was 
graduated from De Pauw University m 
1878, and received an A. M. degree from 
the same university in 1881. He was 
adm'itted to the Indiana bar to practice 
in 1879, and from 1896 to 1903 was coun- 
ty surveyor of Tippecanoe County, In- 
diana, and during 1902 and 1903 was 
editor of the Lafayette (Ind.) Morn- 
ing Journal. Since March 17, 1903, he has 
been Assistant Secretary of the Interior. 
On Nov. 15, 1881, he married Amy Cook 
Puett, of Greencastle, Ind. Address: De- 
partment of the Interior. 

MILLER, MERRILL, naval officer, was 
born in Ohio, son of Henry and Mary Mil- 
ler. He was graduated from the U. S. 
Naval Academy in 1861; during 1861-62, 
:ie was attached to the frigate Potomac 
on the Atlantic coast, and in 1862, was 
promoted to Ensign; Lieutenant in 1864, 
Lieutenant-Commander in 1866; Com- 
mander in 1878; Captain in 1893 and Rear- 
Admiral in 1890. For twenty-three day< 
in 1863, he was in charge of the mortar 
boats at the seige of Vicksburg; and dur- 
ing 1864-65, he was in the North Atlantic 
Blockading Squadron and was on an ex- 
pedition up the James River in 1864 and 
took part in both attacks on Fort Fisher. 
In 1897, he commanded the receiving ship 
Vermont; in 1900 at Mare Island, Cal., 
and has been commandant since that 
time. Address: Navy Department. 

MILLER, WILLIAM L., assistant secre- 
tary of the Real Estate Title Insurance 
Company and the Columbia Title Insur- 
ance Company. Residence: 1018 East 
Capitol street. Office: 500 Fifth street, 
n.w. 

MILLIS, JOHN, army officer, was born 
at Wheatland, Mich., on Dec. 31, 1858, son 
of Walter and Jane Clark (Carlow) Millis. 
In 1881 he was graduated from the U. S. 
Military Academy; was commissioned a 
Second Lieutenant in the Engineer Corps 
the same year; First Lieutenant in 1882; 
Captain in 1892, and Major in 1900. He 
has served at various stations, and from 
1890-94, he was in charge of improvements 
of the New Orleans harbor and the leveeo 
on the Mississippi; from 1894-98, Chief 
Engineer of the U. S. Lighthouse Boara 
and was with the Engineers Battalion 
from 1898-1900. In 1900, he was National 
delegate from United States to the Inter- 
national Congress of Navigation, Inter- 
national Congress of Electricity and In- 
ternational Congress of Physics held in 



connection with the Paris Exposition. 
The same year he visited Egypt by order 
of the War Department, to inspect and 
report upon the canal and reservoir sys- 
tem of the Nile. For several years he has 
been in charge of constructing fortifica- 
tions on Puget Sound and other north- 
western districts. He is a member of 
many of the leading scientific societies 
in this country and abroad. On Nov. 22, 
1893 he married Mary Raoul, a daughter 
of the President of the Mexican National 
Railway, at Atlanta, Ga. Address: care 
The Chief Engineer, War Department. 

MILLS, ANSON, retired army officer, 
was born on a farm in Boone County, In- 
diana, Aug. 31, 1834, son of James P. anJ 
Sarah (Kenworthy) Mills. After attend- 
ing West Point, from 1855 to 1857, he en- 
gaged in engineering in Western Texas, 
having laid out the first plans for thij 
city of El Paso, in 1859, and was surveyor 
to the boundary commission, to establisli 
a boundary between New Mexico, Indian 
Territory and Texas. In 1861, he was 
commissioned First Lieutenant in tho 
Eighteenth U. S. Infantry; was promoted 
to Captain in 1865; Major in 1878; Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel in 1890; Colonel in 1892, 
and Brigadier-General in 1897. He served 
in many engagements during the Civil 
War, and participated in many Indian 
battles on the frontier. In 1866, he was 
a member of the Board of Visitors of the 
West Point Military Academy, and in 
1878 was a Military Attache at the Paris 
Exposition. The woven cartridge belt, 
now exclusively used in the U. S. Army 
and Navy, and the British Army, was in- 
vented by him. Since 1903, he has been 
a member of the Mexican Boundary Com- 
mission, and on June 22, 1897, he was re- 
tired from the service at his own request. 
Residence: 2 Dupont Circle. 

MILLS, SAMUEL C, Justice of the 
Peace; was born in Washington, son of 
Captain John Mills, one of the original 
officers of the Washington Light Infan- 
try, commissioned by President Lincoln 
as Captain of Company K, National 
Guard Militia, in April, 1861, his maternal 
grindfather being Samuel Mifflin Coioper, 
one of the defenders of Baltimore when 
attacked by the British in 1814. Samuel 
C. Mills was graduated from McLeod's 
Columbia Academy, and served in the 
topographical service under Captain J. H 
Simpson, in Utah with General Albert 
Sydney Johnston, until 1859. He was ad- 
mitted to the bar of the Supreme Court 
of the District in 1872, and was appointed 
Judge of the Police Court by Justice 
Wright, and was subsequently appointed 
a Justice of Peace. He is an active mem- 
ber of the Grand Army of the Republic; 
a member of the Union Veteran Union, 
and Judge-Advocate of the Division of 
the Potomac. He is the founder of the 
Sons of Jonadab, and is a Knight Temp- 
lar. Residence: 1608 Monroe street, n.w. 
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MILLS, SAMUEL MEYERS, afmy of- 
ficer, was born at Pottsville, Pa., Decem- 
ber 15, 1843. He was graduated from the 
U. S. Military Academy in 1865, and the 
Artillery School at Fortress Monroe, Vir- 
ginia, in 1882. He was oromoted to First 
Lieutenant, Nineteenth Infantry, June 23, 
1865; Captain, Fifth Artillery, April 18, 
1883; Colonel, April 14, 1903, and Briga- 
dier-General and Chief of Artillery in 
1905. Honorably congratulated in ofders 
for successful arrest and delivery of cer- 
tain desperadoes in 1866. He was in 
Signal Service 1882-85 frequently acting 
as Chief Signal Officer. Instructor at Ar- 
tillery School, Fortress Monroe, Va., in 
1885. Residence: The Connecticut. 

MILLS, STEPHEN C, army officer, wa.s 
born in New York, May 8 1854 and wa.3 
graduated from the U. S. Militaty Acade- 
my 1877. He was promoted to Major 
July 25, 1898, Colonel and Inspector Gen. 
eral, April 12, 1903; served in various In- 
dian Wats, 1878-82. Was Military Attache 
in Scandinavian Countries. Recorder ot 
the commission to investigate tne conduct 
of the War Department in the war with 
Spain. Address: War Department. 

MINER, CHARLES WRIGHT, retired 
atmy officer, was born in Cincinnati on 
Nov. 21, 1840, son of John L. and Mar^ 
(Wright) Miner. He served throughout 
the Civil, Seminole Indian and Spanish- 
American Wars, and was for a time gov- 
ernor of the Island of Negros, Philippine 
Islands. In 1902, he was a Colonel in the 
U. S. At-my and in command at Fort 
Leavenworth, Kans; in 1903, he was re- 
tired from active service with the rank 
of Brigadier-General. On June 15, 1870, 
he married Belle L. Cooley at Long 
Meadow, Mass. Address: War Depart- 
ment. 

MINOR, EDWARD S., Congressman, 
was born in Jefferson County, New York, 
in 1840. In 1845 he removed with his 
parents to Wisconsin, settling in Milwau- 
kee county, where he attended the public 
schools until 1852, when he took up his 
residence with his parents, in Sheboygan 
county, of the same state. In 1861, he 
enlisted as a priyate in the Second Wis- 
consin Volunteer Cavalry, and took part 
in many battles, serving until the close 
of the war, when he was mustered out 
of the service with the rank of First 
Lieutenant. He was engaged in the mer- 
cantile business until 1884, when he was 
appointed superintendent of the Sturgeon 
Bay & Lake Michigan Ship Canal, serv- 
ing in that capacity for seven j^ears. Hs 
was elected to the Wisconsin state legis- 
lature three times, and served two terms 
in the state senate, being president pro 
tempore of the senate during his last 
term. For four years he served as a 
member of the Wisconsin Fish Commis- 
sion, and held many local offices at va- 
ricus times. He was a member of the Mer- 
chant Marine Commission, which visited 
all the important seaports and lake cities 



of the United States for the purpose of 
investigating the disappearance from the 
foreign trade of American ships, and to 
report to Congress the most practicably 
way of restoring our flag on the ships 
constructed in this country, manned by 
Americans, and laden with American pro- 
ducts for foreign markets. In politics, 
he has always been a Republican, and has 
represented the Ninth Wis:consin District 
in the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty- 
sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth and 
Fifty-ninth Congresses. Legal residence: 
Sturgeon Bay, Wis. 

MITCHELL, GUY ELLIOTT, journalist, 

was born In Woodward, Centre County, 
Pennsylvania, on April 11, 1870, son of 
Frederick W. and Caroline (Cooper) 
Mitchell. His early education was ob- 
tained in the Washington schools, aft?r 
which he took a special course at the 
Michigan Agricultural College. He en- 
.gaged in newspaper and magazine writ- 
ing, making a specialty of agricultural, 
forestry and irrigation articles, and for 
six years made a specialty of national 
irrigation newspaper articles. One year, 
he spent in Nicaragua and Costa Rici. 
collecting natural history specimens for 
the Smithsonian Institution. For several 
years he has been secretary of the Nation- 
al Irrigation Association; a member of 
the American Association for the Ad- 
vancement of Science; Delta Tau Delta 
college fraternity, and a number of so- 
ciological and educational societies. He 
is a member of the Presbyterian Church, 
and in politics a Republican. On Aug. 
22, 1899, he married Madeleine A. Blandy. 
Residence: The Savoy. Office: The Even- 
ing Star Building. 

MITCHELL, LEANDER P., lawyer, 
government official, was born on a farm 
in Henry County, Indiana, on Feb. 5, 1849, 
son of Charles and Mary (Black) Mitchell. 
He was graduated from the Northwestern 
Christian University at Indianapolis, Ind , 
after which he entered the Law Depart- 
ment of the Indiana State University at 
Bloomington, graduating with the clasd 
of 1872. In 1888, he was a presidenti.il 
elector from the Sixth Indiana District, 
and in 1896, was a member of the In- 
diana State Central Committee. Since 
1898, he has been Assistant Comptroller 
of the U. S. Treasury. During the Civil 
War, he served as a private in the 139th 
Indiana Infantry. He is a Knight Temp- 
lar, a Knight of Pythias; a member if 
the Grand Army of the Republic and in 
politics a Republican. On Jan. 6, 1879, 
he married Gertrude Leonard. Residence: 
2503 Fourteenth street, n.w. Office: U. d. 
Treasury Department. 

MIYAOKA, TSUNEJIRO, Counselor ot 
Japanese Embassy; was born at Osak'-i, 
Japan, Nov. 29, 1865. He was educated 
in Tokio and was graduated with honor* 
from the College of Law of the Imperial 
University in July, 1887. In the same 
month, he received his commission as At- 



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tache of Legation and was attached to th^ 
Law Bureau of the Department for For- 
eign Affairs at Tokio. In 1889, he was 
promoted to be Secretary of Legation and 
Counselor of the Department for Foreign 
Affairs. From June, 1892, to September, 
1894, he was the Secretary of the Japan- 
ese Legation at Washington, and during 
a portion of that time served as Charge 
d'Affaires. From September, 1894, to De- 
cember, 1899, he was attached to the Jap- 
anese Legation in Berlin as Secretary. 
From the summer of 1897 to the summer 
of 1898, he was Charge d'Affaires of Japan 
to Germany and to Belgium. Upon his 
return to Japan in 1900, he was appointed 
to be Counselor and Chief of the Law 
Bureau of the Department for Foreign 
Affairs. In October of the same year, he 
was promoted to be Minister Resident, 
but continued as Chief of the Law Bureau 
until February, 1906, when he was ap- 
pointed Couns'elor of the Embassy in 
Washington with the rank of Minister 
Plenipotentiary. He has received various 
decorations, including Order of the Sacred 
Treasures, third class; Order of the Ris- 
ing Sun, fourth class. On December 1, 
1888, he married at Tokio, Kei Masaki 
Residence: The Highlands. 

MOALE, EDWARD, aTmy officer, was 
born in Maryland, January 29, 1840. He 
was Captain of the Nineteenth Maryland 
Regiment, Sept. 13, 1864; brevetted 
Colonel, March 13, 1865; Colonel Fifteenth 
U. S. Infantry, February 4, 1897, and re- 
tired, January 31, 1902, after forty years' 
service. He was advanced to Brigadier- 
General, April 23, 1904. He was brevet- 
ted Colonel, April 2, 1865 for gallant and 
meritorious services in front of Peter.s- 
burg, Va., and was engaged in action at 
Hanover Court House, Va. and at the 
battles of Cedar Mountain, Gettysburg, 
Wilderness, Spottsylvania Court House, 
Cold Harbor and Petersburg. Address: 
War Department. 

MOFFITT, MELVILLE M., physician, 
director of the Union Savings Bank. Resi- 
dence: 127 B street, s.e. 

MOHLER, JOHN ROBBINS, patholo- 
gist, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., on 
May 9, 1875, son of William Caspar and 
Harriet (Robbins) Mohler. His prepara- 
tory education was obtained at the Cen- 
tral High School in Philadelphia; attend, 
ed Temple College one year; the Votert- 
nary Department lof the University of 
Pennsylvania three years, and Milwaukee 
Medical College two years. During 1896, 
and 1897, he was engaged in the practice 
of veterinary medicine, and in 1897 entered 
the government service, as assistant in- 
spector of th Bureau of Animal Hus- 
bandry of the Department of Agriculture. 
From 1899 to 1901, he was assistant patho- 
logist; 1902 zoologist, since when he has 
been chief pathologist of the bureau. He 
is the author of a number of bulletins and 
lectures on pathology and sanitary science 
and infectious diseases, which have been 



issued by the Agricultural Department. 
On Dec. 23, 1897, he married Clara May 
Clarke, to which union have been born two 
children. Residence: 2317 First street, 
n. w. Office: U. S. Department of Agri- 
culture. 

MOHUN, BARRY, lawyer, was born in 
Washington, D. C, on September 27, 1873, 
son of Francis B. and Martha Virginia 
(Laub) Mohun. He was educated in the 
Washington High School, Lehigh Univer- 
sity and Georgetown University, having 
graduated from the law department of 
the latter institution. For two year.^, 
he was in the office of Coudert Brothers, 
lawyers in New York, and, since 1900, has 
been engaged in the practice of his pro- 
fession in Washington as a member of 
the firm of McGowan, Serven & Mohun. 
He is the author of Mohun on Ware- 
housemen (1904). He is a member of the 
Roman Catholic Church, the Psi Upsilon 
college fraternity. Chevy Chase Club, Uni- 
versity Club, the Knights of Columbu3, 
American Society of International Law, 
American Bar Association, honorary mem- 
ber of American Chamber of Commerce 
in Paris, and in politics a Democrat. On 
January 30, 1905, he married Nora Miche- 
ner. Residence: 1624 Nineteenth streec, 
n.w. Office: Glover Building. 

MONAGHAN, JAMES CHARLES, Chief 
of Consular Reports since 1903, was born 
at Boston, Mass., Octi::ber 11, 1857, son 
of James and Mal-y Ann Monaghan. He 
was graduated from Brown University in 
1885. Member of the School Board and 
City Council of Providence, R. I., in 1884, 
and Consul to Mannheim, Germany, 1883- 
89. Studied at Heidelberg and returneu 
to the United States in 1890, taking up the 
study of law and newspaper work. Con- 
sul to Chemitz, 1893-97; delegate to the 
World's Commercial Congress, 1899; edi- 
tor the Manufacturer, 1890-1900. Resi- 
dence: 1243 Monroe street, n.e. Office: 
State Department 

MONCHEUR, BARON LUDOVIC, dip- 
lomat, was b'Orn in Brussels, Belgium, on 
May 12, 1857, son of Baron Francois and 
Luisa (Bauchau V. Dotinghen) Moncheur. 
He was graduated from the University 
Louvain, and in 1883, was an attache Bel- 
gium Legation to The Hague; Second 
Secretary to the Legation in Vienna, 1885; 
Secretary to Legation at Berlin, 1887; Con- 
sul to Legation in Rome, 1892; Charge 
d'affaires to Luxemburg, 1897; Minister 
to Mexico, 1898, and E. E. and M. P. of 
Belgium to the United States since 1898. 
He is the author of several books, among 
them being: La Terre Chaude Mexicaine; 
From Tampico to the Pacific (transla- 
tions), etc. He married Charlotte Clay- 
ton, daughter of Hon. Powell Clayton, 
U. S. Ambassador to Mexico. Residence: 
1719 H street, n.w. 

MONDELL, FRANK WHEELER, stock 
l-aiser, mine owner, Congressman, was 
born in St. Louis, Mo., on Nov. 6 1860, 



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and when six years of age his parentd 
died, after which he resided on a farm 
with friends, in Iowa, until eighteen years 
of age. He was educated in the district 
schools and by ptivate tutor, after which 
he engaged in mercantile pursuits, mining 
stock raising and railroad construction in 
several of the western states until 1S87, 
when he established a permanent resi- 
dence in Wyoming. He has been engaged 
in the development of coal and oil proper- 
ties in Wyoming and in farming and stock 
raising; has been active in the establish- 
ing and building of Newcastle, Wyo., and 
served as Mayor of that city from 1888 to 
1895; was elected a member of the first 
WyiTming State Senate in 1890, and was 
president of the 1892 session, and was a 
delegate to the Republican National Con- 
vention the same year. From 1897 to 1899, 
he was Assistant Commissioner of the 
General Land Office, and has been repre- 
sentative-at-large from the state of 
Wyoming to the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-sixth, 
Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth 
and Sixtieth Congresses. Republican. 
Legal residence: Newcastle, Wyoming. 
Washington address: House of Represent- 
atives. 

MONEY, HERNANDO, DE SOTO, law- 
yer, U. S. Senator, was born in Holmes 
County, Mississippi on August 26, 1839. 
After attending the University of Missis- 
sippi at Oxford, he took up the study of 
law, and in addition to his law practice, 
he has been engaged as a planter, lie 
served in the Confederate Army from the 
outbreak of the war, until Sept., 1864, 
when he was forced to retire on account 
of defective eye-sight. He served as a 
member of the House of Representatives 
during the Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, For- 
ty-sixth, Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, 
Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth Congresses, 
and in January, 1896, he was elected to 
the U. S. Senate, by the Democratic party, 
for the term beginning March 4, 1899, and 
was appointed on Oct. 8 1897, to fill out 
the unexpired term, caused by the deatii 
of Hon. J. Z. George on Aug. 14, 1897. In 
January, 1898, elected by the Legislature 
to fill out the unexpired term ending 
March 3, 1899. In 1903 was re-elected 
to succeed himself for the term beginning 
March 4, 1905, and ending 1911. Legal 
residence: Mississippi City, Miss. Wash- 
ington address: U. S. Senate. 

MONROE (MRS.), HARRIET EAR- 
HART, author, lecturer, was born in In- 
diana, Pa., in 1842, daughter of Rev. David 
and Mary (Patten) Earhart. Her aca- 
demic education was O'btained by private 
tutors, and from 1870 to 1885 was presi- 
dent of the Atchison (Kansas) Collegiate 
institute, and f- om 1888 to 1901, resided 
in Philadelphia, and for years has been 
known widely as a lecturer on historicai 
and travel subjects. Among her more 
prominent books may 'be mentioned: The 
Art of Conversation; Heroine 'Of the Min- 
ing Camp; Historical Lutheranism (being 



translated into 13 languages); Washing- 
ton, Its Sights and Insights, etc. Resi- 
dence: 201 A street, s.e. 

MONROE, HERSEY, topographical en- 
gineer. Wis born in Lake City, Fla., on 
January 30,1868. He was educated in the 
common schools and the Corcoran Scien- 
tific School of Washington receiving u 
certificate for topographical drafting in 
1889. In 1894, he was appointed topo- 
grapher in the U. S. Geological Survey, 
and has been on many expeditions map- 
ing areas of phosphate land in Florid-i, 
.con in North Carolina and Ohio, and coil 
m West Virginia. During 1902 and 1903, 
he was in charge of the topographic work 
along the Colorado River. He is a mem- 
ber of the American Society of Civil En- 
gineers, etc. On Dec. 3, 1890, he married 
Alice Lindsay Brandon. Residence: 150 
A street, n.e. Office; Geological survey. 

MONTAGNA GiULIO CESARE Coun- 
selor and Charge d'Affaires, Italian Em- 
bassy. Address: 1400 New Hampshire 
avenue. 

MONTEVERDE, FEDERICA de, Lieu- 
tenant Colonel, Chamberlain to His Catho- 
lic Majesty, Military Attache, Spanish 
Legation. Address: Spanish Legation. 

MONTGOMERY, BENJAMIN F., army 
officer, was born in Petersburg, Virginia, 
son of Joseph R. and Anne B. (Griffin) 
Montgomery. Hi= education was obtained 
in the public schools of his home town, 
and the Virginia Academy, after which he 
became an electrician, and was connected 
with the Western Union Telegraph Com- 
pany for several years, until he entered 
the U. S. Signal Service in 1875. From 
1875 to 1877 he served at the headquarters 
of the Chief Signal Office of the Army, 
and was on detached duty with Presidents 
Hayes, Garfield and Arthur from 1877. 
to 1882, and from 1882 to 1889 was a mem- 
ber of the executive staffs of Presidents 
Arthur and Cleveland. He was acting As- 
sistant Secretary, and Executive Clerk 
to Presidents Harrison and ClevelanJ 
from 1887 to 1897, and in 1898, was ap- 
pointed Captain of the Signal Corps of 
the U. S. Army by President McKmley. 
At the outbreak of the Spanish War, he 
was assigned to duty as Chief of the Tele- 
graph and Cipher Bureau in the Presi- 
dent's Office, and in August, 1898, was 
o^mmissioned Lieutenant-Colonel and 
Chief Signal Officer of the Sixth Army 
Corps. When the army was reorganized 
in 1901, he was again put in charge oi 
the Telegraph and Cipher Bureau, and in 
March, 1903, he was again re-appointed 
by President Roosevelt, and commissioned 
a Major in the U. S. Army. He married 
Ella Franklin, of Petersburg, Virginia. 
Residence: 2209 Washington Circle. 

MOODY, WILLIAM HENRY, jurist, was 
born in Newbury, Mass., on December 23, 
1853 son of Henry L. and Melissa Moody. 
He prepared for college at Philips-And- 
over Academy, graduating in 1872, after 



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which he entered Harvard University, 
graduating in 1876, when he took up tlie 
study of law in the Law Department of 
the same institution. He holds the degrees 
of LL. D., which were conferred upon him 
in 1904 by Tuft's and Amherst Colleges. 
He began the practice of his profession 
in Massachusetts; served as district at- 
torney for the eastern district of Massa- 
chusetts from 1890 to 1895, and was also 
a member of the Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, 
Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh Congresses 
from the Sixth Massachusetts District. In 
1902, he became Secretary of the Navy, 
and served until 1904, when he resigned 
to become Attorney-General of the Unite] 
States, in which office he served untii 
1906, when he resigned to become a mem- 
beT of the Supreme Court of the United 
States. He is a member of the Metro- 
politan and Chevy Chase Clubs, and in 
politics a Republican. Residence: The 
Connecticut. 

MOON, JOHN AUSTIN, lawyer. Con- 
gressman, was born in Albemarle County, 
Virginia, on April 22, 1855. He resided 
at Bristol, Va., and in 1870, removed to 
Chattanooga, Tenn. His education was 
obtained at the Bristol (Va.) Academy, 
and King's College at Bristol, Tenn., af- 
ter which he took up the study of lavv, 
and was admitted to the bar at Lebanon, 
Ala., and Chattanooga, Tenn., in 1874. In 

1880 he was defeated for the State As- 
sembly, on the Democratic ticket; during 

1881 and 1882 he was city attorney of 
Chattanooga, and was a member of the 
Democratic State Committee in 1888. 
From 1889 to 1891 he was a special cir- 
cuit judge, and from 1891 to 1896, a regu- 
lar circuit judge. In 1900 he was a. dele- 
gate-at-large to the National Democratic 
Convention, and was a member of the 
Committee on Platform and Resolution: 
In politics he has always been a Demj- 
crat, and has Tepresented the Third Ten- 
nessee District in the Fifty-fifth, Fifty- 
sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth and 
Fifty-ninth Congresses, and has been re 
elected to the Sixtieth Congress. On Oct. 
8, 1884, he married Addie M. Deaderick, 
a daughter of the late Chief Justice James 
W. Deaderick, of Tennessee. Legal resi- 
dence: Chattanooga, Tenn. Washington 
address: House of Representatives. 

MOON, REUBEN OSBORNE, lawyer, 
Congressman, was born in New Jersey, 
son of Aaron L. Moon, who was a descend- 
ant of John Moon, one of the earliest 
judges of Pennsylvania, and who was ap- 
pointed by the King's Commission in 
1684. His father being one of the leading 
educators of New Jersey, he obtained his 
early education under his instruction, and 
was graduated from college in 1874, after 
which he taught school, and was engaged 
as a lecturer for several years. He took 
up the study rjf law, and was admittel 
to the bar in 1884, since when he has 
been actively engaged in the practice of 
his profession. In 1903, he was elected to 
the Fifty-eighth Congress from the 



Fourth Pennslyvania District, to fill the 
vacancy caused by the death of Hon 
Robert H. Foederer, and was re-elected 
to the Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth on th- 
Republican ticket. In 1876, he married 
Mary A. Predmore, of Bal-negat, N. J., to 
which union have been born two children. 
Legal residence: Philadelphia, Pa. Wash- 
ington Address: House of Representa- 
tives. 

MOONEY, JAMES, ethnologist, was 
botn in Richmond, Ind., on February 10, 
1861. After graduating from the schools 
of his native town he entered the offict* 
of a daily newspaper, where he learned 
the printing trade, as well as familiarizing 
himself with the editorial ofl^ce, during 
which time he paid much attention to the 
study of the Indians and their work. In 
1885 he removed to Washington, since when 
he has been connected with the Bureau 
of American Ethnology. He has conduct, 
ed many investigations among the south- 
ern and western Indian tribes, and ha? 
prepared government Indian exhibits for 
the leading expositions. He is the author 
of a number of monographs, and has con- 
tributed many articles to the leading 
magazines, among them may be men- 
tioned: Funeral Customs of Ireland: 
Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees, Siouan 
Tribes of the East; The Messiah Religion 
and the Ghost Dance; Myths of the Cher- 
oliee, etc. He is a member of many lead- 
ing scientific societies lof Washington and 
elsewhere. In 1897, he married lone Lee 
Gaut, of Tennessee. Residence: 2550 Uni- 
versity Place, n.w. Office: Bureau of 
American Ethnology. 

MOORE, CHARLES C, chemical en- 
gineer, was born in Lexington, Ky., in 
1872. He was graduated from the Uni- 
versity of Tennessee, and afterwards was 
employed as a chemist by the American 
Smelting and Refining Company, and at 
the Tennessee State Experiment Station. 
Since 1898, he has .been Chief of Division 
in the Bureau of Chemistry, U. S. Depart- 
ment of Agriculture. Residence: 1760 Q 
street, n.w. Office: U. S. Department of 
Agriculture. 

MOORE, DAVID, real estate, was born 
in Washington, D. C, on April 19, 1867, 
son of James P. and Sarah C. (Wise) 
Moore. His early education was obtained 
in the Washington schools after which 
he learned the printing trade, and was 
employed at the Government Printing Of- 
fice for six years; he completed a course 
in dentistry, but never practiced to any 
extent, preferring to engage in the real 
estate business. He was first with the 
firm of Barnes & Weaver, later forming 
a partnership with the senior member of 
the above firm, under the name of W. H. 
Barnes & Company, which business con- 
tinued until 1898 when the firm was dis- 
solved. After continuing in the busines? 
alone for a while, he, with W. A. Hill, 
formed the real estate firm known a3 
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was interested until 1905, when be again 
embarked in tiie same business independ- 
ently. In addition to his real estate busi- 
ness, he is connected with many other 
business enterprises of the city, being a 
director in the Citizen's National Bank; 
the Potomac Insurance Company; thu 
Real Estate, Title and Insurance Com- 
pany, etc. He married Miss McLaughlin, 
of Washington, to which union have been 
born three children. He is a member of 
the Knights of Columbus. Residence. 
Ingleside. Office: 1328 New York ave- 
nue, n.w. 

MOORE, EDWARD BRUCE, Commis- 
sioner of Patents, wJs born in North 
Anson, Me., on December 25, 1851, son of 
William and Almeda (Wyman) Moore. 
After obtaining his early education in the 
high schools, and by private tutor, he en- 
tered the National University Law School 
in Washington, and was admitted to the 
bar in 1881. During 1856 and 1867, he was 
a page in the U. S. Senate, and during 
1876 and 1877, was editor-in-chief of tha 
Washington Daily News, and the Wash- 
ington Evening Telegraph. In 1883, he 
was appointed an assistant examiner in 
the U. S. Patent Office; principal ex- 
aminer from 1899 to 1901; Assistant Com 
missioner of Patents from 1901 to 1907, 
when he was appointed Commissioner. 
He was a special commissioner to the 
Paris Exposition in 1900; President of thj 
Michig-in Society of Washington; Vice- 
President of the Washington Society of 
S. A. R., and a member of the Cosmos 
Club. Residence: 1359 Yale street. Offlce: 
U. S. Patent Office. 

MOORE, FRANCIS, army officer, was 
Dorn in Scotland. At the outbreak of the 
Civil War, he enlisted as a private in the 
Colorado Cavalry and was promoted to 
the rank of Sergeant in 1863, and th3 
same year was promoted to Captain, 
Major and brevetted Lieutenant-Colonel 
of the Sixty-fifth U. S. Colored Infantry, 
serving until 1867. In 1866, he was ap- 
pointed a Second Lieutenant in the Ninta 
Cavalry of the regular army; promoted to 
First Lieutenant in 1867; Captain in 1872; 
Major in 1892; Lieutenant-Colonel in 1839 
and Colonel in 1901. Address: War De- 
partment. 

MOORE, GEORGE THOMAS, botanist, 
was born at Indianapolis, February 23, 
1871, son of George T. and Margaret 
(Marshall) Moore. He was graduated 
from Wabash College in 1894, and from 
Harvard University A. M., 1906, Ph. D., 
1900; physiologist and algologist. Bureau 
of Plant Industry, 1901; he has been in 
charge of the laboratory of the plant phy- 
siology since 1903; instructor in crypto- 
gamic botany. Wood's Hall, Mass., for 
the past ten years. Fellow of the Ameri- 
can Association for the Advancement of 
Science; member of the American Philo- 
sophical Society and the Washington 
Academy of Sciences, and of Cosmos and 
Harvard Clubs. He married Emma L. 



Hall at Indianapolis, December 30, 1896. 
Residence: 200 Hammond Court. 

MOORE, J. GALES, cashier of the Na- 
tional Metropolitan Bank, Residence: 
2024 Fifteenth street, n.w.; Office: 613 
Fifteenth street, n.w. 

MOORE, J. HAMPTON, journalist, 
Congressman, was born in Woodbury, N. 
J., on March 8, 1864. After attending the 
common schools in his native town, ne 
removed to Philadelphia where he was a 
student, and an errand boy in a law office. 
From 1881 to 1894, he was court reporter 
for the Philadelphia Public Ledger; 1831 
to 1897, chief clerk to the Philadelphia 
City Treasurer, and during 1898 and 1893, 
was an editor and publisher. During 1900, 
he was secretary to the Mayor in tho 
above citv, and city treasurer from 1901 
to 1903, after which he was appointed 
to the Department of Commerce and La- 
bor by President Roosevelt as Chief of 
the Bureau of Manufactures, serving until 
June 1, 1905, when he resigned to accept 
the presidency of the City Trust Saf.? 
Deposit and Surety Company, of Phila- 
delphia; he voted to discontinue the busi- 
ness within a month, and was appointed 
its receiver. From 1900 to 1906. he was 
president of the Allied Republican Clubs 
of Philadelphia; served two terms as prei- 
ident of the Pennsylvania State League; 
elected president of the National Repub- 
lican Le.gue in Chicago in 1902, and re- 
elected in 1904, at Indianapolis. He was 
elected to the Fifty-ninth Congress from 
the Third Pennsylvania District to fill wut 
the unexpired tefm of the late Hon. 
George A. Castor, and was re-elected to 
the Sixtieth Congress on the Republican 
ticket In 1889, he married Adelaide 
Stone. Legal residence: Philadelphia, 
Pa. Washington address: House of Rep- 
resentatives. 

MOORE, JOHN, army surgeon (retired) 
was born in Indiana on Aug. 16, 1826, and 
entered the army as an Assistant Sur- 
geon in 1863, serving in Florida, and on 
the Utah expedition in 1857. During 1861 
and 1862, he was at the Cincinnati Marine 
Hospital; was promoted to Surgeon in 
1862, and was medical director of the Cen- 
tral Grand Division of the Army of the 
Potomac during 1862 and 1863. In 1863, 
he was appointed Medical Director of the 
Department and Army of the Tennessee, 
and was with Sherman on his march to 
the sea. He was brevetted Lieutenant- 
Colonel and Colonel, and was promoted 
to Assistant Medical Purveyor, with the 
rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in 1883, and 
from 1886 to 1890 served as Surgeon- 
General of the army, with the fank of 
Brigadier-General, and retired from ac- 
tive service in 1890, with the latter rank. 
Address: 903 Sixteenth street, n.w. 

MOORE JOHN MATTHEW, planter, 
stock raiser. Congressman, was born in 
Richmond, Fort Bend County, Texas, on 
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Henrietta (Huddleston) Moore. After at- 
tending the common schools of his native 
town, he entered the Agricultural and 
Mechanical College at Bryan, Texas, since 
when he has been engaged in general 
business, farming, cattle raising and as a 
planter. In 1896 he was elected to the 
Texas state legislature, and declined re- 
nomination; was Democratic chairman of 
of Tenth Congressional District in 1898, 
and was a delegate to the Democratic 
National Convention in 1900. On Juno 
6. 1905, he was elected to the Fifty-ninth 
Congress from the Eighth Texas District 
to fill out the unexpired term of Hon. John 
M. Pinkney, who died; re-elected to the 
Sixtieth Congress. Democrat. In 1883 he 
married Lottie Dyer. Legal residence: 
Richmond, Texas; Washington addresi: 
House of Representatives. 

MOORE, JOSEPH BYRON, l-etired 
druggist, was born at Fort Monroe, Vir- 
ginia, February 24, 1830, son ot Joseph P. 
and Mary Ann (Stethxm) Moore. His 
early education was obtained in the pub- 
lic schools of Washington until he wis 
fifteen years of age, later entering George- 
town Medical College, graduating with 
the degree of M. D., in 1870. For thirty- 
two years he conducted a drug busines 
in Washington. On Oct. 21, 1852, he mar- 
ried Amelia H. Pottyman, eleven children 
having been born to them, eight of whom 
are living. Address: 421 H street, n.e., 
amd Brooke Va. 

MOORE, LEWIS BARSTER, educator, 
was born near Huntsville, Ala., Sept. 1. 
1866, son of Henry and Rebecca (Beasley) 
Moore. He was graduated from Fiske 
University in 1889, and made Master of 
Arts in 1893. He was general secretary 
of the Y. M. C. A. at Philadelphia, Pa., 
1889-95, and dean of the Department of 
Pedagogy in 1899, and received the de- 
gree of Ph. D., from the University of 
Pennsylvania in 1896, of some years of 
l-esident study. He has written Short 
Outlines of the Linguist's Method (1897); 
Sj'llabusof Pedagogy (1898-99). He was 
married December 19, 1895, to Sarah Eliza- 
beth, daughter of Bishop B. T. Tanner, 
of Philadelphia. Address: Howard Uni- 
versity. 

MOORE, ROBERT M., clergyman, pas- 
tor of the Foundry Methodist Episcopal 
Church. Residence: 1447 R street, n.w. 

MOORE, WILLIS LUTHER, govern- 
ment ofticial, was born in Scranton, Pa., 
in 1856. When but eight years of age, 
he joined his father, who was with 
Grant's Army at City Point, where he 
sold papers to the troops in the field. Hi^ 
early education was obtained in the pub- 
lic schools of Bingham ton, N. Y., after 
which he became a compositor, and re- 
porter on a paper in that town. For 
some time he was employed at Burling- 
ton, la., on a newspaper, and while there 
was appointed to the U. S. Signal Corps 
(now Weather Bureau). Since 1895, he 



has been Chief of the U. S. Weather 
Bureau, and was for some years before 
being transferred to Washington in charge 
of the station at Chicago. He has con- 
tributed many articles of a scientific na- 
ture to leading magazines, and his most 
prominent book is: Moore's Meteorologi- 
cal Almanac and Weather Guide, which 
appeared in 1901. In September, 1886, he 
married Mai-y Lozier. Residence: 1312 
Nineteenth street, n.w. Office: U. S. 
Weather Bureau. 

MORAN, HOWARD, assistant treasurer 
of the Home Savings Bank. Residence: 
217 T street, n.e. Office: Seventh street 
and Massachusetts avenue, n.w. 

MORDECAI, ALFRED, army officer, 
son of Major Alfred Mordecai, U. S. A. 
Promoted to Captain June 1, 1863, brevet- 
ted Major for gallantry at the siege of 
Fort Wagner, S. C, Sept. 5, 1863, and 
Lieutenant-Colonel for faithful and dis- 
tinguished services. Ordnance officer 
1861-65; engaged in operations against 
Charleston, S. C, 1863-64. He was Chie' 
of Ordnance, Army of the James, May- 
Sept., 1864, later in the Armies of the 
Tennessee and Cumberland till July 4, 
1865. Instructor in Ordnance and Gun- 
nery U. S. Military Academy 1865-69, and 
1874-81. Commandant Watervliet Arsen-il 
1881-86; New York Arsenal, 1887-92; 
Springfield Armory, 1892-98; Colone' Ord- 
nance, Jan. 31, 1891; Brigadiei -General, 
Jan. 19, 1904, and retired. Address: War 
Department. 

MORENO, ALFREDO BAQUERIZO, 

lawyer, diplomat, was born in Guayaquil, 
Ecuador, on Sept. 29, 1859, son of Jose 
Maria (Baquerizo) and Rosario Moreno. 
His early education was obtained in the 
schools of Guayaquil, and was later grad- 
uated from the Law Department of the 
University of Quito. In 1884, he was 
admitted to the bar at Guayaquil, an 1 
from 1897 to 1901, was a member of the 
Supreme Court of the same place. Dur- 
ing 1901 and 1902, he was the Minister or 
Foreign Relations of Ecuador; was vice- 
president of the country in 1903; since 
when he has been Minister to the United 
States for his country. He is the author 
of several books, and has contributed 
many articles to the magazines of hi- 
country; among his books, the more 
prominent ones are: Poetas (1882); El 
Senor Peneo, (1892); Titania, (1892); 
Evangelina, (1895); Luz, (1901); etc. He 
is a member of many prominent societies 
of his country, and elsewhere. In 1884, 
he married Piedad Roca, of Guayaquil. 
Address: Ecuador Legation. 

MORGAN, EDWIN LEE, physician, 
was born in Washington, D. C, on Sept. 
29, 1855, son of Edwin Cecil and Evelina 
Proser (Lee) Morgan. His early educa- 
tion was obtained at St. John's Academy, 
Alexandria, Virginia Military Institute, 
Glenwood (Md.) Institute and was gradu- 
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at Richmiond in 1879. In 1896 he was a 
member of the committee appointed to 
investigate the opium habit in the District 
of Columbia, and in 1902, was one select- 
ed to prepare the History of the Medical 
Society of the District of Columbia. He 
served two terms as cofoner of Stevens 
county, Washington Territory, from 1873 
to 1886; was physician to the Colville In- 
dian Agency; one year physician to the 
poor of Washington, and was formerly 
physician to St. Ann's Orphan and Infant 
Asylum. He is a member of manv of the 
leading medical and scientific societies 
of Washington and elsewhere, and on Oct. 
10, 1893, he married Mary Garland Van 
Zandt, of Washington. Residence: 2315 
Pennsylvania avenue, n.w. 

MORGAN, FRANCIS PATTERSON, 

physician, was born in Danbury, N. H., 
on December 25, 1867, son of Francis H. 
and Martha E. (LeBosquet) Morgan. H.-^ 
attended the Washington High School, 
graduating in 1886, after which he entered 
Harvard University, graduating with the 
degree of A. B., in 1890, and in 1893 was 
graduated from the College of Physicians 
and Surgeons in New York. He is a 
member of the American Therapeutic So- 
ciety; Medical Association of the District 
of Columbia; Medical Society of the Dis- 
trict of Columbia, etc. Residence: 1760 
U street, n.w. 

MORGAN, JAMES DUDLEY, physician, 
was born in Washington, D. C., on July 
5, 1861, son of James E. and Norah 
(Digges) Morgan. He attended Gonzaga 
College, Georgetown University, graduated 
A. B. in 1881, after which he took up the 
study of medicine, at the Bellvue Medi- 
cal College, remaining there until 1883, 
when he entered the Medical College of 
Georgetown University, graduating in 
1885. The following year took post-grad- 
uate course at Beaujon Hospital and 
Amphitheatre d'Anatomie, Paris, and in 
1902 and 1903, he took a clinical course 
under Prof. William Osier. He has always 
practiced his profession in Washington; 
he Is a member of the staff of Garfield 
and Georgetown Hospitals, and Chi^f of 
the Medical Service of the Emergency 
Hospital. In 1893, he was chairman of 
the registration committee of the Pan- 
American Medical Congress, and in 1886 
was a member of the committee on public 
health of the medical society. He is the 
author of a number of monographs of a 
scientific nature, and has contributed arti- 
cles to the leading medical journals. He 
is president of the Medical Society of the 
District of Columbia; member of the Co- 
lumbia Historical Society of the District 
of Columbia (manager), Washington 
Academy of Sciences (vice-president), An- 
thropological, American Anatomists and 
Chevy Chase, Cosmos and Metropolitan 
Clubs. On Dec. 2, 1891, he married Mary 
Abell, daughter of E. F. Abell, of Balti- 
more. Residence: 919 McPherson Square 
n.w. 



MORGAN, JAMES MORRIS, assistant 

manager of the International Banking 

Corporation. Residence: 1735 Twentieth 

street, n.w. Office: 1415 G street, n.w. 

MORGAN, JOHN TYLER, lawyer, U. S. 
Senator, was born in Athens Tenn. on 
June 20, 1824. He removed to the state 
of Alabama when nine years of age, and 
after finishing his academic education, ho 
took up the study of law, and was ad- 
mitted to the bar in 1845, and was engaged 
in the practice of his profession until 
elected to the U. S. Senate. He has 
been presidential elector a mumber of 
times, first being in 1860, when he was a 
delegate-at-large for Ala.bama, and voted 
for Breckinridge and Lane. In 1861, he 
was a delegate for Dallas county to the 
state convention, which passed the ordi- 
nance of secession, and in May of the 
same year enlisted as a private in the 
Confederate Army, serving with the 
Cahaba Rifles, and when that company 
was assigned to the Fifth Alabama Regi- 
ment, he was elected Major, and later 
Lieutenant-Colonel, and commissioned 
Colonel in 1862. He was assigned to a 
brigade in Virginia and appointed Briga- 
dier-General in 1863, but soon resigned to 
join his old regiment whose Colonel had 
been killed in battle. Later he was again 
appointed Brigadier-General, and assigned 
to the Alabama Brigade which included 
his old regiment. At the end of the war, 
he again took up the practice of law at 
Selma, Ala.; was a member of the com- 
mission appointed to prepare laws for 
the Hawaiian Islands, and in 1876 was a 
presidential elector-at-large, from the 
State of Alabama and voted for Tilden 
and Hendricks. In 1877, he was elected 
to the U. S. Senate by the Democratic 
party to succeed George Goldthwaite, and 
served continuously as a member of that 
body until June 1907 when he died.. Legal 
residence: Selma. Alabama. Washington 
residence: 315 John Marshall Place, n.w. 

MORGAN - JONES, WILLIAM M, 

(M. A.), Episcopal clergyman, rector of 
the Church of Our Saviour. Residence; 
63 Rhode Island avenue, n.w. 

MORHART, CHARLES C, clergyman, 
pastor of Christ Lutheran Church. Resi- 
dence: 228 Morgan street n.w. 

MORRELL, EDWARD da V., lawyer. 

Congressman, was born in Newport, 
R. I., on August 7, 1862. He was 
graduated from the University 'of Penn- 
sylvania with high honors in 1885 and 
immediately after entered the law depart- 
ment of the same institution, graduating 
M. A. and LL. B. in 1887, and was admit- 
ted to the bar the same year. In 1891 he 
was elected to the Philadelphia City 
Council serving three years, and has since 
been actively engaged in business in that 
city, having developed much of the sec- 
tion of the city in the neighborhood where 
he resides. In politics he has always 
been a Republican, and was elected to fill 



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the vacancy in the Fifty-sixth Congress 
from the Fifth Pennsylvania District, 
caused by the death of A. C. Harmer, 
and was re-elected to the Fifty-seventh, 
Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses 
In 1889, he married Douise Bouvier Drexel, 
a daughter of the late Francis A. Drexel 
Legal residence: Torresdale, Philadelphia. 
Washington address: House of Represen- 
tatives. 

MORRELL, IMOGENE ROBINSON 

(Mrs.), artist, was born in Attleboro, Mass., 
daughter of Otis and Sarah Dean (Ray- 
mond) Robinson. She first took up the 
study of art at Newark N. J., later studied 
in New York, after which she taught at 
Charlestown and Auburndale, Mass., and 
then studied in Germany and Paris, for 
a number of years under the leading ar- 
tists. She is a portrait and historical 
painter, and has received many medals 
and diplomas for her work. The particu- 
lar notable subjects she has painted are: 
The Battle of the Puritan; Mrs. Cleve- 
land; Collis P. Huntington; President 
Garfield; Washington Welcoming the 
Provision Trains at Newburgh, N. T., in 
1778, etc. More than two hundred of her 
paintings were destroyed by flre in 1896. 
In 1879 she established the National 
Academy of Fine Arts in Washington, 
and is its president. She married Col. 
Abram Morrell in 1869. Residence: 1906 
Ninth street, n.w. 

MORRIS, CHARLES, army officer, was 
born at Charlestown, Mass., May 3, 1844, 
son of Charles W. and Caroline Morris. 
He was graduated from the U. S. Mili- 
tary Academy in 1865, promoted to First 
Lieutenant, Ninteenth Infantry, June 23, 
1865, Captain Fifth Artillery, March 6, 
1882, and Colonel Seventh Artillery Corp.s 
February 21, 1902. He was married in 
1867, at Charlestown, Mass., to Gertrude 
Missroon. Address: War Department. 

MORRIS, MARTIN FERDINAND, jurist, 

was born in Washington, D. C, on Decem- 
ber 3, 1834, son of John F. and Joan Law- 
ton (Colbert) Morris. He was graduated 
from Georgetown University in 1854 (LL. 
D. 1877), and was soon after admitted 
to the bar. From 1863 to 1867, he prac- 
ticed his profession in Baltimore, after 
which he opened an office in Washington, 
where he continued his private practice 
until he was appointed Associate Justice 
of the Court of Appeals of the District of 
Columbia, at the time of its establishment, 
and since 1876, he has been a professor 
in the law department of Georsretown 
University. Many of his addresses have 
been published and among his lectures 
and books may be found The History of 
the Development of Constitutional and 
Civil Liberty (1898), etc. He is unmar- 
ried. Residence: 1314 Massachusettts 
avenue. 

MORRISON, FRANK, secretary of the 
American Federation of Labor since Jan- 



uary, 1897, was born at Franktown, On- 
tario, November 23, 1859, son of Christo- 
pher and Eliza Morrison. He was gradu- 
ated from the Lake Forest University 
Law School Chicago, in 1894, and took 
post-graduate work in 1895 at the same 
institution. Residence 1736 G street, n.w. 
Office: 423-425 G street, n.w. 

MORRISON, JOSEPH, physician and 
astronomer, was born in Oxford, Ontario, 
in 1848, and was educated at the Uni- 
versity College of Toronto and Middle- 
burg (Vt.) College, A. M., 1869. He be- 
gan his professional career by entering 
the College of Physicians and Surgeons 
of Ontario, and was graduated M. D., 
from the University of Toronto in 1872 
(M. A. ad eundem, Acadia University, 
N. S., 1872; Ph. D. University of Syra- 
cuse, 1884). From 1881 to 1893, he was 
assistant astronomer of the American 
Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac; pro- 
fessor in the Medical Department of the 
National University from 1885 to 1889, 
at the same time civil service examiner 
for scientific bureaus of the United States, 
He is the author of a number of books, 
and has contributed many articles on 
popular astronomy to leading scientific 
journals, among his books are: Treatiss 
on Trigonometry, (1880); The Transit j 
of Mercury and Venus, (1874-1882-1883), 
etc. On July 4, 1871, he married Char- 
lotte Sophia Greene, of Toronto. Resi- 
dence: 1759 P street, n.w. 

MORROW, JAMES BINCKLEY, jour- 
nalist, was born at New Philadelphia. 
Ohio, September 29, 1856, son of John W. 
and Wilhemina (Binckley) Morrow. He 
was educated in the public schools and 
has been a newspaper writer since 1877. 
He has been a managing editor, Wash- 
ington correspondent, and editor-in-chief 
of the Cleveland Leader, and author of 
a series of letters from Mexico. He was 
married August 22, 1878 to Katherine 
Miller. Office: 1345 Pennsylvania avenue. 
Residence: 3123 Thirteenth street, n.w. 

MORROW, JAY J., Captain, Engineer 
Corps, U. S. A., Engineer Commissioner 
of the District of Columbia. Residence: 
1930 Calvert street, n.w. Office: District 
Building. 

MORSE, ALEXANDER PORTER, law- 
yer, was born at St. Martinsville, La.. 
October 19, 1842 son of Isaac Edward and 
Margaretta Smith (Wederstrandt) Morse. 
He was graduated from Princeton Uni- 
versity in 1862, Ph. D., 1885, and the Law 
School of Georgetown University in 1872, 
and specialized in English, French and 
Spanish. Has practiced law before tho 
local courts of the District, the Court of 
Claims, and the Supreme Court of the 
United States, and made a specialty of 
international law. Was counsel before 
the Electoral Commission, 1878; arbitra- 
tor between the United States and Haytl, 
in the Von Bokkelen case in 1888; asso- 
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French-American Claims Commission, 
1881-1884; agent and counsel for the 
United States before tlie United States 
and Venezuelan Claims Commission in 
1894: assistant attorney of the United 
States before Spanish Treaty Claims 
Commission, 1901-02; delegate from the 
United States to Association for Reform 
and Codification of Laws of Nations, Lon- 
don, 1880. He is a member of the Ameri- 
can Bar Association, and the Bar Asso- 
ciation of the District of Columbia, and 
is the author of Citizenship by Birth and 
Naturalization, (1881.) Was married ac 
Washington, April 18, 1883, to Ellen 
Clarke. Residence: 1422 Massachusetts 
avenue. Office: 1505 Pennsylvania ave- 
nue 

MORSE, E. A., Congressman. In No- 
vember, 1906, he was elected a member 
of the Sixtieth Congress from the Tenth 
Wisconsin Congressional District as a Re- 
publican. Legal residence: Antigo, Wis. 
Washington address: House of Represent- 
atives. 

MORTEZA (GENERAL MIRZA MOR- 
TEZA KHAN, MOMTAZEL-MOLK), dip- 
lomat, was born in Teheran, Persia, Au- 
gust, 1866, son of Haji Mirza Djab-ir 
Khan. He was educated at home until 
eleven years of age by Persian and Arabic 
tutors, then spent two years at the Col- 
lege of Darel-Fonun, where, besides usual 
course.^, studied military sciences and 
French; went with his elder brother, 
Mirza Djevad Khan (now Minister of 
Commerce, then Persian Commissioner- 
General to the Paris Exposition), to Paris, 
where he studied two years at Horius 
Institution and one and one-half year.-^ 
at Lycee St. Louis; returned to Teheran, 
1882, and completed his studies under 
special professors. On his return from 
Paris he was appointed chamberlain and 
interpreter to the Imperial Court, wher>.', 
during childhood, he had been page, at 
the same time appointed dragoman o' 
Imperial Ministry of Foreign Affairs; was 
also intrusted with several internal mis- 
sions, until 1897, when he became consul- 
general to Caucasus (Russia), with resi- 
dence at Tiflis, until 1899; then First Sec- 
retary of Imperial Ministry of Foreign Af- 
fairs, and later Chief of American, French, 
Italian, Dutch, Spanish and Swiss Affairs 
until May, 1904, when appointed E. E. and 
M. P., of Persia to all of the American 
Republics, with headquarters at Washing- 
ton. He received from H. I. M., the Shah, 
the title of Momtazel-Molk as a reward 
for services to the Imperial Oovernment; 
received bronze, silver and gold medals 
of Public Instruction (Persia), and deco- 
rations of ranking Colonel and General 
of Order of Sun and Lion, and first-class 
civil decoration, same order, and "Timsal" 
decoration (portrait of Shah) set in bril- 
liants. Also the deoratlons of Francis 
Joseph (second-class), Austria; Medjidieh 
(second-class), Turkey; Leopold (third- 
class), Belgium; Legion d'Honneur 



(fourth-class), France. Musselman of 
Shute denomination. He has written a 
series of seven illustrated school books 
(in Persian) in the style of the American 
text-books, of which first has recently 
been published In Teheran; also a novel, 
two comedies and translations, still un- 
published. Unmarried. Address: Im- 
perial Legation of Persia. 

MOSBY, JOHN SINGLETON, lawyer, 
was born in Powhatan County, Virginia, 
December 6, 1833, son 'of Alfred D. and 
Virginia (McLawrence) Mosby. He was 
graduated from the University of Virginia 
in 1852, admitted to the bar in 1855; prac- 
ticed at Bristol, Va., 1855-61 and wa.s 
Colonel of Mosby's Partisan Rangers C. 
S. A., 1862-65. He became a Republican 
in politics after the war and supported 
Grant in 1872; was U. S. Consul at Hong 
Kong, 1878-85. He was married Decem- 
ber 30, 1856, to Pauline Clarke, and has 
five living children. Residence: 1406 L 
street. Office: Department of Justice. 

MOSELEY, EDWARD AUGUSTUS, 

secretary Interstate Commerce Commis- 
sion, was born in Newburyport. Mass., on 
March 23, 1846, where he received his 
academic education. He took up law as 
a profession, and was admitted to the bar 
of the Supreme Court of the United 
States, served in the Massachusetts state 
legislature, and other offices. He is con- 
sidered one of the leading authorities 
upon appliances designed to procure the 
safety of railway travelers, and for sev- 
eral years has been secretary of th'i 
Interstate Commerce Commissi'on. He Is 
the author of a number of books, among 
them being: Arbitration as Applied to 
Railways and Their Employes; One Hun- 
dred Years of Interstate Commerce- 
Safety Appliances on Railroads; The In- 
terstate Commerce Law, etc. He is a 
thirty-second degree Mason; member of 
many leading historical societies, and the 
Metropolitan and Army and Navy Clubs, 
of Washington. In 1870, he married Kate 
M. Prescott, of Newburyport, Ma^s. 
Residence: 1113 Sixteenth street, n.w. 
Office: Interstate Commerce Commissior* 

MOSER. JAMES HENRY, painter in 
oil and water-color, was born in Whitby, 
Ontario Canada, on January 1, 1854, son 
of the late John Moser, of the American 
Institute of Architects. He began his edu- 
cation in the public schools of Toront >. 
completing his studies at Columbus, Ohio, 
where his first professional work was 
done. He studied at the Art Students* 
League in New York, after which he 
travelled through the southern states, 
making illustrations for weekly and 
monthly m'agazines. Century, Harper's, 
etc. While in Atlanta, he made the negro 
pictures which appeared in Appleton's first 
published volume of Joel Chandler Har- 
ris' Uncle Remus. The summer and fall 
of 1896 was spent in making water color 
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of the Capitols of Northern Europe. His 
paintings have been exhibited at the lead- 
ing exhibitions of American arts, and he 
was awarded medals and prizes for water- 
color paintings at the Atlanta Exposition 
in 1895. Charleston Exposition in 1902, 
Corcoran Gallery of Art and Parson's 
pfizes in 1900 and 1903. From 1899 r.^ 
1905, he was art writer for the Washing- 
ton Post and Times. He is a member of 
the American Water-Color Society, 
Salmagundi Club, New York, Society of 
Vv^ashington Artists and president of th3 
Washington Watef-Color Club, and far 
several years has been water-color in- 
structor in the Corcoran School of Art. 
He h9s resided in Washington since 1887. 
In 1883 he married Martha Scoville, of 
West Cornwall, Conn. Studio: 802 F 
stl-eet, n.w. Residence: 1113 G street, 
n.w. Summer address: West Cornwall, 
Connecticut. 

MOSES, BRICE J., treasurer of the 
Washington Stock Exchange, was born in 
Washington, D. C, January 17, 18G2. He 
was educated in the local public schools, 
and for five years was employed in a mer- 
cantile house and was graduated from 
Columbian (now George Washington) 
University, in 1883. He then served the 
National Bank of the Republic until its 
close in 1897, ending there as paying 
teller, and assistant treasurer of the 
Washington Loan and Trust Company till 
1904, when he resigned to enter business 
on his own account. He is vice-president 
of the Home Savings Bank, secretary and 
treasurer of the Realty and Appraisal 
Company, and a director of the Washing- 
ton Title Insurance Company. Residence- 
1816 S street, n.w. Office: 1336 F street, 
n.w. 

MOSES, WILLIAM EDGAR, president 
and general manager of the W. E. Moses 
Land Scrip and Realty Company, was 
born on a farm near Mount Sterling, 
Brown county, Illinois, February 15, 1844, 
youngest son of Jacob Creth and Anna 
(Hobbs) Moses, whose early ancestors 
emigrated from Germany and settled in 
Pennsylvania a.bout the year 1770. On 
August 9, 1862, at the age of eighteen 
years, he enlisted in Company "E," 119th 
Regiment, Illinois Infantry, and served 
in the Civil War until 1865, participating 
in many battles. Upon his return home 
in 1865, he re-entered school, after which 
he removed to Kansas, entering the mer- 
cantile business, later engaging in busi- 
ness in Missouri and Illinois. Since 1883, 
he has been engaged in the purchase and 
sale of land scrip, removing in April, 
1885, to Denver, Colo., where he engaged 
in the real estate business in 1899, estab- 
lishing an office in Washington. On Jan. 
uary 1, 1003, he incorporated the W. G. 
M'oses Land Scrip and Realty Company, 
and in June, 1906, the W. E. Moses Realty 
and Investment Company. He is a Re- 
publican in politics, and a member of 
the Masonic Order. He is a member of 
the Grand Army of the Republic, having 



been elected and delegated to fill numer- 
ous posts in that organization. On No- 
vember 25, 1872, he married Ella Oppv. 
daughter of Moses and Hannah Jeffer.^on 
Oppy, Mrs. Oppy being a direct descend- 
ant of former President Thomas Jefferson. 
Address: McGill Building. 

MOSES, WILLIAM H., senior member 
of the firm of W. B. Moses and Sons, 
(furniture dealers), was born in Wash- 
ington. His early education was obtained 
in Washington schools and before attain- 
ing his majority, he went to Europe to 
complete it, and to study the customs and 
trades of the people. On his twenty-first 
birthday, he became a member of the 
firm of which he Is now the head. On 
the death of his father in 1892, he became 
the head of the firm, whose name, how- 
ever, remained unchanged. He is a di- 
rector of the Metropolitan Bank, and iden- 
tified with many local civil and financial 
institutions. His two younger brothers 
are associated in business with him. 
Residence: 2129 Wyoming avenue. Busi- 
ness address: Eleventh and F streets, n.w. 

MOTT, EDWARD MARSHALL, clergy- 
man, rector of the Episcopal Church of the 
Advent. Residence: 1822 Fourth street, 
n.w. 

MOTT, T. BE NT LEY, army officer, was 
born at Leesburg, Va. in 1865 son of An- 
nistead Randolph and Virginia (Bentley) 
Mott. He was graduated from the U- '^• 
Military Academy in 1866 and was Aide- 
de-Camp to Major-General Merritt, 1896- 
1900; present at the capture of Manila. 
He was highly commended in orders for 
gallantry and services in campaign, and 
promoted to Major U. S. V., made Adju- 
tant-General, Department of Havana dur- 
ing the military administration of that 
city and Military Attache, American Em- 
bassy, Paris, 1900-05. Chevalier French 
Legation of Honor; member of the Naval 
and Military Order of the Spanish- 
American War, and Military Order of 
Foreign Wars, and Union Club, New York. 
Prize Medal essayist in Military Service 
Institution. Address: War Department. 

MOULTON, HOSEA B., lawyer, was 
born in Vermont, and has been a legal 
practitioner in Washington for many 
years. In January, 1904, he was elected 
president of the Vermont State Associa- 
tion of the District of Columbia, and held 
that office till 1907. He is married and 
has one daughter. Residence: 1524 Ninth 
street, n.w. Office: Washington Loan 
and Trust Building. 

MOUSER, GRANT EARL, lawyer. Con- 
gressman, was born in Larue, Marion 
County, Ohio, on September 11, 1868. Af- 
ter attending the schools in his native 
town, he entered Ada (Ohio) University 
and later the Cincinnati Law School from 
which institution he was graduated in 
1890. Since he was admitted to the bar 
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ously at Marion, where he has resided, 
and in 18^3, was elected prosecuting at- 
torney. He was elected to the Fifty- 
ninth Congress from the Thirteenth Ohio 
District on the Republican ticket, and re- 
elected to the Sixtieth Congress. On 
Nov. 30, 1892, he married Dell E. Ridgway, 
to which union have been born three chil- 
dren. Legal Residence: Marion, Ohix 
Washington address: House of Reptesen- 
tatives. 

MUDD, A. I., chief clerk of the Division 

■of Publications, Department of Agricul- 
ture, was born in Washington, D. C, June 
21, 1844, and educated at the Washing- 
ton Seminary and Gonzaga College. Dur- 
ing the Civil War he had charge of the 
Armv business of Philp & Solomons then 
the fashionable booksellers and stationers 
of Washington. From 1871 to 1873, he 
was a member of the firm of Towers & 
Mudd, booksellers, stationers and engrav- 
ers. In August, 1874, he entered the 
Washington office of the New York As- 
sociated Press, and 18 years later became 
connected with the United Press and the 
Southern Associated Press. For twenty- 
three years he prepared the financial and 
statistical reports sent out by both asso- 
ciations. On May 1. 1897, he entered the 
Division of Statistics, Department of 
Agriculture, and on July 1, 1904, became 
Chief Clerk of the Division of Publica- 
tions. Residence: 1925 Fifteenth street. 
Office: Department of Agriculture. 



MUDD, SYDNEY EMANUEL, lawyer. 
Congressman, was born in Charles Coun- 
ty, Maryland, on February 12, 1858. He 
was educated at Georgetown University, 
and St. John's College at Annapolis, Md., 
graduating from the latter in 1878, after 
which he read law^ privately, and later 
entered the law department of the Uni- 
versity of Virginia, and was admitted 
to the bar in 1880, since when he has 
been actively engaged in private practice. 
In 1879 and 1881, he was elected to the 
Maryland State legislature, and was an 
elector on the Garfield and Arthur ticket 
in 1880. In 1895 he was again elected to 
the state legislature, and served as speak- 
er during that term. In 1896, he was ft 
delegate, and a delegate-at-large in 1900 
to the Republican National Convention, 
and was chairman of the Maryland dele- 
gation at both conventions. He was -i 
member of the Fifty-first Congress from 
the Fifth Maryland District; was defeated 
for the Fifty-second, and has since been 
elected to the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, 
Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninlh 
and Sixtieth Congresses on the Republi- 
can ticket. Legal residence: La Plata, 
Md. Washington address: House of Rep- 
resentatives. 

MUEDEN, MATHILDE, artist, was born 
in Washington, D. C, daughter of Charles 
G. and Emilie A. Mueden. She studied 
at the Art Student's League in New York 
and Washington, and Julian School in 
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Paris. In 1903, she won the second prize 
in the Washington Water-Color Club ex- 
hibit, and the Third Corcoran Prize of 
the Society of Washington Artists. For 
sometime she has been portrait teacher 
in the Art Students' League of Washing- 
ton, and a teacher in the Corcoran School 
of Art. She is vice-president of the So- 
ciety of Washington Artists, and a mem- 
ber of the Washington Water-Color Club. 
Residence: 437 M street, n.w. 

MUHLENBERG, J. C. Lieutenant- 
Colonel, U. S. A., Post Paymaster, War 
Department. Residence: 2021 G street, 
n.w. Office: Lemon Building. 

MUIR JOSEPH J., clergyman, pastor of 
the Temple Baptist Church. Residence: 
512 Third street, n.w. 

MULLAN, W. G. REED, educator, was 
born in Baltimore, Md.. January 28, 1860. 
He was a student at the Loyola College, 
1874-77; professor at Fordham College, 
1883-87, and Georgetown College, 1887-88; 
vice-president Fordham College 1892-97; 
president of Boston College in 1898. At 
the present time he is vice-president of 
Georgetown University. Address: George- 
town University. 

MULLOWNY, ALEXANDER R. assist, 
ant U. S. Attorney for the District of Co- 
lumbia, and Judge of the Police Court, 
was born in Richmond, Va., August 19. 
1865. He was educated in the public 
schools of Washington and studied archi- 
tecture with a local firm, and while doing 
S'O, studied law at night. Residence: 1411 
V street, njw. Office: Sixth and D 
streets, n.w. 

MUNOZ, JORGE, envoy extraordinary 
and minister plenipotentiary from Guate- 
mala to the United States, is a son of 
Don Narciso and Dona Jesus (Aquecho) 
de Munoz. In 1878 he was made a Doc- 
tor of Laws in Guatemala, and practiced 
law there the same year, and was Minis- 
ter of Foreign Affairs until 1897. He was 
judge of the Court of Appeals and repre- 
sentative to the National Assembly. He 
is a member of the Royal Academy of 
Law and Jurisprudence, in Madrid, and 
received from the Queen Regent of Spain 
the decoration of the Order of Isabel, the 
Catholic. Address: The Highlands. 

MUNROE, CHARLES EDWARD, edu- 
cator, was born in Cambridge, Mass., on 
May 24, 1849, son of Enoch and Emeline 
Elizabeth (Russell) Munroe. In 1871, he 
was graduated from Harvard University, 
S. B. (Ph. D. Columbian, 1894), and from 
1871 to 1874, was an assistant in chemis- 
try in the U. S. Naval Academy; from 
1886 to 1892, chemist to the Torpedo 
Corps, of the U. S. Naval Torpedo Station 
and War College, and was in charge of 
chemical industries for the U. S. Census 
in 1900 and 1905. Since 1892, he has been 
professor of chemistry, and senior dean 
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University. He is an authority on explo- 
sives; the inventor of smokeless powder, 
and has written more than a hundred 
books, and papers on the subject of chem- 
istry and explosives. He is a membet of 
many of the leading scientific societie.5 
in this country and Europe, and in 1901 
was decorated by the Sultan of Turkey 
as a Commandant of the Order of 
Medjidje. In 1883 he married Mary 
Louise Barker, daughter of Prof. George 
F. Barker, of the University of Pennsyl- 
vania. Residence: 1337 Twenty-first 
street, n.w. 

MUNSEY, FRANK ANDREW, publish- 
was born in Mercer, Maine, August 21. 
1854. son of Andrew C. and Maty J. Mun- 
sey, descendants of old New England an- 
cestry. He received his education in the 
comrnon schools, and began his business 
career behind the counter of a country 
store, from which he rose to the manage- 
ment of the Western Union Telegraph 
Company in Augusta, Maine. Possessed 
of an ambition to become a publisher, he 
went to New York in 1882 and founded 
The Golden Argosy, a weekly for boys, 
which has since become his monthly 
magazine for readers of all ages, The 
Argosy. In 1889 he started Munsey's 
Weekly, changed to Munsey's Magazine, 
in 189i, and he is now the publisher of six 
magazines, viz., Munsey's, The Argosy, 
The All-Story, The Scrap Book, The Rail- 
road Man's Magazine, and The Ocean, 
besides owning two daily newspapers, th.> 
Boston Journal and the Washington 
Times. He was the man who made th? 
ten-cent magazine possible and has blazed 
the path to countless innovations in pub- 
lishing. In 1903, he delivered a series of 
lectures at Yale on "Journalism" and has 
delivered many addresses on publishing 
and advertising. He is unmarried, and 
is a member of the Union League, New 
York Yacht, Ardsley, Riding, Lotus, Law- 
yers and Lambs Clubs in New York, and 
of the Metropolitan and Chevy Chase 
Clubs in Washington. He is the author 
of three books for boys, viz: Afloat in a 
Great City (1887), The Boy Broker (1888), 
Under Fire (1890), and of two novels, A 
Tragedy of Errors (1887) and Deriing- 
forth (1894). Residence: 528 Fifth avenue, 
New York City. Washington office: the 
Washington Times, Munsey Building. 

MUNSON, EDWARD LYMAN, army 
officer, was born at New Haven, Conn., 
December 27, 1868, son of ex-U. S. Judge 
Lyman E. and Lucy A. (Sanford) Mun- 
son. He was graduated from Yale Uni- 
versity in 1890, Medical Department, 1892, 
A. M., 1893. Late professor 'Of hygiene, 
at the Army Medical School, Washington, 
D. C. He was on General Shaffer's staff 
in the expedition against Santiago; repre- 
sentative of the Medical Department o£ 
the Army at the Pan-American Exposi- 
tion, Buffalo, 1901; assistant to Chief Sur- 
geon, Philippine Islands, 1902-03; author 
of "Theory and Practice of Military 
Hygiene (1892); Acting Commissioner of 



Public Health, Philippine Islands, 1903- 
04. Address: War Department. 

MUNSON, REGINALD FAIRFAX, phy- 
sician, was born near Falls Church, Fair- 
fax County Virginia, on April 3, 1858. son 
of Miles Cleveland and Catherine (New- 
ton) Munson. After attending the com- 
mon schools of his home county, he en- 
tered the University of Wooster at Woos- 
ter, O., remaining there until 1879, when 
he entered the Medical Department of 
Columbian (now George Washington,* 
University, graduating with the class 
of 1883, and the following year took a 
post-graduate course at the Hahnemann 
Medical College in Chicago, since when 
he has been actively engaged in the prac- 
tice of his profession. Since 1890, he ha,s 
been a member of the staff of the Nation- 
al Homeopathic Hospital. He is a mem- 
ber of the Presbyterian Church; Sigma 
Chi College fraternity; Sons of the 
Revolution; Homeopathic Medical Society 
of the District of Columbia, and in poli- 
tics, a Republican. On June 14, 1894, he 
married Mary Arnold. Residence 3101 
P street, n.w. 

MURDOCK, JOSEPH BALLARD, naval 

officer, was born in Hartford, Conn., on 
February 13, 1851, son of Rev. John N. 
and Martha (Ballard) Murdock. In 1870, 
he was graduated from the U. S. Navai 
Academy. Until 1874, he saw service on 
the North and South Atlantic stations: 
1875-79, Coast Survey duty; was later 
an instructor at the Naval Academy; on 
the Asiatic station from 1888-91; at tho 
Naval War College from 1897-99; during 
the Spanish-Ameridan War, was execu- 
tive oflicer of the U. S. S. Panther. 
In 1901, he was promoted to the rank ol 
Commander. He is the author of a num- 
ber of reports and monographs, among 
them being: Notes on Electricity and 
Magnetism (1884), etc. He is a Fellow of 
the American Association for the Ad- 
vancement of Sciences; a member of the 
Philosophical Society, and the Franklin 
Institute. Address: Navy Department. 

MURDOCK, VICTOR, journalist. Con- 
gressman, was born in Burlingame, Kans., 
on March 18, 1871, .son of Marshall M. 
and Victoria Murdock. When but a year 
old he removed with his parents to 
Wichita, in the same state, where he wa55 
educated in the common schools and Lewis 
Academy. He began working at the 
printer's trade when 'but ten years of age, 
during his vacations; was a newspaper 
reporter at fifteen; at the age of twenty, 
was a newspaper reporter in Chicago, 
and in 1894, became managing editor of 
the Wichita Daily Eagle. By a special 
election on May 26, 1903, he was electo'' 
to the Fifty-eighth Congress to fill the 
vacancy caused by Chester I. Long re- 
signing, and was re-elected to the Fifty- 
ninth Congress, and in 1905, was elected 
to the Sixtieth Congress from the newly 
established Eighth District of Kansas. In 
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Republican. He married M. P. Allen In 
1890. Legal tepidence: Wichita, Kansas. 
Washington address: House of Represen- 
tatives. 

MURPHY, ARTHUR PHILLIPS, law- 
yer. Conerressman, was bnrn in Hancock. 
Pulaski County. Mis?ouri. on December 
10, 1870, and after attending- the public 
schools of his native county, he entered 
the School of Mines and Metallurgy at 
Rolla. Philips County, Mis.?ouri. He took 
up the study of law, and was admitteJ 
to the bar on March 4. 1894. since when 
he has been actively engaged in the pri- 
vate practice of his profes=;ion. Unill 
1898, he had never been a candidate for 
any public office, at that time being the 
Republican candidate for prosecuting at- 
torn^v for Pulaski County. Missouri, and 
in 190'' for renre^entative. beine defeated 
each time. On Jan. 1. 1903. he was ap- 
pointed attorney for the Creek Nation of 
Indians, to serve until March 1, 1906, at 
an annual s^l^ry of .^6,000. He was elect- 
ed to the Fifty-ninth Congress from the 
Sixteenth Missouri District on the Repub- 
lican ticket. On March 12. 1904. he mar- 
ried Jessie S. Boren. of Muskogee, I. T. 
Legal rc'^i'lence: Rolla, Missouri. Wash- 
ington address: House of Representatives. 

MURPHY, DOMINIC I., lawyerand ex- 
Commissiorer of Pensions, was born in 
18S0. and for some tim° was associated 
with his father and brother in the manu- 
fa'^ture of cotton and woolen goods. In 
1871. he came to Wa'^hin'^ton. and served 
In the Pension Office until 1889, rising to 
be Chief Clerk, First Deputy Commission- 
er and lastly Commissioner, tesiening at 
the inauguration of President McKinle.\f 
to become a member of the law firm of 
Hopkins, Murphy & Hopkins, pension at- 
torneys. He was formerly nublisher and 
general manager of the New Century 
Weeklv; is a member of the Kniehts of 
Columbus; Carroll Institute; Catholic 
Benevolent Legion; Catholic Knights of 
America, and a trustee of St. Vincent's 
Orphan Asylum. He is now United State.^ 
Consul at Bordeaux, France. Late resi- 
dence: 1305 Kenyon street, n.w. 

MURPHY, JAMES W., Congressman. 
In November, 1906, he was elected a mem- 
ber of the Sixtieth Congress from the 
Third Congressional District of Wiscon- 
sin, as a Democrat. Legal residence: 
Plattville, Wis. Washington Address: 
House of Representatives. 

MURRAY, ARTHUR, Brigadier-Gen- 
eral, U. S. A., Chief of Artillery, War De- 
partment. Residence: 1615 Rhode Island 
avenue, n.w. Office: War Department. 

MURRAY, LAWRENCE O., lawyer. As- 
sistant Secretary, Department of Com- 
merce and Labor, since 1904, was born at 
Addison Hill, New York, February 18, 
1864, son of Thomas and Ellen Murray. 
He attended Niagara. University two 
years and was graduated from the Metro- 



polis Law School, N. Y.; New York Uni- 
versity; Law Department of Regents of 
the University of the State of New York; 
LL. M., from Georgetown University, 
George Washington Univer?ity, and the 
Catholic Univefsity of America. He was 
admitted to the bar of New York in 189."?. 
and was private secretary to Assistant 
Secretary of the Treasury, and Deputy 
Comptroller of the Treasury in 1898, and 
secretary and trust office. Central Trust 
Company, of Illinois, Chicago, 111., until 
January, 1904. Residence: The Benedick. 
Office: Department of Commerce and 
Labor. 

MURRAY, S. REESE, clergyman, pas- 
tor of the Union Methodist Episcopal 
Church. Residence: 812 Twentieth street, 
n.w. 

MUSSEY, ELLEN SPENCER, lawyer, 
dean of the Washington CoPege of Law, 
was born in Geneva, Ashtabula County, 
Ohio, on May 13, 1850, youngest daughter 
of Piatt R. Spencer, the autbor of Spen- 
cerian Penmanship. She was educated in 
the Geneva High School, Lake E'ie Col- 
lege, and Rockford College in Illinois, and 
came to Washington in 1869, to accept a 
position as principal of the ladies depart- 
ment, of the Spencerian Business College, 
which position she held until she married 
Gen. R. D. Mussey. In 1876, she began 
the study of law In her husband's office, 
was admitted to the bar of the District 
of Columbia, and practiced with her hus- 
band, until his death in 1892. after which 
she continued his business. She is great- 
ly interested in the education of women 
for a professional business life, and with 
other members of the bar. organized pri- 
marily fo^ women, the Washington Col- 
lege of Law, but admitting men, of which 
institution she is the dean, b'^ing the on'v 
woman to hold such a position. In ad- 
dition to being a member of the local bar, 
she has been admitted to the bar of the 
Coul-t of Claims, the Supreme Court 'Of 
the United States, and has a large prac- 
tice in all. She is a well-known writer 
on the laws governing marriage and di- 
vorce and parents and children. In 1902, 
she was chairman of the woman's com- 
mittee of the District of Columbia in pre- 
paring for the National Encampment ol 
the Grand Army of the Republic, and was 
one of the incorporators of the American 
Red Cross Society, and served as Coun- 
sel for the national body in 1902. She is 
the vice-president-general for the District 
of Columbia of the Daughters of the 
American Revolution, and has served a» ■ 
State Regent of the District of Columbia. 
She has largely influenced legislation to 
give women equal property and domestic 
rights in the District of Columbia and 
also legislation to protect children. Mrs. 
Mussey is a member of the Board of 
Education of the District of Columbia, 
and chairman of the Committee on Spe- 
cial Schools and Playgrounds, and is a. 
member of the Council of the American 



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Playgrounds Association. Residence: 
2145 K street, n.w. Office: Columbian 
Building. 



MYER, WALDEN, clergyman, assistant 
rector of Christ Episcopal Church. Resi- 
dence: 1627 I street, n.w. 



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NABUCO, JOAQUIM, Ambassador to 
the United States from Brazil, was born 
at Recife. Brazil, August 19, 1849, son of 
Senator Nabuco. Un.der the regime of 
the Empire, he was a member of the 
Brazilian Parliament; was actively iden- 
tified with the Anti-Slavery movement 
during the years 1879 to 1888; was envoy 
to Eng-land from 1900 to 1905; arbitrator 
and special commissioner for his govern- 
ment to Italy as advocate regarding? 
'boundary of British Guiana and Brazil; 
became Ambassador at Washington in 
1905 — being the first Ambassador to thi* 
country from Brazil. He is the anchor 
of a biogaphy of his father, and also 
a biography of Minha Formacao — both 
written in Portuguese. He married Ev- 
eline, daughter of Baron d'Inohan. Res- 
idence: Brazilian Embassy. 

NAILOR, ALLISON, JR., retired busi- 
ness man, was t)orn in Washington, D. C, 
May 21, 1836. son of Allison tnd, Rachel 
Dorsett (Moreland) Nailor. He attended 
private schools in Washington, and wa^ 
graduated from a commercial college in 
Baltimore in 1855. He entered the livery 
aind omnibus business, retiring in 1891 
from active participation in commercial 
affairs. He is a director in the National 
Metropolitan Bank, and is a thirty-third 
degree Mason. He is treasurer of the 
LfOdge of Perfection. Rose Croix Chapter; 
Council of Kadosh and Consistory; Grand 
Tyler, Supreine Council, A. A. S. R.; 
Grand Representative and Honor- 
ary Member of the Supreme Coun- 
cil, A. A. S. R., of Mexico; 
Treasurer of Almas Temple, A. A. O. 
N. M. S. He is also a member of the fol- 
lowing organizations: Brigadier Grneral 
of Patriarchs Militant, I. O. O. F.; Presi- 
dent of the Association of Oldest Inhabi- 
tants of the District of Columbia. For 
a number of years he was Captain in the 
Washington^ Light Infantry Corps. He 
married Margaretta Lavinia DeHaven on 
October 12, 1858. Residence: Fifteenth 
street and Rhode Island avenue, n.w. 

NASH, (Mrs.) CAROLINE LOUISE 
RYAN, was born at Charleston, S. C, 
August 7, 1858, daughter of William King 
and Martha (Blackwell) Ryan. She at- 
tended private schools anid was further 
educated by travel abroad. She is a di- 
rector of the D. A. R. Hospital Corps, 
which furnished nurses to the Army and 
Navy, at the time of the Spanish-Ameri- 
can War; has been four times vice-presi- 
dent general of the D. A. R.; and also cor- 
responding secretary of the U. S. D. A. 
R.; president of the Southern Relief So- 



ciety; section present. Army Relief So- 
ciety; Washington Club. etc. In religion, 
she is a member of the Episcopal Church. 
On February 15. 1877, she married Sur- 
geon Francis S. Nash, U.S.N. Residence: 
1723 Q street, n.w. 

NAYLOR, HENRY R., Methodist Epis- 
copal clergyman, Presiding Elder of the 
Washington District. Residence: 913 R 

street, n.w. 

NEEDHAM. CHARLES WILLIS. Pres- 
ident of the G'^orge Washington Univer- 
sity, was born im Castile, N. Y., Septem- 
b<^r SO. 1848. son of Charles RoHin and 
Arvilla (Reed) Needham. He attended the 
public schools of Castile, and pr'vaie 
schools, and was arraduated from Albany 
Tvaw School in 1869. He began the prac- 
tice of law in his native town, subse- 
quently removing to Morris. 111., where 
he remained u.'^til 1^76. He then went to 
Chicago, remaining until 1890. when he 
came to Washington. During his rpsi- 
dence in Chicago he assisted' in founding 
and organising Chicaaro U.niver^itv, and 
was a membi^T of its first board of trus- 
tees. He organized the School of Com- 
pa'ative Jurisprudence and Diplomacy, 
and in 1897 was selected as dean of that 
department, and made professor of law, 
lecturing upon the subjects of the Com- 
mon Law of Engl3nd and the Law of 
Transportation and Interstate Commerce. 
In 1900 he was made dean 'of the Law 
School. In 1902, he was elected as presi- 
dent of the Univer-ity. and through hi."^ 
eTorts, reorganized the same and secured 
from Congress importa.nt amendments to 
the charter authorizing the change jf 
name to The George Washington Uni- 
versity, and making it non-sectarian. He 
was a delegate by presidential appoint- 
ment to the Congres International de 
Droit Compare; he also served as a dele- 
gate to the Congres International des 
Chemins de Fer and the Congres Inter- 
national D' Assistant Publique et de 
Eienfaisance Privee — all at Paris. He 
was formerly a trustee of the Morgan 
Park Theological Seminary; is a member 
to the Cosmos, University, and Chevy 
Chase Clubs of Washington, and other 
organizations. In politics, he is a Re- 
publican; in religion, a Baptist. In 1901 
he received the honorary degree of LL. D 
from the University of Rochester, and also 
holds the same hono ary degree from 
Georgetown College, of Kentucky. I'n 
November, 1870, he married Caroline 
Mary Beach. Residence: 1710 N street, 
n.w. Office: The George Washington 
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NEEDHAM, JAMES, CARSON, lawyer, 
Congressman, was born at Carson City, 
Nevada, September 17, 1864, son of 
Charles Elisha and Olive Lavi.na (Drake) 
Needham. He attended the public schoois 
of California; graduated from the San 
Jose High School, and in 1886 from the 
Unversity of the Pacific, with the degree 
of Ph. D., andi in 1889 from the University 
of Michigan, with that of LL. B. His 
law course was interrupted by a year'.s 
residence in Washington, where he was 
a clerk in the War Department, but he 
resigned this position to finish his course. 
In November, 1889, he began the p'ac- 
tice of his profession at Modesta, Cali- 
fornia. He has represented the Sixth 
California District in the Fifty-sixth, 
Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth and Fifty- 
ninth Congresses, and has been^ re-electeJ 
to the Sixtieth. He is a Republican in 
politics; has been chairman of the Re- 
publican County Committee; member of 
the State Central Committee and Con- 
gressional Committee. He is a member 
of the Elks and Masonic Order. Oin Juiy 
1, 1894, he married Dora D. Parsons. Resi- 
dence: Modesto, Cal. Washington ad- 
dress: House of Representatives. 

NEILL, CHARLES P., United States 
Commissioner of Labor, was born at 
Rock Island, 111., in 1865, but went with 
his parents to Austin, Tex., in 1870, and 
grew to manhood in that State. He is 
the son of James and JuUa (Walsh) Neill. 
He attended the University of Notre 
Dame, (Ind.) from 1885 to 1888; the Uni- 
versity of Texas in^ 1888-1889, and was 
graduated from Georgetown College (D. 
C.) with the degree of A. B., in 1891. He 
was instructor at the University of Notre 
Dame from 1891 to 1894. He pursued 
graduate studies in economics and politics 
at the University of Chicago and at the 
Johns Hopkins University and received 
the degree of Ph. D., from the latter in 
1897. At the organization of the School 
of Philosophy of the Catholic University 
of America, he was appointed instructor 
in economics; was subsequently made as- 
sociate professor and professor of political 
economy in that institution. He was as- 
sistant recorder of the Commission ap- 
pointed by the President to settle the 
Anthracite Coal Strike of 1903, and was 
recorder of the Arbitratian Board selected 
to arbitrate the Alabama Coal Strike in 
1904. He remained in charge of the De- 
partment of Economics at the Catholic 
University until February 1, 1905. On 
that date he was appointed by President 
Roosevelt, United States Commissioner 
of Labor to succeed the Hon. Carroll D. 
Wright. Mr. Neill has been active in 
civic work in the Dis'trict of Columbia; 
is a member of the Board of Managers 
of the Associated Charities; a member of 
the Board of Directors of the Washington 
Playground Association; a vice-president 
of the Washington Legal Aid Society; a 
member of the Committee on the Improv- 
ing of Housing Conditions, ajid since 1900, 



has been the vice-president of the Board 
of Charities of the District of Columbia 
He is a member of the American Politi- 
cal Science Assoeiation; the American 
Association for the Advancement of 
Science; the National Economic League. 
He is the president of 'the Association of 
Officials of Bureaus of Labor of Amer- 
ica; a. vice-president of the American 
Economic Association; a vlce-presidient 
of the American Association for Labor 
Legislation, and a member of the Execu- 
tive Committee on Child Labor of the 
National Conference of Charities and 
Corrections. He is one of the three mem- 
bers appointed by the President on the 
Immigration Commission created by Con- 
gress in 1907. He is a member of che 
Cosmos Club, the University Club, of 
Washington, and the City Club, of New 
York. In June, 1901, he married Esther 
Waggaman. Residence: 3556 Macomb 
street, Cleveland Park, D. C. Office: 1429 
New York avenue, n.w. 

NELSON, EDWARD WILLIAM, field 
naituralist, United States Department of 
Agriculture, was .born at Manchester, New 
Hampshire, May 8, 1855, son of William 
and Nancy (Wells) Nelson. In 1875, he 
was graduated from the Cook County 
Normal School (Chicago, 111.) and from 
1877 to 1881, was employed in scientific 
research in Alaska, in 1881 being id.enti- 
fied as naturalist with the Corwin oti 
the expedition for relief of the Jeanette. 
In 1890, he became connected with the 
Department of Agriculture and was a 
member of the expedition to Death Val- 
ley in that year, and for the next twelve 
years made exhaustive botanical and 
zoological explorations in Mexico. He is 
the author of a number of books, pam- 
phlets, reports, etc., on zoological, ornitho- 
logical, and other natural history subjects, 
and is a member of the Biological Society 
of Washington; Washington Academy of 
Sciences; a Fellow of the American 
Ornithologists Union, amd a correspond- 
ing member of the Society of Natural 
History of Mexico. He is unmarried. 
Residence: The Portner. Office: U. S. 
Department of Agriculture. 

NELSON, JOHN MANDT, lawyer. Con- 
gressman, was born on a farm in Dane 
county. Wis., October 10, 1870. His early 
boyhood was spent on the farm and he 
was educated in the public schools and 
the University of Wisconsin, from which 
institution he was graduated in 1892. In 
the fall of 1892, he was elected county 
.superintendent of schools of Dane Coun- 
ty, Wisconsin, and re-elected, to the same 
offiQe in 1894, but resigned after two 
years' service to accept a position as 
bookkeeper in the office of Secretary of 
State, where he remained until 1897, when 
he became editor of "The State" at Madi- 
son, Wis. From 1898 to 1902, he was en- 
gaged as a correspondent la the State 
Treasury Department of Wisconsin. In 
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Department of the University of Wis- 
consin, after wiiich hie pursued post- 
graduate worl<; in the same institution 
for three years, when he took up the 
practice of law and pursued that profes- 
sion until he was elected to flil the vacan- 
cy in the Fifty- ninth Congress, caused 
by the death of Hon. H. C. Adams. He 
has for many years been a member of 
the Republican State Central Committee, 
and in November, 1906, he was elected 
to the Sixtieth Congress from th'' Second 
Wisconsin District. With State Semator 
Albert M. Standall, he is engaged in 
wholes(a/le real estate transactions. In 
1891, he married Johanna Standall to 
which union have been born six children. 
Ijegal residence: Madison, Wis. Wash- 
ington address: House of Representatives. 

NELSON, KNUTE, lawyer, U. S. Sena- 
tor, was born in Norway, February 2, 
1843, and came to the United States in 
1849, removing to Chicago, where he re- 
sided until 1850. At that time he took 
up his residence in Wisconsin, where he 
remained until 1871, when he removed 
to Minnesota. He served in the Union 
Army during the war of the rebellion, as 
a private and non-commissioned offioer, 
and was wounded and made prisoner by 
the Confederate forces at Port Hudson 
Douisiana, in 1863. After the war, in 1867, 
he was admitted to the practice of law; 
was elected to the Wisconsin legislature 
in 1868 and 1869; served as county at- 
torney of Douglas Cou:nty, Minnesota in 
the years 1872, 1873 and 1874, and as State 
Senator in that State from 1875 to 1878. 
In 1882 he was elected to Congress from 
the Fifth Minnesota District and re-elect- 
ed in 1884 and 1886; was elected Gover- 
nor of that State in 1892 and re-elected 
In 1894, and elected United States Sena- 
tor in 1895, and re-elected in 1901 and 
1907. He is a Republican; wais a Minne- 
sota p;esidential elector in 1880; and 
for ten years was a member of the Board 
of Regents of the State University of 
Wisconsin. Legal residence: Alexander, 
Minn. Washington address: 649 East 
Capitol street. 

NEVIN, ROBERT MURPHY, lawyer, 
Congressman, was born in Highla.nd 
County, Ohio, May 5, 1850. He attended 
the public schools and was graduated 
from the Ohio Wesleyan University in 
1868, and received the degree of M. A., 
in 1871, from the same institution. He 
removed to Dayton, Ohio in 1868; was 
admitted to the practice of law in 1871, 
and has since been engaged in the prac- 
tice of his profession, recently with the 
firm of Nevin, Nevin & Kalbfus. In 1887, 
he was elected prosecuting attorney of 
Montgomery county, and elected Repre- 
sentative in Congress from the Third 
Ohio District in 1901 and served uniil 
•the end of the Fifty-ninth Congress. Mr. 
Nevin is a Republican in politics. Legal 
residence: Dayton, Ohio. Washington 
addiTess: House of Representatives. 



NEVINS, WILLIAM M., clergyman, 
pastor of the Graice Baptist Church. Resi- 
dence: 508 East Capitol street. 

NEVITT, JAMES RAMSEY, physician 
and coroner, was born in Richmond Coun- 
ty, Virginia, June 25,1867. He was grad- 
uated from Columbian Onow George 
Washington) University in 1889, taking 
the degree of medicine in 1892. He was 
appointed to the engineering department 
of the city of Washington! in 1890; wa.s 
connected as a student with the Wash- 
ington Asylum Hospital in 1891; was in 
charge of the Contagious Disease Hospital 
in 1892, and was appointed physician at 
the Washington- Asylum Hoispital. He 
served on the Board of Police Surgeons 
during the smallpox epidemic of 1894, and 
in 1895, was made president thereof, and 
later was on the staff of physicians at 
the Emergency Hospital. He was appoint 
■ed coroner in 1900, and re-appointed In 
1902. Member of the American Medical 
Association, and the Medical Association 
of the District. On December 19, 1894. 
he -married Mary C. Hine, and two chil- 
dren have 'been born to them. Residence: 
1820 Calvert street. 

NEWBERRY, TRUMAN HANDY, As- 
sistant Secretary of the Navy, was bom 
at Detroit, Michigan, November 5, 1864, 
son of former Congressman John S. New- 
berry and Helen H. Newberry. He at- 
tended Oharlier Institute in New York 
City until 1878, and was graduated from 
Yale College in 1885, with the degree of 
Ph. B. He has been associated with steel 
manufacturers, with railroads, banks, 
etc., as a director and official. In 1898, 
at the time of the Spanish-American War, 
he served as a Lieutenant in the United 
States Navy. He is a member of the 
Delta Psi fraternity, and other clubs and 
societies. He is a Republican, and a 
member of the Presbyterian Church. Ou 
February 7, 1888, he married Harriet 
Josephine Barnes. Residence: 1315 Six- 
teenth street, n.w. Office: State, War and 
Navy Building. 

NEWCOMB, HARRY TURNER, lawyer 
statistician, author, (senior member of the 
firm of Newoomb, Churchill & Frey,) was 
born at Owosso, Mich., January 4, 1867, 
son of Henry Martyn and Lucia (Turner) 
Newcomb. He was grad.ua ted from the 
Law Department of Columbian (now 
Geo;ge Washington) University In 1891, 
and pursued a post-graduate course in 
law in the same institution. For a num- 
ber of years has been engaged in the 
practice of his profession, specializing iu 
railway and corporation law. He was 
one of the organizers and is at present 
a director of the Southern Public Service 
Corporation; he was of counsel represent- 
ing the Philadelphia and Reading Coal 
and Iron Company before the Anthracite 
Coal Strike Commission of 1902 and 1903. 
He has lectured on railway transporta- 
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University; University of Missouri; 
George Wasliington University; New York 
University, etc., and has written Rail- 
way Economics; The Postal Deficit; The 
Federal Courts and the Orders of the In- 
terstate Commerce Commission; also a 
large number of cointributions to leading 
periodicals, principally on the subjects of 
railways, trusts, civil service reform, 
labor questions, economics, etc. He is a 
Democrat, and had editorial charge of the 
documents circulated by the National 
Democratic Committee in 1904. He is a 
member of the Cosmos Club, City Club, 
(New York City) Washington Economic 
Society; American Economic Association; 
American Political Science Association; 
American Statistical Association; Royal 
Statistical Society (of England); Ameri- 
can Association for the Advancement of 
Science (vice-president in 1903); Wash- 
ington Board of Trade, etc. He married 
Lucy Theodora Comstock on Oct. 11, 1893. 
Residence: Bethesda Park, Md. Office: 
National Metropolitan Bank Building. 

NEWCOMB, SIMON, astronomer, au- 
thor, was bo:n near Wallace, Nova 
Scotia, March 12, 1835; son of John Bur- 
ton and Emily (Prince) Newcomb. In 
1853 he removed to the United States. 
He was graduated from the Lawrence 
Scientific School of Harvard University 
with the degree of B. S. in 1858. He then 
devoted himself to post-graduate work 
for three years, during which period he 
was a computer on the American 
Ephe-meris and Nautical Almanac. In 
1861, he was appointed professor of math- 
ematics in the United States Navy, and 
from 1861 to 1877, was stationed at the 
Naval Observatory in Washington. From 
this time until 1897, he was superintend- 
ent of ithe office of the American 
Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac. He 
was placed on the retired list of the Navy 
on reaching the legal age, March 12, 1897, 
and now holds the rank of Rear-Admiral. 
He planned the new observatory at Wash- 
ington; was secretary of the United 
States Transit of Venus Commission dur- 
ing 1871 and 1874; was attached to the 
Eclipse Expedition in 1860 to Saskatche- 
wan, and of 1870 to Gibraltar, and 
in charge of that to the Cape of Good 
Hope in 1882; and performed other spe- 
cial duties. In addition to his Naval 
work, he was professor of mathematics at 
Johns Hopkins University from 1894 to 
1901, retaininsT the title of Emeritus Pro- 
fessor; from 1884 to 1894, he was editor 
of the American Journal of Mathematics, 
published by the University; has lectured 
at a large number of universities and 
other educational institutions and asso- 
ciations. His greatest wo:k has been in 
mathematical astro:nomy, especially in 
preparing tables of the motions of the 
planets and the moon with an accuracy 
before unattainable. All the vessels of 
the world (except France) are now navi- 
gated according to nautical ephemerides 



founded on these tables. His work has 
brought him fame and many honors; he 
has received the honorary degree of LL. 
D., from the following institutions: George 
Washington University (then Columbian), 
in 1874; Yale, 1875; Harvard, 1884; Co- 
lumbia, 1887; Edinburg, Scotland, 1891; 
Glasgow, Scotland, 1895; Princeton, 1896; 
Cracow, Austria, 1900; Johns Hopkins, 
1902; Toronto, 1905, and also the follow- 
ing honorary degrees: Matt. M. and Ph. 
Nat. D., from Leyden, (Holland) in 1875; 
Sc. D. Heidelberg, (Germany), 1886; 
Padua, (Italy), 1892; Dublin, (Ireland), 
1892; Cambridge, (England), 1896; D. C. 
L., Oxford, (England), 1899; Math. D., 
Christiania (Norway). Abroad he has re- 
ceived more honors than any other Amer_ 
lean; been elected to all the famou? 
learned societies, and received personal 
recognition of his services from a number 
of monarchs. He is a Commander of the 
Legion of Honor of France and a Prus- 
sian Knight of the Order of Merit in 
Sciences in Arts; the decorations of both 
ithese. Congress has, by special acts, au- 
thorized him to deceive. He is no less 
well-known for his works on political and 
social science; he has written a large 
number of financial, astronomical, mathe- 
matical, articles, and books, and is the 
author of a novel. On Aug. 4, 1863, he 
married Mary Caroline- Hassler, daughter 
of Dr. C. A. Hassler, U. S. Navy, and 
granddaughter of F. R. Hassler, founder 
and first superintendent U. S. Coast and 
Geodetic Survey and Bureau of Weights 
and Measures. Address: 1620 P street, 
n.w. 

NEWELL, FREDERICK HAYNES, di- 

rector, United States Reclamation Service, 
was born at Bradford, Pa., March 5, 1862, 
son of Augustus William and Annie Maria 
(Haynes) Newell. He was graduate! 
from the Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology in 1885, and from 1886 to 1837, 
pursued a post.-graduate course at that 
institution in engineering. In 1888, he 
became assistant hydraulic engineer of the 
United States Geological Survey, and re- 
mained with that Bureau, through many 
promotions up to the creation of the 
Reclamation Service, of which he was 
chief engineer from 1902 to 1907, then 
director. He was one of the commission- 
ers appointed by President Roosevelt to 
investigate United States land laws, also 
a meraber of the Inland Water Ways 
Commission; and during his connection 
with the Geological Survey and the 
Reclamation' Service, has specialized in 
the study of irrigation and water re- 
sources of the country. He is the author 
of Irrigation in the United States, and 
a number of governmental documents, re- 
ports, etc., also a number of magazine 
contributions. He was secretary of the 
National Geographic Society during 1892 
and 1893, and from 1897 to 1899; aUo 
secretary of the American Forestry Asso- 
ciation from 1895 to 1903; merpber of the 
Cosmos Club; University Club; the 



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American Society of Civil Engineers; the 
American Institute of Mining Engineers; 
'One of the incorporators of the Massa- 
chusettis Institute of Technology. On 
April 3, 1890, he married Effie Josephine 
Machintosh. Residence: 1827 Phelps 
Place. Office: Corner Twelfth and G 
streets, n.w. 

NEWLANDS, FRANCIS GRIFFITH, 

lawyer, U. S. Senator, from Nevada, was 
born in Natchez, Miss., August 28, 1818. 
He attended Yale College until his junior 
year, and subsequently attended the Law 
Department of Columbian College (now 
George Washington) University. He wxi 
admitted to the bar and removed to San 
Francisco, where he practiced his pro- 
fession until 1888, when he removed to 
Nevada. In 1893 he was elected to Con- 
gress from that State, serving until 1903, 
when he was appointed United States 
Senator. Senator Newlands is a Demo- 
crat in politics. He is actively interested 
in the development of the West, and in 
irrigation, etc Legal residence: Renj, 
Nevada. Washington address: Woodley, 
Woodley Lane. 

NEWMAN, STEPHEN M., clergyman, 
pastor of the First Congregational Church. 
Residence: 1818 M street, n.w. 

NEWTON, JAMES THORNWELL, 

principal examiner. United States Patent 
Office, was born at Madison, Morgan 
County, Georgia, July 17, 1861, son of 
William H. and M. K. Newton. He at- 
tended the common schools and was 
graduated from the University of Georgia 
in 1880; also from the Law Department of 
Georgetowtn University, in 1896. He was 
president of Lee Institute, at Thomaston, 
Ga., for a number of years; later becom- 
ing assistant examiner, and successively 
law clerk, and principal examiner of the 
Patent Office. He is the author of New- 
ton's Patent Office Trade Mark Deci- 
sions; and is a member of the Pfesby- 
terian Church and the Chi Psi college fra- 
ternity. On Sept. 18, 1902, he married 
Helen Bennett. Residence: 1625 R street 
n.w. Office: Patent Office. 

NEWTON, WATSON J., lawyer, au- 
thor, was born in England in 1848, and 
•received his preliminary education in tliat 
country. In 1877 he was graduated from 
the Law Department of the National Uni- 
versity, and was admitted to the bar thg 
same year. He is president of the Dis- 
trict Title Insurance Company, and pro- 
fessor of Medical Jurisprudence in the 
Medical Department of the National Uni- 
versity, and professor of Law of Evidence 
at the Washington College of Law. He 
Is the author of the words of the Colum- 
bian Anthem; has composed several song^ 
and a musical comedy, and is also the 
author of a novel. He married Ellen J. 
Black. Residence: 2510 Nineteenth street, 
n.w. Office: 610 Thirteenth street n.w. 



NIBLACK, ALBERT PARKER, Lieu- 
tenant-Commander, U. S. N., was born at 
Vincennes, Indiana, July 25, 1859, son of 
Hon. William E. and Eliza (Sherman) 
Niblack. He was educated in the public* 
and high schools of Vincennes, and was 
graduated from the United States Acade- 
my in 1880. Since that date he has served 
successively Ini various ranks of commis- 
sioned officers up to that of Lieutenant- 
Commander. His service has includ-^d 
participation in the Spanish-American 
Wal", Philippine insurrection and the 
Boxer insurrection of 1900. He is the 
author of Coast Indians of Alaska and 
Northern British Columbia, and several 
essays on Naval Signaling and Tactics. 
He is a member of the Society of Naval 
Architects, Naval Institute, and the 
Metropolitan, Army and Navy, and Chevy 
Chase clubs. He is aftiliated with the 
Episcopal Church, and with the Anthro- 
pological Society, also with the Sociologi- 
cal movement. On November 24, 1903, 
he married Mary Huntington. Address: 
Navy Department. 

NICHOLS, HENRY HOBART, artist, 
illustrator, was born in Washington, D. C, 
May 1, 1869, son of Henry Hobart and In- 
diana (Jay) Nichols. He attended the 
public schools of Washington, and Short- 
ledge's Academy at Media, Pa., later 
studying art with the Art Student's 
League of this city, and at Julian Acade- 
my, in Paris. In 1900, he was assistant 
to the Director of Fine Arts at the Paris 
Exposition; for sixteen years he was a 
member of the Division of Illustrations 
of the United States Geological Su.vey, 
as a scientific draughtsman; in 1901, he 
was awarded the second prize of the Cor- 
coran Art Gallery; in 1902 and 1904, he 
(received the Parsons Prize; 1903 — ^Parsons 
Prize (Oil) (Water Color) of that same 
institution; 1906 — First Corcoran Prize- 
Water Color. He was two years chair- 
tnan of the Art Committee of the Cosmos 
Club; three years secretary of the Society 
of Washington Artists (charter member), 
and is also a member of the WashingtjT 
Water-Color Society; American Art As- 
sociation of Paris; National Society of 
Fine Arts (charter member). On April 20. 
1895, he married Wilhelmina von Stosch. 
Address Cosmos Club. 

NICHOLS, JOHN BENJAMIN, physi- 
cian, was born at Cazenovia, New York, 
February 2, 1867, son of George C and 
Ellen Farr (Ingraham) Nichols. He at- 
tended the common schools and graduated 
in 1884, from Cazenovia Seminary, and in 
1891, with highest honors from the Medi- 
cal Department of Columbian^ (now 
George Washington) University. He was 
from 1894 to 1899 assistant surgeon for 
the United States Soldier's Home, and 
since then a practitioner of medicine. He 
is now pathologist and assistant in th«5 
Medical Despensary of Garfield Hospital; 
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and Throat Hospital; attending physi- 
cian Freedman's Hospital; professor of 
Normal Histology, George Washi.ngto(n' 
University. He is a Mason, and a member 
of the University Club. He is the author 
of Normal Histology and Clinical Labor- 
arory Methods (Fiske Fund prize essay 
on Diet in Typhoid Feve:),and numerous 
professional articles iiOi medical journals 
and cyclopedias. He is a member of the 
following organizations: American Medi- 
cal Association; Medical Society and As- 
sociation of the District of Columbia; 
Clinical Society of the District of Colum- 
ibia (formerly president); Anthropologi- 
cal Society of the District of Columbia; 
George Washingtoin^ University Medical 
Society, etc. On May 27, 1891, he married 
Annie Gledhill. Residence: 1321 Rhode 
Island avenue. 

NICHOLLS, THOMAS DAVID, Con- 
gressman, was born in Wilkesbarre, Pa., 
on September 1, 1870. He attended the 
public schools until nine years of age, 
and then two winters at night school, 
later studying mining by correspondence 
in the International Correspo^ndence 
School. In 1897, he passed a state ex- 
amination, receiving a Mine Foreman's 
certificate of competency. At the age of 
nine he began work as breaker boy, serv- 
ing until the age of twelve as a slats 
picker when he secured 'employment in- 
side the mines, continuing to work at the 
various occupations therein umtil May, 
1900 when he was placed on a salary in 
order that he might devote his entire time 
to the duties of District President of Dis- 
trict No. 1, United Mine Workers of 
America, to which position he had been 
elected in May, 1899. He had never been 
a candidate for any political office until 
he ran for Congress in 1906, on the Demo- 
cratic ticket. He is married and the 
father of four children, three girte and 
one boy. Legal esidence: Scranton, Pa 
Washington address: House of Repre- 
sentatives. 

NIXON, GEORGE S., banker, U. S. Sen- 
ator, from Nevada, was born at Newcas- 
tle, Placer County, California, April 2, 
1860, son of John H. and Mary Ann (Es- 
till) Nixon. He attended the public schools 
of Newcastle and Oakland, and worked 
on his father's farm until 1879, when he 
entered the railway service and studied 
telegraphy. He became a telegraph oper- 
ator, and in 1881 removed to Nevada, and 
for three years was a railway telegrapher. 
In 1884, he entered the First National 
Bank of Reno, Nev., as a clerk; subse- 
quently he organized the First National 
Bank of Winnemucca, becoming cashier 
and later president; was a member of the 
State Legislature in 1891, and in 1905, 
was elected United States Sentor. His 
term of office will expire March 3, 1911. 
He is very largely interested in banking, 
financial and business institutions of Ne- 
vada, as well as irrigation, farming and 



mining development. He was formerly 
chairmain of the Silver Party in Nevada; 
in politics he is a Republican. On Jan. 
30, 1887, he married Kate Imogene Bacon. 
Legal residence: "Winnemucca, Nevada. 
Washington address U. S. Senate. 

NIXON, RICHARD BENJAMIN, finan- 
cial clerk U. S. Senate, was born in Wash- 
ington, D. C, April 12, 1841, son of Rich- 
ard and Jane P. (Mankin) Nixon. After 
completing his preparatory education in 
the public schools of the District of Co- 
lumbia, he entered Georgetown College, 
where he was a student from 1852 to 1857. 
In 1857, he was con^nected with the Indian 
Office, later the City Postoffice as chief 
accountant and cashier, and since 1867 
has been financial clerk of the U. S. Sen- 
ate. He is a thirty-third degree Mason, 
and a member of all Masonic Orders. On 
June 6, 1864, he married Annie R. Uter- 
moehle, of Washington, to which union 
have been born nine children, eight of 
whom are living. Residence: 1336 Fair- 
mont street, n.w. Office: U. S. Senate. 

NOBLE, CHARLES H., Colonel, U. S. 
A., was born in Dayton, Ohio, May 10, 
1843, son of D. W. and Harriet M. (Blood) 
Noble. He attended school at Indianapo- 
lis, Indiana, and at the outbreak of the 
Civil War, was enlisted with the First 
Indiana Volunteer Cavalry as a private. 
He subsequently became corporal; was 
appointed Second Lieutenant of the Six- 
teenth U. S. Infantry on February 23, 1866; 
promotEd to First Lieutenant, Februaiy 
10, 1867; advanced to Captain, November 
26, 1884; made Major, October 4, 1898; 
commissioned Lieutenant-Colonel. Fe'i- 
ruary 2, 1901, and Colonel, June 9, 1902. 
During the Civil War, he was made pris- 
oner at Second Bull Run, but was later 
exchanged, and fought throughout the re- 
mainder of the campaign. Succeeding the 
war, he served with his various regiments 
in the West and South, and during the 
Spanish-American War in Cuba, at San 
Juan, etc. Subsequently he was orderoi 
to the Philippines. In 1890, Colonel NoblcJ 
married Mary E. Palmer. Address: War 
Department. 

NOBLE, THOMAS KIMBALL, Congre- 
gational Clergyman, was born at Norway, 
Me., January 19, 1832. tie was educated 
at the Norway Liberal Institute, Bovvdoin 
College, class of 1857, and graduating in 
1863, from the Bangor Theological Semi- 
nary. Immediately after his graduati.>n, 
he was ordained pastor of the Congrega- 
tional Church in Winthrop, Me. During 
the Civil War he served in the UnitsJ 
States Christian Commission, first as a 
delegate, later as agent of the commis- 
sion, and also as chaplain of the Union 
troops. He was subsequently made chief 
superintendent of the educational work 
of the Freedman's Bureau in Kentuclcy, 
which post he held for three years. In 
1869 he became pastor of Pilgrim Church, 
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acted as secretary for Ohio of the Na- 
tional Church Buildi.ng Society. In 1872, 
he went to San Franci?ca to accept Uv^ 
pastoate of Plymouth Church, where he 
remained fourteen years. Durin? this 
period he' was a lecturer on pastoral the- 
ology at the Pacific Theolog-ical Seminary. 
In 1886, he resigned his pastorate and 
traveled extensively abroad, later return- 
ing to this country and. serving two year^; 
as acting pastof of the Eastern Presby- 
terian Church of this city. In 1890, ho 
accepted the call of the First Congregi- 
tional Church 'Of Norwalk, Conn., wher-3 
he remained ten years. In 1900, he was 
fofced to resign his charge by reason oi 
ill health, and subsequently traveled 
through Europe, Egypt Jand the Holv 
I-.and. On returning, he made Washing- 
ton his home. He is a member of the 
Lincoln Post N'o. 1, G. A. R., of San Fran- 
cisco, and prominent in the activities -f 
of the Veterans; was Department Chap- 
lain for California for seven years; mem- 
ber of the California State Home Missiop- 
ary Society; Congregational Club; trustee 
of Mills College; for seven years trustee 
of Congregational Church Building Sd- 
ciety; chaplain for five years of the 
Fourth Regiment of the Conneticut Na- 
tional Guard; member of the Clerical 
Union and Aldine Club, of New York, and 
a member of a large number of other or- 
ganizations, and Pastor Emeritus of the 
First Congregational Church of Norwa'k, 
Conn. Republican. He has been twiee 
married; his first wife ibelng Anna J. 
Sewall, who died in 1865, and his second, 
Esther Frothingham Bradbury. He has 
two daughters, Mrs. Winifred W. Whit- 
man and Mrs. Wm. R. Morton, both living 
in San Francisco. Residence: 1855 Mint- 
wood Place, n.w. 

NOLAN, JOHN H., builder, was born 
in Washington, D. C, in 1861, son of 
James F. Nolan. He studied at St John s 
College, and became an apprentice to 
Robert I. Fleming, a prominent builder. 
He has erected the Westover, Kensington, 
Leamington, Gladstone and Hawarden 
apartment houses, the Bancroft Hotel, 
and the Bond Building, all in the city oC 
Washington. He married Miss Williams 
In 1885, and several years later Lida An- 
derson. Residence: 1832 Conn, avenue 
n.w., and Bethesda, Md. Office 1413 G 
street, n.w. 

NOLAN, JOHN J., senior member of 
the firm of James Nolan & Sons, was 
born in Georgetown, D. C, January 12, 
1870. He was educated at St. John's Col- 
lege, Washington, and at the Georgetown 
College Law School, later entering the 
plumbing business. He is unmarried; one 
of the governors of the Potomac Boa: 
Club; has been prominently identified with 
the Carroll Institute Dramatic Club, and 
Is a director of the Carroll Institute. Resi- 
dence: Hammond Court. Business ad- 
dress: 721 Fourteenth street, n.w. 



NOLAN, WALTER D., junior member 
of the firm of James Nolan & Sons, was 
born in Georgetown, D. C, June 26, 1872, 
and was educated at St. John's College, 
Washington. He has been president of 
the Master Plumbers' Association for two 
tetms, and is a member of the Board of 
Governors of the Atlantic Coast Asso- 
ciation of Master Plumbers. In 1895 he 
married Mary C. Parker, daughter of 
Matthew C. and Annie E. Parker, of 
Washington, and they have four children. 
Residence: 3010 Thirteenth street, n.w. 
Business address: 721 Fourteenth street, 
n.w. 

NORDHOFF-JUNG, SOFIE AMALIE, 

physician, was .born in Germany in 1867, 
and received an academic education in 
France and Germany. Subseqquently she 
was graduated from the Medical Depart- 
ment of Columbian (now George Wash- 
ington) University, and undertook post- 
graduate medical work at the Universicy 
of Paris, and the University of Munich. 
She is a member of the Academy of 
Sciences; Medical Association of the Dis- 
trict of Columbia; Medical Society of th3 
District of Columbia. On July 23, 1896, 
she was married to Dr. Franz A. R. Jung. 
Residence: 1229 Connecticut avenue. 

NORMAN, WILLIAM W., author, man- 
ager Brentano's, was born at Devonport, 
Devonshire, England, September 9, 1871, 
son of George Norman. He attended the 
City of London School; University of 
London College; Athenee Royale Brus- 
sels, and Oxford University, and in 1889, 
was graduated from Hanover Square 
(London) School of Electrical Engineer- 
ing. In 1892, he came to America and be- 
came associated with the firm of Bren- 
tano's. In 1903, he came to Washington 
in the interest of that firm, and took 
charge of their Washington store. He is 
the author of an Outline History of the 
World, and prior to leaving England, as- 
sisted in the construction of the first 
practical electrical automobile made. In 
1894 he ma:ried Mary Agnes Judge. Resi- 
dence: Third and V streets, n.e. Business 
address: Brentano's, Twelfth and F 
streets, n. w. 

NORMENT, CLARENCE FORBES, 

president of the Central National Bank, 
was born in Washington, D. C, in 1856, 
son of Samuel and Mary Ellen (Ward) 
Norment. He was educated at Ritter- 
house Academy, and the Western Mary- 
land College at Westminster, Maryland. 
In 1895, after the death of his father, hj 
was elected to the presidency of the Cen- 
tral National Bank. He is a member ol 
the Washington Stock Exchange; wis 
vice-president of the Washington Bank- 
el's' Association; is a director of tha 
American Security and Trust Company; 
member of the Blue Ridge Rod and Gu.n 
Club, and the Washington Automobilo 
Club. He married Elizabeth A. Smith, of 
Suffolk, Va., and they have three chil- 
dren. Residence: Stoneleigh Court. 



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NORRIS, GEORGE WILLIAM, lawyer, 
Congressman, was born on a farm in San- 
dusky County, Ohio, July 11, 1861. Lef in 
destitute circumstances when a small boy 
through the death of his father and brotri- 
er in the Civil War, he was forced to sup- 
port his mother 'and self by farm work 
during the summer. He attended the 
common schools during the winter and 
later taught school and paid his own way 
through Baldwin University (Berea, Ohio; 
and the Northern Indiana Normal School. 
He studied law, in 1883, ibeing admitt^ed 
to the b-ar. In 1885, he removed to Ne- 
braska, where he subsequently served 
three times as prosecuting attorney, and 
in 1895, was elected district judge of the 
Fourteenth District, and re-elected in 
1899. He resigned this post when elected 
to Congress in 1903 from the Fifth Ne- 
braska District; has been re-elected to 
subsequent Congresses. Legal residence: 
McCook, Nebraska. Washington address 
House of Representatives. 

NORRIS, JAMES L., lawj^er, was born 
in Washington, D. C, October 15, 1845. 
son of John Edmund and Eliza Tidings 
(Phillips) Norris. He attended Everett 
Institute in this city and was graduated 
fro'm Dickinson College, subsequently 
studying law. For several years he wa^s 
an examiner in the United States Patent 
Office; since 1869 he has been engaged 
in the private practice of his profession, 
specializing as a patent attorney. He was 
a member of the government commissi jn 
to appraise lands condemned by the gov- 
ernment for Rock Creek Park; is presi- 
dent of the Oak Hill Cemetery Company, 
and vice-presid.ent and director of tlie 
National Bank of Washington; Franklin 
Insurance Company; Mutual Protective 
Insurance Company, and other flnancia.l 
and business enterprises; member of the 
Board of Visitors of Children's Hosi)itjl. 
and a director of Providence Hospital, 
was chairman of the Inaugural Committee 
of 1892, and a member of the same In 
1884, 1888, 1892, 1896, 1900 and 1904. He is 
prominently identified with the Demo- 
cratic party, was a delegate to the Nation- 
al Conventions of that party in 1892, 1900 
and 1904; has been a member and treas- 
urer of the Democratic Congressional 
Committee since 1898; member of the 
Democratic National Committee from 1896 
to 1898 and since 1900. He was assistant 
treasurer of that body from 1896 to 1898, 
and treasurer from 1898 to 1900. He mar- 
ried Annie Virginia Robinson in 1867, who 
died in 1895. Residence: 331 C street, n.w. 
Office: Norris Building. 

NORTH, SIMON NEWTON DEXTER, 

director of the United States Census, was 
born at Clinton, N. Y., Nov. 29, 1849, son 
of Dr. Edward and Mary Frances (Dex- 
ter) North. He was graduated from 
Hamilton College, N. Y., in 1869, and has 
received the following honorary degrees; 
A. M. from Hamilton College, LL. D. from 
Bowdoin College (1903), and from the 



University of Illinois in 1904. He became 
managing editor of the Utica Morning 
Herald in 1869, remaining in that position 
until 1886, when he became editor and one 
of the proprietors of the Albany Morning 
Express. In 1880, he was appointed ex- 
pert special agent of the United Slates 
Census on Newspaper and Periodical 
Press, and in 1890, as expert on Wool 
Manufacture. In 1898, he was appoint^.d 
by the President a member of the United 
States Industrial Commission, which post 
he retained until 1899, when he became 
Chief Statistician for Manufactures of 
the Census Bureau, in 1903, he became 
Director of the Census. He was president 
of the New Yo.k State Associated P •e.s-; 
during 1SS5 and 1886; secretary of the 
National Association of Wool Manufactur- 
ers from 1888 to 1903. He is the author 
of History of the American Wool Manu- 
factures; Old Greek — A Memoir of Dr. 
Edward North, and numerous reports of 
the Census Bureau and pamphlets and a.;- 
ticles on industrial and economic subjects. 
He is also editor of the Quarterly Bulle- 
tin of the Wool Manufactures' Associa- 
tion. He is a member of the Alpha Delta 
Phi fraternity; Cosmos Club of Washing- 
ton; St. Botolph and Twentieth Century 
Clubs of Boston; City Club of New Yorn; 
American Statistical Association (vice- 
president); American Economic Associa- 
tion (vice-president): International Sta- 
tistical Institute, etc. In politics he is a 
Republican. He married Lillial Sill Coni- 
stock, on July 8, 1875. Residence: 1414 
Twenty-first street, n.w. Office Bureau 
of Census. 

NORTHROP, CLAUDIAN B., lawyer. 
was born in South Carolina, October 
1865. He was admitted to the bar 
of the Supreme Court of South Carolina, 
December 14, 1886, and to that of the 
Supreme Court of the United States, 
March 14, 1898. He practiced in Charles- 
ton, S. C, till 1903, when he became spe- 
cial attorney to the Southern Railway 
Company, in charge of rate litigation, and 
matters involving Interstate Commerce. 
He is a Cleveland Imperialistic Gold 
Democrat. Residence: Chevy Chase, Md. 
Office: 1300 Pennsylvania avenue. 

NORTON, CHARLES STUART, Rear- 
Admiral, U. S. N. (retired), was born in 
Albany, New York, August 10, 1836. He 
was graduated from the United States 
Naval Academy in 1855; became PaiS'^d 
Midshipman and Master in 1858; was pro- 
moted, to Lieutenant in 1860; commis- 
sioned Lieutenant-Commander in 1862; 
advanced to Commander in 1870; pro- 
moted to Captain in 1881; commisslon'^.d 
Commodore in 1894 and Rear-Admiral in 
1897, and retired in 1898. During the 
Civil War, he served with the Navy be- 
fore Charleston, South Carolina; at 
Hampton Roads and subsequent Naval 
engagement at Port Royal, South Caro- 
lina, and on the blockading fleets of the 
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Since the wat he has been in command of 
a number of vessels and served on various 
Naval Boards, etc. From 1894 to 1896, 
he commanded, as Rear-Admiral, the 
South Atlantic Station; from 1896 to 1838 
he was Commandant of the Washington 
Navy Yard. He is a member of the Metro- 
politan Club. Admiral Norton married 
Mary E. Pentz on March 29, 1872.Address: 
Navy Department. 

NOTT, CHARLES COOPER, formprly 

Chief Justice of the Court of Claims, was 
born in Schenectady, N. Y., September 
16, 1827, son of Joel Benedict and Mar- 
garet Taylor (Cooper) Nott. He wad 
graduated from Union College in 1848, 
with the degree of A. B., and studied law 
in the office of John V. L. Pruyn, Esq., 
being admittted to the bar in 1850. Ha 
began the practice of his profession in 
New York and continued until the Civil 
War, when he became Captain of the 
Fifth Iowa Cavalry, and, subsequently 
Colonel of the 176th New York Volunteers 
He was a prisoner of war in Texas for 
over a year. On Feb. 22, 1865, he was 
appointed by President Lincoln, Judge of 
the Court of Claims, and on November 
23, 1896, President Cleveland made, him 
Chief Justice of that court. He retired 
on December 31, 1905. He is the author 
of several books, and editor of a number 
of others. He is a member of the Pres- 
byterian Chu;ch; the Washington I'hi!- 
osophical Society and the Loyal Legion. 
In 1874, he received the honorary degree 
of LL. D. f rom Williams Colltge. He w.^.s 
a trustee of Union College from 1868 to 
1882. On Oct. 22, 1867, he married Alice 
Effingham, daughter of President Mark 
Hopkins. Residence: Princeton, N. J. 

NOYES, CROSBY STUART, journalist, 
editor-in-chief of the Washington Even- 
ing Star, was born in Minot, Me., on Feb. 
16, 1825, and very early in life decided 
upon a journalistic career. His first 
impetus in this direction was given by the 
Yankee Blade of Boston, which published 
a dialect sketch written by him when but 
a youth. He then became a regular con- 
tributor to the papers of his native state, 
and impelled by delicate health, removed 
to Washington in 1847. Soon after hi.s 
arrival in Washington, he corresponded 
for Lewiston, Maine, Boston a.nd Phila- 
delphia papers. In 1855, he traveled Eu- 
rope on foot, and contributed a series jt 
letters to the Boston Transcript. After 
the close of the same year he returned to 
Washington and secured a place on the 
reportorial staff of the Evening Star, and 
was promoted until he reached the posi- 
tion of assistant editor. In 1867, he, in 
associition with Mr. Samuel H. Kauff- 
mann, organized a company for the Pur- 
chase of the Star, and was elected editor- 
in-chief, which position he has since 
maintained. He supported Governor 
Shepherd's regime for the beautification 
of the capital, and served with him in the 
City Council of 1863. He also served a 



couple of terms as alderman, and was 
active in the establishment of Rock Creek 
Park. He has also been an extensive 
traveler in all parts of the old and new 
world, descriptions and impressions of 
which have appeared from time to time 
in the Star. In 1856, he married Eliza- 
beth S., daughter of Rev. Thomas Wil- 
liams of Maine, and has four children 
living: Theodore W., associate editor- 
in-chief of the Star; Frank B., editot and 
publisher of the Chicago Record-Herald: 
Thomas C, city editor of the Star, and 
Mira C, now Mrs. George W. Boyd, -^f 
Philadelphia. City residence: 1730 Ne/V 
Hampshire avenue; country residence: Al- 
ton Farm, Maryland. Office: Evening 
Star Building. 

NOYES, FRANK BRETT, journalist, 
was iborn in Washington, D. C, July 7, 
1863, son of Crosby S. and Elizabeth S 
Noyes, and was educated in the prepara- 
tory department of the Columbian Univer- 
sity. He was manager of the Washing- 
ton Star from 1881 to 1901, and has been 
president of the Associated Press since 
June 1900, and editor of the Chicago 
Record-Herald since 1902. He has been 
a director of the Executive Committee of 
the Associated Press since 1894. He irf 
a member of the Chicago, Chicago Golf, 
Saddle and Cycle, Union, City and Midday 
Clubs of Chicago, and Chevy Chase Club, 
Washington, D. C. On Sept. 17, 1888, he 
married, at Washington, Janet Thurston 
Newbold. Address: Record-Herald, Ch.- 
cago, Illinois. 

NOYES, HENRY E., Brigadier-General 
(retired) was born at Belfast, Maine, Au- 
gust 23, 'lS39, son of Henry and Rebecca 
(Tyler) Noyes. He was graduated from 
the United States Military Academy in 
1861 and was commissioned a Second 
Lieutenant of Artillery; promoted to First 
Lieutenant of Cavalry in 1862; was 
brevetted Captain for bravery in 1863; 
commissioned Captain in 1865; brevetted 
Major in 1865; advanced to Major in 1879; 
made Lieutenant-Colonel, July 1, 1891; 
promoted to Colonel May 31, 1898 and 
retired in 1901, later being advanced to 
the grade of Brigadier-General, retired. 
He fought throughout the Civil War and 
subsequently served in numerous Indian 
campaigns in the West; during the Span- 
ish-American War he served at Chicka- 
mauga, Mobile and Tampa, and later in 
Cuba. General Noyes is the author of 
Noyes' Genealogy. On July 2, 1864, he 
married Louise W. Walker. Address: 
San Francisco, California, or War Depart- 
•ment. 

NOYES, ISAAC PITMAN, author, was 
born in New York, N. Y., April 13, 1840, 
son of John Updyke and Frances S^ott 
(Updyke) Noyes. He was educated in 
the public and high schools of Providence, 
R. I., and partially completed a course 
at Brown University, expecting to become 
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war of the rebellion as a private in Ba' - 
tery H., First Rhode Island Artill-ry, and 
was mustered out on June 28, 1865. For 
a number of years he has bef^n employ^i 
as a clerk in the Library, Office of the 
Surgeon-General, War Department. Sin e 
1870, he has been writing, and his worfo 
include more than sixty pamphlets- 
dramas, reminiscences, meteorlogicc""' 
topics, fine arts essays, architectural ar- 
ticles, theological, etc. He is a thirty - 
third degree and Scottish Rite Mason. He 
is a member of the National Geographic 
Society; New York Geographical Society; 
Anthropological Society: American 

Academy 'of Political and Social Science, 
etc. On November 9, 1870, he- marri'^d 
Elizabeth Anthony, who has since died. 
Residence: 409 Fourth street, s.e. 

NOYES, THEODORE WILLIAMS, edi- 
tor, was born in Washington, D. C. Jan- 
uary 26, 18B8. son of Crosby S. and Eliza- 
beth S. (Williams) Noyes. He attended 
the public schools and won the Amos 
Kendall scholarship to Columbian (now 
George Washington) University in 187), 
graduating from the University in 187"", 
and from the Law Department of the 
same in 1882. He has received the fol- 
lowing honorary degrees from Columbian 
University; A. k. in 1877; LL. B. in 1882; 
and LL. M. in 1883. From 1877 to 1831, 
he was a reporter on the Washington 
Evening Star; from 1883 to 1887 he waa 
eneaged in th'=^ practice of law at SiouK 
Palls, South Dakota, as a member of the 
firm of Boyce, Noyes & Boyce. Sines 
1887, he has been associate editot-in- 
chief of the Washington Star; trea'^urer 
of the Evening Star Company, 1902- 
1906; president since 1906. He is a di- 
rector of the Washington Loan and Trust 
Company; Union Savings Bank; Realty 
Appraisal Agency Company; District and 
Washington Titl? Insurance Companies, 
and of other financial and business in- 
stitutions. He his been a director of the 
Washington Board of Trade since 1891; 
was president in 1897 and 1898. since 1S96 
has been president of the Board of Trus- 
tees of the Washington Public Library; 
trustee of George Wa.<^hington University, 
and formerly president of the Alumni As- 
sociation of that institution; trustee and 
chancellor. Cathedral Foundation of Dis- 
trict of Columbia. He was elected as a 
Republican to a judgeship while at Sioux 
Falls; and participated as a member of 
this party in the presidential campaigns of 
1896, 1900 and 1904. In 1900 he contributed 
much of the campaign literature. He is the 
author of The National Capital; News- 
paper Libels; Notes of Travel; War of the 
Metals; Finances of the National Capi- 
tal; Partnership Conditions in the Philip- 
pines; Oriental America and Its Problems, 
and a large number of articles, editorials, 
and general newspaptr contributions. 
On Aug. 11, 1886, he married Mary E. 
Prentice. Residence: 1730 New Hamp- 
shire avenue. Offlce: Evening Star Build- 
ing. 



NOYES, THOMAS CLARENCE, news 
manager of the Washington Star, was 
born in Washington, D. C, on January 
14, 1868, son of Crosby S. and Elizabeth 
S. (Williams) Noyes. After obtaining 
his preparatory education in the Wash- 
ington public schools and Wight's 
Academy, he entered Princeton Univer- 
sity, from which he was graduated witn 
the class of 1889. Since his graduation 
from college, he has been engaged in 
newspaper work, as reporter, assistan; 
city editor, city editor and news mana- 
ger, all on the Washington Star. During 
the last two Republican conventions he 
was a delegate from Miaryland. He is a 
director in the Evening Star Newspaper 
Company, Columbia Nacional Bank, and 
other leading financial enterprises of 
Washington. He is a member of all 
Masonic orders. Chamber of Commerce. 
TTniversity and Chevy Chase Clubs of 
Washington, Princeton Club of New York 
and the Nassau Club of Princeton. He 
is a member of the Pre^bvterian Churcii, 
and in politics, a Republican. On Sept. 
^. 189.f>. he married Dorothy Ros-ers of 
Mansfield, Ohio. Residence: 1800 Con- 
necticut avenue. Office: Star Building. 

NOYES. WILLIAM ALBERT, chemist, 
was born at Independence, Buchanan 
County, Iowa, Novembe- 6. 1857, son of 
Snencer W. and Mary (Paokard) Noyes. 
He attended the district schools of Iowa, 
and was graduated with the degrees of A. 
B. and B. S. from Iowa College in 1879; 
also from Johns Hopkins University, In 
1882, with tbat of Ph. D. He also com- 
pleted a special course at the University 
of Munich in 1889. From 1883 to 1886 
he was professor of chemistry at the 
University of Tennessee; at Rose Poly- 
technic Institute in a similar capacity, 
1886 to 1903; from 1903 to August 31, 
1907, he was chemist in the Bureau of 
Standards. On September 1, 1907, he be- 
came professor of chemistry in chage of 
the Laboratory in the University of Illi- 
nois. Since 1902 he has been editor of 
'the Journal of the American Chemical 
S'ociety. He is the author of Qualitative 
Analysis; Organic Chemistry for the 
Laboratory; Text Book of Organic Chem- 
istry, and a number of scientific and 
technical papers on chemistry and iti 
various phases. He is a member of the 
American Association for the Advance- 
ment of Science (was chairman of the 
chemical section in 1896), and is a former 
president of the Indiana Academy of 
Sciences. He has been twice married; 
first to Flora B. Collier 'Orn December 
24, 1884, who died in 1902; and on June 
18, 1903, to Mattie L. Elwell. Address; 
Urbana, 111. 

NYE, FRANCIS, assistant district as- 
sessor, was born May 7, 1870, son oC 
Luther B. and Helen S. (Puffer) Nye, 
He to'ok a course in the Colli ge of Com- 
merce, and was first employed in the 
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the Capital, the Army and Navy Regis- 
ter, the U. S. Government Advertiser and 
the National Democrat, then becoming 
correspondence clerk for James L. Bar- 
bour and Son. He was made LL. B. and 
LL.. M. by Columbian Uiversi'ty, and was 
president of his class, later taking a post- 
graduate course at the Columbian Uni- 
versity Medical School. He was secretary 
to the District Commissioners July 1 
1895 and so remained until appointed 
to his present position. He is a Knigiit 
Templar and a Mystic Shriner. He mai- 
ried Celia Mayse, of Emporia, Kansas. 
Residence: 1507 Park street, >n.w. Office: 
District Building. 

NYE, FRANK E., Assistant Commis- 
sary General, U. S. A., was born in Maine, 
and graduated from the United Stale? 
Military Academy in 1869. He was com- 
missioned a Second Lieutenant the same 
year and until 1873, served at variou.3 
army posts on the western frontier; at 



that time he resigned to enter the insur- 
ance business, remaining in civil life 
until 1884, when he became Captain and 
Commissary of subsistence; was pro- 
moted to Major in 1896; made Lieuten- 
ant-Colonel and Assistant Commissary 
General in 1898; Colonel, United States 
Volunteers in 1898; and since 1901, has 
been Colonel and Assistant Commissary 
General. Address: War Department. 

NYE, FRANK M., Congressman. In No- 
vember, 1906, he was elected to the Six- 
tieth Congress as a Republican from the 
Fifth Minnesota Congressional District. 
Legal residence: Minneapolis, Minn. 
Washington address: House of Represent- 
atives. 

NYMAN, CHARLES E., secretary jf 
the National Safe Deposit, Savings and 
Trust Company. Residence: 1515 S 
street, n.w. Office: Fifteenth street and 
New York avenue, n.w. 



OBALDIA, JOSE DOMINGO DE 

Minister from the Republic of Panama 
to the United States, was born at David, 
Panama, January 30, 1845, son of Jose 
and Ana (Gallegos) de Obaldia. He at- 
tended various schools in Panama, and 
the Institute de Cristo at Bogota, Co- 
lumbia and French School, New Haven. 
Conn., 'also, during 1868, Bernard's School 
in New York. He engaged in husiness 
with his father in 1869, and at present 
has large interests in his Republic, in- 
aluding cattle, mule, and horse breeding 
and exportation. During the period that 
Panama was a dependency of Columbia, 
Senor de Obaldia was a Colonel in the 
army; was Senator for two terms, and 
subsequently, governor of Panama. Since 
the independence of the Republic, in 1903, 
he has been second vice-president of the 
Republic and Minister to the United 
States. In religion he is a Moderate Cath- 
olic. He has been twice married — in 1874, 
to Manuela Jovane, and in 1899, to Josefa 
Jovane. Residence: Legation of Panama. 

OBERHOLSER, HARRY CHURCH, 

ornithologist, was born at Brooklyn, N. 
Y., June 25, 1870, son of Jacob and La- 
vera S. Oberholser. He attended private 
schools at Red Bank, N. J., from 1880 
to 1885; studied lat Pratt's Preparatory 
School, Shelburne Falls, Mass., from 1886 
to 1888, and entered Columbia University 
in 1889, later abandoning his course by 
reason of ill-health. Since 1895 he has 
been assistant ornithologist of the Biolog- 
ical Survey of the Department of Agri- 
culture; since 1904, lecturer on zoology 
at the Biltmore Forest School, Biltmore, 
N. C; public lecturer on popular and 
scientific subjects. He is the author of 
a number of ornithological books, and 



has edited several scientific books. He 
ihas been engaged in the scientific inves- 
tigation of technical ornithology relating 
to all parts of the world. He is a Fellow 
of the American Association for the Ad- 
vancement of Science and of the Ameri- 
can Ornithologists' Union; member of 
the Foreign Bird Club (England); Avicul- 
tural Society (England); South African 
Ornithologists' Union; Bombay Society 
of Natural History (India); British Orni- 
thologists' Union (foreign member); 
corresponding member Linnean Society 
of New York; member of the National 
Geographic Society; Biological Society of 
Washington; Wasihington Academy of 
Sciences; Australasian Ornithologists' Un- 
ion, etc. In politics, he is a Republican; 
and in religion, a Methodist, and a leader 
of the Metropolitan Bible Class of the 
Metropolitan Memorial M. E. Church. 
Unmarried. Residence: 1349 Harvard 
street, n.w. 

O'BRIEN, JAMES M., clergyman, rec- 
tor of St. Peter's Catholic Church. Resi- 
dence: 313 Second street, s.e. 

O'BYRNE, DON GABRIEL, Counselor, 
Colombian Legation. Address: 1312 
Twenty-first street. 

O'CONNELL, DENNIS J., (S. T. D.7 

Right Reverend, member of the Board of 
Trustees and Library Committee of the 
Catholic University of America. Address: 
The Catholic University of America. 

O'CONNELL, JOHN F., congressman, 
He was elected to the Sixtieth Congress 
in November, 1906, from the Tenth Con- 
gressional District of Massachusetts on 
the Democratic ticket. Legal residence; 



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Boston, Mass. Washington address: House 
of Representatives. 

O'CONNELL, MAURICE D., solicitor 
of tlie United States Treasury, was -born 
at Constable, Franklin County, New York, 
Ap;il 23, 1839 and educated at Franklin 
Academy, Malone, New York, and Co- 
lumbian (now George Washington) Uni- 
versity. He was graduated from the 
latter in 1866. In 1867 Mr. O'Connell was 
chief of a division in the office of the 
Comptroller of the Treasury; f. om 1868 
to 1869 was employed by the San Antonio 
(Texas) National Bank; started the prac- 
tice of law at Fort Dodge, Iowa, in 1869; 
was district attorney for the Eleventh 
District from 1872 to 1879; United States 
Attorney for the Northern Iowa District 
from 1883 to 1885, and from 1889 to 1893. 
Since 1897 he has been solicitor of the 
Treasury. Mr. O'Connell married Ellen 
P. Cook on November 10, 1869. Resi- 
dence: The Woodley. Office: Treasury 
Department. 

O'CONNELL, PATRICK J., clergyman, 
rector of St. Vincent de Paul's Catholic 
Church. Residence: 1201 South Capitol 
street. 

OFFTERDINGER, HENRY T., manu- 
facturer, was born at Lynchburg, Va., 
October 16, 1865, son of Gustave G. and 
Adaline (Wachter) Offterdinger. His 
grandfather was burgomaster of the city 
of Boeblingen, Wurttemberg. He attended 
the public schools of Lynchburg until 
1878, and the Spencerian College of Wash- 
ington during 1879. He entered the cigar 
business, and is at present the largest 
manufacturer in Washington, 'and general 
manager of the Tobacco Improvement 
Company. He is also president of the 
Patent Fin Hot Water Heating Company, 
for the manufacture of a patent of his 
own; is a director of the Lincoln National 
Bank, etc. He was elected treasurer of 
the Vermont State Association in 1904 
and re-elected each year since; was 
treasurer of the Young Men's Democratic 
Club in 1896; president of 'the Cigar 
Dealer's Protective Association in 1904; 
and has served on numerous committees 
of the Inaugural Central Committee. He 
is the inventor of the Flat Head Cigar. 
He is a Mason, a member of Columbia 
Lodge, No. 3, F. A. A. M.; Lafayette 
Chapter No. 5; Columbia Commandery 
No. 2, and the Almas Temple of the 
Mystic Shrine. On June 7, 1892 he mar- 
ried Alice May Templeton, of Montpelier, 
Vt. Residence: 913 L street, n. w. Busi- 
ness address: 504 Ninth street, n. w. 

OGDEN. HERBERT GOUVERNEUR, 

hydrographer and topographer, was born 
in New York City, April 4, 1846, son of 
Morgan Lewis and Eliza Glendy (Mc- 
Laughlin) Ogden. He was educated at 
private schools and by a tutor and en- 
tered the United States Coast and Geo- 
detic Survey in 1863 as an aid. In 1869 he 



was promoted to assistant, and since 1898 
has been Inspector of Hydrography and 
Topography. During the Civil War he 
served with both the Army and Navy, 
with the former in determining the de- 
fenses of Washington; and with the latter 
in 1864 on the bays and sounds of North 
Carolina. In 1865, he was identified with 
the Nicaragua exploration; in 1870 was 
topographer with the naval exploring party 
to the Isthmus of Darlen; in 1893 was 
in eharge of the party which fixed the 
boundary line between British Columbia 
and Alaska. He is a member of the 
United States Board of Geographic 
Names and is an eminent authority on 
topography, chartology, etc. Mr. Ogden 
is the author of numerous scientific ar- 
ticles contributed to magazines, and has 
written for cyclopedias. He is a member 
of the National Geographic Society; 
Washington Academy of Sciences; fellow 
of the American Association for the Ad- 
vancement of Science; member the Philo- 
sophical Society of Washington, etc. On 
May 28, 1872 he married Mary A. Greene. 
Residence: 1324 Nineteenth street, n. w. 
Office: Coast and Geodetic Survey. 

OGILVIE, ROBERT WALTER FIND- 
LATER, (the Right Honorable and Lord), 
lawyer, was born in Banffshire, Scotland, 
August 6, 1860. He attended Princeton 
University, graduating with the d grees 
of A. B. and A. M., later graduating from 
Columbian (now George Washington) 
University with the degrees of LL. B. 
and LL. M.; also being a graduate of 
the Universtiy of Virginia. He has been 
admitted to practice before the bar of 
the Supreme Court of the United States 
and the courts of the District of Co- 
lumbia. Lord Ogilvie is a Scottish Peer, 
bearing also the titles of Lord of Banff, 
and heir to the Earldom of Findlater. On 
January 30, 1902 he married Irmasule 
Bledsoe Desha Harman, the youngest 
daughter of the late Colonel Bledsoe 
Desha Harman, of Kentucky, a distin- 
guished cavalry officer of the Confederacy, 
and Mary Loftin, a former famous belle 
of Tennessee. Lady Ogilvie is a lineal 
descendant of General Isaac Shelby, first 
Governor of Kentucky; a great grand- 
daughter of General Joseph Desha, also 
a governor of Kentucky; and a great- 
great-granddaughter of General Isaac 
Bledsoe, the famous Indian fighter. Revo- 
lutionary General and one of the early 
governors of Tennessee. Residence: 127 
C street, s.e. Office: Washington Loan 
and Trust Building. 

OHL, J. KINGSLEY, (Mrs.) see An- 
nulet Andrews. 

OHL, JOSIAH KINGSLEY, journalist, 
was born at Brownsville, Pa., July 31, 
1863, son of Rev. Dr. John Franklin OhI. 
He attended Kenyon College, and en- 
tered newspaper work on the staff of 
the Atlanta Constitution in 1887. He 
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tor, dramatic critic, night managing editor, 
assistant managing editor, editor, and 
Washington correspondent of that news- 
paper. From 1896 to 1906, 'he was Wash- 
ington correspondent of the Constitution 
and of the London Daily Telegraph; in 
October, 1906 he became editor of the 
Atlanta section of Ridgway's; subse- 
quently Washington correspondent for 
that paper. Mr. Ohl has made a special 
study of American and foreign political 
affairs; and made a tour of the world for 
the Atlanta Constitution. He is a mem- 
ber of the Gridiron Club. In 1889 he mar- 
ried Maude Annulet Andrews. Residence: 
Cleveland Park. 

OLCOTT, JACOB VAN VECHTEN, 

lawyer, congressman, was born in New 
York City, May 17, 1856, and educated in 
the public schools and at the College of 
the City of New York. He was graduated 
from Columbia Law School with the de- 
gree of LL. B. in 1877; was a member of 
the Board of Civil Service Commissioners 
in New York City from 1895 to 1897, and 
was elected to the Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth 
Congresses from the Fifteenth New York 
District. He received the honorary de- 
gree of LL. D. from Kenyon College, 
Gambler, Ohio, in 1905. He married 
Laura I. Hoffman. April 19, 1882. Legal 
residence: New York City. Washington 
address: Sheridan Circle. 

OLIVER, ROBERT SHAW, Assistant 
Secretary'- of War since 1903, was born in 
Boston, Mass. He served in the Civil War 
and later became an officer in the regular 
army. Subsequently be served as Civil 
Service Commissioner and Police Com- 
missioner at Albany, N. Y. He was form- 
erly engaged in iron manufacture at Al- 
bany, and is identified with other business 
and financial institutions. Residence: 
1753 N street. Office: War Department. 

OLMSTED, FREDERICK E., forester, 
General Inspector of the Forest Service, 
U. S. Department of Agriculture. Resi- 
dence: The Marlborough. Office: Atlantic 
Building. 

OLMSTED, MARLIN EDGAR, lawyer, 
congressman, was born in Ulysses Town- 
ship, Potter County, Penn., and educated 
in the public schools and at Couderport 
Academy. He served as Assistant Corpo- 
ration Cle-k for a year, then became Cor- 
poration Clerk in charge of the collection 
of corporation taxes; studied law, and in 
1878 was admitted to the bar. He was ad- 
mitted to practice by the Supreme Court 
of Pennsylvania in 1881, and by the Unit- 
ed States Supreme Cou't in 1884. He was 
elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress from 
the Eighteenth Pennsylvania District, and 
has since been re-elected. He received 
the honorary degree cf LL. D. from Leb- 
anon Valley College in 1903, and from 
Dickinson College in 1905. On October 
26, 1899 he married Gertrude Howard. 



Legal residence: Harrisburg, Pa. Wash- 
ington address: House of Representatives. 

OLMSTED, VICTOR HUGO, statistic- 
ian, was born at Marion, O., March 3, 
1853, son of Edwin B. and Adelia J. 
Olmsted. He attended Columbian (now 
George Washington) University, and in 
1884 was admitted to the bar. He was 
employed as Chief of the Division of 
Results for the Tenth Census; from 1883 
to 1889 he was expert in the General 
Land Office, to decide land contests of 
the government; from 1889 to 1901 was 
Expert Statistician with the Department 
of Labor, and in 1899 was Assistant Di- 
rector of the Cuban Census. Mr. Olm- 
sted conducted an investigation of labor 
conditions in Hawaii in 1900-1901; be- 
came Commissioner of the National Metal 
Trades Association in 1901, but resigned 
in 1902 by reason of ill health. In 1901, 
he became Assistant Statistician and 
Field Investigator for the United States 
Department of Agriculture; in 1904 he 
was Assistant Director in the Govern- 
mental Census of the Philippines; and in 
1904 was made Chief of the Division of 
Domestic Crop Reports of the Agricul- 
tural Departm-^nt. In 1905 he was As- 
sociate Statistician, and in 1906. Chief 
of the Bureau of Statistics, Department 
of Agriculture. In 1907 he was Director 
of the Census of Cuba, on April 13, 1873 
he married Nannie E. Patton. Residence: 
Clarendon, Va. Office: Department of 
Agriculture. 

O'MALLEY, MARY, physician, is the 
only woman ever attached to the Govern- 
ment Hospital for the Insane, having been 
appointed September, 1905. She is a na- 
tive of Buffalo, N. Y., and after a public 
school education, studied medicine at the 
Buffalo Medical College and was grad- 
uated with honors in 1897. She was at- 
tached for seven years to the Hospital 
for the Insane at Binghamton, N. Y., 
where she had the sole care of the pa- 
tients. Under a competitive examination 
held by the U. S. Civil Service Commis- 
sion, she qualified as number 2 out of 
several hundred competitors. She has 
the general supervision of all the women 
patients, and the direct care of certain 
insane cases and surgical work. Address: 
Government Hospital for the Insane. 

O'NEIL, CHARLES, Rear Admiral. U. 
S. Navy (retired), was born in Manches- 
ter, England, March 15, 1842. son of John 
and Mary Ann (Francis) O'Neil. With 
his parents he removed to America in 
1847; he was educated in the public 
schools of Roxbury, Mass., but left at the 
age of seventeen to become a sailor be- 
fore the mast. On his second voyage he 
was wrecked in the Indian Ocean and 
being rescued and brought to Mauritius; 
became employed as a clerk at that place 
to the American consul. In 1861 he re- 
turned to New York. At the beginning 
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States Navy and served throughout the 
war, on board the Cumberland, and after 
her destruciton by the Merrimac, on va- 
rious vesels. He was rapidly promoted, 
and in 1867 passed an examination for 
officership in the regular navy. In 1879 
he was Ordnance Officer at Boston; in 
1884 in charge of steei gun manufacture 
at Cold Spring, New York; in 1886 In- 
spector of Ordnance at the New York 
Navy Yard. Prom 1890 to 1892 he was 
Superintendent of the Naval Gun Fac- 
tory at Washington, D. C; then served 
on various vessels as commanding officer; 
in 1896 again became Superintendent of 
the Naval Gun Factory; in 1897 was pro- 
moted to Captain and made Chief of the 
Bureau of Ordnance. During his occu- 
pancy of this position he induced the 
government to establish a smokeless pow. 
der factory, and instituted numerous re- 
forms and beneficial changes in navy 
ordnance. On December 31, 1903 he was 
promoted to Rear Admiral, and retired 
as such on March 15, 1904. After his 
retirement he was on special duty for 
the Navy Department and traveled ex- 
tensively abroad in its interest. He mar- 
ried in 1869 Mary C. frothingham. Ad- 
miral O'Neil is a member of the Protest- 
ant Episcopal Church and of the Metro- 
politan, Army and Navy and Chevy 
Chase Clubs, and of the Republican party. 
Address: Navy Department. 

ORCUTT, WARREN H., Chief Clerk 
in the office of the Inspector General of 
the Army, was born at Milford, Maine, in 
1839. He entered Colby College at Wat- 
erville. Me., in the fall of 1860, but left 
the following Spring to enter the Second 
Maine Regiment, the first to leave the 
state for the front. He was severely 
wounded at Prederickshurg, Va., and left 
the army to accept a clerical position in 
the War Department In 1863, and has 
since continuosly served there. After 
twelve years, he was transferred from 
the office of Secretary, and became Chief 
Clerk in the office of the Inspector Gen- 
eral. During the Spanish War he was 
highly recommended for appointment as 
Major and Inspector of Volunteers, and 
for two years relinquished his duties as 
Chief Clerk in the Inspector General's 
office, for service as Chief Clerk in the 
office of the Superintendent of Buildings. 
He is eminent commander of the Wash- 
ington Commandery of Knights Templar. 
Residence: 509 East Capitol street. Of- 
fice: War Department. 

O'REILLY, ROBERT MAITLAND, Sur- 
geon-General. U. S. A., was born in Phil- 
adelphia, Pa., January 14, 1845, son of 
John and Ellen (Maitland) O'Reilly. He 
was graduated from the medical depart- 
ment of the University of Pennsylvania 
in 1866. In 1864 he entered the Medical 
Department of the Army; was promoted 
to Assistant Surgeon in 1867; commis- 
sioned Captain and Assistant Surgeon in 
1870; promoted to Major and Surgeon 
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November 1, 1886; made Lieutenant- Col- 
onel and Deputy Surgeon-General, Feb- 
ruary 21, 1900; advanced to Colonel and 
Assistant Surgeon-General, February 14, 
1902, and, on September 7, 1902, made 
Brigadier-General and Surgeon- General. 
He served in the Spanish- American War 
as Lieutenant-Colonel, U. S. V., and Chief 
Surgeon. General O'Reilly is a member of 
the Roman Catholic Church, the Metro- 
politan Club, Chevy Chase Club, Loyal 
Legion, University and Pacific Clubs of 
San Francisco; Reform Club, of New 
York, etc. On August 16, 1877 he mar- 
ried Frances L. Pardee. Address: War 
Department. 

ORME, WILLIAM B., Treasurer of the 

Washington Gas Light Co. Residence: 
1623 Twenty-eighth street, n.w. Office: 
411 Tenth street, n.w. 

OSBORN, ALBERT, clergyman, Regis- 
trar of the American University, was 
born at Oak Hill (Durham) Greene 
CountJ^ N. Y., December 2. 1849, son of 
Ransom and Amanda (Allen) Osborn. 
He attended the common schools of Oak 
Hill, and the Lockport Union School from 
1863 to 1868, and was graduated from Cor- 
nell University in 1872, with the degree 
of A. B., and in 1877, from the Drew 
Theological Seminary, with tnat of B. D. 
From 1877 to 1891, he served as pastor 
of various churches in Erie and Niagara 
Counties, N. Y., and since the latter date 
has been Registrar of the American Uni- 
versity in this city. He is the author of 
The Life of John Fletcher Hurst, a biog- 
raphy. On May 11, 1878, he married 
Phoebe J. Rosekrans. Residence: 1205 
Kenyon street, n.w. 

OSBORNE, JOHN BALL, lawyer. Chief 
Bureau of Trade Relations, State De- 
partment, was born at Wilkesbarre, Pa., 
June 24, 1868, son of General Edwin 
Sylvanus and Ruth A. (Ball) Osborne. 
He prepared for college at Harry Hill- 
man Academy at WIlkes-Barre and was 
graduated from Yale University in 1889, 
with the degree of A. B., later studying 
law in his father's office. In 1894 he re- 
ceived the honorary degree of M. A., from 
Yale University for his work in economics. 
He was admitted to the county bar in 
1895 and to the Philadelphia bar the same 
year. He practiced his ^profession In 
Philadelphia until 1896, when he removed 
to Scranton and continued the same 
there. From 1889 to 1894 he was United 
States Consul at Ghent, Belgium; he was 
Joint Secretary of the Reciprocity Com- 
mission from 1897 to 1905, and since May 
17, 1905 has been Chief of the Bureau of 
Trade Relations of the State Department; 
lecturer on the Consular Service in Col- 
lege of the Politcal Sciences, in George 
Washington University 1907-08. He has 
made a study of tarlfC and foreign trade 
relations, and Is an authority on these 
subjects, and a frequent contributor to 
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The Story of Arlington; and Reciprocity 
in the American Tariff System. He is a 
member of the Zeta Psi fraternity, (vice- 
president of the District Association in 
1905-1907); Society of Sons of the Rev- 
olution (on Board of Managers in 1905); 
Military Order of the Loyal Legion; Yale 
Alumni Association .of the District (on 
Executive Committee in 1906-OS); Univer- 
sity Club (charter member), etc. Re- 
publican. On October l, 1S91 he married 
Bertha Josephine Grinnell. Residence: 
2116 Connecticut avenue. Office: State 
Department. 

OSGOOD, WILFRED HUDSON, biolo- 
gist, was born at Rochester, Stafford 
County, N. H., December 8, 1875, son of 
M. H. and Harriet A. (Harker) Osgood. 
He attended the public schools of Santa 
Clara and the University of the Pacific 
and was graduated from Leland Stanford 
University in 1899. Since 1897 he has 
been Assistant Biologist of the Biolgical 
Su:vey, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 
and since 1899 in charge of biological re- 
search in Alaska. He is the author of a 
number of books, monographs and re- 
ports on biological and natural history 
subjects, and is a member of the Sigma 
Chi fraternity; Cosmos Club; American 
Ornithologists Union; National Geo- 
graphic Society; Fellow American Asso- 
ciation for the Advancement of Science; 
Washington Academy of Sciences; Bio- 
logical Society of Washington (secretary 
since 1900); Washington Biologists' Field 
Club (president 1904-1905); founded Coop- 
er Ornithological Club of California, and 
was its first president. He is unmarried. 
Residence 818 Seventeenth street, n.w. 
Office: Department of Agriculture. 

OTIS, ELWELL, STEPHEN, Major- 
General U. S. A., (retired), was born at 
Frederick City, Md., Marcn 25, 1838, son 
of William and Mary A. C. (Late) Otis. 
He was graduated from the University of 
Rochester in 1858 and from the Harvard 
Law School in 1861. At the outbreak of 
the Civil War he became Captain of the 
One Hundred and Fortieth New York 
Volunteers; was promoted to Lieutenant- 
Colonel of that regiment in 1863, and sub- 
sequently Colonel. In 1865 he was mus- 
tered out because of wounds; he received 
b;evets of Colonel and Brigadier-General 
for distinguished bravery. On January 
28, 1866, he was appointed Lieutenant- 
Colonel in the regular army; was brevetted 
Feb uary 8, 1880; advanced to Brigadier- 
General. November 28, 1893; promoted to 
Major-General of Volunteers May 4, 1898, 
and advanced to the same rank in the 
regular army on June 16, 1900. He was 
retired in 1902. He was in charge of the 
mobilization and transportation of troops 
to the Philippines in 1898, and command- 
ed the Department of the Philippines and 
was Military Governor from 1S98 to 
1900. In 1899, member of the Philinpincs 
Commission. From 1900 to the time of 



his retirement he was commander of the 
Department of the Lakes. General 0..is 
received the honorary degree of Lli. D. 
from the University of Rochester in 1900. 
Address: Rochester, N. Y., or War De- 
partment. 

OTJEN, THEOBOLD, congressman, 
was born in West China, St. Clair County, 
Michigan, October 27, IS51, and educated 
at the Marine City (Mich.) Academy, and 
at a private school in Detroit. From 1870 
to 1872, he was foreman of a rolling mill 
at Milwaukee; he then entered the law 
department of the University of Miclii- 
gan from whence he was graduated in 
1875. He was admitted to the bar the 
same year, and practiced his profession 
In Detroit until 1883, when he removed 
to Milwaukee, Wis., and has since re- 
sided there, practicing law and being en- 
gaged in the real estate business. He 
was for seven years a member of the 
Common Council of Milwaukee; Trustee 
of the City Public Library from 1891 to 
1894; elected to the Fifty-fourth Con- 
gress (and subsequently re-elected to all 
Congresses following including the Fifty- 
ninth) from the Fourth Wisconsin Dis- 
trict. Legal residence: Milwaukee, Wis. 
Washington address: House of Repre- 
sentatives. 

OULAHAN, RICHARD VICTOR, jour- 
nalist, was born in Washington. D. C, 
May 23, 1867, son of Richard and Mary 
(Proud) Oulahan. He attended Wash- 
ington public schools and private acade- 
mies, and entered newspaper work in 1886, 
with the Washington Critic. In Septem- 
ber, 1888, he became news editor and 
subsequently associate editor of the 
Ro:!noke (Va.) Daily Telegram, where he 
remained until 1889. From this latter 
date until 1897, he was with the Wash- 
ington Bureau of the United Press; since 
April, 1897, he hJs been connected with 
the New York Sun's Washington Bu- 
r>:au, and since July 16, 1904, as Wash- 
ington correspondent for that paper. On 
November 3. 1892, he married Anne Mc- 
Gowan, of Washington, D. C. Residence; 
1421 Twentieth street, n.w. Office: H^bbs 
Building. 

CUTWATER, THERON, Baptist cler- 
gyman, was born at Wilson, Niagara 
County, N. Y., son of John Jacob and 
Hannah (Wisner) Cutwater. William 
Wisner, his grandfather, r ndered gallant 
service in the War of 1812. After fin- 
ishing his preparatory education at Lock- 
port (N. Y.) Union School in 1871 he en- 
tered the University of Rochester f om 
wliich he was graduated A. B. in 1875, 
when he entered the Rochester Theolog- 
ical Seminary from which he was grad- 
uated in 1878. In 1882 he was a mode- 
rator of the Niagara Association of Bap- 
tist Churches. He was pistor at San- 
born, N. Y., from 1878-1883, and pastor 
at Elizabeth, N. Y., from 1883-1888, and 
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dall Baptist Church In "Washington. He 
Is a member of the Delta Upsilon coll ge 
fraternity. On July 14, 1880, he married 
Marion H. Raymond, of Lockport, N. Y., 
to which union have been born three 
children, one of \Vhom is living. Resi- 
dence: 1312 B street, s.w. 

OVENSHINE, SAMUEL, Brigadier- 
General, U. S. A., (retired) was born in 
Pennsylvania and appointed a Second 
Lieutenant in the Fifth U. S. Infantry on 
August 5, 1861. He was promoted to First 
Lieutenant on September 25, 1861; ad- 
vanced to Captain in 1864; promoted to 
Major, July 10, 1885; commissioned Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel, January 31, 1891; made 
Colonel, April 26, 1895. During the Span- 
ish-American War he served as Brigadier- 
General of Volunteers; and on October 
19, 1899, advanced to the same rank in the 
regular army. He served for a time as 
Brigade Commander in the Philippines 
and was retired in 1898. Address: War 
Department. 

OVERMAN, LEE SLATER, lawyer, 
U. S. Senator from North Carolina, was 
born January 3, 1854, at Salisbury, Rowan 
County, N. C, son of William and Mary 
E. Overman. He was graduated from 
Trinity College with the degree of A. B. 
in 1874, and two years later had the de- 
gree of M. A. conferred upon him by that 
same institution. For two years he 
taught school; from 1877 to 1878 was pri_ 
vate secretary to Governor Vance, ana 
in 1879 to Governor Jarvis. He was ad- 
mitted to the bar and began the prac- 
tice of law in 18S0. He was a member 
of the Legislature in 1883, 1885, 1887, 

1893 and 1899, being Speaker in 1893; in 

1894 he became President of the North 
Carolina Railroad Company; was elected 
Qnited States Senator in 1903. He was 
President of the Democratic State Con- 
vention in 1900; presidential Eli^ctor-ac- 
Large in 1900; member of the Board of 
Trustees of the State University and 
Trinity College. He married Mary P. 
Merrimon, daughter of ex-Senator A. T. 
Merrimon. Legal residence: Salisbury, 
N. C. Washington address: The Cochran. 



OVERSTREET, JAMES WHETSTONE, 

lawyer, congressman, was born in Screven 
County, Ga., August S2, 1866, and edu- 
cated in the public schools and at Mercer 
(Georgia) University, from which he 
graduated with honors in 1888. with the 
degree of A. B. He subsequently studied 
law, and was admitted to the bar in 1892; 
served one term in the State Legislature; 
member of the Democratic State Execu- 
tive Committee in 1905-1906. In 1902, he 
was appointed judge of the City Court of 
Sylvania, which position he resigned when 
elected to Congress from the First Geor- 
gia District in October. 1906. Legal resi- 
dence: Sylvania, Ga. Washington address: 
House of Representatives. 

OVERSTREET, JESSE, lawyer, con- 
gressman, was born in Johnson County, 
Ind., December 14, 1859, and received a 
common school and collegiate education. 
He studied law and was admitted to the 
bar in 1886; was Secretary of the Na- 
tional Republican Congressional Commit- 
tee in the campaigns of 1898, 1900, 1902 
and 1904. In 1895 he was elected to Con- 
gress from the Seventh Indiana District, 
and has since been re-elected. He mar- 
ried Katherine Crump. Legal residence: 
Indianapolis, Ind. Washington address: 
House of Representatives. 

OYSTER, JAMES F., merchant, was 
bo'^n in Washington, D. C, February 14, 
1851 and was educated at the Old Ritten- 
house Academy. He was employed for 
four years in the furnishing house of 
Frederick Pilling and tnen went into the 
butter business with his father, the elder 
member, retiring in 18S6 in favor of his 
two sons, George M. and James F. Later 
the whole business came into the hands 
of James F. He was Captain of the 
National Rifles until their disbandment in 
1901, and has since been President of the 
corporation formed by that body. He is 
a Shriner; a member of the Scottish 
Rite; a Thirty-second Degree Mason; 
President of, the Business Men's Asso- 
ciation; and President of the Board of 
Education of the District of Columbia. 
Residence; 1314 Rhode Island avenue. 
Business address: 900 Pennsylvania ave- 
nue, n.w. 



PACAS, DON JOSE ROSE, Envoy Ex- 
trao-dinary and Minister Plenipotentiary 
from Honduras to the United States. 
Address: Legation of Honduras. 

PACK, HAROLD J., civilian assistant 
to the Paymaster-General. War Depart- 
ment, since 1900. was born in Philadelphia, 
Pa., in 1875. He entered George Wash- 
ington University and was graduated 
from the University in 1902, and from its 
law school in 1904. He was a member ©f 



the George Washington University De- 
bating team that d-feated the University 
of Virginia. Residence: The Portsmouth. 
Office: War Department. 

PADGETT, LEMUEL PHILLIPS, law- 
yer. Congressman, was born at Columbia, 
Tenn., November 28, 1855. He was edu- 
cated in tha public schools and Erskine 
College (Due West, S. C.) from which in- 
stitution he was graduated in 1876, with 
the degree of A. B. He studied law, was 



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admitted to the bar in 1877, and be^an 
the practice of his profession in 1879, at 
Columbia, Tenn., where he has since re- 
sided. He was a Democratic Presidential 
Elector in 1884; was State Senator for 
one term beginning 1S9S; was elect-d to 
the Fifty-seventh Congress, and subse- 
quently re-elected, from the Seventh 
Tennessee District. On November 11, 
1880 he married Ida B. Latta. Legal res- 
idence: Columbia, Tenn. Washington ad- 
dress: House of Representatives. 

PAGE, JAMES, author, was born in 
Baltimore, Md., October 31, 1864. son of 
Arthur and Mary J. (Campb^'ll) Page. 
He was privately tutored, attended private 
schools, and in 1882 graduated from Johns 
Hopkins University, later pursuing a 
post-graduate course at the Massachu- 
setts Institute of Technology. From 1887 
to 1889 he was an assistant at the Alle- 
gheny (Pennsylvania) Astronomical Ob- 
servatory; was attached to the United 
States Coast and Geodetic Survey, the 
Boundary Commissions of the United 
States and Mexico and British America, 
during the years 1889-1895. Since the 
latter date he has been editor of the pub- 
lications of the United States Hydro- 
graphic Office, and writer on commerce 
and navigation. He is the author of a 
number of articles, monograpns, etc., on 
these subjects. Mr. Page is a member 
of the Cosmos and Chevy Chase Clubs 
of Washington, the Reform Club (of New 
York), International Geographic Congress 
(was 'assistant secretary, seventh meet- 
ing); National Geographic Society; Phi- 
losophical Society of Washington, etc. 
On June 10, 1903 he married Clara Wood 
Merriman. Residence: 2332 Massachus- 
etts avenue. OfHce: U. S. Hydrographic 
Office. 

PAGE, JOHN H., Brigadier-General, 
U. S. A., (retired), was born at New 
Castle, Delaware, March 26, 1842, son of 
Captain John Page, U. S. A, and Mary 
Elizabeth (Blaney) Page. He studied in 
Italy and France and from 1857 to the 
time of the outbreak of the Civil War was 
a student at Northwestern University; 
at that time he enlisted as a private in 
the Chicago Light Artillery. He was 
commissioned Second Lieutenant in 1861; 
promoted to First Lieutenant, 1862; ad- 
vanced to Captain in May, 1864 and Major 
in 1863; commissioned Major of Infantry 
on September 12, 1885; made Lieutenant- 
Colonel, February 24, 1891; advanced to 
Colonel May 31, 1895; made Brigadier- 
General of Volunteers, September 21, 
1898; and advanced to that rank in the 
regular army and retired in 1903. After 
the war he served at various posts on 
the western frontier; was in command of 
his regiment at the Coeur d'Alene mining 
disturbances of 1893, and at the time of 
the Coxey trouble on the Northern Pa- 
cific Railroad; was in command of the 
Third Infantry at El Caney, during Span- 
ish-American War, and subsequently at 



Santiago; saw tTiree years service In the 
Philippines with his regiment and as 
Brigadier-General. General Page Is a 
member of the Grand Army of the Re- 
public; Loyal Legion; Army and Navy 
Union; Society of Santiago, etc. On May 
1, 1871 he married Eliza Tracy Shaw. 
Address: War Department. 

PAGE, LOGAN W., director of the 
Office of Public Roads, U. S. Department 
of Agriculture. Residence: 1775 Massa- 
chusetts avenue, n. w. Office: Depart- 
ment of Agriculture. 

PAGE, ROBERT NEWTON, congress- 
man, was born at Cary, Wake County, 
N. C, October, 26, 1859 and was edu- 
cated at the Cary High School and Bing- 
ham Military School. In 1880 he removed 
to Moore County and engaged in the lum- 
ber business; since 1890 he has been 
Treasurer of the Aberdeen & Asheboro 
Railroad Company, and since 1897 a resi- 
dent of Montgomery County, N. C, where 
he was elected a member of the Legisla- 
ture in 1901. He was elected from the 
Seventh North Carolina District to the 
Fifty-eighth Congress, and has since been 
re-elected to Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Con- 
gresses. In 1888 Mr. Page married Flora 
Shaw. In politics he is a Democrat. Le- 
gal residence: Biscoe, N. C. Washington 
address: House of Representatives. 

PAGE, THOiVIAS NELSON, author, 
lawyer, was born at "Oakland" the old 
mansion house of the family, in Hanover 
County, Virginia, on April 23, 1853. He 
is the son of Major Jonn and Elizabeth 
Burwell (Nelson) Page, and a direct de- 
scendant of old and distinguished Vir- 
ginia families on both sides — the Pages, 
of Roswell, and the Nelsons, of York- 
town. John Page, his great-grandfather, 
was a conspicuous patriot of the Revo- 
lutionary War, and one of the signers of 
the Declaration of Independence. Thomas 
Nelson, another of his forebears, was War 
Governor of Virginia at the time of the 
Revolution. The boyhood of Mr. Page 
saw his country in the throes of the Civil 
War, which conflict interfe-ed, in no small 
degree, with his early education, but at 
the same time, as a sort of recompense, 
furnished him much of the material for 
his future literary work. He succeeded, 
finally, in obtaining sufficient preparation 
for entrance to Washington and Lee Uni- 
versity, at Lexington, Va., but there the 
debating society and the college paper liad 
more charms for him than the routine of 
the class-room. His talents were dls- 
linctively literary, and he found greater 
pleasure in editing the college paper, and 
studying customs and manners, than in 
the usual curriculum of systematic study. 
After teaching school for one year, he 
entered the law department of the Uni- 
versity of Virginia, completed the course 
of study and received his degree in law, 
in 1874. He was admitted to the bar 
shortly thereafter, and practiced law in 



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Richmond down to 1893, devoting Iiis 
leisure, meanwhile, to literary work and 
the platform. Among his best known 
literary works are: In OI^ Virg-inia 
(1887); Two Little Confederates (1888); 
On Newfound River (1891); Elsket and 
Other Stories (1892); Befo' the War (in 
collaboration with Armistead C. Gordon) ; 
Pastime Stories (1894); The Burial of 
the Gun (1894); Unc' Edinburg-'s Drown- 
din; Meh Lady; Marse Chan; Polly; 
Social Life in Old Virginia; The Old Gen- 
tleman of the Black Stock, (1896); Two 
Prisoners (1897); Red Rock (1898); 
Santa CUus' Partner (1899); A Captured 
Santa Claus (1902); Gordon Keith (1903); 
Bred in the Bone; Miss Gordon's In- 
heritance; The Negro; The Southerner's 
Problem (1904), and several papers on 
racial problems. In 1893, he removed to 
Washington, D. C, where he has since 
resided. He is a member of the Author's, 
Century, and University clubs, of New 
York, and of the Metropolitan, Cosmos, 
Chevy Chase, University, and Alibi Clubs, 
of Washington. He received the degree 
of Litt. D. from Washington and Lee 
University, and from Yale University and 
that of LL. D. from Tulane University, 
(1899). He has been twice married; 
first, in 1886, to Anna Seddon Bruce, who 
died in 1888; second, in 1893, to Florence 
Lathrop, widow of Henry Field, of Chi- 
cago, 111. Residence: 1759 R street, n. w. 

PAGE, WILLIAM TYLER, clerk, 
Committee on Accounts, United States 
House of Representatives, was born at 
Frederick City, Md., October 19, 1868, son 
of Walker Yates and Nannie (Tyler) 
Page. He attended the public schools of 
Baltimore and Fredei*ick Academy, and 
at the age of twelve was appointed a 
page in the House of Representatives. 
He was successively promoted to Print- 
ing Clerk, Assistant File Clerk, Journal 
Clerk and Tally Clerk, and for the past 
ten years has been clerk to the Com- 
mittee on Accounts. Mr. Page has as- 
sisted in the compilation of several Con- 
gressional manuals of parliamentary 
practice; has served as Assistant Secre- 
tary of Republican caucuses in the House, 
and has been connected with the Repub- 
lican Congressional campaigns of recent 
years. In politics he is a Republican; 
and is a member of the Episcopal Church, 
and of the Knights of Pythias and Elks. 
On July 25, 1895 he ma.rried Mary Anna 
Weigandt. Residence: Friendship Heigths, 
Montgomery County, Maryland. Otflce: 
House of Representatives. 

PALMER, AULICK, United States 
MarshAl of the District of Columbia, was 
born in Washington, D. C, in 1843, son 
of Surgeon-General James C. Palmer, U. 
S. N. Mr. Palmer served in the United 
States Marine Corps as an officer for 
thirteen years; was consul, and subse- 
quently, consul-general, at Dresden, Ger- 
many, for four years. He has been Mar- 
shal since January 1898. Mr. Pauner 



married Alice Craven, on September 25, 
1877. Residence: 1401 Staughton street, 
n. w. Office: City Hall. 

PALMER, FRANK WAYLAND, jour- 
nalist, editor, formerly Public Printer, 
was born at Manchester, Ind., October 
11, 1827, son of Zacheus M. and Selima 
S. Palmer. He was educated at James- 
town, New York, and served an appren- 
ticeship as a printer on the Journal at 
that place, in 1848 becoming editor atid 
joint publisher of the same. From lSoi> 
to 1861 Mr. Palmer was editor and 
joint proprietor of the -Dubuque (Iowa) 
Times; served as State Printer of 
Iowa from 1861 to 1868; was a mem- 
ber of Congress from 1869 to 1873. 
Ocean from 1873 to 1876; postmaster of 
Chicago from 1877 to 1S85 and again from 

1889 to 1894, and from 1897 to September, 
1905, United States Public Printer. On 
October 22, 1862, Mr. Palmer married Mrs. 
Joie B. Goodwin. Mr. Palmer died in De- 
cember, 1907. Late address: 175 Lake 
View avenue, Chicago, 111. 

PALMER, HENRY WILBER, lawyer. 
Congressman, was born at Wilkesbarre, 
Pa., and educated at Wyoming Seminary, 
Kingston, Pa.; Fort Edward Institute, 
Fort Edward, N. Y.; and the National 
T.aiw School, of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., tvorr 
which he graduated in 1860. He was ad- 
mitted to the New York bar in 1860 and 
to the Pennsylvania bar in 1861. Mr. 
Palmer served in the Pay Department of 
the Union Army during the Civil vyar; 
was a member of the C jnstitutionil Con- 
vention f'f Pennsylvania from 1872 to 
1873; Attorney General of the State from 
1879 to 1883, and since 1901 has been 
Representative in Congress from tho 
Eleventh Pennsylvania District. Republi- 
can. On September 12, 1861, he mar.ied 
Ellen M. Webster. Legal .residence: 
Wilkesbarre, Pa. Washington address: 
House of Representatives. 

PALMER, THEODORE SHERMAN. 

ornithologist, biologist, was iborn at Oak- 
land, Cal., January 26, 1868, son of Henry 
A. and Jane (Day) Palmer. He was edu- 
cated at the public schools of Berkeley, 
Cal., and was griduated from the Univer- 
sity of California in 1888; also from the 
Medical Department of Georgetown Uni- 
versity, with the degrte of M. D. in 1895. 
He has been connected with the United 
States Department of Agriculture since 
1889, as follows: 1889-1890, Field Agent; 

1890 to 1896, Fist Assistant Ornithologist; 
1896 to 1902, Assistant Chief of the Biolog- 
ical Survey; since 1902, assistant in 
charge of Game Preservation. Dr. Pal- 
mer is the author of a number of biolog- 
ical papers, reports, monographs, etc., 
and is joint compiler of the book of Game 
Laws for 1902, 1903, 1904 and 1905; also 
author of a number of papers and ar- 
ticles on game protection. He is a mem- 
ber of the Cosmos Club; American So- 



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ciety of Naturalists; American Fisheries 
Society; Washington Academy of Sci- 
ences; Biological Society of Washington; 
National Geographic Society; National 
Association of Audubon Societies (vice- 
president); League of American Spots- 
men (3rd vice-president), and is a fellow 
of the American Ornithologists' Union. 
Dr. Palmer is unmarried. Residence: 
1931 Biltmore street. Office: U. S. De- 
partment of Agriculture. 

PARDO, FELIPE, Envoy Extraordi- 
nary and Minister Plenipotentiary from 
Peru to the United States. Residence: 
2131 Massachusetts avenue. 

PARIS, WALTER, artist, was born in 
London, England, February 28, 1824, son 

of Robert and (Webb) Paris. He 

was educated in private schools in Eng- 
land and later studied at the Royal 
Academy in London; also with the Arch- 
itectural Association. Mr. Paris studied 
a. chitfccture with the idea of practicing 
that profession, but gave it up in ISiO 
to become an artist. From 1863 to 1870 
he was architect to the Government at 
Bombay, India; from 1886 to 1890 he wat. 
Professor of Art and Drawing at the 
Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, 
England. In 1893 Mr. Pa: is 'became an 
American citizen. He was an associate 
member of the Royal Institute of British 
Architects; was formerly a member of 
the Hogarth and other English Clubs; 
and a member of a number of American 
organizations, etc. Unmairied. He was 
a member of the Church of England. 
Died in 1907. 

PARKER, DAINGERFIELD, Brigadier- 
General, U. S. A., (retired), was born at 
New Rochelle. N. Y., May 23, 1832, son 
of Commodore Foxhall Alexander Parker, 
U. S. N., and Sara Jay Bogardus Pa.ker. 
He attended various educational insti- 
tutions and in 1861 entered the army as 
an officer, subsequently being commis- 
sioned Captain; from 1884 to 1889 he 
served as Major of the Ninth Infantry; 
from that time until 1594 was Lieuten- 
ant-Colonel of the Twentieth and Thir- 
teenth Infantry; until May 23, 1896, Col- 
onel of the Eighteenth Infantry, and re- 
tried on the last named date. On April 
23, 1904 he was promoted to Brigadier- 
General, retired. He served throughout 
the Civil War; was breveited for gal- 
lantry; later commanded the St. Louis 
Miilitary Prison. General Parker is a 
memiber of the National Geographic So- 
ciety; Loj^al Legion; Metropolitan Club, 
and in religion is an Episcopalian. In 
1861 he married Amelia Nisbet. Resi- 
dence: The Mendota. 

PARKER, EDMUND SOUTHARD, 

banker, was born at Mifflintown, Pa., 
October 25, 1839, son of Andrew and Ann 
Eliza (Doty) Parker. He attended the 
public schools and Tuscaro:a Academy, 
^subsequently becoming a clerk Ln tha 



Mifflin County (Pa.) Bank. Later he or- 
ganized the firm of Doty, Parker & Co., 
at Mifflintown and engaged in the bank- 
ing business. In 1880 the firm became 
Parker & Co., and in 1888 was made a 
national bank. In 1887 Mr. Parker re- 
moved to Washington, where he assisted 
in the organization of the Columbia Na- 
tional Bank, and became cashier. In 1891 
he was elected president of the bank, 
which post he occupied until 1897, when 
he became president of the National 
Metropolitan Bank. He is a member of 
the Board of Education of the District of 
Columbia. In February, 1865, he married 
M. Isabella Wilson. Residence: 1738 Con- 
n:cticut avenue. Office: National Met- 
ropolitan Bank. 

PARKER, EDWARD WHEELER, sta- 
tistician and editor, was borr. at Port 
Deposit, Maryland, June 16, 1860, son of 
William Price and Henrietta Hyde 
(Donnell) Parker. He w^as educated in 
the common schools of Port Deposit and 
Baltimore and at the College of Balti- 
more. Immediately on leaving school he 
became an accountant in Baltimore; re- 
moved to Texas in 1885 and was there 
engaged in newspaper work until 1889, 
when he was appointed to the Mining Di- 
vision of the Eleventh Census. In 1891 
he was appointed satistician to the United 
States CJeological Survey; was expert 
special agent of the Twelfth Census; 
Superintendent of coal exhibits at the 
Atlanta and St. Louis expositions. Mr. 
Parker was a member of the Anthracite 
Coal Strike Commission of 1902-1903; 
was a member of the Committee for Test, 
ing Fuel Investigations at the St. Louis 
Exposition. He was a member of the Jury 
of Awards at the World's Columbian and 
Louisiana Purchase Expositions; and re- 
cently has been in charge of the prepara- 
tion of the United States Mining History 
for the Department of Economics and 
Sociology of Carnegie Intsitution. He 
was editorially connected in 1897 with 
the American Manufacturer, and, in 1902, 
with the Engineering and Mining Journal. 
Mr. Parker is the autho.r of a number 
of reports and monographs, principally 
in statistical form, relating to coal, coke, 
etc. He is a member of the Cosmos 
Club; Engineers and Underwriters' Club, 
of New York; American Institute of Min- 
ing Engineers; Sons of American Revo- 
lution; American Statistical Association; 
Washington Economic Society; Washing- 
ton Society of Engineers; Washington 
Academy of Sciences; American Asso- 
ciation for the Advancement of Science, 
etc. On April 29, 1891 he married Laura 
Harrison Bryan, of Galveston, Texas. 
Residence: 1815 Corcoran street, n.w. 
Office: U. S. Geological Survey. 

PARKER, GEORGE T., President of 

the George Parker Company, managers 
of the Title Guaranty Company, of Scran- 
ton, Pa., was born in Philadelphia, Pa., 
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with his parents to Washington, where 
he has since resided. In 1873 he was ap- 
pointed messenger by General F. E. 
Spinner, U. S. Treasurer, remaining there 
ten years. In 1883, he became traveling 
salesman for a New I'ork commercial 
house and so remained for nine years. 
In 1894 he entered the advertising busi- 
ness, and in 1900 embarked in the surety 
business with the Title Guaranty & Trust 
Company, later being appointed by Pres- 
ident Roos velt special representative of 
the Department of Justice. Residence: 
The Cecil. Office: Colorado Building. 

PARKER, HARRY B., senior member 
of the fi.m of Parker, Bridget & Co., 
was born in Charles County, Md., March 
4, 1850, and came to Washington at the 
age of nine, entering the firm of Smith, 
Brothers & Co. at the age of twelve. In 
1885 he entered business for himself, con- 
tinuing until 1904, when he retired. He 
married Miss Eaton, of Frederick City, 
Md., and has one daughter. Residence: 
1601 Park Road, n.w. 

PARKER, JAMES, Dleutenant-Colonel, 
U. S. A., was born at Newairk, N. J., 
February 20, 1S54, son of Hon. Cortlandt 
and Elizabeth Wolcott (Stites) Parke.. 
He attended Phillips (Andover) Academy, 
Rutges College and was graduated from 
the United States Military Academy in 
1876, becoming a Second Lieutenant of 
cavalry at that time. In 1879 he WJs pro- 
moted to First Lieutenant; commissioned 
Captain in 1888; advanced to Major in 
1901, and made Lieutenant-Colonel in 
1903. He served in varrous Indian cam- 
paigns on the western frontier until 1894; 
from that time until 1898 h? was cavalry 
instructor at the United States Military 
Academy; in the Spanish-American War 
he served as Major and Lieutenant-Colo- 
nel of the Twelfth New York Volunteers, 
in camp in the South and later in Cuba; 
from 1899 to 1901 was Lieutenant-Colonel 
of the Thirty-fourth U. S. Volunteer 
troops in the Philippines; was Assistant 
Adjutant-General at Washington from 
1901 to 1903; Adjutant-General of the 
Northern Department from 1904 to 1905. 
Colonel Parker in 1904 was chairman of 
the Army Board for the revision of small 
arm firing regulations; he was a mem- 
ber of the board for the Irevision of 
cavalry drill tactics. He has been rec- 
ommended for brets for gallantly and has 
received a Congressional Medal of Honor 
for distinguished 'bravery at San Mateo, 
Manaoag and Vigan, P. I., 'in 1899. Col. 
Parker married Chailotte M. Condit in 
1879. Address: War Department. 

PARKER, JOHN HENRY, Captain, 
U. S. A., was born near Tipton, Mo., in 
1836, son of Thomas H. and Nancy 
(Maxey) Parker. He was graduated 
from the United States Military Academy 
in 1892; was admitted to the practice of 
law in Missouri in 1896 and prior to the 



Spanish-American War served variously 
throughout the West. At Santiago, Cuba, 
in 1898, he commanded the Gatling Gun 
Battery; served as Majo:- of the Thirty- 
ninth U. S. V. Infantry In the Philippines 
from 1899 to 1901, and also acted as as- 
sistant to the Chief Judge Advocate 
there; in 1901 was promoted to Captain, 
U. S. A., and attached to the Twenty- 
eighth U. S. Infantry. He is the inventor 
of the Parker machine gun carriage and 
devised the present system of promotion 
of Army and Navy ofHcers. He is the 
author of several books and articles, 
principally on ordnanc<;, artillery tactics, 
etc. On S ptember 22, 1892 Captain Par- 
ker married Ida Burr. Address: War 
Department. 

PARKER, MYRON MELVIN, lawyer, 
financier, was born at Fairfax, Franklin 
County, Vermont. He attended the pub- 
lic schools, and. up until the time of the 
war. Fort Edward (N. Y.) Institute. He 
left the latter institution to enlist in the 
First Vermont Cavalry, and served with 
that regiment until the close of the Civil 
War, later for four years serving as aide 
de camp and Colonel on the staff of the 
Governor of Vermont. Subsequently he 
accepted a clerkship in the War Depart- 
ment, in Washington, removed to the 
city, and, in 1876, was graduated from 
the law departmtnt of Columbian (now 
George Washington) University. For a 
number of years he was Assistant Wash- 
ington City Postmaster, and in 1893 Com- 
missioner of the District. Mr. Parker 
has served on various committees of local 
and national interest, including: National 
Republican Committees, on the Inaugural 
Committees of Garfield, Cleveland, Har- 
rison; one of the trustees of George 
Washington University; Providence Hos- 
pital, Columbia Hospital for Women; 
Washington Hospital, etc., president, 
Alaska Banking and Safe Deposit Co.; 
Grant Manufacturing Co.; Atlantic Build- 
ing Co.; director. Metropolitan National 
Bank, and identified as director or officer 
of many other business and fimncial en- 
terprises. He is a Mason. Residence; 
1020 Vermont avenue, n. w. Office: 1418 
F street, n.w. 

PARKER, RICHARD WAYNE, lawyer, 
congressman, was born August 6, 1848, 
son of Cortlandt Parker of Newark, N. J. 
He was educated in private schools; 
graduated from Phillips Andover in 1864; 
in 1867, from Princeton University with 
the degree of B. A., and from Columbia 
Law School 1869, with the degree of LL. 
B. He also studied law in his father's 
office; was admitted to the bar in 1870 
and since then has practiced his profes- 
sion. Mr. Parker was a member of the 
New Jersey State Assembly in 1885 and 
ISvi; and has .been a member of C'^v- 
gress, representing the Sixth (later the 
Seventh) New Jersey District since 1895. 
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which have appeared in current period- 
icals. On Januarj' 2, 1884, he married 
Eleanor K. Gordon. In politics he is a 
Republican. Legal residence: Newark, N. 
J. Washington address: 1723 Rhode 
Island avenue, n.w. 

PARKER, WILLIAM H., congressman. 
In November, 1906, he was elected a 
memtoer of the Sixtietn Congress from 
South Dakota as Representative-at-Large 
on the Republican ticket. Legal residence: 
Deadwood, S. D. Washington address: 
House of Representatives. 

PARKER WILLIAM W., Treasurer of 
the Columbia Institution for the Deaf and 
Dumb. Residence: 1738 Connecticut ave- 
nue, n. w. Office: Kendall Green, D. C. 

PARKINSON, ALFRED CARROLL, 

principal legislative clerk, U. S. Senate. 
Residence: The Livingston: Office: U. S. 
Senate. 

PARKS, WYTHE M., Commander, U. 
S. N., Bureau of Steam Engineering. 
Residence: 2104 Eigthteenth street, n. w. 

PARRIS, ALBION K., of the firm of 
Crane, Parris & Co., was born in Wash- 
ington, D. C, his ancestors being of New 
England stock. He received a common 
school education and entered the banking 
business at the age of seventeen. For a 
year he served on the U. S. Flagship 
Powhatan, making a cruise through the 
West Indies. He has been a member of 
his present firm since its organization in 
1883, is connected with several other cor- 
porations, and charitable institutions, a 
mem'ber of the Banker's Association of 
the District, and one of the oldest mem- 
bers of the Washington Stock Exchange. 
Residence: 3022 P street, n. w. Office: 
Wyatt Building. 

PARRY, EDMUND HURLBURT, pat- 
ent lawyer, was born in Hartford, Conn., 
•on March 10, 1872, son of William H. 
and Katherine (Ney) Parry, his mother 
being a descendant of Marshal Ney, of 
PYance. Thomas Parry, his grandfather, 
initiated Odd Fellowism in Canada. He 
was educated in the schools of Hartford, 
Conn., Hamilton, Canada, Philadelphia, 
and Washington, D. C. He was grad- 
uated from the Columbian (now George 
Washington) University School of Law 
with the degrees of LL. B., LL. M. and 
M. P. L. In 1894 he was admitted to the 
bar of the Supreme Court of the District 
of Columbia, when twenty-two years of 
age, and to the bar of the Supreme 
Court of the United States Hn 1897. He 
is the inventor of ventilators aind busi- 
ness-systems and devices. He is a mem- 
ber of the Episcopal Church, Phi Delta 
Phi legal fraternity, and in politics is a 
Republican. On May 6, 1903, he married 
Mary Graham Watts, who was a grand- 
daughter of Judge Watts, of Carlisle, Pa., 
at one time Secretary of Agriculture, to 



which union has been born one child. 
Residence: 1441 Girard street, n. w. 
Office: Washington Loan & Trust Build- 
ing. 

PARSONS, HERBERT, lawyer, con- 
gressman, was iborn in New York, on Oc- 
tober 28, 1869, son of John E. and Mary 
Dumesnil (Mcllvaine) Parsons. He at- 
tended private schools in New Yoilc until 
1886, and graduated with the degree of 
B. A. from Yale University in 1890. He 
studied at the University of Berlin during 
1890-1891; Harvard Law School from 
1S91 to 1893, and the Metropolis Law 
School from 1893 to 1894, being admit- 
ted to the bar in the last named year. 
•He has been engaged in the practice 
of his profession since that time. From 
1900 to 1903 he was Alderman of 
New York; and since 1905 has been 
a Representative in Congress from 
the Thirteenth New York District. In 
politics he is a Republican; Presi- 
dent 'Of the Republican County Com- 
mittee, of New York, and Chairman of its 
Executive Committee; he is a member 
of the Board of Managers of the New 
York Association for Improving the Con- 
dition of the Poor; Society for Reforma- 
tion of Juvenile Delinquents; Manhattan 
Eye and Ear Hospital, etc., and the 
University, Metropolitan, City, Union 
League and Republican Clubs, and Met- 
ropolitan Club of Washington. On Sep- 
tember 1, 1900, Mr. Parsons. married Elsi? 
Worthington Clews. They have two 
children. Legal residence: New York 
City. Washintgon address: 1229 Nine- 
teenth street. 

PARSONS, JAMES L., contractor and 
builder, was born in Virginia, and came 
to Washington about 1875. He built 
Stoneleigh Court, one of the city's largest 
apartment houses, and superintended and 
constructed the temporary roof over the 
Pension Bureau Building to prepare it for 
the ball at President Cleveland's inaugu- 
ration. He also built the Marlboro Apart- 
ment house; Gardner-Hubbard Memorial 
Hall; the Census Office, and the wing of 
the Bureau of Engraving and Printing; 
the Congressional Apartment House, and 
many 'Other notable buildings. His largest 
contract is now nearing completion, the 
Municipal Building. He was formerly 
president of the Master Builders and the 
Employers' Association and the National 
Association of Building Trades. Resi- 
dence: 322 Tenth street, s.e. Office: New 
Jersey avenue, s.e. 

PARSONS, STARR (D. D. S.), Pres- 
dent of the National Capital Dental So- 
ciety. Residence: 306 C street, n. e. 
Office: Ninth and B streets, n.w. 

PASOS, DON JO^E MARIA, Counselor, 
Colombian Legation. Residence: The 
Cairo. 

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PATCHIN, ROBERT HALSEY, jour- 
nalist, was born at D :s Moines.Iowa, 
February 6, 1881, son of Dr. Robert Azor 
and Calista (Halsey) Patc-hin. He at- 
tended the pubic schools of Des Moines, 
and the Iowa State College, and entered 
journalistic jvoik in 1899, as a reporter on 
the Des Moines Leader. From 1900 to 
1902 he was connected with the Wash- 
ington Times; since June, 1902, he has 
been with the Washington Bureau of the 
New York Herald. Mr. Patchin married 
Mary Custis Lee Carter, of Leesburg, Va., 
August 6, 1904. Residence: 2121 N street, 
n.w. Office: 1502 H street, n.w. 

PATRICK, GEORGE, EDWARD, chem- 
ist, was born at Hopedale, Mass., October 
22, 1851, son of Delano and Mary (May- 
nard) Patrick. He was graduated from 
Cornell University in 1873, with the de- 
gree of M. Sc, and was subsequently in- 
structor of chemistry at that institution, 
for one year. Later (from 1874 to 1883) 
he was assistant professor, and, subse- 
quently, professor of chemistry at the 
University of Kansas; then for seven 
years chemist at the lowx Agricultural 
Experiment Station, and during a portion 
of this time, professor of Agricultural 
Chemistry at the Iowa State College. 
Since 1896 he has been assistant chemist 
In the U. S. Department of Agriculture, 
and chief of the dairy laboratory of the 
Division of Chemistry. Professor Pat- 
rick is the author of a number of paper.?, 
articles, etc., on chemistry and its re- 
lation to agriculture, etc. In 1879 he mar- 
ried Hattie E. Lewis. Residence: 1716 
H street, n.w. Office: U. S. Department 
of Agriculture. 

PATTERSON, CHARLES GORDON, 

railroad builder, was born at Platts- 
burg, X. J., in 1835, son of Charles Gor- 
don and Catherine B. (Wainwright) Pat- 
terson. He was educated in the district 
schools of Monmouth County, N. J.; be- 
gan business in a general store at Free- 
hold, N. J., in 1851, and later till 1859 in 
New York City. He then went to Cal- 
ifornia and returned to New York in 1861, 
and lived at Yonkers until 1872. In 1875 
he removed to Boston, Mass., and there 
remained until 1888, when he removed to 
Ohio, there being actively engaged in 
building and managing railroads, one of 
them being the Cleveland, Canton and 
Southern, of Ohio. In 1884 he began the 
Topeka, Salina and Western, and was the 
general manager of tne Finley, Fort 
Wayne and Western Railroad until its 
completion in 1895. He resumed his New 
York residence in 1896, and removed to 
Washington in 1898. Residence: The 
Dupont. Office: Washington Loan & 
Trust Building. 

PATTERSON, FLORA WAMBAUGH, 
(Mrs.), pathologist, mycologist, was born 



at ColumlDus, O., September 15, 1847, 
daughter of Rev. A. B. and Sarah Sells 
Wambaugh. She attended Antioch Col- 
lege (Ohio) ; graduated from Wesleyan 
College (Cincinnati), in 1865; was a grad- 
uate student at the State University of 
Iowa and received from it the degree of 
A. M. ; studied three years at Radcliffe 
College, Harvard University, and was an 
assistant at Gray Herbarium of Harvard 
University. In July, 1896, she became 
Assistant Pathologist in the United States 
Department of Agriculture, and later was 
made mycologist in charge of the Her- 
barium of Vegetable Physiology and Pa- 
thology in the Bureau of Plant Industry 
of the same department. Mrs Patterson 
is the author of numerous articles and 
papers on botanical subjects; was assist- 
ant editor of Economic Fungi; is a mem- 
ber of the following organizations: Bo- 
tanical Society, of America; Biological 
Society of Washington; National Geo- 
graphical Society; American Association 
for the Advancement of Science; Wom- 
en's National Press Association, etc. On 
August 12, 1869, she was married to Cap- 
tain Edwin Patterson, now deceased. Of- 
fice: U. S. Department of Agriculture. 
Residence: The Decatur. 

PATTERSON, GIL6ERT BROWN, 
lawyer, congressman, was born May 29, 
1863, on a farm near Maxton, N. C. He 
attended the public schools and was 
graduated from the University of North 
Carolina in 1886. Subsequently he siau.ied 
law at the same university, and was ad- 
mitted to the bar in 1890. He served in 
the State Legislature in 1898 and 1900, 
and was elected Representative from the 
Sixth District to the Fifty-eighth Con- 
gress, and has since oeen re-elected. 
Democrat. Legal residence: Maxton, N. 
C. Washington address: House of Rep- 
resentatives. 

PATTERSON, JAMES O'HANLON, 

lawyer, congressman, was born at Barn- 
well, Barnwell County, S. C, July 25, 
1857, son of Edward L. and Sarah L. 
(Myers) Patterson. He attended private 
schools in his native town, Barnwell 
Academy, and Hampton Institute, Augus- 
ta, Geo:gia. In 1886 he was admitted to 
the bar; has been twice elected Probate 
Judge of Barnwell County, and was a 
member of the State Legislature from 1898 
to 1904 inclusive. Mr. Patterson is a 
farmer and lawyer 'by profession. He was 
elected to the Sixtieth Congress from the 
Second South Carolina Distirct. In pol- 
itics he is a Democrat, and a member of 
the Methodist Church and of the Masonic 
and Knights of Pythias orders. On No- 
vember 3, 1876, he married Hattie A. 
Halman. Legal residence: Barnwell, S. 
C. Washington address: House of Rep- 
resentatives. 

PATTERSON, JOHN HENRY, Briga- 
dier-General, U. S. A., (retired), was 
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1843, son of Edward and Martena G. 
(Talmage) Patterson. He attended the 
city public schools and academies of 
Brooklyn and in 1861 was appointed First 
Lieutenant of the Eleventh Infantry; pro- 
moted to Captain lOn July 28, 1866; ad- 
vanced to Major, May 19, 1891; commis- 
sioned Lieutenant-Colonel, January 21, 
1895; made Colonel, September 28, 1898; 
appointed Brigadier-General, U. S. Vol- 
unteers, in November, 1898; commissioned 
Brigadier-General, regular army, and re- 
tired, on account of wounds received at 
El Caney, Cuba, in the Spanish-American 
War, in 1899. General Patterson received 
a brevet for services at Chapel House, 
Virginia, in 1864; and a Congressional 
medal of honor for distinguished gal- 
lantry at the Battle of the Wilderness, 
in 1864. He has been twice married: on 
December 27, 1871, to Mary E. Forbes; 
and on January 3, 1900, to Grace L. 
Learned. Address: Port Orange Club, 
Albany, N. Y., or War Department. 

PATTERSON, MALCOLM RICE, law- 
yer, ex- congressman. Governor of Ten- 
nessee, was born at Somerville, Ala., June 
7, 1861, son of Josiah and Josephine Pat- 
terson. He was graduated from the 
Christian Brothers College at Memphis, 
later studing at Vanderbilt University, 
being admitted to the bar in 1883. In 1884 
he was nominated for the Legislature, but 
was defeated at the polls, and in 1894 
was elected Attorney-General for Shelby 
County, Tennnessee, resigning in Sep- 
tember, 1900. He served as a member of 
the Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth and Fifty- 
ninth Congresses from the Tenth Ten- 
nesse District as a Democrat. On No- 
vember 6, 1906, he was elected Governor 
of the State of Tennessee. Married De- 
cember 7, 1907, to Mary Russell Gardner, 
of Union City, Tenn. Legal residence: 
739 Walker avenue, Memphis, Tenn. 
Official address: Governor's Mansion, 
Nashville, Tenn. 

PATTERSON, RAYMOND ALBERT, 

journalist, was born in Chicago, 111., Aug- 
ust 2, 1856, son of Rev. Robert Watson 
and Julia A. Patterson. He attended the 
Chicago public and high schools and was 
graduated from Yale University in 1878. 
He has been connected with t'he Chicago 
Tribune since 1878, in the following ca- 
pacities: reporter, telegraph editor, night 
editor, correspondent, Sunday editor, act- 
ing managing editor, and, isince 1894, 
Washington correspondent. He has writ- 
ten largely under the pen name "Ray- 
mond." Mr. Patterson is a member of the 
Psl Upsilon college fraternity; Wood- 
mont Club; Columbia Golf Club; Gridiron 
Club, etc. In religion he is a Presbyterian. 
On October 11, 1892, he married Mary Y. 
Hogan. Residence: 1309 Kenyon street, 
n. w. Office: Wyatt Biulding. 

PATTERSON, ROBtKT WILSON, edi- 
tor of the Chicago Tribunt, was born in 
Chicago, November 30, 1850, son of Rev. 



R. W. Patterson. He was educated in 
the Preparatory Department of Chicago 
University and at the Lake Forest Uni- 
versity, and was graduated from Williams 
College 1871. Studied law in Chicago, 
but gjve it up after the great fire, and 
became a reporter on the Chicago Tri- 
bune, and later on The Interior (a relig- 
ious weekly). Since 1873 he has been on 
the Chicago Tribune, passing through all 
the stages till, on the deatn of Joseph 
Medill, he became editor-in-chief. He 
mar. ied Elinor, daughter of the late Jo- 
seph Medill. Address: 15 Dupont Circle. 

PATTERSON, THOMAG MacDON- 
ALD, lawyer. Senator from Colorado, was 
born in Carlow County, Ireland, Novem- 
ber 4, 1840, and came to the United States 
with his parents in 1849, receiving a pub- 
lic school education in New York City 
and Asto;ia, Long Island, until his four- 
teenth year, wh:n his parents removed 
to Crawfordsville, Indiana. He- was em- 
ployed in a printing office there for three 
years, and subsequently as a watchmaker 
and jeweler for five years; in 1862 he en- 
tered Asbu y (now DePauw) University, 
and later Wab:sh College. In 1872 Mr. 
Patterson removed to Denver, Colorado; in 
1874 was elected city attorney, delegate to 
Congress from the Territory of Colorado 
in 1874, and Representative from the new 
State in 1876; was delegate to National 
Democratic Conventions of 1876, 1880, 
1888 and 1892, and a member of the 
National Committee during that time; in 
1896 was a delegate to the Populist Na- 
tional Convention (he having affiliated 
himself with that party in the meantime); 
was Bryan Presidential Elector in 1896; 
permanent chairman of Populist National 
Convention in 1900, and presidential elec- 
tor in the same pear. In 1901 he was 
elected United States Senator and at 
that time again became a member of the 
Democratic party. Legal residence: Den- 
ver, Colo. Washington address: U. S. 
.Senate. 

PAUL HENRY MARTYN, astronomer, 
was born at Dedham, Mass., June 25, 
1851, son of Ebenezer and Susan (Dress- 
er) Paul. He was graduated from Dart- 
mouth College in 1873, and from the 
Thayer School of Engineering of the 
same institution in 1875, with the degree 
of C. E. From 1875 to 1880 and later, 
from 1883 to 1897 he was assistant astron- 
omer at the United States Naval Observ- 
atory; f:om 1880 to 1883 was professor 
■of astronomy at the Imperial University 
of Japan, Tokio; since April 1897 he has 
been professor of mathematics. United 
States Navy. From 1897 to 1899 'he was 
astronomer at the Naval Observatory; 
and since 1899 has been engaged in en- 
gineering and other works with the Bu- 
reau of Yards and Docks of the Navy 
Department. Mr. Paul is the author of 
a number of astronoTnical articles, re- 
ports, and imonographs. From 1896 to 
1898 he wajs president, and froin 1898 to 



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1903, financial secretary, of the Choral 
Society, of Washing-ton. On August 27, 
1878 he married Augusta Ann Gray. 
Address: U. S. Navy Department. 

PAYNE, EUGENE BEAUHARNAIS, 

lawyer, officer of the U. S. Bureau of 
Pensions and editor of the Pension Digest, 
was bo:n at Seneca Falls, N. Y., April 
15, 1835, son of Thomas H. and Susannah 
N. S. Payne; and nephew of the late U. S. 
Senator Henry B. Payne, of Ohio. He 
was graduated from the Law Department 
of the Northwestern University of Chi- 
cago-Evanston in 1860, being admitted to 
the bar the same year. At the outbreak 
of the Civil War he organized a volunteer 
company at Waukegan, 111., and served 
throughout the war. For meritorious 
service he was advanced to Major and 
Lieutenant-Colonel of the Thirty-seventh 
Illinois Infantry, and finally to b:evet 
Brigadier-General. From 1866 to 1869 he 
was a member of the Illinois Legislature; 
was engaged in the practice of law from 
1869 to 1887, and since the latter date 
connected with the Pension Office. He is 
the author of Histories of Western Bat- 
tles; and of Payne's Annotated Digest of 
Decisions of the Department of the In- 
terior in Appealed Pension and Bounty 
Land Claims. General Payne married 
Adelia T. Wright, of Litchfield, Conn. 
They have one son, Charles T. Payne, a 
prominent member of the iNew York bar. 
General Payne is a member of the Grand 
Army 'Of the Republic; the Military Or- 
der of the Loyal Legion; Commandery of 
the District of Columbia, and a member 
of Harmony Lodge A. F. and A. M. Res- 
idence: 715 Sixth street, n. w. 

PAYNE, JAMES G., Auditor of the 
Suprtme Court of the District of Colum- 
bia. Residence: 2112 Massachusetts ave- 
nue, n. w. 

PAYNE, SERENO ELISHA, lawyer, 
congressman, was born at Hamilton, N. 
Y., June 26, 1843, and was graduated from 
the University of Rochester in 1864. He 
wias admitted to the bar in 1866 and has 
since been engaed in the practice of his 
profession at Auburn, N. Y. From 1868 
to 1871 he was City Clerk of Auburn; 
during 1871 to 1872, Supervisor of Au- 
'burn; District Attorney of Cayuga 
County from 1873 to 1879; president oi 
the Auburn Board of Education, 1879 to 
1882. Mr. Payne was selected to serve 
on the American-British Joint High 
Commission to negotiate Canadian treaty 
in 1899, and served in Congress from 1883 
to 1887, and again, since 18S9, represent- 
ing the Thirty-first New York District. 
In Congress Mr. Payne is Chairman of 
the Ways and Means Committee, and 
was actively identified in the McKinley 
and Dingley tariff movements. In 1902 
he received the honorary degree of LL. 
D. f;om Colgate University, and in 1903 the 
same degree from the University of 
Rochester. Mr. Payne married Gertrude 



Knapp in 1873. Legal residence: Auburn, 
N. Y. Washington address: House of 
Representatives. 

PAYNE, WILLIAM KNAPP, clerk. 
Committee on Ways and Means, House of 
Repiesentatives, was born at Auburn, N. 
Y., June 3, 1874, son ot Hon. Sereno E. 
and Gertrude (Knapp) Payne. He was 
graduated from Yale University in 1895 
and from the New York Law School in 
1898, later being admitted to the bar. For 
a time he was a member of the law firm 
.of Payne, Payne and Cla.rk, of Auburn; 
since 1905 he has been Clerk of the Com- 
mittee on Ways and Means. Mr. Payne 
is a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon 
college fraternity and of tne Yale Club 
of New York; and in politics is a Repub- 
lican. On June 8, 1904, he married 
Frances McCutcheon Nye. Residence: 
La Normandie. Office: House of Repre- 
sentatives. 

PAYNTER, THOMAS H., ex-justice of 
Court of Appeals of Kentucky, U. S. Sen- 
ate:-, was born in Lewis County, Ky., De- 
cember 9, 1851. He attended Centre Col- 
lege at Danville, Ky., and was admitted to 
the bar in 1872. From 1876 to 1882, he 
served as Attorney of Greenup County; 
member of Congress from 1889 to 1895, 
and was engaged in the active practice 
of law at Greenup, Ky., until elected judge 
in 1894. He was elected to the U. S. 
Senate to succeed Senator Joseph Clay 
Stiles Blackburn from Kejitucky, whose 
term of office expired March 3, 1907. His 
term of office will expire March 3, 1913. 
In politics he is a Democrat. He married 
Elizabeth K. Pollock on May 25, 1876. 
Legal residence: Frankfort, Ky. Wash- 
ington address: U. S. Senate. 

PEACOCK, SARAH BROOKS, portrait 
painter, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., 
and is the eldest daughter of John 
Brooks and Virginia Tatnail (Marshall) 
Peacock. She studied at Sacred Heart 
Convent, Eden Hall, at Torresdale, Penn- 
sylvania, and with prrvate tutors, later 
pursuing an art course at the Corcoiran 
School of Art, Washington, D. C, and at 
Academie Julian, Paris. She also had art 
instruction from Bouguereau and Ferari 
and worked in the galleries of Paris, 
Munich, Florence and Rome. Miss Pea- 
cock is a member of the Roman Catholic 
Church, and a Daughter of the American 
Revolution. Address: 2466 Ontario Road. 

PEACOCK, VICTORIA GARWOOD, 

linguist, translator, was born in Phila- 
delphia, Pa., daughter of John Brooks 
Peacock and Virginia Tatnail (Marshall) 
Peacock. She was educated in the 
Sacred Heart Convent, Eden Hall, at 
Torresdale, Pa., and took an art course 
at the Corcoran Art School in Washing- 
ton from 1892 to 1896. Miss Peacock 
made a thoiough study of the Spanish 
language in Washington and Mexico and 
became an expert in translation. She has 



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been employed by the Government since 
1898, fiirst as translator in the Internal 
Revenue Bureau of the Treasury De- 
partment; in 1901 she was appointed to 
the State Department, to work on Span- 
ish claim cases, and in August 1902 was 
sent by this Government to The Hague 
as Spanish translator in the celebrated 
"Pi'ous Fund" case between this country 
and Mexico. In 1903 she was associated 
with General John W. Poster in the prep- 
airation of the Alaska Bounaary case, and 
later in the same year translated many of 
the claims against Venezuela to be set- 
tled by arbitration, during this time hav- 
ing charge of the translaition of the 
Venezuelan diplomatic correspondence, 
which was used at The Hague during the 
arbitration in 1903. Miss Peacock is a 
member of the Romar» Catholic Ohuirch, 
and of the Daughters of the American 
Revolution. Address: 2466 Ontario Road. 

PEACOCK, VIRGINIA TATNALL, au- 
thor, journalist, was born in Philadelphia, 
Pa., daughter of John Brooks and Vir- 
ginia Tatnall (Marshall) Peacock. She 
attended the Convent of the Sacred Heart, 
Eden Hall, at Torresdale, Pa., and was 
further educated by private tutors and 
extensive travel. In 1897 she entered 
newspaper work as one of the Washing- 
ton correspondents of the Philadelphia 
Times; since then she has contributed 
largely to newspapers, periodicals, etc., 
and is at present society editor of the 
Washington Post. She is the author of 
Famous American Belles of the Nine- 
teenth Century. Miss Peaoock is a mem- 
ber of the Columbia Historical Society, 
and the Daughters of the American Rev- 
olution (corresponding secretary, Mary 
Washington Chapter). Residence: 2466 
Ontario Road. Office: The Post Building. 

PEALE, ALBERT CHARLES, geolo- 
gist, mineralogist, was born at Heckscher- 
ville, Pa., April 1, 1849, son of Charles 
W. Peale. He was graduated from the 
Central High School, Philadelphia, in 
1868, with the degree of A. B., and in 
1873 with that of A. M.; studied in the 
auxiliary department of medicine. Uni- 
versity of Pennsylvania, during 1870, and 
was graduated from the same with the 
degree of M. D. in 1871. He was identi- 
fied with the United States Geological and 
Geographical Survey of the Territories 
from 1871 to 1879; from 1882 to 1898 was 
geologist with the United States Geolog- 
ical Survey; since 1898 he has been aid 
in the section of paleobotany. United 
States National Museum. M^r. Peale was 
secretary of the Chemical Society of 
Washington from 1884 to 1897; he is a 
member of the American Association for 
the Advancement of Science; Philosoph- 
ical Society of Washington; and other lo- 
cal and national learned societies, and the 
Society of Colonial Wars (registrar for 
the District of Columbia); Sons of the 
American Revolution (assistant regis- 
trar); Cosm'os Club, etc. He is the au- 



thor of a number of geographic and geo- 
logical papers, reports, monographs, etc. 
Mr. Peale married Emily W. Wiswell. 
Residence: 1443 Florida avenue, n.w. Of- 
fice: U. S. National Museum. 

PEARRE, GEORGE ALEXANDER, 

lawyer. Congressman, was born in Cum- 
berland, Maryland, July 16, 1860, son of 
Hon. George A. and Mary (Worthington) 
Pearl-e. He attended private schools, Al- 
legany County Academy, St. James Col- 
lege and the University of West Virginia 
and Princeton University, and later grad- 
uating from the law department of Mary- 
land University. He was admitted to the 
bar in 1882 and has since practiced his 
profession. Mr. Pearre was two times a 
State Senator; from 1895 to 1898, pros- 
ecuting attorney; and since 1898, Repre- 
sentative in Congress from the Sixth 
Maryland District. He is a Mason, Odd 
Fellow, member of the Knights of Pyth- 
ias, Eagles, Elks, Junior Order of United 
American Mechanics, and of the Sons of 
the American Revolution. In politics he 
is a Republican. Legal .residence: Cum- 
berland, Maryland. Washington address: 
Metropolitan Club. 

PEARY, JOSEPHINE DIEBITSCH 

(MRS.), author, was born and educated 
in Washington, D. C. In 1888 she married 
Lieut. Robert E. Peary, U. S. N., and was 
a member of his Arctic exploration party 
in 1891-92 and 1893-94, accompanying him 
to winter quarters in Greenland; accom- 
panied him on his arctic trip of 1897; 
and met him in the far North after his 
expeditions of 1900 and 1902. Mrs. Peary 
is the first white woman who has ever 
wintered with an Arctic expedition in the 
Arctic zone; she is the mother of a daugn- 
ter who has the distinction of being born 
farther north than any other white child. 
Mrs. Peary is the author of: My Arctic 
Journal; The Snow Baby, etc. She is 
an honorary member of the Philadelphia 
Geographical Society; American Alpine 
Club; and honorary Vice-President of the 
Alaslca Geographic Society. Residence: 
2014 Twelfth street, n.w. 

PEARY, ROBERT EDWIN, commander. 
U. S. N., arctic explorer, was born at Cres- 
son. Pa., May 6, 1856, son of Charles N. 
and Mary (Wiley) Peary. He was grad- 
uated from Bowdoin University in 1877, 
and in 1881 entered the U. S. Navy as 
a civil engineer. From 1884 to 1885 he 
was assistant engineer of the Nicaragua 
Ship Canal for the United States; from 
1887 to 1888 was engineer officer in charge 
of the surveys for the Nicaragua canal, 
and invented the rolling-lock gates for 
the canal. In 1886 he made his first trip 
north, making a reconnoissance of the 
Greenland ice-cap, in latitude 70 deg. N.; 
from 1891 to 1892 he was engaged in 
arctic exploration as the commander of 
an expedition sent by the Academy of 
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and Heilprin Land; he also proved that 
Greenland was an Insular body, for which 
exploit he received the Cullum gold medal 
of the American Geographic Society; the 
Patron's gold medal of the Royal Geo- 
graphical Society of London; the Living- 
ston gold medal of the Royal Scottish 
Geographical Society. From 1893 to 1895 
he was further engaged in arctic explora- 
tion and a study of the tribe of Arctic 
Highlanders; discovered in 1894, "Iron 
Mountain," and proved its meteorotic or- 
igin. Commander Peary, however, failed 
to reach the northernmost- extremity of 
Greenland on this trip, as he attempted. 
In 1896 and 1897 he m-ade summer voy- 
ages to the North, and brought the Cape 
York meteorites to this country; he was 
in charge of the Arctic expedition fitted 
out by the Peary Arctic Club in 1898-1902, 
and succeeded in reaching the northern 
extremity of Greenland and discovering 
the most northerly archipelago in the 
world. In the second expedition of the 
same club (1905-06), he attained 87 deg. 
6 min., the most northerly point yet 
reached by any explorer. He has re- 
ceived the Kane gold medal of the Phil- 
adelphia Geographical Society; the Daly 
gold medal of the American Geographical 
Society; and the Hubbard gold medal of 
the National Geographical Society; in 
January, 1903, he was made President of 
the American Geographic Society; in 1904, 
elected President of the Eighth Interna- 
tional Geographic Congress. Commander 
Peary is a member of the American Al- 
pine Club (honorary member) ; National 
Geographic Society; Philadelphia Geo- 
graphical Society (honorary member); 
American Society Civil Engineers, etc. 
He is the author of a number of articles 
on arctic exploration, and 'Of two books: 
Northward Over the Great Ice and Near- 
est the Pole. In 1888 he married Jose- 
phine Diebitsch. Address: Navy Depart- 
ment. 

PECKHAM, RUFUS WILLIAM, Asso- 
ciate Justice of the Supreme Court of the 
United States, was born at Albany, New 
York, November 8, 1838, and was edu- 
cated at the Albany Academy and in 
Philadelphia. Later he studied law with 
his father, and was admitted to the ba.r 
in 1859, at which time he began the prac- 
tice of his profession. In 1868 he was 
district attorney of Albany County; acted 
as corporation counsel of the city of Al- 
bany for several years; from 1883 to 1886 
was Justice of the Supreme Court of New 
Yok; In 1886 he was elected Associate 
Justice of the Court of Appeals of New 
York, and in December, 1895, appointed 
by President Cleveland Associate Justice 
-of the Supreme Court of the United 
States. In 1866 he married Miss Arnold. 
Residence: 1217 Connecticut avenue, n.w. 

PEDERNEIRAS, A. V., de, Military At- 
tache, Brazilian Embassy. Residence: 
The Connecticut. 



PEELLE, STANTON CANFIELD, law- 
yer, was born in Indianapolis, Ind., on 
July 5, 1880, son of Stanton J. and Mary 
Arabella (Canfleld) Peelle. His father 
was a member of Congress and Is now 
Chief Justice of the United States Court 
of Claims. He obtained his preparatory 
education in public and private schools 
and the Columbian University Preparatory 
School in Washington, later entering Co- 
lumbian College, from which he was 
graduated A. B. in 1899, and then stud- 
ied law in George Washington University, 
from which he was graduated LL. B. in 
1902. In 1900 he was Vice-President of 
the George Washington Alumni Associa- 
tion. In collaboration with J. Homer 
Deis he wrote The General Principles 'Of 
the Law of Insurance, which appeared in 
1900. He is a member of the Presbyte- 
rian Church; the Theta Delta Chi college 
fraternity; Military Order of Loyal Le- 
gion; Society of the Colonial Wars; and 
in politics a Republican. On October 25, 
1905, he married Julia F. Ravenel, of 
Washington, D. C, to which union has 
been born a son. Residence: The Con- 
cord. Office: The Kellogg Building. 

PEELLE, STANTON JUDKINS, Judge 
United States Court of Claims, was born 
in Wayne County, Indiana, February 11, 
1843, son of John Cox and Ruth (Smith) 
Peelle. He attended the public schools 
from 1850 to 1860, and later Winchester 
Seminary (Indiana). For a time he 
taught school in Randolph County, In- 
diana, and at the 'Outbreak of the war 
enlisted in the Eighth Indiana Volunteer 
Infantry, becoming successively Corpo- 
ral, Sergeant, and Second Lieutenant (the 
latter promotion being for meritorious 
conduct In battle). After the war he 
studied law, and being admitted to the 
bar in 1866, practiced at Winchester, In- 
diana, until 1869, and later at Indianap- 
olis. From 1877 to 1879 he was a mem- 
ber of the Indiana Legislature; was a 
member of Congress from 1881 to 1885. 
On March 28, 1892, he was selected Judge 
of the United States Court of Claims. 
Judge Peelle is professor of law at George 
Washington University; trustee 'Of How- 
ard University; member of the Boa^rd of 
Managers of the Washington Y. M. C. A.; 
in 1891-92 was a member of the Board of 
Control of the Indiana Reform School. 
He has been twice married — first, to Lou 
R. Perkins, who died in 1873; and on Oc- 
tober 16, 1878, to Arabella Canfield. Res- 
idence: The Concord. 

PEIRCE, HERBERT HENRY DAVIS, 

diplomat, was born at Cambridge, Mass., 
April 11, 1849, son of Prof. Benjamin and 
Sa.rah Hunt (Mills) Pelrce. He was 
graduated from Harvard College in 1871, 
and in 1894 was appointed Secretary of 
the United States Legation at St. Peters- 
burg, Russia, later becoming secretary 
when the legation was changed to an Em- 
bassy. From 1901 to 1906 he was Third 
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1906, he was appointed Envoy Extraordi- 
nary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Nor- 
way. Mr. Peirce studied geology at the 
Royal School 'Of Mines in England. He 
was special counsel in the arbitration 
cases between the United States and Rus- 
sia. Since May 16, 1902, he has been a 
commandeur of the Legion of Honor of 
France. In politics he is a Republican. 
On June 2, 1882, he married Helen N. 
Jose. Residence: 1901 F street, n.w. Ad- 
dress: American Legation, Christiania, 
Norway. 

PELLEW, HENRY EDWARD, philan- 
thropist, was born at Canterbury, En- 
gland, April 26, 1828, son of Hon. and 
Rev. George Pellew, Dean of Norwich, and 
Frances (Addington) Pellew. He was 
graduated from Trinity College, Cam- 
bridge, with the degree of M. A. in 1853, 
and from Oxford University, with the 
degree of M. A. in 1870. Mr. Pellew was 
one of the founders of Beble College, Ox- 
ford, and is a member of the council; 
was for a time Justice of the Peace for 
Middlesex and identified as a member of 
the Board of Governors of the Hanwell 
Lunatic Asylum; Feltham Industrial 
School; Westminster Bridewell, and va- 
rious hospitals, charitable and industrial 
organizations, etc., in England. In 1873 
he removed to the United States and as- 
sisted in the organization of New York 
Bureau of Charities; he was instrumental 
in launching the reform movement for 
better tenement dwellings, and various 
charitable 'organizations for the poor. He 
was a commissioner of the public 
schools; is now President of the Society 
for Improving Conditions of the Poor; the 
Sanitary Reform Society; St. George So- 
ciety, etc. He has been a resident of 
Washington since 1888, and of late has 
actively devoted himself to the work of 
the Protestant Episcopal Church among 
negroes. Mr. Pellew has been twice mar- 
ried: in 1858, to Eliza Jay, who died in 
1868, and in 1873 to Augusta Jay. Resi- 
dence: 1637 Massachusetts avenue. 

PELZ, PAUL JOHANNES, architect, 
was born at Seitendorf, County of Wal- 
denburg, Silesia, Germany, November 18, 
1841, son of Eduard L. and Henriette 
(Helfensreider) Pelz, He attended the 
Colleges of St. Elizabeth and of the Holy 
Spirit at Breslau. At the age of sixteen 
he came to the United States to join his 
father. Mr. Pelz studied architecture in 
New York from 1859 to 1866, and since 
the latter date has been engaged in that 
profession in Washington. For a number 
of years he was identified with the United 
States Lighthouse Board as civil engi- 
neer and architect, in this capacity de- 
signing many lighthouses. Mr. Pelz is the 
architect of the Congressional Lib ary; 
the Public (Carnegie) Library, and Mu- 
sic Hall of Allegheny, Pa.; Georgetown 
University Academic Building, and many 
other public buildings, private residences, 
etc. He is a Fellow of the American In- 



stitute of Architects. On February 23, 
1895, he married Mary Eastbourne Ritter 
Meem. Residence: 2011 F street, n.w. 
Office: Corcoran Building. 

PENDLETON, EDWIN CONWAY, 

Captain, U. S. N.; was born in Virginia 
and was graduated from the United States 
Naval Academy in 1867. He was attached 
to the Minnesota, detailed on special 
duty from 1867 to 1868; was commis- 
sioned Ensign in 1868; advanced to Mas- 
ter in 1870; promoted to Lieutenant in 
1871; commissioned Lieutenant Comman- 
der in Augu.st, 1889; advanced to Com- 
mander in March, 1897, and made Cap- 
tain January 21, 1902. During his caree'r 
as an officer in the navy he has served 
on various vessels and stations; in 1900-02 
was in command of the U. S. S. At- 
lanta, and since 1902 has been super- 
intendent of the United States Naval 
Gun Factory, Navy Yard, Washington, D. 
C. Address: Navy Department. 

PEN FIELD, WILLIAM L., solicitor, 
United States Department of State, was 
born at Dover, Lenawee County, Mich- 
igan, April 2, 1846, son of William and 
Lucindi (Felton) Penfield. He was reared 
on a farm; graduated from the University 
of Michigan in 1870; from that time until 
1872 was instructor in German and Latin 
at Adrian College (Michigan). Later he 
studied law and was admitted to the bar, 
locating at Auburn, Indiana, in 1873. Sub- 
sequently he was elected city attorney; 
in 1884 was a member of the Republican 
State Committee; was presidential elec- 
tor and electoral messenger in 1888; 
served as delegate to the Republican Na- 
tional Convention of 1892; from 1894 to 
1897 was Judge of the Thirty-fifth Judi- 
cial Circuit of Indiana. Mr. Penfield 
acted as counsel for the United States in 
the a bitration between this government 
and Guatemala, San Domingo, Nicaragua, 
Hayti, Salvador and Mexico, and in a 
similar capacity in the Pious Fund case 
of the United States vs. Mexico at The 
Hague, and also in the United States- 
Venezuela arbitration at The Hague in 
1903. He has been Solicitor for the State 
Department since 1897, and is recognized 
as one of the foremost authoities on in- 
ternational law. Mr. Penfield is a mem- 
ber of the Cosmos Club, Indiana State 
Bar Assrciation, and the American Bar 
Association. On June 28, 1875 he mar- 
Hed Luna Walter. Address: State De- 
partment. 

PENNEY, CHARLES G., army officer, 
was born in Ohio, July 14, 1844. He en- 
tered the Union army as a private with the 
Seventy-sixth Ohio Regiment, August 16, 
1S62, and was appointed Second Lieuten- 
ant, Fifty-first (colo ed) Regiment, and 
mustered out of the volunteer service 
June 16. 1866. Was commissioned Cap- 
tain Thirty-eighth U. S. Infantry June 
26, 1883; promoted to Colonel, Twenty- 
ninth Infantry, May 9, 1902, and Briga- 



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dier-General, retired, 1903. Brevetted 
Captain March 2, 1867, for services at the 
battle of Vicltsburg-, Miss.; Lieutenant- 
Colonel and Chief Quartermaster, U. S. 
v., August 11, 1898; honorably mustered 
out March 15, 1899. Address: War De- 
partment. 

PENNINGTON, ALEXANDER CUM- 
MINGS McWHORTER, Brigadier-Gen- 
eral, U. S. A. (retired), was born in New- 
ark, New Jersey, January 8, 1838, son of 
Hon. A. C. M. and Ann J. (Kennedy) 
Pennington. He was graduated from the 
United States Military Academy in 1860, 
and in 1864 received the degree of A. M. 
from Princeton University. He was com- 
missioned Second Lieutenant in 1860, and 
served throughout the Civil War, receiv- 
ing the brevets of Captain, Major, Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel and Colonel, United States 
Army, and Brigadier-General of Volun- 
teers. During the war he served for a 
time as Colonel of the Third New Jer- 
sey Cavalry, and subsequently command- 
ed a cavalry brigade of the Army of the 
Potomac. After the war he served at va- 
rious posts throughout the country until 
1885; from the latter date until 1892 was 
Director of Instruction at the Artillery 
School, Fortress Monroe, Virginia; from 
1892 to 1896 was Artillery Inspector for 
the Department 'Of the East; from 1896 
to 1898 served as Colonel of the Second 
Artillery; and during the Spanish-Amer- 
ican War was promoted to Brigadier- 
General, U. S. v., and made command- 
ing officer of Camp Black, Long Island, 
later succeeding to the command of the 
Department of the Gulf until 1899. On 
October 16, 1899, he was made Brigadier- 
General of the regular army and retired. 
General Pennington is a member of the 
Loyal Legion; Military Order of Foreign 
Wars; Military Order of American Wars, 
etc. On February 5, 1863, he married 
Clara Miller French. Address: War De- 
partment. 

PENNYPACKER, GALUSHA, army of- 
ficer, was born in Chester County, Pa., 
June 1, 1844, only child of Joseph J. and 
Tamson Amelia (Workizer) Pennypacker, 
and was educated at the Phnenixville, Pa., 
Cla??ical In<=titute. He enlisted August 
22, 1861, as Captain of the Ninety-seventh 
Pennsylvania Regiment; served in the 
Tenth Corps of the Department of the 
South, 1862-63, includirg the engagements 
at Forts Wagner and Gregg, siege of 
Charleston and capture of Fernandina 
and Jacksonville, Fla.; joined the Army 
of the James, VI ginia, April, 1864: com- 
manded at Swift Creek, May, Drury's 
Fluff, May 10, Chester Station, May 18, 
and Grefn Plain.?, May 20, 1864. Was in 
successful assault on Fort Fisher, N. C, 
January 15, 1865; received Congressional 
medal of honor for bravery In battle: b'e- 
vetted Mi.ior-General March 1, 1867, and 
Brigadier-General and retired, April 23, 
1904. He was several times wounded, and 
was the youngest general officer in the 



War of the Rebellion. Placed on the re- 
tired list on account of his wounds, 1883. 
Member of the Society of the Cincinnati, 
Loyal Legion, and of the Historical So- 
ciety of Pennsylvania. Address: Phila- 
delphia, Pa., or War Department. 

PENROSE, BOIES, lawyer, U. S. Sen- 
ator, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., No- 
vember 1, 1860, son of Dr. Richard A. 
F. Penrose. He studied under private tu- 
tors and was graduated from Harvard 
College in 1881, being admitted to the 
bar in 1883. He has since practiced his 
profession in Philadelphia. In 1884 Mr. 
Penrose was elected a member of the 
State Legislature; was elected State Sen- 
ator in 1886 and re-elected in 1890 and 
1894, serving as President pro tem. in 
1889 and 1891; was chairman of the Re- 
publican State Committee. 1903 to 1905, 
and delegate to the conventions of 1900 
and 1904; in 1904 was elected a member 
of the National -Republican Committee, 
and in 1897 was elected United States 
Senator from Pennsylvania and reelected 
in 1903. Senator Penrose is the author of 
History of the City Government of Phil- 
adelphia. In politics he is a Republican. 
Legal residence: Philadelphia, Pa. Wash- 
ington address: U. S. Senate. 

PEOPLES, CHRISTIAN JOY, paymas- 
ter, U. S. N., assistant chief of the Bu- 
reau of Supplies and Accounts, Navy De- 
partment. Residence: Florence Court: 
Office: Navy Department. 

PEPPER, CHARLES M., newspaper 
correspondent, was born in the State of 
Ohio, November 11, 1859, son of Rev. 
George W. Pepper. He was graduated 
from Wooster (Ohio) University in 1881; 
was Hawaiian correspondent for the Chi- 
cago Tribune and New York Herald In 
1897; Cuban correspondent for various 
newspapers from 1897 to 1901. Mr. Pep- 
per was a delegate to the Pan-American 
Congress at Mexico City in October, 1901; 
commissioner of the Louisiana Purchase 
Exposition to Cuba in 1902; and in 1903 
was appointed a special Pan-American 
Railway Commissioner by the Secretary 
of State. Mr. Pepper is the author of 
Tomorrow in Cuba. On May 4, 1884, he 
married Kittie Rose Baldwin. Residence: 
1743 U street, n.w. 

PEPPERMAN, WALTER LEON, Chief. 
Office of Administration, Isthmian Canal 
Commission, was born in Alabama. He 
first entered federal employ as secretary 
to the Civil Service Commission; later 
pursued investigations throughout the 
country for that commission and organ- 
ied many of its subsidiary branches. 
When the Philippine Civil Service Com- 
mission was organized he was selected as 
Assistant Secretary, and when the duties 
of that body were interrupted by the in- 
surrection Mr. Pepperman was detailed to 
study governmental methods in various 
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and Northern Africa. He was subse- 
quently made a commissioner of the new- 
ly-created Civil Service Commission in 
the Philippines and in charge of organ- 
ization. He was in this worl< three years, 
then made assistant in the Insular Bureau 
of the War Department, and subsequently 
assistant chief. Upon the organization of 
the Isthmian Canal Commission he was 
selected as assistant chief, and subse- 
quently promoted to chief. Address: Isth- 
mian Canal Commission. 

PERHAM, SIDNEY, formerly Governor 
of Maine, was born at Woodstock, Me., 
March 27, 1819, and educated in the public 
schools. For a number of years he was 
engaged in farming and as a teacher in 
country schools; in 1852 he was a mem- 
ber of the State Board of Agriculture; 
served as Speaker of the State Legisla- 
ture in 1855. He was a presidential elec- 
tor in 1856 and 1892; from 1859 to 1862 
was Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court 
of Oxford County, Maine; was a Repre- 
sentative In Congress from 1863 to 1869, 
and from 1871 to 1874 was Governor of 
Maine. He is a Republican in politics. 
In 1843 Mr. Perham married Almina J. 
Hathaway. Address: 905 Westminster 
avenue, n.w. 

PERKINS, CHARLES PLUMMER, 

Captain, U. S. N., was born at Great 
Vails, New Hampshire, February 18, 1S48, 
s')n ol Moses P. and Elizabeth (Nute) 
Perkins. He attended the public schools 
and was graduated frjm the Unite-l 
StaLes Naval Academy In 1869; in 187i 
was promoted to Ensign; commissi jn-il 
Ma'-ter in 1872; advanced to Lieutenant 
in lo74; made Lieutenant Commander in 
1896; promoted to Commander in 1899 and 
Captain in 1904. Among various duties 
in his life as an officer of the navy, Capt. 
Perkins was detailed on the Amazon sur- 
vey in 1878; was with the relief expedi- 
tion for locating the Jeanette in 1881; 
attached to the Tampico River expedi- 
tion in 1883; during the Spanish-Amer- 
ican War was on board the Monitor Mon- 
adnock at Manila; since that time he has 
been in command of various vessels. He 
Is a member of the Bohemian Club, of 
San Francisco, and the New York Yacht 
Club. He has been twice married — on 
August 19, 1885, to Kate Stevens, and on 
October 8, 1904, to El'en O. Graves. Ad- 
dress: Navy Department. 

PERKINS, FRANK WALLEY, Assist- 
ant Superintendent U. S. Coast and Geo- 
detic Survey, was born at Staten Island, 
New York, June 24, 1844, son of Francis 
land Miriam Phillips (Walley) Perkins. 
He received his education at various in- 
stitutions in New York, until 1855; from 
1855 to 1858 attended Canaan (New 
Hampshire) Academy; from 1858 to 1860, 
Middleboro (Massachusetts) Academy; 
1860-61, Eagleswood (New Jersey) Insti- 
tute; 1861-62, Pujol (New York) Military 
Academy. During the Civil War he was 



a Special Relief Officer of the United 
States Sanitary Commission; was Sani- 
tary 'Storekeeper with the Army of the 
Potomac, and later second officer at the 
Sanitary Hospital at Washington. On 
June 10. 1863, he became an aid and as- 
sistant with the Coast and Geodetic Sur- 
vey, and has since been promoted to his 
present position. Mr. Perkins is a mem- 
ber of the American Association for th« 
Advancement .of Science; National Geo- 
graphic Society, etc. Residence: 1620 Q 
street, n.w. Office: Coast and Geodetic 
Survey. 

PERKINS, GEORGE CLEMENT, mer- 
chant, Senator from California, was born 
at Kennebunkport, Maine, in 1839, and ed- 
ucated in the public schools. He was 
reared on a farm until thirteen years of 
age, when he shipped as a sailor before 
the mast. After several voyages to Eu- 
rope and other world pofts he arrived in 
San Francisco in 1855, locating in an in- 
terior town of the State of California and 
entered into business. He has since been 
engaged in banking, farming, mining, 
whaling, steamship transportation, mer- 
chandising and manufacturing enterprises. 
He was State Senator for eight years, be- 
ginning 1869; from 1879 to 1883 was Gov- 
ernor of California; was appointed United 
States Senator in 1893, and has since 
been re-elected three terms. His present 
term will expire March, 1909. Mr. Per- 
kins was formerly president of the Mer- 
chants' Exchange of San Francisco, and 
of the San Francisco Art Association; he 
Is a director in the California Academy 
■of Sciences, and several other scientific, 
benevolent and fraternal associations. 
Legal residence: Oakland, California. 
Washington address: Stoneleigh Court. 

PERKINS, JAMES BRECK, lawyer, 
Congressman, was born at St. Croix Falls, 
Wisconsin, November 4, 1847, son of 
Hamlet H. and Margaret A. (Breck) Per- 
kins. He attended public schools and 
was graduated in 1867 from the Univer- 
sity of Rochester (New York), in 1868 
being admitted to the bar. Since that 
time he has been engaged in the practice 
of his profession. From 1874 to 1878 .Hr. 
Perkins served as city attorney of Roch- 
ester, N. Y.; from 1890 to 1895 he was 
located at Paris, France, where he was 
engaged in historical research and study; 
in 1898 he was a member of the New 
York assembly, and since 1901 has been 
a member of Congress, representing the 
Thirty-second New York District. He is 
the author of France Under Mazarin; 
France Under the Regency; France Un- 
der Louis XV; Life of Richelieu, etc., and 
also a number of articles for periodicals. 
Mr. Perkins is a member of the National 
Institute of Arts and Letters, and in 1897 
received the honorary degree of LL. D. 
from the University of Ro'chester. In 
politics he is a Republican, and in reli- 
gion a member of the Episcopal Church. 
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Martindale. Legal residence: Rochester, 
New York. Washington address: 1613 
New Hampshire avenue. 

PERRY, ALEXANDER JAMES, army 
officer was born in New London, Conn., 
December 11, 1828. He was graduated 
from the U. S. Military Academy in 1851, 
and served against the Seminole Indians 
in 1852, and was professor of mathemat- 
ics at West Point from 1852 to 1857. He 
was Chief Quartermaster, Department of 
Florida, in the Civil War, and took part 
in relief and defense of Fort Pickens. He 
was retired with the rank of Brigadier- 
General on April 23, 1904. Residence: 
2003 I street, n.w. 

PERRY, DAVID, Brigadier-General, U. 
S. A. (retired), was born in Connecticut 
July 11, 1841, and appointed a second lieu- 
tenant in the United States Cavalry on 
March 24, 1862. He was promoted to 
First Lieutenant July 27, 1862; made 
Captain, November 12, 1864; commis- 
sioned Major April 29, 1879; advanced to 
Lieutenant-Colonel, in 1891, and promoted 
to Colonel and retired (by reason of dis- 
ability incurred in duty) on July 5, 1898. 
On April 23, 1904, he was advanced to 
the rank of Brigadier-General, retired. 
He was thrice brevetted for conspicuous 
bravery; Major, for services during the 
Civil War; Lieutenant-Colonel, for gal- 
lantry in action against hostile Indians in 
Idaho in 1866; and Colonel for bravery in 
action against Indians in Oregon, on 
April 5, 1869. Address: War Department. 

PERRY, THOMAS, Captain, U. S. N., 
was born at Elmira, New York, May 26, 
1844, son of Guy Maxwell Perry. He was 
graduated from the United States Naval 
Academy in 1865 and has subsequently 
served and been promoted through suc- 
cessive grades to the rank of Captain. He 
was in command of the Lancaster at the 
naval supply base at Key West at the 
time of the Spanish-American War; from 
1899 to 1901 was Naval Secretary of the 
Lighthouse Board; later was in command 
of the Iowa; from 1901 to 1903, stationed 
on the Pacific and North Atlantic sta- 
tions; attached to the New York Navy 
Yard from May, 1903, to May, 1904, since 
which latter date he has been Command- 
ant of the Pensacola Navy Yard. Ad- 
dress: Navy Department. 

PERSON, ROBERT S., auditor. United 
States Treasury Department, was born at 
Sheldon, New York, May 14, 1857, son of 
Solomon H. and Mary Ransom Person. 
He attended the East Aurora (New York) 
Academy; Chesbrough (New York) Sem- ■ 
inary; studied two years at Beloit, Wis- 
consin, and was graduated with the de- 
gree of LL. B. from Columbian (now 
George Washington) University. He 
served two years as principal of the high 
school at Woonsocket, South Dakota, 
which school he organized; entered jour- 
nalistic work at Howard, South Dakota, 
24 



subsequently becoming editor and pub- 
lisher of the Howard Press. In 1895 he 
was secretary of the State Senate; in 
1896-97, was secretary of the Republican 
State Central Committee; in 1897 he was 
appointed Deputy Auditor, and in 1901 
became Auditor for the United States 
Treasury Department. In 1884 Mr. Per- 
son married Ellen A. Persons. Residence: 
3112 Q street, n.w. Office: U. S. Treasury 
Department. 

PETER, ARTHUR, lawyer was born at 
Rockville, Md., November 16, 1873, son of 
George and Lavinia (Gassaway) Peter, 
his father being State's Attorney a.nd 
President of the State Senate, and his 
mother being a descendant of Nicholas 
Gassaway, Judge of the Superior Court 
of the Province of Maryland, in 1691. At 
the age of twenty he was graduated from 
the Law Department of the National Uni- 
versity In Washington, with honors. At 
twenty-one he entered the law office of 
Arthur A. Birney, the District Attorney 
for the District of Columbia, and in 1896 
was a partner for a short time, but re- 
tired from business for a year on account 
of 111 health. In 1899, delivered a course 
of lectures on Testamentary Law at the 
National University, and in 1900 on the 
same subject at Columbian Universi'iy. 
and is at present professor of evidence at 
the same institution. He is a member of 
the American Bar Association, and of the 
Maryland and District of Columbia Bar As- 
sociations, of the Metropolitan and Chevy 
Chase Clubs, of the Society of the Cin- 
cinnati, and of the Orders of Masons and 
Odd Fellows. Residence: Metropolitan 
Club. Office: Washington Loan & Tru^t 
Building. 

PETER, G. FREELAND, assistant rec- 
tor of St. Mark's Episcopal Church. Res- 
idence: Tudor Place, Thirty-first street, 
n.w. 

PETER, WALTER GIBSON, architect, 
was born in Washington, D. C, June 24, 
1868, son of Dr. Peter Armistead and 
Martha C. (Kennon) Peter, one ancestor 
having been the first Mayor of George- 
town, and another commanded the First 
Battery of Flying Artillery in the United 
States. He was educated at Rittenhouse 
Academy, Columbia College, and the Mas- 
sachusetts Institute of Technology, grad- 
uating from the latter in 1890. He Is an 
Episcopalian, and a member of the Amer- 
ican Institute of Architects; the Wash- 
ington Architectural Club; Chevy Chase 
and Metropolitan Clubs, and the Delta 
Tau Delta college fraternity. Residence: 
Tudor Place. Thirty-first street, n.w. Of- 
fice: 520 Thirteenth street, n.w. 

PETERS, ANDREW J., lawyer. Con- 
gressman, was born in Boston, Mass., 
April 3, 1872. He was graduated from 
Harvard in 1S95 and the Harvard Law 
School In 1898. In 1902 he was a mem- 
ber of the Massachusetts House of Rep- 



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resentatives and of the State Senate for 
two terms, in 1904 and 1905. In 1906 he 
was elected a member of the Sixtieth Con- 
gress from the Eleventh Massachusetts 
District as a Democrat. He is unmar- 
ried. Legal residence: Boston, Mass. 
Washington address: House of Repre- 
sentatives. 

PETERS, BENJAMIN F., chief clerk 
of the Navy Department, was born at 
Har;isburg, Pa., in 1853. He attended a 
business college in Philadelphia and came 
to Washington to take a clerkship in th- 
Navy Department, graduating from the 
George Washington University in 1884, 
becoming Chief Clerk in March, 1897. 
Residence: 140 C street, s.e. Office: Navy 
Department. 

PETTIS, WILLIAM M. (D. D., M. D >, 

clergyman, rector of the Grace Episcopal 
Church. Residence: 1724 Corcoran sTcel, 
n.w. 

PETTIT, JAMES SUMNER, Colonel, U. 
S. A., was born at Lisbon, Ohio, Augu.«t 
4, 1856, son of Stacy and Grazella CClark) 
Pettit. He attended the public schools 
and was graduated in 1878 from the 
United States Military Academy, standing 
Sixth in his class. He was commissioned 
Second Lieutenant and detailed at Fort 
Sully, Dakota; from 1880 to 1884 was in- 
structor in drawing and tactics at the 
United States Military Academy; served 
in Arizona and New Mexico from 1885 to 
1886, participating in the Geronimo cam- 
paign; from 1882 to 1892 was instructor 
in natural and experimental philosophy 
■at the United States Military Academy, 
and from 1892 to 1896 professor of mil- 
itary science and the art of war at Yale 
University. He commanded a regiment 
in the Spanish-American War, and was 
appointed Colonel U. S. V. From 1898 to 
1899 he was Military and Civil Governor 
of the Province of Manzanillo, Cuba; in 
1899 was ordered to the Philippines, where 
he acted as Commander of the Moro Dis- 
trict of Mindanao and Jolo for several 
months, and later as Governor of the sec- 
ond district of Mindanao and Jolo, which 
post he occupied for two years. He par- 
ticipated in the Moro campaign in 1902; 
acted as Assistant Inspector General and 
Assistant Adjutant-General. Colonel Pet- 
tit received the honorary degree of A. M. 
from Yale; he is a member of the Military 
Order of the Loyal Legion; Order of For- 
eign Wars; United States Infantry Asso- 
ciation (Vice-President); Order of the 
Carabao; Spanish War Veterans; Army 
and Navy Club (New York) ; Army and 
Navy and University Clubs of Washing-' 
ton. He is the author of two tactical 
text books, and is a member of the Prot- 
estant Episcopal Church. On November 
22, 1886, he married Bessie Bryson Sharp. 
Address: War Department. 

PETTUS, EDMUND WINSTON, Unit- 
ed States Senator from Alabama, was 



born in Limestone County, Alabama, July 
6, 1821, son of John and Alice T. (Win- 
ston) Pettus. He attended the public 
schools and Clinton College (Smith Coun- 
ty, Tennessee), later studying law. He 
was admitted to the bar in 1842 and began 
practicing his profession at Gainesville, 
Ala.; was solicitor for the Seventh Cir- 
cuit in 1844; went to California in 1849, 
and on his return ip 1855 was elected 
Judge of the Seventh District. In 1858 
he resigned the latter position and re- 
moved to Dallas County, where he again 
entered into law practice; in 1861 he en- 
tered the Confederate Army as a Major 
of the Twentieth Alabama Infantry, later 
becoming Lieutenant-Colonel of that reg- 
iment, and subsequently, Brigadier-Gen- 
eral, and serving throughout the war. 
Since the war he has been practicing law. 
He was elected United States Senator in 
1897 and re-elected in 1903. Mr. Pettus 
has always been a Democrat; has been 
a delegate to all the national conventions 
of that party except the first and last, 
since the Civil War. On June 27, 1844, he 
married Mary S. Chapman. Died July 27, 
1907. Legal residence: Selma, Ala. 

PEYSER, JULIUS I., lawyer, was born 
in Washington, D. C, July 6, 1875, son of 
Philip and Natalie Pfeyser. He attended 
the Washington public schools and grad- 
uated from Spencerian College in 1891; 
Georgetown University, in 1899, with the 
degree of LL. B.; Columbian (now George 
Washington) University, in 1890, with 
that of LL. M., and from the same insti- 
tution in 1891, with that of D. C. L. By 
profession he is a lawyer, and practices 
in Washington. Mr. Peyser is a director 
in the Merchants' and Mechanics' Savings 
Bank; a Mason; member of the Mercan- 
tile Club; Bar Association, etc. In reli- 
gion he is a member of the reform branch 
of the Jewish Church, and in politics, a 
Democrat. He is the autlior of several 
papers on the influence of the Mosaic code 
on the law of the early New England set- 
tlers. On October 2, 1906, he married 
Miriam I. Prince. Residence: 1523 Six- 
teenth street, n.w. Office: Century Build- 
ing. 

PFISTER, CARLO, Naval Attache, Ital- 
ian Embassy. Address: 1400 New Hamp- 
shire avenue. 

PHELPS, HARRY, Lieutenant-Com- 
mander, U. S. N., was boTn in Jersey City, 
N. J., February 10, 1861, son of Henry e! 
and Julia A. (Truesdale) Phelps. He was 
graduated from the United States Naval 
Academy in 1880; vwas attached as acting 
Midshipman to the European Station from 
1880 to 1882; was commissioned Midship- 
man in 1882; made Junior Ensign in 1882 
and full Ensign on June 26, 1884; com- 
missioned Junior Lieutenant on June 19, 
1892; made Lieutenant May 10, 1896, and 
Lieutenant-Commander June 8, 1902. He 
was attached to the Coast Survey from 
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Northern Pacific Survey from 1884 to 1888; 
served on board the Texas during the 
Spanish-American War. Commander 

Phelps has served on various stations and 
on board a number of vessels during his 
life as a naval officer in addition to those 
given above. He is the author of Prac- 
tical Marine Surveying. On April 1, 1883, 
he married Mary E. Thompson. Address: 
Navy Department. 

PHILLIPS, DUNCAN CLINCH, army 
officer and manufacturer, was born at 
Pittsburg, Pa., March 1, 1838, son of the 
late Capt. Elias Mahon (Ormsby) Phil- 
lips. He was graduated from Brown Uni- 
versity in 1861, and entered military serv- 
ice as Lieutenant of the Fourth Pennsyl- 
vania Cavalry, and served in the Army of 
the Potomac, and participated in many 
battles, resigning as Major, February 16, 
1865. He then returned to Pittsburg and 
engaged in the manufacture of glass until 
1886. He removed to Washington in 1S97. 
He is a member of the Metropolitan and 
Chevy Chase Clubs. He married Eliza 
Irwin Laughlin, daughter of James 
Laughlin, of Pittsburg, and they have twc 
sons. Residence: 1600 Twenty-first 
street. 

PHILLIPS, E. F., scientist, In charge 
of agricultural investigations in the Bu- 
reau of Entomology, U. S. Department of 
Agriculture. Residence: 2140 N street, 
n.w. Office: Department of Agriculture. 

PHILLIPS, HERMAN A., journal clerk. 
House of Representatives. Residence: 
3327 Eighteenth street, n.w. Office: 
House of Representatives. 

PHILLIPS, WILLIAM FOWKE RAV- 
EN EL, physician, was born in Bedford 
County, Virginia, July 13, 1863, son of 
Dinwiddie B. and Nannie F. (Walden) 
Phillips. He attended school at Chatham, 
Va., from 1875 to 1878, and in 1890 was 
graduated from the medical department 
of Columbian (now George Washington) 
University. From 1895 to 1904 he held 
the position of medical climatologist in 
the United States Weather Bureau, and 
from 1898 to 1904 was also in charge of 
the library at that bureau. Since 1904 Dr. 
Phillips has been dean of the department 
of medicine of the George Washington 
University. In 1891 and 1892 he was 
prfeissor of hygiene at that university, 
and again since 1895. Dr. Phillips is a 
member of the American Climatologlcai 
Association (vice-president in 1902 and 
pre?ident in 1905); of the Anatomical 
Board of the District of Columbia (sec- 
retary since 1902); of the National Geo- 
graphic Society; Philosophical Society of 
Washington, etc. He was the editor of 
Climate and Health, an official publica- 
tion of the U. S. Weather Bureau, and 
is a contributor to magazines on the sub- 
ject of medical climatology. Unmarried. 
Address: 1607 Sixteenth street, n.w. 



PHIPPS. FRANK HUNTINGTON, 

Colonel, U. S. A., was born at Northamp- 
ton, Mass., August 9, 1843, son of George 
W. and Sophia Ann (Lyman) Phipps. He 
attended public and private schools and, 
for a time, the University of Pennsyl- 
vania; was graduated from the United 
States Military Academy in 1863, serving 
in the Civil War from that time until the 
declaration cf peace. Since that time he 
has been attached to the Army Ordnance 
Bureau, and promoted through various 
grades to the rank of Colonel. From 1894 
to 1899 he was a member of the Board 
of Ordnance and Fortification; he is now 
in commmd of the Springfield Armory. 
Colonel Phipps has been twice married— 
on June 1, 1867, to Louisa De Hart Pat- 
terson, who died in 1881, and on Novem- 
ber 13, 1894, to Anna Lally. Address: 
War Departmen:. 

PICKETT, LA SALLE CORBELL 

(Mrs.) author, was born at Chuckatuck, 
Va., Mav 16, 1848, daughter of John D. 
and Elizabeth Mary (Phillips) Corbell. 
She attended Lynchburg College, and in 
1863 began writing for the Illustrated 
News. Sine© that time she has contrib- 
uted to various periodicals and newspa- 
pers, poems, short stories, special articles, 
etc. She is the author of Pickett and 
His Men; Kunnoo Sperits; Yule Log; Ebil 
Eye; Jinny; Digging Through to Manila; 
Personal Reminiscences of Presidents Da- 
vis and Lincoln and Generals Lee, Jack- 
son, Grant, etc. Mrs. Pickett is a. mem- 
ber of the Episcopalian Church; League 
of American Penwomen; Women's Na- 
tional Press Association, etc. She is the 
widow of Gen. George Edward Pickett, 
C. S. A., to whom she was married on 
September 15, 1863. Residence: The On- 
tario. 

PIERCE, CHARLES C, clergyman, was 
born at Salem, 'N. J., on February 6, 1858, 
and was educated at the New Jersey 
State Normal School, Shurtleff College, 
Illinois Wesleyan University, Crozer The- 
ological Seminary, and Divinity School of 
Shurtleff College. He has received the 
degrees of Ph. B.. A. B., B. D. and D. D. 
Pastorates have been served by him at 
Jacksonville, 111., Leavenworth, Kans., 
Lincoln, Nebr., and Philadelphia, Pa. 
While serving in the Philippines he found- 
ed the Episcopal Church in the Islands, 
and served as rector in Manila and in 
general oversight of the work of his 
Church in Luzon until his retur* to the 
United States. 1898-1901. Ill health com- 
pelled a declination of overtures from 
Bishops to stand for election as Bisho]' 
of the Philippine Islands in 1901. In the 
same year he was elected by the House 
of Bishops as Bishop of North Dakota, 
but confirmation by the House of Deputies 
was defeated by a tie vote because of a 
question of health. While a pastor in 
Lincoln, Nebr., he was Chaplain of the 
State Senate; represented the War De- 
partment at the International Prison Con- 



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gresses at Pittsburg and Baltimore. In 
Washington, lie has been, for seven suc- 
cessive seasons, the special preacher at the 
open-air services on the site of the Ca- 
thedral of Saints Peter and Paul, by ap- 
pointment of the Bishop of Washington. 
He is the author of The Tagals, published 
by the National Social Science Associa- 
tion of Philadelphia and republished in 
Paris, France; The Hunger of the Heart 
of Faith, published in Milwaukee. He 
was then appointed Chaplain of the Ninth 
United States Cavalry in December, 1882, 
and resigned his commission in June, 
1884; appointed Post Chaplain August 12, 
1888; sprved at Fort Riley, Kans., with 
Ninth Cavalry; at Fort Supply, Indian 
Territory, with Thirteenth Infantry and 
Fifth Cavalry; at Fort Leavenworth, 
Kans.. with Twelfth Infantry, Twentieth 
Infantry and Sixth Cavalry; at United 
States Military Prison, Fort Leavenworth; 
at Fort Apache, Arizona, with First Cav- 
alry. Seventh Cavalry and Eleventh In- 
fantry; at Camp Merritt, California, as 
Br'gade Chaplain First Brigade, regular 
tr j'ops. and in charge of the office of iden- 
t'fication, in which he organized the pres- 
ent army system of identification of the 
dead and supervised the removal of the 
remains of soldiers to their homes; en 
route to' Washington, D. C, with the re- 
mains of Major-General Lawton and oth- 
ers; at Fort Myer, Virginia, with Fifth 
Cavalry, Eleventh Cavalry. Third and 
Fourth Batteries of Artillery, Seventh 
Cavalry, Fifteenth Cavalry, Thirteen Cav- 
alry; at Washington Barracks, D. C, as 
Chaplain of the Corps of Engineers; at 
Camp Columbia, Havana, Cuba, as senior 
Chaplain of the Army of Cuban Pacifica- 
tion. He was promoted to the grade of 
Major as "worthy of special distinction 
for exceptional eflficiency," June 14. 1904. 
Department Chaplain, United Spanish 
War Veterans for the District of Colum- 
bia. Residence: Washington Barracks, 
D. C. 

PIERCE, ULYSSES GRANT BAKER, 

Unitarian clergyman, was born at Provi- 
dence, R. I., July 17, 1865, son of Elisha 
W. and Elizabeth W. (Barney) Pierce. 
He was graduated from Hillsdale College 
(Michigan) and from Harvard University, 
graduating from the latter (postgraduate 
course), in 1891. He is at present minis- 
ter of All Souls' Church in Washington, 
D. C. Dr. Pierce is the author of The 
Soul of the Bible. He is a member of 
the Delta Tau Delta fraternity; a Knight 
Templar; f>nd a member of the Cosmos 
Club. On July 27, 1891, he married Flor- 
ence LonBbury. Address: 1616 Riggs 
Place. 

PIERRE, CARRIE E., President, Home 
for Friendless Colored Girls. Residence: 
718 Twenty-third street, n.w. 

PIETERS, ADRIAN JOHN, botanist, 
was born at Alto, Wis., November 18, 
1866, son of Roelof and Henrietta (van 



Zwaluenburg) Pieters. He was graduat- 
ed from the University of Michigan in 
1894, and subsequently made a special 
study of botany. Mr. Pieters has been 
botanist in charge of seed and plant in- 
troduction and distribution of the United 
States Department of Agriculture since 
July 1, 1902. He is a member of the So- 
ciety of Plant Morphology and Physiol- 
ogy; Washington Botanical Society and 
Washington Academy of Sciences. On 
June 30, 1896, he married Hattie May Bai- 
ley. Residence: Takoma Park, D. C. Of- 
fice: Department of Agriculture. 

PIGMAN, GEORGE WOOD, Rear Ad- 
miral, U. S. N. (retired), was born at 
Delphi, Ind., December 16, 1843, son of 
George W. and Caroline S. Pigman. He 
was appointed to the United States Navy 
from civil life on September 28, 1861; at- 
tended the United States navy school from 
1861 to 1864; was attached to the sloop 
Brooklyn when that vessel was flagship 
of the Brazil fleet from 1866 to 1867; was 
commissioned Master December 1, 1866; 
made Lieutenant March 12, 1868; promot- 
ed to Lieutenant-Commander October 28, 
1869; advanced to Commander October 12, 
1886; made Captain March 3, 1899, and 
Rear Admiral October 4, 1904. Admiral 
Pigman served on various stations and 
vessels; was in command of the Alliance 
from 1888 to 1889; of the Bennington from 
1895 to 1897; of the Wabash from 1901 
to 1904, and was retired on January 11, 
1905. On November 7, 1871, he married 
Lillie C. Howard. Address: Navy De- 
partment. 

PILES, SAMUEL HENRY, United 
States Senator from Washington, was 
born on a farm in Livingston County, 
Kentucky, December 28, 1858, and edu- 
cated in private schools. He 'Studied law 
and was admitted to the bar, and in 1882 
located in the Territory of Washington, 
beginning the practice of bis profession at 
Snohomish in 1883. For a time he prac- 
ticed in Spokane, and then located in 
Seattle in 1886. where he has since re- 
sided. From 1887 to 1889 he was assist- 
ant prosecuting attorney for a Washing- 
ton district; from 1888 to 1889 was city 
attorney of Seattle; in 1895 was selected 
as general counsel for the Oregon Im- 
provement Company; and on January 28, 
1905, was elected to the United States 
Senate. In politics Mr. Piles is a Repub- 
lican. Legal residence: Seattle, Wash. 
Washington address: U. S. Senate. 

PILLSBURY, JOHN ELLIOTT, Cap- 
tain, U. S. N., was born at Lowell, Mass., 
December 15. 1845, son of John Gilman 
and Elizabeth Wimble Pillsbury. He was 
graduated from the United States Naval 
Academy in 1867; was commissioned En- 
sign in 1868; promoted to Master in 1870; 
made Lieutenant in 1872; advanced to 
Lieutenant-Commander July 1, 1892; com- 
missioned Commander August 10, 1898, 
and Captain, November 10, 1902. Among: 



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other duties, he has served one year with 
the Hydrographic Office; ten years in 
work connected with coast surveying; was 
in command of the Blake (Coast Survey 
vessel) from 1884 to 1891, and detailed 
to investigate the Gulf Stream, concern- 
ing which he has discovered many facts. 
Duiing the Spanish- American War he 
was in command of the dynamite cruiser 
Vesuvius; subsequently he was detailed 
at the Boston Navy Yard in charge of 
the equipment bureau; during 1901 and 
1902 he was in command of the U. S. S. 
Prairie, and later, in Washington, detailed 
as a member of the General Navy Board 
and as assistant to the chief of the Bu- 
reau of Navigation. In 1905 he was Chief 
of Staff of the North Atlantic Squadron. 
Capt. Pillsbury is -the inventor of an in- 
strument to determine rate of current; 
he is a member of the American Acad- 
emy of Arts and Sciences and a Fellow 
of the American Association for the Ad- 
vancement of Science. In 1873 he mar- 
ried Florence Greenwood Aitchison. Ad- 
dress: Navy Department. 

PINA, DON RAMON, Chamberlain to 
His Catholic Majesty, Envoy Extraordi- 
nary and Minister Plenipotentiary from 
Spain to the United States. Residence: 
The Connecticut. 

PINCHBACK, PINCKNEY BENTON 
STEWART, retired lawyer, was born at 
Macon, Ga., on May 10, 1837, and is of 
African descent. His education was ob- 
tained in the common schools of Cincin- 
nati, O., and from 1862 to 1863 he served 
in the Union Army as Captain of Com- 
pany A, Second Louisiana Native Guards. 
In 1867 he was a delegate to the Recon- 
struction Convention of Louisiana; was a 
State Senator of Louisiana from 1868-71; 
President pro tempore of the State Sen- 
ate and Lieutenant-Governor from 1871- 
72, and was acting Governor in 1872. In 
1872 he was elected to Congress from 
Louisiana, and in the following January 
two Legislatures sat, one of them naming 
him for U. S. Senator for the term begin- 
ning March 4, 1873, but the seat was con- 
tested and decided against him on March 
8, 1876. He was a delegate to the Con- 
stitutional Convention of Louisiana in 
1879, and in 1882 he was Surveyor of Cus- 
toms at New Orleans, thereafter engaging 
in the practice of law. Since 1868 he has 
been a delegate to every National Repub- 
lican Convention. In 1860, he married 
Nina Hethorn, at New Orleans. Resi- 
dence: 1422 Bacon street, n.w. 

PINCHOT, GIFFORD, forester, was 
born at Simsbury, Conn., August 11, 1865, 
son of James W. and Mary (Eno) Pin- 
chot. He was graduated from Yale Uni- 
versity in 1889 and studied forestry in 
France, Germany, Switzerland, and Aus- 
tria. He inaugurated the first example 
of practical forest management in the 
United States at Biltmore, N. C, in Jan- 
uary 1892. He was a member of the Na- 



tional Forest Commission appointed by 
the National Academy of Sciences in 18^)5, 
at the request of the Secretary of the In- 
terior, to investigate and report upon the 
inauguration of a national forest poli'^y 
for the forested lands of the United 
States. Mr. Pinchot is Chief of the For- 
est Service, U. S. Department of Agri- 
culture. In 1898 he was appointed Chief 
of the Division of Forestry, which later 
became the Bureau of Forestry, and is 
now known as the Forest Service. He 
received the honorary degree of M. A. 
from Yale University in 1901 and from 
Princeton University in 1904, and the 
honorary degree of Doctor of Science 
from the Michigan Agricultural College in 
1907. Mr. Pinchot is a member of the 
Committee on Organization of Govern- 
ment Scientific Work, appointed by Pres- 
ident Roosevelt March 13, 1903; of the 
Commission on the Public Lands, ap.- 
pointed October 22, 1903; of the Commit- 
tee on Department Methods, appointed 
June 2, 1905, and of the Inland Water- 
ways Commission, appointed March 14, 
1907. He is the author of the Adiron- 
dack Spruce; A Primer of Forestry and 
a number of other contributions to Amer- 
ican forest literature. He is chairman of 
the executive committee of the American 
Forestry Association. Unmarried. Res- 
idence: 1615 Rhode Island avenue. Offict : 
U. S. Forest Service. 

PINCHOT, JAMES WALLACE, retired 
merchant, was born at Milford, Pike 
County, Pennsylvania, in 1831, son of 
Cyril C. D. and Eliza Cross Pinchot. He 
was educated in private academies; went 
to New York in 1850 and entered upon a 
business career from which he retired in 
1875. He was a member and first treas- 
urer of the executive committee for the 
Bartholdi Liberty Statue; was one of the 
early subscribers to the Metropolitan Mu- 
seum of Art; one of the founders of the 
Yale Forest School, and founder of the 
Yale Summer School of Forestry and the 
Milford Forest Experiment Station. Mr. 
Pinchot is a member of the Chamber of 
Commerce of New York; a vice-president 
of the American Forestry Association; a 
member of the Society of American For- 
esters; the American Museum of Natural 
History; the New York Botanical Gar- 
den; the National Academy of Design; 
the National Sculpture Society; the Mu- 
nicipal Art Society of New York; the Civil 
Service Reform Association; the Amer- 
ican Association for the Advancement of 
Science; the American Academy of Polit- 
ical and Social Science; the American 
Scenic and Historic Preservation Society; 
The American Geographical Society; the 
New York Society of the Archaeological 
Institute of America; the Association for 
the Protection of the Adirondacks; the 
Navy Relief Society; the Armstrong As- 
sociation; the Century Association and 
the Grolier and the City Clubs of New 
York; and the Metropolitan and the Cos- 
mos Clubs of Washington. Mr. Pinchot 



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received the honorary degree of Master 
of Arts from Yale University in 1905. In 
1864 he ma.ried Mary Eno. Residence: 
1615 Rhode Island avenue. 

PIPER, CHARLES VANCOUVER, bi- 
ologist, agrostologist, was born at Victo- 
ria British Columbia, June 16, 1867, son 
of A. W. and Minna (Hausman) Piper. 
He attended the University of Washing- 
ton from 1881 to 1885, graduating in the 
latter year with the degree of B. S., and 
Harvard University during 1899. He later 
received the degree of M. S. from the for- 
mer institution in 1892, and the degree 
of M. S. from Harvard in 1899. From 
1892 to 1902 he was professor of biology 
at the Washington State College; from 
1902 to 1904 was assistant agrostologist 
of the United States Department of Ag- 
riculture, and since 1904 has been agros- 
tologist. He is the author of various sci- 
entific articles, books, pamphlets, etc., 
principally on botanical, entomological 
and kindred subjects. Mr. Piper is a 
member of the Botanical Society of 
Washington; Biological Society of Wash- 
ington; Geographical Society of Wash- 
ington; and the Entomological Society. 
On September 15, 1897, he married Maude 
Hungate. Residence: The Wallis, 1647 
Lamont street, n.w. Office: Department 
of Agriculture. 

PITZER, ALEXANDER WHITE, Pres- 
byterian clergyman, was bo:n at Salem, 
Roanoke County, Virginia, September 14, 
1834, son of Bernard and Frances L. 
(White) Pitzer. He attended the Virginia 
Collegiate Institute and was graduated 
from Hampden-Sidney College in 1854; 
studied a year at the Union Theological 
Seminary, and for two years at Danville, 
Ky. He became a Presbyterian clergy- 
man on September 5, 1856; from 1858 to 
1861, pastor of the First Church of Leav- 
en wo: th, Kans.; was engaged in preach- 
ing in Virginia and Greorgia until 1867; 
came to Washington in 1867 as an evan- 
gelist, and on May 31, 1868, organized the 
Central Presbyterian Church, of which he 
has since been pastor. From 1876 to 1890 
he was professor of Biblical theology at 
Howard University; since 1873 he has 
been president of the Washington Bible 
Society; since 1872 state clerk of the 
Presbytery of Chesapeake; since 1886 
president of the Evangelical Alliance of 
Washington; trustee of Hampden-Sidney 
College since 1865; was a delegate to the 
World's Missionary Conference at Lon- 
don in 1888. Dr. Pitzer is a member of 
the legislative committee of the Amer- 
ican Sabbath Union; was a member of 
the Toronto Council of General Presby- 
terian Alliance; is now member of the 
permanent commission of the Western 
Section of the same body; member of the 
Committee on Foreign Missions and Sab- 
bath Schools; has been a commissioner to 
six General Assemblies of the Presbyte- 
rian Church; was delegate to New York 
Pre-Millennarian Conference in 1878; and 



in 1882 assisted in the closer co-ordination 
of the Southern Presbyterian Church with 
that of the North. He is the author of 
a number of books on religious subjects, 
and is an occasional contributor to reli- 
gious periodicals and magazines. He 
married Laura McClanahan on August 20, 
1860. Address: 517 Fourth street, n.w. 

PLATT, THOMAS COLLIER, United 
States Senator from New York, was born 
in Owego, New York, July 15, 1833, and 
educated at the Owego Academy and Yale 
College. Because of ill health he was 
compelled to leave the latter institution 
before graduation with his class in 1853. 
In 1876 Yale University conferred the 
honorary deg;ee of A. M. upon him. He 
entered upon a business'career; was pres- 
ident of the Tioga National Bank; became 
largely interested in lumbering in Mich- 
igan; was County Clerk of Tioga Coun- 
ty from 1S59 to 1861; was a member of 
Congress from 1873 to 1875, and United 
States Senator in 1881. He resigned the 
latter post in the same year, and in 1879 
was selected as secretary and director of 
the United States Express Company, in 
1880 becoming president; from 1880 to 
1888 Mr. Piatt was a member and pres- 
ident of the Board of Quarantine Com- 
missioners of New York; was a delegate 
to the Republican National Conventions 
from 1876 to 1900; was formerly a mem- 
ber of the National Committee, and since 
1896 has been la member or the United 
States Senate. Mr. Piatt was formerly 
president of the Southern Central Rail- 
road and of the Addison and Northern 
Pennsylvania Railroad. He has been 
twice married. Republican. Legal resi- 
dence: Owego, New York. New York 
City address: 2 Rector street. Washing- 
ton address: U. S. Senate. 

PLUMMER, FRANK EVERETT, pro- 
meter, author, was born at Brimfleld, 111., 
in 1858 and received his education in pub- 
lic schools and private academies. He 
taught school for twenty years, at Des 
Moines, la., and became principal of the 
high school at that place, which posi- 
tion he occupied for six years. Subse- 
quently he was president of the section of 
educational institutions, academies, high 
schools, etc., of the National Educational 
Association for two years, and is now en- 
gaged with the Sheldon School of Scien- 
tific Salesmanship. He is the author of 
Giacia, A Social Tragedy, and a number 
of periodicals and magazine contribu- 
tions. On July 12, 1883 he married L. 
Flora Fait. Residence: 1747 Park Road, 
n.w. Office: Fourteenth and G streets, 
n.w. 

POELS, HENRY ANDREW, clergy- 
man, was born at Venray, Holland, Feb- 
ruary 14, 1858, son of Martin and May 
Catherine (Jooster) Poels, became doctor 
in theology at the University of Louvaln 
in 1897. He was professor of Holy Scrip- 
ture at Antwerp in 1898, and has been 



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^n 



professor of the Old Testament at the 
Catholic University of America since 
1904. Was appointed Knight of Orange 
Nassau, for services, in settling the strike 
of railway men in Holland in 1903. Ora- 
tor on the Congresses of Dutch Catholics; 
author of Le Sanctuaire de Kirjath Jea- 
rim (1894); Histoire du Sanctuaiie de 
I'Arche (1897). Residence: Brookland, 
D. C. 

POLLARD, CHARLES LOUIS, botan- 
ist, was born in New York City March 
29, 1872, and was graduated from Colum- 
bia University in 1893, with the degree of 
A. B., receiving the degree of A. M. after 
a year'is postgraduate study. In 1894 ne 
was appointed assistant curator in the 
Division of Botany of the U. S. Depart- 
ment of Agriculture; occupied a similar 
position in the U. S. National Museum 
from 1895 to 1903; and since the lat- 
ter date, consulting botanist (on furlough 
from the government) to the G. C. Mer- 
riam Company. In June, 1907, he was 
appointed Curator of the Staten Island 
Association of Arts and Sciences. He 
was the founder and first president of the 
Biological Field Club; founder and secre- 
tary of the Wild Flower Preservation So- 
ciety of America; is an honorary member 
of the Philadelphia Botanical Society, and 
a member of a large number of -scientific 
and botanical organizations. He was for- 
merly editor of the Plant World, and is 
the author of numerous papers, mono- 
graphs, etc., on botany; defined many of 
the botanical words and terms for Web- 
ster's International Dictionary and the 
Century Dictionary. Unmarried. Res- 
idence: Jackson Park, New Brighton, 
N. Y. 

POLLARD, ERNEST M., Congressman, 

was born at Nehawka, Cass County, Nebr., 
April 15, 1869, and educated in the dis- 
trict schools and Nebraska State Uni- 
versity, from whence he was graduated 
with the degree of B. A. in 1893. He is 
engaged in business with his father in 
general farming and fruit raising. From 
1896 to 1897, and from 1898 to 1899 he 
was a member of the State Legislature; 
in 1900 was president of the Nebraska 
Republican League; was a member of the 
Fifty-eighth Congress and re-elected to 
the Sixtieth Congress, from the First Ne- 
braska District, He is a Republican in 
politics, and is married. Legal residence: 
Nehawka, Nebr. Washington address: 
House of Representatves. 

POOLE, JOHN HUDSON, Lieutenant, 
U. S. A., Superintendent of the State, War 
and Navy Building. Residence: The 
Westmoreland. Office: Room 128, State, 
War and Navy Building. 

PORTELA, DON EPIFANIO, Envoy 
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten- 
tiary from Argentine Republic to the 
United States. Address: 2108 Sixteenth 
street. 



PORTER, HORACE, U. S. Ambas.^ador 
to France, 1897-1905, was born at Hunt- 
ingdon, Pa., on April 15, 1837, and w..3 
educated in the Lawrence Scientific SchoU 
of Harvard University; was graduat^-i 
from West Point in 1860 (LL. D., Unl .n 
College, 1894). Throughout the Civil War 
he 'served on the field, and through every 
commissioned grade until he reached ihe 
rank of Brigadier-General; and for gal- 
lantry displayed at Chickamauga he wa? 
awarded a Congressional medal of homr. 
From 1869 to 1877 he was private secre- 
tary to President U. S. arant, and, since 
the latter date, he has been prominent in 
business affairs, being president of sev- 
eral railway corporations, clubs and pa- 
triotic .societies. He has been the orator 
at several dedications, centennials, etc., 
among the most prominent of which may 
be mentioned; inauguration of Washing- 
ton Arch, New York, May 4, 1895; dedi- 
cation of Grant's Tomb, New York, April 
27, 1897; inauguration of Rochambeau 
Statue, Washington, May 24, 1902; cen- 
tennial of the foundation of West Pomt 
Military Academy, June 11, 1902, etc.^ In 
1904 he was decorated by the French Gov- 
ernment with the Grand Cross of the Le- 
gion of Honor. He is the author of sev- 
eral books, the more prominent being: 
Campaigning with Grant; West Point 
Life, etc. On December 23, 1863, he mar- 
ried Sophie K, McHarg, at Albany, N. Y. 
Address: Department of State. 

PORTER, JOHN BIDDLE, Major, Judge 
Advocate-General's Department, U. S. A. 
Residence: 1732 I street, n.w. Office: War 
Department. 

PORTER, PETER A., Congressman. In 
November, 1906, he was elected to the 
Sixtieth Congress from the Thirty-fourth 
New York Congressional District. In pol- 
itics he is a Democrat. Legal residence: 
Niagara Falls, N. Y. Washington ad- 
dress: House of Representatives. 

PORTER, ROBERT P., journalist and 
writer on economic subjects, was born in 
Norwich, England, on June 30, 1852, son 
of the late James Winearls Porter, Mar- 
ham, Norfolk. Educated at King Edward 
VI. School, Norwich, and privately in 
America. Engaged in journalism on the 
Chicago Inter-Ocean, 1872; expert U. S. 
Census 1880-81, reporting on Wealth, 
Debt Taxation and on Transportation; U. 
S. Tariff Commissioner, 1882; editorial 
otaff New York Tribune and Philadelphia 
Press, 1884-87; founded the New York 
Press (with Frank Hatton), 1887; ap- 
pointed Director of the Eleventh U. S. 
Census by P;esident Harrison, 1890-94; 
special Fiscal and Tariff Commissioner by 
President McKinley (1898) to Cuba ana 
Porto Rico, negotiating the arrangement 
with the late Gen. Maximo Gomez for the 
disbandment of the Cuban Army in 1899. 
Joined the staff of the Times (London) 
as editor of the engineering supplement 
of that journal in 1904, and as principal 



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correspondent for North America in 1906. 
He has traveled extensively in the Unit- 
ed States, Mexico, Japan, Russia, the Bal- 
kans, Roumania, Turkey, and other coun- 
tries for the purpose of making industrial 
investig-ations and reports. Author: The 
West in 1880 (1882); Bread-winners 
Abroad (1884); Free Trade Polly (1886); 
Commerce and Industry of Japan (1896) ; 
Life of William McKinley (1896); Indus- 
trial Cuba (1899) ; Lectures and Address- 
es on Municipal Ownership (1903) ; Dan- 
gers of Municipal Ownership (1907) ; and 
numerous reviews, articles and addresses 
before various scientific and educational 
associations in Great Britain and the 
United States. Member of the Lawyers' 
and Republican Clubs of New York. Ad- 
dress: England, 108 Banbury Road, Ox- 
ford. Washington address: The London 
Times Office, Munsey Building. 

PORTNER, ROBERT, banker, was 
born ait Rahden, Wesphalia, Prussia, 
March 20, 1837, son of Henry and Hen- 
rietta (Gelker) Portner, and was educat- 
ed in the Prussian school, Annaburg, 
Saxony, until sixteen years of age. In 
1853 he came to the United States and 
started a brewery at Alexandria, Va., in- 
coiporating the same in 1883 as the Rob- 
ert Portner Brewing Company, and later 
organized the National Capital Brewing 
Company of Washington, of which he was 
vice-president. He also invented the first 
artificial refrigerating machine, and start- 
ed three building and loan associations in 
Alexandria, Va., and originated the Alex- 
andria -shipyards, and later the German 
Banking Company, of which he was pres- 
ident. He was a director of the National 
Bank of Washington; the American Se- 
curity & Trust Company; the Riggs Fire 
Insurance Company; the Virginia Mid- 
land Railway and the National Bank of 
Manassas, Va.; president of the Capital 
Construction Company, and in 1880-81, of 
the United States Brewers' Association. 
In 1881 he removed to- Washington, retain- 
ing a summer home at Manassas, Va., of 
2,500 acres, on which are to be found 
many fortifications and breastworks 
thrown up during the Civil War. On 
April 4, 1872, he was married to Anna, 
daughter of Johann Jacob von Valaer, a 
native of Switzerland, and they had thir- 
teen children, ten of whom are living. He 
died in 1906. Late residence: 1104 Ver- 
mont avenue, n.w. 

POST, CHARLES WILLIAM, manufac- 
turer of prepared foodstuffs, was born at 
Springfield, 111., October 26, 1854, son of 
Charles Rollin and Caroline (Lathrop^ 
Post. He attended the pubhc schools of 
his native county and the University of 
Illinois, but did not graduate from the 
latter institution. He entered the hard- 
wa:o business at Springfield and was later 
a commercial traveler and superintendent 
of a plow manufacturing firm, but in 1884 
vva.i compelled to relinquish his bus'ness 
interests for a time on account of ill 



health. From this time until 1891 he was 
an invalid, and traveled largely, studying 
medicine, practical dietetics, hygiene, etc., 
in this country and abroad. Regxinlng 
his health he became a manufacturer of 
Health foods; he is th« originator of 
Po'.tum Coffee, and founded the preinired 
fo id industry. He is at present chairman 
of The Postum Cereal Company; T-Jactle 
Creek Paper Company, and president of 
:he Post Land Co.; Home and Fireside 
Company, of Battle Creek, and preside it 
of Double U Company, of Texas, and a 
director of the Central National Bank of 
Battle Creek. He is a member .^f ihe 
National Association of American Alv^ir- 
ti.^ers (wa.« formerly president for four 
years); National Manufacturers' As-joc.'a- 
tion; Citizens' Industrial Association; 
(president 1905-06-07), and of the Repub- 
lican party. He married Leila D. Young. 
Residence: 1810 Nineteenth street, n.w. 

POTTER, ALBERT F., assistant for- 
ester in charge of Grazing Division of the 
Forest Service, U. S. Department of Ag- 
riculture. Residence: 1307 P street, n.w. 
Office: Atlantic Building. 

POTTER, WILLIAM P., Captain U. S. 

N., assistant to the Bureau of Navigation, 
on duty with the General Board. Resi- 
dence: The Highlands. Office: Navy De- 
partment. 

POU, EDWARD WILLIAM, lawyer. 
Congressman, was born at Tuskegee, Ala., 
September 9, 1863. He served as solic- 
itor of the Fourth North Carolina Judicial 
District from 1890 to 1898; presidential 
elector in 1888, and elected to the Fifty- 
seventh Congress from the Fourth Dis- 
trict of North Carolina, and has been re- 
elected to subsequent Congresses. Dem- 
ocrat. Legal residence: Smithfleld, N. 
C. Washington address: House of Repre- 
sentatives. 

POWDERLY, TERENCE VINCENT, 

lawyer, was born at Carbondale, Pa., Jan- 
uary 22, 1849, son of Terence and Margery 
Powderly. He attended the public schools 
until his thirteenth year, when he went to 
work as a switch tender. At fifteen he 
became a car repairer; at seventeen, ma- 
chinist apprentice, and at twenty he re- 
moved to Scranton, Pa., and there worked 
at his trade of machinist until 1877. In 
1878 he was elected Mayor of Scranton 
on the Labor ticket, and re-elected in 
1880 and 1882. From 1879 to 1893 he was 
Master Workman, Knights of Labor. In 
1894 he was admitted to the bar, and In 
the same year spoke throughout Pennsyl- 
vania in the interests of a candidate for 
Governor (Hastings) ; land in 1896 stumped 
through several States for McKinley and 
Hobart, and in 1900 ror McKinley and 
Roosevelt. From 1897 to 1902 he was 
United States Commissioner General of 
Immigration; he was admitted to prac- 
tice before the United States Supreme 
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number of articles, contributions to maga- 
zines, etc., on labor economics, etc. Res- 
idence: 502 Newarlc street, n.w. 

POWELL, WILLIAM FRANK, U. S. 

Minister to Haiti, 1897 to October 14, 
1905, was bom at Troy, N. Y., on June 
26, 1848. He received a public school 
education in New York, later attending 
the School of Pharmacy, New York; Lin- 
coln University, Pa., and graduated from 
the New Jersey Collegiate Institute in 
1865. The Presbyterian School of Home 
Missions appointed him to a school at 
Leesbuig for Freedmen, and later opened 
the first State school for the children 
of Freedman, at Alexandria, Va. From 
1881 to 1882 he was a bookkeeper in the 
U. S. Tieasury Department, and later 
returned to the school room, and elected 
principal of the schools of the Fourth Dis- 
trict, Camden, N. J. He prepared and 
carried 'to success the plans for introduc- 
ing manual training in the public schools, 
which are now in successful operation in 
Camden. Refused consular appointments 
in 1881 and 1891. He was also the Amer- 
ican Charge d'Affaires to Santo Domingo 
from June 29, 1897, to June 20, 1905. Mar- 
ried. Address: State Department. 

POWELSON. WILFRED VAN NEST. 

Lieutenant, U. S. N., was born at Middle- 
town, N. Y., September 15, 1872, and wai. 
graduated from the United States Naval 
Academy in 1893 at the head of his class, 
and subsequently from the University of 
Glasgow, whither he was sent by this gov- 
ernment for a special course in naval 
architecture. He was detailed to the New 
York for two years, serving on the Ad- 
miral's staff; after the destruction of the 
Maine in Havana harbor, made a special 
study of the catastrophe, and at the court 
of inquiry which later considered tWe 
vessel's destruction, he proved that it was 
destroyed by a mine. Lieutenant Powel- 
.son was severely injured by a fall on the 
St. Paul and later was on six months' 
leave of absence. He was commissioned 
Lieutenant in 1901, after having served 
as Ensign and Junior Lieutenant. In 1898 
he married Margaret Olivia Miller. Ad- 
, dress: Navy Department. 

POWER, FREDERICK DUNGLISON, 

clergyman, was born in York County, Vir- 
ginia, January 23, 1851, son of Dr. Robert 
Henry and Abigail M. (Jencks) Power. 
He attended Old Field School, and was 
graduated from Bethany College (West 
Virginia) in 1871. He has since received 
the honorary degrees of A. M. and LL. D. 
from the same institution. He was or- 
dained to the ministry in 1871, and was 
in charge of several churches in Eastern 
Virginia until 1874, when he accepted a 
pastorate at Charlottesville, Va. From 
1875 to the present he has been pastor 
of the Vermont Avenue Christian Church, 
in Washington, D. C. From 1881 to 1883 
Dr. Power was Chaplain of the House of 
Representatives. He has served as pres- 



ident of the Christian Missionary Society, 
and is a trustee of the United Society 
of Christian Endeavor. He is the author 
of: Life of W. K. Pendleton, President 
of Bethany College; Bible Doctrine for 
Young Disciples; Sketches of Our Pio- 
neeis; Thoughts of Thirty Years, and 
other books. He is connected with the 
Disciples of Christ (or Christian Church), 
and with two fraternities. On March 17, 
1874, he married Emily Brown Alsop, of 
Fredericksburg, Va. Dr. Power is well 
known as the pastor of President Garfield 
and as a lecturer on many topics. Resi- 
dence: 1236 Irving street. 

POWERS, LE GRAND, Chief Statisti- 
cian of the United States Census, was 
born at Preston, N. Y., in 1847, son of 
Wesley and Electa (Clark) Powers. He 
attended school at Oxford, N. Y., from 
1862 to 1864; at Clinton, N. Y., from 
1865 to 1868; Tufts College from 1868 to 

1870, and Iowa State University, from 
which he was graduated In 1872. He was 
a minister of the gospel from 1874 to 1890; 
Commissioner of Labor of Minnesota 
from 1891 to 1899; and since 1899 Chief 
Statistician of the Census, in charge of 
agriculture. He has written a number of 
articles on financial and statistical sub- 
jects, and is the author of a number of 
books. In 1900, he received the honorary 
degree of Litt. D. from Tufts College. He 
married Amanda Kinney in 1873. Resi- 
dence: 3107 Sixteenth street, n.w. Office: 
Bureau of Census. 

POWERS, LLEWELLYN, lawyer, Con- 
gressman, was born at Pittsfield, Som- 
erset County, Me., in 1839 and reared 
on a farm. He was graduated from Rick- 
er Classical Institute, attended Colby Uni- 
versity for two years, and later was g;ad- 
uated from the law department of that 
institution, which has since conferred 
upon him the honorary degrees of A. M. 
and LL. D. In 1861 he was admitted to 
the bar, and began the practice of his 
profession at Houlton, Me.; from 1864 to 

1871, attorney for the State, county of 
Aroostook; Collector of Customs, Aroos- 
took District, 1868-72. Mr. Powers, 
served six terms as a member of the 
State Legislature — one term as Speaker of 
the House; was elected Governor of Maine 
in 1896 and re-elected in 1898. He was 
elected Representative from the Fourth 
Maine District to the Forty-fifth Con- 
gress, and in 1901 again elected to Con- 
gress, and has been re-elected to subse- 
quent Congresses from the same district. 
Legal residence: Houlton, Me. Washing- 
ton address: House of Representatives. 

PRADT, LOUIS A., Assistant Attorney- 
General of the United States since 1897, 
son of Charles R. and Esther (Emmons) 
Pradt. He was educated in Racine (Wis.) 
College, and was graduated from the Uni- 
versity of Wisconsin in 1881. Was City 
Attorney of Wausau, Wis., in 1893, ana 
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Marathon County, Wis., 1890-96. He has 
had charg-e of the defense of actions 
against the United States in the Court 
of Claims. Address: Department of Jus- 
tice. 

PRATT, HARRY WADDELL, Presby- 
terian clergyman, was born at Lexington, 
Va., September 7, 1873, son of Rev. John 
Wood and Maria Lindsay (Waddell) Pratt. 
He attended Washington and Lee Univer- 
sity from 1889 to 1898; Harvard Univer- 
sity during the summers of 1894 and 1896; 
and was graduated from Union Seminary, 
Richmond, Va., in 1901. In 1893 he re- 
ceived the degree of A. B., and in 1894 
that of M. A. from Washington and Lee 
University. From 1891 to 1898 he was 
assistant professor of mathematics at 
Washington and Lee University; from 
1893 to 1898 physical director of the same. 
From 1901 to 1904 Rev. Pratt was pastor 
of the Old Street Church at Petersburg, 
Va., and since 1904 has been pastor of the 
Second Presbyterian Church in Washing- 
ton. Democrat. On November 29, 1905, 
he married Mary Maxwell Syme. Resi- 
dence: The Sheridan. 

PRATT, JOHN FRANCIS, assistant, 
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, was 
born at Pomfret, Vt., June 18, 1848, son 
of Joseph Henry and Ann Delana (Hazen) 
Pratt. He attended Kimball Union Acad- 
emy (Meriden, N. H.) until 1866, and 
was graduated from Dartmouth Univer- 
sity in 1871, after a course in civil en- 
gineeiing. From 1871 to 1883 he was an 
aid with the Coast and Geodetic Survey; 
was sub-assistant from 1879 to 1883, and 
since 1884 has been assistant. In 1878, 
he was astronomer with the Transit of 
Mercury expedition to California; in 1882 
was assistant astronomer with the Tran- 
sit of Venus expedition to New Mexico; 
in 1883 he was chief of triangulation ex- 
pedition to Kentucky; from 1884 to 1890 
was in command of the Yukon around 
Puget Sound; attached to the United 
States Navy Yards Commissions of 1889 
and 1891 as engineer; in 1892 was chief 
astronomer on the international board, to 
determine the southeastern boundary of 
Alaska; and representative of the United 
States on the British board for the same 
purpose, later again serving on an expe- 
dition to Alaska for this purpose. From 
1895 to 1897 he was in charge of a divi- 
sion of the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Sur- 
vey; has been in charge of various oxpe- 
ditions, and a number of vessels on expe- 
ditions to Alaska and vicinity; from 1903 
to 1904, studied commercial development 
of Alaska, and from 1904 to 1905 that of 
tional expedition of the Carnegie Institu- 
tion for a survey of the North Pacific 
Ocean, etc. He is a member of the Cos- 
mos Club; Washington Academy of Sci- 
ences; American Association for the Ad- 
vancement of Science, etc. On October 
21, 1879, he married Caroline C. Critten- 
Hawaii; was in charge of the Interna- 



den. Address: U. S. Coast and Geodetic 

Survey. 

PRATT, LE GAGE, Congressman, In 
November 1906, he was elected to the 
Sixtieth Congress from the Eighth New 
Jersey Congressional District. Democrat. 
Legal residence: East Orange, N. J. 
Washington address: House of Repre- 
sentatives. 

PRAY, CHARLES N., Congressman. In 
November, 1906, he was electea a memoei 
of the Sixtieth Congress from Montana as 
Representative - at - Large. Republican. 
Legal residence: Fort Benton, Mont. 
Washington address: House of Repre- 
sentatives. 

PREBLE, EDWARD ALEXANDER, 

biologist, was born at Somerville, Mass., 
June 11, 1871, son of Edward Prescott and 
Marcia (Alexander) Preble. He attended 
schools at Wilmington and Woburn, Mass. 
Since February, 1894, Mr. Preble has been 
associated with the Biological Survey, U. 
S. Department of Agriculture. He is the 
author of various scientific papers and 
biological reports, etc. Mr. Preble is a 
member of the American Ornithologists' 
Union, National Geographic Society; Bio- 
logical Society of Wasnington, and is a 
Republican in politics. On December 29, 
1896, he married Eva August Lynham. 
Residence: 3027 Newark avenue. Office: 
U. S. Department of Agriculture. 

PRENTISS, DANIEL WEBSTER, phy- 
sician, was born in Washington, D. C, 
September 9, 1875, son of Dr. Daniel Web- 
ster Prentiss. He was graduated from 
Columbian College in 1895 with the de- 
g:ee of B. S., and in 1899 from Columbian 
(now George Washington) University, 
with that of M. D. Dr. Prentiss is as- 
sistant professor of histology at George 
Washington University; associate in gyn- 
ecology at the Emergency Hospital, and 
visiting physican at Freedmen"s Hospital; 
pathologist to Sibley and Emergency Hos- 
pitals. Dr. Prentiss is a Mason; a mem- 
ber of the Cosmos Club and of the Med- 
ical Society of the District of Columbia. 
In religion he is an Episcopalian. Un- 
married. Residence: 1315 M street, n.w. 

PRESCOTT, SAMUEL JENNESS, 

builder, was born at Weirs, N. H., Au- 
gust 10, 1867, son of Samuel W. and 
Emma (Jenness) Prescott. and was grad- 
uated from Pittsfield (N. H.) Academy. 
He took up carpentering and building 
construction, and in 1886 came to Wash- 
ington. He studied engineering and me- 
chanical drafting, and took a course in 
architecture under Prof. Charles Schlarr, 
finishing by a special course in technol- 
ogy. He spent two years in travel, and 
returned to Washington in 1890, embark- 
ing in a general building and contracting 
business. Among the buildings he has 
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House & Hermann Building; the store 
building of James S. Topham, and the 
Home Savings Bank Building. He is 
president of the Master Builders' Asso- 
ciation; a past commander of Coeur de 
Lion Commandery, and an officer of the 
Grand Commandery of the District of 
Columbia and Virginia. In 1891 he mar- 
ried Ida A. Ailing, daughter of George I. 
Ailing, of Palmyra, N. Y., and they have 
three children. Residence: 1610 Nevrt^'\ 
street. Office: 1214 H street, n.w. 

PREVOST, GEORGE ALLEN MAL- 
LET, lawyer, was born at Trenton, N. 
J., on March 22, 1863, son of Andrew G. 
M. and Sarah M. (Allen) Prevost. The 
original family name was Mallet-Prevost, 
but of late years the latter name has been 
used separately. His grandfather, Louis 
Mallet-Provost, served as a Lieutenant in 
the War of 1812, and was a son of George 
Paul Henry Mallet-Prevost, who came to 
America on account of his democratic 
ideas, which caused him to become unpop- 
ular in Switzerland, his home country. In 
early youth the subject of this sketch re- 
moved to Washington, graduating from 
the high school in 1878, attending tne Em- 
erson Institute, and was graduated from 
the Columbian Law School in 1885, at 
which time he received the prize for an 
essay, and has since been actively en- 
gaged in the practice of his profession. 
Since 1886 he has been the junior mem- 
ber of the Arm of Whitaker & Prevost, 
attorneys. He married Maud C. Sworm- 
stedt, to which union has been born one 
child. Residence: 3562 Thirteenth street, 
n.w. Office: 610 F street, n.w. 

PRICE, ABEL F., medical director, U. 
S. N., member of the Naval Examining 
and Retiring Board. Residence: 2233 Q 
street, n.w. Office: Mills Building. 

PRICE, BUTLER D., Colonel, U. S. A., 
was born in Pennsylvania, May 27, 1845, 
and entered the Union Army as a Second 
Lieutenant of the Second Pennsylvania 
Volunteer Cavalry in 1861. He was pro- 
moted to First Lieutenant on February 2, 
1863; commissioned Captain, February 23, 
1864; mustered out of the volunteer seiv- 
ice in 1865; appointed Second Lieutenant, 
Fourth United States Infantry, on May 
11. 1866; promoted to First Lieutenant, 
November 25, 1873; made Captain, Sep- 
tember 17, 1886; advanced to Major, 
March 2, 1899; commissioned Lieutenant- 
Colonel, March 5, 1901, and Colonel on 
October 18, 1902. He served throughout 
the Civil War with the Army of the Po- 
tomac. Address: War Department. 

PRICE, OVERTON WESTFELDT, as- 
sociate forester, U. S. Forest Service, was 
born at Liverpool, England, January 27, 
1873, son of Overton Mosbey and Marie 
Christine (Westfeldt) Price. He attended 
school in "England, and the Episcopal High 
School at Alexandria, Va.; also the Uni- 



versity of Virginia; studied forestry in 
this country for a year, later at the Uni- 
versity of Munich, Germany for two 
years. He served a practical apprentice- 
ship in forestry by work in the woods 
of Germany; returning to this country he 
was engaged in foiest work at Biltmore, 
N. C, and elsewhere. He was appointed 
an agent in the Division of Forestry, U. 
S. Department of Agriculture, in June, 
1899; became superintendent of working 
plans of the same in July, 1900; and since 
July, 1901, has been associate forester of 
the Service and Chief of the Division of 
Forest Measurements. He is the author 
of a number of articles, monographs, gov- 
ernment bulletins, etc., on the subject of 
forestry, and is a member of the Society 
of American Foresters; American Forest- 
ry Association; Sierra Club; Cosmos Club, 
and National Geographic Society. He 
married Alice Virginia Lindsey on Jan- 
uary 28, 1903. Residence: Alexandria, 
Va. Office: U. S. Forest Service. 

PRICE, THOMAS MALCOLM, chemist, 
was born at Darlington, Harford County, 
Md., April 11, 1879, son of David E. and 
Mary (Miller) Price. He attended the 
public and high schools of Darlington and 
was graduated from Maryland Agricultural 
College in 1899; later from Columbian (now 
George Washington) University, with >:he 
degrees of Ph. D. and M. S. Mr. Price 
was formerly assistant chemist to the 
Maryland Agricultural Experiment Sta- 
tion; he is now chemist in charge of the 
Central Meat Inspection Laboratory, of 
the U . S. Department of Agriculture, and 
assistant professor of chemistry at George 
Washington University. He is the author 
of several works on digestion and the ef- 
fects of various chemicals on digestion, 
and is a member of the American Chem- 
ical Society; American Association for 
the Advancement of Science, and the Uni- 
versity Club. On October 16, 1902 he 
married Adele Purnell Spence. Resi- 
dence: The Iowa. Office: U. S. Depart- 
ment of Agriculture. 

PRIMROSE, HARRISON, clergyman, 
pastor of the Hosea Methodist Protest- 
ant Chapel. Residence: 1715 A street, 
n.e. 

PRINCE, GEORGE W., lawyer. Con- 
gressman, was iDorn in Tazewell Cjunty, 
111., March 4, 1854, son of Almyron and 
Barbara (East) Prince. He attended the 
public schools of Illinois, and was grad- 
uated from Knox College (Galesburg, III.) 
in 1878, later studying law and securing 
admission to the bar in 1880. From 1881 
to 1883 he was City Attorney of Gales- 
burg; from 1884 to 1886 was Chairman 
of the Republican County Central Com- 
mittee of Knox County; member of the 
State House of Representatives from 1888 
to 1890; Representative in Congress from 
the Fifteenth Illinois District since 1895. 
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of the Illinois National Guards; is a Ma- 
son, an Odd Fellow, and member of the 
Woodmen and Modern Magi and of the 
Phi Delta Theta college fraternity. In re- 
ligion he is a member of the Congrega- 
tional Church, and in politics a Repub- 
lican. On April 20, 1882, he married Lil- 
lie C. Ferris. Legal residence: Galesburg, 
111. Washington address: House of Rep- 
resentatives. 

PRINCE, HOWARD L., librarian of the 
Patent Office, was born in 1840, and was 
graduated from Bowdoin College in 1862. 
He entered the Twentieth Maine Infantry 
as Quartei-master-Sergeant, and was pro- 
moted to Captain in 1864, and was severe- 
ly wounded in December of that year. He 
came to Washington in 1870, was clerk of 
the Police Court from 1875-88, and since 
1890 has been librarian of the Patent Of- 
fice. Residence: The Portner. Office: 
Patent Office. 

PRINDLE, FRANKLIN COGSWELL, 

civil engineer, Rear Admiral, U. S. N. (re- 
tired), was born at Sandgate, Benningtoa 
County, Vt., July 8, 1841, son of Hawley 
and Olive (Andrew) Prindle. He attend- 
ed the public schools and Rensselaer Poly- 
technic Institute, leaving the latter insti- 
tution at the end of his sophomore year 
to enter the United States Navy as as- 
sistant engineer, on August 3, 1861. He 
served in this capacity throughout the 
Civil War; on April 17, 1869, was commis- 
sioned Civil Engineer, U. S. N., and on 
February 27, 1901, retired from active 
service with the rank of Rear Admiral. 
Admiral Prindle has been a member of 
the Baptist Church for rorty-seven years; 
is also a member of the Theta Xi frater- 
nity; American Society of Civil Engi- 
neers; Institution of Civil Engineers of 
Great Britain; National Genealogical So- 
ciety; National Geographic Society; Mili- 
tary Order of the Loyal Legion; Naval 
Order of the United States; Sons of the 
American Revolution, and Society of 
American Wars, etc. He is the author of 
a genealogical work on the Prindle fam- 
ily, and in politics is a Lincoln Republi- 
can. He has been three times married — 
on May 19, 1864, to Gertrude A. Stickle; 
September 25, 1878, to Sarah A. Cranston; 
April 8, 1896, Mrs. Fidelia E. (White) 
Mead. Address: The Woodley. 

PROCTOR, REDFIELD, United States 
Senator from Vermont, was born at Proc- 
torsville, Windsor County, Vt., June 1, 
1831, son of Jabez and Betsy (Parker) 
Proctor. He attended Derby Academy 
(Vermont), and was graduated from Dart- 
mouth College in 1851, and in 1859 from 
the Albany Law School. During the Civil 
War he served as Lieutenint and Quar- 
termaster of the Third Vermont Volun- 
teers, and later was promoted to Major 
and Colonel of the Fifteenth Vermont 
Regiment. In his early life Mr. Proctor 
was a farmer and lawyer; he was a mem- 



ber of the State House of Representatives 
from 1867 to 1868 and in 1888; was State 
Senator and President pro tem. of the 
Senate in 1874 and 1875; was Lieutenant- 
Governor of Vermont from 1876 to 1878, 
and Governor from 1878 to 1880. He was 
a delegate to the National Republican 
Convention of 1884, and chairman of the 
Vermont delegations to thf conventions 
of 1888 and 1896. He was Secretary of 
War under President Harrison from 
March, 1889, to November, 1891, when he 
resigned to become United States Sena- 
tor. He has since been three times re- 
elected Senator. Senator Proctor was 
formerly president of the Vermont Mar- 
ble Company, but at present is not en- 
gaged in any business. He is the author 
of Early Vermont Convention Records, 
and is a member of the Grand Army of 
the Republic; Loyal Legion, and the Re- 
publican party. He has received the hon- 
ora:y degree of LL. D. from Norwich Uni- 
versity and the University of Vermont. 
He married Emily J. Dutton on May 26, 
1858. Legal residenee: Proctor, Vt. 
Washington address: The Champlain. 

PROSISE, JOHN L., manager E. Mor- 
rison Paper ompany, was born in Wash- 
ington D. C, May 15, 1860, son of Ben- 
jamin and Virginia (Towner) Prosise. He 
was educated at Gonzaga and Georgetown 
Colleges, and studied medicine with Dr. 
J. M. Toner, vice-president of the Amer- 
ican Medical College. Finding mercan- 
tile life more to his liking, he entered the 
employ of the E. Morrison Paper Com- 
pany as stock clerk, with which company 
he has since been associated. He is vice- 
president of the Merchants' Transfer & 
Storage Company. In 1892 he married 
Letitia A. Brooke, of Farquier County, 
Va., and they have three children. Resi- 
dence: Lloyd's Station, Va. Business ad- 
dress: 1009 Pennsylvania avenue, n.w. 

PROUTY, CHARLES AZRO, lawyer, 
member of the Interstate Commerce Com- 
mission, was born at Newport, Vt., Octo- 
ber 9, 1853, son of John Azro and Hannah 
B. (Lamb) Prouty. He was graduated 
from Dartmouth University in 1875; from 
that time until 1876 was assistant at the 
Allegheny Observatory (Pa.); taught 
school for a number of years, and studied 
law, being admitted to the bar in 1882. 
He practiced his profession at Newport, 
Vt., from 1882 to 1886; membel- of the 
State Legislature in 1888; from that time 
until 1896, was reporter of decisions of 
the Supreme Court of Vermont, and since 
December, 1896, has been a member of 
the Interstate Commerce Commission. In 
1879, he manied Abbie Davis. Residence: 
The Portner. Office: Sun Building. 

PRYOR, GEORGE M., president of the 
Puritan Life Insurance Association of the 
District of Columbia. Residence: Tako- 
ma Park, D. C. Office: 615 Fourteenth 
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PUJO, ARSENE P., lawyer, Congress- 
man, was born near Lake Charles, Cal- 
casieu Parish, La., on December 16, 1861, 
son of Paul and Eloise M. (Le Bleu) Pujo, 
both of P:ance. He attended public ancr 
private schools at Lake Charles; was ad- 
mitted to the bar in 1886 and has since 
practiced law. In 1898 he was a member 
of the Louisiana Constitutional Conven- 
tion, and in 1903 elected Representative to 
Congress from the Seventh Louisiana Dis- 
trict. He has since been twice re-elect- 
ed. Mr. Pujo is a Democrat. Legal res- 
idence: Lake Charles, La. Washington 
address: The Highlands. 

PULIDO, AU GUSTO F., Charge d' Af- 
faires, Venezuela, to the United States 
since 1899, was bom at Caracas, Vene- 
zuela, September 10. 1873, son of Dr. Luclo 
P., diplomatist and statesman. He was 
graduated Ph. B. at Caracas; was Attache 
to the Court of St. James in 1890, and 
transferred to Paris, 1891; chief clerk in 
the House of Deputies, Venezuela, 1889, 
and Charge d'Affaires 'at Washington, 
1899. Address: 1737 H street, n.w. 

PULSIFER, PITMAN, court stenogra- 
pher, clerk. Committee on Naval Affairs. 
was born at Poland, Me., June 24, 1852, 
son of Josiah D. and Helen A. Pulsifer. 
He is of a family of expert stenographers. 
He was educated at Lewiston Falls Acad- 
emy, at Auburn, Me. For ten years he 
was court stenographer in the State of 
Maine; is secretary to Senator Hale, of 
Me.; and has served as clerk in the fol- 
lowing Senate committees: Committee on 
Census (twelve years) ; Committee on 
Private Land Claims (two years) ; Com- 
mittee on Printing (two years) ; and for 
the past ten years on the Committee on 
Naval Affairs. He has compiled four edi- 
tions of "the Navy Year Book; was em- 
ployed to assist in indexmg the hearings 
before the Senate Committee on Interstate 
Commerce, introducing some popular in- 
novations therein; was president of the 
Maine Association of Washington for two 
years; is a member of the Universalist 
Church, the Republican party, and the 
Short Story Club. On June 16 1874, he 
married Mary E. Marston. Residence: 
1457 Girard street, n.w. Office: Commit- 
tee on Naval Affairs, U. S. Senate. 

PULSIFER, WOODBURY, expert sten- 
ographer, clerk Senate Committee on 
Commerce, was born at Auburn, Me., May 
13, 1855, son of Josiah Dunn and Helen 
A. (Woodbury) Pulsifer. He is of a fam- 
ily of expert stenographers. Mr. Pulsi- 
fer was graduated from Bowdoin College 
in 1875, with the degree of A. M., and 
in 1897 from the medical school of Co- 
lumbian (now George Washington) Uni- 
versity (valedictorian of his class at the 
latter). For fourteen years be was an 
official stenographer in the Maine courts; 
since 1889, with the exception of two 
years, he has been clerk to the Senate 
Committee on Commerce. He was a jus- 



tice of the peace in Maine; is a mem- 
ber of the Presbyterian Church, of the 
Republican party and the Alpha Delta Phi 
fraternity. On May 20, 1879. he married 
Adelaide Coe Pennell. Residence: Thb 
Brunswick, 1332 I street, n.w. 

PURDY, MILTON D WIGHT, assistant 
to the United States Attorney-General, 
was born at Mogadore, O., November 3, 
1866, son of Milton C. and Sarah Jane 
(Hall) Purdy. He was graduated from 
the University of Minnesota in 1891, and 
in 1892 from the law department of the 
same university. He was admitted to the 
Minnesota bar in 1892; from 1893 to 1897 
was assistant city attorney of Minneap- 
olis; from 1897 to 1898 was assistant 
county attorney of Hennepin County. He 
was assistant United States attorney for 
Minnesota, from 1898 to 1901; United 
States attorney in 1901 and 1902; was ap- 
pointed assistant United States Attorney- 
General on April 1, 1903, which position 
he held until 1905 when he was appointed 
to his present position. On January 28, 
1893, he married Belle M. Morin. Resi- 
dence: 2131 R street, n.w. Office: De- 
partment of Justice. 

PURVIS, CHARLES B., physician, was 
born in Philadelphia, Pa., April 14, 1842. 
He was graduated from the Medical De- 
partment of Wooster (Ohio) University in 
1865 (A. M. Howard University); was 
surgeon in charge at the Freedmen's Hos- 
pital from 1881 to 1894; professor of ob- 
stetrics and gynecology, medical depart- 
ment Howard University, 1873. Resi- 
dence: 1118 Thirteenth street, n.w. 

PURY, A. DE, Secretary and Charge 
d'Affaires, Embassy of Switzerland. Ad- 
dress: 2013 Hillyer Place. 

PUTNAM, GEORGE ROCKWELL, As- 
sistant U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, 
was born at Davenport, la.. May 24, 1865, 
son of Charles E. and Mary L. (Duncan) 
Putnam. He was graduated from Rose 
Polytechnic Institute (Terre Haute, Ind.) 
with the degree of B. S. in 1890, and re- 
ceived that of M. S. in 1895. He entered 
the field service of the Coast and Geodetic 
Survey in 1890; was promoted to assist- 
ant in 1894. He served with the expe- 
ditions to Mexico and Alaska to deter- 
mine international boundaries; in 1896 he 
was astronomer .with the Burton expedi- 
tion (with Sixth Peary expedition) to 
Greenland; engaged on survey of the Pri- 
bylof Islands, Alaska, in 1897; Yukon 
River Delta, Alaska, during 1898 and 1899. 
In 1900, at 'request of International Geo- 
detic Association, conducted observations 
between American and Eufopean gravity 
stations; from 1900 to 1906 was director 
of Coast Surveys in the Philippine Is- 
lands. He is the author of a number of 
articles and reports on technical subjects. 
Member American Society of Civil En- 
gineers, Cosmos and Chevy Chase Clubs. 
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Club. Office: Coast and Geodetic Sur- 
vey. 

PUTNAM, HERBERT, Librarian of 
Cong- ess, was born in New York City, 
September 20, 1861. son of George Palmer 
and Victorine (Haven) Putnam. He at- 
tended public and private schools; was 
graduated from Harvard in 1883 and pur- 
sued a partial course at the Columbia 
Law School. He was admitted to the 
Minnesota bar in 1886, and to the Massa- 
chusetts bar in 1892, and for a time prac- 
ticed his profession, in Boston. From 
1884 to 1887 he was librarian of the Min- 
neapolis Athenaeum; from 1887 to 1891, 
of the Minneapolis Public Library; and 
from 1895 to 1899, of the Boston Public 
Library. In March, 1899, he was appoint- 
ed Librarian of the Congressional Library. 
In 1902 he was overseer at Harvard Col- 
lege; was president of the American Li- 
brary Association in 1898 and 1904. Mr. 
Putnam is the author of a number of 
magazine articles and reviews., He has 
received the following honorary degrees: 
Litt. D., Bowdoin College, 1898; LL. D., 
Columbian (now George Washington) 
University, 1903; University of Illinois, 
1903; University of Wisconsin, 1904. On 



October 5, 1886, he married Charlotte 
Elizabeth Munroe. Residence: The Marl- 
borough. Office: Library of Congress. 

PYLES, RICHARD A., physician, was 
born in Prince George Count j% Md., on 
January 25, 1862, son of John V. and Ellen 
(Sweeney) Pyles. After completing his 
preparatory education in the public 
schools of Washington he began the study 
of medicine in Columbian (now George 
Washington) University, from which he 
was graduated, M. D., in 1883. In 1898, 
during the Spanish War, he served as 
Major and Surgeon of the First Dis- 
trict of Columbia "Volunteer Infantry. 
In addition to his medical practice he is 
interested in a number of business en- 
terprises in and about Washington; pres- 
ident George S. King Realty Company; 
vice-president Anacostia Brick Company; 
director in the East Washington Savings 
Bank, etc. He is a Mason, a member of 
the Medical Association of the District of 
Columbia, and in politics, a Republican. 
On June 26, 1S89, he married Edith M. 
Zane, of Washington, D. C, to which 
union have been born two children. Res- 
idence: 115 Monroe street, Anacostia, 
D. C. 



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QUAINTANCE, ALTUS LACY, ento- 
mologist, was born in New Sharon, 
Mahaska County, Iowa, on December 19, 
1870. He was eduated in the public 
schools of his native town; attended the 
University of Florida from 1890-93; Ala- 
bama Polytechnic Institute, 1894; Cornell 
University, 1896. He was assistant ento- 
mologist and later entomologist in the 
University of Florida; entomologist to 
the Georgia Agricultural Experiment Sta- 
tion, and was professor of entomology 
in the Maryland Agricultural College arid 
state entomologist of Maryland. At Ih^ 
present time he is in charge of the 
'deciduous fruit insect investigations in 
the Bureau of Entomology of the U. S. 
Department of Agriculture. He is th-^" 
author of a number of bulletins and 
papers of a scientific nature, that have 
been issued by the Bureau of Entomolgy 
and State Experiment Stations. He is a 
membei- of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon col- 
lege fraternity. He married Nellie M. 
Yocum, to which union have been born 
two children. Residence: 1807 Phelps 
Place, n.w. Office: U. S. Department of 
Agriculture. 

QUESADA, GONZALO DE, diplomat, 
author, was born in Havana, Cuba, oi 
December 15, 1868, son of Gregorio and 
Isabel Arostegui de Quesada. He was 
educated in the New York City public 
schools; graduated from the College of 
the City lof New York B. S. in 1888 and 
attended the Columbia Univefsity School 



of Mines, and was graduated LL. B. from 
the University of New York. He has 
served as secretary to Roque Saenz 
Pena; been a delegate to the Pan-Ameri- 
can Congress, and was Consul for the 
Argentine Republic to Philadelphia. He 
has been secretary for the Cuban Revo- 
lutionary Party, and of the Cuban Dele- 
gation, and in 1898 Charge d'Affaires of 
Cuba, in Washington. He was associateti 
with Jose Marti in the Cuban RevolutiOiii, 
and was special commissioner for Cuba 
to the United States in 1900, and to th3 
Paris Exposition the same year. In 1901, 
he was made Chevalier Legion of Honor 
of France; in 1905, officer; in 1907, Com- 
mander of the Order of Christ of Portu- 
gal; delegate to the Constitutional Coi'- 
vention of Cuba, and was one of the com- 
mittee to draw up a constitution in 1901, 
and in 1902, was a member of the Cuba-. 
Congress, from Pinar del Rio, since when 
he has been Envoy Extraordinary and 
Minister Plenipotentiary of Cuba in 
Washing'ton. He is the author of several 
bo'oks, among them being: Mi Prim=>.re 
Ofrenda, Patriotismo, History lof Free 
Cuba, etc., and is a member of the The'.a 
Delta Chi and the Delta Chi college fra- 
ternities. On Aug. 16, 1892, he married 
Angeline Miranda, to which union have 
been born, three children, two of whom 
are living. Residence: 1006 Sixteenth 
street, n.w. 

QUIGLEY, STEPHEN HUGH, govern- 
ment official, was born in Rockville, Md., 



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September 19, 1877, son of Charles H. and 
Grace (Lyddane) Quigley. He was ed'i- 
cated in Baltimore; graduated from the 
Baltimore City School in 1897, and later 
■attended the Baltimore Business College 
and Tanners Business College in Wash- 
ington, D. C. In 1900 he was appointed 
to the Engineering Department of the 
District of Columbia, and in 1902 re- 
ceived an appointment from the Depart- 
ment of State, and is now assistant to 
the Chief of the Bureau of Appointments 
of that department. When a student at 
the Baltimore City College, he studied 
Modern Languages, and has traveled in 
South America. He is a member of the 
Montgomery Country Club. Residence: 
Rockville, Maryland. Office: Department 
of State. 

QUINTON, WILLIAM, .army officer, 
was born at Dublin, Ireland on October 
9, 1838, son of Arthur and Letitia 
(Maclean) Quinton. He entered the army 
in 1861 and served as First Sergeant and 



First and Second Lieutenant In the Nine- 
teenth Illinois Volunteers and was de- 
tached at Bacon Creek, Ky., for duty in 
the Signal Corps. He served as signal 
officer on the staffs of Gens. Mitchell, 
Rousseau, Thomas, Palmer, Davis and 
Stanley in the armies of the Ohio and 
Cumberland from 1861-66, disbanding at 
San Antonio, Tex., the latter year. In 
1870, he was apppointed First Lieutenant 
in the Thirty-third Infantry; was pro- 
moted to Captain in 1884; Major in 1898; 
Lieutenant-Colonel in 1901; Colonel and 
Brigadier-General in 1902. During the 
Spanish-American War, he served in the 
Philippines and was with the Chinese Ex- 
pedition and took part in the battles of 
Yang-tsun, when the gates of the Im- 
perial City and Pekin were captured. Fo'- 
gallant service in the Chinese campaign, 
he received special mention from the 
British Government. He was retind 
from active service on Oct. 9, 1902, with 
the rank of Brigadier-General. Address: 
War Department. 



RADCLIFFE, WALLACE, clergjTnan, 
was born in Pittsburg, Pa., August 16, 
1842, son of Elias and Susannah (Wallace) 
Radcliffe. His early education was ob- 
tained in the Pittsburg Schools, Allegheny 
Academy and Washington and Jefferson 
College, graduating from the lattei- A. M. 
in 1864, (LL D. 1902), after which he at- 
tended 'the Western Pennsylvania Theolo- 
gical Seminary, and Princeton Theological 
Semimary, graduating in 1866 (D. D. 
Lafayette College, 1882). He has been 
pastor of the Woodland Presbyterian 
Church at Philadelphia; First Presby- 
terian Church In Reading, Pa.; Fore 
Street Presbyterian Church in Detroit, 
and, since 1895, has been pastor of the 
New York Avenue Presbyterian Church 
in Washington. In 1875 and 1887, he was 
a delegate to the Pan-Presbyterian Coun- 
cil held in London, and in 1899, when it 
was held in Washington. He was a Mod- 
erator of the Synod of Philadelphia, 1876 
and 'Of Michigan, 1888, and one of the Gen- 
eral Assembly of the Presbyterian Church 
of the U. S. A., in 1898. He is a member 
of the Sigma Chi college fraternity, 
Audubon Society, Cosmos, University and 
Columbia Golf Clubs. He is the author 
of several books, and monographs of a 
historical nature, and in politics, a Re- 
publican. On May 7, 1887, he marritd 
Jessie Rawson W^alker. Residence: 1200 
K street, n.w. 

RAE, CHARLES WHITSIDE, naval 
engineer, was born at Hartford, Conn., 
June 30, 1847, son of Rev. Luzern and 
Marcha (Whiteside) Rae. He was gradu- 
ated from Renssalaer Polytechnic Insti- 
tute (N. Y.) C. E. 1866, and from the U. S. 
Naval Academy in 1868. Promoted to 
the rank of Captain, January 3, 1903. and 



served in the bombardment of San Juan, 
and in the naval battle of Santiago, July 
1898, and was advanced for eminent and 
conspicuous conduct in battle. He was 
appointed Engineer-in-Chief, U. S. N., 
with the rank of Rear-Admiral, and Chief 
of the Bureau 'of Steam Engineering, Au- 
gust 9, 1903. He is a. member of Ameri- 
can Society of Naval Engineers; the 
Delta Phi fraternity; Metropolitan, Chevy 
Chase and Alibi Clubs of Washington, 
D. C. On January 9, 1890, he was mar- 
ried at Washington, D. C, to Rebecca 
Gilman Dodge. Residence: 1827 Jefferson 
Place. 

RAINEY, HENRY T., lawyer, Con- 
gressman, was born in CarroUton, Green 
County, Illinois on August 20, 1860, son 
of John and Catherine Rainey. He at- 
tended Amherst College, graduating A. 
B. in 1883, and A. M. in 1885, after which 
he 'took up the study 'of law at the Unioi 
College of Law in Chicago, since which 
time he has been engaged in the practice 
of his profession at CarroUton, 111. He 
has represented the Twentieth Illinois 
District in the Firty-eighth and Fifty- 
ninth Congresses and has been re-elected 
to the Sixtieth Congress. In politics, he 
has always been a Democrat. He is a 
Knights of Pythias; a member of the 
I. O. O. F.; Modern Woodman; Mutual 
Protective League and the Elks, etc. On 
June 27, 1888. he married Ella McBrido, 
of Harvard, Neb. Legal residence: Car- 
roUton, 111. Washington address: House 
of Representatives. 

RAKEMANN, HERMAN CARL, musi- 
cian, was bora in Washington, D. C, on 
June 19, 1864. His earliest ancestor, 
Frederick Christian Rakemann, was born 



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in 1735, and was a't one time private sec- 
retary land Court Musician, to Prince 
Henry of Prussia. Thie subject of 
this sketch was educated at the 
Royal High School of Music at Ber- 
lin, pupil of Dr. Joseph Joachim and 
Emanuel Wirth 1882-85, and Brussels, 
1897, Prof. Eugene Ysaye. He has been 
violin solois't, instructor and conductor 
of the Georgetown Orchestra; violinist 
of the Richard Wagner Society; Wash- 
ington Musical Club; Rakemann String 
Quattet, and was concert master of cht 
Washington Symphony Orchestra, Regi- 
nald de Koven conductor. He has been 
a teacher in the Washington College of. 
Music, and has played at the White House. 
He is a Mason and member of the local 
brainch of the American Federation of 
Musicians and present leader of the 
Belasco Theatre Orchestra. On Sept. 10, 
1895, he married Sophie Eleanor Brock, 
to which union have been 'born two chil- 
dren, Frederick Brock Rakemann and 
Herman Carl Rakemann, Jr. Residienee: 
1204 P street, n.w. 

RALSTON, JACKSON H., lawyer, was 
born in Sacramento, California, February 
6, 1857, son of James H. and Harriet N. 
(Jackson) Ralston. He was graduated 
from the Georgetown University Law 
School in 1876 and received the degree 
of LL.D. from the National University 
Daw School in 1897. During his early life 
he was a compositor, and in 1878, delegate 
of the International Typographical Union 
to Italy and the French Exposition. In 
1878-81 he practiced law in Quincy, 111 , 
since which time he has been actively 
engaged in 'the practice of his profession 
in Washington, D. C, as a partner of 
Frederick I* Siddonsl and William E 
Richardson under the firm name of Rals- 
ton & Siddons. In 1892 he was president 
of the Board of Commissioners of Hyattrf- 
ville, Maryland, when the single tax sys- 
tem, of which he is an earnest advocate, 
was put into practical operation for the 
first time since its recent discussion in 
this country. In 1902, he was the Ameri- 
can agent presenting the Pious Fund case 
before the Permanent Court of Arbitra- 
tion at The Hague, this being the first 
case brought before that body. In 1903 
he was umpire of the Italian-Venezuelan 
Mixed Claims Commission, sitting at 
Caracas. He has published, among other 
matters, a report of the Venezuelan Com- 
missions of 1903, the French-Venezuelan 
Commission under the Protocol of 1902, 
and a. full report of the proceedings in 
the Pi'ous Fund case at The Hague, and 
is a contribu'tor to the American Journal 
of International Law. He was married 
June 1, 1887 to Sara B. R. Rankin, of 
Keokuk, Iowa, daughter of former law 
partner of Samuel F. Miller, Justice lof 
the Supreme Court of the United States. 
He is a member of the Cosmos Club; a 
Mason, and, politically, a Democrat. 
Residence: HyattsviUe, Maryland, and 
1730 P street, n.w. Office: Bond Build- 
ing. 



RAMAGE, BURR JAMES, special at- 
torney. Bureau of Corporations, Depart- 
ment of Commerce and Labor, was born 
at Newberry, Newbenry County, South 
Carolina, July 1, 1858, son of Burr Johni 
tone and Sarah Anne Ramage. He is 
descended from Revolutionary stock on 
both sides; his maternal grandfather. 
William Wilson, was Judge of the Pro- 
bate Court of Newberry County and his 
father for many years, clerk of 'the Court 
of Common Pleas. He attended New- 
berry Academy and Newberry College, 
graduating from the latter institution 
B. A. 1880, M. A. 1883, and Johns Hop- 
kins University, Ph. D. 1886; subsequent- 
ly studying at Heidelberg, Germany and 
Columbia (N. Y.) Law School, being ad- 
mitted to the New York City bar in 1887, 
from which date until 1892, he practiced 
law. He was dean of the Law Depart- 
ment of the University of the South, 
Sewanee, Tenn.; professor of law in the 
same institution, 1892-1904, and associate 
editor, Sewanee Review, 1900-1904. He 
Is the author of several books and, mono- 
graphs, among them being; Local Govern- 
ment and Free Schools in South Caro- 
lina (1883) ; Social Progresis and the 
Police Power of the State (1902); Growth 
and Moral Attitude of Corporations 
(1899); Life of Hugh Swinton. Legare, 
(1902), and has contribu'ted numerous 
articles on historical, economic and legal 
topics to newspapers and magazines. He 
is a member of the Chi Phi college fra- 
teirnity; University Club; National Geo- 
graphic Society; American Economic As- 
sociation; American. Historical Associa- 
tion; Archaeological Society of America, 
and the Economic Circle. On Feb. 24. 
1897, he married Harriet Page Bird, of 
Galveston, Tex., daughter of the late 
Dr. S. Moylan Bird, for twenty-two years 
rec'tor of Trinity Church in that city. He 
is a member of the Protestant Episcopal 
Church and in politics, a Republican. 
He was appointed to his present office 
early in 1904. Residence: The Ontario. 
Office: Bureau of Corporations, Willard 
Building. 

RAMSAY, ARTHUR T., principal of 
Fairmont Seminary. Residence: 2701 
Fourteenth street, n.w. 

RAMSAY, FRANCIS MUNROE, retired 
naval officer, was born in Washington, D. 
C, on April 5, 1835, son of brevetted 
Major- General George Douglas and 
Frances Whetcroft (Munroe) Ramsay. In 
1850, he was appointed a midshipman in 
the Navy and served in the Pacific Squad- 
ron until 1855, and was. at the U. S. 
Naval Academy during 1855-56, graduat- 
ing the latter year; was advanced to past 
midshipman the same year; was pro- 
moted to Lieutenant in 1858; Lieutenant- 
Commander in 1862; Commander in 1866: 
Captain 1877; Commodore 1889-94, and 
Rear- Admiral 1894-97. During the Civil 
War, he was in command of the U. S. S. 
Choctaw in the Third Division of the 



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Mississippi Squadron, and took part U^ 
engagements on the Mississippi River, 
Haines' Bluff, Yazoo River, etc., and was 
in command of a battery of three guns 
mounted on scows before Vicksburg. Dur- 
ing the latter part of the war he was in 
command of the gunboat Unadilla in thti 
North Atlantic Squiadron and took part 
in attacks on Forts Fisher, Anderson anl 
other engagements. From 1881-86, he was 
superintendent of the Naval Academy, 
and chief of the Bureau 'Of Navigatio^i 
from 1889-97. He was a member of the 
Schley Board of Inquiry in 1901. He was 
retired from active sendee with the rank 
of Rear-Adminal on April 5, 1897. On 
June 8, 1869, he mafried Anna, daughter 
of Patrick and Mary (Powers) McMahon, 
of Ireland. Residence: 1923 M street, 
n.w. 

RAMSBURGH, JESSE HOUCK, physi- 
cian, was born at Frederick, Md., Septem- 
ber 25, 1869, so'n- of John Stephen and 
Drusilla Hellen Ramsburgh. His earliest 
ancestors, John, Jacob, Stephen and Ellas 
Ramsburg, emigrated to America In 
1656, settling in Maryland, where his fam- 
ily has since resided. His mother was a 
Beeson, great granddaughter of Henry 
Beeson, Sr., founder of Uniontown, Pa. 
Through the Beesons, he traces his direct 
ancestry in this country to Thomas John- 
son, First Governor of Maryland, etc: 
the Martins of Virginia and the Frank- 
lins and Hellenes of Pennsylvania. Hon. 
John Grubb, an officer in the Colonial 
Wars was a great grandfather. He was 
educated at the Frederick Academy; St. 
John's College at Annapolis, Md.; 
Georgetown University; University of 
Virginia, 1895, and New York Polyclinic 
and Providence Hospitals. During the 
Spanish War, he was with the U. S. Army 
in Cuba, was later stationed at Montauk 
Point, and served awhile at Plattsburg, 
N. Y., after which he resigned to enter 
the private practice of medicine. While 
serving with the army before Santiago, 
the officers of the Sixteenth U. S. Infan- 
try presented him with a memorial let- 
ter in testimony of the arduous duti.-S 
pet-formed while Surgeon in that regi- 
ment. He is ppofessor of oral surgery, 
Georgetown University; and on the sur- 
gical staff, Georgetown University Hos- 
pital; consultant diseases throat and 
chest, Frederick City Hospital; chief of 
Clinic Free Dispensary for Consumptive^, 
and chairman of the Lecture Committee 
of the Society for the Prevention of Con- 
sumption and is secretary and treasurer 
of the Washington Sanatorium Company 
for the treatment of incipient cases of 
tubeTculosis. He is a Mason; an Elk; 
a member of the University Club; 'of tho 
Society of the Army of Santiago de Cuba, 
and leading medical and scientific socie- 
ties of Washington and elsewhere. He is 
a member of the Protestant Episcopal 
Church, and in politics is a Republican. 
On Nov. 21, 1900, he married Edith Rob- 
erts, a daughter of Dr. William E 
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Robetts, to which unloit have been born 
two children. Residence: The Portner. 

RAND, STEPHEN J., retired naval of- 
ficer, was born at Norwich, Vt., on May 
11, 1906, having served as paymaster 
(Turner) Rand. His early education was 
obtained under private tutors, after whi^h 
he attended Dartmouth College, graduat- 
ing in 1863, receiving an A. M. degree in. 
1876. He enlisted in the army, soon after 
leaving college and took part in the 
Peninsular campaign, with General Mc- 
Clelland, until 1864, when, he entered the 
navy and in that service had advanced 
to the rank of Rear-Admiral, when he 
was retired from active service on May 
11, 1906, having served i,s paymaster 
and pay director of the U. S. N. He 18 
a member of the Alpha Delta Phi college 
fraternity; Metropolitan, Army and Navy, 
and University Clubs; the Loyal Legion., 
Geographical Society, etc. He is a mem- 
ber of the Catholic Church and on Aug. 
21, 1871, he married Miss Watson. Ad- 
dress: Navy Department. 

RANDALL, GEORGE MORTON, army 
officer, was born in Ohio on October S, 
1841. In 1861, he enlisted as a. private in 
the Fourth Pennsylvania Infantry and the 
same year was appointed a Second Lieu- 
tenant in the Fourth Infantry; was pro- 
moted to First Lieutenant in 1852; served 
as Major and Lieutenant- Colonel of the 
Fourteenth New York Artillery during 
1864-65. He was commissioned a Captain 
in 1865; prom'Oted to Major in 1891; Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel in 1894; Colonel in 1898, 
and Brigadier-General in 1901. For gal- 
lant services, he was brevetted several 
times for services in Antietam and 
Petersburg battles, and Indian expedi- 
tions in the Southwest. In 1898, he was 
appointed Brigadier-General of U. S 
Volunteers and commanded the Third Di- 
vision of the Second Corps and in 1897, 
picked a detachment of the Eighth In- 
fantry that was sent to Alaska and when 
the Military Department was created 
there, he was appointed Brigadier-General 
of Volunteers and commanded the de- 
partment. Address: War Department. 

RANDELL, CHOICE BOSWELL, law- 
yer. Congressman, was born in Murray 
County, Georgia, on January 1, 1857, and 
was educated in the public and private 
schools and the North Georgia Agricul- 
tural College, after which he took up the 
study of law and was admitted to the 
bar in 1878. In 1879, he removed to the 
state of Texas where he has since re- 
sided. In politics he is a Democrat; rep- 
resented the Fifth Texas District in the 
Fifty-seventh Congress and the Fourth 
Texas District in the Fifty-eighth and 
Fifty-ninth Congresses; re-elected to the 
Sixtieth Congress. On Oct. 29, 1879. he 
married Anna Marschalk of Natchez. 
Miss. Legal residence: Sherman, Texas. 
Washington address: House of Represen- 
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RANDLE, ARTHUR EMMETT, real 

estate, was born in Artesia, Miss., January 
17, 1859. After the Civil War, he went 
to Philadelphia with his elder brother, 
and acquired his early education ther^^. 
He won the scholarship prize from the 
public schools to the University of Penn- 
sylvainia, and then embari^ed irl the rail- 
road and real estate business at Washing- 
ton and in Mississippi. He is a member 
of the New York Chamber of Commerce, 
being the first Waphington'an to be 'tlecl- 
ed to that body. In 1890, he founded the 
suburb known as Congress Heights near 
Washington and built a railroad 'to It. 
His main interest is now centered in thr; 
U. S. Realty Company, of which he is 
president, and his desire is to develop 
the country east of the Capitol, accord- 
ing to the plan originally framed by Pres- 
ident Washington under the plans of the 
French Engineer, Major L'enfant. Resi- 
dence: The Connecticut. Office: Seventh 
street and Pennsylvania avenue, n.w. 

RANDOLPH, WALLACE F., army of- 
ficer, was b'orn in Pennsylvania on June 
11, 1841. He entered the volunteer ser- 
vice as a private with the Seventeenth 
Penn.fylvania Infantry 'on April 18, 1861, 
but was discharged from the volunteer 
service and appointed a Second Lieuten- 
ant in the Fifth Artillery the following 
month; was promoted to First Lieuten- 
ant in 1862; Captain in 1866; Major in 
1888; Lieutenant-Colonel in 1898; Colonel 
in 1899; Brigadier-General and Chief ot 
the Artillery in 1902. He took part in 
many battles of the Civil War, and was 
brevetted for gallant services rendered at 
Winchester, Va., and other points. In 
1898, he was commissioned a Brigadier- 
General, U. S. v., serving during the 
Spanish War. Residence: 1317 New 
Hampshire avenue. Offlce: War Depart- 
ment. 

RANDOLPH, WINSLOW H., principal 

of Emerson Institute. Address: 914 Four- 
teenth street, n.w. 

RANSDELL, DANIEL MOORE, Ser- 
geant-at-Arms of the U. S. Senate, was 
born near Indianapolis, Ind. He attend- 
ed the common schools of his native coun- 
ty during the winter, and worked on a 
farm in the summer until he was sixteen 
years 'of age when he entered Franklin 
(Ind.) College, where he remained for 
three years, teaching school during the 
summer vacation. He left college to en- 
ter the Union Army at the outbreak of 
the Civil War, serving as a non-commis- 
sioned officer until May, 1864, losing his 
right arm at the battle of Resaoa, on May 
15, 1864. After the war he took a coni- 
metcial course in a business college and 
taught scho:! for one year, and then be- 
came deputy reporter 'of Marion county, 
Indiana; elected city clerk of Indianapo- 
lis in 1867 and re-elected in 1869; mem- 
ber of Indianapolis City Council two 
years. He was appointed by the Gover- 



Mat-ion county where he served four 
years. He was appointed by the Gover- 
nor a member of the Board of Commis- 
sioners to erect a Soldier's Monument in 
Indianapolis; member of the Republican 
State Committee eight consecutive years; 
appointed by President Harrison, Marshal 
of the District of Columbia in 1889, serv- 
ing until Jan. 1894. On Jan. 29, 1900, he 
was elected Sergeant-at-Arms of the U. S. 
Senate, which position he still holds. 
Residence: 130 B street, n.w. Oflfice: 
U. S. Senate. 

RANSDELL, JOSEPH EUGENE, law- 
yer. Congressman, was born at Alexan- 
dria, La., on October 7, 1858, son of Joha 
H. and Amanda (Terrell) Ransdell. He 
was educated in the public schools of his 
native town and at Union College, 
Schenectady, N. Y., graduating from that 
institution in 1883, after which he took 
up the study of law, and was admitted 
to the bar in 1883, since when he has 
Tseen e;igaged actively in the practice 
of his profession. In 1884, he was elected 
district attorney for the Eighth Judicial 
District of Louisiana, which position he 
held for twelve years, and served as a 
member of the Levee Board of the Fifth 
Louisiana Levee District from 1896-99, 
when, he was elected to Congress. In 
1898, he was a member of the State Con- 
stitutional Convention 'of Louisiana 
which framed a new constitution for the 
State. In addition to his law practice, 
he is much interested, in cotton planting 
and has taken an active interest in levee 
building on the Mississippi River for sev- 
eral years. He was elected to the Fifty- 
sixth Congress to fill out the un.expired 
term of Hon. S. T. Eaird and has been 
re-elected to the Fifty-seventh, Fifty- 
eighth, Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Con- 
gresses from the Fifth Louisiana Dis- 
trict on the Democratic ticket. Leg.Hl 
residence: Lake Providence. La. Wash- 
ington address: House of Representa- 
tives. 

RANSOM, BRAYTON HOWARD, 

zoologist, was born at Missouri Valley, 
in Harrison County, Iowa, on March 
24, 1879, son of George Howard and 
Martha (Roach) Ransom. He was grad- 
uated from the University of Nebraska, 
B. S., in 1899 and M. A., in 1900, and is 
at the present time chief of the Zoologi- 
cal Division of the Bureau of Animal In- 
dustry of the U. S. Department of Agri- 
culture. He is the author of a number 
of bulletins and articles that have been 
issued by the above department. He is 
a. member of the Phi Beta Kappa, Beta 
ThetaPi and the Sigma Chi college frater- 
nities. On May 4, 1904, he married Sarah 
Virginia Smith. Residence: The Stoa- 
dert. Twenty-ninth and Q streets, n.w. 
Office: U. S. Department of Agriculture. 

RANSOME, FREDERICK LESLIE, 

geologist, was born at Greenwich, En- 
gland, on Dece'mber 2, 1868, son of Ernest 
Leslie and Mary Jane (Dawson) Ran- 



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some. After attending the public an.i 
high schools in California, he entered the 
University of California and was gradu- 
ated in 1893 (Ph. D., 1896), and was 
fellow in , geology from 1893-95, during 
which time he taught mineralogy. Dur- 
ing 1896-97, he was assistant in minera- 
logy and petrography at Harvard, and 
from 1897-1900 he was an assistant geolo- 
gist in the U. S. Geological Survey, and 
since 1900, he has been a geologist in thR 
same department. He is the author of 
several bulletins and monographs that 
have been issued by the above depart- 
ment, as well as of various articles in 
scientific journals, and is associate editor 
of Economic Geology. He is a fellow of 
the Geological Society of America, Ameri- 
can Association for the Advancement of 
Science; a member of the American In- 
stitute of Mining Engineers; the Wash- 
ington Academy of Science; Washington 
Society of Engineers; Notional Geo- 
graphic Society, and the Cosm'os Cluu. 
On May 25, 1899, he married Amy Cordova 
Rock, of Washington and has three chil- 
dren.. Residence: 1455 Belmont street, 
n.w. Office U. S. Geological Survey. 

RAPLEY, W. H,, manager of the New 
National Theater, was born in Washing- 
ton on April 26, 1857, son of William W. 
and Charity Stansbury (Harryman) Rap- 
ley. He was educated in the Washington 
schools an.d at Hanover, Germany; after 
returning from abroad he entered the 
U. S. Military Academy by an appoint- 
ment from Gen. Grant, but remained there 
only two years. For a: number of year-* 
he has been sole manager of the Nevv 
National Theatre. He has been twio3 
ma'rried, first to Miss Batchelor, of Mary_ 
land and second in 1906. To the first 
union was born a son. Residence: The 
Farragut. Office: New National Theatre. 

RATANAYAPTI, PHRA, Charge d'Af- 
faires, Siamese Embassy. Address: The 
Arlington. 

RATHBUN, MARY JANE, carcinologist, 

was born in Buffalo, N. Y., June 11, 1860, 
and was educated in the common and 
high schools. From 1884-87, she was in 
the employ of the U. S. Fish Commission, 
since when she has been connected with 
the U. S. National Museum, now being 
lan assistant curator of the Division of 
Marine Invertebrates. Many bulletins 
and monographs written by her have 
been is.S'ued by the National Museum in 
addition to several ar'tlcles that have ap- 
■peared in other scientific publications. 
She is a member of the Biological Society 
of Washington, Washington! Academy of 
Sciences, etc. Address: Smithsonian In- 
stitution. 

RATHBUN, RICHARD, scientist, was 
born at Buffalo, N. Y., 'on January 25, 
1852. He was educated in the public 
■schools and Cornell University, entering 
the latter ins.titution with the class of 



1875, but did not graduate (M. S. Ind., 
Univ., D. Sc. Bowdoin). During 1874-75, 
he was an assistant in zoology for the 
Boston Society of Natural History, and 
assistant geolrgist for the Geological Com- 
mission of Brazil from 1875-78. During 
1879-80, he was an assistant in zoology 
at Yale University, and from 1878-93, 
he was an assistant on the U. S. Fish 
Commission, previous to 1887, having had 
charge of Scientific Inquiry; from 1892-96 
he represented the United States on the 
Joint Commission with Great Britain, ti 
preserve the fisheries in the United 
States and Canadian waters. Since 1897, 
he has been Assistant Secretary of the 
Smithsonian Institution, and has been in 
charge of the National Museum sincd 
1899. He is the author of many bulletins 
of a scientific nature that have been is- 
sued by the government, and articles 
'that have appeared in scientific maga- 
zines. Residence 1622 Massachusetis 
avenue, n.w. Office: Smithsonian Insli- 
tution. 

RAUCH, GEORGE W., Congressman. 

He was elected to the Sixtieth Congress, 
in November, 1906, from the Eleventh 
Congressional District of Indiana, 'on the 
Democratic ticket. Legal residence: 
Marion, Ind. Washington address: Houoe 
of Representatives. 

RAVENEL, WILLIAM de CHAS- 
TIGNIER, naturalist, was born at Pine- 
ville, S. C, on August 25, 1859, son of 
William F. and Ellen (DuBois) Ravenel. 
He was graduated from Union College at 
Schenectady, N. Y., in 1878. In 1883 he 
entered the U. S. Fish Commission, and 
was a special agent at the World's Co- 
lumbian Exposition in 1893, and was a 
representative at the expositi'ons in At- 
lanta, Nashville, Omaha, Pan-American 
and the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. 
From 1895-1902, he was. am assistant in 
charge of fish culture of the U. S. Fish 
Commission, and from 1897-1902 was act- 
ing commissioner, and since 1902, he has 
been an administrative assistant in the 
U. S. National Museum. He is a member 
of the Son.s of the American Revolution; 
the Huguenot Society of South Carolina; 
Cosmos Club, and a number of the lead- 
ing scientific societies in Washington and 
elsewhere. On Feb. 15, 1883, he married 
Elizabeth Fitz Simons. Residence: 1611 
Riggs Place. Office: U. S. National 
Museum. 

RAWLES, JACOB BEEKMAN, retifed 
army officer, was born in Romeo, Mich., 
on August 4, 1839, son of Aaron B. and 
Elizabeth (Beekman) Rawles. He was 
graduated from West Point in 1861; pro- 
moted to Second Lieutenant, 1861; First 
Lieutenant the same year; Captain in 
1866; Major in 1887; Lieutenant-Colonel 
in 1897; Colonel in 1899 and retired from 
active service on April 15, 1903, with the 
rank of Brigadier-General. He served 
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the Gulf, took part in the Red River cam- 
paign, after which he was with the Army 
of the Potomac until the end of the war. 
He took part in the battles of Sabine 
Cross Roads, Port Hudson, La.; the siege 
of Fort Morgan and battles around Mobile 
Bay, being brevetted for gallantry in ser- 
vice! During 1S99-1900, he was in com- 
mand of Angel Island, Cal., and from 
that time until he was retired was in 
command of Presidio of San Francisco. 
He is a member of the Loyal Legioni, So- 
ciety of American Wars, Army of the 
Potomac, etc. On March 20, 1862, he 
married Phoebe A. Garretson at pwasco, 
N. Y. Address: War Department. 

RAWLINGS, BEN M., manager of the 
Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company. 
Residence: 2930 Newark street, Cleveland 
Park, D. C. Office: Ouray Building. 

RAYMOND, FRANK K., general agent 
of the Central Union Life Insurance Com- 
pany, was born in Champaign County, 
Ohio, son of Harry Theodore and Lydia 
H. Raymond. He was educated in the 
public schools of Bellefontaine, Ohio 
where his parents removed after the war 
in 1869, going then to learn the printer s 
trade on the Bellefontaine Examiner, later 
working on the Cincinnati Examiner til' 
1877. He was employed on the National 
Republican in Washington, and then ac- 
cepted a position with the publishing house 
of Allen, Lane & Scott, of Philadelphia, 
and in three weeks was made foreman .>f 
one of the branches. He then went inf* 
partnership with Jaimes M. Boyle, and 
published the Daily Courier at Columbus, 
Ohio, the first daily paper there. In, 1881, 
he went to Cambridge, Ohio, where ha 
married Loretta, daughter of Samuel Bur. 
gess. In 1888, he came to Washington, 
and for ten years worked at the printe'-.i' 
trade in the Government Printing Offico, 
then becoming local general agent of tha 
Central Union Life Insunance Company. 
He is one of the founders of the Business 
Men's Association which was started In 
1879, was chairman of the general com- 
mittee of arrangements of the Peace Jubi- 
lee; president of the Business Men's As- 
sociation in 1893, and a member of the 
Inaugural Committee in 1905. He is a 
Shriner, and when he retired in 1902 as 
Potentate of the Temple, he was pre- 
sented with a superb jewelled medat. 
Residence: 100 Fourth street, s.e. Office: 
Colorado Building. 

RAYMOND, GEORGE LANSING, edu- 
cator, author, was born in Chicago on 
September 3, 1839, son of Benjamin 
Wright and Amelia (Porter) Raymond. 
His father was at one time a prominent 
merchant and Mayor of Chicago. He was 
educated at Phillips-Andover Acade- 
my, Williams College, Princeton Theo- 
logical Seminary and later spent three 
years in Europe for special study. After 
having charge of a Presbyterian Church 
at Darby, a suburb of Philadelphia, he 



became, In 1874, professor of English and 
oratory in Williams College; in 1880 of 
oratory ian,d esthetic criticism, and in 
1893, of esthetics at Princeton; and in 
1895, of esthetics at the George Wash- 
ington University. He is a lecturer on 
esthetic subjects and the author, among 
other books, of The Orator's Manual, 
(1879); Modern Fishers of Men, (1879); 
A Life in Song, (1886); Poetry as a Rep- 
resentative Art, (1886); Ballads, etc, 
(1887); The Genesis of Art-Form, (1892); 
Rhythm and Harmony, (1894;) The Rep- 
resentative Significance of Form, (1900), 
The Essentials of Esthetics, (1906); Tha 
Psychology of Inspiration, (1907.) He id 
Governor of the Washington Society oL 
M-iyflower Descendants; vice-president 
and chairman of Washington directors of 
the American Free-Art League; vice- 
president Phillips Academy Alumni As- 
sociation, and American Social Science 
Association.; a member of National 
Philosophic, Archeological, Fine Arts, 
Geographic and many other societies; of 
Phi Beta Kappa and of Kappa Alpha 
college fraternities; of New York Cen- 
tury and Authors Clubs; and of Wash- 
ington University and Cosmos Clubs. In 
politics he is a Republican and attends 
the Presbyterian Church. In 1872, lie 
married Mary E. Blake, and ha.s had 
two children, one of whom is living. Resi- 
dence 1810 N street. 

RAYNER, ISIDOR, lawyer and U. S. 
Senator, was born in Baltimore, on April 
11, 1850, and was educated at the Uni- 
versity of Maryland and the University 
of Virginia, after which he took up the 
study of law and was admitted to th? 
bar in Baltimore in 1870. In 1878, he was 
elected to the Maryland State legislatur^i, 
with which body he served two terms, anJ 
in 1885, he was elected to the State Sen- 
ate for four years. In 1886, he resigned 
from the State Senate to become the 
Democratic candidate for Congress; was 
elected to serve In the Fiftieth Congress 
and re-elected to the Fifty-second and 
Fifty-third Congresses and declined re- 
nomination for the Fifty-fourth. From 
1899-1903, he was attorney-general foT 
the State of Maryland and in 1904, wa.^ 
elected to the U. S. Senate to succeed 
the Hon. Louis E. McComas for the term 
beginning March 4, 1905. His term of 
office will expire on March 3, 1911. Legal 
residence: Baltimore, Md. Washing'con 
residence: The Highlands. 

READ, JOHN ELLIOT, journalist, au- 
thor, was born at South Amherst, Mass., 
January 4, 1845, son of Thomas an 1 Sarah 
Read. He served as associate editor of 
the Working Farmer, New York, ten 
years, and corresponding editor of The 
Practical Farmer, Philadelphia, twelve 
years. He is the author of Farming for 
Profit (1880); (with George J. Hager and 
Alfred H. Guernsey, Ph. D.) Within and 
Beyond the States (1889); A Brief His- 
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from the Ninth Century to the Peary Ex- 
pedition (1897); Life Triumphant (1900). 
He was an editorial writer for tlie Co- 
lumbian Cyclopedia (1889-94), and has 
been on the editorial staff of Men of Mark 
in America since October, 1903. Resi- 
dence: 721 Eleventh street, n.w. Office: 
Jenifer Building. 

READ, JOHN J., naval officer, was 
born in New Jersey on June 17, 1842 and 
was graduated from the U. S. Naval 
Academy in 1861. He was promoted to 
an Ensign in 1862; Lieutenant in 1864; 
Lieutenant-Commander in 1866; Com- 
mander in 1877; Captain in 1893 anrl 
Rear-Admiral in 1900. During the Civil 
V.'ar, he served on the flagship Hartfo -3 
and was with Farragut's fleet, 'taking 
part in the battles from Southwest Post 
to Vicksburg, and was afterwards in the 
South and North Atlantic Squadron until 
the end of the war. He has been in com. 
mand of the receiving ship Richmond, 
and from 1901 until June 17, 1904, was in 
command of the Portsmouth, N. H., Navy 
Yard, when, he was retired from activ 
service. Address: Navy Department. 

READ, WILLIAM A., member of the 
firm of William A. Read & Company, 
bankers. Address 1421 F street, n.w. 

REAMEY, LAZARUS LOWREY, Com- 
mander, U. S. N,, was born at HoUidays- 
burg in Blair County, Pennsylvania on 
February 15, 1849, son of Daniel Keller 
and Mary (Lowery) Reamey. His earlies: 
ancestors to settle in America were Adam 
Holliday and Lazarus Lowrey, the former 
in 1768 and the latter in 1729. He was 
educated in the public schools of HoUi- 
daysburg, Pa., the Pennsylvania Military 
College and the U. S. Naval Academy, 
graduating from the latter in 1870 and 
in 1884, made a special study of torpedoes 
at Newport, R. I. He is a member of 
the Metropolitan and the Chevy Chase 
Clubs. On Nov. 10, 1886, he married Mary 
Roget Brewster of New York City to 
which union have been born two children, 
one of whom is living. Residence: 1746 
N street, n.w. 

REBER, SAMUEL, Major, Signal Corps 
U. S. A., (General Staff.) Residence: 1736 
N street, n.w. Office: War Department 

REDFERN, SAMUEL EDWARD, gov 

ernment official, was born in Washington, 
D. C, on October 14, ISfiO, som. of Josepn 
and Josephine Redfern, and was educated 
in the Washington Schools and George- 
town University. In 1879, he removed to 
Chicago where he was engaged in the 
stock and grain business, returning t<> 
Washington in 1890 where he was en- 
gaged in the real estate business with 
his father until 1899, when he was ap- 
pointed chief clerk to the Nicaragua Canal 
Commission. When the new Isthmian 
Cainal Commission was organized, he was 
appointed its temporary secretary, and 



its chief clerk, and later purchasing 
agent, now holding that position in New 
Orleans. Fron. 1900-05, in connection 
'■fith his canal commission duties, he wa^ 
a special disbursing officer for the De- 
partment of State. He is a member )f 
the Catholic Church, Chevy Chase, Metro- 
politan, Century and University Club.s 
and in politics a Republican. On August 
15, 1900, he married Marie Holcombe 
Moore, of Hollidaysburg, Pa. Address: 
Isthmian Canal Commission. 

REED, HENRY ALBERT, army officer, 
was born at Plattsburgh, N. Y., on Junt 
23 1844, son 'of Adam Paul and Charlotte 
Helena (Luther) Reed, and was graduat- 
ed from West Point in 1870. At the out- 
break of the Civil War he enlisted as a 
private in the Twenty-fourth Wisconsin 
Infantry and served until the end of th'^ 
war, having advanced to rank of First 
Lieutenant. In 1870, he was appointed a 
Second Lieutenant in the U. S. Artillery; 
was promoted to First Lieutenant in 1875; 
Captain in 1898 and Major in 1901. He 
served for several years as assistant pro- 
fessor at the U. S. Military Academy and 
was graduated from the Artillery School 
in 1874, and the Signal Service School in 
1875. During the Spanish Wa.r, he servevl 
in Porto Rica, and since Oct. 31, 1902 
has commanded the Artillery in the Dis 
trict of San Juan, P. R. He is the author 
of Topographical Drawing and Sketchi 'a; 
and Photography Applied to Surveying, 
both of which were issued in 1886. fl.' 
is a member of the Loyal Legion, S. A. R . 
Army of the Potomac, etc. On July 10, 
1899, he married G=rtrudis Asenjoy del 
Valle at San Juan, P. R. Address: Th'J 
Adjuant General, U. S. A. 

REEDER, WILLIAM AUGUSTUS, 

banker. Congressman, was born in, Cum- 
berland County, Pennsylvania, on August 
29, 1849, and when four years of age emi- 
grated with his parents to Ipava, Fulton 
County, Illinois. When fourteen yeard 
of age he began teaching in the public 
schools, which profession he followed un- 
til thirty years of age, the lasf ten years 
being in the state of Kansas, where ne 
served as principal of the Beloit public 
sch'ools. In 1871, he took up a claim in 
Mitchell County, Kansas, where he has 
since resided. In 1876, he engaged in 
the banking business in the city o, 
Logan, and in 1890, with A. H. Ellis and 
J. J. Wiltrout, purchased an extensiv i 
tract of land on the Solomon River, ani 
established the largest irrigation farm in 
the State of Ka.nsas. He has represent- 
ed the Sixth Kansas District in all Con- 
gresses since the Fifty-fourth Congress. 
In politics he has always been a Repub- 
lican. On Aug. 18, 1876, he married 
Eunice H. Andrews of Beloit, Kans. Legal 
residence: Logan, Kans. Washington ad- 
dress: House of Representatives. 

REEL, ESTELLE, .General Superin- 
tendent of Indian Scho'ols since 1898, was 



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born at Pittsfleld, 111., on Nov. 26, 1866, 
and received her education in Chicago, 
St. Louis and Boston. She served as 
teacher and county isuperintendent of 
schools i,n. Wyoming in 1887, and was 
superintendent of public instruction in 
that State later. Residence: The Arling- 
ton. Office: Indian Bureau. 

REESIDE, FRANK P., secretary of the 
Equitable Co-Operative Building Associa- 
ti'on. Residence: 1008 Rhode Island ave- 
nue. Office: 1003 F street, n.vv. 

REESIDE, HOWARD S., Assistant 
treasurer of the American Security and 
Trust Company. Residence: 1829 Nine- 
teenth street, n.w. Office: Fifteenth street 
and Pennsylvania avenue. 

REEVE, FELIX ALEXANDER, gov- 
ernment official, was born in Cocke Coun- 
ty, Tennessee, on September 4, 1836, son 
of Thomas J. R. and Rebecca Ann (Earn- 
est) Reeve. In 1861, he was admitted to 
the bar at Kriioxville, Tenn., and w.i'' 
authorized by President Lincoln to re- 
cruit and command a regiment of soldiers, 
and served as Colonel of the Eighth Ten- 
nessee Volunteer Infantry. He first prac- 
ticed law at Greeneville, and later at 
Kn'oxville; from 1886-93, he was Assist- 
ant Solicitor of the U. S. Treasury; 1893- 
97 Solicitor of the Treasury, since when 
he has been in charge of the former 
office. In politics he is independent. He 
married Wilhelmina Donaldson Maynari, 
daughter of Hon. Horace Maynard. 
Residence: 1628 Nineteenth street, n.w. 
Office: Treasury Department. 

REICHMANN, CARL, army officer, 
was born at Unterbohringen, Wurttem- 
berg, Dec. 23, 1859, son of Rev. Carl F. P. 
and Matilde (Speidel) Reichmann. He 
was educated at the University of Tubin- 
gen, Wurttemberg 1877-80, University of 
Munich 1880-81, and was graduated from 
the U. S. Infantry and Cavalry School at 
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, 1889. Pro- 
moted to :^irst Lieutenant, Seventh U. S. 
Infantry, June 19, 1891; Captain. Decem- 
ber 13, 1898, and served in the Seven- 
teenth Infantry in Arizona, New Mexico, 
California and New Y'ork 1889-93; Cap- 
tain and Assistant Adjutant-General XJ. 
S. V. May, December 1898, and served in 
the Philippines from March, 1899, to Jan- 
uary, 1900, July 1901 to Februarv 1902, 
anr) July 1903 to April, 1904. He was 
military attache with the Boer Army in 
South Africa, February to October, 1904 
and served in the Vancouver Barracko 
Wash., April 1901 to June, 1902. From 
April to December 1904, he was military 
attache with the Russian Army in 
Manchuria. He is the author of reports 
On the South African War, and translator 
into English of many German works on 
military science and tactics. He is a 
member of the Army and Navy Club of 
Washington, D. C. Address: War Da- 
IJartment. 



REID, CHARLES CHESTER, lawyer, 
Congressman, was born at ClarksvlHe, 
Johnson County, Arkansas, on June 15, 
1868, and was educated at the State Uni- 
versity at Fayetteville, Ark., and Vander- 
bilt University at Nashville, Tenn., where 
he was graduated from the law depart- 
ment in 1887, and won the university 
medal for oratory. At the age of nine- 
teen, he began the practice 'of law at 
Morrillton, Ark, where he still resides; 
was elected prosecuting attorney in 1894 
and re-elected without opposition in 1896 
and 1898, voluntarily retiring from the 
office. He was elected to the Fifty-seventh 
and re-elected to the Fifty-eighth, Fifty- 
ninth and Sixtieth Congresses from th-:" 
Fifth Arkansas District on the Democratic 
ticket. In 1890, he married Dine Crozier 
of Morrillton, Ark. Legal residence: Mor, 
rillton. Ark. Washington address: House 
of Representative*. 



REID, GEORGE CROGHAN, Brigadier- 
General, U. S. Marine Corps (retired), 
was born at Lorain, Ohio, December 15, 
1840, son of Conrad and Abigail (Mur- 
dock) Reid. He was educated in the 
public schools of his native town, Oberlin 
College, and was graduated from the law 
department of Columbian (now George 
Washington) University in 1873. Was 
commissioned Lieutenant in the U. S. 
Marine Corps July 2, 1864; served as aide- 
de-camp to commandant 1867-77; pro- 
moted First Lieutenant, 1869; Captain, 
1884; adjutant and inspector, with the 
rank of Major, 1894; Colonel. 1899, and 
B igadier-General (retired), December 15, 
1904. Served during the Spanish-Amer- 
ican War las Adjutant and Inspector of 
the Corps, and as a member of the Naval 
General Board from 1899 to date of his 
retirement. He is a member of the Loyal 
Legion, the United Service Club of New 
York; Metropolitan Club, of Washington; 
and the New York Yacht Club. Was 
mai:ried February 13, 1877, to Miss Ada 
Savage, of Washington. Residence: 1631 
Massachusetts avenue. Office: Headquar- 
ters Marine Corps. 



REILLY, JAMES W., army officer, was 
D'orn in Pennsylvania August 2, 1839, and 
was graduated from the U. S. Military 
Academy, 1863. He served as assistant 
ordnance officer, Watertown (Mass.) Ar- 
senal from July 23, 1863, to Februa y 24, 
1864, and in the Department of Tennes- 
see from July 11, to November 11, 1864, 
and engaged in battles of Atlanta, July 
22 and 29, 1864; battle of Franklin, No- 
vember 20, 1S64, and Nashville, December 
15-16, 1864. On March 13, 1865, he was 
■brevetted Captain for faithful and meri- 
torious services in the Tennessee cam- 
paign; promoted to Captain in Ordnance 
Service, July 23, 1874; Lieutenant-Colo- 
nel Ap il 7, 1890, and retired as Brigadier- 
General August, 1903. Address: War De- 
partment. 



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REITER, GEORGE COOK, naval offi- 
cer, was born at Mt. Pleasant, Pa., son of 
W. C. and Eliza (Reynolds) Reiter, and 
was graduated from the U. S. Naval 
Academy in 1865. In 1866 he was pro- 
moted to Ensign; Master in 1S68; Lieu- 
tenant in 1869; Lieutenant-Commander in 
1880; Commander in 1890, and Captain in 

1899. In 1901 he was assigned to com- 
mand the U. S. S. Wisconsin. Address: 
Navy Department. 

REMEY, GEORGE COLLIER, Rear- 

Admiral, U. S. N., was bom In Burling- 
ton, la., August 10, 1841, son of William 
Butler and Eliza Smith (Rowland) Remey. 
He was graduated from the U. S. Naval 
Academy in 1859 and was attached to 
the Hartford, East India Squadron. 1859- 
61. He was commissioned Lieutenant on 
August 31, 1861, and served on the gun- 
boat Marblehead at the siege of York- 
town and operations on the York and 
the Pamunkey Rivers succeeding, and was 
on the blockade and engaged in the 
siege of Battery Wagner, August and 
September 1863; for a time du;ing this 
period commanded the Marblehead; com- 
manded the naval battery on Morris Is- 
land; took part in the bombardment of 
Fort Sumter, where he commanded the 
second division of boats in a night 'as- 
sault on the fort on the night of Septem- 
ber 8, 1863, and was taken prisoner; was 
exchanged November 15, 1864. He was 
p omoted Lieutenant-Commander June 25, 
1865, and was attached to the steamer 
Mohongo, Pacific Squadron, Naval Acad- 
emy the sailing frigate Sabine; the Te- 
hauntepec and Nicaragua Ship Canal Sur- 
vey; The Naval Observatory; the flagship 
Worcester and Powhatan, and command- 
ed the Frolic, 1865-73; was commissioned 
Commander November 25, 1872. He 
served in the Bureau of Yards and Docks 
and other duty, 1874-76; commanded the 
Ente: prise, 1877-78; chief of staff 'on the 
flagship Lancaster, European Station, 
1881-83; and Navy Yard, Washington, D. 
C, 1884-86. He was promoted Captain 
October 30, 1885; was Captain of the 
Navy Yard, Norfolk, Va., 1886-89; com- 
manded the cruiser Charleston, 1889-92, 
Pacific and Asiatic Squadrons; was Cap- 
tain of the Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N. 
H., 1892-95, and Commandant of the same 
yard, 1896-98. He was promoted Commo- 
dore June 19, 1897; commanded the naval 
base. Key West, Fla., during the Span- 
ish Wa:; afterwards commanded the 
Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N. H., 1898-1900. 
He was promoted Rear-Admiral Novem- 
ber 22, 1898; was Commander-in-Chief of 
the Asiatic station April, 1900, to March, 
1902. He was senior Rear-Admiral of the 
active list of the Navy from March, 1902; 
Light-house Beard from May, 1902, to 
August 10, 1903, when he was retired from 
active service. He took an important 
part in the Pekin, China, expedition in 

1900, and in the insurrection in the Phil- 
ippines April, 1900, to March, 1902. He 
was present at the bombardment of Val- 



paraiso, Chile, by the Spanish fleet April, 
1866, and at the bombardment of Alex- 
andria, Egypt, by the English fleet in July, 
1882. He married, July 8, 1873, Mary Jo- 
sephine Mason. Residence: 1527 New 
Hampshire avenue, n.w. 

REYBURN, JOHN EDGAR, lawyer. 
Congressman, was born at New Carlisle, 
Clark County, Ohio, on February 7, 1845, 
and was educated by a private tutor and 
at the Saunders Institute in West Phila- 
delphia, after which he began the study 
of law, and was admitted to the bar in 
Philadelphia, Pa., in 1870. He served as 
a member of the Pennsylvania State Leg- 
islature in 1871-74-75-76, and w-as elected 
to the State Senate in 1876, and re-elected 
in 1880-83 and 1884, and served as pres- 
ident pro tempore in 1883. He was elect- 
ed from the former Fourth Pennsylvania 
District to fill out the unexpired term of 
the Hon. William E. Kelley in the Fifty- 
first Congress on February 18 1890, and 
was elected to the Fifty-second Fifty- 
third and Fifty-fourth Congresses from 
the same district and was re-elected in 
the Second District to the Fifty-ninth 
Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the 
death of the Hon. Robert Adams and re- 
elected to the Sixtieth Congress. Legal 
residence: Philadelphia, Pa. Washington 
residence: 1785 Massachusetts avenue. 

REYBURN, ROBERT, physician, was 
born ;at Glasgow, Scotland, on August 1, 
1833, son of James and Jane (Brown) 
Reyburn. He was educated in the Phil- 
adelphia public schools and the Philadel- 
phia Medical College, graduating in 1856, 
and received an honorary A. M. degree 
from Howard University in 1870. From 
1856-62 he practiced his profession in 
Philadelphia; entered the Union Army at 
the outbreak of the Civil War as an acting 
assistant surgeon; was promoted to 
surgeon and brevetted Lieutenant-Colo- 
nel, U. S. v., in 1867. In 1867 was pro- 
moted to Assistant Surgeon, U. S. A. For 
a number of years he has been practic- 
ing in Washington, and is Dean of the 
Medical Department of Howard Univer- 
sity. In 1881, he was one of the surgeons 
called when President Garfield was assas- 
sinated. He is the author of many mono- 
graphs on the subject of medicine, and 
has contributed to many scientific publi- 
cations. He is a Mason, a member or 
the Episcopal Church, and in politics a 
Republican. On February 5, 1854, he mar- 
ried Catharine White, to which union 
have been born eight children, four of 
whom are living. Residence: 2129 P 
street, n.w. 

REYNOLDS, ELMER ROBERT, eth- 
nologist, botanist, was born at Dansville, 
N. Y., July 30, 1846, grandson of Allen 
Reynolds, a revolutionary soldier of Col. 
Warner's Regiment of the Connecticut 
line; son of Dr. Allen B. and Sarah W. 
(Van Amburg) Reynolds; a maternal de- 



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scendant of Count Van Amburg, of Hol- 
land. Educated in the public school, St. 
John's Valley, Wis., and Columbian (now 
George Washington) University. Served 
as private soldier in the Tenth Wisconsin 
Volunteer Light Artillery from 1861 to 

1865. participating in the battles of Cor- 
inth,' Miss., Knoxville, Tenn., Rasaca, Fort 
McAllister and the siege of Savannah, Ga., 
and while engaged as flying artillery to 
Kilpatrick's Third Cavalry Division, took 
part in the famous raid around Atlanta 
prior to its fall. Took part in the battles 
of Averysboro and Bentonville, N. C; was 
captured with his entire battery by Wade 
Hampton at Solomon's Grove, Monroe 
Cross Roads, N. C, March 9, 1865. In 

1866, he entered the U. S. Navy as an 
instructor; served for two years in the 
Mediterranean Squadron, and then trans- 
ferred to the South Atlantic squadron on 
special duty, with headquarters at Aspin- 
wall. He served as a reporter on the 
Washington Daily Chronicle, and studied 
medicine and pharmacy. He was knight- 
ed by King Humbert of Italy in 1887 
(Chevalier and Knight Companion of the 
Royal Order of the Crown of Italy) ; silver 
medal from Don Carlos, King of Portugal; 
silver medal from Senlis, France; bronze 
medal from the Royal Portuguese Society 
of Archaeology, Lisbon; the royal stand- 
ard of Italy from the Countess Ercolani 
of Bologna, Italy, and a rare collection of 
autographs from Christian IX., King of 
Denmark, embracing every member of the 
royal and imperial houses of England, 
Denmark, Greece and Russia. Was 
founder and first secretary of the Anthro- 
pological Society of Washington; member 
of many scientific societies in this country 
and abroad. Author of several books, 
among them being: Eulogy on Count Er- 
colani (New Yo:k, 1883; London, 1884); 
Pre-historic Remains in the Valleys of the 
Potomac and South Shenandoah; The 
Pre-Columbian Shell Mounds at Newburg, 
Md., and the Shell Fields of the Potomac 
and Wicomico Rivers (1883) and the Mys- 
tic Castle 'of Carbonek (a serial romance, 
1900). From 1890 to 1893 he lectured on 
American Archaeology at the Catholic 
University of America, and was a staff 
contributor to Lamb's Encyclopedia oi' 
American Biography. On May 15, 1871, 
he married Medora S. Althouse, of Bed- 
ford Springs, Pa. He died September IS, 
1907, after being run down by an au:om'i- 
bile. Late residence: 318 Maryland a\ - 
enue, n.e. 

REYNOLDS, JAMES BURTON, As- 
sistant Secretary of the Treasury since 
March 6, 1905, was born at Saratoga, N. 
Y., February 17, 1870, son of John H. and 
Sarah C. (Morgan) Reynolds, and was 
graduated from Dartmouth College with 
honors in 1870; A. M. 1905. He was State 
House Reporter in 1891, and Washington 
correspondent, 1892-94, of the Boston Ad- 
vertiser and Record. Was an editorial 
writer for the New York Pres? in 1895 
and Secretary of the Republican State 



Committee of Massachusetts, 1896-1900. 
He served as delegate to the Republican 
National Conventions of 1896, 1900 and 
1904. He is a member of the Univer- 
sity, Puritan, Athletic and Exchange 
Clubs, of Boston, and Army and Navy, 
Cosmos, and University Clubs, of Wash- 
ington. Residence: 1712 H street. 

REYNOLDS, JOHN MERRIMAN, law- 
yer, Congressman, was bo:n in Lancaster 
County, Pa., and was graduated from the 
First Pennsylvania State Normal School, 
and received the degree of A. M. from Co- 
lumbian (now George Washington) Uni- 
versity, after which he took up the study 
of law and was admitted to the bar. At 
the present time he is engaged in the 
practice of law, the banking business, and 
is associated with the Colonial Iron Com- 
pany in the mining of coal and the man- 
ufactuie of pig iron at Riddlesburg, Pa. 
During 1873-74, he represented Bedford 
and Fulton Counties in the Pennsylvania 
State Legislature, and was elected pros- 
ecuting attorney for Bedford County in 
1875. He was appointed by Gov. Pat- 
terson in 1892, one of the five commis- 
sioners authorized by the State Legisla- 
ture to select a site and build an asylum 
for the insane at Wernersville, Pa., and 
in 1888 and 1892 he was a delegate to the 
National Democratic Conventions that 
nominated Cleveland for President, and in 
1893 was appointed to the office of As- 
sistant Secretary of the Interior by Pres- 
ident Cleveland and served until 1897. In 
1896 he supported McKinley for President, 
and has since been identified with the 
Republican party, and in 1904 was nom- 
inated for Congress without opposition 
from the Nineteenth Pennsylvania Dis- 
trict, and was elected to the Fifty-ninth 
Congress, and re-elected to the Sixtieth. 
He is married, and the father of three 
children. Legal residence: Bedford, Pa. 
Washington address: House of Repre- 
sentatives. 

RHEEM, CLARENCE B., real estate, 
was born in Washington on March 5, 
1862, son of John Andrews and Catherine 
C. (Schneider) Rheem. He was educated 
in the Washington public schools, grad- 
uating from the Washington High School, 
with the pioneer class of 1878. From 
1880-85 he served as Secretary to the 
Board of Trustees of the public schools 
of Washington, after which he entered the 
employ of the B. H. Warner Company 
(real estate), becoming a member of the 
firm in 1889. In addition to his connec- 
tions with the Swartzell, Rheem & Hen- 
sey Company, successors of the B. H. 
Warner Company, he is a director in the 
Real Estate Title Insurance Co.; Potomac 
Insurance Co.; secretary of the Criswell 
Chemical Company, and a trustee of the 
Industrial Home School. He is a mem- 
ber of the Board of Trade and other city 
o;ganizations. On November 21, 1888, ne 
married Eulalie Domer, a daughter of the 
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■has been born one child. iResidence: 1612 
S street, n.w. Office: 733 Fifteenth street, 
n.w. 

RHEES, WILLIAM JONES, bibliog- 
rapher, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., 
on March 13, 1830, and was graduated 
from the Central High School in the same 
city, in 1847. Fiom 1852-57 he was in 
charge of the social statistics of the Sev- 
enth Census, and Secretary of the Exec- 
utive Committee in Washington of the 
London World's Fair in 1851, and beoame 
Clerk of the Smithsonian Institution in 
1852, and has had general charge of the 
publications in that institution. He is 
the author of a number O'f bulletins that 
have been issued by the government, 
among them being: A Manual of Public 
Libraries; Institutions and Societies in 
the United States and British Provinces 
of North Ameiica; A Guide to the Smith- 
sonian Institution and the National Mu- 
seum; James Smithson and His Bequest, 
etc. He edited the scientific writings of 
James Smithson, and was one of the 
founders of the Y. M. C. A., and the Sons 
of American Revolution, 'having been 
president of the former body. Residence: 
Fourteenth and Spring streets. Office: 
Smithsonian Institution. 

RHINOCK, JOSEPH LAFAYETTE, 

Congressmian, was born at Owenton, 
Owen County, Ky., 'on January 4, 1863, 
son of Joseph and Eliza A. (Short) Rhi- 
nock and was educated in the Covington 
(Ky.) public schools and at an early age 
entered actively in public life. He has 
se:ved as a member of the Covington 
City Council, and w.as twice elected 
Mayor of that city, serving from 1893- 
1900. He was the organizer and first 
President of the Jefferson Democratic 
Club of Covington, Which is now the most 
influential political club in Kentucky, and 
is at the present time the head of the 
organization. Through his efforts the one 
hundred thousand dollar Carnegie Library 
was secured for the city of Covington, 
and he is at the present time President or 
the Public Library Board of that city. 
He is a director in the two national banks 
and is interested in many other business 
enterprises of his home town. He was 
elected to the Fifty-ninth Congress from 
the Sixth Kentucky Congressional Dis- 
trict, and re-elected to the Sixtieth Con- 
gress. He is married, and the father of 
four children. Legal residence: Coving- 
ton, Ky. Washington address: House of 
Representatives. 

RHODES, MARION EDWARD, lawye , 
Congressman, was born in Bollinger 
County, Mo., near Glen Allen, on January 
4, 1868, and obtained his education in the 
public schools near his home, and at the 
age of eighteen began teaching in the 
rural schools, after which he attended 
Mayfield-Smith Academy (now Will May- 
field College) at Marble Hill, Mo., and 
the State Normal School at Cape Girar- 



deau. Mo., graduating from the latter in- 
stitution with honors in 1891, after which 
he took a special course at the State 
University of Missouri and later entered 
Stanbury College, graduating with high 
honors in 1893, with the degree of B. S. 
For three years he held the position of 
principal of the public schools of Potosi, 
Mo., his present home, after which he 
read law under Judge Fox (now a mem- 
ber of the Missouri Supreme Court), and 
wias admitted to the bar in 1896, since 
\Vhen he has been actively engaged in the 
practice of his profession at Potosi, Mo. 
In 1900 he was elected prosecuting attor- 
ney for Washington County, Mo., and re- 
elected in 1902, and in 1904 was elected 
to the Fifty-ninth Congress from the 
Thirteenth Missouri Dist:ict on the Re- 
publican ticket. In 1896 he married Annie 
Davidson, of Potosi, to which union has 
been born a son. Legal residence: Fo-. 
tosi, Mo. Washington address: House of 
Representatives. 

RICE, ALBERT GAINES, Chief Clerk 
of the Bureau of Soils, Department of 
Agriculture, was born in Kentucky in 
1869. He received an academic education, 
and went into the office of the Traffic 
Manager of the Colorado Midland Rail- 
road at Denver, and then into that of the 
General Manager of the Queen & Cres- 
cent, at New Orleans, as private secre- 
tary. He spent eight years with the 
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, and was lo- 
oated in Washington part of the time as 
private secretary to the General Passen- 
ger Agent, then becoming Eastern Pas- 
senger Agent of the road, stationed at 
New York, and beoame Chief Clerk of the 
Bureau of Soils in 1900. Residence: The 
Melrose. Office: Department 'Of Agricul- 
ture. . ' i I 

RICE, EDMUND, retired army officer, 
was born at Cambridge, Miass., on Decem- 
ber 2, 1842. He attended the Norwich 
University at Northfield, Vt., and the de- 
gree of B. S. was conferred upon him by 
that institution in 1874 and M. A. in 
1898. Enlisted in the Union Army at the 
outbreak of the Civil War as Captain of 
the Fourteenth Massachusetts Infantry, 
and on June 30, 1865, he was mustered out 
of the volunteer service and was honored 
with a congressional medal for gallantry 
and display of bravery in battle in lead- 
ing his divison against Pickett's Army at 
Gettysburg. In 1866 he entered the reg- 
ular army as a First Lieutenant; was 
brevetted Captain, Major and Colonel of 
the U. S. A., and assigned to the Fifth 
Infantry in 1870; regimental Adjutant in 
1879, and during 1877 reviewed the Turko- 
Russiian War. In 1S83 he was promoted 
to the rank of Captain, and organized and 
commanded the Columbian Guards at the 
World's Columbian Exposition; and In 
1898 was appointed Inspector-General of 
the U. S. Army. He was a member of 
General Miles' staff, and during the Span- 



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ish War he was Colonel of the Sixth Mas- 
sachusetts Infantry, and was later in 
command of the Twenty-sixth Infantry in 
the Philippines. In 1903 he was retired 
from active service with the rank of Brig- 
adier-General. AdJdress: War Depart- 
ment. 

RICH, WILLIAM JAMES, lawyer, gov- 
ernment official, was born at Pembroke, 
in Washington County, Me., on June 28, 
1859, son of John Joseph and Belinda 
(Nutt) Rich. He attended the common 
and high schools of his native town until 
1877, when he entered the Maine State 
College with the class of 1880, but did not 
graduate, leaving in 1878, and later 
entered the Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology, graduating in 1884. After 
graduating from the Massachusetts Insti- 
tute of Technology, he was, for a time, 
an assistant to the professoi- of mining 
and metallurgy at that institution; dur- 
ing 1885-86 he was an assistant chemist 
at the Cambria Steel Works, at Johns- 
town, Pa., and from 1886 to 1889 he was 
an assistant at the office of Locks and 
Canals at Lowell, Mass. He entered the 
U. S. Patent Office as a fourth assistant 
examiner in 1889, and is at the present 
time a principal examiner. After locat- 
ing in Washington 'he entered the George- 
town University Law School, receiving 
the deg:ee of LL. B. in 1898 and LL. M. 
in 1899, and took a special course in pat- 
ent law at George Washington University 
in 1902, and was admitted to the bar of 
the District of Columbia in 1898. He is 
a Mason, an Odd Fellow, a member of the 
Sons of the American Revolution, Univer- 
sity Club, the Maine Association (a past 
president). On November 6, 1889, he mar- 
ried Mary E. McDonald, to which union 
have been born four children, three of 
whom are living. Residence: 1468 Clif- 
ton street, n.w. Office: Patent Office. 

RICHARDS, JANET ELIZABETH, lec- 
turer, was born in Granville, Licking 
County, Ohio, daughter of William and 
Helen M. (Ralston) Richards. She is de- 
scended from professional and patriotic 
stock, several ancestors having se ved in 
the War of the American Revolution, in- 
cluding Col. William Richards, of New 
London, Conn., Lieutenant Benjamin Fel- 
ton, Ebenezer Mower and Timothy Green 
Hosmer. Her father's father was com- 
missioned a surgeon in the War of 1812. 
Miss Richards was educated at the Con- 
vent of Sacred Heart, Eden Hall, Torres- 
dale, Pa. Was for a year on the literary 
staff of the Washington Post; has written 
mi.ny book reviews and articles for mag- 
azines. Originator, in 1895, of Current 
Events Talks, which she gives regularly 
befo e large classe.« in Washington, Bal- 
timore, Philadelphia, New York and other 
Eastern cities. Also gives illustrated lec- 
tures on travel, history and literature. 
She is a Charter member (and active 
worker) of the Daughters of the Amer- 



ioan Revolution, also a director of the 
Woman's League of the National Junior 
Republic, and a member of the National 
Geographic Society; Audubon Society; 
National Homeopathic Hospital Associa- 
tion and Lend-a-Hand Club of Baltimore. 
Residence: The Olympia. 

RICHARDS, MILTON VALENTINE, 

land and industrial agent of the Southern 
Railway and the Mobile & Ohio Railway, 
was born in Bureau County, 111., in Jan- 
uary, 1859, son of Isia S. and Jane Rich- 
ards. His education was obtained in the 
public schools of the State of Iowa. For 
several years he was with the land de- 
partment of the Northern Pacific Rail- 
road, and was land and immigration agent 
for the Baltimore & Ohio- Railroad before 
accepting his present position. In 1881 
he married Miss Chase. Residence: 2934 
Fourteenth street, n.w. Office: Southern 
Railway Building. 

RICHARDS, WILLIAM ALFORD, gov- 
ernment official, was born at Hazel Green, 
Wis., on March 9, 1849, son of Truman 
Perry and Eleanor (Swinerton) Richards, 
and obtained his education in the com- 
mon schools of his native town and at 
Galena, 111. From 1889-93 he was Sur- 
veyor-General of Wyoming and Governor 
of the same State from January 1, 1895, 
to January 1, 1899. He entered the Gen- 
eral Land Office in 1899 as Assistant Com- 
missioner, serving until 1903, since when 
he has been Commissioner of the same 
office. On December 28, 1874, he mar- 
ried Harriet Alice Hunt at Oakland, Cal. 
Republican. Residence: 1811 Adams Mill 
road. Office: General Land Office. 

RICHARDS, WILLIAM HENRY, law- 
>'er, was born in Athens, Tenn., on Jan- 
uary 15, 1856, and was educated in the 
common schools of his nativo town, the 
Warne:' Institute at Jonesbor^ugn, Tei'n., 
and received his collegiate training at 
ITcnard University, and was gradu-ited 
fro n the law dep^rtmaat of the lat'er 
inst:nition in 1881, LL. M. la 1882. Since 
1890 he has been la l'>e'-i' ^r in the law 
depaitment of the lat.er institution, am! 
is il'o professor of international law, law 
of evidence, personal property and is the 
principal librarian. He served two terms 
as alderman, land for a time as Mayor of 
Athens, Tenn. He has been President 
of the Howard University Union Alumni 
Association; member of the American 
Academy of Political and Social Science, 
and of the American Historical Associa- 
tion., He is unmarried. Residence: 525 
Florida avenue, n.w. Office: 420 Fifth 
street, n.w. 

RICHARDS, WILLIAM P., Surveyor of 
the District of Columbia. Residence: 137 
S street, n.w. Office: District Building. 

RICHARDSON, CHARLES WILLIAM- 
SON, physician, was born in Washington 
on August 22, 1861, son of Charles F. B. 



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and Charlotte A. Ridhardson, and was ed- 
ucated in Columbian (now George Wash- 
ington) University, and was graduated 
from the medical department of that in- 
stitution and the University of Pennsyl- 
vania in 1884, since when he has prac- 
ticed his profession in Washington. He 
is a member of the Board of Trustees, and 
is professor of laryngology and otology 
in the George Was'hington University. He 
is an ex-president of the Alumni Associa- 
tion of the latter institution; a Fellow and 
ex-president of the Laryngol. Rhinol. and 
Otol. Society; Fellow m the American 
Otol. Society; the American Laryngol. 
Association; and American Climatol. Soci- 
ety, and member of the University, Chevy 
Chase and Cosmos Clubs. He has been a 
contributor to Posey & Wright Diseases of 
the Ear, Eye, Throat and Nose, and the 
Hand Book of Medical Sciences (1903), 
and is the author of many monographs of 
a scientific nature. On May 27, 1889, he 
married Amy Elizabeth Small. Resi- 
dence: 1317 Connecticut avenue, n.w. 

RICHARDSON, FRANCIS ASBURY, 

journalist, was born in Baltimore, Md., 
son of Beale H. and Mary Richardson. He 
was educated in the Baltimore City Col- 
lege. He has co^ntributed to the Balti- 
more Sun several series of European let- 
ters, and from all parts of the United 
States, and reported national conventions 
of both political parties from 1872 to 1900, 
inclusive. From 1879 to 1881 he was clerk 
to the U. S. Senate Committee on Print- 
ing, and editor of the Congressional Di- 
rectory. He was publisher and editor of 
Baltimore Historical and Biographical, 
1871. He was Washington correspondent 
for the Baltimore Sun from 1866 to 1901. 
He retired from active business life in 
1901. He is a member of the Gridiron 
Club, the Co.smos Club, the Columbia His- 
torical Society, the National Geographic 
Society, and the Maryland Club of Balti- 
more. Residence: 1308 Vermont avenue. 

RICHARDSON, GEORGE BURR, geol- 
ogist, was born in New York on August 
21, 1872, son of George Wentworth and 
Emma (Breck) Richardson. He was grad- 
uated from Harvard, S. B., in 1895; S. M., 
1898, and received the degree of Ph. D. 
from Johns Hopkins University in 1901. 
In 1900 he became assistant geologist in 
the U. S. Geological Survey. He is the 
author of a number of reports that have 
been issued by that department. Resi- 
dence: The Westmoreland. Office: U. S. 
Geological Survey. 

RICHARDSON, HARRIET (Miss), car- 
cinologist, was born in Washington, 
daughter of Charles F. E. and Charlotte 
Ann (Williamson) Richardson, and was 
graduated from Vassar College in 1896, 
taking an A. M. degree in 1901, and in 
1903 a Ph. D. degree from Columbian Uni- 
versity. For some time, she has been a 
collaborator with the Smithsonian Institu- 



tion, and has contributed to the proceed- 
ings of the U. S. National Museum and 
other publications. She is a Fellow of the 
American Association for the Advance- 
ment of Science; a member of the Bio- 
logical Society of Washington, and the 
Washington Academy of Sciences. Res- 
idence: 1864 Wyoming avenue. 

RICHARDSON, HARRY, U. S. Senator. 
He was elected to the United States Sen- 
ate from Delaware to succeed James 
Frank Allee, whose term of office expired 
March 3, 1907. His term of office will 
expire March 3, 1913. In politics he is 
a Republican. Legal residence: Dover, 
Del. Washington address: U. S. Senate. 

RICHARDSON, JAMES D., Grand Com- 
mander of the Supreme Council of the 
Scottish Rite of the Southern Jurisdiction, 
was born in Rutherford County, Tenn., 
on March 10, 1843. He was educated at 
Franklin College, and at eighteen years of 
age entered the Confederate Army as a 
private soldier. Was promoted after one 
year and served the remaining three years 
as Adjutant of the Fifty-fifth Tennessee 
Regiment. After the war he was admit- 
ted to the bar, at the age of twenty-eight, 
and was elected to the Legislature, and 
chosen at once for the Speakership. He 
also served one term in the State Senate, 
and was then sent to Congress, serving 
as Representative from his State contin- 
uously for twenty years. During the lat- 
ter years of his service he was Democratic 
floor leader in the House. He has been 
a delegate to many Democratic national 
conventions, and was chairman of the one 
held at Kansas City in 1900. He has also 
been chairman of the Democratic National 
Congressional Committee, and is the ed- 
itor and compiler of The Messages and 
Papers of the Presidents, and, Messages 
and Papers of the Confederacy. He has 
passed upward through all grades in Free- 
masonry till he is now the highest Mason 
in the jurisdiction, and presides over the 
"Holy House of the Temple" at the Capital 
City. Residence: 1103 Sixth street, n.w. 
Office: 433 Third street, n.w. 

RICHARDSON, JAMES JULIUS, phy- 
sician, was born at Sardis, Ohio, on Jan- 
uary 23, 1868, son of R. P. and Elizabeth 
Richardson. In 1889 he was graduated 
from the Maryland University Medical 
School, after which he took post-graduate 
courses in the New York Post-Graduate 
Medical School; the University of Edin- 
burgh; University of Vienna, and the 
Pest-Graduate Medical School in London. 
He made a specialty of the diseases of 
the ear, nose, and throat. Unmarried. 
Residence: 1016 Fourteenth street, n.w. 

RICHARDSON, JAMES MONTGOM- 
ERY, Congressman, was born in Mobile, 
Ala., on July 1, 1858; was educated in the 
common schools and since twenty years 
cf age has been editor of a newspaper. 
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the Kentucky State Legislature, and two 
terms as Prison Commissioner of the same 
State. In 1904 he was elected to the Fif- 
ty-ninth Congress from the Third Ken- 
tucliy District on the Democratic ticket. 
In 1880 he married Loulie Rogers, of Glas- 
gow, Ky. Legal residence: Glasgow, Ky. 
Washington address: House of Represent- 
atives. 

RICHARDSON, JOSEPH, builder, was 
born in St. Pohn, Kings County, N. B., 
Canada, on November 7, 1858, son of 
James and Helen (Kirkpatrick) Richard- 
son. After finishing his preparatory ed- 
ucation, he went to New York, where 
he engaged in business, remaining there 
until 1899, when he removed to Washing- 
ton, where he has since resided. In 
1891, he formed a partnership with James 
Burgess, under the name of Richardson 
& Burgess, to do a general building con- 
tracting business, which firm continued 
until July 16, 1900, when he withdrew on 
account of ill health. Many well known 
buildings in Washington were erected by 
this firm among them being: The Wash- 
ington Public Library; Union Trust & 
Storage Company; Colorado Building; Chi- 
nese Embassy; The Highlands Apartment 
House; Thomas Nelson Page residence, 
etc. He is a Mason; a member of the 
Board of Trade; and the Master Builders' 
Association, being the first , president of 
the latter organization. Residence: Fair- 
fax County, Va. Office: Colorado Build- 
ing. 

RICHARDSON, WILLARD STOWELL, 

apothecary, was born at Rockingham, 
Windham County, Vt., on January 7, 1858, 
and received his education in the public 
schools of his native state and the Ver- 
mont Academy at Saxton's River, Vt. He 
is vice-president of the Washington 
Wholesale Drug Exchange; a trustee of 
the National College of Pharmacy, and a 
member of the committee of the Washing- 
ton Druggists' Association. On July 30, 
1884, he married Annie M. Bailey, to 
which union have been born three chil- 
dren. Residence: 1308 U street, n.w. 
Business address: 316 Four and One-Half 
street, s.w. 

RICHARDSON, WILLIAM, lawyer. 
Congressman, was horn at Athens, Ala., 
and enlisted in the Confederate Army at 
the age of sixteen; was wounded three 
times, the last time at the battle of Chick- 
amauga, when he was totally disabled. 
After the war he took up the study of 
law and was admitted to the bar in is67, 
and served as a member of the Sta;e L<"g- 
islature from Limestone County, Ala., and 
served as Judge of the Probate and Coun- 
ty Court of Madison County, Ala., from 
1875-86. In 1888 he was a Delegate-at- 
Large to the Democratic National Conven- 
tion, and served as Delegate-at-Large 
again at the convention in 1904. In 1890 
he was a candidate for Governor of the 



State, and three times was the opponent 
of Gen. Joseph E. Wheeler for the Con- 
gressional nomination. He was elected to 
the Fifty-sixth Congress from the Eighth 
Alabama District on the Democratic tick- 
et and was re-elected to the Fifty-sev- 
enth, Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth and Six- 
tieth Congresses. Legal residence: Hunts- 
ville, Ala. Washington addfess: House 
of Representatives. 

RICHMOND, CHARLES WALLACE, 

.scientist, was born at Kenosha, Wis., De- 
cember 31, 1868. He is assistant curator 
of the Division of Birds in the U. S. Na- 
tional Museum, and is a Fellow of the 
American Ornithologists' Union, and a 
member 'Of the Washington Academy of 
Sciences, etc. Residence: 705 Ninth 
street, n.e. Office: U. S. National Mu- 
seum. 

RIDGELY, WILLIAM BARRET, gov- 
ernment official, was born at Springfield, 
111., on July 19, 1858, son of Charles and 
Jane M. (Barret) Ridgely, and received 
his early education in the schools of his 
native town and Rensselaer Polytechnic 
Institute, graduating C. E. in 1879. He 
was engaged in mining, manufacturing 
and the banking business in his home 
town until 1899, when he became secre- 
tary, and then vice-president, of the Re- 
public Iron & Steel Company, serving 
until 1901. He was appointed Comptroller 
of the Currency of the United States on 
October 1, 1901, reappointed December, 
1906. He is a member of the Iron and 
Steel Institute of Great Britain; American 
Society of Mechanical Engineers; Amer- 
ican Institute of Mining Engineers; Chi- 
cago and University Clubs, of Chicago; 
the Metropolitan and Chevy Chase Clubs, 
of Washington; the Republican Club, of 
New York, and in politics a Republican. 
On October 24, 1882, he married Ella M. 
Cullom at Springfield, 111., by whom he 
has two daughters; on December 30, 1905, 
he was again married, to Kate A. Deering, 
of Washington, D. C. Legal residence: 
Chicago, 111. Washington l-esidence: 1300 
Seventeenth street n.w. Office: U. S. 
Treasury Department. 

RIDGWAY, ROBERT, ornithologist, 
was born at Mt. Carmel, 111., on July 2, 
1850, son of David and Henrietta (Reed) 
Ridgway. Educated in common schools 
of Mt. Carmel. In early childhood devel- 
oped an interest in natural history, espe- 
cially ornithology. From 1867-69 he 
served as zoologist with the U. S. Geolog- 
ical Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel, 
under Clarence King, In the southwest. 
Since 1880 he has been curator 'Of the Di- 
vision of Birds in the U. S. National Mu- 
seum. He was one of the founders in 
1883, and was later vice-president and 
president of the American Ornithologists' 
Union; is an honorary member of the 
British Ornithologists' Union; is a corre- 
sponding 'member of the Zoological So- 



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ciety of London, and a member of numer- 
ous scientific societies of tiiis country and 
abroad. He is the author of nearly five 
hundred publications, among them being': 
A Manual of North American Birds; The 
Ornithology of Illinois; A History of North 
American Birds (5 vols., with Prof. Spen- 
cer P. Baird and Dr. Thomas M. Brewer); 
Birds of North and Middle America (4 
vols.), etc. On October 12, 1875, he mar- 
ried Julia Evelyn Perkins. Residence: 
Brookland, D. C. Office: Smithsonian In- 
stitution. 

RIEDL, RICHARD R., clergyman, pas- 
tor of the Maryland avenue Baptist 
Church. Residence: 922 Maryland ave- 
nue, n.e. 

RIGGS, E. FRANCIS, Vice-President of 
the National Safe Deposit, Savings and 
Trust Company. Residence: 1311 Massa- 
chusetts avenue, n.w. Omce: Fifteenth 
street and New York avenue. 

RIORDAN, DANIEL J., Congressman, 
was born in Hester street, New York City, 
in 1870, where he has since resided. He 
was educated in the public schools and 
received his collegiate training at Man- 
hattan College (N. Y.), and was graduated 
in 1890 with the degree of A. B., after 
which he became a partner in the real 
estate business conducted by his father. 
In 1902 he was elected a member of the 
New York State Senate and later was 
appointed by Lieutenant-Governor Hig- 
gins a member of the Committees on In- 
surance and Military Affairs. In 1904 he 
was again elected a member of the State 
Senate, and was appointed by Lieutenant- 
Governor Bruce a member of the Com- 
mittees on Insurance, Forest, Fish and 
Game, and Military Affairs; the following 
year was appointed a member of the Spe- 
cial Insurance Investigating Committee. 
He served as a member of the Fifty-sixth 
Congress from the Eighth New York Dis- 
trict and was elected to serve out the 
unexpired term of Timothy D. Sullivan 
(who resigned) in the Fifty-ninth Con- 
gress and re-elected to the Sixtieth Con- 
gress on the Democratic ticket. Legal 
residence: New York, N. Y. Washington 
address: House of Representatives. 

RIVES, ZEND J., lawyer, Congressman, 
was born in Hancock County, Ind., on 
February 22, 1874, and removed to Litch- 
field, 111., with his parents when but six 
years of age, where he has since resided. 
After attending the city schools he was 
employed in various ways, as a helper in 
a car foundry, laborer on sewer and street 
work, engine wiper in a roundhouse, and 
other common labor until 1898, when he 
took up the study of law and was admit- 
ted to the bar in 1901. In June, 1903, he 
was appointed tO' the ofRce of City Clerk 
of Litchfield, 111., and in 1904 was elected 
to the Fifty-ninth Congress from the 
Twenty-first Illinois District on the Re- 



publican ticket. He is a member of the 
Knights of Pythias, the Presbyterian 
Church, and on January 31, 1905, he mar- 
ried Effle A. Karns, of St. Louis, Mo. Le- 
gal residence: Litchfield, 111. Washington 
address: House of Representatives. 

RIXEY, C. JONES, President of the 
Traders' National Bank, was born in Vir- 
ginia, February 22, 1849. He was educated 
in the schools of Culpeper and Warren- 
ton, Va., and in December, 1876, opened a 
'banking house in Culpeper. He was the 
main organizer of the United States Trust 
Company; President of the Jefferson Na- 
tional Bank of Charlottesville, Va.; the 
Second National Bank of Culpeper, Va.; 
and of the Virginia Safe Deposit & Trust 
Corporation, of Alexandria, Va. Resi- 
dence: 909 Sixteenth street, n.w. Office: 
Traders' National Bank. 

RIXEY, JOHN FRANKLIN, lawyer. 
Congressman, was born in Culpeper Coun- 
ty, Va., on August 1, 1854; was educated 
in the common schools, at Bethel Acad- 
emy, and the University of Virginia, after 
which he took up the study of law, and 
was admitted to the bar. For twelve 
years he served as prosecuting attorney 
for his home county, and represented the 
Eighth Virginia District in the Fifty-fifth, 
Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth 
and Fifty-ninth Congresses. Republican. 
Died in 1907. Late residence: Brandy, 
Va. 

RIXEY, PRESLEY MARION, Surgeon- 
General, U. S. N., was born in Culpeper 
County, Va., on July 14, 1852, son of Pres- 
ley Morehead and Mary F. (Jones) Rixey. 
His early education was obtained in the 
schools of Culpeper and Warrenton, Va., 
after which he attended the University of 
Virginia, graduating in 1873, after which 
he entered the Jefferson Medical College 
at Philadelphia. In 1874 he entered the 
U. S. Navy as an assistant surgeon; was 
promoted to Past Assistant Surgeon in 
1877; Surgeon in 1888; Medical Inspector 
in 1900; and Surgeon-General, with the 
rank 'Of Rear-Admiral, on February 10, 
1902. Alphonzo XIII., King of Spain, con- 
ferred upon him the decoration of the 
Order of Naval Merit for services rendered 
the officers and crew of the Carabal Santa 
Maria on the 'Occasion of the explosion on 
that vessel in New York harbor in 1893. 
He is a member of the Protestant-Epis- 
copal Church, the Army and Navy and 
Metropolitan Clubs, and many of the lead- 
ing medical societies of Washington and 
elsewhere. On April 25, 1877, he married 
Earlena I. English. Residence: 1518 K 
street, n.w. 

RIZER, HENRY CLAY, government of- 
ficial, was born at Cumberland. Md., on 
February 1, 1844, son of Jacob Rizer, and 
was educated in his home town. At the 
outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted in 
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the close, having been advanced to the 
l-ank of Colonel of his regiment. He took 
up the study of law and was admitted to 
the bar in 1867, and after practicing for 
fifteen years and editing a weekly news- 
paper for six years, he entered the U. S. 
Geological Survey, and since 1901, has 
held t'he position of Chief Clerk. He is a 
member of the National Geographical So- 
ciety, Ccsmos Club. etc. Residence: 1534 
U street, n.w. Office: Geological Survey. 

ROBB, CHARLES HENRY, Associate 
Justice of the Court of Appeals of the 
District of Columbia, was born at Guil- 
ford, Vt., on November 14, 1867, son of 
Isaac and Clara Slater (Matthews) Robb. 
In 1889 he was admitted to practice be- 
fore the bar of Vermont and engaged in 
the active practice of his profession at 
Bellows Falls, Vt. He has held several 
public offices; served as As'sistant Attor- 
ney-General of the United States, and was 
Assistant Attorney-General for the Post- 
office Department during the investiga- 
tions of 1904-05. In politics he is a Re- 
publican. In 1897 he married Nettie M. 
George, at Bellows Falls, Vt. Residence: 
The Rochambeau. Office: IT. S. Court- 
house, Judiciary Square. 

ROBE, CHARLES FRANKLIN, retired 
army officer, was born at Canastota. on 
November 23, 1841, son of Harvey Wayne 
and Parlyncia (Stevens) Robe, and was ed- 
ucated in the common schools near 'his 
home. He enlisted in the army at the 
outbreak of the Civil War as First Lieu- 
tenant, and was promoted to Captain in 
the One Hundred and Forty-seventh New 
York Volunteers and the Veteran Reserve 
Corps, serving until 1866. On July 28, 
1866, he was appointed First Lieutenant 
in the regular army; promoted to Cap- 
tain in 1872; Major in 1895; Lieutenant- 
Colonel in 1898, and Colonel in 1900. He 
was retired from active service in 1903, 
with the rank of Brigadier-General, and 
has been admitted to the Texas State 
baf. He is a member of the S. A. R., 
Society of the War of 1812, Loyal Legion, 
U. S. Cavalry Association, American In- 
stitute of Civics, Military Order of the 
Dragon, etc. On February 13, 1867, he 
married Kate Eloise Stevens at Detroit. 
Mich. Address: Cafe The Adjutant-Gen- 
eral, U. S. A. 

ROBERTS, ELLIS HENRY, Treasurer 
of the United States 1897-1905, was born 
at Utica, N. Y., September 30, 1827, and 
is a son of Watkin and Gwen (Williams) 
Roberts. He was graduated from Yale 
College 1850 (LL. D., 1884); LL. D., Ham- 
ilton, 1869; was principal Utica Free 
Academy and teacher of Latin, Utica 
Female Seminary; editor (1858-81) and 
cihief proprietor of the Utica Morning Her- 
ald. He was a member of the New York 
Assembly, 1866; member of Congress, 
1871-75; Assistant Treasurer of the Unit- 
ed States, 1889-93; President Franklin Na- 
tional Bank, New York, 1893-97; trustee 



of Hamilton College, 1872-1900. He is the 
author of Government Revenue, Especial- 
ly the American System (1884); The 
Planting and Growth of the Empire State 
(1887). In 1851 he married Elizabeth 
Morris, who died July, 1903. Residence: 
Utica, N. Y. 

ROBERTS, ERNEST W., lawyer, Con- 
gressman, was born in East Madison, Me., 
on November 22. 1858, and was educated 
in the public schools of Massachusetts and 
at the Highland Military Academy at 
Worcester, Mass., later attending the Bos- 
ton University Law School, from which 
institution he was graduated; admit- 
ted to the bar in 1881, since when he 
^as been actively engaged in the practice 
of his profession in Boston. During 1887- 
88 he was a member of the Chelsea 
(Mass.) ity Council; during 1894-95-96 a 
member of the Massachusetts State Leg- 
islature, and was elected to the State Sen- 
ate in 1897-98. He was elected to the 
Fifty-sixth Congress from the Seventh 
Massachusetts District on t'he Republican 
ticket, and has been re-eleoted to the 
Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth 
and Sixtieth Congresses. Legal residence: 
Chelsea, Mass. Washington address: 
House of Representatives. 

ROBERTS, GEORGE EVAN, govern- 
ment official, was born in Delaware Coun- 
ty, Iowa, on August 19, 1857. After at- 
tending the common schools near ^his 
home, he learned the printer's trade on 
the Fort Dodge Messenger, and before he 
gained his majority he became propriet- 
tof, and in 1882 was elected State Printer 
for Iowa. In 1902 he purchased the Iowa 
State Register, and consolidated it with 
the Des Moines Leader, since when he 
has been president of the company. Since 
1898 he has been Director of the Mint, U. 
S. Treasury Department. He is the au- 
thor of several books and monographs on 
t'he money question, among them being: 
Coin at School and Finance; Iowa and the 
Silver Question; Money Wages and Prices, 
etc. On November 20, 1885, he married 
Georgena Kirkup, of Fort Dodge, la. Le- 
gal residence: Fort Dodge, la. Washing- 
ton residence: 1124 Vermont avenue. Of- 
fice: U. S. Treasury. 

ROBERTS (HENRY), CHALMERS, 

journalist and diplomatist, was born at 
Austin, Tex., on July 31, 1870, son of Maj.- 
Gen. A. S. and Fanny (Chalmers) Rob- 
erts. His early education was obtained 
under private tutors, and in the private 
schools of his native town and at the 
Loicust Dale Academy in Virginia aftet* 
which he studied law at the University 
of Texas. After leaving college tie be- 
came a journalist. He was attached to 
the U. S. Legation at Constantinople dur- 
ing President Cleveland's second admin- 
istration, and was with the Turkish army 
as a correspondent during the Turko-Gre- 
cian War. During the Spanish War he 
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Mall and Brooklyn Eagle and in 1899 was 
sent to Egypt by Harper's Magazine. He 
Is now editor of The World's Work (Eng- 
lish edition). He is the author of Levan- 
tine stories, which appeared in Harper's 
Magazine and Atlantic Monthly during 
1898-99, and articles on political and so- 
cial conditions in Egypt, which appeared 
in Harper's Magazine during 1899-1900. 
He is unmarried. Washington address: 
The Metropolitan Club. London address: 
25 Jermyn street, s.w. 

ROBERTSON, BEVERLY H., real es- 
tate, was born in Amelia County, Va., on 
June 25, 1827, son of Dr. William H. Rob- 
ertson. He was graduated from the U. 
S. Military Academy in 1849, and served 
as Lieutenant and Captain of the Second 
Dragoons of the U. S. A. At the outbreak 
of the Civil War he enlisted with the Con- 
federate Army and served throughout the 
war, hav'ng been promoted to the rank 
of Brigadier-General of the C. S. A. On 
March 26, 1856, he married Virginia N. 
Johnston, of St. Louis. Mo., who died on 
September 23, 1889. Residence: 1635 L 
street, n.w. OfHce: 926 P street, n.w. 

ROBERTSON, SAMUEL MATTHEWS, 

lawyer. Congressman, was born in Plaque- 
mine, La., on January 1, 1852, and was 
educated in the Collegiate Institute of 
Baton Rouge (La.) and the Louisiana 
State University, from which latter in- 
stitution he was graduated in 1874, after 
which he took up the study of law and 
was admitted to the bar in 1877. In 1879 
he was elected a member of the Louisiana 
State Legislature for a term of four years; 
in 1880. elected a member of the faculty 
of the Louisiana State University and the 
Agricultural and Mechanical College, to 
fill the chair of natural history and com- 
mandant of the cadets. He was elected 
a member of the Fiftieth Congress, to 
fill the vacancy caused by the death of 
his father, E. W. Robertson, and in 1896 
was a delegate to the National Democratic 
Convention, when he was a member of the 
Committee on Resolutions and one of 
the original Bryan men. He 'has repre- 
sented the Sixth Louisiana District in all 
Congresses since the Fiftieth Congress. 
Legal residence: Baton Rouge, La. Wash- 
ington address: House of Representatives. 

ROBESON, HENRY BELLOWS, re- 
tired naval officer, was born in New Ha- 
ven, Conn., on August 5, 1842, son of Dr. 
A. B. and Susan (Taylor) Robeson, and 
was graduated from the U. S. Naval 
Academy in 1860. In 1860 he was pro- 
moted to Master; was commissioned a 
Lieutenant-Commander in 1866; Co-m- 
mander in 1874; Captain in 1887; Com- 
modcire in 1898, and in 1899 was retired 
from active service, with the rank of Rear- 
Admiral. During the Civil War he took 
part in the engagements at Fort McRae. 
Charleston, S. C, and was in command of 
the new Ironsides in the assault and cap- 
ture of the Confederate works ■om the 



lower part of Morris Island; took part 
in the bombardment of Forts Wagner, 
Sumter, Moultrie, etc., and was on the 
Colorado in the North Atlantic blockading 
squadron. He took part in both attacks 
on Fort Fisher. From 1895-98 he was 
Captain of the Portsmouth Navy Yard, 
and during 1888-89 was a member of the 
Advisory Board for the construction of 
new cruisers, and from 1891-93 was super- 
visor of New York harbor. In addition 
to the above, he has served at many other 
important naval stations. He married 
Katherine Bellows, of New Hampshire. 
Address: Navy Department. 

ROBESON, WILLIAM H., lawyer, was 
born at Athens, Tenn., on September 8, 
1860. He was educated at the Emory and 
Henry College (Va.), East Tennessee Wes- 
leyan University at Athens, Tenn., and 
Vanderbilt University at Nashville, in the 
same state. After finishing his academic 
education he took up the study of law and 
was admitted to the bar on July 1, 1883. 
On September 15, 1893, he was appointed 
an assistant attorney in the Department 
of Justice serving until August 15, 1897, 
when he resigned to engage in the private 
practice of his profession in Washington. 
During his connections with the Depart- 
ment of Justice he was in charge of the 
defense of the Indian depredations cases. 
Residence: Nineteenth and Monroe streets, 
n.w. Office: Bond Building. 

ROBIE, EDWARD DUNHAM, retirea 
naval officer, was born in Burlington, Vt., 
September 11, 1831, son of Jacob Carter 
and Louisa (Dunham) Robie. His earliest 
ancestor to settle in America was Henry 
Robie, who came to Dorchester, Massa- 
chusetts Bay Colony, early in 1639, and 
set*^iAd at Exeter, N. H. He was edu- 
catec by private tutors and at the Acad- 
emy in Binghamton, N. Y., where he won 
the scholarship prize. On Feb. 16, 1852, 
he was warranted an assistant engineer 
in the U. S. Navy, and was commissioned 
a chief engineer September 21, 1861, by 
President Lincoln. He designed the first 
steam floating iron derrick for the navy 
yard in New York, and superintended the 
building of the monitor Dictator and other 
vessels, and assisted in designing floating 
dry docks and steam steering gears for 
ships, also designed the first steel 
boiler and ventilating apparatus for the 
navy. He was chief engineer of the navy 
yard at Brooklyn, N. Y., while fitting out 
vessels for the Greely relief expedition. 
During the Spanish War he was engaged 
in selecting and fitting out vessels for the 
auxiliary naval force at Charleston, Sa- 
vannah, Baltimore, New York and Boston. 
He was retired from active service on ac- 
count of age on September 11, 1893, with 
the rank of Commodore, and in 1906, by 
Act of Congress, he was promoted to the 
rank of Rear Admiral for creditable rec- 
ord in the Civil War. He has been in 
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ments of the navy yards of Boston, Nor- 
folk, and Brooklyn, and was fleet engi- 
neer on the Pacific and European stations 
and of rhe combined Ejropean, Xorth and 
South Atlantic fleets at Key West, Fla., 
1S73 and 1S74, and has been general in- 
spector of all steam engineerinc deport- 
ments, U. S. Navy contract work. From 
1S52 to 1855 he was assistant engineer on 
the Mississippi, the flagship of Commr- 
dore Perry during the Japan expedition, 
which was the first steam frigate of the 
U. S. Navy which circumnavigated the 
globe. He erected and operated the first 
electric telegraph in Japan, and took the 
first daguerreotype in that country. He is 
an ex-president of the American So:iety 
of Naval Engineers; ex-registrar of the 
Loyal Legion, D. C. Commandery of the 
United States: ex-inspector of i.t ? G. A 
R. Posts in Virginia. On June 3, 1S58, 
he married Helen Adams, to which uaum 
have been born five children, three cf 
whom, together with his wife, are now 
living. Residence: 1331 Twenty-first 
street, n.w. 

ROBINSON, FRANK V., manager and 
treasurer. Children's Country Home. Res- 
idence: 1S24 G street, n.w. 

ROBINSON, JOSEPH TAYLOR, law- 
yer, Congressman, was born at Lonr,'.o, 
Ark., on August 26, 1872, and was edu- 
cated in the common schools and in the 
University of Arkansas, after whicn he 
took up the study of law and was adniic- 
ted to the bar in 1895. In 1894 he was 
elected a member of the Arkansas S^aie 
Legislature, and was a presidential ejec- 
tor in 1900, and selected as electoral mes- 
senger. In 1902 he was elected a memoer 
of the Fifty-eighth Congress from the 
Sixth Arkansas District on the Damo- 
cratic ticket, and has been re-elected to 
the Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Congr^5!es. 
On December 15, 1896, he married Ewilda 
Gertrude Miller. Legal residence: Lon- 
oke, Ark. Washington address: House of 
Representatives. 

ROBINSON, WILLIAM CALLYHAN, 

clergyman, lawyer and educator, was born 
at Norwich, Conn., on July 26, 1834, son 
of John A. and Man,' E. (Callyhan) Rob- 
inson. His early education was obtained 
in Norwich Academy, Williston Seminary, 
Providence Conference Seminary and 
Wesleyan (Conn.) UniversitJ^ later at- 
tending Dartmouth College, graduating in 
1854, when he entered the General Theo- 
logical Seminary, graduating in 1857, after 
which he studied law in the office of the 
Hon. H. D. Wright, at Wilkesbarre, Pa. 
(LL. D., Dartmouth, 1879; M. A., Yale, 
1881). In 1857, he was ordained to the 
Episcopal ministry in New York; during 
1857-58 served as a missionary at Pittston 
Pa., and from 1859-62 was re-^tor of St.' 
Luke's Church at Scranton Pa. He was 
admitted to the bar of Luzerne County, 
Pa, in 1864; New London County, Conn., 



the same year, and New Haven County, 
Conn., in 1865, where he practiced until 
1895, at the sa:me time being a lecturer 
and professor of law in Yale University. 
From 1869-71 he was Judge of the City 
Court of New Haven, Conn., and from 
1874-76 was Judge of the Court of Com- 
mon Pleas, and was a member of the State 
Legislature. Since 1895 he has been Dean 
of the Law School of the Catholic Uni- 
versity of America. He is the author of 
several books, among them being: The 
Life of Ebenezer Beriah Kelley (1855); 
Notes of Elementary Law (1876); Ele- 
mentary Law (1882); Law of Patents (3 
volumes, 1890); Elements 'Of American 
Jurisprudence (1900); and has contributed 
many articles to the Catholic World and 
the Catholic University Bulletin. He has 
been twice married — first, on July 2, 1857, 
to Anna Elizabeth Haviland, in New York, 
and second, to Ultima Marie Smith, on 
March 31, 1891, at New Haven, Conn. 
Residence: 7 B street, n.w. 

ROBNETT, JOHN DAVID, Paymaster 
LT. S. N., was born on a farm near Mex- 
ico, Audrian County, Mo., on July 29, 1874, 
son of the Rev. John David and Mary 
Lewis Powell Robnett. His earliest an- 
cestor to settle in America was Allen 
Robnett, a French Hugenot, who settled 
in Pennsylvania in 1682. He attended the 
Brownwood Business College and Howard 
Payne College, graduating from the latter 
with the degree of A. B., after which he 
took a course in the Northern Indiana 
Business College at Valparaiso, Ind., grad- 
uating in 1894. He was engaged as prin- 
cipal of the Brownwood Business College; 
the Richland Springs (Texas) High School 
and a teacher of science in the Dallas 
(Texas) High School, after which he en- 
tered the U. S. Navy. During 1900-01 he 
was assistant general store-keeper at the 
New York Navy Yard, and from 1901-04 
he was Paymaster on the U. S. S. Monad- 
nock, stationed in China waters, and later 
was on the Lancaster, and during 1905-06, 
was on duty In the Bureau of Supplies 
and Accounts, in the Navy Department, 
at the same time heing an executive of- 
ficer of the Naval Pay Ofllicers' School. 
He is a member of the Calvary Baptist 
Church, a Mason and a member of the 
National Geographic Society. On May 6, 
1895, he married Ida Vernon Murphy, to 
which union have been born three chil- 
dren, two of whom are living. Residence: 
The SavoJ^ Address: Navy Department. 

ROCHESTER, WILLIAM BEATTY, re- 
tired army officer, was born at Angelica, 
N. Y., on February 15, 1826, son of the 
Hon. William B. Rochester, and a grand- 
son of Nathaniel Rochester, the founder 
of the city of Rochester, N. Y. From 
1851-59 he resided in California, and en- 
tered the army as a paymaster in the 
volunteer service in June, 1861, with the 
rank of Major. In 1867 he was trans- 
ferred to the regular army as a paymas- 



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ter, and in 1882 was promoted to Paymas- 
ter-General of the U. S. A., with the rank 
of Brig-adier-General, and was retired 
from active service on February 15, 1890. 
On June 19, 1862, he married Anna L. 
Martin at Albany, N. Y. Residence: 1320 
Eighteenth street, n.w. 

ROCKWELL, JULIUS ENSIGN, editor, 
was born at Millbury, Mass., March 3, 
1860, son of Henry Ensign and Sarah J. 
(Hathaway) Rockwell. He was special 
agent for the Tenth Census, 1879-80; Sec- 
retary of the .U. S. Commission to the 
International Fishery Exposition, held in 
Berlin in 1880; stenographer U. S. Bureau 
of Education, 1881-84, and'u. S. Patent 
Office, 1884-87. Fof three years he was 
in charge of a school of shorthand in Phil- 
adelphia. In 1893 he was principal of 
the Phonographic Institute of Cincinnati: 
secretary Southeastern Passenger Asso- 
ciation, Atlanta, 1894-97; and has been the 
editor of the Bureau of Plant Industry 
since August, 1902. He is the author of 
the Teaching, Practice and Literature of 
Shorthand (1884); Shorthand Instruction 
and Practice (1891). On August 14, 1882, 
he was married to Mabel Rose Lewis at 
Providence, R. I. Residence: 31 S street, 
n.w. Office: Bureau of Plant Industry, U. 
S. Department of Agriculture. 

RODENBERG, WILLIAM A., lawyer. 
Congressman was born near Chester, in 
Randolph County, 111., on October 30, 1865, 
and was educated in the public schools 
and the Central Wesleyan College at War- 
renton. Mo., graduating in 1884. After 
finishing his college course he was en- 
gaged in teaching for seven years, after 
which he attended the St. Louis Law 
School and was admitted to the bar. In 
1896, he was a delegate to the Republican 
National Convention at St. Louis, and 
was elected a member of the Fifty-sixth 
Congress from the Twenty-second Illinois 
District. On March 25, 1901, President 
McKinley appointed him a member of 
the U. S. Civil Service Commission, which 
position he filled until April 1, 1902, when 
he resigned to again become a candidate 
for Congress. He was again elected to 
the Fifty-eighth Congress from his old 
district and re-elected ta the Fifty-ninth 
and Sixtieth Congresses on the Republi- 
can ticket. Legal residence: East St. 
Louis, 111. Washington address: House 
of Representatives. 

RODGERS, FREDERICK, naval officer, 
was born in Maryland on October 3, 1842, 
and was graduated from the U. S. Naval 
Academy in 1861. In 1861 he was ap- 
pointed an acting Master; promoted to 
Lieutenant in 1862; Lieutenant-Com- 
mander in 1866; Commander in 1875; Cap- 
tain in 1890; Commodore in 1898, and 
Rear-Admiral on March 3, 1899. During 
1901-02 he was in command of the Asiatic 
station, and in 1903 was in command of 
the New York Navy Yard and station. 
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In February, 1882, he married Sarah M. 
Fall, of San Francisco. Residence: 1411 
Twenty-first street, n.w. 

RODGERS, RAYMOND P., Captain U. 
S. N., Chief of the Office of Naval Intelli- 
gence. Residence: 1715 Connecticut ave- 
nue. Office: Mills Building. 

RODNEY, GEORGE B., army officer, 
was born in Delawafe on October 17, 1842, 
and was graduated from the Artillery 
School in 1869. On April 24, 1861, he 
entered the Union Army as a private in 
the Independent Oompany, of the Penn- 
sylvania Volunteer Artillety, being dis- 
charged on August 5, 1861; the same date, 
was appointed First Lieutenant in the 
Fourth U. S. Artillery. He received the 
brevet rank of Major on September 20, 
1863; was made Captain on August 4, 1869, 
and commissioned a Major on November 
28, 1892. On February 13, 1899, he was 
promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Colo- 
nel; Colonel of the Artillery Corps, on 
February 2, 1901, and in 1903 he was re- 
tired with the rank of Brigadier-General, 
U. S. A. Address: War Department. 

RODRIGUEZ, JOSE IGNACIO, lawyer, 
librarian, was born in Havana, Cuba, No- 
vember 11, 1831, son of Jose Ignacio and 
Catalina (Hernandez) Rodriguez. He 
was graduated from the University of 
Havana, 1849; Ph. D., 1853; Doctor of Civil 
and Commercial Law, 1863. In 1856 he 
was professor of natural philosophy and 
chemistry, Havana Preparatory Technical 
School, and was admitted to the Havana 
bar in 1855. He was commissioned to 
present respects of the University of Ha- 
vana to Queen Isabella II. at Madrid, 
June, 1860. He settled in Washington in 
1870, studied American law under Caleb 
Cushing, and was admitted to the bar of 
the District and the Supreme Court. Un- 
til 1897 he was chief translator and head 
of the Spanish Department, Bureau of 
American Republics. Went to Paris with 
the American Peace Commission as pri- 
vate confidential adviser in matters of 
Spanish law, September-December, 1898. 
He is now chief translator and librarian 
of the Columbus Memorial Library in 
the International Bureau of American Re- 
publics. He has been contributor to the 
Catholic Quarterly Review (Philadelphia) 
and the Forum (New York). He is the 
author of Vida de Don Jose (1874) and 
Vida del Presbitero Don Felix Varela 
(1878). On April 14, 1884, he married 
Mai-y A. Joyce, of Washington, D. C. Res- 
idence: 1340 Vermont avenue. Office: Bu- 
reau of American Republics. 

ROELKER, CHARLES R., naval officer, 
was born in Washington, D. C, and was 
appointed Third Assistant Engineer in 
the Union Army in 1862. In 1864 he wad 
promoted to Second Assistant Engineer; 
1868, First Assistant; 1890, Chief Engi- 
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March 5 1902. He has seen service at 
many stations and is a member of the 
Board of Inspection and Survey. Resi- 
dence: 1434 Q street, n.w. 

ROGERS, CHARLES C, Commander, 
U. S. N., hydrographer of the U. S. Navy 
Department. Residence: 1733 Riggs 

Place. Office: Mills Building. 

ROGERS, CHARLES C, disbursing of- 
ficer cf the District of Columbia. Res- 
idence: 1745 Park Road. Office: District 
Building. 

ROGERS, EUSTACE B., Paymaster- 
General U. S. N., Chief of the Bureau of 
Supplies and Accounts, U. S. Navy De- 
partment. Residence: The Highlands. 
Office: State, War and Navy Building. 

ROGERS, JOSEPH DECATUR, physi- 
cian, was born at Hamilton, Va., on No- 
vember 23, ISSO, son of Samuel E. and 
Elizabeth C. Rogers. He was educated 
in the Washington High Schools, Colum- 
bian (now George Washington) Univer- 
sity and the Medical College of the latter, 
graduating in 1902, later taking post- 
graduate work in New York hospitals, 
since when he has been practicing his 
profession in Washington. He is resident 
physican at the Columbia Hospital and 
the George Washington University Hos- 
pital. He is a member of the Phi Sigma 
Kappa college fraternity and a member 
of the leading medical societies of Wash- 
ington and elsewhere. He is a member 
of the Baptist Church and is unmarried. 
Residence: 721 H street, n.w. 

ROGERS, RICHARD REID, General 
Counsel of the Isthmian Canal Commis- 
sion. Residence: 929 Farragut Square. 
Office: Mills Building. 

ROGERS, THOMAS E., Superintendent 
of the National Bank Redemption Agen- 
icy of the U. S. Treasury Department. 
Residence: The Columbia. Office: Treas- 
ury Department. 

ROGERS, WILLIAM PENNOCK, army 
officer, was born in Hartford County, Md., 
September 16, 1842. and is a son of Elisha 
Hartshorn and Anna (Pennock) Rogers. 
He was educated at the Aldino public 
school; entered the Seventh Maryland 
Regiment and served with the Army of 
the Potomac, and at the battle of Spott- 
sylvania Courthouse May 8, 1864. 
He was promoted Second Lieu- 
tenant, Forty-sixth U. S. Infantry, July 
28, 1866; Captain Seventeenth Infantry, 
December 23, 1884; Colonel Third Infant- 
ry, July 28, 1902; Brigadier-General and 
retired April 21, 1903. He served in Da- 
kota, Montana, and Wyoming, 1870-94; 
was wounded in battle with a band of 
Sioux Indians on Heart River Dak., on 
October 3, 1872. He was married at Wi- 
nona, Minn., 1878, to Dee Browning. Ad- 
dress: War Department. 



ROMAN, FREDERICK OGLE, physi- 
cian, was born at Belleville, St. Clair 
County, Ilil., June 7, 1866, son of Richard 
and Isabelle (Ogle) Roman. His earliest 
ancestor to settle in America was Samuel 
Ogle, who was Colonial Governor of Mary- 
land in 1775, and Col. Joseph Ogle, of rev- 
olutionary fame. His early education was 
obtained in the public schools of Wash- 
ington, and St. John's College, of the same 
city, from which institution he holds the 
degree of A. B. He entered the George 
Washington University Medical College 
and was graduated in 1894, since when 
he has practiced his profession in Wash- 
ington. He is a member of the Catholic 
Church; the National Geographical So- 
ciety; the University Club, and leading 
medical societies in Washington and else- 
where. On January 28, 1887, he married 
Katherine Stanhope Hogan, to which un- 
ion has been born one child. Residence: 
1435 Ninth street, n.w. 

ROMEYN, HENRY, retired army offi- 
cer, was born at Galen, Wayne County, 
N. Y., on June 1, 1833. son of Thomas T. 
and Blandinah (Shoemaker) Romeyn, and 
was educated in the public schools of 
Western New York, after which he fol- 
lowed practical surveying, taught school 
and engaged in farming. In 1862 he en- 
listed in the Union Army as a private and 
was promoted to the rank of Captain, and 
brevetted Major of U. S. Volunteers foi- 
gallantry in battle at Nashville, Tenn. In 
1867 he was transferred to the regular 
army as a First Lieutenant, and saw 
much active service in the West against 
the hostile Indians, taking part in bat- 
tles with the Sioux, Cheyenne, Nez Perce 
and other tribes. In 1881 he was an in- 
structor in tactics in the Hampton Insti- 
tute in Virginia, after which he again 
joined his regiment in Montana, serving 
several years in the South and Southwest. 
In 1897 he was in charge of the Chilean 
Government exhibit at the Nashville Ex- 
position, and during the Spanish War was 
in Cuba with the Santiago expedition as 
a correspondent in action, and also as- 
sisted during and after the battle in tak- 
ing care of the wounded, and was himself 
attacked by the yellow fever at that time. 
He was retired from active service on 
June 1, 1897, with the tank of Major. He 
is a member of the Congregational 
Church; the Indian Rights Association; 
G. A. R. ; Loyal Legion and Medal of 
Honor Legion; Medal of Honor Club of 
District of Columbia, and in politics is a 
Republican. He has been twice married 
• — first, to Sarah E. Tindall, and second 
to Annie H. T. La Tourrette, to which 
union have been born three children, two 
of whom are living. Residence: 1736 P 
street, n.w. 

ROMMEL, GEORGE M., animal hus- 
bandman, was born in Mt. Pleasant, la., 
on February 26, 1876, son of A. and Ra- 
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was graduated from the Iowa Wesleyan 
University in 1S97, and toolc a four-year 
course at the Iowa State College in agri- 
culture. From 1899 to 1901 he was an 
assistant in animal husbandry at the Iowa 
State College, and a part of 1901 he spent 
as manager of the O. R. & N. Experi- 
mental Farm, Walla Walla, Wash. He 
was an expert in animal husbandry in the 
U. S. Department of Agriculture from 
1901 to 1905, since when he hJs been 
the Animal Husbandman of the Bureau of 
Animal Industry. He is the author of 
many bulletins that have been issued by 
the Agricultural Department, among them 
being: Market Classes 'of Horses; Amer- 
ican Breeds of Beef Cattle; The Hog In- 
dustry; and wrote a monograph on the 
animal industry in the United States for 
the handbooks of the Bureau of American 
Republics. Member of the American 
Breeders' Association and the American 
Association of Trotting Horse Breeders; 
Chairman of the Committee on Heavy 
Harness Horses in the latter association. 
Married, September 19, 1906, at Washing- 
ton, to Mrs. Sallie Russell Reeves. Res- 
idence: The Decatur. Office: U. S. De- 
partment of Agriculture. 

ROOSEVELT, EDITH KERMIT, wife 
of President Theodore Roosevelt, was 
born in Norwich. Conn., August 8, 1861, 
daughter of Charles and Gertrude Eliza- 
beth (Tyler) Carow, a descendant of Hu- 
guenots who emigrated from France after 
the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, first 
to Holland, thence to New York City; 
and also of worthy English people who 
emigrated from Shropshire to Newport, 
R. I., and settled in Andover, Mass., in 
1639. She was educated in New York 
City, and was married, December 2, 1886, 
to Theodore Roosevelt. They made their 
home at Sagamore Hill, Dong Island, until 
the accession of her husband to the Pres- 
idency of the United States, when she re- 
moved to the White House. Following 
are the names of her children: Theodore, 
Jr., born September 13. 1887; Kermit, 
born Ogtober 9, 1889; Ethel Carow, born 
August 10, 1891; Archibald Bulloch, born 
April 9, 1894; Quentin, born November 
19, 1897. Residence: The White House. 
Summer residence: Oyster Bay, Long Is- 
land, N. Y. 

ROOSEVELT, THEODORE, statesman, 
author, publicist, twenty-sixth President 
of the United States, was born in New 
York City, October 27, 1858, son of Theo- 
dore and Martha (Bulloch) Roosevelt. He 
is descended in a direct line from Claas 
Martenson and Jannetje (Thomas) Van 
Roosevelt, who, in 1649, came to New Am- 
sterdam from Holland; and there mingles 
in his veins the blood of the Dutch bur- 
gher, the Scotch Royalist, the French Hu- 
guenot, and the American Revolutionary 
patriot. Though physically delicate in 
youth, he entered Harvard University at 
eighteen, and was graduated in 1880. The 



year following he began the study of law, 
but the same year was elected to the 
New York Legislature. He was twice 
re-elected, and became the candidate of 
the minority party for speaker in his sec- 
ond term. In 1884 he was chosen a del- 
egate to the Republican National Con- 
vention, and later in the year went to 
North Dakota, where he spent several 
years on a ranch, raising cattle. In 1886 
he was the unsuccessful candidate for 
Mayor of New York. President Harrison 
appointed him a member of the United 
States Civil Service Commission in 1889, 
in which capacity he served until 1895, 
when he resigned to accept the presidency 
of the Police Commission of New York 
City, under Mayor Strong. President Mc- 
Kinley appointed him Assistant Secretary 
of the Navy in April, 1897, and upon the 
outbreak of the Spanish-American War, 
in 1898, he resigned the post to assist in or- 
g'nizingthe First United States Volunteer 
Cavalry (afterwards known as Roosevelt's 
Rough Riders), of which he became Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel, and later Colonel, for gal- 
lantry in the battles of Las Guasimis and 
San Juan, Cuba. In September. 1898, he 
was mustered out, with his regiment, at 
Montauk, Long Island. Shortly following 
he was nominated for Governor of New 
York, and elected, November, 1898. Two 
years later he was unanimously nomi- 
nated for Vice-President of the United 
States by the Republican National Con- 
vention, at Philadelphia, and elected. He 
succeeded to the Presidency September 
14. 1901, upon the death of President Mc- 
Kinley, and at the close of the term was 
unanimously nominated by his party to 
succeed himself, and elected November, 
1904. He has long been an advocate of 
administrative, political and social re- 
forms and has contributed widely to pe- 
riodical and general literature, and by 
way i"f recreation is an enthusiastic hunt- 
er of big game. His fondness for the 
trackless forest and the hunter's trail, as 
well as his general predilection for out- 
door life, has added decided color and 
buoyancy to his writings. Among his im- 
portant publications are: Winning of the 
West; History of the Naval War of 1812; 
Hunting Trips of a Ranchman; Life of 
Thomas Hart Benton; Life of Governeur 
Morris; Ranch Life and Hunting Trail; 
History of New York; American Ideals 
and Other Essays; The Wilderness Hunt- 
er; The Roug'h Riders; Life of Ol- 
iver Cromwell; The Strenuous Life; and 
Outdoor Pastimes 'Cf an American Hunter. 
His efforts in bringing about the treaty 
of peace between Japan and Russia in 
1905 were important and effective. Before 
his election to the Presidency he was an 
active member of the Columbia Historical 
Society; National Geographic Society; 
Union League Club; Holland Society and 
Century Association of New York; and 
was an honorary member of the Union 
League Club of Chicago, and of the Alpine 
Club of London. In 1895 he was elected 
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Harvard University. On February 2, 
1899, he organized and was first com- 
mander of the Naval and Military Order 
of the Spanish-American War. He re- 
ceived the degree of LL. D. from Colum- 
bia University, Yale University, and Har- 
vard University, and many other aca- 
demic honors. He has been twice mar- 
ried — first, on September, 23, 1880, to Alice 
Lee, daughter of George Cabot and Caro- 
line (Haskell) Lee, of Boston, Mass., who 
died in 1883, leaving one daughter, Alice 
Lee; second, December 2, 1886, to Edith 
Kermit Carow, daughter of Charles and 
Gertrude Elizabeth (Tyler) Carow, of New 
York City. The children by his second 
marriage are: Theodore, Jr., Ethel Carow, 
Archibald Bulloch, Kermit and Quentin. 
Addre.5s: White House. Summer resi- 
dence: Oyster Bay, L. I., N. Y. 

ROOT, ELIHU, Secretary of State, was 
born at Clinton, N. Y., February 15, 1845, 
son of Owen and Nancy Whitney (But- 
trick) Root. He was graduated in 1864 
from Hamilton College, where his father 
was for many years professor of mathe- 
matics; taught school at Rome (N. Y.) 
Academy, 1865. In 1867 he was gradu- 
ated from the University Law School of 
New York; LL. D., Hamilton. 1896; Yale, 
1900; Columbia and New York University, 
1904, and was appointed by President 
Arthur U. S. Attorney for the Southern 
District of New York, 1883-85. In 1894 
he was a delegate-at-large to the New 
York State Constitutional Convention, and 
was chairman of the Judiciary Commit- 
tee, and was a member of the Commission 
on Alaskan Boundary, appointed by Pres- 
ident Roosevelt. He was appointed Sec- 
retary of War August 1, 1899; resigned, 
February 1, 1904; appointed Secretary of 
State July 7, 1905. He is a trustee of 
Hamilton College; Carnegie Institution; 
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York); 
president Union League Club, New York, 
1898-99, and the New York City Bar As- 
sociation, 1904-05. On January 8, 1878, 
he married Clara, daughter of Samuel H. 
Wales, of New York. Residence: 1333 
Sixteenth street, n.w. Office: Department 
of State. 

RORER, SARAH TYSON, educator and 
author, was born in Richboro, Pa., Octo- 
ber 18, 1849, daughter of Charles Tyson 
and Elizabeth (Sagers) Heston. She was 
graduated from East Aurora (N. Y.) 
Academy in 1869, and in February, 1871, 
was married to William Albert Rorer 
(deceased), of Philadelphia, Pa. She made 
a special study of domestic science, and 
became an authority on cooking and sim- 
ilar topics. She was at the head of the 
Philadelphia School of Domestic Science, 
1881-92; editor of Table Talk, 1886-92; 
Household News, 1893-97; and in 1897 
joined the staff of the Ladies' Home Jour- 
nal. Her published books have circula.ted 
widely, and include: Mrs. Rorer's Cook 
B'Ook (1886); Home Candy Making (1888); 



Canning and Preserving (1888); Hot 
Weather Dishes (1889); Sandwiches 
(1896); Colonial Cooking (1896); How to 
Use a Chafing Dish (1896); New Salads 
(1897); Made Overs (1899); Bread and 
Bread-making (1900); Good Cooking 
(1901); A Book on Diet and Cookery 
(1902). Residence: 3339 Mt. Pleasant 
street, n.w. 

ROSA, EDWARD BENNETT, physicist, 

was born at Rogensville, N. Y., October 
4, 1861, son of Rev. Edward David and 
Sarah G. (Rowland) Rosa. He was grad- 
uated from Wesleyan University in 1886, 
and Johns Hopkins University, Ph. D., in 
1891. He was professor of physics, Wes- 
leyan University, 1891-1902, and since 
1902 has been physicist for the National 
Bureau of Standards. He is a member 
of the American Association for the Ad- 
vancement of Science, American Institute 
of Electrical Engineers, American Phys- 
ical Society, and Cosmos and Univetsity 
clubs. On March 22, 1894. he married 
Mary Evans at Harrisburg, Pa. Resi- 
dence: The Ontario. Office: Bureau of 
Standards. 

ROSE, JOSEPH NELSON, botanist, 
was born near Liberty, Union County, 
Ind., on January 11, 1862, son of George 
W. and Rebecca (Corington) Rose. He 
attended Wabash College, and holds the 
degrees of M. A. and Ph. D. from that 
institution. For several years he was 
assistant botanist in the Department of 
Agricultufe, but since 1896 he has been 
connected with the U. S. National Mu- 
seum. He is the author of a number of 
bulletins and monographs, among them 
being: Studies of Mexican and Central 
American Plants, etc. He is a member 
of the Presbyterian Church, a Republican 
in politics, and a member of the Cosmos 
Club. On August 8, 1888, he married Lou 
B. Sims, of Delphi, Ind., to which union 
have been born five children, all of whom 
are living. Residence: 1812 (balvert street. 
Office: U. S. National Museum. 

ROSEN, BARON, diplomatist. He has 
been Russian Minister at Tokyo, Japan; 
Consul-General at New York, and was 
Charge d'Affaires at Washington during 
President Cleveland's first administration. 
Since 1905 he 'has been Ambassador to 
the United States, and was chief adviser 
to Count Witte during peace negotiations 
at Portsmouth, N. H., in 1905. Address: 
Russian Embassy. 

ROSENEAU, MILTON JOSEPH, sur- 
geon in the Public Health and Marine 
Hospital Service, was born at Philadel- 
phia, Pa., on January 1, 1869, son of Na- 
than and Mathilda (Blitz) Rosenau. He 
received his early education in the Phil- 
adelphia public and high schools, and 
later attended the University of Penn- 
sylvania Medical Department, graduating 
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in post-graduate study at the Hygienische 
Institute in Berlin, and the Pasteur In- 
stitute in Paris. In 1890 he entered 
the govet-nment service as Assistant 
Surgeon, and is at the present time di- 
rector of the Hygienic Laboratory of the 
U. S. Public Health and Marine Hospital 
Service. From 1885-98 he was quarantine 
officer at San Francisco, and during 1901- 
02 he was sanitary expert, accompanying 
the United States delegation at the Pan- 
American Congress in Mexico. In 1900 
he was official United States delegate to 
the Thirteenth International Congress of 
Medicine at Paris, and represented the 
United States on the International Com- 
mittee called by France to revise the no- 
menclature of the causes of death. He is 
the author of many monographs of a 
scientific nature, among them being: Dis- 
infection and Disinfectants; Laboratory 
Course in Pathology and Bacteriology, 
etc. He is a Fellow of the American 
Association for the Advancement of 
Science; member of the Association of 
American Physicians; a member of the 
Cosmos Club, and several medical socie- 
ties of Washington and elsewhere. On 
July 16, 1900, he married Myra B. Franli, 
to which union have* been born three chil- 
dren, two of whom are living. Residence: 
3211 Thirteenth street, n.w. 

ROSENSTEEL, CHARLES 0., Cath- 
olic clergyman, rector of the Church of 
the Nativity, Brightwood, D. C, and St. 
John's Church, Forest Glen, Maryland. 
Residence: Forest Glen, Md. 

ROSS, WORTH G. Captain, U. S. N.. 
Chief of the Revenue Cutter Service, U. 
S. Treasury Department. Residence: The 
Woodley. Office: Treasury Department. 

ROSSITER, WILLIAM S., Chief Clerk 
of the Census Office, was born at West- 
field, Mass., September 9, 1861. Attended 
school and George Washington University 
in Washington, D. C; was graduated from 
Amherst College in 1884; was assistant 
to business manager of the New York 
Tribune, 1884-88; in charge 'Of the circu- 
lation department of the New York Press, 
1888; thereafter, for ten years, Treasurer 
of the New York Printing Company. Was 
expert special agent for printing and pub- 
lishing at the Twelfth Census, and pre- 
pared the report on that subject for the 
Manufactures Census of 1905. Contrib- 
utor to various magazines upon statistical 
and historical subjects. Member Repub- 
lican and Camera Clubs, of New York; 
Cosmos Club, of Washington, and Amer- 
ican Economic Association. Residence: 
The Champlain. Office: Census Office. 

ROUSSEAU, HENRY H., civil engineer, 
U. S. Navy, Isthmian Canal Commission- 
er. Address: Culebra, Canal Zone, or 
Navy Department. 

ROTHERMEL, JOHN H., Congressman. 
In November, 1906, he was elected a mem- 



ber of the Sixtieth Congress on the Dem- 
ocratic ticket from the Thirteenth Penn- 
sylvania Congressional District. Legal 
residence: Reading, Pa. Washington ad- 
dress: House of Representatives. 

ROWAN, ANDREW SUMMERS, army 
officer, was born at Lap Mills, Va., son of 
Hon. John M. and Virginia Wirt (Sum- 
mers) Rowan, and was graduated from 
the United States Military Academy. 
Served in Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, 
South Dakota, North Dakota, Michigan, 
Washington, D. C, Central America, Phil- 
ippines, California and State of Washing- 
ton. He was a member of the Intercon- 
tinental Railway Survey; special duty In- 
formation Bureau; Military Attache, 
Chile; sent to communicate with General 
Garcia after the declaration of Spanish- 
American War, and successfully executed 
mission, bringing full information as to 
the insurgent army. He was the first 
U. S. Army officer to enter Cuba after 
the declaration of War. Author of the 
Island of Cuba (1898). Address: War 
Department. 

ROYAARDS, WILLEM ALBERT, 

Counselor of Netherland Legation, was 
born at Utrecht, Holland. Entered the 
diplomatic service as Attache to Nether- 
land Legation at Bern, and was succes- 
sively Secretary of Legation at Berlin and 
St. Petersburg. Address: 1738 M street, 
n.w. 

RUCKER, DANIEL HENRY, Briga- 
dier-General, U. S. A. (retired), was born 
at Belleville, N. J., April 28, 1812, enter- 
ing the army as a Second Lieutenant of 
First Dragoons, October 13, 1837. On Oc- 
tober 8, 1844, he became a First Lieuten- 
ant; Captain, February 7, 1847, and served 
against the Indians in tne West and 
Southwest. He commanded a squadron 
at Buena Vista during the Mexican War; 
brevetted Major February 23, 1847; trans- 
ferred to Captain in the Quartermaster's 
Department, August 23, 1849; became 
Major, Quartermaster's Department, on 
August 3, 1861, and Colonel and Aide-de- 
Camp, September 28, 1861. He became a 
Brigadier-General of Volunteers and bre- 
vet Major-General of Volunteers, U. S. 
A.; Col'onel and Assistant Quartermaster- 
General, July 28, 1866. In 1882 he be- 
came a Brigadier-General and Quarter- 
master-General, and retired on February 
22, 1882. Residence: 1824 Jefferson Place, 
n.w. 

RUCKER. LOUIS H., army officer, was 
born in Illinois, January 13, 1842. He 
served with Captain Barker's Chicago Dra- 
goons to August 18, 1861, First Lieuten- 
ant Eighth Illinois Cavalry, until April 21, 
1865; Captain Ninth U. S. Cavalry, March 
20, 1879, and Colonel Eighth Cavalry, Sep- 
tember 17, 1901. He was retired with the 
rank 'of Brigadier-General in 1903. Ad- 
dress: War Department. 



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RUCKER, WILLIAM WALLER, law- 
yer. Congressman, was born near Coving- 
ton, Va., on February 1, 1855, and at the 
outbreak of the Civil War removed with 
his parents to the State of West Virginia, 
where he was educated in the common 
schools. At the age of eighteen he re- 
moved to Chariton County, Mo., and for 
two years was there engaged in. teaching 
in the district schools, during which time 
he was also engaged in the study of law; 
admitted to the bar in 1876. In 1886 he 
was elected prosecuting attorney of Char- 
iton County and served three consecutive 
terms, until he was nominated for Circuit 
Judge of the Twelfth Judicial District. 
In 1892 he was elected Circuit Judge for 
a term of six years, which position he 
held at the time he was nominated for 
Congress. He has represented the Sec- 
ond Missouri District in the Fifty-sixth, 
Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth 
and Sixtieth Congresses. Legal residence: 
Keytesville, Mo. Washington address: 
House of Representatives. 

RUDD, CHANNING, educator, authol-, 
lawyer, was born in Illinois. He was 
graduated from the School of Compara- 
tive Jurisprudence and Diplomacy and 
Columbian University, LL. M. and D. C. 
Li. After spending two years in the pub- 
lishing business, he was admitted to the 
bar and practiced corporation law; mem- 
ber of the bar of the United States Su- 
preme Court since 1900. He was for five 
years librarian, registrar and professor of 
law at Columbian University. He organ- 
ized and is now president of the Inter- 
continental Correspondence University, 
also founded and for six years Speaker 'Of 
the Junior Congress of the United States. 
He is a member of the American Bar As- 
sociation; American Economic Associa- 
tion; American Historical Association; 
American Political Science Association 
and of the University Club. On October 
28, 1903, he was married, at Washington, 
to Florence, daughter of Martin Van Bu- 
ren Stevens. Residence: The Ethelhurst. 
Office: Fourteenth and L streets, n.w. 

RUDOLPH, CUNO HUGO, merchant, 
was born in Baltimore, Md., 'on June 26, 
1860, son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Yeager) 
Rudolph. He was educated in the pri- 
vate schools and Sadtler Business College 
in Baltimore, and removed to Washington 
about seventeen years ago. In 1889 he 
purchased an interest in the firm of J. 
H. Chesley & Co., hardware dealers, and 
is now president of the Rudolph & West 
Company, in the same business. In addi- 
tion to the above business, he is interested 
in a number of other successful business 
enterprises of the city, being second vice- 
president 'Of the West Brothers Brick 
Company, a director in the National Metro- 
politan Bank, etc. He is first vice-pres- 
ident of the Washington Board of Trade, 
and a director of the Washington Cham- 
ber of Commerce. He has always taken 
a keen interest in the charitable work of 



the District of Columbia, being one of 
the members of the Executive Committee 
of the Board of Managers of the Asso- 
ciated Charities, and was instrumental in 
the establishment of the public play- 
grounds in the city and the Washington 
Play Grounds Association, of which he 
is president. He is a member of the 
Board 'Of Governors of the Columbia Golf 
Club; Vice-Chairman of the Executive 
Committee of the Employers' Association 
of the District of Columbia; a member of 
the Columbia Historical Society, National 
Conference of Charities and Corrections, 
National Playgrounds Association, etc. 
Also a trustee and member of the Exec- 
utive Board of Howard University. On 
June 8 1901, he married Amy Edna Merz. 
Residence: The Cairo. Office: 1332 New 
York avenue, n.w. 

RUGGLES, GEORGE DAVID, retired 
army officer, was born at Newburgh, N. 
Y., on September 11, 1833, son of David 
and Sarah (Golden) Ruggles. He was 
graduated from West Point in 1855, when 
he was appointed a Second Lieutenant in 
the Second Infantry, becoming Adjutant 
of the same regiment in 1857 and Assist- 
ant Adjutant-General in 1861. He took 
part in many battles of the Civil War 
and served as a chief of staff in the Army 
of Virginia, and was later Assistant Chief 
of Staff in the Army of the Potomac, after 
which he was on special duty under Sec- 
retary Stanton, of the War Department. 
After assisting General Fry in the 'Organ- 
ization of the conscription, ihe served in 
special insp.ection service, and later was 
Adjutant-General in the Army of the Po- 
tomac, under General Meade, to the end 
of the war, having reached the brevetted 
rank of Brigadier-General. After the 
Civil War he served as Adjutant-Gen- 
eral in several divisions and departments, 
and was promoted to Brigadier-General 
of U. S. Army, and Adjutant-General of 
the army on November 6, 1893, serving 
until September 11, 1897, when he was re- 
tired from active service. From 1898- 
1903, under assignment of the President 
he served as Governor of the Soldiers' 
Home. He is a member 'of the Loyal Le- 
gion, Society of the Army of the Potomac, 
Metropolitan and Chevy Chase Clubs. He 
married Alma Hammond L'Hommedieu, 
of Cincinnati, O. Address: War Depart- 
ment. 

RUNKLE, BENJAMIN PIATT, army 
officer, was born at W. Liberty, Ohio, Sep- 
tember 3, 1837, son of Ralph Edwin and 
Hannah Isabelle (Piatt) Runkle.. He was 
graduated from Miami University 1857 
(L. H. D., 1899). He practiced at the 
Ohio bar until 1861; was nominated for 
the Ohio Senate by the Democratic pirty 
in 1860. In 1863 he was made Colonel of 
the Forty-fifth Ohio Regiment, and was 
wounded in action and left for dead at 
Shiloh, Tenn., April 7, 1862. Was bre- 
vetted Colonel in the regular army in 1866, 
and from 1872 to 1877 was engaged in 



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journalistic work. He has been professor 
of military science at Miami University, 
Kenyon College, University of Maine and 
Peekskill Military Academy. He is a mem- 
ber of the Military Order of Loyal Legion, 
and of the University Club. On Feb- 
ruary 10, 1894, he married Lalla, daugh- 
ter of Andrew McMicken, of Cincinnati, 
O. Address: War Department. 

RUPPERT, JACOB, JR., Congressman, 
was born in New York City 'on August 5, 
1867. son of Jacob and Anna (Gellig) 
Rup'pert, and was educated in the Colum- 
bia Grammar School, and passed examina- 
tions for the Columbia University School 
of Mines, but never entered. For many 
years he was a brewer, and has been in- 
terested in many other business enter- 
prises, among them being a director in 
the Yorkville Bank, Casualty Company of 
America, and president of the Osborne 
Silk Works. He was aide-de-camp on 
the staffs of Governors Hill and Flower, 
of New York. He has represented the 
Sixteenth New York District in the Fifty- 
sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth and 
Fifty-ninth Congresses. He is a mem- 
ber of the Catholic Church and in pol- 
itics a Democrat. Legal residence: New 
York City. Washington address: House 
of Representatives. 

RUPPERT, JOHN HENRY, president 
of the Riggs Market, was born in Wash- 
ington, D. C, March 21, 1860, son of Henry 
and Gertrude (Gleeh) Ruppert. He was 
educated at St. Matthew's (now St. 
John's) College. He is a Roman Cath- 
olic, and a Knight of Columbus, and an 
incorporator and a director of the Home 
Savings Bank. On October 3, 1882, he 
married B. Louise Koch, to which union 
have been born seven children. Resi- 
dence: 251 N street, n.w. 

RUSSELL, CHARLES WELLS, Assist- 
ant Attorney-General, was born in Wheel- 
ing, W. Va.. on March 16, 1856, son of 
C. W. and Margaret Wilson (Moore) Rus- 
sell, and was educated in Georgetown 
University, and later graduated from the 
law department of the same institution. 
In 1886 he entered the Department of Jus- 
tice, since when he has argued many 
French spoliation cases and miscellaneou3 
cases from 1893-95; was legal adviser to 
the Dockery Joint Congressional Commis- 
sion on governmental methods, later he 
■became a special assistant Attorney-Gen- 
eral, taking charge of insular and terri- 
torial business. In 1897-98 he investigat- 
ed and reported on reconcentrado starva- 
tion and the military situation in Cuba; 
revisited Cuba in 1905 to get evidence In 
the Countess O'Reilly de Buena Vista vs. 
General Brooke, ex-Governor of Cuba; 
was hgal adviser for Porto Rico Evacua- 
tion Commission in 1898, and argued the 
Maine explosion cases before the Spani.sh 
Claims Commission in 1901. In 1902 he 
was sent by Attorney- General Knox to 



Paris to investigate the Panama Canal 
title, and two years later was sent to 
Paris to get proper conveyances of the 
Panama property; arranged with J. P. 
Morgan to pay the $40,000,000 price; was 
sent to be legal adviser first Panama Ca- 
nal Zone Government; later investigated 
and prosecuted peon slavery in the South- 
ern States, and is now in charge of peon- 
age prosecutions. He has been twice 
married — first, to Lucy Floyd Mosby, in 
1879, and second, to Lelia James Mosby 
(her sister), in 1885. Office: Department 
of Justice. 

RUSSELL, GORDON, lawyer, Con- 
gressman, was born in Huntsville, Ala., 
son of Henry A. and Mary (Gordon) 
Russell. He was educated in the Sam 
Bailey Institute, Griffin, Ga.; Crawford 
High School, Dalton, Ga.; after which he 
took a two years' course at +he Univer- 
sity 'Of Georgia, receiving the degree of 
A. B. After graduating from coilcg?, he 
taught school and read law, and was ad- 
mitted to the bar in Whitfield County, 
Ga., in 1879, and removed to Texas in 
1879, locating in Van Zandt County, and 
was elected Judge of that county in 1884. 
After serving one term as judge he re- 
sumed the private practice of law, and 
in 1892 was elected District Attorney of 
the Seventh Judicial District of Texas, 
and was re-elected to the same office in 
1894. In 1895 he removed to Tyler, Tex., 
where he has since resided. In 1896, he 
was elected judge of the Seventh Judicial 
District of Texas, and in 1900 was re- 
elected to that office without opposition, 
and in 1902 was nominated as a Demo- 
cratic candidate in the new Third Con- 
gressional District for the Fifty-eighth 
Congress, and after the death of the Hon. 
R. C. DeGraffenreid was elected to fill 
out the unexpired term in the Fifty-sev- 
enth Congress, and was elected to the 
Fifty-eighth and re-elected to the Fifty- 
ninth and Sixtieth Congresses. In poli- 
tics he has always been a Democrat. Le- 
gal residence: Tyler, Tex. Washington 
address: The Varnum. 

RUSSELL, JOSEPH J., lawyer. Con- 
gressman, was born on a farm in Mis- 
sissippi County, Mo., August 23, 1854, son 
of Joseph T. and Patience A. Russell. He 
was educated in the public schools; 
Charleston (Mo.) Academy, and in 1880 
was graduated from the law department 
of the University of Missouri as valedic- 
torian of his class. During 1877 and 1878 
he was county school commissioner of his 
home county and prosecuting attorney of 
the same from 1880-84. In 1884 he was a 
Democratic presidential elector, and was 
elected to the State Lesrislaaire in 18S6 
and 1888, serving as Speaker of that body 
during the last two years. He was a del- 
egate to the Democratic National Conven- 
tion in 1892; president of the Missouri 
Bar Association in 1902, and is now pres- 
ident of the Charleston Bank, of which 



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institution he was one of tlie founders, 
in 1887. In 1904 he was the Democratic 
candidate for Congress from the Four- 
teenth Missouri District, and was elected 
in 1906 to the Sixtieth Congress as a Dem- 
ocrat. He married Belle G-roath at the 
Southern Hotel in St. Douis, July 26, 
1884. Legal residence: Chafleston, Mo. 
Washington address: House of Repre- 
sentatives. 

RUSSELL, PERCY HICKLING, real 
estate, was born in Washington, August 
25, 1875, son of Dr. William R. and Paul- 
ine (Fleury) Russell. He was educated 
in the Washington public schools, later 
entering the employ of H. Clay Stewart 
& Son, real estate brokers in Washington, 
where he remained for eight years, when 
he embarked in the same business on an 
independent scale in 1898, after which he 
entered the Georgetown Law School. In 
addition to being an agent for several 
of the leading Are insurance companies, 
he is the Washington representative and 
resident secretary of the American Fi- 
delity Company of Vermont. In addition 
to has real estate business, he is identified 
with several other business enterprises 
about Washington. He has built for him- 
self about 100 houses in this city in the 
last eight years, most of which he has 
disposed of. He is a member of the 
Board of Fire Underwriters, a registered 
patent attorney and a notary public. Res- 
idence: 1011 Otis street, n.w. Office: 
Russell Building, 927 G street, n.w. 

RUSSELL, WILLIAM H., president and 
manager People's Mutual Benefit Insur- 
ance Company. Residence: 14 R street, 
n. w. Office: 620 F street, n.w. 

RUTHERFORD, ROBERT GEDNEY, 

Colonel, U. S. A. (retired), vice-president 
and treasurer of Tyler & Rutherford, Inc., 
real estate dealers, was born in New 
York City July 31, 1838. At the outbreak 
of the Civil War he was a member of 
the Ninth New Y'Ork Regiment, which en- 
listed for three years' service, and was 
known as the Eighty-third Regiment of 
New York State Volunteers, and was ap- 
pointed Second Lieutenant of Company 
F in 1861, when he was assigned to re- 
cruiting duty, afterwards serving with 
Generals Hamilton, Gordon and Greene, 
and was aide-de-camp to Brigadier-Gen- 
eral A. S. Williams, commanding the First 
Division of the Twelfth Army Corps, and 
was retired for disability received in ac- 
tion. In 1877 he removed to Washington, 
where he has since resided, but at the 
same time holding citizenship in New 
York. He is a member of the Loyal Le- 
gion; Society of the Army of the Poto- 
mac; Society of the Twelfth Army Corps; 
The Geographical Society; Army and 
Navy Club, of New York, and a member 
of the Washington Board of Trade. In 
addition to his connections with the busi- 



ness w'hich hears his name, he is inter- 
ested in the Washington Real Estate Ex- 
change, being first vice-president of the 
organization, in 1902. On April 12, 1866, 
he married Elizabeth McKean King, of 
Washington, to which union have been 
born two children — Mrs. Bessie Ruther- 
ford "Whitting'ham, and First Lieutenant 
Robert Gedney Rutherford, Jr., Twenty- 
fourth U. S. Infantry. Residence: 1811 
Nineteenth street, n.w. 

RYAN, F. E. C, Naval Attache, British 
Embassy. Address: 1300 Connecticut av- 
enue. 

RYAN, THOMAS, government official, 
was born in Oxford, N. Y., on November 
25, 1837, and lived on a farm in Bradford 
County, Pa., until seventeen years of age, 
when he engaged in the merchandise busi- 
ness a few years. He was educated in 
the public schools and at Dickinson Sem- 
inary at Williamsport, Pa., after which he 
took up the study of law, and was ad- 
mitted to the bar at Towanda, Pa., in 
1861. In 1862 he enlisted in the Union 
Army and served until 1864, when he was 
mustered out of the service on account of 
wounds received in the battles of The 
Wilderness, with the rank of Captain. He 
settled at Topeka, Kans., in 1865, where 
he served as county attorney eight years; 
assistant U. S. Attorney for Kansas three 
years, and was a member of the Forty- 
fifth, Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, Forty- 
eighth, Forty-ninth, Fiftieth and Fifty- 
first Congresses. While in Congress he 
served on the Coinage Committee, Public 
Lands Committee, and for eight years was 
a member of the Appropriations Commit- 
tee, resigning from Congress to accept the 
Ministership to Mexico, where he served 
for four years. Since March, 1897, he 
has been First Assistant Secretary of the 
Interior. Residence: 1750 S street, n.w. 
Office: Department of the Interior. 

RYAN, WILLIAM HENRY, Congress- 
man, was born in Hopkinton. Mass., on 
May 10, 1860. When hut six years of 
age he removed with his parents to Buf- 
falo, N. Y., where he has since resided 
and was educated in the public and high 
schools. He is a member of the firm of 
James Ryan's Sons Company, doing a 
general bonding, liability and fire insur- 
ance business in Buffalo. In 1894 he was 
elected to represent the Second ward 
of Buffalo on the Board of Supervisors 
of Brie County, and was re-elected in 
1897, the following year being elected 
chairman of the body. In 1904 he was 
a delegate to the Democratic National 
Convention at St. Louis, and has repre- 
sented the Thirty-fifth New York District 
in the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty- 
eighth and Fifty- ninth Congresses, and 
has been re-elected to the Sixtieth. On 
September 19, 1887, he married Ellen T. 
Cosgrove. Legal residence: Buffalo, N. Y. 
Washington address: The Cairo. 



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SABBATH, A. J., lawyer, Congressman, 
was born in Bohemia, April 4, 1866, and 
removed to Chicago in 1881. He was ed- 
ucated in the common schools in Bohe- 
mia; Bryant & Stratton's Business Col- 
lege in Chicago and was graduated LL. B. 
from Lake Forest University in 1891. He 
practiced law until 1895, when he was 
selected as Justice, in which capacity he 
served until 1897, when he was appointed 
Police Magistrate, serving until Decem- 
ber 1, 1906. In November, 1906, he was 
elected to Congress from the Fifth Illi- 
nois District, on the Democratic ticltet. 
For many years he has been a member of 
the Cook County (111.) Democratic Cen- 
tral and Executive Committees. He is a 
Mason, and a member of many other fra- 
ternal and social organizations in Chi- 
cago. He is unmarried. Leg-al Iresi- 
dence: Chicago, 111. Washington ad- 
dress House of Representatives. 

SABIN, OLIVER C. (D. D., Ph. D.), 

Bishop of Evangelical Christian Science 
Church, and president of the Internation- 
al Metaphysical University. Residence: 
1329 M street, n.w. 

SACKS, GEORGE P., junior member of 
the firm of Chapin & Sacks, was born in 
Washington, D. C, in 1872, son of Eckart 
J. and H. B. (Lanbscher) Sacks, and was 
educated in the public schools. In 1894 
he entered into partnership with Arthur 
A. Chapin in the manufacture of butter 
and ice cream. He is a member of the 
Business Men's Association and of the 
Masonic fraternity. He married Ida L. 
Murphy in 1894, a daughter of Nicholas 
and Fannie E. Murphy, and they have 
two children. Residence: 109 I street, 
n.w. Office: First and Patterson streets, 
n.e. 

SAFFORD, GEORGE H., Secretary and 
Treasurer of Howard University. Resi- 
dence: 2445 Brightwood avenue, n.w. Of- 
fice: Howard University. 

SAFFORD, MARY JOANNA, transla- 
tor was born in Salem, Mass., daughter 
of Samuel Appleton and Frances Parker 
Percival Safford. She obtained her edu- 
cation in private schools at Salem. She 
is the author of a number of articles 
which have appeared in periodicals; 
translator of George Ebers' In the Des- 
ert; Cleopatra; In the Fire of the Forg'e, 
etc., and a number of other foreign novels 
and plays. Residence: 1308 R street, 
n.w. 

SAKS, ISA DOR E, merchant, was born 
in Baltimore May 20, 1852. He began 
his education there, continued it in a Ger- 
man school, and at Bryant & Stratton's 
Business College. In 1867 he went into 
the dry goods and gentlemen's furnish- 



ing goods business with his brother, An- 
drew Saks, and in 1876 started for him- 
self in Washington, giving it up after a 
few years to rejoin his brother, being 
taken into partnership with him under 
the name of Saks & Company. In 1898 
another store was opened in Indianapolis, 
Ind., and a branch store at Richmond, 
Va., conducted for twenty-one years, was 
sold in 1900. In 1902 a store was opened 
in New York City, which is under his 
personal management. He has one son, 
who conducts the affairs of the local 
store. He has been a director of the 
Traders' National Bank; the Washing- 
ton Loan & Trust Company; the Wash- 
ington Safe Deposit Company; the Union 
Savings Bank, and assisted in the forma- 
tion of the Board of Trade of Washing- 
ton. Residence: 464 Massachusetts ave- 
nue, n.w. Business address: Seventh and 
Market Space. 

SAMPLE, JAMES ANTHONY, presi- 
dent of the Citizens' Savings Bank of 
Washington and g-overnment official, was 
born in South Bend, Ind., on October 6, 
1844, son of Andrew Russell and Mary 
(DeFrees) Sample. He is a descendant 
of the DeForests, who settled in New Am- 
sterdam about 1627, and his grandfather, 
Capt. John Sample, was one of the de- 
fenders of Baltimore in 1814. After at- 
tending the common schools until fifteen 
years of age, he entered the St. Joseph 
Academy, in his native county, and later 
attended Northern Indiana College fftr 
two years. During 1862 and 1863 he was 
an aid in the United States Coast Sur- 
vey, since when he has been in the gov- 
ernment service most of the time, now 
serving as Chief of the Division of Issue 
in the Treasury Department. In 1871 he 
assisted in the funding of United States 
bonds in London, and in 1900 he ex- 
changed the money of Porto Rico. He 
has served as First Lieutenant and In- 
spector of Rifle Practice in the militia 
of the District of Columbia. He is a 
mem'ber of the All Souls' Unitarian 
Church, a Mason, was Grand Master of 
the District of Columbia in 1890, and now 
Grand Treasurer of the Grand Lodge. In 
politics he is a Republican, and still holds 
legal residence in Indiana. On December 
16, 1868, he married Julia M. DeFrees, to 
which union have been born four chil- 
dren, three of whom are living. Resi- 
dence: Flol-ence Court, Washington 
Heights. Office: U. S. Treasury. 

SAMPSON, ARCHIBALD J., Envoy 
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten- 
tiary of the United States to Ecuador, 
was born near Cadiz, Ohio, on June 21, 
1839, and graduated from the Mt. Union 
(Ohio) College, B. S. in 1861 (A. M.; LL. 
D.), and later graduated from the Cleve- 
land Law College. From 1861 to 1865, 
he served in the Civil War from private to 



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Captain, and in the latter year, located 
at Sedalia, Mo., to take up the practice 
of law. In 1872 he was offered the nomi- 
nation for the legislature, but refused 
to accept; in 1873, he was appointed U. S. 
Consul to Palestine, but did not accept. 
He removed to Colorado in 1873, and was 
made Attorney-General of the State in 
1876; was U. S. Consul to El Paso del 
Norte, Mexico, 1889-1893, in the latter 
year, removing to Phoenix, Arizona, at 
which city he has since made his home. 
He has been the Minister to Ecuador 
since 1897, having been the first person 
living in a territory to receive an office 
of this grade for more than sixty years. 
He has been twice married; first in 1866, 
to Kate ,1. Turner, at Cadiz, Ohio, who 
died in 1886; and second, to Frances S. 
Wood, at Joliet, 111., In 1891. In politics, 
he is a Republican. Address: care State 
Department. 

SAMSON, GEORGE CLEMENT, phy- 
sician, was born at Washington, D. C, 
April 18, 1848, son of Rev. G. W. and 
Elizabeth (Smallwood) Samson. He was 
graduated from Columbian (now George 
Washington) University with the degree 
of A. B. in 1865; with that of M. D. in 
1867, and A. M. in 1868. Dr. Samson 
also hcids the honorary degree of M. D., 
conferred upon him by the University of 
Pennsylvania, in 1869. He studied at 
the University of Edinburgh during 1867 
and 1868, and from 1870 to 1879, was 
phy.«ician in charge of the Soldiers' and 
Sailors' Orphan Home in this city; from 
1878 to 1882 he was a trustee of the pub- 
lic schools; from 1891 to 1897 was one 
of the board of management of the local 
Y. M. C. A.; from 1888 to 1899, was on 
boatd of managers of the Washington 
City Bible Society; from 1898 to 1899, 
was treasurer of the Baptist Social Union 
of Washington. Dr. Samson is a mem- 
ber of the Sigma Phi fraternity; since 
1871 a member of the Medical Associa- 
tion of the city; and is a membef of the 
executive committee of the Sunday 
School Union of Washington. On Octo- 
ber 3, 1872, he married Marianne Polk- 
inhorn. Address: 2423 Pennsylvania 
avenue. 

SAMUEL, EDMUND WILLIAM, 

physician, Congressman, was born at 
Blamavon, England, November 27, 1857, 
son of Edmund and Mary Samuel. His 
parents came to America when he was 
two years of age and located at Ash- 
land, Pennsylvania, where young Samuel 
received his education in the public 
schools; in 1880 he was graduated with 
the degree of M. D. from the Jefferson 
Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa. Since 
that time he has been engaged in the 
practice of medicine. In 1887 he entered 
in the drug business; he is now presi- 
dent of the Brush Valley Timber and 
Lumber Co.; of the Real Estate Ex- 
change (Mt. Carmel); of the Samuel 



Realty Co., and is a director in the Gib- 
son Realty Co., and the Peoples' Bank 
and Loan Association. He served three 
years on the school board of Mt. Carmel 
(Pennsylvania) ; and was elected a Rep- 
resentative to the Fifty-ninth Congress 
from the Sixteenth Pennsylvania 'Dis- 
trict. As a boy Mr. Samuel was em- 
ployed as a slate picker and miner in 
the coal mines until his seventeenth 
year. He is a member of the Masons; 
Scottish Rite; Odd Fellows; Royal Ar- 
canum; Elks, and of the Republican 
party. His religious connection is with 
the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. 
Samuel married Alice M. Keifer on April 
28, 1886. In politics he is a RepaitMcan. 
Legal Residence: Mount Carmel, North- 
umberland County, Pa. Washington Ad- 
dress: House of Representatives. 

SANDS, FRANCIS PRESTON BLAIR, 

lawyer, was born in Washington, D. C, 
January 16, 1842, son of Rear Admiral 
Benjamin F. Sands, U. S. N., and Hen- 
rietta (French) Sands. He attended the 
Washington Seminary (now Gonzaga 
College) from 1849 to 1853, when he 
went as a student to Georgetown Collego 
from which he was graduated with the 
degree of A. B. in 1861. He was ap- 
pointed a hydrographic aid in the U. S. 
Coast and Geodetic Survey in 1861, and 
served on the Coast Survey steamer 
"Active" on the Coast of California. In 
September, 1862, he returned from Cal- 
ifornia, and in December of the same 
year, he was appointed an acting En- 
sign in the U. S. Navy, and served on 
the U. S. Sloop of War "Decotah" for 
several months; was then detailed and 
ordered to duty on the flagship "Minne- 
sota" on the staff of Rear Admiral S. 
P. Lee. During that service he parti- 
cipated with landing party in capturing 
two gun batteries on the beach above 
Fort Fisher. Later was attached to the 
U. S. S. "Fort Jackson" under Captain 
B. F. Sands, the divisional commander 
off Cape Fear River, and was then order- 
ed to duty under Lieutenant Roswell H. 
Lamson, commanding the U. S. S. 
Gettysburg, the vessel being engaged 
in blockading off the North Carolina 
coast. Participated in both bombard- 
ments of Fort Fisher, 24th and 25th of 
December 1864, and on January 15, 1865, 
was with the landing party from the 
fleet in the assault upon Fort Fisher, 
and, when his Captain, Lieutenant Lam- 
son, was wounded, he remained in charge 
of the detachment from the Gettysburg. 
After the repulse of the Naval Brigade, 
he rallied his men, worked his way back 
to the relief of the wounded men and 
officers close under the stockade at the 
northeast angle of the fort, retiring only 
when ordered by Lieutenant William B. 
Gushing to the line of earthworks in 
the rear, where, with the officers and 
men from other vessels, he was on duty 
all night. He was recommended for pro- 



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motion to be an acting Master by Admir- 
al David D. Porter fot his conduct in 
that assault, and was in temporary com- 
mand of the "Gettysburg" for several 
months, being detached in June, 1865 
at the Norfolk Navy Yard and ordered 
to the U. S. S. 'Frolic," Captam John H. 
Upshut commanding; and served for fif- 
teen months in the Mediterranean 
Squadron, resigning in Feibruary, 1867. 
Mr. Sands then began the study of law, 
at the Columbian University Law School, 
and with Walter D. Davidge, Esq.; he 
was admitted to the bar in 1869. He 
was a member of the Moot Court of 
the Law Department of Georgetown Uni- 
versity in 1881 and 1882; and feceived 
the degree of A. M. from that institution, 
and the degree of LL. B. from Colum- 
bian (now George Washington) Univer- 
sity. Mr. Sands was one of the founders 
of the Metropolitan Club of Washington, 
and is, at this date, the only survivor 
of the original membership; he is a 
member of the District of Columbia 
Commandery of the Military Order of 
the Loyal Legion. In 1876, he married 
Emilie A. Pequette, of Detroit, Michigan, 
who died in 1884, and in November, 1887, 
he marred Heloise McCue, daughter of 
the late Judge Alexander McCue, of 
Brooklyn, N. Y. Address: 1333 F. street, 
n.w. 

SANDS, JAMES HOBAN, Rear Ad- 
miral, U. S. N., was born in Washing- 
ton, D. C, July 12, 1845, and was gradu- 
ated from the United States Naval Acade- 
my in 1863. He was commissioned En- 
sign on May 28, 1863; promoted to Lieu- 
tenant, November 10, 1866; advanced to 
Lieutenant Commander, March 12, 1868; 
made commander November, 1880; com- 
missioned Captain in September, 1894, 
and Rear Admiral on April 11, 1902. From 
1863 to 1865, he served on the North At- 
lantic blockading squadron, and Charles- 
ton and Fort Fisher; twice was recom- 
mended for promotion for gallantry; from 
1865 to 1868, was attached to the United 
StJtes fleet around India; was specially 
commended for services against savages 
on "Formosa;" subsequently he served 
on various vessels and at various posts. 
During the Spanish-American war he 
was in command of the cruiser Colum- 
bia; at the present time he is command-' 
er of the coast squadron of the North 
Atlantic fleet. On October 28, 1869, he 
married Mary Elizabeth Meade. Address: 
Navy Department. 

SANFORD EDWARD F., lawyer. As- 
sistant Attorney-General of the United 
States. Address: Department of Jus- 
tice. 

SANGER, JOSEPH P. Major-General, 
U. S. A., was born in Detroit Michigan, 
son of Henry Kirkland Sanger. He en- 
listed in the Union Army at the begin- 
ning of the Civil War and served 



throughout the struggle, being twice 
brevetted for bravery, and becoming Ad- 
jutant. Subsequently he was graduated 
with honors from the Artillery School 
(was its first Adjutant); in 1871 he com.- 
manded a battery in the Brooklyn 
"Whisky Riots;" from 1872 to 1875, was 
professor of military science, tactics, and 
law at Bowdoin University; was admitted 
to the bar in law at Portland, Maine, 
shortly afterwards. From 1875 to 1877, 
he was on special duty with Gentjral 
Upton, on a tour of army inspecLJon in 
foreign countries; then served i-.i vari- 
ous capacities until 1888 when he be- 
came inspector general; in 1891, was aide 
and acting secretary to President Harri- 
son; in 1895 was military secretary to 
the Lioutenant-General; from IS'i". to 
1898, was principal assistant to the in- 
spector general, U. S. A., and at the out- 
break of the Spanish-American War, 
was commissioned Lieutenant-Colonel of 
volunteers and made inspector general 
U. S. v., and acting inspector general, U. 
S. A. In the war, he commanded vari- 
ous brigades and divisions in Cuba; was 
commandant of the department of Man- 
tanzas, Cuba, and made Brigadier-Gen- 
eral, U. S. V. He was mustered out of 
the volunteer service in 1899, and then 
appointed to special duty with the As- 
sistant Secretary of War. On August 9, 
1899 and September 8, 1899, he was ap- 
pointed by the President, director of the 
census in Cuba and Porto Rico, respec- 
tively; in 1900 was elected a member of 
the War College Board; in 1901, com- 
missioned Colonel and made Inspector- 
general; from 1901 to 1902, acted as In- 
spector-General and Chief of the Philip- 
pines. Since October 6, 1902, Colonel 
Sanger has been director of the Philip- 
pine Census. Address: War Department. 

SANNER, FRANKLIN T., Vice-Presi- 
dent National City Bank. Residence: 
Eighteenth street and Columbia road. 
Office: 1405 G street, n.w. 

SANTANDER, MANUEL de FREYRE, 

First Secretary, Peruvian Embassy. Ad- 
dress: 2171 Florida avenue. 

SANTELMANN, WILLIAM H., leader 

of the United States Marine Band, was 
born in Offensen, Province Hannover, 
Germany, September 24, 1863, son of 
Heinrich Wilhelm and Henrietta 

(Sohnemann) Santelmann. He began the 
study of the violin at an early age, and 
when fourteen, commenced a regular 
course of instruction in harmony and in- 
strumentation. At the age of eighteen, 
he enlisted in the band of the 134th In- 
fantry Regiment at Leipsic. After three 
^■ears' service, he entered the conserva- 
tory in that city and completed his mu.=l- 
cal education. In 1887 he came to the 
United States and enlisted in the United 
States Marine Band; he resigned from 
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in civil life; for a time was conductor of 
the Columbia Theater Orchestra, and on 
March 3, 1898, was appointed leader of 
the Marine Band. Lieutenant Santel- 
mann has written a number of musical 
compositions, including concert and danc- 
ing music, marches, songs and a string 
quartet. Address: U. S. Marine Barracks. 
Residence: 311 First street, s.e. 

SARGENT, FRANK PIERCE, United 
States Commissioner-General of Immi- 
gration, was born at East Orange, Ver- 
mont, November 18, 1854, son of Charles 
E. and Mary C. (Kinney) Sargent. He 
received his education in the common 
schools and entered railway service as 
a fireman. From 1885 to 1902, he was 
Chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive 
Firemen; in 1898, was appointed a mem- 
ber of the Industrial Commission by 
President McKinley, which post he re- 
signed. He has occupied his present 
position since July 1, 1902. Mr. Sargent 
is a thirty-second degree Mason; a mem- 
ber of the National Civic Federation, and 
the Creve Coeur Club (Peoria, Illinois), 
and Fifty Club of Philadelphia. In poli- 
tics he is a Republican. Office: Bureau 
of Immigration. Residence: The Manor 
House. 

SARGENT, HERBERT HOWLAND, 

Captain, U. S. A., was born at Carlin- 
ville, Macoupin County, Illinois, Septem- 
ber 29, 1858, son of Jacob T. and Maria 
L. (Braley) Sargent. In 1878, he was 
graduated from Blackburn University, 
with the degree of A. M., and in 1883, 
from the United States Military Acade- 
my, in the same year becoming a Sec- 
ond Lieutenant of Cavalry. He served 
at various posts in the West; was Pro- 
fessor of Military Science at the Uni- 
versity of Illinois during 1886 and 1887; 
at the outbreak of the Spanish-American 
war he was detailed in Washington for 
the work of organization of volunteer 
troops; on May 1, 1898 was appointed 
Major and Adjutant-General of Volun- 
teers, which position, however, he de- 
clined; on May 20, 1898, was appointed 
Colonel of the Fifth U. S. Volunteer In- 
fantry; he organized the regiment lat 
Columbus, Mississippi; saw service with 
them before Santiago, Cuba. In 1899, 
Captain (then Colonel) Sargent com- 
manded the District of Guantanamo, 
Cuba, under General Wood; returned to 
the United States and was mustered out 
of volunteer service with his regiment, 
in 1899. He was commissioned Captain, 
U. S. A., on March 2, 1899; appointed 
Lieutenant-Colonel, U. S. V.. and attached 
to the Twenty-ninth Volunteer Infantry 
on July 5, 1899, and ordered to the 
Philippines with his regiment. He parti- 
cipated in various battles against the 
insurgents; commanded the attacking 
forces of the United States on December 
19, 1899 at the battle of San Mateo, at 
which place General Law ton was killed. 



He returned to the United States in 1901, 
and was attached as Captain to the Sec- 
ond United Siates Cavalfy. Captain 
Sargent was l-ecommended for brevets 
by Generals Wood and Otis, for services 
rendered during the Spanish-American 
War. During March and April, 1899, he 
was Governor-General of Guantanamo, 
Cuba; from 1900 to 1901 was judge ad- 
vocate of the Department of Luzon, 
Philippine Islands. He is the author of 
Napoleon Bonaparte's First Campaign; 
Campaign of Marengo, and Campaign of 
Santiago de Cuba. Captain Sargent is 
a member of the Military Historical So- 
ciety of Massachusetts; on August 11, 
1886, he mafried Alice C. Applegate. Ad- 
dress: War Department. 

SATTERLEE, HENRY YATES, Bishop 
of the Protestant Episcopal Church tor 
Washington, was born in New York City, 
January 11, 1843, and graduated from Co- 
lumbia University in 1863. He entered 
the Episcopal Church as a deacjn in 
1865; was made Priest in 1867; was made 
assistant, and served from 1865 to 1875, 
of Zion Parish, Wappingers Palls, N. Y.; 
acted as fector of Cavalry Church, Nevv 
York, from 1882 to 1896, since which time 
he has been Bishop of Washington. He 
is the author of Christ and His Church; 
Life Lessons from the Prayer Book; 
Creedless Gospel and Gospel Creed, and 
various other religious books and arti- 
cles. Rev. Dr. Satterlee holds the fol- 
lowing honorary degrees: A. M., from 
Columbia, 1866; LL. D., same, 1897; D. D., 
Union College, 1882; same, Princeton 
University, 1896. Residence: Thomas 
Circle. 

SAUL, B. F., President, B. F. Saul 
Company (real estate), president. Home 
Savings Bank. Residence: 3232 Thir- 
teent street, n.'w. Office: Seventh and L 
streets, n.w. 

SAUL, JOHN ALOYSIUS, lawyer, was 
born in the District of Columbia, Novem- 
ber 8, 1861, son of John and Rosina Mary 
(Lawley) Saul. He attended Gonzaga 
(College, and St. Matthews Institute, both 
in Washington, Rock. Hill College (Mary- 
land), and in 1891 graduated from the 
law depattment of Georgetown Univo;-- 
sity. In 1892, after a post-graduate 
course, he received the degree of LL. B., 
from Georgetown University and in 1S99 
Master of Patent Law from Columbia 
University. Mr. Saul is a Roman Cath- 
olic toy religion; in politics a Democrat, 
and is a member of the Columbia His- 
torical Society. He is unmarried. Ad- 
dress: Fendall Building. 

SAUNDERS, EDWARD WATTS, law- 
yer. Congressman; was born in Franklin 
County, Virginia, October 25, 1860, and 
was educated at home, at the Bellevue 
High School (Bedford County, Virginia), 
and the University 'of Virginia, from which 
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June. 1882, with the degfee of LL.B. He 
taught and manag-ed a high school at 
Onacock, Accomac County, Virginia, in 
company with Prof. F. P. Brent, from 
1880 to 1881; entered law practice in 1882; 
was elected a member of the State Leg- 
islature in 1887, and served a number 
of terms, in 1899 being speaker of the 
House, retaining that position until his 
resignation, in 1901, to become judge of 
the Fourth Circuit Court. He resigned 
fhis judgeship to become a Representa- 
tive from the Fifth Virginia District to 
the Fifty-ninth Congress; re-elected to 
the Sixtieth Congress. In politics, Mr. 
Saunders is a Dem'ocrat. Legal residence: 
Rocky Mount, Virginia. Wasliington ad- 
dress: House of Representatives. 

SAUNDERS, LORIN M., lawyer, bank- 
er; was born at Leon, N. Y., in the early 
forties, and was educated at an academy 
in his native county. After a period of 
school teaching he came to Washington 
and found employment in the Treasury 
Department in the winter of 1864. He 
then studied law at Columbian (now 
George Washington) University, and was 
graduated with honors. He resigned from 
the government service in 1870, and en- 
tered the practice 'of law before the dis- 
trict and federal courts. In 1881, believing 
in the future greatness of Washington, he 
left the active practice of law, and opened 
a real estate business, and this was in 
turn surrendered for banking. He estab- 
lis'hed the Ohio National Banl^, and was 
for many years its president, retiring in 
1895. In 1899 he was chosen president 
of the Washington Savings Bank; mem- 
ber of the Society 'of the Sons of the 
American Revolution. He is married and 
has one son. Residence: 2101 Wyoming 
avenue. 

SAUNDERS, WILLIAM H., real estate; 
was born in 1856 in Loudoun County, Vir- 
ginia, son of Henry and Sarah Frances 
(Hawling) Saunders, deriving his pedigree 
from Robert Lord, of InsTaruck, brother of 
Rodolph, Count of Hapsburg, afterward 
Emperor of Germany. His paternal grand- 
mother was descended from the Butten- 
bergs, of Hessen, Germany, and a Hugue- 
not ancestor. He took a special law 
course at the University of Virginia, and 
in vocal culture and expression under 
several masters. After teaching school 
for two years, and a short term of travel, 
he held the position of special lecturer 
in elocution and literature at Washington 
and Lee University for five years, leav- 
ing it to enter the real estate business 
in Washington. He is a member of the 
American Association for the Advance- 
ment of Science; the National Geographic 
Society; the Columbia Historical Society; 
one of the Governors of the Washington 
Real Estate Exchange; first vice president 
of the American National Bank; and a 
director of the Riggs Fire Insurance Com- 
pany. In 1884 he married Golda Calhoun, 



daughter of the late Henry de Butts Nor- 
ris, of Virginia, and they have two daugh- 
ters. Residence: 1453 Fairmont street, 
n.w. Office: 1407 F street, n.w. 

SAWTELLE, CHARLES GREENE, 

brigadier general, U. S. A. (retired) ; was 
born at Norridgewock, Maine, May 10, 
1834, and graduated from the United 
States Military Academy in 1854. He en- 
tered the army as brevet second lieuten- 
ant; served in the Sioux expedition; com- 
missioned second lieutenant in 1855; pro- 
moted to first lieutenant, June 5, 1860; 
made staff captain and assistant quarter- 
master, May 17, 1861; commissioned lieu- 
tenant colonel of volunteers, November 12, 
1862; advanced successively through 
grades of brevet major, lieutenant colonel 
to colonel, U. S. A., in 1865, and, the 
same year, brevet brigadier general. He 
then was made colonel of staff, U. S. V.; 
promoted to major and staff quartermas- 
ter in 1867; in 1881 'was advanced to lieu- 
tenant colonel, staff deputy quartermaster 
general; made colonel and assistant quar- 
termaster general, September 12, 1894; 
coinmissioned brigadier general, August 
19, 1896, and served as quartermaster gen- 
eral ur;til retired on February 16, 1897. In 
1869, General Sawtelle married Alice C. 
Munroe. Residence: 1925 N street, n.w. 

SAXTON, RUFUS, brigadier and brevet 
major general, U. S. A.; was born in 
Greenfield, Mass., Octo'ber 19, 1824. Son 
of Jonathon Ashley and Miranda (Wright) 
Saxton. He was graduated from the U. 
S. Military Academy in 1849, was attached 
to the 3rd U. S. Artillery, and served with 
his regiment in the Seminole War. In 
1850 he was promoted to a second lieu- 
tenant, Fourth Artillery, and served on 
the Mexican frontier. In 1853 assigned 
to duty on the Northern Pacific R. R. ex- 
ploration and survey, and conducted an 
exploring party from Ft. Vancouver 
through the Rocky Mountains to Fort 
Leavenworth, and made a profile of route 
of the Northern Pacific R. R. From 1855 
to 1859 on duty in the U. S. Coast Sur- 
vey. Instructor of tactics and strategy in 
1859, at West Point Military Academy. In 
1861 assistant quartermaster, chief quar- 
termaster staff of General Lyon in Mis- 
souri, General McClellan in West Virginia, 
and General Sherman's executive corps, 
brigadier general of volunteers in 1862, 
in command 'of Harper's Ferry; received 
the thanks of the War Department and 
the Congressional Medal of Honor for 
bravery and good conduct in 'his defense 
of Harper's Ferry; 1862-65 was military 
governor of the Department 'of the South; 
1863, brevet major general. From 1866 to 
1867 he was chief quartermaster of the 
Department of the South; acted in same 
capacity for the Department of the Co- 
lumbia from 1867 to 1872; same. Depart- 
ment of the Lakes, 1872 to 1873; same. 
Department of the Missouri, 1873 to 1878; 
same, miltiry division of the Pacific from 
1878 to 1883, and in charge of the Jef- 



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fersonville depot from 1883 to 1888, when 
he was retired as colonel and assistant 
quartermaster general. Later !his rank 
was advanced to brigadier general, U. S. 
A. General Saxton married Matilda Gor- 
don Thompson in March, 1863. Resi- 
dence: 1821 Sixteenth street, n.w. 

SCHARF, JACOB, assistant cashief of 
the Second National Bank. Residence: 
1341 Columbia Road, n.w. Office: Sec- 
ond National Bank. 

SCHICK, JOHN MICHAEL, clergyman; 
was born November 8, 1848, at Richmond, 
Virginia, sen of Peter and Mary Schick. 
He was graduated from Mercersburg Col- 
lege (Pennsylvania), in 18(3; pursued a 
course in theology at that institution from 
1873 to 1876, and in the latter year was 
graduated with the degree of A.M., after 
which he was immediately ordained a min- 
ister in the Reformed Church. He is now 
pastor of Grace Reformed Church, in 
Washington, D. C. Dr. Schick was a 
member of the committee which com- 
piled the hymnal of the Reformed Church; 
he is the author of "The Catechumen's 
Counselor." He received the honorary de- 
gree 'cf D.D. from Heidelberg College (Tif- 
fin, Ohio), in 1891. On October 15, 1879, 
he married Mary J. Lloyd. Residence: 
1405 Fifteenth street, n.w. 

SCHIFF, ALBERT CHRISTIAN, Luth- 
eran clergyman; was born in Shelby 
County, Ohio, February 1, 1874, son of 
Christian and Katherine (Fogt) Schiff. 
He was graduated from Capitol University 
(Columbus, Ohio), with the degree of A.B., 
in 1895; and from the seminary 'of that in- 
stitution in 1898, with the degree of B.D. 
He is a member and clergyman of the 
Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Joint 
Synod of Ohio and other States. On Oc- 
tober 10, 1894 he married Minnie E. Curt- 
Tier. Residence: 326 Ninth street, n.e. 

SCHLEY, WINFIELD SCOTT, Rear 
Admiral, U. S. N. (retired), was born near 
Frederick, Maryland, October 9, 1839, son 
of John Thomas and Georgiana Virginia 
Schley. He was graduated from the Unit- 
ed States Naval Academy in 1860, and 
from that time until 1861 served in China 
and Japan waters. In 1861 he was com- 
missioned Master; made Lieutenant, July 
18, 1862; was attached to the West Gulf 
blockading squadron and served in all en- 
gagements of that fleet, including cap- 
ture of Port Hudson in 1863; from 1864 
to 1866, he served as executive 'officer on 
the Pacific station and in South American 
waters; was commissioned Lieutenant 
Commander in 1866; then stationed for 
three years at the United States Naval 
Academy; subsequently with the Asiatic 
fleet, participating in the attack on the 
Salee River forts in Korea in 1871. In 
1872 he was appointed bead of the depart- 
ment of modefn language at the United 
States Naval Academy; commissioned 
Commander in 1874; then for a number 



of years served on various vessels and 
stations in Europe, Africa and South At- 
lantic stations; in 1884 was in command 
of the Greeley relief expedition, which 
rescued Lieutenant Greeley and the re- 
mainder of his Arctic exploration party, 
for which service he received a gold 
watch and the thanks of the Maryland 
legislature, and a gold medal from the 
Humane Society of Massachusetts. He 
was commissioned Captain March 31,1888; 
was in command of the Baltimore and 
suppressed anti-American demonstration 
at Valparaiso, Chile, in 1891; in command 
of party which took Ericsson's body to 
Sweden in 1891, for which he received 
a gold medal from the king of Sweden; 
was promoted to Commodore in February, 
1898; w:is in command of the Flying 
Squadron during the Spanish-American 
war and in direct command 'of the fleet 
which destroyed Admiral Cervera's squad- 
ron at Havana on July 3, 1898. In Au- 
gust, 1898, he w::s advanced to the rank 
of Rear Admiral. In recognition of his 
services at the battle of Santiago Bay, 
Admiral Schley has received many pub- 
lic testimonials, also medals and swords 
from varius public bodies and organiza- 
tions. He was retired by operation of 
law in 1901. Admiral Schley is the au- 
thor of "The Rescue of Greeley;" "Forty- 
Five Years Under the Flag," etc. On 
September 10, 1863, he married Annie R. 
Franklin. Address: Care Navy Depart- 
ment. 

SCHMECKEBIER, LAURENCE FRED- 
ERICK, editor; was born in Baltimore, 
Md., on January 24, 1877, son of Theodore 
and Mary E. (Fenneman) Schmeckebier. 
He was graduated from Johns Hopkins 
University (A.B.) in 1896, and (Ph.D.) in 
1899, and specialized in history and polit- 
ical economy. From 1899 to 1907 he did 
editorial and administrativ'e work in the 
U. S. Geological Survey, and at the pres- 
ent time is engaged in the same work 
with the Department of the Interior. He 
is a member of the Maryland Country and 
Johns Hopkins Clubs of Baltimore, and 
the Cosmos Club of Washington, and in 
politics a Republican. Unmarried. Resi- 
dence: Cosmos Club. Office: Department 
of the Interior. 

SCHMITT, V. F., clergyman, rector of 
St. Joseph's Catholic Church. Residence: 
313 Second street, n.e. 

SCHNEEBELI, GUSTAV ADOLPH, 

manufacturer. Congressman; was born in 
Neusalz, Prussia, May 23, 1853, and, with 
his parents, came to this country when 
eleven years of age, and located in Penn- 
sylvania. He entered upon a mercantile 
career at Nazareth (Pennsylvania), and, 
su'bsequently at Audenreid (Pennsylvania), 
remaining in this business for nine years; 
then he returned to Nazareth, and in 1886 
established the knit goods industry of the 
Nazareth Waist Company; in 1888 he es- 
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and at the present time is largely inter- 
ested in various business and manufac- 
turing interests in Nazaretn and vicinity. 
Including Bethlehiem, Nazaretii and Slate 
Belt trolley system (of which he is pres- 
ident and founder); First National Bank 
(vice president); trustee of Nazareth Hall. 
Mr. Schneebeli is a member of the Mo- 
ravian Church; in politics he is a Re- 
publican. On September 10, 1877, he mar- 
tied Carrie E. Schneider. He was elected 
to the Fifty-ninth Congress from the 
Twenty-sixth Pennsylvania district. Le- 
gal residence: Nazareth, Pennsylvania. 
Washington address: House of Represent- 
atives. 



SCHNEIDER, CHARLES, president of 
the Charles Schneider Baking Company; 
was born at Schwarzenau, Germany, Alay 
28, 1841, the eldest child of Christian 
and Philippino (Wunderlich) Schneider. 
After attending the public schools he be- 
came apprenticed to a local bakery, and 
served for three years until 1860. After 
his f-ither's death he assumed the busi- 
ness, and after five years came to Amer- 
ica and reached Washington at the close 
of the Civil War, establishing a baker's 
shop. In 1897 he organized the Charles 
Schneider Baking Company, and became 
its president and manager. From this es- 
tablishment from 20,000 to 30,000 loaves of 
bread are now delivered daily. In 1894 
he became a director of the Second Na- 
tional Bank, and is now a large owner of 
real estate in Washington. He was pres- 
ident of the Prospect Hill Cemetery, and 
president and treasurer of the German 
Evangelical Church. In 1897 he organized 
the National Master Bakers' Association 
of the United States and Canada, and was 
elected its first president. On October 28, 
1868, he married Johanna Simon, daugh- 
ter of Caspar and Margurita (Hodermann) 
Simon, and they have seven children liv- 
ing. Residence: 1621 Park Street. Bub.- 
ness address: 415 I street, n.w. 



SCHNEIDER, MARTHA LEMON 
(Mrs.), artist, author, was born in Wash- 
ington, D. C, daughter of Charles and Lucy 
(Ward) Lemon. She was educated in the 
public schools and at Miss Osborn's Acad- 
emy; also at the Corcoran Art 'School, 
the "League," etc. Mrs. Schneider's art 
work has been exhibited in this city and 
at B'oston and New York exhibitions. She 
is the author of "A Government Count- 
ess;" a number of magazine articles, and 
contributions to newspapers. She is a 
member of the Columbia Heights Art 
Club (honorary president); is auditor of 
the Women's National Press Association; 
member of art committee, General Fed- 
eration of Women's Clubs; chairman, art 
committee. District Federation of Wom- 
en's Clubs; member of National Fine Arts 
Society, etc. On April 22, 1882 she mar- 
Tied Charles William Schneider. Resi- 
dence: 2030 Fifteenth street, n.w. 



SCHOENFELD, HERMANN, professor 
of germanics and of European politics at 
George Washington University since 1904; 
was born at Oppeln, Prussia, January 21, 
1861. He was graduated from the gymna- 
sium at Strehlen (Silesia), and studied 
history, classics, and law at the Universi- 
ties of Berlin, Breslau, Leipzig and the 
Ecole de Droit, of Paris, and University of 
St. Petersburg. From 1888 to 1890 he was 
an instructor in modern languages at 
Providence, R. I., and New Bedford, Mas- 
sachusetts; from 1891 to 1893 was in- 
structor in German at Johns Hopkins Uni- 
versity; during 1893-94 he served as Unit- 
ed States Consul at Riga, Russia, and 
was a delegate of the U. S. Bureau of 
Education for the investigation and pub- 
lication of the higher education in Rus- 
sia, Austria, and Prussian Poland. (U. S. 
Government Printing Office, 1896.) The 
degrees of Ph.D. and LL.D. have 'been 
conferred upon him. In 1895 Prof. Schoen- 
feld was a lecturer at the Catholic Uni- 
versity of America; in 1901 at Cornell dur- 
ing the summer course; since 1899 he has 
been consul general of Turkey in this 
city; at the St. Louis Exposition he was 
associate commissioner general of that 
empire. He is editor of the German sec- 
tion of the Oxford University Press; has 
written largely for encyclopedias, text- 
books, etc., contributed much to maga- 
zines, and written several historical and 
literary works. He is an officer 'of the 
Imperial Ottoman order of Medjidie; com- 
mander of the Osmanie; commander of 
Persian Sun and Lion; officer of the Ven- 
ezuelan order of B'olivar, and the gold 
medal of Public Instruction. Residence: 
1629 Newton Street. 

SCHOULER, JOHN, rear admiral, U. S. 
N. (retired), was born at Lowell, Mass., 
Nov. 30, 1846, son of William and Frances 
(Warren) Schouler. He was graduated 
from the United States Naval Academy 
in 1864; was commissioned master 'on De- 
cember 1, 1866; promoted to lieutenant, 
March 12, 1868; advanced to lieutenant 
commander, June 3, 1869; made command- 
er, June 8, 1885; . commissioned captain, 
June 5, 1898, and retired as rear admiral 
in November, 1899. During the period 
1895-1897 he was chief of staff of the 
North Atlantic fleet; later was attached 
to the Bureau of Navigation on special 
duty. Address: Navy Department. 

SCHRADER, FRANK CHARLES, geol- 
ogist, was born at Sterling, Illinois, Octo- 
ber 6, 1860, son of Christian and Engel 
Marie Schrader. Until 1875 he attended 
the public schools; from 1886 to 1891 the 
Kansas State University (graduating the 
latter year); from 1892 to 1896, Harvard 
University, in a special course in geology. 
For a time he was engaged in entomolog- 
ical work with the Kansas State Board 
ot Agriculture, and, later, with the Massa- 
chusetts State Board of Agriculture; then 
he entered geological work and was at- 
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way Commission, subsequently being ap- 
pointed to thie United States Geological 
Survey. Foi- a time he taught geology at 
Harvard University. Mr. Schrader spent 
six years in a survey of Alaska for the 
government; he is the author of a num- 
ber of scientific and technical papers and 
reports. He is a member of the Geological 
Society of America; American S'ociety of 
Mining Engineers; Geological Society of 
Washington; Washington Academy of 
Sciences; Cosmos Club and Harvard Club, 
and the Y. M. C. A. In religion, he pre- 
fers the Unitarian Church. In politics he 
is a Republican. Unmarried. Residence: 
1327 R street, n.w. Office: Geological 
Survey. 

SCHRADER, FREDERICK FRANK- 
•LIN, journali.st, author, playwright; was 
born in Hamburg, Germany, on October 
27, 1857, son of George F. and S. (Hen- 
necke) Schrader. He was educated in 
private schools in Germany, and, after his 
removal to America with his parents in 
1869, attended the public schools. From 
1879 to 1881 Mr. Schrader was managing 
editor of the Denver Republican; acted in 
the same capacity for the St. Joseph Her- 
ald from 1882 to 1884; from that time 
until 1886 was manager of Tootle's Opera 
House at St. Joseph, Missouri; manager 
of Pope's Theater, St. Louis, from 1886 
to 1887; then for four years secretary 
of the Board of Trade of St. Joseph, Mis- 
souri. From 1891 to 1894 he acted as 
Washington correspondent tot the St. 
Louis Globe-Democrat; then until 1896 
was political writer on the staft of the 
Washington Post; since 1896 he has been 
Washington correspondent for the Kansas 
City Journal; and for a number of years 
has been dramatic critic for the Washing- 
ton Post. Mr. Schrader 'was assistant and 
acting secretary of the Republican Con- 
gressional Committee from 1896 to 1900; 
he compiled and edited the campaign text- 
book of that party in 1898. He is the au- 
thor of a novel, a number of plays, 
sketches, etc., and translator of a num- 
ber of German and French books. Mr. 
Schradef has been twice married; on June 
6, 1879, to Anna McNulty (who died Feb- 
ruary 16, 1894) ; and, on November 6, 1895, 
to Marie R. Bailey. He is a member of 
the Lutheran Church and of the Masonic 
order. Residence: 3554 Morgan Avenue. 

SCHROEDER, ERNEST CHARLES, 

veterinary, agriculturalist; was born in 
Baltimore, Md., April 3, 1865, son of Henry 
A. and Hermine (Wandscher) Schroeder. 
He received his education in the public 
schools and Baltimore City College, grad- 
uated from the Maryland Agricultural Col- 
lege, and from Harvard University (in 
1887, with the degree of M.D.V.). He is 
the author of a num'ber of government 
bulletins regarding the diseases of ani- 
mals, etc., and has written for various 
medical periodicals. Mr. Schroeder mar- 
ried Florence R. Brett in 1889. Address: 
Experiment Station, Bethesda, Md. 



SCHROEDER, HENOCK, clergyman, 
pastor 'Of the "Trinity Lutheran Church. 
Residence: 505 Fourth street, n.w. 

SCHROEDER, REGINALD, journalist; 
was born at Bremen, Germany, April 28, 
1855, son of Henry and Agnes (Iken) 
Schroeder. He 'was educated at Bremen 
and Celle (Hanover); also at Goettingen, 
and Leipzig, and removed to the United 
States in 1879, locating in Brooklyn, ani 
began the study of law. In 1881 he 
entered journalistic worl< as a reporter 
on the staff of the New York Staats Zei- 
tung; was Albany correspondent for that 
paper from 1883 to 1887; from 1887 to 
1889, was editol" of the Brooklyn Freie 
Presse; from 1889 to 1892 was editor of 
the German edition of Leslie's Weekly; 
since February 28, 1892, he has been 
Washington correspondent of the New 
York Staats Zeitung. Mr. Schroeder is a 
inember of the Gridiron Club; on Decem- 
ber 28, 1884, he married Elizabeth Neuser. 
Residence: 1523 O street, n.w. Office: 
Washington Post Building. 

SCHROEDER, SEATON, Captain, U. S. 
N.; was born in Washington, D. C, Au- 
gust 17, 1849, son of Francis and Caroline 
(Seaton) Schroeder. He was educated by 
private tutors principally in Stockholm 
and Paris, until his entrance into the 
United States Naval Academy in 1864. 
He was graduated from that Academy in 
1868, and since that time has served suc- 
cessively in all grades up to the rank 
of Captain. During the period 1900-1902, 
he was Governor of the Island of Guam. 
Captain Schroeder is the inventor in part 
of the Driggs-Schroeder rapid fire gun; 
he is the author of "Fall of Maximilian's 
Empire." He is '& member of the New 
York Yacht Club; Metropolitan and Uni- 
versity Clubs of Washington; and in reli- 
gion is a member of the Unitarian Church. 
On. January 16, 1879, he married Maria 
Campbell Bache Wainwright. Residence: 
1816 N street, n.w. 

SCHULDT, GUS A., lawyer. Resi- 
dence: 317 Fourth street, s.e. Office: 
Columbian Building. 

SCHWAN, THEODORE, Brigadier Gen- 
eral, U. S. A. (retired), was born in Ger- 
many and entered the United States Army 
as a private with the Tenth Infantry on 
June 12, 1857. Later he became Quarter- 
master Sergeant, and served as such until 
November, 1863, when he was commis- 
sioned Second Lieutenant of infantry; was 
prom^oted to First Lieutenant, April 9, 
1864; made Captain, March 14, 1866; ad- 
vanced to Major and Assistant Adjutant 
General, July 6, 1886; commissioned Lieu- 
tenant Colonel, February 19, 1895; ap- 
pointed Brigadief General, U. S. V., in 
1898, and in the Spanish-American War 
was in command of the First Division of 
the Ninth Army Corps, and the western 
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defed to the Philippines in 1899 and served 
there until 1900, as Chief of Staff, at the 
same time commanding the Cavite Prov- 
ince expedition of October,. 1899, and the 
Southern Luzon expedition of January, 
1900. In 1901 he was retired. He re- 
ceived the brevets of Captain and Major 
during the Civil War, for bravery, as fol- 
lows: Captain, June 3, 1864, for bravery 
at Cold Harbor, "Virginia; and Major, 
March 2, 1867, for general sefvices and 
gallantry. Address: 1310 Twentieth 
street, n.w. 

SCHWARZ, EUGENE AMANDUS, en- 
tomologist, has for a number of years 
been assistant in that science at the 
United States National Museum. He is a 
member of the Cosmos Club; "Washing- 
ton Academy of Sciences; and a fellow 
of the American Association for the Ad- 
vancement of Science. Residence: 230 
New Jersey avenue, n.w. Office: Na- 
tional Museum. 

SCHWARZ, GEORGE FREDERICK, 

consulting forester, was born at Balti- 
more, Maryland, April 13, 1868, son of 
Frederick A. O. and Caroline (Clausen) 
Schwarz. He received his early education 
in private schools and at a business col- 
lege in New York City; afterwards he 
took up the study of textile manufactures 
at the Royal Textile College of Crefeld, 
Germany, in preparation for a commer- 
cial career. Suljsequently, preferring a 
professional career, he entered Harvard 
College (late-r Harvard Law School), and 
subsequently studied forestry in this coun- 
try and abroad. In 1899 he entered the 
Division of Forestry (now the Forest 
Service) of the Department of Agricul- 
ture, and until April, 1904, was engaged 
as an expert in that bureau. Since 1904 
he has been a private consulting forester, 
Mr. Schwarz is the author of "Forest 
Trees and Forest Scenery," "The Longleaf 
Pine in "Virgin Forest," and of a number 
of articles, reports, etc., on forestry and 
its various phases. He is a member of 
the Society of American Foresters; Na- 
tional Geographic Society; several nation- 
al and state forestry associations; Cosmios 
Club of "Washington, and Harvard Club 
of New York. He is unmarried. Ad- 
dress: Hemenway Chambers, Boston, 
Mass. 

SCIDMORE, ELIZA RUHAMAH, au- 
thor, was born at Madison, "Wis., Octo- 
ber 14, 1856. She was educated privately, 
and later became corresponding and for- 
eign secretary of the National Geographic 
Society, 1890-1903. She has written: 
"Alaska, The Southern Coast and the Sit- 
ka Archipelago" (1885); "Jinriksha Days 
in Japan" (1890); ""Westward to the Far 
East, from East to "West, Guide to Alaska" 
(1890); "Java, the Garden of the East" 
(1897); "China, the Long-lived Empire" 
(1900); ""Wintel- India" (1903). Resi- 
dence: 1837 M Street. 
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SCOFIELD, CARL S., In charge lof 
"Western Agricultural Extension in the Bu- 
reau of Plant Industry, U. S. Department 
of Agriculture. Residence: Lanham, Ma- 
ryland. Office: Department of Agricul- 
ture. 

SCOFIELD, JOHN C, Chief Clerk of 
the War Department, was born in Pitts- 
ford, "Va., in 1860. He was graduated from 
Mid-dlebury College, taught school in 
Georgia, and was later graduated from 
the George Washington University Law 
School. Appointed to the Surgeon Gen- 
eral's office; transferred to the Assistant 
Secretary's and Secretat-y's office, and 
finally promoted to his present position. 
Residence: 1614 P street, n.w. Office: 
War Department. 

SCOTT, CHARLES FREDERICK, edi- 
tor, publisher. Congressman; was born on 
a farm In Allen County, Kansas, Septem- 
ber 7, 1860. He was educated in the pub- 
lic schools and the Kansas State Univer- 
sity, from which he was graduated in 1881 
with the degree of B.S., and several years 
later M.S. After leaving college was en- 
gaged in clerical work In several western 
states, including Colorado, New Mexico 
and Arizona; in 1882 he returned to Kan- 
sas, and purchased an interest In the lola 
(Kansas) Registef. Five years later he 
acquired complete control of the paper, 
and since that time has edited and pub- 
lished the same. From 1891 until 1901 he 
was a regent of the State University; 
from 1892 to 1896 was State Senator; In 
1896 was Representative from his district 
ion the Republican electoral ticket. He 
was elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress 
as Representative-at-large, and was twice 
re-elected to the same position, as Rep- 
resentative from the newly-created Second 
Kansas District. Mr. Scott has been pres- 
ident of the State Editorial Association; 
of the Kansas League of Republican 
Clubs; of the Kansas Day Club, etc. In 
1893 he married May Brevard Ewing. 
Legal residence: lola, Kansas. Washing- 
ton address: House of Representatives. 

SCOTT, GEORGE WINFIELD, lawyer, 
author, was born at Adams, New York, 
August 25. 1875, son of W. G. and Georgia 
(Tripp) Scott. He attended the public 
schools at Watertown, New York; Hobart 
College from 1892 to 1893; graduated from 
Stanford University in 1896 with the de- 
gree of A.B.; attended Cornell University 
from 1896 to 1898; was a fellow at the 
University of Chicago during 1899-1900; 
pursued a course at Columbia (N. Y.) Uni- 
veTsity from 1900 to 1901, and later at the 
University of Pennsylvania. The latter 
institution conferred upon him the honor- 
ary degrees of LL.B. and Ph.D. He was 
instructor in international law at the Uni- 
versity of Pennsylvania from 1901 to 1903; 
was employed by the Congressional Li- 
brary to make an Investigation abroad In 
1904, to determine law and documentary 
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time has been chief of a division at the 
Library of Congress. Prof. Scott is a re- 
search assistant of the Carnegie Institu- 
tion, and professor of law at George 
Washingf^n University. He is the author 
of a number of law articles contributed 
to leading periodicals. He is a member 
of the Cosmos and Chevy Chase Clubs 
and the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity. In 
IftOl he married Anna Wells. Residence: 
The Highlands. Office: Library of Con- 
gress. 

SCOTT, HUGH LENOX, major, U. S. 
A., was born at Danville, Kentucky, Sep- 
tember 22. 1853; son of William M. and 
Mary Hdge Scott. His mother was a 
great-great-grand-daughter of Peniamin 
Franklin. Young Scott was graduated 
from the United States Military Academy 
in 1876. and was commissioned second 
lieutenant of the Ninth U. S. Cavalry; he 
was promoted to first lieutenant, June 28, 
1878; appointed captain, Janua.ry 24, 1895; 
was commissioned major and assistant 
adjutant general, U. S. V., May 12, 1898, 
and major of the regular afmy on Feb- 
ruary 23. 1903. After his graduation from 
the Academy, until 1897, he was stationed 
on the western frontier, and there saw 
service in numerous Indian campaigns, In- 
cluding Slnux expedition of 1876; Nez 
Perce expeditl'^n of 1877; Nebraska and 
Cheyenne expeditions in 1878; commanded 
troops at Ghost Dance disturbances in 
1890-91 (commended by War Department 
for services in Oklahoma in the same 
ye^r); organized and commanded the last 
Indian troop In the service; was in charge 
of Geronimo's band from 1894 to 1897. 
Major Scott was engaged in a work on the 
sign language of the Indians of the plains 
at the Bureau of Ethnology, Smithsonian 
Institution, from 1897 until the outbreak of 
the Spanish-American War. From 1898 to 
1903 he was adjutant general of Cuba; 
since September 2 of that year he has 
been in command of the post at Jolo. and 
governor of the Sulu Archipelago, Philln- 
pine Islands. Major Scott Js the autnor of 
a number of reports relating to the plains 
Indians, and is an authority on their man- 
ners customs, lanaruage, etc. In June, 
1880, he married Mary Merrill. Address: 
War Department. 

SCOTT, JAMES BROWN, solicitor. De- 
partment of State, was born In Kincar- 
dine, Bruce County, Ontario, on June 3, 
1866, son of John and Jeannette (Brown) 
Scott. He was graduated from the Phil- 
adelphia Central High School in 1885, 
Harvard University, A.B. 1890, A.M. 1891, 
and was the Parker fellow of Harvard; 
from 1891 to 1894 he specialized In inter- 
national law in Berlin, Heidelberg and 
Paris (J. U. D., Hpidelberg). From 1894 
to 1899 he practiced law at Los Angeles, 
Cal., organized Los Angeles Law School 
(now Law Department University of 
Southern California), 1896, and was its 
dean from 1896 to 1899; dean University 



of Illinois College of Law 1899 to 1903; 
1903-06 professor law In Columbia (N. Y.) 
Law School. During the summer of 1905 
he served as a. professor in the Liw School 
of the University of Chicago; professor of 
law, George Washington University since 
1905. In 1900 he was a member of the 
Educational Congress at the Paris Ex- 
position; chairman of the section of inter- 
nation:! law in Congress of Education, 
Louisana Purchase Exposition 1904; del- 
egate Universal Congress Lawyers and 
Jurists, St. Louis, 1904; technical delegate 
and expert in international law of the 
United States to the second peace confer- 
ence at The Hague, 1907; served as pri- 
vate and corporal Company C, Seventh 
Regiment, California Infantry, U. S. V., 
in the Spanish- American War, 1898. He 
translated into German "Pollock's Short 
History of Politics" (1893); edited "Fitz- 
gerald's Omar Khayyam" (1899); author 
"Cases on International Law" (1902); 
"Cases on Quasi-Contracts" (1905); 
"Cases on Equity Jurisdiction'' (1906); 
and has contributed many articles to mag- 
azines and reviews on international law 
and education. Dr. Scott is also record- 
ing secretary of the American Society of 
International Law; managing editor of 
the American Journal of International 
Law; and general editor of the Amer- 
ican Case Book Series. In 1901 he mar- 
ried Adele C. Reed, of Champaign, 111. 
Residence: 1956 Calvert street, n.w. Of- 
fice: Department of State. 

SCOTT, NATHAN BAY, United States 
Senator from West Virginia; was born 
in Guernsey County, Ohio, December 18, 
1842, and received a public school educa- 
tion. He served in the Union Army from 
1862 to 1865; then engaged in glass man- 
ufacture at Wheeling, West Virginia, In 
1880 he was a member of the city coun- 
cil, serving two years as president of 
the second branch; from 1882 to 1890 was 
State Senator; he was appointed Com- 
missioner of Internal Revenue by Pres- 
ident McKinley on January 1, 1898, which 
office he held until his election as United 
States Senator on January 25, 1899. He 
was re-elected Senator in 1905. Senator 
Scott is president of the Central Glass 
Works and of the Dollar Savings Bank of 
Wheeling. In politics he is a Republican, 
and since 1888 has been a member of 
the Republican National Committee, the 
greater part of the time as a member 
of the executive committee. Legal resi- 
dence: Wheeling. West Virginia. Wash- 
ington address: New Willard. 

SCROGGY, THOMAS EDMUND, Con- 
gressman; was born at Harveysburg, 
Warren County, Ohio, March 18, 1843, and 
until the age of fifteen attended public 
school and worked on the farm. He then 
became an apprentice to the carriage- 
making trade; in July, 1861, enlisted in 
the Thirty-ninth Ohio Infantry as a pri- 
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until July 4, 1864, whpn he was severely 
wAunflp'^ and hnnonbiv discharared, as a 
corpcal in March, 1865. In June, 1865, 
he f^ng-^pred in the errocery business at 
Xe'^ia. Ohio, from 18^6 to 1S71 he was 
engaeed In the millinery business with 
his father-in-law. during' which time he 
stuf^ied law: in 1869 he was elected justice 
of the neace. Td .served one term, and in 
1871 was ad*T>it'ed to the bar. Mr. 
Por-oTgiv served three terms as clerk and 
throe t^rmp as solir'itO'r of Xenia; from 
18P8 to 1904 he was common pleas judg'e 
in the s^^cond iudicial district, and since 
the latter date h'^s been renresentative 
fr-m the Pixth Ohio ni^fict. He is a 
thirty-second degrree Mason; member of 
Grand A'-mv of ^^^e Renublic: Union Vet- 
eran Leei^n: Elks. etc. He has been 
twice married — in January, 1866. to Mary 
S<-eel lyedbf^tter. who d:ed in 1R87; and, in 
1892. to Mary Bloom. In nolitics he is a 
F^'^ublic'n. T e-sril P«^=?donce: Xenia. 
Ohio. ■^^-'•■hi-gton address: Reuse of 
Representatives. 

SCULLY. JAMES WALL, Brie-adier 
General, U. S. A. (retired), was born at 
Kilkenny, T'-eland, on February 19. 1838, 
son of Thomas Sadlier and Eleanor 
Cairns (Wall) Scully. He attended 
St. Kiernan'.'? College at Kilkenny from 
1848 to 1851, and later studied sur- 
veyinisr with his father in the United 
States. In 1856 he entered the United 
States Army as a nrivate, later becoming 
corporal and sergeant. In 1862 he 'W9S 
anpointed First Lieutenant and reg'mental 
Quartermaster of the Tenth Tennessee 
(voluntee'r) Infantry; was commissioned 
I/if^utenant Colonel, June 6. 1864; made 
Cant'^in and acting Quartermaster of the 
regular armv, September 27, 1865; pro- 
Tvrtfpfl to "^Tqior and Q'larto'-master. Jan- 
nan^ 25, 1883: advanced to Lieutenant Col- 
onel and Denutv Quartermaster General. 
September 12. 1894: commiss'oned Colonel 
and acting Quartermaster General Feb- 
ruarv 4. 1895. and retired as .?uch on No- 
vember 1. 1900. He was later advanced in 
rank to B'lgadier General, U. S. A., re- 
tired. During the Civil War he was three 
times Tjrevetted — Ma.lor. at Mill Snrings, 
Kentucky: Lieutenant-Colonel at Shiloh; 
Co'o^el for se^rvices at Nashville. General 
Scully was f-^rmerly a department com- 
mander of the Grand Armv of the Re- 
public: he is a member of the Loyal Le- 
gion, Society of the Army of the Cum- 
berland. Capitol, Citj^ Club of Atlanta, and 
the Pickwick Club of New Orleans. In 
religion he is a Roman Catholic. General 
S'^ully married Mary Adelaide Cuddy in 
1862. Address: War Depattment. 

SPARROOK, PHOEBE KATHARINE 
HAMILTON (Mrs.), principal. Hamilton 
Institute, was born at Beaufort, South 
Carolina. July 12. 1853; daughter of Paul 
and Katharine Amarinthia Percy (Camp- 
bell) Hamilton. Her grandfather, Paul 
Hamilton, was attorney general and later 



governor of South Carolina, and Secretary 
of the Navy under President Madison. 
Phoebe K3tharine Hamilton was educated 
in private schools and by tutors In South 
Carolina and Virginia; she became a 
teacher and was principal of St. Agatha's 
School (Springflf>ld, Illinois); was senior 
teacher in P. F. Institute (Warrenton, 
Virgini''), and at Hannah More Academy 
(ATarviand): and recently principal of 
Hamilton Institute. She is a member of 
the Prntesfnt Eniscopal Church, and was 
married to Josenh W. Se^brook on March 
13, 1872 ("deceased). Addl-ess: 1607 H 
street, n.w. 

SEAMAN, WILLIAM HENRY, exam- 
iner, TT. S. Patent Office, was born in 
New York City. November 1, 1837, son 'of 
John G. and Ann R. Seaman. He received 
his education in the Friends' School of 
New York; graduated in 1872 from the 
Columbian (now George Washington) 
University Law School, and. in 1882. from 
the Howard Universitv Medical School. 
In 1871 he was appointed professor of 
botanv at Howard University Medical 
School; was admitted to the bar in this 
city in 1872: in 1874 was annointed pro- 
fessor of chemistry in the Medical School 
of Howard University, and in 1879 was 
epnointed to his present position. He is 
a Fellow of the American Association for 
the Advancpment of Sf'ience: wa.? ores- 
ident in 1894, of the Washington Chem- 
ical Soc'etv; secretary (from 1S91 to 1894) 
of the American Microsconical Society; is 
a member of the Piologir»al Societv. and 
National Geogranhic S-^cieties of Wash- 
ington and various other learned and sci- 
entific o-ganizations, and the Cosmos 
Club. He has contributed a number of 
articles to periodicals on the metric svs- 
tem. micr^scopv, chemistry, etc. Prof. 
Seaman married M^rianna P. Clark in 
1873. Residence: 1424 Eleventh street, 
n.w. 

SEARLE. GEORGE MARY, emeritus 
professor of mathematics. Catholic Uni- 
versity of America, was born in London. 
England. .Tur^e 27, 1839. son of Thomas and 
Anne (Noble) Searle. His parents brought 
him to America in 1840; he was g'rad- 
uated ft-om Harvard University in 1857 
and from 1858 to 1859 was assistant in 
Dudley Ob.'ervatory at Albany. New York. 
From the latter date until 1862 he was 
attached to the United States Coast Sur- 
vev; was an assistant professor of the 
United States Naval Ac^^demy from 1862 
to 1864: froKi 1866 to 1868 was as.?istant 
at the Harvard Observatorv. He entered 
the Roman Catholic Church in 1862; be- 
came a PauMst novice in March. 1868; 
was ordained a priest in 1871. and then 
became instructor in various branches of 
science at the Paulist Seminary. In Octo- 
ber, 1895. he was annointed to his pres- 
ent professorship. In 1904 he was elected 
Suner'or General of the Paulist Fathers. 
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oid Pandora; he had conferred upon him 
In 1860 the degree of A.M. by Harvard 
University, and, in 1896, that of Ph.D. by 
Catholic University. He is the author of 
a text-book on geometry; two books ex- 
planatory of Roman Catholic doctrines, 
and numerous articles in the religious pe- 
riodicals of his church and scientific mag- 
azines. Address: Catholic University, or 
415 West Fifty-ninth street, N. T. City. 

SEARLE, WILLIAM D., appoinment 
clerk of the War Department, was born 
at Petersburg, Va., in 1869. He served for 
a time in the Civil Service Commission, 
and was transferred to the War Depart- 
ment in 1899, graduating from George 
Washington University in 1905. He has 
much to do in regulating the satisfactory 
transfer of civilians back and forth be- 
tween the United States and the Phil- 
ippines, and securing proper recognition 
of their services in that tropical climate. 
Residence: 1131 Twelfth street, n.w. Of- 
fice: War Department. 

SEAWELL, MOLLY ELLIOT, author, 
was born in Gloucester county, Virginia, 
October 23. 1860, son of John Tyler Sea- 
well, a nephew of President Tyler. She 
»*eceived her education at home; and when 
her father died, removed with her mother 
to Washington. In 1886 she begin writ- 
ing short stories; in 1890 published hef 
first novel, and in the same year received 
the Youth's Companion prize of $500 for 
the best b-^ys' story ("Little Jarvis"); in 
1895 she received the New York Herald 
prize of $3,000 for "The Spnghtly Romance 
of Marsac." She Is the author of a num- 
ber of novels, short stories, etc. (several 
of which have been dnmatlzed), among 
the best knnwn of whloh are "Children of 
Destiny," "The House of Egremont," "Papa 
Bou'^hqrd," "Francezka," "The Fortunes 
of Fife," "The Victory," etc. Residence: 
1767 P street, n.w. 

SEBREE. URIEL, Captain, U. S. N., was 
born at Fayette, Missouri, February 20, 
1848, son of John P. and Louisa (Dailey) 
Sebree. He attended school in his native 
town, and was graduated from the United 
States Naval Academy in 1867, after which 
time he served at various stations and 
aboard a number of vessels, fising through 
successive grades to the rank of Captain 
in 1901. He served with the Arctic Relief 
Expedition of 1873; with the Greeley Re- 
lief Fxpedition to the Arctics in 1884; at- 
tached to the U. S. S. Baltimore from 1889 
to 1892; from 1885 to 1889 was lighthouse 
inspector, stationed at Portland, Oregon; 
actPd in the same capacity at San Fran- 
cisco from 1898 to 1901; was in command 
of the Wheeling in Alaskan waters during 
1897-1898: was in commind of the naval 
station of the Samoan Islands during 1901 
and 1902; commander of the battleship 
Wisconsin during 1903 and 1904, since 
wliich time he has been naval secretary 
of the Lighthouse Board. He is a mem- 



ber of the University, Cosmos and Met- 
roplitan Clubs of Washingt'on, and the 
University Club of New York. Captain 
Sebree married Annie Bridgman on June 
16, 1886. Residence: 1266 New Hampshire 
avenue. 

SECKENDORFF, M. G., journalist, was 
born in Brussels, Belgium, December 1, 
1852 and received a private school educa- 
tion in Germany. He served in the Ger- 
many Navy before and during the Franco- 
German War of 1870-1871, and in 1880 
began journalistic work. From 1883 to 
1902 Mr. Seckendorff was in charge of 
the Washington Bureau of the New York 
Tribune; from 1902 to 1904 he was editor 
of the Washington Times. Residence: 
Ramsey's Farm, Rams'ey's, New Jersey. 

SEE, THOMAS JEFFERSON JACK- 
SON, astronomer, mathematician, physi- 
cist, was born near Montgomery City. Mis- 
souri, February 19, 1866, son of Noah and 
Mary A. (Sailor) See. Descended from 
Adam and Barbara See, who came from 
Silesia in 1734, and settled first in Bucks 
County, Pa., but in 1745 moved to Hardy 
County, Va., where Adam See became a 
prominent planter. He was reared on a 
farm; attendod the M'ontgomery City High 
School; graduated at the head of his 
diss from the Missouri State University 
in 1889; pursued post-graduate work at 
the University of Berlin, from which in- 
stitution he was graduated in 1892, with 
high honors and the degrees of A.M. and 
Ph.D. While abroad Mr. See also traveled 
in France, Italy, Egypt, Greece, Germany, 
England and other lands. From 1893 to 
1894 he served as docent in astronomy at 
the University of Chicago; was assistant 
there from 1894 to 1895, and from 1895 
to 1898 instructor; declined assistant pro- 
fe'=sorship of astronomy. 1896. He assist- 
ed in the founding and organization of 
the Yerkes Observatory from 1894 to 1895; 
from 1896 to 1898 was astronmer at the 
Lowell Observatory in charge of a survey 
of the southern heavens for the discovery 
of double stars and nebulae, during which 
time he exarrtlned about two hundred 
thousand fixed stars in a zone between 
fifteen and sixty-five degrees South dec- 
lination, with the Lowell 24-lnch telescope 
at Flagstaff, Arizona, and, at the City of 
Mexico; also discovered some six hundred 
now double stars, etc. During a part of 
1899 Prof. See was lecturer on Sidereal 
Astronomy at the Lowell Institute, Bos- 
ton; on February 7, 1899, he was ap- 
pointed Profpssor of Mathematics, U. S. 
N., since wh'ch time he has been stationed 
at thp Nflval Observatory In this city, at 
the United States Naval Academy, and, 
at Mare Island. California. He has d'one 
notable astronomical work, and is an au- 
thority in that science, and in the physics 
of the earth. He has written some 200 
scientific papers, articles, etc., some -deal- 
ing with 'astronomy a? a general science, 
and of particular phases of it, including 
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searches. In 1906-07 developed new the- 
ory of earthquakes, volcanoes, mountain 
formation, etc. Prof. See is a member 'of 
a large number of learned and scientific 
societies, both in this country and in Eu- 
rope. On June 18, 1907, he was married 
to Frances, daughter of Dr. James F. and 
Fannie (Jefferson) Graves, of Montgomery 
City, Missouri. Address: Naval Observa- 
tory. 

SEIBERT, EDWARD GRANT, physi- 
cian, was born in Chambersburg, Pa., 
on August 28, 1865, son of Joseph Warren 
and Louisa (Little) Seibert. Several of 
his ancestors fought in the Revolutionary 
War, Andrew Little, of Pennsylvania, hav- 
ing served with McPherson's battalion in 
1776. He was graduated from the high 
school in his home town in 1881, Phila- 
delphia College of Pharmacy in 1887, and 
the Medical Department of Columbian (now 
George Washington) University in 1893. 
After completing a course at the New York 
Post-graduate Medical School, he took up 
his residence in Washington, where he 
has since been engaged in the practice lof 
medicine, particularly eye, ear, nose and 
throat diseases. From 1894-1901 he was 
medical examiner for the U. S. Civil Serv- 
ice Commission, and contract surgeon for 
the U. S. Army from 1901-1905, and is 
at present expert examiner for the U. S. 
pension office for special cases in eye, 
ear, nose and throat. He is an assistant 
professor of chemistry at George Wash- 
ington University, in charge of the chem- 
ical laboratory of the medical department 
lof that institution; chief the eye, ear, nose 
and throat service in the dispensary of 
George Washington University Hospital. 
He is a member of the German Reformed 
Church, a Mason, a member of the Kappa 
Sigma and Phi Chi (Medical) college fra- 
ternities; American Medical Association; 
Association of Pension Examining Sur- 
geons, and in politics a Republican. On 
March 5, 1904, he married Jessie Eastman 
Hopkins, to which union has been born a 
son. Residence: 1817 Nineteenth street, 
n.w. Office: 916 Fourteenth street, n.w. 

SELBY, WILLIAM, teller and notary, 
American National Bank. Residence: 
1829 I street, n.w. Office: American Na- 
tional Bank. 

SELFRIDGE, THOMAS OLIVER, JR., 

Rear Admiral, U. S. N. (retired), was 
born at Charlestown, Mass., February 6, 
1836, son of Thomas Oliver Selfridge, U. 
S. N. He was graduated at the head of 
his class from the United States Naval 
Academy in 1854; was commissioned Lieu- 
tenant, February 15, 1860; promoted to 
Lieutenant Commander, July 15, 1862; 
made Commander, December 31, 1869; 
commissioned Captain, February 24, 1881; 
advanced to Commodore, April 11, 1894; 
appointed Rear Admiral, February 28, 
1896, and retired on February 6, 1898. 
During the Civil War he served on the 



Cumberland, when that vessel was sunk 
by the Merrimac; was in command of the 
Cairo when that vessel was destroyed by 
a torpedo on the Yazoo River; commanded 
a siege battery at Vicksburg; commanded 
IT. S. S. Huron in both attacks on Fort 
Fisher, and a party which was landed to 
storm the forts. After the war from 1869 
to 1873, he was in command 'of a party 
which surveyed a route for a canal across 
the Isthmus of Darien; in 1876 he was a 
delegate to the international congress on 
the subject of such a canal, at Paris. Ad- 
miral Selfridge from 1895 to 1898 was Com- 
mander-in-Chief "of the European fleet; he 
is a Chevalier of the French Legion of 
Honor; received a gold medal from the 
Czar of Russia on the occasion of his 
coronation; honorary member of the Roy- 
al Geographical Society, and member of 
the Metropolitan Club of Belgium. In Au- 
gust, 1895, he married Ellen F. Shepley. 
Residence: 1867 Kaloraana avenue. 

SEMMES, CHARLES W., president of 
the Semmes-Kelley Company (wholesale 
grocers), was born at Alexandria, Va., 
March 26, 1871. He was educated in 
Washington, where he has resided the 
most of his life. He was for four years 
manager at Cleveland, Ohio, of the branch 
house of a large Pittsburg concern. He 
is a director of the United States Trust 
Company. Residence: 103 Eighth street, 
.s.e. Business address: 614 Pennsylvania 
avenue, n.w. 

SENSNER, GEORGE HENRY, educa- 
tor, was born in Washington, D. C, Sep- 
tember 4, 1874. He received his early edu- 
cation in Virginia and at Emerson Insti- 
tute, Washington, D. C, and holds the de- 
gree of B.S. from Columbian (now George 
Washington) University. He was former- 
ly headmaster of Emers'on Institute, and 
is now a member of the faculty of Friend's 
School of Washington. Address: 1331 
Kenyon street. 

SERVEN,ABRAM RALPH, lawyer, was 
born at Waterloo, N. Y., July 23, 1862, and 
received his education in the Union School 
(Waterloo); in 1887 he was graduated 
from Hamilton College, and subsequently 
received the degree of A.M. He was en- 
gaged in business from 1878 to 1883; was 
principal of the Union School, at Waterloo 
from 1888 to 1891, at which time he was 
admitted to the bar and from that time 
until 1893 practised law in his native town. 
Then he came to Washington, and from 
that time until June, 1896, was chief of 
the organization division (office of the 
Comptroller of the Currency), of the 
Treasury Department; then he became 
Chief Examiner of the United States Civil 
Service Commission and continued there 
until June, 1903, at which time he re- 
signed and has since devoted his atten- 
tion to the practice of law. At the pres- 
ent time he is a member of the law Arm 
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Serven is the editor and compiler of Di- 
gest of National Bank Decisions. On De- 
cember 26, 1889, he married Harriet M. 
Thompson. Residence: 121 R street, n.e. 
Office: 1419 F street, n.w. 

SEWALL, FRANK, clergyman, was 
born at Bath, Maine, Septembef 24, 1837, 
son of William D. and Rachel A. Sewall. 
He attended the public scho'ols; grad- 
uated from Bowdoin College with the de- 
gree of A. B. in 1858, ana with that of 
M. A., and the degree of D. D. was con- 
feri-ed in 1902. He studied at the Uni- 
versities of Tuebingen and Berlin from 
1859 to 1861, and as a minister was pas- 
tor at Glendale, Ohio, Urbana, Ohio (while 
there president of Urbana' University) ; 
Glasgow, Scotland, and at Washington, D. 
C, smce 1890. Rev. Dr. Sewall is the au- 
thor of Ethics of Service; New Metaphy- 
sics; Rational Psychology; translator of 
Swedenborg's works; translator of Car- 
ducci's poems from Italian, and various 
religious and literary books. He is a 
member of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, 
Cosmos Club; Archae'ological Society; 
Maine Historical Society; National So- 
ciety of Fine Arts, etc. In politics he is 
la Democrat. Since 1898 'he has ibeen 
president of the Swedenborg Scientific As- 
sociation. On October 28. 1869, he mar- 
ried Thedia R. Gilchrist. Residence: 1618 
Riggs Place. 

SHACKLEFORD, DORSEY W., law- 
yer, Oongfessman, was born in Saline 
County, Missouri, August 27, 1853, and re- 
ceived his education in the public schools. 
He taught school from 1877 to 1879, and 
during that period studied law; began 
the practice of law at Boonville, Missouri, 
in 1879. From 1882 to 18jJ6, a.nd, again 
from 1890 to 1892, he was prosecuting at- 
torney of Cooper County; from 1892 to 
1899 was judge of the fourteenth judicial 
district: was elected a member of Con- 
gress in 1899, from the Eighth Missouri 
District; he has since been re-elected. On 
December 7, 1887, Mr. Shackleford mar- 
ried Florida Hall. Dem'ocrat. Legal res- 
idence: Jefferson City, Missouri. Wash- 
ington address: House of Representatives. 

SHAFTER, WILLIAM RUFUS, Major 
General, U. S. A. (retired), was born at 
Galesburg, Michigan, October 16, 1835, son 
of Hugh M. and Eliza (Sumner) Shafter. 
He was reared on a farm and attended 
public school, later becoming teacher in the 
common .<=chools, and continuing for three 
years, prior to 1861, when he became a 
Second Lieutenant in the Seventh Mich- 
igan Infantry. He was promted to Ma- 
j':r on September 5, 1862; made Lieuten- 
ant-Colonel, June 5, 1863; advanced to 
Colonel, April 19, 1864; was brevetted 
Brigadier-General for gallantry and spe- 
cial services during the war, on March 13, 
1865; was 'appointed Lieutenant-Colonel 
in the regular army, January 26, 1867; 
brevetted Colonel, March 2, 1867, and later 
awarded a Congressional Medal of Honor 



for bravefy lat Fair Oaks, Virginia; pro- 
moted to Colonel, March 4, 1879; commis- 
sioned Brigadier-General, May 3, 1897, and 
made Commander of the Department of 
Calif ol-nia; appointed Major General of 
Volunteeris at the outbreak of the Spanish- 
American War and detailed at Tampa; 
l.aer he was ordered to Cuba and was in 
fcommand of the United States army which 
captured Santiago; was commanding gen- 
eral of the Departments of California and 
Columbia from 1899 to 1901, and retired 
on June 30, 1901, la Major General, U. S. 
A. On September 11, 1862, General Shaf- 
ter married Harriet Grimes. Address: 
Bakersfield, Califol-nia, or War Depart- 
ment. 

SHAHAN, THOMAS JOSEPH, author, 
professor of church history and patrology. 
Catholic University, was born at Manches- 
ter, New Hampshire, September 11, 1857, 
son of Maurice Peter and Mary Anne 
(Carmody) Shahan. He attended the pub- 
lic schools at Millbury, Mass., from 1864 
to 1872; studied at Montreal College, Can- 
ada, during 1872; American College at 
Rome from 1878 to 1882; and in the latter 
year received the degree of D. D. from 
the College of the Propaganda, Rome; 
also, in 1889, that of J. U. D. from the 
Roman Seminary. Mr. Shahan also pur- 
sued studies in history at the University 
of Berlin from 1889 to 1891, and, during 
1891, at the New Sorbonne and Institute 
Catholique, of Paris. On June 3, 1882, 
he was ordained in the Roman Catholic 
priesthood, at Rome; from 1883 to 1888 
he acted as chancellor and secretary of 
the diocese of Hartford; since 1895 he has 
been editor 'of the Catholic University Bul- 
letin; since 1891, he has occupied his pres- 
ent professorship with the Catholic Uni- 
versity of America; during 1902-1903 he 
was lecturer on history of education in 
the Catholic University Institute of Peda- 
g gy, in New Yotk; and was formerly a 
member of the board of judges for the 
Hall of Fame, University Heights, New 
York. He is the author of a number of 
boolis and articles on the Roman Catholic 
Church, its history, etc. In 1905, he was 
an associate editor of the Catholic Ency- 
clopedia. Address: 1813 Third street, n.e. 

SHALLENBERGER, WILLIAM SHAD- 
RACH, formally Second Assistant Post- 
masttr General, was bcrn at Mount Pleas- 
ant, Pa., November 24, 1839, son of Abra- 
ham Sliallenberger. He received an aca- 
demic education in his native town from 
1851 to 1856; and during 1859 and 1860 
attended the Lewisburg (Pa.) University, 
later receiving the degree of A. M. At 
the outbreak of the Civil War he entered 
the Union Army, and served with the 
One Hundred and Fortieth Pennsylvania 
Volunteer Regiment until October, 1864, 
rising to the rank of First Lieutenant 
and Adjutant, and being twice wound- 
ed (at Gettysburg and Todd's Tavern). 
Mr. Shallenberger was a member of 
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appointed Second Assistant Postmaster- 
General in March, 189.7, retiring March 4, 
1907. On December 1, 1864, he married Jo- 
sephine Power. Residence: 1863 Mint- 
wood Place. 

SHANAHAN, EDMUND THOMAS, 

Shali:espeare-Caldwell professor of theol- 
ogy. Catholic University, was born in Bos- 
ton, Mass., November 22, 1868, son of 
Michael F. and Ellen M. Shanahan. He 
was graduated from Boston College in 
1888 with the degree of A. B., then pur- 
sued special study courses in philosophy, 
canon law and divinity; graduated with 
the degree of Ph.D. from the Accademia 
Romana, of Rome; from the Seminario 
Romano, Rome, with that of J. C. L., and 
on July 23, 1893, received from Pope Leo 
XIII. the degree of S. T. D., after a 
course at the Propagan'da. During 1894 
he was instructor in philosophy and the- 
ology at the American College, Rome; 
studied during 1895 at Louvain University 
(Belgium); from 1895 to 1898 associate 
professor of philosophy at the Catholic 
University of America, an'd on the latter 
date was appointed to his present pro- 
fessorship. In 1897 Prof. Shanahan lec- 
tured before the American University 
Extension Society in Philadelphia; dur- 
ing 1898-1899 he was lecturer in philoso- 
phy at the University of Pennsylvania, 
and in 1901 was dean of the faculty of 
theology at the Catholic University. He 
is the author of a number of religious 
boolis, and several on the subject of phi- 
losopiiy, psychology, etc. He is a Roman 
Catholic priest. Address: Catholic Uni- 
versity. 

SHANDS, AURELIUS RIVES, physi- 
cian, was born in the State of Virginia 
in 1860, son of Dr. A. R. Shands. He 
was graduated from the University 
School at Petersburg, Virginia, and from 
the medical department of the University 
of Maryland in 1884. Since 1894 he has 
been professor of orthopaedic surgery at 
George Washington University: he is also 
p ofessor of orthopaedic surgery at the 
University of Vermont. Dr. Shands is a 
member of the Washington Academy of 
Sciences and a number of medical socie- 
ties. He is the author of a number of 
articles, monographs, etc., on medical 
subjects — particularly orthopaedic dis- 
eases. He married Agnes Horner Eppes. 
Address: 901 Sixteenth street, n.w. 

SHANNON, WILLIAM E., leal estate 
operator, was born in Baltimore, Md., 
April 2, 1875, son of James and Mary 
Laura Shannon, an'd came with them to 
Washington in 1881. He was employed as 
messenger in the editorial rooms of the 
Evening Star, and then learned the 
printer's trade. Later he entered the 
real estate business as vice president and 
treasurer of Middaugh and Shannon Inc. 
Residence: 2413 Fi st street, n.w. Of- 
fice: Park Road and Warder street, n.w. 

SHARPE, ALFRED C, Lieutenant- 
Colonel, U. S. A., was born in Delaware 



County, Ohio, September 12, 1850, son of 
Hon. George W. and Caroline R. (Snider) 
Sharpe. He attended the public schools, 
Ohio Wesleyan University, and was grad- 
uated from the United States Military 
AcaJdemy, becoming a Second Lieutenant 
on June 21, 1876. He was stationed on 
the western frontier and served in sev- 
eral Indian campaigns, later in 1876 be- 
ing brevetted First Lieutenant for gal- 
lantry in action against Indians under 
Sitting Bull in Montana; in 1877 he was 
Adjutant at the railway disturbances at 
Wilkesbarre; was admitted to the bar in 
Michigan in 1879, after a stu'dy of the 
law; served at various posts in Texas and 
Colorado until 1884, when he was ap- 
pointed professor of military science and 
tactics at the University of Wooster 
(Ohio), where he served four years. Dur- 
ing 1890-1891 he was again in Indian war- 
fare, serving in the campaign in which 
Sitting Bull was killed; during 1891 was 
professor of military science at the Uni- 
versity of South Dakota; from 1893 to 
1897, was Judge Advocate of the Depart- 
ments of Arizona and Colorado; served as 
Adjutant-General of volunteers and chief 
of staff. First Division, Fifth Army 
Corps, during the Spanish-American war, 
serving at San Juan Hill and Santiago; 
for a time acted as Judge Advocate and 
secretary of justice of Porto Rico; was 
appointed inspector general in 1899; com- 
missioned Major and Adjutant-General of 
the Department of Colorado in 1901, and 
promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel, Ma;ch 
29, 1904. Colonel Sharpe holds the hon- 
orary degree of A. M. from the Univer- 
sity of Wooster; he was also the recip- 
ient of a gold medal for a prize essay, 
given by the Military Service Institution 
in 1887. He married Margaret Plunkett 
Richardson in 1877. Address: War De- 
partment. 

SHARPE, HENRY GRANVILLE, Col- 
onel, U. S. A., was born at Kingston, N. Y., 
in April, 1858, son . of General George 
Henry and Caroline Hasbrouck Sharpe. 
He was graduated from the United States 
Military Academy and was commissioned 
a Second Lieutenant in 1880, but in 1882 
resigned his commission. On September 
12, 1883, however, he was reappointed to 
the army as Staff Captain in the Com- 
missary and Subsistence Department; he 
was made Major November 11, 1895, pro- 
moted to Lieutenant Colonel, May 11, 
1898, and Colonel, February 1, 1901. He 
was in charge of the distribution of sup- 
plies to sufferers at Cairo, Illinois, and 
Memphis, Tennessee, in 1897, after the 
flood; in July, 1898, was Chief Commis- 
sary of Camp Geo ge H. Thomas, at 
Chickamauga; served in a similar capac- 
ity with the First Army Corps; since 
June, 1902, he has been Chief Commis- 
sary of the Department of the Philippines. 
Colonel Sharpe married Kate H. Morgan 
in June, 1887. Address: War Department. 

SHARTEL, CASSIUS M., lawyer. Con- 
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Pennsylvania, April 27, 1860. In 1865 he 
removed with his parents to Knox Coun- 
ty, Missouri, and, in 1873, to Chautauqua 
County, Kansas. He was educated in the 
public schools and spent one year in col- 
lege, earning money to pay his way by 
work on the farm and in teaching school. 
He read law subsequently, and, in 1881, 
was admitted to the bar in Kansas; in 
1887 he removed to Nevada, Missouri, and, 
with Major W. F. Lemmon engaged in 
the farm-loan business until 1901, when he 
removed to Neosho, Missouri, and en- 
gaged in business for himself. Mr. Shar- 
tel was a delegate to the National Re- 
publican Convention of 1900; he has 
stumped for that party for a number 
of years. He never held public office 
until his election to Congress in 1905, as 
Representative from the Fifteenth Mis- 
souri District. Mr. Shartel is married, 
and the father of four children. Legal 
residence: Neosho, Missouri. Washing- 
ton address: House of Representatives. 

SHAW, EDGAR DWIGHT, editor, was 
born at Leominster, Mass., August 22, 
1871, son of Francis H. and Isabella R. 
(Warfield) Shaw. He was graduated 
from the Leominster High School in 1887; 
from the Phillips Exeter (New Hamp- 
shire) Academy in 1889, anid from Har- 
vard University in 1893, with the degree 
of A. B. Immediately after his gradua- 
tion from college he entered newspaper 
work. He was for four years connected 
with the Springfield (Mass.) Union, ris- 
ing from reporter to managing editor; 
was for six years on the staff of the 
Boston Journal, as secretary to managing 
editor, assistant managing editor, and 
managing editor. He came to Washing- 
ton in January, 1904, as managing editor 
of the Washington Times, was made gen- 
eral manager in 1906 and treasurer in 
1907. Mr. Shaw is a member of the Cos- 
mos Club; University Club; Harvard 
Club; Chamber of Commerce; and Board 
of Trade of Washington. On January 14, 
1897, he married Anna J. Hill, of New 
York. Residence: 2602 Connecticut ave- 
nue. Office: Munsey Building. 

SHAW, LESLIE MORTIMER, Secre- 
tary of the Treasury, was born in Mor- 
ristown, Lamoille County, Vermont, No- 
vember 2, 1848, son of Boardman O. and 
Louisa Shaw. He received a common 
school education at Stowe, Vermont, 
whither his parents removed when he was 
four years of age; attended the People's 
Academy at Morristown, in 1874. He went 
to Iowa in 1869 and graduate^d from Cor- 
nell College (Iowa) and from the Iowa 
College of Law in 1876, having paid his 
own way through both of the latter in- 
stitutions. He located at Denison, Craw- 
ford County, Iowa, and began the prac- 
tice of law; later becoming a banker at 
that same place, at Manilla and Charter 
Oak. Until 1896 he had taken no active 
part in politics, excepting in national cam- 
paigns, when he frequently spoke in be- 
half of the Republican party. He was 



twice elected governor of Iowa, for the 
terms of 1898 and 1902, and declined re- 
election in 1902. In the same year he 
was tendered the Secretaryship of the 
Treasury. Mr. Shaw is a member of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church, and has four 
times represented the Des Moines Confer- 
ence in the quadriennial general confer- 
ence of the church. On December 6, 1877, 
he married Alice Crawshaw. Mr. Shaw 
holds the honorary degree of LL.D. from 
three institutions of rank. 

SHEA, DANIEL WILLIAM, professor 
of physics, Catholic University of Amer- 
ica, was born at Portsmouth, New Hamp- 
shire, November 27, 1859, son of Timothy 
and Margaret (McCarthy) Shea. He at- 
tended the public schools, Brackett Acad- 
emy, Greenland (New Hampshire) from 
1866 to 1881; graduated from Harvard 
College in 1886, received the degree of 
A. M. in 1888; and in 1892 was graduated 
with the degree of Ph. D. from Friedrich- 
Wilhelm's University at Berlin. From 
1886 to 1888 he was a member of the 
New Hampshire state legislature; was as- 
sistant in physics at Harvarid University 
in 1889 and 1892; from 1892 to 1895 served 
at the University of Illinois as assistant 
in physics; and professor of the same from 
1894-95; since the latter date he has occu- 
pied his present professorship. He is a 
member of the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity; 
American Association for the Advancement 
of Science; American Institute of Elec- 
trical Engineers; University Club, etc. In 
politics he is a Democrat. Prof. Shea is 
the author of several scientific articles 
and contributions to technical periodicals. 
He is unmarried. Address: Catholic Uni- 
versity of America. 

SHEDD, SAMUEL S., founider and pres- 
ident of the plumbing firm of S. S. Shedd 
& Brother, was born in Washington, D. 
C, November 20, 1850. He was educated 
in the pieparatory school of Columbian 
(now George Washington) University, and 
then entered into the business with which 
he is now connected. He was for eight 
years mayor of Takoma Park, during 
which time a complete system of sewer- 
age was put in, and waterworks added to 
the town. He is a Knight Templar and 
a member of the Scottish Rite Masons. 
Residence: The Kenesaw. Business ad- 
dress: 439 Ninth street, n.w. 

SHELLEY, WILLIAM CARLYSLE, 

lawyer, was born at Post Oak Springs. 
Tenn., August 12, 1854, son of James T. 
and Martha McElmer Shelley. He was 
educated at the Rittenhouse Academy and 
was admitted to the bar at Kingston, 
Tenn., December 10, 1877; member of the 
bar of the Supreme Court of the United 
States. He was a member of the Ten- 
nessee legislature 1878-80, and is a Thir- 
ty-second degree Mason and a member 
of the Sons of the American Revolution. 
Residence: Arlington, Virginia. Office: 
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SHEPARD, SETH, Chief Justice, Court 
of Claims of the District of Columbia, 
was born in Washington County, Texas, 
April 23, 1847, son of Chauncey Berkley 
and Mary Hester (Andrews) Shepard. He 
attended private schools; graduated with 
the degree of B. L. from Washington Col- 
lege (now Washington and Lee Univer- 
sity) in 1868. He served as a private in 
the Fifth Texas Mounted Volunteers, Con- 
federate Army, during the civil war; in 
1874 was a State Senator of Texas; was 
engaged in law practice at Brenham, Gal- 
veston, and Dallas from 1869 to 1893. 
From 1883 to 1891 he was a regent of the 
State University; since 1895 he has been a 
lecturer on constitutional law, equity ju- 
risprudence, and law of corporations at 
Georgetown University; was associate 
justice of the District Court of Appeals 
from 1893 to 1905, when he became 
chief justice. In 1895 Justice Shepa:d re- 
ceived the honorary degree of LL.D. from 
Georgetown University. He is a member 
of the Mayflower Society; Sons of the 
American Revolution; United Confederate 
Veterans; American Bar Association, etc. 
He has been twice married — on January 
18, 1882, to Caroline Nelson Goree; and, 
on March 25, 1890, to Etta K. Jarvis. Ad- 
dress: 1447 Massachusetts avenue. 

SHEPPARD, MORRIS, lawyer. Con- 
gressman, was born at Wheatville, Mor- 
ris County, Texas, and educateid in the 
common schools of that state at various 
cities; he was graduated from the Uni- 
veisity of Texas in 1895 with the degree 
of A. B. and in 1897 LL. B. In 1897 he 
entered Yale University; graduated in 
1898 with the degree of LL. M., being win- 
ner of the Wayland prize debate, and de- 
livering the master's oration at com- 
mencement. In 1898 Mr. Sheppard be- 
gan the practic of law at Pittsburg, 
Texas; he removed to Texarkana in 1899, 
and has since been located there, and en- 
gaged in the practice of his profession. He 
was elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress 
from the Fiist Texas District to All out 
the unexpired term of his father, Hon. 
John L. Sheppard, and has since been 
thrice re-elected. He is a member of 
the Phi Beta Kappa Society, the Kappa 
Alpha fraternity; is national treasurer of 
the Woodmen of the World (being cho- 
sen for third successive lerm In May, 
1907); first president of Texas Fraternal 
Cong; ess, Dallas, 1901, and was represen- 
tative of that congress to the National 
Fraternal Congress at Milwaukee in 1903. 
Mr. Sheppard is a Democrat in politics. 
Legal residence: Texarkana, Texas. 
Washington address: Care House of Rep- 
resentatives. 

SHERIDAN, MICHAEL VINCENT, 

Brigadier-General, U. S. A. (fetired), was 
born at Somerset, Ohio, May 24, 1840, and 
is the youngest brother of the late Gen- 
eral Philip H. Sheridan. He received his 
education at St. Joseph's College, and at 
the outbreak of the civil war was ap- 
pointed First Lieutenant, Second Missouri 



Infantry; later becoming Captain and 
aide-de-camp to his brother; in 1866 he 
was appointed a Second Lieutenant in the 
regular cavalry; subsequently was trans- 
ferred to infantry, and in 1882 entered 
the adjutant general's department, after 
being commissioned a Major. In 1890 he 
was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel; ad- 
vanced to Colonel, January 25, 1897; com- 
missioned Brigadier General U. S. V. at 
the outbreak of the Spanish-American 
war, and retired with that rank, U. S. 
A., in 1902. Address: War Department. 

SHERLEY, SWAGAR, lawyer. Con- 
gressman, was born at Louisville, Ken- 
tucky,, November 28, 1871, and educated 
in the public schools and Louisville Male 
High School, from which latter institu- 
tion he was graduated in 1889 with the 
degree of B. A. He graduated from the 
University of Virginia in 1891, with the 
degree of B. L.; and was then admitted 
to the bar at Louisville, since which time 
he has been engaged in tne practice of 
his profession. In 1898 he was admitted 
to the bar of the United States Supreme 
Court. Previous to his election to the 
Fifty-eighth Congress from the Fifth 
Kentucky district, he had never held pub- 
lic office; he has been re-elected to the 
Sixtieth Congress. Member of the Met- 
ropolitan and Chevy Chase Clubs, and in 
politics a Democrat. Mr. Sherley married 
Mignon Critten on April 21, 1906. Legal 
residence: Louisville, Kentucky. Wash- 
ington address: 2027 O street, n.w. 

SHERMAN, JAMES SCHOOLCRAFT, 

lawyer. Congressman, was born in Utica, 
N. T., on October 24, 1855, and was grad- 
uated from Hamilton College in 1878, 
after a preliminary academic education. 
In 1880 he was admitted to the bar, and 
since that time has been engaged in the 
practice of his profession; he is president 
of the Utica Trust & Deposit Co., and 
New Hartford Canning Co., etc. Mr. 
Sherman was mayor of Utica in 1884; del- 
egate to the Republican National Conven- 
tion of 1892; chairman of the New York 
State Republican Conventions of 1895 and 
1900; since 1887 he has been a member 
of Congress from the Twenty-seventh 
New York district. Republican. Legal 
residence: Utica, New York. Washing- 
ton address: House of Representatives. 

SHERRARD, THOMAS HERRICK, 

forester, was born at Brooklyn, Mich., 
May 17, 1874, son of Thomas and Valeria 
(Gray) Sherrard. He attended Dr. Hoi- 
brook's Military School at Ossining, N. 
Y., from 1886 to 1892; graduated from 
Yale University with the degree of A. B. 
in 1897; studied at the Graduate School 
of Harvard University from 18^17 to 1898; 
from 1898 to 1899 was engaged in forest 
study in the German forest service, and 
for a time he studied at the Forest School 
of the University of Munich. From 1899 
to 1903, he was an agent of the Bureau 
of Forestry of the Department of Agri- 
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assistant fores'ter. United States Forest 
Service. Mr. Sherrard is a member of 
the Society of American Foresters; Cos- 
mos and Century Clubs. He has written 
several bulletins on forestry, and partic- 
ularly phases of that science. He is un- 
married. Mr. Sherrard's religious connec- 
tion is with the Presbyterian Church. 
Address: U. S. Forest Service. 

SHERWOOD, ISAAC R., journalist, 
Congressman, was born at Stanford, N. 
Y., August 13, 1835, son of Aaron and 
Maria (Teomans) Sherwood. He was 
educated at the Antioch College, Ohio, 
and was graduated from the Ohio Law 
College, Cleveland. He sefved in the 
Civil War as Colonel of the One Hun- 
dred and Eleventh Ohio Volunteer In- 
fantry, and was brevetted Brigadier- 
General for gallantry at the battle of 
Franklin, Tenn., November 30, 1864, 
and at Nashville, December 15, 1864. 
From 1870 to 1874 he was Secretary of 
State of Ohio; member of Congfess, To- 
ledo district. 1874 to 1876, and served two 
terms as judge of the probate court of 
Toledo. He has been successively editor 
of the Cleveland Leader, Toledo Journal, 
Toledo Commercial, and the Canton 
News-Democrat. Until 1876 he was a Re- 
publican; now a reform Democrat. In 
November, 1906, he was elected to the 
Sixtieth Congress from the Ninth Ohio 
Congressional District. He is the author 
of The Army Gray Back. On September 
1, 1859, at Poland, Ohio, he married Kate 
M. Brownlee. Legal residence: Toledo, 
Ohio. Washington address: House of 
Representatives. 

SHERWOOD-REGAN, (Mrs.) EMILY 
L., president. Women's Clinic. Address: 
1237 T street, n.w. 

SHIBLEY, GEORGE HENRY, econo- 
mist, sociologist, was born at Randall, 
Wisconsin, September 4, 1861. Admitted 
to the Illinois bar in 1887; pursued spe- 
cial studies at the University of Chicago 
f. om 1893 to 1895, and since that time 
on various economic and sociological 
problems, etc. In 1899 he founded the 
Bureau of Economic Research, and in 1902 
the National Federation for People's Roll. 
He is the author of The Monopoly Ques- 
tion; Elements of Law; Outline of Social 
Evolution; The Money Question; The 
University and Social Problems; Guarded 
Representative Government; The Trust 
Problem Solved. Residence: The Onta- 
rio. Office: Bliss Building. 

SHIDY, LELAND PERRY, chief. Tidal 
Division. United States Coast Survey. 
was bo n at St. Louis, Missouri, July 27, 
1851, son of William S. Shidy. He was 
graduated from the St. Louis High School 
in 1868; from the Missouri State Normal 
School in 1871, and attended the Missouri 
University until his senior year. On May 
27, 1873, he entered the service of the 
Coast Survey as tidal computer: this 
position he held until May 17, 1898, when 



he was appointed chief of the division. 
He has devised a system of easier com- 
putation of tides and is the author of 
various reports, etc. He is also the au- 
thof of a biography of R. S. Avery. Mr. 
Shidy is unmarried. He is a member of 
the Philosophical Society of Washington; 
American Association for the Advancement 
of Science, etc. Residence: 1617 Marion 
street, n.w. Office: Coast and Geodetic 
Survey. 

SHIRAS, GEORGE, JR., retired Asso- 
ciate Justice of the United States Su- 
preme Court, was born in Pittsburg, Jan- 
uary 26, 1832. He was educated at Ohio 
University, Athens; graduated from Yale 
University in 1853, and, in 1854, from the 
law department of the same institution. 
In 1883 he received the degree of LL.D. 
from Yale. He was admitted to the bar 
in Pittsburg in 1856 and until his appoint- 
ment to the Supreme Court in October, 
1892, was engaged in law practice there. 
He retired from the bench in 1903. Mar- 
ried. Residence: Pittsburg, Pa. 

SHOCK, WILLIAM HENRY, Engineer- 
in-Chief, U. S. N. (retired), was born at 
Haltimore, Maryland, June 15, 1821. On 
June 18, 1845, was appointed a Third Aj,- 
sistant Engineer in the United States 
Navy. He served throughout the Mexican 
War; in 1847 was promoted to Second As- 
sistant Engineer; advanced to First As- 
sistant Engineer October 31, 1848; made 
Chief Engineer, March 11, 1851. From 
1860 to 1862 Mr. Shock was president of 
the Examining Board of Engineers: he 
was in charge of the construction of river 
monitors at St. Louis from 1862 to 1863; 
served under Admiral Farragut and Ad- 
miral Thacher, from 1863 to 1865, as Fleet 
Engineer; from 1877 to 1883 (when he 
was retired), served as Engmeer-ln-Chief 
of the Navy. He has been superintendent 
of construction of a number of vessels 
and their machinery; is the inventor of 
numerous improvements in ordnance, 
steam machinery, etc., and author of 
Steam Boilers, Their Design, Construction 
and Management. Residence: 1404 Fif- 
teenth street, n.w. 

SHOEMAKER, ALBERT EDWIN, law- 
yer, was born at Bethesda, Montgomery 
County, Maryland, September 13. 1865, son 
of Louis E. and Mary E. (Eld) Shoe- 
maker. He was graduated from the 
Washington High School in 1886; from 
Georgetown University in 1888, from the 
Georgetown TTnivorsity Law School in 
1892; and pursued a post-g aduate course 
in law at the same institution during 1893. 
By profession he is a lawyer, and has 
been practicing since admission to the bar 
a. number of years ago. Mr. Shoemaker 
is atto ney for the Anti-Saloon League of 
the District of Columbia; he is a mem- 
ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church; 
the International Order of Good Templars 
(served three term^ as G and Chief 
Templar for the District); Modern Wood- 
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sociation (vice-president); Bethesda Cit- 
izens' Association (vice president). He 
was for four years Secretary of the Board 
of Directors of the American Anti-Saloon 
League, and a member of the national 
boa:d of trustees. He is prominent In 
the anti-saloon movement. On April 25, 
1894, he married Pannie Fern Brown. 
Residence: West Chevy Chase, Md. Of- 
fice: Columbian Building. 

SHOEMAKER, CHARLES FREDER- 
ICK, Captain and Chief of the United 
States Revenue Cutter Service (retired), 
was born at Glendale, Jefferson County, 
Iowa, March 27, 1841, son of Captain Wil- 
liam R. Shoemaker (U. S. A.) and Julia 
(Hepburn) Shoemaker. He attended the 
United States Naval Academy from 1858 
to 1860. On November 20, 1860, he was 
appointed Third Lieutenant in the United 
States Revenue Cutter Service; he re- 
signed at the close of the Civil War, but 
was reappointed as Third Lieutenant in 
June, 1868; advanced to Second Lieuten- 
ant, March 12, 1872; made First Lieuten- 
ant, March 25, 1878; commissioned Cap- 
tain March 18, 1895. and retired on March 
27, 1905. He served on a number of ves- 
sels in various capacities; was for thirteen 
years inspector of life-saving stations; he 
was for ten years Chief of the Revenue 
Cutter Service, and in tnis capacity thor- 
oughly reorganized and rehabilitated the 
Bureau, adding to its fleet nineteen ves- 
sels; organized and ordered relief expe- 
dition to Point Barrow in 1897; co-oper- 
ated with his fleet of vessels with the 
United States Navy in the Spanish-Amer- 
ican War.. He is a member of the Lotus 
Club of New Yol-k, and the National Geo- 
graphic Society. In politics he is a Demo- 
crat. He has been twice married — on 
May 13, 1862, to Mary A. Cole; and on 
September 2, 1881, to Rita Miller. Resi- 
dence: 1303 Yale street, n.w. 

SHOEMAKER, ISAAC E., president of 
the Miller-Shoemaker Company (real es- 
tate), and secretary and a member of the 
board of directo s of the Potomac Savings 
Bank of Georgetown. Residence: 2505 
Wisconsin avenue, n.w. Office: Colorado 
Building. 

SHOEMAKER, LOUIS PIERCE, real 
estate, was born at Cloverdale, Md., July 
2, 1856, son of Pierce and Margaret (Car- 
bery) Shoemaker; a portion of his ances- 
tral farm having been purchased by the 
government, and is now included in Rock 
Creek Park. His grand uncle was Mayor 
of Washington in 1822. He was educated 
at St. John's College, Washington, D. C, 
and took a degree in law at Georgetown 
University. He is identified with the Po- 
tomac Insurance Company; Washington 
iioan & Trust Company; Columbia Na- 
tional Bank, and Brookland Building As- 
sociation, in each of which he is a dl- 
■lector. He is also chairman of the ex- 
ecutive committees of the Northwestern 
Suburban Association and the Lanier 
Heights Association, and president of the 



Takoma Club and Library. His wife is 
a native of Georgia, and they have one 
son. Residence: "Oak Grove," Brightwood 
avenue, n.w. Office: 612 Fourteenth 
street, n.w. 

SHONTS, THEODORE PERRY, chair- 
man Isthmian Canal Commission, was 
born in Crawford County, Pennsylvania, 
May 5, 1856, son of Dr. Henry Daniel and 
Margaret Nevin (Marshall) Shonts. He 
was educated in the public schools of 
Centerville, Iowa, whither his parents re- 
moved when he was a boy; was graduated 
from the Monmouth (Illinois) College in 
1876. In this year he entered the banking 
business at Centerville, Iowa; subsequent- 
ly he studied law, was admitted to the 
bar, and for four years practiced his pro- 
fession. In 1882 he constructed two lines 
of railway from Albia to Centerville; later 
entered railway construction work with 
the Indiana, Illinois & Iowa Railroad, of 
which he was for a time chief owner; he 
was president of the Toledo & Western 
Railroad: director of the Iowa Central 
Railroad; American Trust and Savings 
Bank (Chicago); Western Cold Storage 
Co., etc. In 1905 he was appointed chair- 
man of the Isthmian Canal Commission by 
President Roosevelt. Mr. Shonts is a 
member of the Metropolitan and Chevy 
Chase clubs, of Washington; Chicago and 
Metropolitan Clubs, of N. Y. In 1882 he 
married Harriet Amelia Drake. Address: 
New York City. 

SHRIVER, JOHN SHULTZ, Washing- 
ton correspondent Baltimore American 
and New York Evening Mail, was born at 
Baltimore, Md., June 17, 1857, son of J. 
Alexander and Olivia B. Shriver. He was 
graduated from Princeton University in 
1S78, and has been actively engaged in 
journalism for many years. Author of 
"Almost" (a romance); "Through the 
South and West With President Harri- 
son." Member of the University, and 
secretary of the Gridiron Clubs, of Wash- 
ington, D. C, and Princeton Club, of New 
York. Residence: 1338 New York avenue. 
Office: 1410 Pennsylvania avenue. 

SHUTE, DANIEL KERFOOT, physi- 
cian, was born at Alexandria, Virginia, 
October 22, 1858, son of Samuel Moore 
and Jane Cecelia (Kerfoot) Shute. He was 
graduated from Columbian (now George 
Washington) University in 1879; from the 
medical department of the same institu- 
tion in 1883, and pursued a post graduate 
course in clinical ophthalmology at the 
Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital and at 
the University of Berlin. During a period 
of five months in 1891 he was acting clini- 
cal assistant at the Royal Ophthalmic 
Hospital, London; since 1888 he has been 
professor of anatomy at George Wash- 
ington University. Consulting ophthal- 
mologist to the George Washington Hos- 
pital, the Central Dispensary and Emer- 
gency Hospital, the Providence Hospital 
and the Government Hospital for the In- 
sane, D. C. He is a member of the Society 



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of the Cincinnati; Anthropological Society, 
and Microscopical Society of Washington; 
president of the Medical Society of the 
District of Columbia; president of the 
Society of Ophthalmologists and Otolo- 
gists, Washington, D. C; and various 
medical and technical organizations, and 
the Cosmos Club. He is the author of A 
First Book in Organic Evolution, and has 
contributed largely to medical and techni- 
cal periodicals on anatomy and ophthal- 
mology, etc. On August 19, 1896, Dr. 
Shute married Augusta Pettigrew. Resi- 
dence: 1719 De Sales street, n.w. 

SIBLEY, JOSEPH CROCKER, manu- 
facturer. Congressman, was born at 
Friendship, New York, on February 18, 
1850. He is a farmer, stock raiser and 
manufactuirer of lubricating oils; also in- 
terested in various business and manufac- 
turing enterprises. Mr. Sibley was for a 
time mayor of Franklin (Pennsylvania) ; 
he was a member of Cong;ess from 1893 
to 1895, and again from 1899 to 1907, rep- 
resenting the Twenty-eighth Pennsylvania 
District. For a number of years he was 
president of the Pennsylvania State Dairy- 
men's Association. In politics Mr. Siblej' 
is known as one of the toremost advocates 
of the free coinage of silver; he was a 
Democrat until 1900; since that time a Re- 
publican. Legal residence: Franklin, 
Pennsylvania. Washington address: House 
of Representatives. 

SIDDONS, FREDERICK LINCOLN, 

lawyer, was born in London, England, No- 
vember 21, 1864, son of Joachim Heyward 
and Mary Agnes (Cameron) Siddons. His 
father was an author and journalist, writ- 
ing under the nom de plume of J. H. Stoc- 
queler. After receiving his preliminary 
education at home, he entered the Colum- 
bian (now George Washington) Universi- 
ty Law School, graduating with the class 
of 1887, later taking a post-graduate 
course leading to the degree of LL. M. 
From January 2, 1879, to June SO. 1885, he 
was in the Treasury Department. He is 
an instructor on the subjects of Constitu- 
tional Law, Evidence and Bills and Notes 
in the National University Law School, 
and one of the Commissioners on Uniform 
State Laws for the District of Columbia. 
He is a member of Lafayette Lodge No. 19, 
F. A. A. M.; Joseph H. Choate Chapter, 
Sigma Nu Phi; University Club; member 
of the council of the National Service Re- 
form League; American Bar Association; 
Bar Association of the District of Colum- 
bia; American Society of International 
Law; member and former president of the 
Commercial Law League of America; 
member and director of the Washington 
Board of Trade; member of the Washing- 
ton Chamber of Commerce; American 
Free Trade League; President's Homes 
Commission, created by President Roose- 
velt, in the spring of 1907, and was a dele- 
gate from the District of Columbia to the 
National Divorce Congress, being a mem- 
ber of the Committee of Resolutions of 
that body which framed the proposed Uni- 



form Divorce Law now pending before the 
various State Legislatures. He was one of 
the counsel in the "Pious Fund" case, 
which was the first tried at The Hague In- 
ternational Court. He was also one of the 
counsel for the commission sent by Aguin- 
aldo to this country to endeavor to secure 
recognition of the government set up by 
Aguinaldo in the Philippine Islands. In 
politics he is an independent Democrat. 
On Apl-il 26, 1892. he married Harriet C. 
Van Auken, two children having been 
born to them. Residence: 1914 Biltmore 
street, n.w. Office: Bond Building. 

SIDWELL, THOMAS WATSON, prin- 
cipal Friends School, was bo'rn at Johns- 
ville, Frederick County, Maryland, May 
16, 1859, son of Reuben and Sarah A. Sid- 
well. He was educated in the public 
schools, a private high school, and New 
Windsor College. He taught in the 
Maryland public schools for four years; 
for three years in the Friends Elementary 
and High School (Baltimore, Maryland), 
and in 1883 founded the Friends School of 
this city, becoming its principal. Mr. Sid- 
well is a member of the Cosmos Club, and 
his religious connection is with the Socie- 
ty of Friends. On June 29, 1887, he mar- 
ried Frances Haldeman. Residence: 804 
Twenty-first street, n.w. 

SIGGERS, EDWARD GREGORY, pat- 
ent lawyei", was born at Alexandria, Va., 
February 14, 1864, .son of George and Mary 
E. (Gregory) Siggers, and was educated in 
the public schools of Washington. At the 
age of sixteen he accepted a position in 
the office of a patent attorney, and re- 
mained there until 1882, then going to 
another attorney, into which firm he was 
taken on February 14, 1885, at twenty-one 
years of age. From 1887-89 he took a law 
course at the National University, and 
was admitted to the bar of the Supreme 
Court of the District in the latter year. 
In June, 1896, he was made Master of Pat- 
ent Laws by Columbian (now George 
Washington) University. He conducts the 
"Inventive Age," which furnishes weekly 
correspondence to over 3,000 newspapers 
in the United States and Canada. On 
August 10, 1888, he was married to Myrtle 
Stalnaker, and they have three children. 
Residence: 306 F street, n.w. Office: Na- 
tional Union Building. 

SIGSBEE, CHARLES DWIGHT, Rear 
Admiral U. S. N.. was born at Albany, N. 
5"., January 16, 1845, son of Nicholas and 
Agnes (Orr) Sigsbee. He was graduated 
from the United States Naval Acauemy 
in 1863, and was commissioned ensign; 
during the Civil War he served •'in the 
West Gulf Squadron; fought at Mobile 
Bay and at Fort Fisher (both attacks); 
after the war he was promoted to Lieuj 
tenant, then Lieutenant-Commander, serv- 
ing at various stations and aboard various 
vessels. From 1874 to 1878 he was at- 
tached to the coast survey in sounding and 
exploring the Gulf of Mexico, during 
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proved appliances for deep sea sounding, 
etc., and for which, subsequently, he wis 
decorated with the Red Eagle of Prussia 
by Emperor William I., and receive'l a 
gold medal. In 1882 he was commisjiioned 
Commander; promoted to captain, xMarch, 
1897; was in command of the U. ,S. S. 
Maine when that vessel was destroyed in 
Havana harbor on February 15, 1S9;^, and 
in the war with Spain which this catastro- 
phe precipitated, was in command of the 
cruiser St. Paul. From 1898 to 1900 he 
commanded the battleship Texas; from 
1900 to 1902 was chief officer of the naval 
intelligence office; in 1903 was Command- 
ant of the League Island Navy Yard; was 
made Rear Admiral in 1904, and in that 
year commanded the Caribbean squadron 
of the North Atlantic fleet. Aamiral Sigs- 
bee Is a member of the General Board of 
the Navy, and of the Board of Naval Con- 
struction. He is the author of '"Deep Sea 
Sounding and Dredging, and Personal 
Narrative of the Battleship Maino." In 
November, 1870, he married Eliza Rogers 
Lockwood. Address: Navy Departnienr. 

SIMMONS, FURNIFOLD McLENDEL, 

lawyer, U. S. Senator from North Caro- 
lina, was born in Jones County, North 
Carolina, January 20, 1854, son of Furnl- 
fold Greene and Mary (McLendel) Sim- 
mons. He was graduated from Trinity 
College, North Carolina, with the degree of 
A.B., in 1873, and was admitted to the bar 
in 1875, since which time he has hpen a 
practicing lawyer. In 1887 he was elected 
to Congress from the Second North Caro- 
lina District; from 1893 to 1896 he was 
Collector of Internal Revenue, Fourth Dis- 
trict; chairman of the Democratic Execu- 
tive Committee of the State in the cam- 
paigns from 1892 to 1904; in 1901 was 
chosen United States Senator (Democrat). 
Mr. Simmons received the Honorary degre.i 
of LL.D. from Trinity College in 1901. 
Legal residence: Raleigh, N. C. Washing- 
ton address: U. S. Senate. 

SIMON, ABRAM, clergyman, rabbi of 
the Washington Hebrew congregation. 
Residence: Eighth street, between H and 
I streets, n.w. 

SIMPSON, JOHN, Brigadier General U. 
S. A. (retired), was born at Bethel, Cle- 
mont County, Ohio, January 21, 1840, son 
of Samuel and Elizabeth (Griffith) Simp- 
son. He received his education in the pub- 
lic schools, and in 1862 enlisted as a pri- 
vate in the army, serving throughout the 
remainder of the Civil War. On August 
17, 1867, he was appointed a Second Lieu- 
tenant in the 4th U. S. Artillery; promoted 
to First Lieutenant in 1873; was Regimen- 
tal Quartermaster 4th U. S. Artillery frora 
1873 to 1875; advanced to Captain and 
Asslsitant Quartermaster July 17, 1875; 
commissioned Major and Assistant Quar- 
termaster April 20, 1892; made Lieutenant 
Colonel and Deputy Quartermaster Gen- 
eral August 17, 1903; late retired. Gen- 
eral June 11, 1897; promoted to Colonel 
and Assistant Quartermaster General on 



February 2, 1901, and Brigadier Gen- 
eral, August 17, 1903; late retired. Gen- 
eral Simpson married Laura S. Chafee on 
October 21, 1869. Address: War Depart- 
ment. 

SIMS, EDWIN W., lawyer, was born on 
June 4, 1870, son of Walter and Elizabeth 
(Knowles) Sims. Attended public schools 
of Michigan, West Bay City Academy, and 
was graduated from the i.aw Department 
of the University of Michigan in 1894. 
Was engaged in journalistic work as re- 
porter and special correspondent at differ- 
ent times on the staff of the Bay City 
Tribune, Times-Press and Post and the 
Detroit Journal up to 1892. In 1894 he was 
admitted to the bar and has continued the 
practice of the law ever since. From 1900 
to 1903 Mr. Sims was county attorney of 
Cook County, when he resigned to accept 
the position of special attorney for the 
Bureau of Corporations of the Depart- 
ment of Commerce and Labor in 1903, 
which position he in turn resigned to be- 
come solicitor of the Department on March 
14, 1905. He was appointed United States 
Attorney for the Northern District of Illi- 
nois in September, 1906. He Is a member 
of the Union League; Chicago Press and 
Woodlawn Park Clubs; th^i Chicago, Illi- 
nois and American Bar Associations; is a 
Republican. On February 9, 1898 he mar- 
ried Charlotte Smith, daughter of the late 
Frank J. Smith, of Chicago. Residence: 
Chicago, 111. 

SIMS, THETUS WILLRETTE, lawyer. 
Congressman, was born in Wayne County, 
Tennessee, April 25, 1852, son of George 
Washington and Jennie (Whitson) Sims. 
He was educated at Savannan, Tennessee; 
attended Savannah College, Tennessee, un- 
til 1875; and was graduated from the Law 
Department of Cumberland University in 
1876, immediately thereafter locating at 
Linden, Tennessee, where he was admitted 
to the bar and has since practiced his pro- 
fession. In 1882 he was elected superin- 
tendent of public instruction for Perry 
County (Tennessee), which office he held 
two years; he was a presidential elector 
on the Cleveland and Stevenson ticket, and 
has been Representative in congress from 
the Eighth Tennessee District since 1897. 
In politics he is a Democrat. Mr. Sims 
married Nannie Hunter Kittrell on Decem- 
ber 26, 1878. Legal residence: Linden, 
Perry County, Tennessee. Washington 
address: House of Representatives. 

SINCLAIR, ALBERT LEFTWICH, law- 
yer, special attorney for the District of 
Columbia, was born on a farm near Bed- 
ford Citv, Bedford County, Virginia, De- 
cember 1. 1871, son of Arthur Gilbert and 
Carrie Virginia (Leftwich) Sinclair. He 
removed to Washington with his parents 
in 1883, and received hla education in the 
city public schools; was graduated from 
the Law Department of Georgetown Uni- 
versity in 1893, with the degree of LL.B., 
and as honor man of his class, and, after 
a year's post-graduate work, tnat of LL.M. 
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Brown Duvall, late corporation counsel for 
the District of Columbia, in October, 1891; 
was admitted to the bar in 1894, and has 
activf^ly practiced his profession ever 
since, before the local courts; was fourth 
assistant corporation counsel for the Dis- 
trict of Columbia from 1899 to July 1, 1903, 
when he was promoted from fourth to 
second assistant corporation counsel; was 
chairman of the Metropolitan Police Trial 
Mr. Sinclair was appointed special attor- 
ney for the District of Columbia on May 
25, 1**05, to represent the government be- 
fore the commission appointed by the Dis- 
trict of Columbia Supreme Court, under an 
act of Congress, to appraise the damages 
to real estate resulting from changes in 
the grades of streets, etc., made necessary 
by the erection of the Union Railroad Sta- 
tion. He is a member or the Bar Associa- 
tion of the District; a member of the com- 
mittee on building and the committee on 
municipal law and legislation of the 
Washington Chamber of Commerce and a 
member of the Foundry Methodist Episco- 
pal Church. On January 26, 1897, he mar- 
ried Martha C. Johnson, daughter of Rev. 
H. E. Johnson, D. D., of the Virginia M. E. 
Conference. Residence: 151;^ Lamont 
street, n.w. Office: Columbian Building. 

SINCLAIR, WILLIAM, army officer, 
was born in Ohio, February 8, 1835. He 
was graduated from the U. S. Military 
Academy in 1857, and commissioned Sec- 
ond Lieutenant, 3d Artillery, July 31, 1858. 
He took part in suppressing John Brown's 
raid at Harper's Ferry in 1859, joined the 
Atmy of the Potomac as First Lieutenant 
in March, 1862; was made Captain for gal- 
lant service at the siege of Yorktown in 
May of that year. He -n-as commissioned 
Colonel of Volunteers in command of the 
Pennsylvania Reserves, ana was at White 
House, Va., during the seven days' flght 
before Richmond. Was under Hooker at 
Antietam; was severely wounded at Fred- 
ericksburg; commanded a brigade in de- 
fense of Washington for two months; re- 
signed volunteer commission, and com- 
manded a battery in the Vicksburg cam- 
paign, and was Acting Assistant Inspector 
General, July 27 to October 12, 1863. On 
September 30, 1864, he was made Quarter- 
master at the U. S. Military Academy. He 
was promted to Colonel, Seventh Artillery, 
March 8, 1898, and retired February 8, 
1899, with the rank of Brigadier General. 
Residence: The Farragut. 

SKINNER, AARON NICHOLS, profes- 
sor of mathematics and Commander U. S. 
N., was born at Boston, Mass., August 10, 
1845, son of Benjamin Hill and Mercy 
(Burgess) Skinner. He attended the pub- 
lic schools and Beloit College (1867-1868), 
and from 1867 to 1870 was engaged in a 
special course in astronomy at the Uni- 
versity of Chicago. During this latter pe- 
riod he was assistant astronomer of Dear- 
born Obsefvatory, Chicago; from 1870 to 
1898 he was assistant astronomer at the 
United States Naval Observatory at 
Washington; then was appointed profes- 



sor of mathematics in the Navy; from 
1893 to 1902 he was astronomer in charge 
of the 9-inch tr.insit circle at the Naval 
Observatory; in 1902 and 1903 was in 
charge of 26-inch equatorial, and, since 
1903, has been in charge of the Division of 
Equatorials. H^ determined the position 
of about nine thousand stars in the zone 
14 degrees to 18 degrees south declination 
as the cont ibution of the Naval Observa- 
tory to the great catalogue of the Astron- 
omische Gessellschaft of all the stars down 
to the ninth magnitude between 23 degrees 
south declinatioa to 80 degrees north de- 
clination. In the course of this work 
he discovered four variable stars and sev- 
eral new double stars. Since 1878 he has 
been actively identified with the meridian 
circle work of the Naval Observatory, and 
dition of the Observatory to Sumatra, 
dition of the Observaio y to Sumatra. 
Prof. Skinner is a Fellow of the American 
Association for the Advancement of 
Science; member of the Astronomical and 
Astrophysical Society of America; Astron- 
omische Gessellschaft, etc. On Feb uary 
9, 1874, he married Sarah Elizabeth Gibbs. 
Address: U. S. Naval Observatory. 

SKYBAK, O., Secretary, Norwegian Em- 
bassy. Residence: 1737 H street, n.w. 

SLATER, CHARLES WASHINGTON, 

lawyer, orator, traveler ana writer, was 
born in Washington, D. C, January 22, 
1876, son of John G. Slater, once owner 
of the Washington News, later merged 
with the Washington Times. He served 
as chairman of the Democratic convention 
of the District of Columbia; the youngest 
delegate to the Kansas City Democratic 
National Convention; and was the young- 
est member who ever seconded the nomi- 
nation of a Presidential nominee He is a 
traveler of wide experience, a studont and 
an interpreter of Shakespeare and the 
classics, and has one of the best selected 
libraries in Washington. He has gone ex- 
tensively into the handling of government, 
municipal, industrial and railroad bonds. 
Residence: 2200 A street, n.w. Office: Col- 
orado Building. 

SLAYDEN, JAMES L., Congressman, 
was born in G aves County, Kentucky, 
June 1, 1853, and obtained his education in 
the common schools of his native state 
and at Washington and Lee University 
(Virginia). For a number of years he was 
a cotton merchant; at the present time he 
is interested in mining in Mexico. In 1892 
he was a member of the Legislature, de- 
clined re-election; he has been a Repre- 
sentative from the Fourteenth Texas Dis- 
trict since the Fifty-fifth Congress. Dem- 
ocrat. Legal residence: San Antonio, 
Texas. Washington address: 1631 R 
street, n.w. 

SLEMAN, JOHN B., chief clerk for the 
Auditor for the Postoffice Department, was 
born in England in 1840. During part of 
the Civil War he was a member of Chi- 
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tured by Confederates In Tennessee, sent 
to Llbby Prison, and paroled barely in time 
to escape bf^ing- sent to An3ersonville. He 
was then given a clerical position at An- 
napolis, and in November, 1863, assigned 
to clerical work in the War Department, 
icmaining there until 1869, when he re- 
signed to go into the wood and coal busi- 
ness, remaining there until September, 
1870. when he received a position in the 
Auditor's office, being' for eight years chief 
of the pay divipion. Residence: 3114 16th 
street, n.w. Office: Postoffice Department. 

SLEMAN, JOHN B., JR., dlsfict mana- 
ger of the Mutual Life Insurance Compa- 
ny, and secretary of the Union Savings 
Bank. Residence: 3114 16th street, n.w. 
Office: 1408 New York avenue. 

SLEMP, CAMPBELL, Congressman, 
was born on a farm in Lee County, Vir- 
ginia, December 2, 1839, son of Sebastian 
S. and Marga-et Slemp. He obtained his 
education in the common schools of his 
native county and Emory and Henry Col- 
lege (Virginia), but did not graduate from 
the latter institution. He served with the 
Confederate Army in me Civil War as 
Captain; afterwards. Lieutenant Colonel 
and Colonel of infantry and cavalry. He 
was a member of the State Legislature in 
1879 and 1881; defeated in 1883 by fraud; 
was supervisor of census in 1890, and since 
the Fifty-eighth Congress has been Rep- 
resentative from the Ninth Virginia Dis- 
trict. Mr. Slemp was ac5Sociated with the 
Democratic party until 1880, since which 
time he has allied himself with the Repub- 
lican party. He was a p esidential elector 
in 1888 and 1896. He is identified with 
the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. 
He married Nannie B. Cawood on June 9, 
1864. Legal residence: Big Stone Gap, 
Wise County, Virginia. Washington ad- 
dress: Ebbitt House. 

SLOANE, CHARLES SWIFT, geogra- 
pher, was born at Ashland, Schuylkill 
County, Pa., July 7, 1859, son of Thomas 
L and Mary (Swift) Sloane. He was 
graduated from Dartmnith (N. H.) Col- 
lege with the degree of A. B., in 1880; was 
appointed, in July, 1904, geographer with 
the Twelfth Census, and since April, 1904, 
has been secretary of the United States 
■^oard on Geogaphic Names. Mr. Sloane 
married Christine Engebretson in October, 
1885. Residence: 1521 10th street, n.w. 
Office: Bureau of Census. 

SMALL, JOHN HUMPHREY, lawyer, 
Congressman, was born in Washington, 
North Carolina, and educated at that 
place and Trinity College, North Carolina. 
He left the latter institution in 1876, and 
from that time until 1880 taught school; 
subsequently he studied law and was ad- 
mitted to the bar in 1881, since which time 
he has been a practicing lawyer. In the 
same year he was elected reading clerk of 
the State Senate, and later in the year, 
superintendent of public instruction in 
Beaufort County; from 1882 to 1885 served 



as solicitor of the inferior court of Beau- 
fort County; from 1883 to 1886 was editor, 
publisher and owner of the Washington (N. 
C.) Gazette; from 1888 to 1896, was attor- 
ney for commissioners of Beaufort County, 
member of the city council of Washington 
from 1887 to 1890, and for one year mayor 
of that town. He is at present chairman 
of the public school committee of Wash- 
ington, N. C; has always been active in 
Democratic committee work in his state, 
and ha«! represented the First North Caro- 
lina District in all Congresses since the 
Fifty-sixth Congress (1899). Legal resi- 
dence: Washington, North Carolina. 
Washington address: House of Repre- 
sentatives. 

SMALLEY, GEORGE WASHBURN, 

journalist, was born at Franklin, No folk 
County, Massachusetts, June 2, 1833, son 
of Rev. E. and Louisa (Washburn) Smal- 
ley. He was graduated from Yale Univer- 
sity in 1853 (from which institution he 
holds the degree of A. M.), and from the 
Havard Law School in 1855. From 1856 
to 1861 he was engaged in the practice of 
law in Boston; then, during 1861 to 1862, 
was war correspondent for the New York 
Tribune in the Civil War. He founded 
the European Bureau of the New York 
Tribune in 1866, and was in charge of the 
same until 1895, since which time he has 
been located in Washington as American 
correspondent of the London Times. In 
1878 Mr. Smalley was Special United 
States Commissioner at the Paris Exposi- 
tion. He is the author of London Letters 
and Studies of Men. Residence: Stone- 
leigh Court. Office: 1410 H street, n.w. 

SMILEY, CHARLES WESLEY, jour- 
nalist, editor, was born at Fitchbu g, 
Mass., September 10, 1846, son of Charles 
M. and Elmira L. (Peirce) Smiley. In 
1868 he was graduated from Eastman's 
National Business College; in 1874 he was 
graduated from Wesleyan University, and 
in 1877 received the degree of A. M. Dur- 
ing 1875-1876 he taught at the Hacketts- 
town Collegiate Institute, and from 1876 
to 1877 at the Drew Female Seminary. 
From 1877 to 1879 he was engaged In edit- 
ing the biographical catalogue of the Psi 
Upsilon f.aternity; was special agent of 
the Ninth Census from 1879 to 1884; then, 
until 1889, was editor for the United 
States Fish Commission; was special 
agent of the Tenth Census in charge of 
Fishery Statistics from 1889 to 1891; was 
publisher and editor of the American 
Monthly Microscopical Journal from 1887 
to 1902, and from 1899 to 1902 of Occult 
Truths. Mr. Smiley is a member of the 
Phi Beta Kappa fraternity, and of the 
Psi Upsilon fraternity; he is a Fellow of 
the American Association for the Ad- 
vancement of Science (was president of 
the Section of Economic Science and Sta- 
tistics in 1889), etc. Address: Takoma 
Park, D. C. 

SMILEY, SARAH FRANCES, author, 
speaker, was born at Vassalborougb, Me., 



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March 30, 1830, daughter of Daniel and 
Poebe Smiley. She organized, and, for 
twenty-one years has directed, the So- 
ciety for Home Study of the Holy Scrip- 
tures and Church History (E5piscopal 
Church); she is a Biblical authority, and 
well known as a religious writer and 
spe'Hkef. Miss Smiley is the author of 
Who Is He? Fullness of Blessing; Gar- 
den Graith. Address: 2022 F street, n.w. 

SMILLIE, THOMAS W., photographer, 
was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, April 
14. 1843, son of James and Elizaheth (Dhu) 
Smillie. He was educated at private 
academies in Edinburgh and Washingtoa, 
with three years laboratory course in 
chemistry. He is honorary custodian and 
chief photographer of the U. S. National 
Museum, and is the inventor of a process 
of photographing on wood for engraving, 
and other photographic processes and ap- 
paratus. Member Jury of Awards, Pan- 
American Exposition; Fellow Royal Pho- 
tographic Society; member of the Amer- 
ican Association for the Advancement of 
Science; Washington Philosophic Society; 
American Academy of Political and So- 
cial Science; honorary memher of Acad- 
emie Parisienne de Inventions; diploma 
Academie Nationale d' Agricole. Resi- 
dence: 1808 R street. n.w. Office; U. S. 
National Museum. 

SMITH, ALLEN, Brigadier-General, U. 
S. A. (retired), was born at Fort Marlon, 
Fla., April 21, 1849, son of Gen. Charles 
P. Smith, U. S. A., and Fanny (Mactler) 
Smith. He attended the United States 
Military Academy from 1863 to 1866, in 
which year he was appointed a Second 
Lieutenant in the First United States 
Infantry. He was promoted to First Lieu- 
tenant April 22, 1868; was commissioned 
Captain May 21, 1880; transferred to the 
Fourth Cavalry in 1880; advanced to Ma- 
jor, November 10, 1898; made Lieutenant- 
Colonel February 2, 1901; promoted to 
Colonel June 28, 1902, and retired as a 
Brigadier-General in March, 1905. Gen- 
eral Smith married Julia Stephens in 
1874. Address: War Department. 

SMITH, BARTHOLOMEW, F., manu- 
facturer of fire and burglar-proof safes 
and flre-proof buildings, was born at 
Washingtonville, C, November 13, 1847, 
son of John Z.' and Sophia Smith, who 
were born in France. He enlisted in th© 
One Hundredth Indiana Regiment on May 
29, 1862, at the age of fifteen, and served 
for three years, taking part in the bat- 
tles of Vicksburg, Canton, Jackson and 
Brandon in Mississippi, Lookout Moun- 
tain and Missionary Ridge, Kennesaw 
Mountain and Lost Mountain, and the 
other battles around Atlanta, and started 
with Sherman on his march to the sea, 
when he was wounded in the face by a 
bullet, which still rests in his jaw. He 
was discharged May 29, 1865. He acted 
3.3 traveling salesman for H. H. Warner, 



of Rochester, N. T., for three years, and 
became general agent for the Hall Safe 
and Lock Company, operating in Chicago. 
Later he controlled a very large number 
of states as territory for the sale of safes, 
and in 1894 disposed of his entire interest 
and organized the B. P. Smith Fireproof 
Construction Company, being its sole 
owner and proprietor. He is a Freema- 
son and a member of the Grand Army of 
the Republic and of the Union Veteran's 
Union. On January 3. 1870, he married 
FYances Jane Gtifflth, of Dubuque, la., and 
they have three children. Residence: 
1747 P street, n.w. Office: 817 Four- 
teenth street, n.w. 

SMITH, CARL F., artist, was horn at 
Cincinnati, O., In 1867, son of Frederick 
and Louisa Smith. He attended the com- 
mon schools, studied lithography, later 
attended the Cincinnati Art School, where 
he was the recipient of a gold medal, then 
went abroad to complete his art study. 
He was a pupil of Benjamin Constant, 
Ferier and Bouguereau in Paris for seven 
years, winning several medals and exhib- 
iting a number of times in the Paris Sa- 
lon. He returned to the United States 
only a few years ago, and located In 
Washington. Mr. Smith Is a member of 
the American Art Club, of Paris; he re- 
ceived honorable mention for water colors 
at the Art Society exhibition of Philadel- 
phia, in 1902. In 1895 he married Isabel 
E. Smith. Address: 1739 Seventeenth 
street, n.w. 

SMITH, C. ERNEST, clergyman, was 
born near Durham, England, and was 
educated at Durham University and at 
the Canterbury Divinity School, England. 
He located at Heart's Content, Newfound- 
land, as a missionary of the Church of 
England, and labored there for some 
years, removing to the southern portion 
of the Episcopal diocese 'of Washington, 
and going thence to the rectorship of St. 
Michael's Church, Baltimore. In 1901 he 
assumed the rectorship of St. Thomas' 
Church, Washington, since when he has 
doubled the membership 'of that parish. 
Residence: 2131 N street, n.w. 

SMITH, CLARENCE BEAMAN, asso- 
ciate editor Department 'of Agriculture, 
on Experiment Station Record, was born 
at Howardsville, St. Joseph County, Mioh.. 
Sept. 21, 1870, son of Alonzo and Har- 
riet E. (Maybee) Smith. He attended the 
Michigan Agricultural College from 1889 
to 1905, graduating with the degree of 
B. S., and later, with that of M. S. He 
studied at Halle and Bonn, Germany, 
specializing in agricultural study. In 1895 
he received the honorary degree of M. S. 
from Michigan Agricultural College. 
Since 1896 Mr. Smith has been associate 
editor of the Experiment Station Record, 
of the Office of Experiment Stations, De- 
partment of Agriculture. He is the au- 
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ture. In politics he is a DemocTat. Mr. 
Smith married Lottie Lee on October 2, 
1901. Residence: Talcoma Park, D. C. 
OfHce: Department of Agriculture. 

SMITH, CLAUDIUS FERDINAND, 

Protestant Episcopal clergyman, was 
born near Greenville, Pit County, N C. 
May 21. 1860, son of William Henry and 
Mary (Nelson) Smith. He was educated 
in the public schools and under tutors; 
was graduated ffom the Trinity (N C.) 
Hisrh School; attended the University of 
North Carolina from 1883 to 1887, grad- 
uating with the degree of A. B. in the 
latter year; and in 1890 was gradu-tted 
from the Theological Seminary at Alex- 
andria, Va. He accepted a pastorate in 
North Carolina, and remained there for 
a year and a half, when his health failed 
and he was compelled to resign. He 
then went to Halifax C. H., Va., where 
he remained two years; then served at 
Abingdon, Va., and various other Virginia 
churches for a number of years. He was 
particularly active in evangelical work 
among the mountain districts of Virginia. 
Rev. Smith is a member of the Delta Kap- 
pa Epsilon fraternity, and in politics is a 
Democrat. On January 22, 1891, he mar- 
ried Clara Forsythe McGuire. Residence: 
110^5 C street, s.w. 

SMITH, DAVID HIGHBAUGH, larwyer. 
Congressman, was born in Hart County, 
Ky., near Hammonville, and was educated 
in the public schools and at various col- 
leges at Horse Cave, Leitchfield and Hart- 
ford, Ky. He began the practice of law 
in 1876; from 1878 to 1881 he was County 
Attorney for Larue County; Superintend- 
ent of Schools for Larue County; in 1881, 
elected to the State Legislature; eight 
years a member 'of the State Senate (from 
1885 to 1893), during which time he was 
for four years speaker pro tem. In 1897 
he was elected to Congress from the 
Fourth Kentucky District, and has since 
been re-elected. Democrat. Legal resi- 
dence: Hodgensville, Larue County, Ky. 
Washington address: House 'of Repre- 
sentatives. 

SMITH, EDWIN, assistant, U. S. Coast 
and Geodetic Survey, was born in New 
York, April 13, 1851, son of Edwin and 
Adelia O. (Mclntyre) Smith. He received 
a preliminary education in the New York 
Grammar School and at the College of 
the City of New York (where he re- 
mained until his junior year) ; later he 
educated himself at home In astronomy 
and geodesy. In 1870 he became an em- 
ploye of the Coast and Geodetic Survey; 
in 1874 was promoted to assistant, and 
in the same year had charge of a party 
to oibserve the transit of Venus at Chat- 
ham Islands, Southern Pacific Ocean; and 
was occupied in a similar capacity in 
1882 at Auckland, Ne-\y Zealand; was en- 
gaged in gravity studies, carried on by 
means 'Of the Kater pendulums of the 
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Royal Society of England, In New South 
Wales, New Zealand, Singapore, Tokio, 
San Francisco and Washington; was chief 
of the instrument division of the Coast 
and Geodetic Survey from 1879 to 1894, 
during which period he was engaged in 
study of the variations of latitude at 
Rockville. Md., co-6perating with the In- 
ternational Geodetic Association. Mr. 
Smith left the Coast and Geodetic Service 
(n 1895, and from that time until 1897 
was with the New York State Land Sur- 
vey, when he was re-appointed assistant 
in the Coast and Geodetic Survey; in 1899 
he established at Gaithersburg, Md., the 
latitude observatory of the International 
Geodetic Association, and from that time 
until 1901 was engaged in observations 
and study there; since 1901 he has been 
active In various work of the Survey, in- 
cluding geodesy, magnetism and astron- 
omy. Mr. Smith is founder member of 
the Cosmos Club; he is a member of the 
Philosophical Society of Washington; As- 
tronomical and Astrophysical Society of 
America, etc. He married Lucy S. Black 
on November 17, 1885. Residence: Rock- 
ville. Md. OflSce: Coast and Geodetic 
Survey. 

SMITH, E. QUINCY, secretary and gen- 
eral manager of the International Build- 
ing and Loan Association, was born in 
Washington, D. C. He was graduated 
from the Washington High School and 
Amherst College. He received his first 
business experience In the store of John 
Wanamaker at Philadelphia; spent a year 
on the traveling staff of a newspaper in 
the West; and entered a real estate firm 
in Washington as a junior partner. He 
was 'one of the original directors of the 
International Building and Loan Associa- 
tion, and assumed his present position in 
1897. Residence: 2024 R street, n.w. Of- 
fice: 1420 P street, n.w. 

SMITH, ERWIN F., expert pathologist. 
Bureau of Plant Industry, Department of 
Agriculture, was born at Gilbert's Mills, 
N. Y., January 21, 1854, son of R. K. and 
Louisa Smith. He was graduated from 
the Ionia (Michigan) High School In 
1880; from the University of Michigan, 
with the degree of B. S. in biology In 
1886, and with that of Sc. D. in 1889. 
Since 1889 he has been connected with 
the Department of Agriculture as expert 
pathologist; he is now in charge of the 
laboratory of plant pathology, and of the 
physiological and pathological Investiga- 
tions 'of the Bureau of Plant Industry. 
Mr. Smith Is the author of various books, 
articles, monographs, etc., on plant dis- 
eases, bacteriology, botany, etc. He is 
associate editor of the American Natural- 
ist; and also of the Centralblatt fur Bac- 
teriologe; was formerly president of the 
Society for Plant Morphology and Physi- 
ology; Fellow of the American Associa- 
tion for the Advancement of Science 
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and University Clubs, etc., including many 
oth?r scientific and learned societies. On 
April 13, 1893, Ml-. Smith married Char- 
lo;te M. Buffett. Residence: 1460 Bel- 
mont street, n.w. Office: Department of 
Agriculture. 

SMITH, FRANCIS H., was born at 
Washing-ton, Conn., March 11, 1829, son 
of Samuel Mansfield and Eliza (Wheeler) 
Smith. He was educated in the public 
schools and studied phonography under 
the principal of the high school. He then 
taught in the family of a Virginia planter; 
cajne to Washington to assist on the re- 
porting force 'cf the U. S. Senate; for a 
quarter of a century he remained in this 
capacity, in that time creating the pres- 
ent system of exact stenographic report- 
ing for both Houses and during the last 
ten years being the official stenographer 
of the House. He reported the impeachment 
trial of President Andrew Johnson, and 
that of those implicated in the assassina- 
tion of President Lincoln, and later the 
trial of John H. Surratt, giving up sten- 
ography in 1875. He was appointed by 
Pre-ident Grant a member 'of the Board 
of Indian Commissioners, and traveled ex- 
tensively in their interest. He is pres- 
ident of the F. H, Smith Company; The 
Union Sivings Bank and the W. H. West 
Company. He was for four years pres- 
ident of the Young Men's Christian As- 
sociation; a director of the Executive 
Committee of the Columbian Hospital and 
of Howard University, and he was pres- 
ident of the first Board of Commissioners 
for Hya'tsville, Md., and is consp cuous 
in benevolent and civic work. He is a 
Royal Arch and Master Mason. He mar- 
ried Anna, daughter of Cyrus and Adeline 
Eirge, of Middlebury, Vt., who died in 
1896. Residence: 1807 Ninete£nth street, 
n.w. Office: 1408 New York avenue. 

SMITH, FRANCIS SCOTT KEY, law- 
yer, ^vas born in Heathsville, Northum- 
berland County, Virginia, on October 2, 
1872, son of Dr. James and Alice Turner 
(Key) Smith. His earliest ancestor in 
America was Phillip Key, grandfather of 
John Ross Key (father of Francis Scott 
Key), a revolutionary officer who armed 
and equipped a regiment of soldiers at 
his own expense for continental service. 
He is a grandson of Francis Scott Key, 
autho of the Star-Spangled Banner. Af- 
ter obtaining his preparatory education 
in the public schools of Baltimore and 
Washington and William and Mary Col- 
lege he entered the National University 
Law School, from vvtaich he was grad- 
uated LL.B. 1896, LL.M. 1897. F.om 1894 
to 1899 he was librarian of the Bar As- 
sociation of the District of Columbia Li- 
brary. He has served as first vice pres- 
ident Georgia State Sociological Society; 
sec etary Biennial Convention, Kappa 
Alpha college fraternity. Atlanta, Ga., 
1895. In 1906 he founded the Francis 
Scott Key Memorial Association, a socie- 
ty incorporated under the laws of the 



District of Columbia for the purpose of 
purchase, restoration and preservation of 
the old home of Francis Scott Key in 
Georgetown, D. C, where he lived at the 
time of writing the Star-Spangled Ban- 
ner. He is the author of numerous arti- 
cles on capital punishment and kindred; 
subjects, and many poems that have ap- 
peared in magazines. He is a member of 
the Episcopal Church, and Kappa Alpha 
(Southern) college fraternity. On August 
8, 1900, he married Lois Howard Head- 
den, of Rome, Ga., to which union has 
been born a son. Residence: 3365 Eight- 
eenth street, n.w. Office: 621 Thirteenth 
street, n.w. 

SMITH, FRANKLIN GUEST, Brigadier 
General, U. S. A. (retired.), was born 
near Blossburg, Pennsylvania, February 
16, 1840, son of Dr. Franklin R. and Mary 
(Guest) Smith. He attended public and 
private schools, and in 1859 was grad- 
uated with the degree of C. B. from the 
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. From 
1860 to 1861 he was private secretary to 
the general superintendent of the Ohio 
& Mississippi Railroad; for a time dur- 
ing 1861 he was private secretary to Gen- 
eral McClellan, then was appointed Sec- 
ond Lieutenant in the Fourth United 
States Artillery, and was promoted to 
First Lieutenant; served until the close 
of the Civil War, being twice brevetted — 
as Captain on December 31, 1862, and as 
Major, September 20, 1863. On February 
5, 1867, he was commissioned Captain; 
advanced to Major, August 28, 1891; made 
Lieutenant Colonel. March 8, 1898, pro- 
moted to Colonel, February 2, 1901; Brig- 
adier General, August 3, 1903, and retired 
August 4, 1903. After the civil war he 
served on the western frontier in various 
Indian campaigns; at the time of the 
Spanish-American war commanded the 
siege train at Port Tampa, Flo ida, which 
did not leave the United. States owing 
to the sudden termination of hostilities. 
General Smith is commissioner and secre- 
tary of the Chickamauga and Chatta- 
nooga National Park Commissions; he is 
a member of the United States Military 
Se vice Institution; Loyal Legion; Naval 
Institute; Army and Navy Club, etc. He 
has been twice married — on February 8, 
1866, to Frances L. Dauchy; and. on Oc- 
tober 4, 1881, to Georgiana Dauchy. Res- 
idence: 1306 Twenty-first street, n.w. 

SMITH, GEORGE OTIS, geologist, was 
born at Hodgdon. Maine, Fi^bruary 22, 
1871, son of Joseph O. and Emma Mayo 
Smith. He was graduated from Colby 
College with the degree of A. B. in 1893 
and that of A. M. in 1896; pursued post- 
graduate studies in geology at Johns 
Hopkins University, from which he was 
g aduated. with the degree of Ph.D. in 
1896. Since 1893, Mr. Smith has been en- 
gaged in various geologickl work, in New 
England, Michigan, Utah, Washington, 
and other states; since 1896 he has been 
geologist to the United States Geological 
Survey, and 1907 director. He is> a mem- 



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ber of the American Forest' y Association; 
Cosmos and University Clubs; a Fellow 
of the Geological Society of America; 
member American Institute of Mining En- 
gineers, and of the American Association 
for the Advancement of Science. On No- 
vember 18, 1896, he married Grace M. Co- 
burn. Residence: The Iowa. Office- U. 
S. Geological Survey. 

SMITH,, GEORGE W., lawyer, Con- 
gressman, was born in Putnam County, 
Ohio, August 18, 1846, and reared on a 
farm in Wayne County, Illinois, whither 
his parents lemoved in 1850. He attend- 
ed the public schools and learned the 
trade of a blacksmith; in 1868 he was 
graduated from McKendree College (Leb- 
anon, Illinois) ; studied law at Fairfield 
(Illinois) ; graduated from the law de- 
partment of Indiana University in 1870, 
and was admitted to practice the same 
year. In 1880 he was Republican elector 
for his district; since 1895 he has been 
Representative in Congress from the 
Twenty-fifth Illinois Congressional Dis- 
trict. Republican. Legal residence: Mur- 
physboro, Illinois. Washington address: 
House of Representatives. 

SMITH, HERBERT AUGUSTINE, edi- 
tor, U. S. Forest Service, was born at 
Southampton, Mass., Dec. 6, 1866, son of 
Rev. Burritt Augustus and Ellen Maria 
(Rowley) Smith. He was graduated from 
Phillips-Exeter Academy in 1885, and 
from Yale (B. A.) in 1889. He pursued 
graduate studies at Yale 1889-1891, and 
at the University of Paris, 1899-1900. 
In 1897 he received from Yale the de- 
gree of Ph.D. He was assistant in Eng- 
lish in the Sheffield; Scientific School of 
Yale University from 1891 to 1892, and 
Instructor in English in the same insti- 
tution from 1892 to 1894; instructor in 
English in Yale College, 1894-1898. He 
was engaged in journalism in New 
York City from 1900 to 1901, since 
which date he has been editor, U. 
S. Forest Service, Department of Ag.icul- 
ture. He has edited editions of Macau- 
lay's Essays on Milton and Addison. He 
Is a member of the Alpha Delta Phi; Phi 
Beta Kappa Society; American Forest- 
ers (associate member) ; Graduates Club 
(New Haven, Conn.); Yale Club (N. Y.) 
and the Cosmos Club of Washington. On 
April 15, 1895, he mafried Loretta J. 
Mead. Four children have been born to 
them, three are living. He is a member 
of the Presbyterian Church, and, in pol- 
itics a Republican. Legal residence: Lake 
Waccabuc, Westchester County. N. Y. 
Washington residence: 1407 Fifteenth 
.street, n.w. Office: U. S. Forest Service. 

SMITH, HERBERT KNOX, Commis- 
sioner of Corporations, U. S. Department 
of Commerce and Labor, was bo.n at 
Chester, Mass., November 17, 1869, son 
of Edward Alfred and Melissa E. (Knox) 
Smith. Moved with his family to Farm- 
ington, Conn., in 1874, where his father 
was a Congregational minister. He at- 



tended a private school at Farmington, 
Conn., from 1875 to 1885; graduated from 
Lawrenceville (N. J.) School in 1887; from 
Yale University, with the degree of A. B., 
in 1891; studied in Yale po.st-graduate 
school f-om 1891 to 1893, and in 1895 re- 
ceived from the University Law School 
the degree of B. L., and was admitted to 
the Connecticut bar in July, 1895. He 
was engaged in the practice of law at 
Hartford, Conn., from 1895 until appoint- 
ed U. S. Deputy Commissioner of Cor- 
porations, August 15, 1903. On March 5, 
1907, he was appointed Commissioner of 
Corporations succeeding Jamss R. Gar- 
field. Mr. Smith was twice a member of 
the Hartford common council — 1900 to 
1902; was chairman of the Republican 
town committee during 1903; and a mem- 
ber of the state legislature from 1903 to 
1905. He was a member of the govern- 
ment commission which investigated the 
Slocum disaster in 1904; arid, a member of 
the commission on the wreck of the Val- 
encia in 1906; was Park Commissioner in 
Hartford 1903-1906; is a director of the 
Farmington (Conn.) Savings Bank; di- 
rector, American School for the Deaf, and 
various charitable bodies. On March 16, 
1907, he was appointed by the president 
a member of the Inland Waterways Com- 
mission. His religious connection is with 
the Congregational Church; in politics he 
is a Republican. He is a member of the 
Hartford Club; Yale Club, of New York; 
and Metropolitan and Chevy Chase Clubs, 
of Washington. He is unmarried. Resi- 
dence: The Farragut. Office: Bureau of 
Corporations. 

SMITH, HERBERT SCOTT (D, D.),, 

clergyman, rector of St. Margaret's Epis- 
copal Church. Residence: 1859 Mintwood 
Place, n.w. 

SMITH, HUGH McCORMICK, Deputy 

Commissioner of Fisheries, was born in 
Washington, D. C, November 21, 1865, son 
of Thomas Croggon and Cornelia Frances 
(Hazad) Smith. He attended the 
Washington public schools; in 1888 was 
graduated from the Medical Department 
of Georgetown University with the de- 
gree of M. D., taking first honors, and 
later was engaged in post-graduate study 
in medicine in New York. In 1886 he 
entered the employment of the Fish Com- 
mission as an assistant; from 1892 to 
1897 had charge of the division of fish- 
eries; from 1897 to 1903 was assistant in 
charge of scientific inquiry, Fish Com- 
mission; during 1901 and 1902 had charge 
of the biological laboratory of the same, 
at Wood's Hole. Massachusetts; was co- 
special agent of the Tenth Census in 
charge of fisheries; since 1903 he has oc- 
cupied his present position, and been 
editor of the Bureau of Fisheries since 
1904. From 1889 to 1902 he was a mem- 
ber of the medical faculty; 1895 to 
1902, professor of normal histology at 
Georgetown University. Dr. Smith 
has been a delegate to various interna- 
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abroad; he has traveled extensively in 
Europe and other foreign lands to study 
the fisheries, etc., is ttie author of a 
number of scientific and popular books, 
articles, reports, etc., on ichthylogical and 
fishery subjects. He is a member of the 
Cosmos Club; the Washington Academy 
of Sciences; American Fisheries Society: 
Medical Society of the District of Colum- 
bia; American Ornithologists' Union; 
American Association for the Advance- 
ment of Science; and various other 
American and foreign scientific organiza- 
tions. On March 12, 1899, he married 
Emma Hanford. Residence: 1209 M 
street, n.w. Office: Bureau of Fisheries. 

SMITH, ISABEL E.. miniatue painter, 
was born in Ohio. She painted a min- 
iature of President McKinley on brooch 
worn daily by Mrs. McKinley, also min- 
iatures of Queen Wilhelmina. of Holland, 
from life. Queen Victoria, President Faure, 
of France, and other notabilities. Mem- 
ber National Woman's Indian Association 
Auxilia-y. and of the Sorosls Club, of New 
York. She was maTried in London, Eng- 
land, in 1895. to Carl F. Smith, artist. 
Residence: 1739 Seventeenth street, n.w. 

SMITH, JACOB HURD, Brigadier Gen- 
eral, U. S. A. (retired), was born at Jack- 
son, Ohio, January 29, 1840, son of J. M. 
G. Smith. He was educated in the pub- 
lic schools, and graduated f-om the Col- 
legiate and Commercial Institute, New 
Haven, Connecticut, in 1858. He entered 
the Union army in 1861, and foug*ht un- 
til the close of the Civil War; served in 
the Spanish-American war, and, during 
1899, against insurgents in the Philinpines. 
He was wounded in both the Civil and 
Spanish-American Wars. Prior to the 
latter, he was stationed on the western 
frontier and saw service in various In- 
dian campaigns. He was commissioned 
Major, November 26, 1894, made Colonel, 
October 20, 1899; commissioned Brigadier 
General, U. S. V., June 1, 1900, and pro- 
moted to the same rank in the regular 
army and Tetired in 1901. General Smith 
married Adelaide M. Hall. February 4, 
1885. Address: War Department. 

SMITH, JAMES FRANCIS, army offi- 
cer, lawyer, was born at San Francisco, 
Cal., January 28, 1859, son of Patrick and 
Anne Smith. He was graduated from 
Santa Clara (Cal.) College In 1878, studied 
law at the Hastings Law School, Califor- 
nia, and was admitted to the bar Jan- 
uary, 1881. Became Colonel First Califor- 
nia Volunteers April, 1898, and served on 
the first expedition to the Philippines; was 
present at the taking of Manila, and dep- 
uty provost marshal there. President Mil- 
itary Commission, October, 1899, com- 
manded First Brigade, First Division, 
Eighth Army Corps, October 22, 1898, and 
was a member of the commission to con- 
fer with commission from Aguinaldo Jan- 
uary, 1899. He was promoted to the rank 
of Brigadier-General, April 29, 1899, and 
was appointed military grovernor of the 



Island of Negros, July 24, 1899. Associate 
Justice Supreme Court of Philippine Is- 
lands, June 27, 1901; member of the Phil- 
ippine Commission and Secretary of Pub- 
lic Instruction, P. I., January 1, 1903. Ad- 
dress: War Department. 

SMITH, JOHN ADDISON BAXTER, 

Rear Admiral, U. S. N. (retired), was 
born at Baltimore, Maryland, March 21, 
1843, son of John A. and Sophia F. Smith. 
He received his education In the public 
schools and at Dickinson Seminary, Wil- 
liamsport, Pennsylvania; then returned to 
Baltimore and served an apprenticeship 
as a machinist; later stuaying engineer- 
ing in Baltimore. On April 21, 1863. he 
was appointed a third assistant engineer 
In the United States Navy; during the 
civil war he served around Charleston, 
South Carolina; on September 28. 1864. 
was promoted to Second Assistant En- 
gineer; advanced to First Assistant in 
1868; made Chief Engineer In 1892; com- 
missioned Commander in 1899, and Cap- 
tain in 1902. He was retired March 21. 
1905, with the rank of Rear Admi:al. He 
was attached to the Shufeldt expedition, 
which surveyed the Isthmus of Tehaunte- 
pec; was head of the Department of 
Steam Engineering at the Norfolk Navy 
Yard from 1896 to 1899, and, since the 
latter date has occupied a similar posi- 
tion at the New York Navy Yard. He is 
now General Inspector of the Bureau of 
Steam Engineering. Admiral Smith is a 
member of the American Society of Naval 
Engineers; Society of Naval Architects 
and Marine Engineers; Military Order of 
Loyal Legion; etc. In politics he is a 
Republican. Admiral Smith married Em- 
ma E. Smith. Address: Navy Depart- 
ment. I 

SMITH JOHN LEWIS, lawyer, was 
bo'n in Washington, D. C, on January 25, 
1877, son of John Ambler and Nannie 
(Lewis) Smith. His father was a law- 
yer by profession, served as a member of 
both the legislature and senate of Vir- 
ginia, and as a representative in congress 
from Richmond, Va. John Lewis, Charles 
Lewis and Larkin Smith, all ancestors, 
rendered gallant services during the Rev- 
olution. He was educated in the public 
schools of the District of Columbia and 
the National University Law School, from 
which he was graduated LL.B. and LL.M. 
in 1902. During the Spanish War he 
served six months as a private in Com- 
pany C of the First District of Columbia 
Volunteer Infantry. He is a Mason, a 
member of the Sons of the American 
Revolution, and in ipolitics a Republican. 
In October, 1900, he married Matie Liv- 
ingston Bagoley (deceased) to which 
union was born one child. Address: 458 
Louisiana avenue. 

SMITH, JOSEPH ADAMS, Rear Ad- 
miral, U. S. N. (retired), was born at 
Machias, Maine, September 1, 1837, son of 
George S. and Delia T. (Adams) Smith. 
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Bucksport (Maine) Seminary, school at 
Plymoutti, New Hampshire, and the Har- 
vard Law School. From the latter he 
has received the degree of LL. B. In 1861 
he was appointed assistant paymaster in 
the navy; he served through the remain- 
der of the civil war; commanded the 
powder division of the Kearsarge when 
that vessel fought the Alabama on July 
19, 1864; was commissioned paymaster in 
1862; made pay inspector in 1879; served 
as paymaster general of the navy from 
1882 to 1886 and from 1891 to his retire- 
ment in 1899, as pay director. Admiral 
Smith married May Hamlin Bartlett on 
January 26, 1881. Address: Navy Depart- 
ment. 

SMITH, JOSEPH EDMUND (D. D.; 
LL. D.), clergyman, pastor of the Grace 
Methodist Episcopal Church. Residence: 
1859 Mintwood Place. 

SMITH, MADISON ROSWELL, lawyer. 
Congressman, was born in Glen Allen, 
Bollinger County, Mo., on July 9, 1850, son 
of Andrew Jackson and Barbara C. 
(Kinder) Smith. He was educated at 
Central College, Fayette, Mo., and Cale- 
donia, Mo., after which he took up the 
study of law. He has served as prose- 
cuting attorney of his home county; been 
a member of the Missouri State Senate 
and reporter of the St. Louis (Mo.) Court 
of Appeals and has been actively engaged 
In the general practice of law in the city 
of Farmington, Mo., several years. In 
November, 1906, he was elected a mem- 
ber of the House of Representatives as a 
Democrat. He is a member of the Meth- 
odist Church and a Mason. On January 
12, 1881, he married Nannie Leech, of 
Cape Girardeau, Mo., to which union have 
been born seven children, five of whom 
are living. Legal residence: Farmington, 
Mo. Washington address: House of Rep- 
resentatives. 

SMITH, MARCUS AURELIUS, lawyer, 
territorial delegate to Congress from Ariz- 
ona, was born near Cynthiana, Kentucky, 
Januaiy 24, 1852, and received his educa- 
tion at Transylvania University (Lexing- 
ton, Kentucky). By profession he is a 
lawyer; removed to Arizona in 1881; was 
elected prosecuting attorney of his dis- 
trict there in 1882; was delegate to the 
House of Representatives from 1887 to 
1894, from 1897 to 1899, from 1900 to 1902; 
and, again, since 1905. Democrat. Legal 
residence: Tucson, Arizona. Washington 
address: House of Representatives. 

SMITH, RODNEY, army officer, was 
born in Vermont on January 23, 1829. On 
February 23, 1864, he was appointed 
Major and Paymaster in the army from 
Kentucky. He was promoted to Lieuten- 
ant-Colonel and Deputy Paymaster-Gen- 
eral, on January 24, 1881; Colonel and 
Assistant Paymaster-General, on De- 
cember 8, 1886; retiring as a Colonel on 
January 3, 1893, and subsequently, 'on 
April 23, 1904, was promoted to a Briga- 



dier-General, U. S. A., retired. Address: 
Waf Department. 

SMITH, ROLAND COTTON, Protestant 
Episcopal clergyman, was born in New 
York City, March 24, 1860, son of John 
Cotton and Harriette (Appleton) Smith. 
He was graduated from Amherst College 
in 1882; from the Episcopal Theological 
Seminary at Cambridge in 1885, and was 
oidained the same year. From then until 
1889 he was rector of St. Peter's Church, 
at Beverly, Massachusetts; was assistant 
minister of Trinity Church, Boston, from • 
1883 to 1893; then rector of St. John's 
Church, Northampton, Massachusetts, un- 
til 1902, since which time he has been 
rector of St. John's Church, Washington. 
Rev. Smith married Margaret Sigourney 
Otis, November 13, 1885. Residence: 1461 
Rhode Island avenue, n.w. 

SMITH, SAMUEL WILLIAM, lawyer, 
Congressman, was born in Oakland 
County, Michigan, August 23, 1852, and 
olatained his education in Clarkston and 
Detroit, Michigan. Later he was admitted 
to the bar, and then pursued a course in 
law at the University of Michigan, Vhere 
he was graduated. In 1880 Mr. Smith was 
elected prosecuting attorney of Oakland 
County (Michigan), and re-elected In 
1882; he was a State Senator in 1884; 
and has represented the Sixth Michigan 
district in Congress since the Fifty-Fifth 
Congress (elected in 1896). In politics he 
is a Republican. Legal residence: Pon- 
tiac, Michigan. Washington address: 
House of Representatives. 

SMITH, SYLVESTER CLARK, lawyer, 
Congressman, was born on a farm near 
Mount Pleasant, Iowa, August 26, 1858, 
and was educated in the common schools 
and Howe's Academy, Mount Pleasant. 
In 1879, he removed to California, where 
he taught school and farmed in Colusa 
County; in 1883 he went to Kern County 
to teach; at this time he also studied law, 
and in 1885 was admitted to the bar, and 
began the practice of his profession at 
Bakersfield. In 1886 Mr. Smith became 
editor of the Kern County Echo; in 1889, 
editor and proprietor, which position he 
occupied until 1897, when he resumed the 
practice of law. He was elected State 
Senator in 1894 and 1898, serving eight 
years; and in 1904 was elected Repre- 
sentative in Congress from the Eighth 
California Congressional District. In pol- 
itics Mr. Smith is a Republican. Legal 
residence: Bakersfield, California. Wash- 
ington address: House of Representa- 
tives. 

SMITH, THOMAS ALEXANDER, Con- 
gressman, was born near G;eenwood, Del- 
aware, September 3, 1850, and received 
his education in the public schools and 
at Denton Academy. For a number of 
years he taught school in Delaware, Mary- 
land, and Michigan; atter which he was 
appointed agent of the Philadelphia, Wil- 
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Maryland, which position he held until 
his election to Congress. F:om 1889 to 

1893 he was school commissioner of Car- 
olina County, Maryland; State Senator in 

1894 and 1896; from 1900 to 1903 Chief of 
the Bureau of Statistics and Information 
of Maryland; during 1904 and 1905 was 
a member of the State Board of Aid and 
Charities; was formerly president of the 
Bank of Ridgely; is Sup.eme President of 
the Supreme Council of United Craftsmen. 
Mr. Smith was elected to the Fifty-ninth 
Congress from the first Maryland district; 
he is a Democrat in politics. In 1878 
he married Ada Clayton Frazer. Legal 
residence: Ridgely, Maryland. Washing- 
ton address: House of Representatives. 

SMITH, THOMAS WILSON, lumber 
merchant and manufacturer, was born at 
Gordonsville (Concord), Lancaster Coun- 
ty, Pennsylvania, January 1, 1846, son of 
Henry Weller and Rosearma (Wilson) 
Smith. He was educated in the public 
schools and at Columbia (Pa.) Institute. 
He was a member of the militia of Lan- 
caster County, Pa., during the time of 
Ealy's Raid (1863). He has been en- 
gaged in the lumber business in Wash- 
ington for a number of years. Mr. Smith 
was two years president of the Washing- 
ton Board of Trade; he is president of 
the Eastern Dispensary and Casualty Hos- 
ipital, and of the East Washington Cit- 
izens' Association. He is a member of 
the Methodist Episcopal Church and of 
the Masonic order. In politics he is a Re- 
publican. On November 9, 1872, he mar- 
ried Caroline Gatchel. Residence: 2334 
Columbia Road. Office: First street and 
Indiana avenue. 

SMITH, WALTER F., Disciples of 
Christ clergyman, pastor of the Whitney 
Avenue Memorial Christian Church. Res- 
idence: 640 Park Road, n.w. 

SMITH, WALTER INGLEWOOD, law- 
yer, Congressman, was born at Council 
Bluffs, Iowa, July 10, 1862, and was edu- 
cated in the public schools, later studying 
law, and was admitted to the bar in 
1882. From 1890 to 1900 he was judge of 
the fifteenth judicial district of Iowa; and 
since the latter date has been Representa- 
tive in Congress from the Ninth Iowa 
District. Republican. Legal residence: 
Council Bluffs, Iowa. Washington ad- 
dress: House of Representatives. 

SMITH, W. HAMILTON, manager of 
the J. Maury Dove Coal Company, was 
born in New London, Conn. He came to 
Washington in 1873, where he was edu- 
cated in the public schools. In 1876 he 
entered the employ of H. Clay Stewart, 
doing a retail coal business, and later 
was for a year and a half connected with 
Woodward & Lothrop, acting as credit 
clerk. In 1891 he entered the employ of 
J. Maury Dove Coal Company, having a 
liberal interest in the company, and act- 
ing as manager. Residence: The Maury. 
Office: Twelfth and F streets, n.w. 



SMITH, WILLIAM ALDEN, lawyer, U. 
S. Senator, was born at Dowagiac, Mich- 
igan, May 12, 1859, and received a com- 
mon school education. In 1872 he re- 
moved to Grand Rapids with his parents; 
he was a newsboy and messenger boy 
in the service of the Western Union Tel- 
egraph Company until 1879, when he was 
appointed a page in the Michigan House 
of Representatives. Subsequently he 

studied law, and was admitted to the bar 
in 1883, since which time he has been en- 
gaged in the practice of his profession. 
He was a member of the Republican State 
Central Committee in 1888, 1890, and 1892, 
and served as a Representative in Con- 
gress f om the Fifth Michigan District 
from 1895 to 1907. In 1907 he wag elected 
United States Senator to succeed Russell 
A. Alger. In 1886 he married Nana Os- 
terhaut. Republican. In 1901 he received 
the honorary degree of M.A. from Dart- 
mouth College. Legal Residence: Grand 
Rapids, Michigan. Washington address: 
U. S. Senate. 

SMITH,, WILLIAM M., Chief Clerk of 
the Bureau of Yards and Docks, Navy 
Department, was born in 1869 in Ohio. 
He served as messenger, telegraph op- 
erator, and train dispatcher with the Bal- 
timore & Ohio Railroad Company, and 
afterwards secretary to Hon. J. D. Taylor, 
M. C, of Ohio, befoie taking his civil 
service examination in 1892. He was first 
a clerk in the Bureau of Navigation, and 
during the Spanish war was assigned to 
examining and commissioning volunteer 
officers, besides having charge of all 
naval officers records, and was appointed 
Chief Clerk of the Bureau of Yards and 
Docks in 1898. He had the tempora.y re- 
sponsibility of his chief during Admrial 
Endicott's absence on the Isthmian Canal 
Commission, and is now Acting Chief of 
the Bureau during the absence of Admiral 
Hollyday. He is a member of the district 
bar; the Ohio Republican Association; the 
Kappa Sigma fraternity, and the Colum- 
bia Golf Club. Residence: 3105 Eleventh 
street, n.w. Office: N'avy Department 
Building. 

SMITH, WILLIAM ORLANDO, editor, 
publisher, Congressman, was born at 
Reynoldsville, Jefferson County, Pa., June 
13, 1859, and educated in the common 
schools. He learned the printer's trade, 
and for a time was publisher of the Reyn- 
oldsville Herald; for six years he was an 
employe of the Government Printing Of- 
fice in Washington; was co-founder of 
the Washington Craftsman, organ of the 
International Typographical Union, and 
associate editor; in 1884 he removed to 
Punxsutawney, Pa., and was successively 
editor of the Tribune and- Spirit there. 
Mr. Smith served as a member of the 
legislature from 1889 to 1896; he was edi- 
tor of the Bradford (Pa.) Daily Era in 
1891; since January, 1892, he has been 
half-owner and editor of the Punxsu- 
tawney Spirit. He represented the Twen- 
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District in tlie Fifty-elg-hth and Fifty- 
ninth Congresses. Mr. Smith is a Re- 
publican. In February, 1880, ne mar ied 
Phebe H. Qriggs. Legal residence: Punx- 
sutawney, Pa. Washington address: 
House of Representatives. 

SMITH,, WILLIAM ROBERT, lawyer, 
Congressman, was born in Smiih County, 
Texas, August 18, 1863. son of Samuel Au- 
gustus and Melissa (Dobbs) Smith; was 
educated at the Sam Houston Normal In- 
stitute at Huntsville, Texas, graduating 
in 1883. He studied law in Tyler, Texas, 
and was admitted to the ba in 1885, prac- 
ticed law in Tyler, until February, 1888, 
and then removed to Colorado, Texas, and 
practiced there until appointed by the 
Governor in May, 1897, Judge of the 
Thirty-second District of Texas. He was 
re-elected in 1898 and 1900, and later 
served in the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth 
Congresses, and was re-elected to the 
Sixtieth. He was ma ried November 6, 
1890, to Frances Lipscomb Breedlove, of 
Erenham, Texas. Legal residence: Colo- 
rado, Texas. Washington address: 
House of Representatives. 

SMOOT, REED, United States Senator 
from Utah, was born at Salt Lake City, 
Utah, January 10, 1862, son of Abraham 
O. and Anne (Morrison) Smoot. He re- 
ceived his education in the State Uni- 
versity and B.igham Young Academy, 
graduating from the latter. He is a bank- 
er and woolen manufacturer; president of 
the Provo Commercial and Savings Bank 
and the Provo Woolen Mills Co.; director 
of the Deseret National Bank, and the 
Deseret Savings Bank, and a number of 
othe:s; he is also interested in a num- 
ber of large mercantile establishments. 
He has been appointed to several offices 
by various governors. He was elected to 
the Senate and took his seat on March 
4, 1903. He is an apostle of the Church 
of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, 
commonly called the "Mormon" Church. 
In politics he is a Republican. Senator 
Smoot matried Alpha M. Eldredge on 
September 17, 1884. Legal residence: 
Provo City, Utah. Washington address: 
Care U. S. Senate. 

SMYSER, MARTIN LUTHER, lawyer. 
Congressman, was born in Wayne Coun- 
ty, Ohio, April 3, 1851, and received his 
education in the common schools and 
Wittenberg College (Springfield, Ohio). 
He was prosecuting attorney for Wayne 
County for one term; served as Represen- 
tative in the Fifty-first Congress; and the 
Fifty-ninth Congress from the Seven- 
teenth Ohio District. Republican. Legal 
residence: Wooster, Ohio. Washington 
address: House of Representatives. 

SMYTH, JAMES A., clergyman, assist- 
ant lector of St. Patrick's Catholic 
Church. Residence: 619 Tenth street, 
n.w. 

SMYTH, THOMAS G., clergyman, as- 
sistant rector of St. Stephen's Catholic 



Church. Residence: 2436 Pennsylvania 
avenue, n.w. 

SNAPP, HOWARD MALCOLM, lawyer. 
Congressman, was born at Joliet, Illinois, 
September 27, 1855, and received his edu- 
cation in the public schools, and at Chi- 
cago University for three years. He was 
admitted to the practice of law in 1879; 
was a delegate to the National Republican 
Convention of 1896; from 1884 to 1903 was 
master in chancery; in 1903 was elected 
Representative to (ZIongress from the Elev- 
enth Illinois District. He has since been 
re-elected. Republican. Legal residence: 
Joliet, Illinois. Washington address: 
House of Representatives. 

SNIFFIN, CULVER T., Brigadier- 
General, U. S. A., Paymaster, War De- 
partment. Residence: The Cai.o. Office: 
War Department. 

SNOW, ALBERT SYDNEY,, Captain, U. 
S. N., was born at Rockland, Maine, No- 
vember 18, 1845, and was graduated from 
the United States Naval Academy in 1865. 
He was commissioned Ensign in 1866; 
made Master in 1868; promoted to Lieu- 
tenant, 1869; advanced to Lieutenant 
Commander, 1880; commissioned Com- 
mander, 1890; and made Captain, March 
3, 1899. Captain Snow served with the 
Pacific Squadron on the occasion of the 
attack on Korean fo:ts in Korea; was at- 
tached to the Coast and Geodetic Survey 
from 1883 to 1887; was a member of the 
Board of Inspection ^nd Survey, of the 
Navy, from 1887 to 1890; commander of 
the Essex from 1890 to 1892; stationed at 
the Naval Academy from 1893 to 1894; 
was inspector of the third lighthouse dis- 
trict from 1895 to 1898; commanded the 
"Badger" during 1898; was commander 
of the New York from 1899 to 1900; from 
1900 to 1904 commandant of the New York 
Navy Yard, and, since 1904, commandant 
of the Boston Navy Yard. Address: Navy 
Department. 

SNOW, CHESTER AMMEN, patent 
lawyer, was born at Newcastle, Craig 
County, Virginia, April 6, 1844, son of 
Dexter Asiel and Catherine Salome (Am- 
men) Snow. He was educated at Fincas- 
tle Academy and Roanoke College, Vir- 
ginia, and at Bethany College, West Vir- 
ginia, and Georgetown University Law 
School. In 1869, at the age of twenty-five, 
he was appointed superintendent of pub- 
lic schools at Newark, O., remaining in 
that capacity for three years. In 1873 he 
removed to Washington, and was for 
eighteen months a clerk in the Navy De- 
partment. He was admitted to the bar 
in 1874, and since that time has been 
engaged in patent soliciting and patent 
law. For a number of years he has been 
president of the Washington Humane So- 
ciety. Mr. Snow mar led Claire Seaman 
Parfet on July 23, 1894. Residence: 1812 
Newton street, n.w. Office: Warder 
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SNOW, ALPHEUS HENRY, lawyer, 
author, was born at Claremont, N. H., 
November 8, 1859, son of AlpheuB Frank- 
lin and Sarah M. (Dean) Snow. From 
1864 to 1887 he lived in Hartford, Conn., 
and attended the public schools and high 
school of that city. He was graduated 
from Yale University in 1879, and from 
the Law School of Harvard University 
in 1883. The college year of 1876-77 he 
spent at Trinity College, in Hartford. In 
1887 he removed to Indianapolis, Ind. Un- 
til 1899 he was engaged in the general 
practice of law. During his practice in 
Indianapolis, in conjunction with his 
partners, Joseph E. McDonald and John 
M. Butler, he took part in the trial of sev- 
eral cases of public interest in the State 
courts and in the Supreme Court of the 
United States. Being compelled, by ill 
health, in 1899, to relinquish the practice 
of his profession, he removed to Wash- 
ington, and has since been engaged in 
investigating and writing upon the po- 
litical questions arising out of the connec- 
ton between the United States and its an- 
nexed insular countries, and questions 
of the same nature arising in other coun- 
tries. He has written on th« subject a 
book, The Administration of Dependen- 
cies (1902), and two pamphlets. Consider- 
ations in the Interest of the People of the 
Philippine Islands (1906), and Colony — 
or Free State? (1907). He is a member of 
the Cosmos, Metropolitan, University and 
Chevy Chase clubs. In politics he is a 
Republican. On June 29, 1887, he mar- 
ried Margaret Maynard Butler. Address: 
2013 Massachusetts avenue, n.w. 

SNYDER, EDGAR CALLENDER, 

newspaper correspondent, was born at 
Philadelphia, Pa., September 6, 1860, son 
of Mary DeMuth and Amos Snyder. He 
was graduated from the University of 
Pennsylvania in 1883; was city editor 
of the Omaha (Nebraska) Republican 
from 1884 to 1885; then for a time on the 
staff of the Omaha Bee, and since 1895 
Washington correspondent uf the Toronto 
World, Denver Post, Omaha Bee and oth- 
er papers. He is a member of the Pen 
and Pencil and Lincoln clubs, of Phila- 
delphia; of the Gridiron and University 
cluhs, of Washington. Mr. Snyder mar- 
ried Emily Rose on June 21, 1887. Resi- 
dence: 1108 Yale street, n.w. Office: 501 
14th street, n.w. 

SNYDER, SIMON, Brigadier General 
U. S. A. (retired), was born at Selins- 
Srrove, Pennsylvania, February 9, 1839, son 
of Henry W. Snyder, On April 26, 
1861, he was commissioned a Second 
Lieutenant in the 5th United States In- 
fantry; was promoted to First Lieutenant 
June 25,1861; made Captain July 1,1863; 
advanced to Major March 10, 1883; be- 
came Lieutenant Colonel January 2, 1888; 
commissioned Colonel September 16, 1893; 
appointed Brigadier General, U. S. V., 
May 4, 1898, and advanced to the same 
rank in the regular army and retired in 



1902. After the Civil War he saw service 
on the Western frontier; he was brevetted 
Major in 1890 for services against Indians 
at Bear Paw Mountain, Montana; during 
the Spanish-American War he command- 
ed the first brigade of the first division, 
1st Army Corps, in the South, and went 
with that brigade as commander, into 
Cuba; was subsequently governor of the 
Province 'of Santa Clara, Cuba, during 
a part of 1898 and 1899; later was sta- 
tioned at Ponce, Porto Rico; in 1899 was 
mustered out of the volunteer service 
and resumed the rank of Colonel, U. S. A., 
joining his regiment in the Philippines, 
where he was for a time stationed at 
Manila and later in command at Cebu, 
from September. 1899 to April, 1900. Gen- 
eral (then Colonel) Snyder was then or- 
dered to the United States; from 1900 
to 1901 he was Acting Inspector General 
of the Department 'of the Lakes; returned 
to the Philippines in 1901 and there com- 
manded his regiment, and, from Decem- 
ber, 1901, to May, 1902, the 5th Separate 
Brigade. He was retired on May 10, 1902. 
General Snyder married Mary T. Ward- 
well on October 9, 1869. Address: Read- 
ing, Pennsylvania, or War Department. 

SNYDER, WILLIAM TAYLOE, Epis- 
copal clergyman, rector of the Church of 
the Incarnation. Residence: 1317 Nine- 
teenth street, n.w. 

SOLAR, VINCENTE DEL, Military At- 
tache Chilean Embassy. Address. The 
Rochambeau. 

SOLBERG, THORVALD, Register of 
Copyrights, was born at Manitowoc, Wis., 
April 22, 1852, son of Charles and Mary 
Solberg, both of whom were born in Nor- 
way. He received his education in the 
public schools; was an employe of the 
Library of Congress from 1876 to 1889; 
then, until 1897, was manager of the lit- 
erary department of the Boston Book 
Company, principally engaged abroad; h* 
has occupied his present position since 
July 15, 1897. Mr. Solberg has been an 
active participant in the movement for 
an international copyright agreement; he 
is the author of a large number of books, 
pamphlets, articles in periodicals, etc., 
ton copyrights and general bibliography. 
He was a delegate to the international 
copyright congresses at Barcelona, Spain, 
in 1893; Antwerp, in 1894, and (as the 
United States delegate) Paris, 1900. He 
is a member of the American Authors' 
Copyright League, and the International 
Literary and Artistic Association of Paris. 
He was married on August 1, 1880. Resi- 
dence: 198 P. street, s.e. 

80LEAU, WILLIAM L,. disbursing 
clerk, Department of Commerce and La- 
bor, was born at Monroe, Mich., June 12, 
1861. He was educated at Gronzaga (D. 
C.) College, and was appointed assistant 
messenger in the Pension Bureau; pro- 
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and later Chief of the Finance Division. 
He had temporary charge of the office 
made vacant by the death of the late Gen. 
Wilson, and was appointed by Secretary 
Cortelyou to his present position. Resi- 
dence: 2431 18th street, n.w. Office: De- 
partment of Commerce and Labor. 

SOMERVILLE, WILLIAM MORISON, 

civil engineer and master mariner, was 
born at Dunblane, Perth County, Scotland, 
May 24, 1834, son of William and Marga- 
ret (Clow) Somerville. He attended the 
Dunblane Parochial School from 1839 to 
1848, equal to a collegiate course in this 
country, and was graduated from tlie 
New York Nautical College in 1864, as 
Master Mariner of Sailing Vessels. From 
1855 to 1860, before our ships were pro- 
tected, he sailed for A. A. Low & Brother, 
of New York, in the China and California 
trade, during which service he spent six 
months in the Philippines; later between 
the St. Lawrence and South America. 
Subsequently he was engaged in the Ca- 
nadian and lake and river trade; was six 
years with the Canadian Marine Depart- 
ment, and received his commission as 
Captain from the Dominican government 
in 1874, and for ten years was a civil en- 
gineer for the United States in Florida, 
under General Gilmore. In all he has 
sailed in the merchant navies of Britain, 
Canada, and the United States for forty 
years. He is a Mason, having been ini- 
tiated in 1860 under the Register of the 
Grand Lodge of England; member of the 
Presbyterian Church, and has been an 
elder since 1864; was ordained in the 
Evangelical Union, Montreal; he is a past 
president of the Scottish Association of 
Florida, Sons of Temperance, etc. He 
has held several official positions in seven 
Masonic Lodges; A. P. M. for thirty years. 
a Past Grand Superintendent of Capitu- 
lar Masonry, and a Past Inspector Gener- 
al of the Cryptic Rite. He has been twice 
married, on December 25, 1862, to Jeanie 
Baxter Leitch (who died in 1888), of La 
Prail-ie, Canada, and in 1890, to Christina 
Somerville, daughter of the late Thomas 
Somerville. Address: 2024 Columbia road. 

SOMMER, H. (HENRY) OTTO, physi- 
cian, was born at Washington, D. C, Dec. 
11, 1875, son of Ernst Julius and Magda- 
lene (Wetzel) Sommer. He is of distin- 
guished German ancestry. Henry Otto 
Sommer was educated in the public 
schools of Washington; in the State Pay 
Schools of Germany; studied medicine at 
Baltimore, Maryland, and at Berlin and 
Freiburg, Germany; Paris, France; Lon- 
don, Munich, New York, Stuttgart, etc. 
He was graduated in 1900 from Berlin 
University. He has been engaged in the 
practice of medicine and surgery in this 
city for a number of years; was formerly 
assistant surgeon and pro tem. superin- 
tendent of the Metropolitan Hospital of 
New York, where he attended wounded 
and sick during Spanish -American War. 



Dr. Sommer is the inventor of the Som- 
mer Surgical Cushion; and in his research 
work in pathology has discovered para- 
sitical and microbe infections, etc. He 
is the author of a descriptive surgical 
work on cancer of the rectum. During 
the summer of 1907 he was surgeon of 
the U. S. S. Patterson, engaged in ex- 
plorations and surveys at Kodiac, Id., and 
Shelikoff Straits, Alaska. Dr. Sommer is 
unmarried. Address: 1227 O street, n.w. 

SONTAG, CHARLES F., clergyman, 
pastor of the Grace Lutheran Church. 
Residence: 520 Sixth street, n.w. 

SOULE, JOHN HARTLEY, senior 
member of the firm of Soule & Company 
(real estate), was born at Randolph, 
Mass., descended from Mayflower stock, 
and was educated in the public schools of 
Portland, Maine. At the age of eighteen 
he removed to Rochester, Minn., and in 
1864 accepted a position in the Interior 
Department, holding it till 1873, When he 
entered departmental practice, adding to 
it later a branch of real estate. In 1889 
he purchased the Washington Sunday 
Herald, and disposed of it in 1894; was 
also the owner and manager for fifteen 
years of the United States Gazette. He 
married a daughter of the late Buckner 
Bayliss. Residence: The Maury. Office: 
Bank of Washington Building. 

SOUTHALL, ROBERT GOODE, lawyer. 

Congressman, was born in Amelia County, 
Va., December 26, 1852, and educated in 
the Washington Academy and the high 
school of his native county. He was for 
fourteen years deputy clerk of Nottaway 
County, Virginia; from 1874 to 1875 he at- 
tended the law department of the Univer- 
sity of Virginia, from which he gradu- 
ated in 1876 with the degree of LL. B. In 
1877 he began the practice of his profes- 
sion; he was elected a member of the 
State Legislature in 1899 and 1901; was 
attorney for Amelia County until 1903; 
since that time he has been a Represen- 
tative in Congress from the Fourth Vir- 
ginia District. He is a Democrat and 
was a delegate to the national conventions 
of that party in 1888 and 1896. Unmar- 
ried. Legal residence: Amelia, Virginia. 
Washington address. House of Represen- 
tatives. 

SOUTHARD, JAMES HARDING, law- 
er. Congressman, was born in Washing- 
ton Township, Lucas County, Ohio, Janu- 
ary 20, 1851, son of Samuel and Charlotte 
(Hitchcock) Southard. He attended the 
Hopewell district school; studied at To- 
ledo and was graduate from Cornell Uni- 
versity in 1874. He took up the study 
of law in 1875; was admitted to the bar 
in 1877; served successively as assistant 
prosecuting attorney and prosecuting at- 
torney (was twice elected for the latter 
office), and has been a Representative in 
Congress from the Eighth Ohio District 
since 1904. Republican. Mr. Southard 
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1882. Leg-al residence: Toledo, Ohio. 
Washington address: House of Represen- 
tatives. 

SOUTHERLAND, WILLIAM HENRY 
HUDSON, Captain. U. S. N., was born in 
New Yorl<, July 10, 1852. son of William 
and Phoebe (Hudson) Southerland. He 
was graduated from the United States 
Naval Academy in 1872, and since that 
time has served through various succes- 
sive rinks to the grade of Captain. He 
served in the Spanish-American War on 
the Cuban Coast, and is now a member of 
the Board of Inspection and Survey of 
the Navy. He is joint author of Azimuth 
Tables, and author of The North Atlantic 
Cyclone of August, 1883. Captain South- 
erland married Mary Rodman on August 
1, 1887. Residence: 1921 N street, n.w. 

SOUTHGATE, EDWARD M., clergy- 
man, rector of St. Anthony's Catholic 
Church. Residence: 1029 Monroe street, 
n.e., Brookland, D. C. 

SOUTHWICK, GEORGE N., editor, 
Congressman, was born in Albany, N. Y., 
March 7, 1863, son of Henry C. and Mar- 
garet J. Southwick. He was educated in 
private, public and high schools, and 
in 1884 was graduated from Williams 
College. He then entered the Albany Law 
School, but was compelled by financial 
reverses to leave; 'he then joined the staff 
of the Albany Morning Express in an edi- 
torial and reportorial capacity; was As- 
sociated Press representative at the Leg- 
islature, sessions of 1886, 1887 and 1888; 
in the latter year was made managing 
editor of the Morning Express, and in 
1889, of the Albany Evening Journal. In 
1894 he was elected to Congress from the 
Twenty-third New York District, and has 
since been re-elected. In 1896 Mr. South- 
wick was permanent chairman, and pre- 
sided at the Republican State Convention 
in New York; has stumped the State in 
the interest of the Republican party each 
campaign since 1888. He is the author 
of a number of contributions to current 
magazines. Legal residence: Albany, N. 
Y. Washington address: House of Rep- 
resentatives. 

SOUTHWORTH, EMMA D. E. N., au- 
thoress, was born in 1819. She was edu- 
cated in the public schools and taught 
for some years, and then resorted to her 
pen for self-support, which proved ex- 
ceedingly successful. Her first novel. 
Retribution, was published in 1849, and 
in 1853 she purchased Prospect Cottage, 
overlooking the Potomac near the north- 
ern end of the Aqueduct Bridge. Here 
she wrote most of her, three score vol- 
umes of fiction. Her industry was amaz- 
ing, sometimes producing three novels in 
a year. Her tales, while nothing artistic- 
ally remarkable, were admirable delinea- 
tions in the South before the war, and 
their sale was phenomenal — greater than 
any other books of that day. She accept- 



ed an offer to go to England to write, 
and her stories were even more popular 
there than in America. They have been 
translated into German, French, Spanish 
and other languages, and reprinttd In 
London, Paris, Leipsic, Madrid and Mon- 
treal. She died a very few years ago, 
and her old home is now being used as a 
restaurant. 

SOWERS, Z. T. (M. D.), physician, 

president Washington Hospital for 

Foundlings. Residence: 1707 Massachu- 
setts avenue, n.w. 

SPARKMAN, STEPHEN M., lawyer. 
Congressman, was born in Hernando 
County, Florida, July 29, 1849. In 1895 he 
was elected Representative to Congress 
from the First Florida District, and has 
subsequently been re-elected. Democrat. 
Legal residence: Tampa, Fla. Washing- 
ton address: House of Representatives. 

SPEAR. ELLIS, patent attorney, was 
born at Warren, Knox County, Maine, 
October 15, 1834, son of James Marston 
Spear. We was graduated from Bowdoin 
University in 1858, and in 1862 entered 
the Union Army as Captain of the 20th 
Maine Volunteers, rising to the rank of 
Colonel in 1865, and brevet Brigadier Gen- 
eral. From 1865 to 1868 he was an As- 
sistant Examiner in railway and civil 
engineering at the United States Patent 
Office; was Examiner from 1868 to 1872; 
Examiner-in-Ch:ef of the same from 1872 
to 1874; Assistant Commissioner of Pat- 
ents from 1874 to 1876, when he resigned. 
Since that time he ihas been engaged in 
private business as a patent attorney and 
solicitor, except for the period January, 
1877, to November, 1878, when he served 
as Commissioner of Patents. Mr. Spear 
Is a vice-president of the Equitable Co- 
operative Building' Association, and sec- 
ond vice-president of the Washington 
Loan and Trust Company. Residence: 
1601 Laurel avenue. Office. 1003 F street, 
n.w. 

SPEIR, WILLIAM EDWIN, architect, 
contractor and builder, was born in New 
York City. April 13, 1848, son of William 
and Louisa L. (Weed) Speir, and acquired 
his professional education at Cooper In- 
stitute, where he was graduated with hon- 
ors. In 1865 he was apprenticed to the 
carpenter's trade and worked at it until 
1872. He then engaged as a draughtsman 
in architects' offices in New York and 
Brooklyn, till he went to superintend the 
erection of the residence of George W. 
Williams at Charleston, S. C. From 1872- 
76 he was superintendent of the W. IJ. 
Russell Manufacturing Company; in the 
latter year opened an office for himself, 
and until 1883 practiced his profe.ssio.n, 
erecting many 'buildings, churches' and 
theatres. He was then appointed Inspec- 
tor of Public Buildings for the U. S. 
Treasury Department, being the first gov- 
ernment inspector of buildings. In 1SS7 
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appointed by the Secretary of the Treas- 
ury to ex-imine and report concerning ;he 
safety or insecurity of buildings affected 
by the Charlesion earthquake, and thai 
report recomm.nJing the demolition of 
a hundred buddings, attracted general at- 
tention. He ejected the District Building; 
the Garfleid Hos^i.a.; Cont-gious Dis- 
ects.s Hospital; the Bliss Build. ng; Dris- 
coil Apartment House; Swedenborgian 
Church, in Washington, be^iJed a large 
number of private buildings in dift'erent 
pails of the country. He is a Mystic 
Shrintr a member of the Master Build- 
ers Association and an original member 
of the American Institute of Architects. 
In 1873 he married Anna B., daughter of 
Samuel Moore, of New Yorli, and they 
have two children. Residence: 1301 Yale 
street, n.w. OtRce, Bliss Building. 

SPENCER, ARTHUR COE, geologist, 
was born at Carmel, New York, Septem- 
ber 27, 1871, son of Stephen Olin and Car- 
rie (Adams) Spencer. He was educated 
at home by his parents; graduated from 
the Case School of Applied Science 
(Cleveland. Oh.o) in 1892, with the degree 
of B. S., after a course in metallurgical 
engineering; pursued postgraduate study 
at Johns Hopkins University in mineral- 
ogy, geology, etc., graduating in 1896, 
with the degree of Ph. D. During 1893 
and 1894 he was assistant geologist with 
the survey of Iowa in the coal regions; 
from 1896 to 1900 was engaged with the 
United States Geologicil survey as geolo- 
gist, and employed in geological observa- 
tions in the San Juan region, Colorado; 
later in the Copper River locality, Alaska, 
from 1900 to 1901; in Cuba for the Geo- 
logical Survey during 1901 and 1902; in 
Wyoming from 1902 to 1903; in the Ju- 
neau gold belt of Alaska during 1903, and 
in a study of the Pre-Cambrian geology, 
and ore deposits, of New Jersey, during 

1904 and 1905. Mr. Spencer is the author 
of a number of geological and allied re- 
ports, papers, etc. On March 19, 1902, 
he married Betty Lublin. He is a mem- 
ber of the Cosmos Club. Residence: 1733 
Howard avenue. Office: Geological Sur- 
vey. 

SPENCER, JOSEPH WILLIAM WIN- 
THROP, geologist, was born at Dundas, 
Ontario, Canada, March 26, 1851, son of 
Joseph and Eliza Eleanor (Coe) Spencer. 
He was graduated from McGill Univer- 
sity, Montreal, Canada, with the degree 
of B. Sc, in 1874; from Goettingen 
University, Germany, with A. M. and Ph. 
D., in 1877; in 1880 the degree of A. M. 
was conferred ad eundem by King's Col- 
lege, Nova Scotia. From 1877 to 1880 he 
was science master at the Collegiate In- 
stitute, Hamilton. Ontario; from 1880 to 
1882 was professor of geology and chemis- 
try, and vice-president at King's College; 
professor of geology, University of Mis- 
souri, from 1882 to 1887; was State Geolo- 
gist of Georgia from 1888 to 1893. From 

1905 to the present (1907) special com- 
missioner of the Geological Survey of 



Canada for the preparation of a treatise 
on the Science of the Falls of Niagara, 
which, with his previous discoveries in 
the same, has brought to light most of 
the great physical changes in the history 
of Niagara Falls; !he was a pioneer in 
the investigation of underground and sub- 
marine valleys and changes of continental 
levels; he has studied tropical geology 
in Central America, the West Indies, and 
also the geology of Norway, etc. He has 
written several books, monographs and 
articles on geology in scientific journals. 
He is a Fehow of the American Associa- 
tion for the Advancement of Science; of 
the Geological Society of London, and 
of the Geological Society of America, of 
which he was one of the original twenty- 
five founders, proposing the name of the 
Society (Cleveland, 1888). In 1896 Dr. 
Spencer married Katherine Sinclair 
Thompson, of Toronto, Canada. Resi- 
dence: 2019 Hillyer Place. 

SPENCER, SAMUEL, former president 
of the Southern Railway, was born at Co- 
lumbus, Ga., March 2, 1847, son of Lam- 
bert and Venona (Mitchell) Spencer. He 
was graduated from the University of 
Georgia in 1867, and University of Vir- 
ginia, 1869. He was president of the Bal- 
timore & Ohio R. R., 1887-88; receiver 
Richmond & Danville R. R., 1893-97; di- 
rector Central Georgia Railroad, Chicago, 
Milwaukee & St. Paul R. R., Erie Rail- 
road, Northern Pacific R. R., and other 
corporations; was president of the South- 
ern Railway when he was killed in a 
wreck in November, 1906. Was married 
in February, 1872, at Columbus, Georgia, 
to Louisa Vivian, daughter of Hon. H. L. 
Baming. Late residence: 2012 Massachu- 
setts avenue, n.w. 

SPERRY, NEHEMIAH DAY, builder. 
Congressman from the Second Connecti- 
cut District, was born in Woodbridge, 
Conn., July 10. 1827, son of Enoch and 
Mary Atalanta Sperry, and a direct 
descendant of Richard Sperry, of Eng- 
lish and Welsh ancestry, a member of 
the New Haven Colony. He was educated 
in the common schools and at the private 
school of Professor Amos Smith, at New 
Haven. He then taught school, learned 
the building trade, and was for many 
years engaged in building and allied en- 
terprises in and about New Haven as a 
member of the firm of Smith & Sperry. 
He was elected a member of the common 
council, and selectman- of New Haven in 
1853; alderman in 1854; was Secretary 
of State for Connecticut 1855-56; and 
postmaster at New Haven during 1861- 
85 and 1891-93, receiving his first appoint- 
ment from President Lincoln. His fa- 
miliarity with postal matters led to his 
appointment as a member of the commis- 
sion to visit England, Germany and 
France to look into the.r respective postal 
systems, but he declined service. In 1886 
he declined nomination for Congress, and 
devoted his attention to private interests 
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elected to the Fifty-fourth Congrress as a 
Republican, and has since been returned 
to each succeeding- Congress. He was a 
member of the convention that nominated 
Lincoln in 1864; member and secretary 
of the Republican national executive com- 
mittee; chairman of the Republican State 
committee for several years, and bonds- 
man for the building of the Monitor. For 
some time he was president of the Cham- 
ber of Commerce of New Haven. He has 
written much and ably on Protection and 
has 'been one of its strongest partisans in 
the press and on the platform. He has 
been twice married, first in 1847, to Eliza 
H. Sperry, of Woodbridge, Connecticut, 
who died in 1873; second, in 1875, to Min- 
nie Newton, of Dockport, N. Y. Legal 
residence: New Haven, Conn, Washing- 
ton address: The Buckingham. 

SPIGHT, THOMAS, lawyer, Congress- 
man, was born on a farm in Tippah Coun- 
ty, Mississippi, and reared there. He was 
educated in the common and nigh scnools; 
studied for a year at a c-oilege at Purdy, 
Tennessee, and until the beginning of the 
war, at La Grange (Tennessee) Synodical 
College. He enlisted in the Confederate 
Army as a private, and rose to the rank 
of Captain, at the age of twenty-one; par- 
ticipated with the Army of the Tennessee 
in all important battles of the war; was 
severely wounded at Atlanta, Georgia, 
on July 22, 1864; and surrendiered with 
Johnston's army at Greensboro N. C, in 
April, 1865. To support himself' he taught 
school and farmed in his native county, 
studied law, and was admitted to the bar 
at Ripley, Miss., where he commenced 
practice and has since resided. From 1874 
to 1880 he was a member of the Legisla- 
ture; presidential elector in 1880; became 
editor and proprietor of the Southern Sen- 
tinel in 1879, which he held until 1884, 
when he was elected district attorney for 
the Third Judicial District — ^a post he held 
until voluntary retirement in 1892. In 
1897 toe was elected to Congress to repre- 
sent the Second Mississippi District. Mr. 
Spight has been twice married; on De- 
cember 12. 1865, to Mary Virginia Bar- 
nett, who died May 21, 1901; and on Oc- 
tober 15, 1903, to Mrs. Thida D. Moore. 
He is a Democrat in politics; in religion, 
a Baptist. Legal residence: Ripley, Miss. 
Washington) address: House of Represen- 
tatives. 

SPILLMAN, WILLIAM JASPER, agri- 
culturist, was born in Lawrence County, 
Missouri, near Pierce City, son of Nathan 
Crosby and Emily Paralee (Pruitt) Spill- 
man. He attended the District schools of 
Lawrence County from 1867 to 1881, and 
was graduated from Missouri State Uni- 
versity in 1886. From 1887 to 1889 he was 
professor of science at the Missouri State 
Normal School; from 1889 to 1891 was 
the same at Vincennes University (Indi- 
ana), and served in a similar capacity 
at the Oregon State Normal School from 
1891 to 1894. From 1894 to 1901 he was 
professor of agriculture at the Washing- 



ton State Agricultural College; since 1902 
he has been agriculturalist of the United 
States Department of Agriculture. Prof. 
SpilLman is the author of a number of 
bulletins and popular articles, mono- 
graphs, etc., on agrostology and popular 
agriculture, including a book entitled 
Farm Grasses of the U. S.; he has in- 
vented several useful articles, and dis- 
covered one of the phases of Mendel's 
law of helredity. He organized the office 
of Farm Management in the Department 
of Agriculture. In politics Prof. Spillman 
is an independent Republican. On May 
20, 1889 he married Mattie Lorena Ram- 
say. Address: 3153 Mt. Pleasant street, 
n.w. 

SPOFFORD, AINSWORTH RAND, 

Chief Assistant Librarian of Congress, 
was born at Gilmanton, N. H., September 
12, 1825, son of Rev. L. A. and Grata 
(Rand) Spofford. He was educated by 
private tutors and entered into business 
in Cincinnati, Ohio, as a publisher and 
bookseller. From 1859 to 1861 he was as- 
sociate editor of the Cincinnati Daily 
Commercial; was first assistant librarian 
of Congress from 1861 to 1864; librarian- 
in-chief from 1864 to 1897, and since the 
latter date has been in his present posi- 
tion. He received the honorary degree of 
LL. D. from Amherst College in 1882. He 
was one of the editors of the Library of 
Choice Literature; Library of Wit and 
Humor; Library of Historic Characters 
and Famous Events; author of a Book for 
All Readers, a manual of parliamentary 
law, and a large number of other articles, 
lectures, reports, etc., and contributions 
to magazines and encyclopaedias. In 1852 
he married Sarah P. Partridge, now de- 
ceased. Residence: 1621 Massachusetts 
avenue, n.w. Office: Library of Congress. 

SPOFFORD, HARRIET ELIZABETH 
PRESCOTT, authoress, poet, was born at 
Calais, Maine, April 3, 1835, daughter of 
Joseph N. and Sarah (Bridges) Prescott. 
She was graduated from the Pinkerion 
Academy, Derry, N. H., and first became 
known to the literary world through a 
serial story in the Atlantic Monthly. She 
has written Sir Rohan's Ghost (1859); The 
Amber Gods (1863); Azarian (1864); New 
England Legends (1871) ; The Thief in the 
Night (1872); Poems (1881); Art Decora- 
tion, Applied to Furniture (1881); Mar- 
quis of Carabas (1882); Hester Stanley 
at St. Mark's (1883); The Servant Girl 
Question (1884); Ballads About Authors 
(1888); A Lost Jewel (1891); The Scarlet 
Poppy (1894); A Master Spirit (1896); 
In Titian's Garden (1897); Hester Stan- 
ley's Friends (1898) ; Friscilla's Love 
Story (1898); The Maid He Married 
(1898); and Old Madame and Other trag- 
edies (1900). In 1865 she married Richard 
S. Spofford, a Boston lawyer. Residence: 
1113 16th street, n.w. 

SPONSLER, CHARLES FREDERICK, 

chief engineer of the Bureau of Standards, 
Department of Commerce and Labor, was 



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born at Doylestown, Bucks County, Penn- 
sylvania, June 26, 1877, son of F. W. and 
Mary A. Sponsler. He was educated in 
the common schools of Lykens, Pa., and 
was gradu'^ted with the degree of B. S. 
from the Pennsyivania State College in 
1898. For a time he was an instructor 
at the Pennsylvania State College; he also 
organized and became president of the 
Miliersburg Fifth WTieel Company. In 
1902 he Wis appointed to his present po- 
sition. One of the incorporators of the 
Dupont Garage Co., Washington, D. C, 
and its present secretary. Mr. Sponsler 
is a member of the Episcopal Church; Phi 
Sigma Kappa fraternity; Washington So- 
ciety of Engineers, and is a junior mem- 
ber of the American Society of Mechani- 
cal Engineers. On December 27, 1899, he 
married Emma K. Brodie. Address: 1450 
Girard street, n.w. 

SPOONER, JOHN COIT, lawyer United 
States Senator from Wisconsin, was born 
at Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, Indi- 
ana, January 6. 1843, and removed with 
his parents to Madison, Wis., in 1859. He 
was graduated from the Wiscon.sIn State 
University in 1864; enlisted in the Un'on 
Army at the outbreak of the Civil War as 
a private in the 40th Wisconsin Volunteer 
Infantry, later rising to the rank of Cap- 
tain and brevet Major. After the war he 
was for several years private and military 
secretary to Governor Lucius Fairchild, of 
Wisconsin; he was admitted to the bar in 
1867, and until 1870 served as assistant 
attorney-general of the State. In the last 
named year he removed to Hudson (Wis- 
consin), where he practiced law until 
1884; he was a member of the Legislature 
in 1872; from 1885 to 1891 was United 
States Senator; and again a member of 
that body from 1897 until March, 1907, 
when he resigned. In politics Senator 
Spooner is a Republican; he was chair- 
man of the Wisconsin delegation to the 
National Republican Convention of 1888; 
declined post of Secretary of the Interior 
tendered him by President McKinley, and 
that of Attorney-General. Senator Spoon- 
er is a member of the Board of Regents 
of the State University of Wisconsin. 
Legal residence: Madison, Wis. 

SPRAGUE, DEWITT, soldier, lawyer, 
editor, was graduated from Yale Univer- 
sity. He engaged in newspaper work and 
the study of law; was elected city clerk at 
New Haven, Conn., and spent several 
years abroad in the Consular Service, then 
returning to New York and engaging in 
the practice of law and journalism. He is 
a Memorial Day orator and a poet, and is 
intending soon to publish a volume on 
which he has spent his best efforts In re- 
cent years. Residence: 723 12th street, 
n.w. 

SPURR, JOSIAH EDWARD, geologist, 
was born at Gloucester, Mass.. October 1, 
1870, son of Alfred Sears and Rachel 
(Snow) Spurr. He was educated in the 
public schools, graduated with the degree 



of A. M. from Harvard University in 1893, 
and pursued special study at Frederlch 
Wilhelm University, Berlin, and at Paris. 
For a time he was assistant geologist 
with the Minnesota Natural History and 
Geological Survey; served as assistant, 
and, subsequently, geologist, with the U. 
S. Geological Survey; was consulting en- 
gineer and geologist to the Sultan of Tur- 
key, and geologist to the American Smel- 
ters Securities Company, etc. In 1906 he 
took the position of Chief Geologist of the 
Geological Department of the American 
Smelting and Refining Company, Ameri- 
can Smelters Security Company, and oth- 
er companies. He was In charge of the 
exploration parties of the Geological Sur- 
vey in 1896, whirh made a reconnoissance 
of the gold-bearing Yukon country of 
Alaska, and In 1898 w^as in command of 
a party of the Survey which penetrated 
the hitherto unknown Upper Kuskokwim 
country. He is the author of Through the 
Yukon Gold Diggings; Geology Applied 
to Mining, and a number of government 
reports, monographs, etc., on general and 
economic geology. He is a member of the 
Cosmos Club, In Washington, and the 
Harvard Clu'*. *jf New York. He married 
Sophie Clara Burchard on January 18, 
1899. Residence: 33 West Castle Place, 
New Rochelle, N. Y. Office: 71 Broadway, 
New York, N. Y. 

SQUIER, GEORGE OWEN, Major, Sig- 
nal Corps, U. S. A., was born at Dryden, 
Michigan, March 21, 1865, son of Almon 
Justice and Kmily (Gardner) Squier. He 
was graduated from the United States 
Military Academy In 1887, and during 
1903-1904 a Fellow by courtesy, at Johns 
Hopkins University, which institution In 
1893 conferred upon him the degree of 
Ph. D. Major Squier is now signal officer 
of the Department of California. He is 
a member of the Sons of the American 
Revolution; Society of Foreign Wars; 
Cosmos; Army and Navy; Metropolitan; 
Chevy Chaso and other Washington clubs, 
and various other organizations and clubs 
throughout the country. He is unmar- 
ried. Address: War Department. 

SROUFE, ROBERT, sanitary officer of 
the District of Columbia. Residence: 523 
Twelfth street, n.e. Office: Police Head- 
quarters. 

STABLER, JAMES PLEASANTS, elec- 
trician, was born at Sandy Spring, Mont- 
gomery County, Maryland. June 12, 1839, 
son of James Pleasants and Sarah 
(Briggs) Stabler. His father and ma- 
ternal grandfather were both mathema- 
ticians, civil engineers and mechanicians. 
Young Stabler was educated In private 
schools at Sandy Spring, and become an 
electrician and mechanician. He is an In- 
ventor in the classes of agricultural ma- 
chinery, steam engineering and electricity. 
From 1863 to 1865 h© was employed In 
the Postoffice Department; In the War 
Department from 1865 to 1866, and In the 
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1881; from 1879 as ch'ef clerk of a divi- 
eion. Mr. Stabler has been a member of 
the Republican pal-ty since its organiza- 
tion; he is a member of Olney Grange No. 
7, Patrons of Husbandry. His religious 
connection is wlt'h the Society of Friends. 
On December 1, 1870, he married Alice 
Brooke, daughter of Geo. E. Broolte, of 
Montgomerv County, Md. Address: The 
Regina, 151 i I street, n.w. 

STADDEN, CORRY MONTAGUE, 

newspaper correspondent, was born at 
Utica, Ohio, May 24, 1870. son of George 
W. and Orilla M. (Lusk) Stadden. He 
Ireceived his education at Newark, Ohio; 
L. L. B., George Washington University. 
Since 1893 he has been located in Wash- 
ington as correspondent for a number of 
newspapers. In 1901 Mr. Stidden was 
appointed counsellor of the Nicaraguan 
Legation, by President Zelaya; in 1905? 
he represented that country at the Inter- 
national Coffee Commission. He is the 
author of a number of migazine articles 
on various subjects, and is particularly 
well known for his contributions on the 
Isthmian Canal and Nicaragua. Mr. Stad- 
den married Mary Lillian Arnold on Octo- 
ber 14, 1903. Residence: 3002 13th street, 
n.w. Office: Washington Post Building. 

STAFFORD. DENNIS JOSEPH, rector 
of St. Patrick's Church, was born in 
Washington, D. C, November 3, 1860, son 
of John George and Ann Mary ("V^'Tiite- 
head) Stafford. He was educated at St. 
John's College, District of Columbia; St. 
Charles' College, Marylmd, and Niagara 
University, Niagara Falls, N. Y. He was 
ordained to the priesthood in Cleveland. 
O'hio, in 1885, and spent the four succeed- 
ing years at the cathedral in that city. 
Subsequently he was transferred succes- 
sively to Massillon, Ohio, and to St. 
Peter's Church, Baltimore, and to St. Pat- 
rick's Church, Washington, D. C, holding 
the position of assistant rector in the 
latter two. Upon the death of Rev. Fath- 
er Gloyd. March. 1901, he was appointed, 
by Cardinal Gibbons, to succeed the for- 
mer as rector of St. Patrick's. His ora- 
torical and interpretative powers, in con- 
nection with his exhaustive Shakespear- 
ean studies, have placed him in large de- 
mand as a lecturer on Shakespeare and 
other literary themes. He has traveled 
extensive'y at home and abroad, and has 
been an industrious collector of books. 
The degree of D. D. was conferred upon 
him by Georgetown University; L. L. D. 
bj' Notre Dame and Niagara Universities. 
He is president of St. Vincent's Orphan 
Asylum, St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum, St. 
Patrick's Academy, and a number of other 
charitable and educational organizations. 
Died January 3, 1908. 

STAFFORD, WENDELL PHILLIPS, 

jurist, was born at Bane, Vt., May 1, 1861, 
son of Frank and S^rah (Noyes) Stafford. 
He was graduated from the Barre Acad- 
emy in 1878; St. Johnsbury Academy in 
1880, and the Law Department of Boston 



University, cum laude, in 1883. Practiced 
law af St. Johnsbury, Vt.; president of 
the Vermont Bar Association 1898-99; 
member of the Legislature, 1892; and re- 
prter of decisions of the Supreme Court, 
1896-1900. Delivered oration at the un- 
veiling of statue of Robert Burns at Barre, 
Vt., July 21, 1899, and has lectured fre- 
quently in Vermont and elsewhere. He 
was judge of the Supreme Court of Ver- 
mont, 1900-04, and has been associate jus- 
tice of the Supreme Court of the District 
of Columbia since June 9. 1904. Edited 
69th-71st volumes, Vermont Reports; au- 
thor of North Flowers, a volume of poems 
(1902). Delivered the Memorial Day ora- 
tion of 1906 before the U. S. Grant Grand 
Army Post, at the Tomb of General Grant, 
on Riverside Drive, New York. He was 
married at St. Johnsbury, Vt., February 
24, 18S6, to Florence S. Goss, and they 
have one son. Residence: 1603 Irving 
street. 

STAFFORD, WILLIAM H., lawyer, 
Congressman. Hp has been a Representa- 
tive from the Fifth Wisconsin District 
since the Fifty-eighth Congress. In poli- 
tics he is a Republican. Legal residence: 
Milwaukee, Wis. Washington address: 
House of Representatives. 

STANLEY, AUGUSTUS OWSLEY, 

lawyer, Congressman, was born at Shel- 
byville, Shelby County, Kentucky, May 21, 
1867, and received his education at the 
Kentucky State College, where he was 
graduated with the degree of B. S., in 
1889, and at Centre College (Danville, 
Ky.). From 1889 to 1894 he was profes- 
sor of belles-lettres at Christian College, 
and principal of Marion Academy; in 1894 
he was admitted to the bar and began 
practicing law. He was a presidential 
elector in 1900; and was elected to the 
Fifty-eighth Congress, and returned to. 
the Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Congresses, 
from the Second Kentucky District. Mr. 
Stanley is a Democrat in politics. He 
married Sue Soaper on April 29, 1903. 
Legal residence: Henderson. Ky. Wash- 
ington address: House if Representatives. 

STANLEY, CAROLINE ABBOT 

(MRS.), authoress, was born in Callaway 
County, Missouri, August 16, 1849, daugh- 
ter of Rufus and Mary Rebecca (Hart) 
Al ' Tt. Shf^ received her education in pri- 
vate schools, and in 1879 was graduated 
frorr the Kalamazoo (Michigan) Train- 
ing School. From 1879 to 1882 she was 
engaged as a teacher and critic at the 
Kalamazoo Training School, and, from 
1882 to 1896, as principal of the same in- 
stitution. In 1896 she began literary work, 
and gave up teaching. Mrs. Stanley is 
the author of Order Number 11 and Au- 
thors' Birthdays. In religion she is a 
Presbyterian; an honorary member of the 
Ladles' Literary Club, of Salt Lake City. 
Or October 31. 1871, she married Elisha 
Stanley, who is now deceased. Residence: 
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STANTON, TIMOTHY WILLIAM, ge- 
ologist, paleontologist, was born in Mon- 
roe County, Illinois, September- 21, 1860, 
son of William and Mary A. Stanton. He 
was graduated from the University of 
Colorado in 1883, and also holds the de- 
gree of M. S. from that institution, con- 
ferred in 1895, and that of Ph. D. from 
Columbian (now George Washington) 
University, in 1897. He undertook post- 
graduate study at Johns Hopkins Univer- 
sity during 1888 and 1889, and since the 
latter date has been attached to the 
United States Geological Survey; l-ecent- 
ly becoming paleontologist. He is the au- 
thor of numerous reports, papers and ar- 
ticles on geological subjects, etc. On Oc- 
tf^ber 12, 1898, Mr. Stanton married Grace 
M. Patten. Residence: 54 S street, n.w. 
Office: National Museum. 

STAPLES, ORRIN G., hotel proprietor 
and manager, was born at Watertown, N. 
Y., October 14, 1851, son of Nathan and 
Amanda (Curtis) Staples. He was edu- 
cated in the common schools of his na- 
tive town. He was in the patent medi- 
cine business, and was the originator of 
the prize package candy business. He 
was elected Alderman of Worcester, and 
in 1872 was appointed Colonel on the staff 
of General Pratt. He erected the Thou- 
sand Islands Hotel, at Alexandria Bay, on 
the St. Diwrence River, costing $100,000, 
and in 1873 he bought the Willard Hotel, 
in Washington. When the proprietor of 
the Riggs House failed in 1891 he bought 
the furniture, reopened it and still con- 
ducts it. He finally sold the New Willard 
Hotel in 1899 to a syndicate, and in 1896 
ibought the lease and furniture of the Na- 
tio;7al Hotel, which he conducts. Address: 
The Riggs House. 

STEALEY, CLARENCE P., clergyman, 
pastor of the West Washington Baptist 
Church. Residence: 3004 P street, n.w. 

STEALEY, ORLANDO O., journalist, 
was born at Jeffersonville, Indiana, Jan- 
uary 4, 1842, and received a public school 
education. He entered the employment of 
the Louisville Courier-Journal in 1871, las 
a news carrier, and has arisen through 
various positions to that of newspaper 
correspondent at Washington, attaining 
the latter position in 1881. Mr. Stealey is 
a Democrat in pi:^rtics; he was a delegate 
from the Third Indiana District to ,^be 
Democratic National Convention of 1888. 
On D cember 8, 1874, he married S?.llie 
Sherley. Residence: 1728 P street, .i.w. 
Office: 1421 G street, n.w. 

STEELE, CHARLES STETSON, Sec- 
ret ry's Office of the Treasury Depart- 
ment, was born in- Cincinnati, Ohio, in 
1847, a great grandson of Samuel Chase, 
of Maryland, a signer of the Declaration 
of Independence. His father failed in the 
great panic of 1857, and at sixteen he en- 
listed and was assigned to duty as gen- 
eral service clerk in the War Department. 
After one year he was honorably dis- 



charged and returned to New York to en- 
gage in newspaper work, and in 1871 he 
returned to Washington as correspondent 
of the New York Evening Telegram. In 

1872 he obtained a clerkship in the fifth 
Auditor's office, and was made chief of 
the Direct Tax Division, and finally trans- 
ferred to the Secretary's office, having 
been five times promoted since he has 
been in the Treasury, and on several occa- 
sions detailed on the Committee to ex- 
amine the U. S. Sub-Treasury in New 
York. Address. Treasury Department. 

STEELE, FRANK A., junior member of 
the firm of Giddings & Steele (carpet and 
furniture merchants). Residence: 240 
North Capitol street. Business address: 
813 Pennsylvania avenue, n.w. 

STEENERSON, HALVOR, lawyer. 
Congressman, was born in Dane County, 
June 30, 1852, land with 'his parents re- 
moved to Minnesota in 1853, where he re- 
ceived his education in the public schools. 
He studied law at Austin, Minn., and the 
Union College of Law of Chicago, Illinois, 
and was admitted to practice in 1878. He 
removed to Crookston, Minn., in 1880; 
served two years as county attorney lat 
Crookston, beginning 1880; from 1882 to 
1885 was State Senator; was a delegate 
to the National Republican Conventions of 

1884 and 1888. He was elected to the 
Fifty-eighth Congress from the Ninth 
Minnesota District, and has been re-elect- 
ed to subsequent Congresses. Republican. 
He was married in 1878. Legal residence: 
Crookston, Minn. Washington address: 
The Cairo. 

STEIGER, GEORGE, chemist, was born 
at Columbia, Lancaster County, Pa., May 
27, 1869, son of Benjamin F. and M. L. 
(Young) Steiger. He was educated in 
the public schools of Washington and 
graduated from Columbian (now George 
Washington) University, with the degree 
of B. S., in 1890; in 1892 with that of M. S. 
Since 1892 Mr. Steiger has been chemist 
with the United States Geological Sur- 
vey. He is a member of the Cosmos Club 
land numerous scientific societies. Un- 
married. Residence: The Portner. Of- 
fice: U. S. Geological Survey. 

STEIN, ROBERT, linguist, explorer, 
was born at Rengersdorf, Silesia, Prussia, 
in 1857, and was educated at Glatz from 

1873 to 1875. He removed to the United 
States in 1875, and for a time taught; 
later, he was graduated from the medical 
department of Georgetown College. In 

1885 he entered the employment of the 
United Stats Geological Survey as trans- 
lator of German, French, Italian, Danish, 
Swedish, Russian, Dutch, Spanish, Por- 
tuguese and other languages; was a mem- 
ber of the Peary Arctic expedition of 
1897, having previously attracted atten- 
tion by the publication of a plan for the 
exploration of Ellesmereland; in 1899 he 
undertook to carry out this plan, landed 
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sued a study of the Eskimo language In 
that vicinity. Mr. Stein is tlie author of 
a number of articles, monographs and 
other contributions, principally on arctic 
exploration, social economics, the Eski- 
Tnos, phonetics, etc. He is now engaged 
in the advocacy of an international con- 
ference 'Of experts in phonetics to devise 
a universal alphabet to be used as a uni- 
form method of representing the sounds 
of speech, in particular as a uniform key 
to pronunciation in all dictionaries. Ad- 
dress: Bureau of Statis?.tlcs, Department 
of Commerce and Lrabor. 

STEJNEGER, LEONHARD, curator 
of reptiles and batrachians. United States 
National Museum, was born at Bergen, 
Norway, October 30, 1851. son of P. Sta- 
mer and Ingeborg C. (Hess) Stejneger. 
He was graduated (cand. jur) from R. 
Frederic's University, at Christiania, Nor- 
way, in 1875, and in 1881 removed to the 
United States and entered the employ of 
the National Museum. From 1882 to 1883 
he was conducting an expedition of the 
Museum to Bering Island and Kamchat- 
ka, for the purpose of studying the fur 
5eal and collecting natural history objects, 
etc.; from 1884 to 1889 he was assistant 
curator of birds of the National Museum, 
and since the latter date has occupied his 
present position. Mr. Stejneger in 1895 
pursued lan investigation of fur seals at 
the seal islands of Bering Sea and Okhotsk 
Sea, at the instance of the Fish Commis- 
sion, and from 1896 to 1897, as a member 
of the United States Fur Seal Commis- 
sion. He studied the details of museum 
administriation in Europe during several 
visits; was a delegate from the Smith- 
sonian Institution to the Zoological Con- 
gresses of 1898, 1901-04-07. He is a mem- 
ber of the Permanent International Orni- 
thological Committee and of the Commit- 
tee on Nomenclature of the International 
Zoological Congress; life member, Bef- 
gen Museum; Fellow, American Ornithol- 
ogists' Union; and member of a large 
number of other scientific and learned 
organizations in this country and abroad. 
He is the author of a number of books, 
monographs and magazine contributions 
'on zoology, ornithology, fur seals, etc. 
Was decorated in 1906 by the king of Nor- 
way with the Royal Order of St. Olaf. 
Mr. Stejneger married Marie Reiners on 
March 22, 1892. Address: Smithsonian 
Institute. 

STELLWAGEN, EDWARD J., presi- 
dent of the Union Trust Co., was horn in 
Wasihington, D. C, in 1855. He at first 
entered the Navy Department as a 
draughtsman, taking up also the study of 
law, and for a while practiced, but turn- 
ing thence to real estate, he entered the 
office of the late Thomas J. Fisher. In 
1869 he organized the Union Trust & 
Storage Company, and became Its presi- 
dent in 1892, and a member of the Wash- 
ington Stock Exchange. He is a director 
of the Capital Traction Company and an 
active member of the Blue Ridge Rod & 



Gun Club, at Harper's Ferry. Residence: 
1803 Baltimore street. Office: 15th and H 
streets. 

STENZEL, LULA VINETTE, author, 
was born at Washington, D. C, on Jan- 
uary 1, 1872, daughter of Jacob N. (In- 
ventor) and Elizabeth A. Kerper, and 
obtained her preparatory education In the 
Washington public schools. Among her 
books may be mentioned: Breta's Double 
(1894), which was written under the pen- 
name of Helen V. Greyson; The Dark- 
wood Tragedy, (1902), etc. On August 9, 
1900, she married Charles F. A. Stenzel. 
Residence; 414 South Capitol street. 

STEPHENS, FRANCIS HENRY, law- 
yer, was born at Sandusky, Ohio, January 
11, 1864, son of Washington H. and Mary 
L. (Fox) Stephens. He was educated in 
the public schools of Washington; in 
1885 received the degree of M. A. from 
Columbian (now George Washington) 
University, and in 1888 was graduated 
from the law department of the same in- 
stitution, with the degree of LL. M. From 
1885 to 1887 he was a teacher in the 
Washington public schools; in 1888 he be- 
gan the practice of his profession. He 
has been attorney for a number of firms 
and corporations, and in Jul.v, 1904, was 
appointed Assistant Corporation Counsel 
for the District of Columbia. Mr. Stephens 
married Mary Grace Ravenburg on June 
30, 1900. Residence. Geneseo Place, La- 
nier Heights. Office: Columbian Building. 

STEPHENS, JOHN HALL, lawyer. 
Congressman, was born in Shelby County, 
Texas, and educated at Mansfield, Texas. 
He was graduated from the law depart- 
ment of Cumberland University (Lebanon, 
Tennessee) in 1872, and since that time 
has been practicing law. He was a State 
Senator in the Twenty-first and Twenty- 
second Sessions of the Texas Legislature, 
and has been a Representative to Con- 
gress from the Thirteenth Texas District 
since the Fifty-fifth Congress. Demo- 
crat. Legal residence: Vernon, Texas. 
Washington address: House of Represen- 
tatives. 

STEPHENSON. AMBROSE H., mem- 
ber of the firm of Stephenson & Brother 
(coal merchants), and a member of the 
Board of Directors of the Second National 
Bank. Residence: 221 Eleventh street, 
s.w. Office: Seventh street wharf. 

STEPHENSON, ISAAC, lumberman, 
farmer, banker. United States Senator, 
was born at Fredericton, N. B., June 18, 
1829, son of Isaac and Elizabeth (Wat- 
son) Stephenson. In 1840 he removed to 
Bangor, Maine, and a year later removing 
to Wisconsin, where he worked on a farm, 
subsequently purchasing a. schooner which 
he sailed between Milwaukee and Es- 
canaba. With his savings he invested 
in timber lands, and is now president and 
controlling owner in the North Ludington 
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Menominee River Boom Company, the 
Stephenson Company and the Stephenson 
National Bank. In 1866 and 1868 he was 
a member of the Wisconsin Legislature; 
a member of Congress from 1883 to 1889, 
and on May 17, 1907, entered upon his term 
of service in the U. S. Senate, after hav- 
ing been elected from Wisconsin, to suc- 
ceed John C. Spooner, who retired. His 
term of office will expire Mal-ch 3, 1909. 
In politics he is a Republican. Legal res- 
idence: Marinette, Wis. Washington ad- 
dress: U. S. Senate. 

STEPHENSON, THOMAS P., junior 
member of the firm of Church & 
Stephenson (lumber dealers), was born in 
Washington, D. C, November 1, 1855, son 
of the late John A. Stephenson, the pio- 
neer expressman, who ran the fast freight 
line between Baltimore and Washington. 
After a practical course at Columbian 
(now George Was'hington) University, he 
entered, in 1873, the firm of Smith & 
Wimsatt, lumber dealers, and remained 
with the firm until 1879, When he bought 
the interest of C. B. and C. W. Church in 
the firm of C. B. Church & Sons, the firm 
name being changed to Church & Ste- 
phenson. He is treasurer of the South 
Washington Citizens' Association, and of 
the Lumber Exchange, and past grand 
master of the Independent Order of Odd 
Fellows. In 1880 he married Clara White, 
of Washington, who died in December, 
1889, leaving four children; and his sec- 
ond wife was Jennie Hope Sands, of An- 
napolis, Md., to which union one child 
has been born. Residence: 2016 Fifteenth 
street, n.w. Offlce: Eighth street and 
Maryland avenue, n.w. 

STERLING, JAMES D., clergyman, as- 
sistant rector of St. Matthew's Catholic 
Church. Residence: 1739 Rhode Island 
avenue, n.w. 

STERLING, JOHN A., lawyer. Con- 
gressman, was born on a farm near Leroy, 
Illinois, February 1, 1857, and was edu- 
cated in the public schools, in 1881 gradu- 
ating from Illinois Wesleyan University, 
with the degree of A. B., and, in 1884, with 
that of M. A. After graduation he was 
for two years superintendent of public 
schools at Lexington (Illinois); he was 
admitted to the bar in 1884, and has since 
been engaged in the practice of law, as a 
member of the firm of Welty & Sterling, 
of Bloomington, 111. From 1892 to 1896 
he was State's attorney for McLean Coun- 
ty; was a member at large of the Repub- 
lican State Central Committee of Illinois 
from 1896 to 1898; since the Fifty-eighth 
Congress he has t»een a Representative 
to Congress from the Seventeenth Illinois 
District. Republican. Mr. Sterling mar- 
ried Clara M. Irons on May 20, 1886. Le- 
gal residence. Bloomington, Illinois. 
Washington address: House of Represen- 
tatives. 

STERN, LOUIS, clergyman, rabbi of 
the Washington Hebrew Congregation. 
Residence: 1315 Columbia road, n.w. 
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STERNBERG, GEORGE MILLER, Sur- 
geon-General, Brigadier General, U. S. A. 
(retired), was born at Hartwick Semi- 
nary, Otsego County, New York, June 8, 
1838, son of Rev. L. and Margaret L. (Mil- 
ler) Sternberg. He was educated in Hart- 
wick Seminary and was graduated from 
the College of Physicians and Surgeons 
(New York) in 1859. In 1897 General 
Sternberg received the honorary degree 
of LL. D. from Brown University; and in 
1894 received the same degree from the 
University of Michigan. He was appoint- 
ed Assistant Surgeon in the army -on May 
28, 1861; made Captain and Assistant 
Surgeon May 28, 1866; Major and Sur- 
geon, December 1, 1875; Lieutenant Colo- 
nel and Deputy Surgeon General, January 
12, 1891; Brigadier General and Surgeon 
General, May 30, 1893; retired in 1902. 
He served throughout the Civil War; waa 
a member and secretary of the Havana 
Yellow Fever Commission of the National 
Board of Health In 1879; United States 
delegate to the International Sanitary 
Conference at Rome 1885; detailed by the 
President in 1887 to make yellow fever 
investigations in Brazil, Mexico and Cuba, 
which occupied him two years; in 1892 
he was consultng bacteriologist to the 
health oflScer of the port of New York; 
was a delegate to the Internatonal Medi- 
cal Congress at Moscow in 1897. General 
Sternberg is an authotity on bacteriology 
and on yellow fever and cholera. He has 
written a number of books, articles, mon- 
ographs, government i-eports, etc., 'on med- 
ical and surgical subjects. He is an hon- 
orary member of a number of scientific 
and medical organizations, among the 
most important of which al-e: Epidemio- 
logical Society of London; Royal Acad- 
emy of Medicine of Rome; Academy of 
Medicine of Rio de Janeiro; French Socie- 
ty of Hygiene; American Academy of 
Medicine, etc. He is an ex-president of 
the American Medical Association; of the 
American Public Health Association; of 
the Philosophical Society of Washington; 
of the Cosmos Club; of the Association of 
Milital-y Surgeons, etc. On September 1, 
1869, General Sternberg married Martha 
L. Pattison. Address: 2005 Massachusetts 
avenue. 

STERNBURG, BARON HERMAN von 
SPECK, German Ambassador to the 
United States, was born at Leeds, Eng- 
land. August 21, 1852, son of Baron Alex- 
ander and Martha (Shaw) Speck von 
Sternburg. He received his education at 
Fuerstenschule, St. Afra, Meissen, Saxony, 
and later specialized in studies in mili- 
tary and naval science. International law 
and political economy. Baron Sternburg 
was in active military service in the Ger- 
man army until 1885; he fought through- 
out the Franco-German War; became mil- 
itary and naval attache to the German 
Legation in Washington in 1885; was re- 
appointed in 1889; promoted to Major of 
the German army, and ti-ansrerred to the 
general staff; in 1890 entered the German 
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the Legation at Pekin, China; was later 
charge d'aTaires at Belgrade, Servla; in 
1898 became first secretary of the Gerrmn 
Embasyy at Washington; the same year 
he was hgh commissioner on the Sa- 
moan Commls?ion; was German consul- 
general for British India and Ceylon in 
1900; in 1903 was appointed special min- 
ister plenipotentiary and envoy extraor- 
dinary to the United States; since July, 
1903, he has been Ambassador to this coun- 
try. Baron Sternburg has received the 
following decorations: Prussia: Red Eagle, 
first class, with oak leaf wreath; Order of 
the Crown, fir=t class; Saxony: Grand 
Cross of the Order of Albert; Cross of 
Military Merit, and war medal of 1870-71; 
AiiPtri : Star of the Order of Franf is Jo- 
seph: Ch'na: Star of the Ord^r of the 
Diuble Dragon; Servia: Star of the Ta- 
kowo; Russia: Cross of the Order of St. 
Anne, of Russia. He married Lillian May 
Lanarham, of Louisville, Ky., in London, 
England. Residence: German Embassy, 
Washington. D. C, and Castle of Luty- 
schana, Saxony. 

STERRETT, JAMES MACBRIDE, pro- 
fessor of philosophy, George Washington 
University since 1892. was born at How- 
ard, Centre County, Pennsylvania, Jan- 
uary 13, 1847, son of Robert and 
Sarah Elizabeth (MaCbride) Sterrett. 
He was graduated from the University of 
Rochester (E. A.) in 1867, and M. A., 
Howard Unive sity, 1870; in 1872 received 
the degree ' f B. D. from Cambridge Epis- 
copal Theological School, and was or- 
dained a deacon in the Episcopal Church 
in the same year. In 1873 he was made 
a priest; from 1882 to 1892 he was pro- 
fessor of ethics at Seabury Divinity 
School, Faribault, Minn. He is also as- 
sistant minister of the Church of the 
Epiphany, of this city. Dr. Sterrett is a 
member of the Cosmos, Chevy Chase and 
Country Clubs, and since 1893 has been 
president of the Society for Philosophical 
Inquiry. In 1886 the University of Roch- 
ester conferred upon him the honorary de- 
gree of D. D. He is the author of Studies 
in Hegel's Philosophy of Religion; Reason 
and Authority in Religion; The Ethics of 
Hegel; The Freedom of Authority, etc. 
He married Adlumia Dent on January 20, 
1876. Address: Springland, Pierce Mill 
Road, Washington. 

STETSON, C. R., Episcopal clergyman, 
rector of All Saint's Chapel, Penning, D. 
C, and the Chapel of the Good Shepherd. 
Residence: 509 I street, n.e. 

STEVENS, ALICE BARTLETT, news- 
paper correspondent, was born at Landaff, 
Grafton County, N. H., October 22, 1858, 
daughter of Adna and Sarah Jane. (Hast- 
ings) Bartlett, and a descendant of Jo- 
siah Bartlett, one of the signers of the 
Declaration of Independence. She was ed- 
ucated at the Girls' Latin School, Boston, 
and the State Normal School, Plymouth, 
N. H., graduating in 1878. Mrs. Stevens 
is engaged in magazine writing, newspa- 



per correspondence and syndicate work; 
she is social correspondent for the Min- 
neapolis Times and 'Other newspapers. 
Washington address: 2722 Thirteenth 
street, n.w. Summer address: 257 South 
Bioadway, Nyack-on-Hudson, New York. 

STEVENS, EUGENE ENSIGN, patent 
lawyer, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 
1866, son of Milo B. Stevens. His pre- 
liminary education was 'obtained in the 
public schools of Cleveland, later coming 
to Washington, where he entered the Law 
Department of Georgetown University in 
1886, graduating LL. B. in 1888, and LL. 
M. in 1889. Later he was admitted to 
practice at the bar of the D. C. Court of 
Appeals and Supreme Court, and the U. 
S. Court of Claims. Since 1896 he has 
been senior member of the law firm of 
Mi'.o B. Stevens & Company (solicitors 
of claims and patents) which firm was 
founded by his father. He has twice made 
extended bicycle tours abroad, in 1891-92 
encircling the globe, using his wheel whee 
practicable. He is a member of the 
Washington Board of Trade; Cleveland 
Chamber of Commerce; University Club; 
Sons of Veterans (Ohio Division); D. C. 
Society of the Sons of the American Rev- 
olution, and a number of other national 
organizations. He is active in local char- 
itab'e and philanthropic movements, espe- 
ci'lly the Washington Playground Asso- 
ciation. He has been actively interested 
in local musical work, both as choir solo- 
ist and director, and in the furtherance 
of the musical development of the Cap- 
ital, being for nearly nine years an of- 
fice- and director of the Choral Society, 
through a period of its greatest popular- 
ity; was an incorporator, director and first 
treasurer of the Washington Symphony 
Orchestra corporation; incorporator, of- 
ficer and director of the Musical Art So- 
ciety (president for several years). In 
religion he is a New-Churchman (Sweden- 
borgian). Mr. Stevens is also active in 
the various local interests of Chevy Chase. 
Md. In 1896 he married Gertrude Abigail 
M3cNulty at Washington, and four boys 
have been born to this union. Residence: 
Chevy Chase, Md. Office: 817 Fourteenth 
street, n.w. 

STEVENS, FREDERICK C, president 
The Commercial National Bank. Resi- 
dence: 1628 Sixteenth street, n.w. Office: 
1401 G street, n.w. 

STEVENS, FREDERICK CLEMENT, 

lawyer. Congressman, was born in Boston, 
Mass., January 1, 1861, and was educated in 
the common schools of Rockland, Me., and 
at Bowdoin College, from which he was 
graduated in 1881, and the law depart- 
ment of the State TT;iiverslty of Iowa, from 
which he was graduated in 1884. In the 
same year he was admitted to the bar, and 
began the practice of his profession in St. 
Paul, IVlinn. He was a member of the 
State Legislature from 1888 to 1891, and 
since 1897 has been Representative to Con- 
gress from the Fourth Minnesota District 



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Republican. Legal residence: St. Paul, 
Minn. Washington address: House of 
Representatives. 

STEVENSON, CHARLES HUGH, stat- 
istician, icthyolog-ist, lawyer, was born at 
Snow Hill, Md., December 6, 1869. son of 
Hugh Saunders and Jane Catherine (Bai- 
ley) Stevenson. He attended Lehigh Uni- 
versity (special engineering course) and 
was graduated from Columbian (now 
George Washington) University, from 
which institution he holds the degree of 
LL. M. He made a special study of fisher- 
ies and became connected with the Bureau 
of Fisheries of the Department of Com- 
merce and Labor in 1901, since which time 
he has pursued many speciial studies and 
investigations for that branch of govern- 
ment work. He is the author of Pearls 
in Hist^fy, Art, Science and Industry; 
Fishery Legislation; Foreign Fishery 
Trade; Preservation of Fishery Products 
for Food; Utilization of Aquatic Products 
in Arts and Industries, etc. He is a mem- 
ber of the American Fisheries Society; 
Washington Economical Association; 
American Statistician Association; Na- 
tional Geographical Society, etc. Unmar- 
ried. Address: Snow Hill, Md. Office: 
Bureau of the Fisheries. 

STEVENSON, HUGH T., Baptist cler- 
gyman, was born at Albany, N. Y., May 9, 
1869. His preliminary education was re- 
ceived in the common schools of Albany, 
and, after serving as a page in the New 
Yo k Legislature, entered Colgate Acad- 
emy with the class of 1890, later moving 
to Chicago, where he entered the Univer- 
sity of Chicago. After remaining in Chi- 
cago for eighteen months, at the same 
tirre acting as assistant pastor of the En- 
glewood Baptist Church of that city, he 
came to Washington in 1893, where he en- 
te'r'"d Columbian (now George Washing- 
ton) University, spending four years, re- 
ceiving an A. B. degree the first year and 
that of A. M. the second, and later en- 
tered the Divinity School of Colgate Uni- 
versity, from which institution he was 
graduated in 1901. He served two of his 
charges while a student, the first one be- 
ing the Anacostia Baptist Church of this 
city, and the second the Baptist Church, 
of Edmeston, N. Y. Subsequent to his 
graduation he traveled in the South as a 
representative of Colgate University and 
of philanthropic men. He was pastor of 
the Warren Baptist Church of Jordan- 
ville, N. Y.. from 1902 to 1905, at which 
latter date he came to Washington to as- 
sume the pastorate of the Bethany Bap- 
tist Church. Residence: 157 U street, n.w. 

STEVENSON, MATILDA COXE 
(MRS. JAMES STEVENSON), ethnolo- 
gist, anthropologist, was born at San Au- 
gustine, Tex., daughter of Alex. H. and 
Maria Matilda Coxe. She received her 
education at a private school in Philadel- 
phia and married James Stevenson, arch- 
aeologist, explorer and ethnologist, one of 
the founders of the Bureau of Ethnology, 
who died in 1888. With her husband, 



Mrs. Stevenson spent thirteen yeafs in 
explorations in the Rocky Mountains, dur- 
ing which time she was specially instruct- 
ed in ethnology; in 1879 she was a mem- 
ber of the expedition (of which her hus- 
band had cha:ge) sent by the Bureau 
of Ethnology to Zuni, New Mexico, and 
later was with him on various expeditions 
among the Indians. She co-operated in 
tiie collecting of ceramics, archaic imple- 
ments, ceremonial objects, etc., for the 
National Museum; wrote a very full vo- 
cabulary of the Zuni language, and stud- 
ied extensively the customs, mythology, 
etc., of that tribe and others, including the 
Pueblos, Tusayan, Navajo, Mission, etc. 
Mrs. Stevenson was a member of the jury 
on anthropology of the Columbian Expo- 
sition in 1893; she is the author of a num- 
ber of bcks on ethnological subjects, and 
particularly on the Zuni Indians. Resi- 
dence: The Burlington, 1120 Vermont av- 
enue, n.w. Office: Bureau of American 
Ethnology. 

STICKNEY, AMOS, Colonel U. S. A., 
was born in St. Louis, Mo., August 27, 
1843, son of Benjamin and Sarah J. Stick- 
ney. He was graduated from the United 
States Military Academy in 1864, and was 
commissioned a First Lieutenant of Engi- 
neer Corps in the same year; through the 
Civil War he served variously as engineer 
on the staff of the commanding gene'al, 
assistant engineer and chief engineer, with 
the Army of the Tennessee and in the De- 
partment of Missouri, later in various 
campaigns in Georgia and the Carolinas. 
On December 21, 1864, was brevetted Cap- 
tain, and on March 13, 1865, Major, both 
for distinguished services. On March 7, 
1867, he was commissioned Captain; pro- 
moted to Major. January 2,1881; advanced 
to Lieutenant-Colonel May 18, 1893, and 
Colonel, May 2. 1901. Colonel Stickney 
served on the engineer corps, engaged in 
fortification construction wo-k from the 
close of the war until 1866; then for a year 
he was professor of engineering at the 
United States Military Academy, since 
which time he has been principally en- 
gaged in river and harbor improvement 
work. From 1892 to 1902 he was pres- 
ident of the Missouri River Commission; 
from 1901 to 1903 was president of the 
Mississippi River Commission; since 1904 
he has been chief engineer of the Atlantic. 
Division; and is also at present serving as 
chairman of the commission authorized 
by the United States Supreme Court to 
determine the boundary line between Ken- 
tucky and Indiana. On July 10, 1866, 
Colonel Stickney married Virginia Fetter. 
Address: War Department, 

STIDHAM, HARRISON, secretary and 
manager of the Washington Fertilizer 
Company, was born in Washington in 
1869, son of Alfred D. Stidham. He won 
the Cornell University scholarship on 
graduating from the Central High School, 
and was graduated from Cornell in 1891, 
and spent two years as recorder and aid 
in the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survev. 



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Through Col. George E. Waring's career 
as commissioner of street cleaning in New 
York from 1895-97 he was successively 
foreman, snow inspector and assistant 
general superintendent under him. He 
later served for two years as general su- 
perintendent of the Tubular Dispatch 
Company, and a year in practice of san- 
itary and civil engineering. He then be- 
came connected with the American Bridge 
Company, and so femained until he ac- 
cepted the position of superintendent of 
street cleaning in the district, resigning on 
January 1, 1906. Residence: 3311 Newark 
street. " Office: 1016 New Jersey avenue, 
s.e. 

STILES, CHARLES WARDELL, scien- 
tist, was born at Spring Valley, N. Y., 
May 15, 1867, son of Rev. Samuel Martin 
and Elizabeth (White) Stiles. He attend- 
ed Wesleyan University from 1885 to 1886; 
College de France from 1886 to 1887; Ber- 
lin University, 1887 to 1889; Leipzig Uni- 
versity in 1890; Trieste Zoological Station 
during 1891; and in the same year, Pas- 
teur Institute and College de France. He 
was graduated from Leipzig with the de- 
grees of A. M. and Ph. D. in 1890. In 1896 
he received the honorary degree of M. S. 
from Wesleyan University, and in 1906 
that of D. Sc. from the same institution. 
From 1891 to 1902 Prof. Stiles was zool- 
ogist of the Bureau of Animal Industry 
of the United States Department of Ag- 
riculture; since 1893 he has been honor- 
ary custodian of the helminthol. collec- 
tions of the United States National Mu- 
seum; since 1894, he has been secretary 
of the Advisory Committee, Smithsonian 
table, Naples Zoological Station; since 
1902 lecturer at the Navy Medical School; 
was scientific attache at the American 
Embassy at Berlin during 1898 and 1899; 
since 1898 has been Secretary of the In- 
ternational Commission on Zoological No- 
menclature; was United States delegate to 
the International Zoological Congress at 
Leyden in 1895; same, Cambridge, 1898; 
Berlin, 1901; Bern, 1904; and Boston, 1907. 
Since 1902 he has been zoologist of the 
Public Health and Marine Hospital Serv- 
ice; 1892-1906, professof of medical zool- 
ogy at Georgetown University; since 1897, 
lecturer at Johns Hopkins University 
Medical School; from 1894 to 1901, lecturer 
at the Army Medical School. Prof. Stiles 
is a member of the Alpha Delta Phi and 
Phi Beta Kappa fraternities; Cosmos 
Club; Johns Hopkins University Club (of 
Baltimore) ; American Association for the 
Advancement of Science (secretary in 
1902, secretary of Council in 1903, and gen- 
eral secretary in 1904); Zoological Soci- 
ety; is a corresponding member of the 
London Zoological Society; foreign corre- 
spondent of the Societe de Biologie de 
France; Academy de Medicine de France, 
etc. He is the author 'Of numerous scien- 
tific articles and reports on medical zool- 
ogy, and has done much original research 
work in medical zoology, etc. On June 
23, 1897, he married Virginia Baker. Ad- 



dress: Hygienic Laboratory, Twenty-fifth 
and E streets, n.w. 

STILLINGS, CHARLES ARTHUR, 

Public Printer of the United States, was 
born in Boston, Mass., on April 20. 1871, 
son of Ephriam Bailey and Celia Crowell 
(Kemp) Stillings. He was educated in 
the Phillips Grammar School, and the 
English High School -of Boston, and left 
the latter at the age of fourteen (in 1885), 
to enter his father's printing ofilce in 
Boston. He worked his way up from a 
printer's devil to general manager of the 
firm, and when, in 1902, the firm became 
the Griffith-Stillings Press, became sales- 
manager. From September 1_ 1903, to 
May 1, 1905, he was manager of the Print- 
ers' Board of Trade of Washington; was 
manager of the Printers' Board of Trade 
of New York from May 1 to November 1, 
1905; from 1903 to 1905. secretary of the 
Typothetae of Washington. He was ap- 
pointed Public Printer on November 1, 
1905. Mr. Stillings is a thirty-second de- 
gree Mason; member of the Washington 
Board of Trade and Washington Business 
Men's Association, and in politics is an 
Independent Republican. On April 29, 
1905, he married Anna Marie Rau. Resi- 
dence: The Ontario. Office: Government 
Printing Office. 

STIRLING, YATES, Rear- Admiral, U. 
S. N. (retired), was born at Baltimore, 
Md., May 6, 1843, son of Archibald and 
Elizabeth Ann Stirling. He attended the 
United States Naval Academy from 1860 
to 1863; then served with the Union navy 
through the rest of the Civil War, part of 
the time in the vicinity of the James River 
and later as a participant in both attacks 
on Fort Fisher. He was appointed ensign 
May 28, 1863; promoted to Lieutenant, 
November 10, 1866; made Lieutenant- 
Commander March 12, 1868; advanced to 
Commander^ November 26, 1880; commis- 
sioned Captain In September, 1894; and 
Rear-Admiral on June 8, 1902. He was 
retired on May 6, 1905. In 1898 Admiral 
(then Captain) Stirling was appointed a 
member of the lighthouse board; In 1900 
he was made commandant of the San 
Juan (Porto Rico) Naval Station; during 
1902 and 1903 was commandant 'Of the Pu- 
get Sound Navy Yard; was in command 
of the Philippine Squadron of the Asiatic 
fleet during 1903-04; in command of the 
cruiser squadron of the same fleet from 
April to July, 1904; then for a year com- 
mander-in-chief of the Asiatic fleet. On 
August 29, 1867, Admiral Stirling married 
Ellen Salisbury Haley. Address: Balti- 
more, Md., or Navy Department. 

STOCKTON, CHARLES HERBERT, 

Rear-Admiral, U. S. N., was born at Phil- 
adelphia. Pa., October 13, 1845, son of 
Rev. W. R. and E. T. Stockton. He was 
graduated from the United States Naval 
Academy In 1865. and since that time has 
served variously as a naval officer, rising 
to the rank of Rear-Admiral in 1906. In 
1888 he was a member of the commission 



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to select a naval station at Puget Sound; 
commanded the Thetis from 1889 to 1891, 
on the Arctic cruise 'Of that vessel; was 
in command of the Yorlttown, on the As- 
iatic station from 1895 to 1897; from 1898 
to 1900 was president of the Naval War 
College, Newport, R. I.; in command of 
the battleship Kentucky, Asiatic fleet, 
from 1901 to 1903; naval attache to the 
American Embassy at London, England, 
1903-05; president Naval Inspection and 
Examining Board, 1906-07; in command 
special service squadron, 1907. Retires on 
October 13, 1907. Admiral Stockton is 
the author of The Laws and Usages of 
War, and of various magazine contribu- 
tions; editor of a manual of international 
law; compiler of a history of the United 
States Naval Asylum, etc. On November 
23, 1880, he married Pauline Lentilhon 
King. Residence: 2019 O street, n.w. 

STOCKTON, LOUISE, author, literat- 
teur, was born in Philadelphia, daughter 
of William S. and Emily H. Stockton, and 
sister of the late Frank R. Stockton. For 
some years she has been engaged in jour- 
nalistic work, as music critic, editorial 
writer, book editor, etc., with various 
newspapers; she is the author of a num- 
ber of short stories, novels, historical es- 
says, etc., including the following: Doro- 
thea (1882); Apple Seeds and Briar Thorn 
(1887); A Sylvan City (1883) (republished 
as Quaint Corners in 1900). Miss Stock- 
ton is president of the Round Robin Read- 
ing Clubs, and was one of the founders 
and original members of the New Cen- 
tury, and the Browning and Contempora- 
ry clubs. ilesidence: 1408 Thirty-flrsc 
street, n.w. 

STOCKTON, MARIAN E. (MRS. 
FRANK R.), author, was born at George- 
town, S. C, daughter of Moses and Mary 
Elizabeth Mansfield (Brooks) Tultle. She 
was educated in private scliools at Guil- 
ford and New Haven, Conn. Previous to 
her maniage on April 30, 1860, to Frank 
Richard Stockton, the author, she had 
written extensively, including several 
short stories and two prize stories. After 
her ma.riage she ceased literary work; 
but in the last few years has again taken 
it up. Address: 1408 Thirty-flrst street, 
n.w. 

STOKES, HENRY NEWLIN, chemist, 
was born at Moorestown, Burlington 
County, N. J., October 24, 1859, son of Dr. 
J'Ohn Hinchman and Tabitha (Jenkins) 
Stokes. He was graduated fiom Haver- 
ford College in 1878; from Johns Hopkins 
University in 1884, with the degree of 
Ph. D. ; studied chemistry at the Univer- 
sity of Munich during 1885 and 1886; and 
at the Zurich Polytechnic from 1886 to 
1889. From the latter year until 1892 Mr, 
Stokes was chemist with the U. S. Geo- 
logical Survey, and again, from 1895 to 
1903; during 1892 and 1893 he was assist- 
ant professor of inorganic chemistry at 
the University of Chicago; since 1903 he 



has been associate chemist with the U. 
S. Bureau of Standards. He has pursued 
various original research work in chem- 
istry and is a member of the Phi Beta 
Kappa fraternity. Cosmos Club, and va- 
rious chemical societies of America, Ger- 
many and France. On October 25, 1884, 
he married Wilhelmina F. van den Berg, 
of Amsterdam, Holland. Residence: 1443 
Q street, n.w. Office: Bureau of Stand- 
ards. 

STONE, CHARLES P., senior member 
of the real estate fim of Stone & Fairfax, 
was 'born at Norfolk Va., in 1861, and fin- 
ished his education at Tuscarora vPa.) 
Academy. He then entered a mercantile 
house, but soon left for New Mexico, where 
he became interested in mining. In 1887 
he returned east, locating in Washington, 
and ente:ed into partnership with his fa- 
ther in real estate, and so continuing for 
ten years, when his father retired, and 
Charles W. Fairfax took his place. He 
married Emma Strayer, at Mifflintown, 
Pa., and they have three children. Resi- 
dence: 2021 Massachusetts avenue. Of- 
fice: 1342 New York avenue. 

STONE, ISAAC SCOTT, physician, was 
born at Sandy Spring, Md., March 1, 1851, 
son of James H. and Martha A. Stone. 
He attended school at Wilmington, Del., 
studied sciences and medicine at the Uni- 
versity of Maryland, where he was grad- 
uated with the degree of M. D. in 1872, 
and afterward pursued post-graduate 
study in New York and London. He was 
elected professor of gynecology in George- 
town University in 1892; he is now sur- 
geon to the Columbia Hospital for Wo- 
men; to Georgetown University Hospital, 
and professor of gynecology in the Wash- 
ington Post-graduate Medical School. Dr. 
Stone is a life member of the British 
Gynecological Society; member of Amer- 
ican Gynecological Society; District of Co- 
lumbia and National Medical Societies; 
American Association for the Advance- 
ment of Science, and 'Others. He fre- 
quently contributes sufgical and gyneco- 
logical articles to medical periodicals. He 
received the title Sc. D. honora Causa, 
from University of Maryland in 1907. On 
November 16, 1875, he married Thomasin 
Jane Taylor. Residence: 1618 Rhode Is- 
land avenue. Office: Stoneleigh Court. 

STONE, WILLIAM JOEL, lawyer. Sen- 
ator from Missouri, was born in Madison 
County, Ky., May 7, 1848, and was grad- 
uated from the University of Missouri. 
This same institution lately conferred 
upon him the degree of LL. D. He was 
admitted to the bar in 1869, and since 
that time (to his elction to the Senate) 
has practiced law; was prosecuting at- 
torney of Vernon County, Mo., from 1873 
to 1874; Rep;esentative in Congress from 
1885 to 1891; Governor of Missouri from 
1893 to 1897; member of the Democratic 
National Committee from Missouri from 
1896 to 1904 (was vice-chairman in 1896 
and 1900); was elected to the United 



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States Senate in 1903. Senator Stone 
married Sarah Louise Winston on April 
2, 1874. In politics he is a Democrat. Le- 
gal resiflence: Jefferson City, Mo. Wash- 
ington address: U. S. Senate. 

STORY, JOHN P., Brigadier-General. 
U, S. A. (retired), was 'born in the State 
of Wisconsin, Aug-ust 25, 1841, and was 
graduated f:om the United States Military 
Academy in 1865. In the same year he 
was commissioned a Second Lieutenant, 
and subsequently, First Lieutenant of in- 
fantry; in 1870 he was transferred to the 
artillery corps, after promotion to Cap- 
tain on September 14, 1863; was commis- 
sioned Major, March 8, 1898; made Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel May 8, 1901; advanced to 
Colonel, October 15, 1902; in 1903 was 
commandant of the Artillery School at 
Fortress Monroe, Virginia; was commis- 
sioned Brigadier-General on January 22, 
1904, and from that time until his retire- 
ment, on August 25, 1905. served as chief 
of artillery, U. S. A. Address: War De- 
partment. 

STOTT, CHARLES G., merchant, was 
born in Washington September 3, 1864. 
He was educated at the Pennsylvania Mil- 
itary Academy and went later to Lafu- 
ette College, Easton, Pa. In April, 1888, 
he embarked in the stationery business 
in Washington. He 'removed from his 
original quarters on Eighth street to 
Pennsylvania avenue, remaining there six 
years, from there to 309 Ninth street, 
where he is located at the present time. 
He is a member of the Lafayette Lodge 
of the Masons, and of the Phi Kappa Psi 
Greek letter fraternity. Residence: 3108 
Seventeenth street, n.w. Business address: 
309 Ninth street, n.w. 

STOUT, JOHN KENNEDY, lawyer, was 
born at Wilkesbarre, Pa., November 29, 
1849, son of Asher Miner and Ellen C. 
(Gildersleeve) Stout. He was educated in 
private schools — at Rectory School, Ham- 
den, Conn.; Trinity College, Hartford, 
Conn., where he received the degree of B. 
A. in 1870. and that of M. A. in 1873. He 
was admitted to the bar in New Jersey in 
1877; in Washington Territory in 1880; 
and in Idaho Territory in 1882. ' From 1873 
to 1875 Mr. Stout was city editor of the 
Daily Express of Easton, Pa.; from 1875 
to 1878 he was on the city staff of the 
New York Tribune; from 1899 to 1903 he 
was secretary of U. S. Senator George 
Turner, of Washington, and since Decem- 
ber, 1903, he has been connected with the 
Bureau of Coiporations. From 1873 to 
1875 Mr. Stout was in the Pennsylvania 
militia; from 1888 to 1894 he served suc- 
cessively as First Lieutenant, Major and 
Colonel on the Governor's staff of the 
Washington State militia. He is a mem- 
ber of the Psi Upsilon college fraternity; 
Sons of the American Revolution; Society 
of Colonial Wars; Aztec Club of 1847; 
Pennsylvania German Society; Cosmos 
Club, etc. He is a member of the Epis- 
copalian Church, and in politics is a Dem- 



ocrat. On October 29, 1892, he married 
Ida T. Homan. Address: 131 A street, n.e. 

STRASBURGER, JOSEPH, merchant, 
was bom in Baltimore on May 28. 1856. 
and came to Washington in 1867. He 
was graduated from the Spencerian Busi- 
ness College in 1871, and opened a shoe 
store with his brother, continuing until 
1874. when, afiter his father's death, they 
increased the business, which is now one 
of the largest retail shoe stores in Wash- 
ington. In July, 1902, he bought out his 
brother's interest, since which time he has 
conducted the business alone. Residence: 
1921 Nineteenth street, n.w. Business ad- 
dress: 310-312 Seventh street, n.w. 

STRATTON, SAMUEL WESLEY, di- 
rector National Bureau of Stand 'rds, since 
1901, was born at Litchfield, 111., July 18, 
1861. son of Samuel and Mary Stratton. 
In 1884 he was graduated from the Uni- 
versity of Illinois, with the degree of B. 
S. From 1887 to 1892 he served succes- 
sively as instructor, assistant professor, 
and professor of physics, at the University 
of Illinois; from 1892 to 1901 successive- 
ly as assistant professor, associate pro- 
fessor, and professor of physics at the 
Universi'ty of Chicago. Mr. Stratton is a 
member of the Cosmos Club and the 
American Physical Society. He is un- 
miarried. Residence: Seventeenth and I 
streets, n.w. Office: Bureau of Stand- 
ards. 

STRAUS, OSCAR S., Secretary of the 
Department of Commerce and Labor, was 
born on December 23, 1850. He obtained 
his early education in the schools of Tal- 
bottcm and Columbus, Ga., where he 
pa.^sed his boyho d days, and was success- 
ively graduated from the Columbia Gram- 
mar School, Columbia (N. Y.) University, 
and the Columbia Law School, in 1873. 
From 1872 to 1881 he was engaged in the 
general practice of law, subsequently en- 
gaging in the mecantile business as a 
member of the firm of L. Straus & Sons, 
of New York. He was minister to Tur- 
key from 1887 to 1889, and again from 
1897 to 1900; appointed by President 
Roosevelt in 1902 a member of the Perma- 
nent Court of Arbitraition at The Hague, 
succeeding ex-President Harrison; for- 
merly president New York Board of 
Trade and the National Primary League; 
vice-p esident National Civic Federation; 
vice-president of the International Law 
Association of America; formerly presi- 
dent of the American Social Science As- 
sociation. He is the author of numerous 
publications dealing with history and in- 
ternational law; The Origin of the Re- 
publican Form of Government in the Unit- 
ed States; Roger Williams, The Pioneer 
of Religious Liberty; The Development of 
Religious Liberty in the United Sattes; 
U. S. Doctrine of Citizenship and Expa- 
triation; Reform in the Consular Service, 
etc. He has been honored with an L. 
H. D. degree by Brown University and 
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Washington and Lee and Columbia (N. 
Y.) Universities. On December 17, 1906, 
he was appointed Secretary of the De- 
partment of Commerce and Labor. Resi- 
dence: 2600 Sixteenth street. Olfice: De- 
partment of Commerce and Labor. 

STRAUSS, JOSEPH, Lieutenant-Com- 
mander U. S. N., was born at Mount Mor- 
ris, Livingston County, New Yorlt, No- 
vember 16, 1861, son of Raphael and Sarah 
(Metzger) Strauss. He was graduated 
from the United States Naval Academy in 
1885, land served on various vessels until 
1887; from that year until 1891 he was 
engaged in hydrogaphic work for the 
United States Coast Survey on the east- 
ern and western coasts of the United 
States and about Alaska. From 1893 to 
1896 he was attached to the Bureau of 
ordnance of the Navy Department; from 
1896 to 1900 was stationed on various ves- 
sels in South American wate:s; he was 
in command of the Naval Proving Grounds 
at Indian Head from 1900 to 1903; at 
present he is attached to the U. S. S. 
Arkansas. Commander Strauss is the in- 
ventor of the superimposed turret system 
of mounting guns. He is a member of 
the American Association for the Ad- 
vancement of Science; Society of Amer- 
ican Wars; Army and Navy Clu'b, etc. He 
saw service during the war with Spain 
on blockade duty. Commander Strauss 
has written a number of books and arti- 
cles on ordnance and ballistics. In 1901 
he married Mary Sweitzer. Address: 
Navy Department. 

STREET (MRS.), DANIEL B., president 
Methodist Home for Ag^^d People. Resi- 
dence: 1102 Ninth street, n.w. 

STREETS, T. H., medical director of 
the Naval Hospital. Residence: 1416 Hop- 
kins street, n.w. Office: Pennsylvania 
avenue between Ninth and Tenth streets, 
s.e. 

STRIDER, LUKE C, Justice of the 
Peace. Residence: 1450 Rhode Island av- 
enue, n.w. Office: D street and John 
Ma. shall Place, n.w, 

STRONG, EDWARD TRASK, Rear-Ad- 
miral, U. S. N. (retired), was born at Ips- 
wich, Mass., February 10, 1840, son of Dv 
Simeon E. Strong. On November 24, 
1862, he volunteered as an officer in the 
United States Navy, and as such served 
throughout the remainder of the Civil 
War; in 1868 he was commissioned en- 
sign, U. S. N.; promoted to Master, De- 
cember 18. 1868; made Lieutenant, March 
21, 1870; advanced to Lieutenant-Com- 
mander, July 2, 1882; commissioned Com- 
mande. January 9, 1893; promoted to Cap- 
tain, October 10, 1899, and retired as Rear- 
Admiral, November 21, 1900. Admiral 
Strong was married on June 11, 1867. Ad- 
dress: Albany. N. Y., or Navy Depart- 
ment 



STUART, ALEXANDER T., super- 
intendent of the Washington public 
schools He was graduated in 1864 from 
the public schools and then entered Co- 
lumbian (now George Washington) Uni- 
versity, graduating in 1869, and receiving 
thirty- five years later, from the same in- 
stitution, the honorary degree of Master 
of Arts. From college he returned to the 
public schools as teacher, and was placed 
in charge of the Seventh grade in the 
Franklin School building. In 1875, he re- 
signed to become secretary of the Young 
Men's Christian Association, of which Gen. 
O. O. Howard was the presid nt. From 
1877-90 he was the principal of the Third 
Division, on Capitol Hill, and then became 
supe intendent, succeeding W. B. Powell. 
Residence: 16 Fourth street, s.e. 

STUART, JAMES E., Disciples of Christ 
clergyman, pastor of the Fifteenth street 
Christian Church, Residence: 1316 Mas- 
sachusetts avenue, s.e. 

STUNTZ, STEPHEN CONRAD, author, 
librarian was bon at Clarno, Wis., April 
4, 1875, son of Albert Conrad and Lydia 
Ann (Sturdevant) Stuntz. He attended 
the public schools of Monroe, Wis., and 
was graduated from the University of 
Wisconsin (botany group), 1899, and took 
post-graduate wo:k at the same institu- 
tion, 1899-1902; "v/as library ^assistant, Uni- 
versity of Wisconsin, 1899-1902; cata- 
loguer and classifier. Library of Congress 
since 1902. Conducted genealogical and 
historical reseaich. State Historical Soci- 
ety Library at Madison, Wis., and acted 
as assistant on State botanical survey, 
1897-1902. Author (under pseudonym uf 
Stephen Conr::d) of The Second Mrs. 
Jim (1904); Mrs. Jim and Mrs. Jimmie 
(1905); and is at wok on two new novels 
and a complete list of Confederate im- 
prinics. He married Lena Gray-on Fitz- 
Hugh, at Culptpcr, Va. Residence: Vien- 
na, Va. Office: Libra. y of Congress. 

STURGISS, GEORGE C, Congressman. 
In November, 1906, he was elected a mem- 
ber of the Sixtieth Congress from the 
Second Congiessional District of Wash- 
ington, as a Republican. Legal residence: 
Morgantown, W. Va. Washington ad- 
dress: House of Rep.esentatives. 

STURTEVANT, CHARLES LYON, pat- 
ent lawyer, was born in Washington, D. 
C, the son of Albert L. and Sti-san A. 
(Kinsley) Sturtevant, of Springfield, 
Mass., and who located in Washington in 
the early sixties, and were among the early 
settlers of Mt. Pleasant. In 1888 he was 
graduated from the Law School of Co- 
lumbian (now George Washington) Uni- 
versity, becoming A. M. in 1889. He is the 
senior member of the firm of Sturtevant 
& Mason. He is also a member of the 
bar of the Supreme Court of the Unit- 
ed States. He is a member of tiie 
Cosmos, Chevy Chase and Columbia Golf 
Clubs, of Washington. He is also a mem- 
ber of the Mayflower Association; the 



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American Institute of Electrical Engineers 
and the Anthropological and Historical 
Society. On February 14, 1893, he mar- 
ried Bessie Dillon. Residence: 1833 Ore- 
gon avenue, n.w. Office: Washington 
Loan & Trust Building. 

SUDWORTH, GEORGE BISHOP, asso- 
ciate forester and chief of dendrology, U. 
S. Forest Service, was born at Kingston, 
Wis., August 31, 1864, son of Bishop Birch 
and Mary Elizabeth Sudworth. He was 
gt-aduated from the Kalamazoo High 
School and from the University of Mich- 
igan in 1885. From 1885 to 1886 he was 
instructor in botany at the Michigan State 
Agricultural College; entered the Division 
of Forestry, U. S. Department of Agri- 
culture, in 1886, as a botanist; served as 
dendrologist of the division (later bu- 
reau) from 1895 to 1904, and, since the 
latter date, in his present position. Mr. 
Sudworth is the author of a number of 
books, technical articles, monographs, e.tc, 
on botanical subjects, principally regard- 
ing forest flora, on which he is a fore- 
most authority. He is an officer of the 
Society 'of American Foresters, and a 
member of the American Forestry Asso- 
ciation, and of the American Association 
for the Advancement of Science. He mar- 
ried Frances Gertrude Kingsbury on Feb- 
ruary 24, 1897. Residence: 2949 Newark 
street, n.w. Office: Forest Service. 

SULLIVAN, JOHN ANDREW, lawyer. 
Congressman, was born in Boston, Mass., 
May 10, 1868, and received his education 
in the public and high schools and the 
Boston University Law School, from which 
latter institution he was graduated in 
1896. In the same year he was admitted 
to the bar, and has since been engaged 
in practicing his profession. Ml*. Sulli- 
van was State Senator for two years; he 
was elected to the Fifty-eighth Congress 
as Representative from the Eleventh Mas- 
sachusetts District, and re-elected to the 
Fifty-ninth. In politics he is a Demo- 
crat. Legal i-esidence: Boston, Mass. 

SULLIVAN, JOSEPH DANIEL, lawyer, 
was born in Washington, D. C, August 31, 
1877, son of Thomas J. and Mary Cath- 
erine Sullivan. He was educated by the 
Christian Brothers; graduated with the 
degree of A. B. from Georgetown Univer- 
sity in 1897, and in 1899 with the degree 
of LL. B., and in 1900 that of LL. M. 
He is at present engaged in the prac- 
tice of his profession in this city. In 1905 
Mr. Sullivan was president of the Immac- 
ulate Conception Conference, St. Vincent 
de Paul Society. In religion he is a Ro- 
man Catholic. He is a member of the 
Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity. Unmarried. 
Residence: 1323 Thirtieth street, n.w. Of- 
fice: Thirteenth and G streets, n.w. 

SULLIVAN, THOMAS J., assistant di- 
rector of the Bureau of Engraving and, 
Printing. Residence: 1823 Vernon avenue, 
n.w. Office: Bureau of Engraving and 
Printing. 



SULLIVAN, WILLIAM C, lawyer. Res- 
idence: 2117 N street, n.w. Office: 410 
Fifth street, n.w. 

SULLOWAY, CYRUS ADAMS, lawyer. 
Congressman, was born at Grafton, N. H.. 
June 8, 1839, and was educated in the 
public schools and academies. Later he 
read law and was admitted to the bar in 
1863; since 1864 he has been engaged in 
the practice of his profession at Man- 
chester, N. H. From 1872 to 1873, and 
again from 1887 to 1893, he was a mem- 
ber of the New Hampshire Legislature; 
since 1895 he has been a Representative to 
Congress from the First New Hampshire 
District. Republican. Legal residence: 
Manchester, N. H. Washington address: 
House of Representatives. 

SULZER, WILLIAM, lawyer. Congress- 
man, was born in Elizabeth, N. J., March 
18, 1863, son of Thomas Sulzer, a German 
patriot and veteran of the revolution of 
1848, who emigrated to America in 1851. 
His mother's ancestors were Scotch-Irish, 
and were banished from Ireland after the 
revolutionary struggle of 1798. Young 
Sulzer attended public schools and lec- 
tures at the Columbia College Law School, 
studied law in the office of Parrish & Pen- 
dleton in New York, and at the age of 
twenty-one (in 1884) was admitted to the 
bar. He was a member of the New York 
Assembly for five teims — from 1889 to 
1894, being Speaker in 1893 (the youngest 
in the history of the State); in 1894 he 
was elected to Congress from the Tenth 
New York District. Mr. Sulzer is a Dem- 
ocrat, and at all times has been active in 
his participation with the most important 
movements of that party. He was a del- 
egate to the naitional conventions of 1896, 
1900 and 1904. He is the author of the 
law for the Bureau of Corporations, the 
bill cheating a Department of Labor; the 
Department of Transportation; the first 
resolution of sympathy for the Cubans; 
the resolution declaring war against 
Spain; also of the resolutions sympathiz- 
ing with the Boers; denouncing the Jew- 
ish outrages in Russia; of the so-called 
eight-hour law, anti-injunction bill, and 
many other important measures. He is a 
thirty-second degree Mason; a Presbyte- 
rian in religion; member of the Democrat- 
ic, Manhattan, Masonic and other New- 
York Clubs. He is at present engaged in 
Wilting a volume on political economy. 
Legal residence: 232 East Twelfth street. 
New York, N. Y. Washington address: 
House of Representatives. 

SUMMERS, JOHN E., army officer, 
was born in Virginia, on January 24, 1822. 
On December 13, 1847, he was appointed 
from civil life (Virginia) First Lieuten- 
ant and Assistant Surgeon; served in the 
Mexican War until July, 1848; promoted 
to Captain and Assistant-Surgeon, 1852; 
Major and Surgeon, 1861; Lieutenant- 
Colonel and Medical Inspector, 1863, and 
was mustered out, 1865, as a Medical In- 
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duty at the General Hospital, Alexandria, 
Va.; 1863, at the hospital at Memphis, 
Tenn., and was Medical Director of the 
Department of Tennessee until October, 
1866. Until October, 1865, he was in the 
field with Grant's Army; was Medical 
Director of the Department of Dakota, 
until September, 1870. From 1870 to 1874, 
he was Post-Surgeon to Fortress Mon- 
roe, Va.; Medical Director of the Depart- 
ment of the Platte, Omaha, Neb., 1874 to 
1886. He was promoted to Lieutenant- 
Colonel and Surgeon in 1880; Colonel and 
Surgeon, 1885, and on January 24, 1886, 
he was retired by law. Subsequently .he 
■was promoted to the rank of Brigadier- 
General, U. S. A., retired, by act of Con- 
gress of April 23, 1904. Address: War 
Department. 

SUMNER, EDWIN VOSE, Brigadier- 
General, U. S. A. (retired), was born at 
Carlisle, Pa., son of Major-General E. V. 
Sumner. He entered the volunteer army 
on August 5, 1861, as Second Lieutenant 
of the First Cavalry; was promoted to 
First Lieutenant November 12, 1861; made 
Captain, September 23, 1863; then in all 
grades from Major to Colonel and brevet 
Brigadier-General, U. S. V., of the First 
New York mounted rifles. He was then 
transferred to the regular army; was com- 
missioned Major of the Fifth Cavalry on 
March 4, 1879; made Lieutenant-Colonel, 
April 15, 1890; advanced to Colonel, No- 
vember 10, 1894; commissioned Biigadier- 
General, U. S. V., on May 27, 1898, and 
in March. 1899, retired as a Brigadier- 
General, U. S. A. From April, 1898, to 
Ma.ch, 1899, he commanded the Depart- 
ments of Colorado and Missouri. During 
the Civil War he participated in a num- 
ber of the important battles, and was 
several times brevetted for gallantly; 
after that he served in various Indian 
campaigns on the Western frontier, to the 
time of the Spanish-American War. Ad- 
dress: War Department. 

SUMNER, GEORGE WATSON, Rear- 

Admiral, U. S. N. (retired), was born at 
Constantino, St. Joseph County, Mich., 
December 31, 1841, son of Dr. Watson and 
Hester Ann (Welling) Sumner. He at- 
tended school in Massachusetts and Ken- 
tucky and entered the United States Na- 
val Academy in 1858, from which he was 
detached in 1861, at the beginning of the 
Civil War, and assigned to duty on the 
steam frigate Colorado, of the West Gulf 
blockading squadron. In 1862 he was ex- 
ecutive officer U. S. Barkentine Horace 
Beats; and as such served in the bom- 
bardment of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, 
under Farragut, receiving commendation. 
In 1862 he was commissioned Lieutenant, 
and for further services in the war was 
specially commended. In 1866 he was 
promoted to Lieutenant-Commander; 
served abroad from 1868 to 1871; in hy- 
drographic office, Navy Department, 1872 
to 1876; commissioned Commander, in 
1876; in 1877 commanded the Monocacy, of 
the Asiatic squadron, and until 1880 served 



on special duty with that squadron and 
subsequently in Washingiton; he was at- 
tached to the Navy Department in this 
city from 1881 to 1886; from 1888 to 1890 
was in command of the U. S. F. S. Ga- 
lena, North Atlantic Squadron; in 1891 
he was advanced to Captain; commanded 
U. S. S. Baltimore at the International 
Naval Review of 1893; also U. S. S. Co- 
lumbia at opening of Kiel Canal, Germany, 
in 1895. Captain Sumner was in com- 
mand of the Columbia when that cruiser 
made the record time run from Southamp- 
ton to New York, the fastest time then 
recorded for a man-of-war; was in com- 
mand of the monitor Monadnock, Pacific 
Station, from 1896 to 1897; Captain of the 
New York Navy Yard, 1897-1899; in com- 
mand of Port Royal (South Carolina) Na- 
val Station and commissioned Rear-Ad- 
miral in 1899; commandant of Philadel- 
phia Navy Yard and station, 1900 to 1902; 
in command of the South Atlantic sta- 
tion from 1902 to 1903; commanded White 
Squadron at naval manoeuvres of 1902- 
1903; retired as Rear-Admiral December 
31, 1903. Admiral Sumner is a member 
of the Associated Veterans of Farragut's 
Fleet; Military Order of Foreign Wars; 
Naval and Military Order of Spanish- 
American War, etc. He has been twice 
married— in January, 1869, to Henrietta 
E. Ruan, of St. Croix. Danish West In- 
dies (who died in 1885); and in 1886, to 
Maudthilde Willis, of New York. Ad- 
dress: The Pines, Patchogue, N. Y., or 
Navy Department. 

SUMNER, SAMUEL STORROW, Ma- 
jor-General, U. S. A., was born in Penn- 
svlvania, son of Major-Gen. Edwin V. 
Sumner, and brother of Brigadier-General 
Edwin Vose Sumner, U. S. A., retired. 
On June 11, 1862, he was appointed a 
Second Lieutenant in the regular army; 
was promoted to First Lieutenant July 
17, 1862; made Captain, U. S. V., and aide 
de camp in August, 1862, and served 
throughout the Civil War, being brevetted 
First Lieutenant, Captain and Major for 
gallantrv. He was commissioned Major 
of cavalry, U. S. A., April 2, 1879; was 
brevetted Lieutenant-Colonel for bravery 
in action against Indians a)t Summit 
Springs, Colo., on July 11, 1869; commis- 
sioned Lieutenant-Colonel February 18, 
1891; made Colonel, May 23, 1896; ap- 
pointed Brigadier-General, U. S. V., on 
May 4, 1898; made Brigadier-General, U. 
S. A., on February 4, 1901, and Major- 
General, July 26, 1903. After the Civil 
War he served on the Western frontier 
until the Spanish-American War; he was 
prom'Oted to Major-General for distin- 
guished services in Cuba during the war, 
and acted as chief mustering officer of the 
United States Aimy, and subsequently as 
commander of the first division of the 
second army corps; in 1899 he was ap- 
pointed military attache to the American 
Embassy at London, England; resigned 
this post in 1900 to join the United States 
troops with the allied forces in China, 
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gade; later he was in command of the 
first district of Southern Luzon, then the 
third brigade, Department of Luzon, and 
subsequently the first brigade; fiom July 
7, 1902, to July 1, 1903, he was in com- 
mand of the Department of Mindanao; 
then returned to the United States and 
commanded the Department of Missouri; 
since January 15. 1904, he has been in 
command of the Southwestern Division. 
General Sumner mairied Frederica Ben- 
nett. Address: War Department. 

SUTER, CHARLES RUSSELL, Colonel, 
engineer corps. United States Army, was 
born in New York City, son of Assistant 
Surgeon A. F. Suter, U. S. A. He was 
graduated from the United States Military 
Academy in 1858; was commissioned Sec- 
ond Lieutenant on June 17, 1862; made 
First Lieutenant March 3, 1863; brevetted 
Captain for gallantry at Moris Island, S. 
C. in 1863; commissioned Captain June 
17 ,1864; brevetted Major for special serv- 
ices during the Civil War; promoted to 
Major October 10, 1871; advanced to Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel January 10, 1887, and Colo- 
nel October 12, 1895. Col. Suter has served 
exclusively in the engineer co:ps of the 
army. From 1873 to 1876 he was assistant 
engineer of the survey of the Upper Mis- 
sissippi; later was in charge of various 
engineering works of the War Department, 
including river and harbor improvements, 
fortification work, etc.; he has served on 
various engineeing boards and river com- 
missions. Address: War Department. 

SUTHERLAND, GEORGE, lawyer U. 
S. Senator, was born in Buckinghamshire, 
Engl-nd, March 25, 1862. Received a 
common school and academic education. 
He studied law at the University of Mich- 
igan and was admitted to practice in the 
Supeme Court of the same State in 
March, 1883, since when he has been ac- 
tively engaged in the practice of that pro- 
fession. He was State Senator of Utah 
in the first State Legislature, and was a 
delegate to the Republican National Con- 
ventions of 1900 and 1904. and was elected 
a member of the Fifty-seventh Congress 
and declined renomination to the Fifty- 
eighth. In 1905 he was elected a mem- 
ber of the United States Senate from 
Utah fo. the term beginning March 4, 
1905. His term of service will expire in 
1911. Leg^l residence: Salt Lake City, 
Utah. Washington residence: The High- 
lands. 

SUTTON, JOHN R., Lieutenant, Har- 
bor Master of the District of Columbia. 
Residence: 925 R street, n.w. 

SWAIN E, J. ED., Grand Regent of the 
Royal Aicanum, was born in Alexandria, 
Va. Since leaving college he has been the 
junior member of the firm of F. J. Swaine 
& Sons (grocers). Residence: 431 Q 
street, n.w. Business address: 932 Louis- 
iana avenue, n.w. 



SWARTZELL, GEORGE W. F., presi- 
dent of the real estate firm of Swartzell, 
Rheem & Hensey, was born in Mifflin 
County, Pa., February 4, 1857, son of John 
and Sarah (Murphy) Swartzell. He was 
educated at the Lewiston (Pa.) Academy. 
He came to Washington and entered the 
firm of B. H. Warner in 1876, becoming 
a member of the firm eleven years later, 
in 1887. He is vice president of the Na- 
tional Metropolitan Bank; a director of 
the Real Estate Exchange, and of the 
Potomac Insurance Company; a trustee 
of the Hamline Methodist Episcopal 
Church, and one of the managers of the 
Lucy Webb Hayes Training School. He 
was married in Washington June 1, 1889, 
to Minnie E., daughter of Rev. Dr. Henry 
R. and Elizabeth Adams Naylor, to which 
union have been born three children. 
Residence: Chevy Chase, Md. Office: 733 
Fifteenth street, n.w. 

SWEET, OWEN J., Colonel, U. S. A., 
was born at Kent, Litchfield County, 
Conn., September 4, 1845, son of James 
S. and Aurilla (Duncan) Sweet. He re- 
ceived his education at Binghamton, N. 
Y. On September 6, 1862, he was appoint- 
ed a Second Lieutenant in the One Hun- 
dred and Thirty-seventh New York Vol- 
unteer Infantry; was promoted to Cap- 
tain on March 12. 1864; brevetted Major 
for gallantry during the War of the Re- 
bellion; commissioned Second Lieutenant 
of the regular army. May 27, 1867; ad- 
vanced to First Lieutenant, August 19, 
1873; made Captain October 19, 1886; pro- 
moted to Major March 2, 1889; appointed 
Lieutenant- Colonel April, 1901, and Colo- 
nel, February 18, 1903. During the Civil 
War he served with the Army of the Po- 
tomac in a number of important battles; 
with the Army of the Cumberland on Sher- 
man's famous march ito the sea, and his 
subsequent engagements at Savannah and 
his campaign in the Carolinas. After the 
war he was stationed on the western fron- 
tier, and there served in various Indian 
campaigns. He was stationed in the Phil- 
ippines from 1899 to 1901, and again, from 
1903 to 1904, for a time commanding the 
Third Military District, including the Sulu 
Archipelago. Since 1904 he has been com- 
manding officer of Fo:t Spelling. Colonel 
Sweet married Mary E. Bolt in 1873. Ad- 
dress: War Department. 

SWEiVI, EDMOND HEZ, clergyman, 
pastor of the Second Baptist Church. Res- 
idence: 738 Fourth street, s.e. 

SWENSON, LAURITS S., U. S. Minis- 
ter to Denmark since 1897, was born at 
New Sweden, Minn., on June 12, 1865. He 
was graduated from Luther College, 
Decorah, la., in 1886 (A. M.), and 1886-87, 
attended the Johns Hopkins University. 
From 1888 to 1897, he was principal of 
Luther Academy, at Albert Lea, Minn.; 
1895-97, was a member of the Board of 
Regents of the University of Minnesota, 
and was a delegate to the National Re- 
publican Convention of 1896. He has 



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been a teacher and lecturer at teachers' 
institutes, and has been a writer on edu- 
cational topics. From 1904 to 1905, he 
was dean of the diplomatic corps at 
Copenhagen. Address; State Depart- 
ment. 

SWETT, OTIS D., registrar of the 
George Washington University. Resi- 
dence: GPafton, Chevy Chase. Office: 
Fifteenth and H streets, n.w. 

SWIFT, WILLIAM, Captain, U. S. N., 
was born at Windham, Conn., March 17, 
1848, son of William and Harriet (Byrne) 
Swift. He was graduated from the Unit- 
ed States Naval Academy in 1867, and 
from that time until his piumotion to En- 
sign, in 1868, served on the flagship Sus- 
quehanna. He was commissioned Master 
in 1870; made Lieutenant in 1871; pro- 
moted to Lieutenant Commander in Oc- 
tober, 1889, advanced to Commander in 
April, 18j7, and Captain on Febru-iry 9, 
1902. He is at present a member of the 
Army and Navy Joint Board, and of the 
General Board of the Navy. Captain 
Sw.ft was in command of the U. S. S. 
Y'orktown from 1900 to 1902. On Septem- 
ber 18, 1872, he mar. led Grace Virginia 
Ransom. Address: Navy Department. 

SWINBURNE, WILLIAM THOMAS, 

Captain, U. S. N., was born at Newport, 
R, I., August 24, 1847, son of Daniel 
Thomas and Harriet (Knowles) Swin- 
burne. He was graduated Ircm the Unit- 
ed States Naval Academy in 1866; served 
with the Wi-St India? squadron from that 
tirr.e until 1867, then on the Kearsarge, 
on the South Pacific stj.>ti n until 1870; 
he was made Ensign in 1S68; advanced 
to Master in 1869; promoted to Lieutenant 
in 187u; commissijned Lieutenant-Com- 
mander in 1S87; made Commander in 1896, 
and Captain in March, 1901. Captain 
Swinburne has served on various vessels 
at various stations, including the Mich- 
igian (1870-72); South Atlantic fleet flag- 
ship, Lancaster (1872-74); stationed at 
torpedo school, U. S. N., during 1875; on 
Hartford from 1875 to 1877; on Trenton, 
at China saa.ion, from 1883 to 1886; de- 
tailed at U. S. Naval Academy from 1886 
to 1890; executive oflficer, U. S. S. Boston, 
from 1890 to 1893, and commanded troops 
landed at Hon. lulu during the period 
from January to April, 1S93; in command 
of U. S. S. Helena, 1897-99, serving in 
North Atlantic fleet dur.ng the Spanish- 
American War, and around Santiago and 
Cienfuegos; stationed with Admiral 
Dewey at Manila in 1899; was senior com- 
manding officer of ships co-operating with 
Gen. Lawton in part of his Philippine 
campaign in 1899; stationed at Ports- 
mouth Navy Yard from 1899 to 1902; in 
command of the Texas f om 1902 to 1904; 
since then stationed at Washington as a 
member of the Navy General Board. Cap- 
tain Swinburne is a memter of the Met- 
ropolitan Club. He is a widower. Ad- 
dress: Navy Department. 



SWINDEREN, JONKEER RENEKE 
de MAREES van, Envoy Extraordinary 
and Mnister Plenipotentiary from the 
Netherlands to the United States, wa3 
born at Groningen, Holland, October 6, 
1860. He enter d the dipomatlc service 
and served successively as Secretary of 
the following legations of Holland: Ber- 
lin (Germany); Washington (United 
States); Rome (Italy); Vienna (Austria): 
St. Petersburg (Russia); Paris (France); 
then he became Minister resident at Buca- 
rest and Belgrade. Since April, 1904, he 
has represented his goverjiment at Wash- 
ington. On December 21, 1904, he mar- 
ried Elizabeth Lindsay Glovt/f. Residence: 
1738 M street, n.w. 

SWINGLE, WALTER TENNYSON, 

botanist, agriculturist, was born at Ca- 
naan, Pa., Janua:y 8, 1871, son of Jonn 
Fletcher and Mary (Astley) Swingle, and 
was graduated from the Kajisas State Ag- 
ricuLural College, B. S. 1830, and M. Sc. 
1836. He was assistant botanist at the 
Kansas State Agri?ultural Experiment 
Station in 1888; special agent, division of 
vegetab e physiology and pathology. U. 
S. De artment of Agricultu're, 1891; and 
stud ed abroad, 1895-96. Since 1902, he 
h;s been in charge of plant-life history 
investigations in the U. S. Department of 
j^.griculture. V. sited Africa, Italy, Greece, 
Asia Minor and the Balkans for the study 
of ag i-u.ture and biol gy. Introduced 
the fig insect into Califo nia, to enable 
the cu ture of Smyrna figs. In charge of 
introduction of date palni, pistache nut 
and other fruits from the Mediterranean 
into the United States. Member of the 
Naioial Geogaphic Sec ety; American 
Society of Plant Mo phologists and Phys- 
iolcgists; Fellow of the American Asso- 
ciation for the Advancement of Science; 
author of Diseases of Citrous Plants in 
Flori a (1895); Physical and Chemical 
Properties of Bordeaux Mixture (1895); 
The Date Palm and Its Culture (1901); 
Tie Pistache Nut and Its Culture (1903); 
Residence: 3315 Seventeenth street, n.w. 
Office: Bu.eau of Plant Industry. 

SWISHER, CHARLES CLINTON, ed- 
ucator, author, traveler, the aon cf Charles 
and Lu inda (Clinton) Swisher, was born 
near Oxford, Lancaster county, Pa. By 
reason of the early death of his father, he 
resided after his first year with his grand, 
father, John Swisher, of Jersey Town, Pa.. 
by whcm he was prepared for college, 
graduating from Yale Qniversity with a 
degree of A. B. in 1876. The four follow- 
ing years he passed in study and travel 
in England and upon the Continent of Eu- 
rope. Returning to the United States in 
1880 he entered the Columbia University 
(N. Y.) Law School, from which he was 
graduated summa cum laude in 1882, and 
was admitted to the New York City bar 
the same year. For the next ten years he 
was largely engaged in planting coffee and 
cocoa in Mexico and South America, trav- 
eling also extensively in Europe, Asia, 
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and publishing several novels and books 
of travel In 1892, seeking an change of 
climate, after a severe attack of yellow 
fever, he returned to the United States, 
taking up his residence in Ithaca, N. Y., 
where, at the instance of Prof. Moses Coit 
Tider, of Cornell University, he resumed 
the study of history which he had begun 
many years before under Prof. Leopold 
von Ranke, of the University of Berlin. 
In 1895 he received the degree of Ph. D. 
from Cornell University In the following 
year he was called to the chair of history 
and two years later to that of politics 
in the School of Jurisprudence and Di- 
plomacy of the George Washington Uni- 
versity, which position he still holds. In 
1890, he published a history 'Of the work 
of the religious orders in Mexico and in 
1904 l-eceived the degree of LL. D. from 
Mt. St. Mary's College. Residence: Cos- 
mos Club. Office: The George Washing- 
ton University. 

SWOPE, JOHN A., first vice-president 
of the Washington Loan & Trust Com- 
pany, was born at Gettysburg, Pa., De- 
cember 25, 1827, son of Geoige and Mar- 
garet (Smyser) Swope. He was graduat- 
ed with honors from Princeton University 
in 1847, then took a degree -at the Univer- 
sity of Pennsylvania, and entered general 
business in Baltimore. He succeeded his 
father as president of the Gettysburg Na- 
tional Bank, and in 1884 was Representa- 
tive in Congress from the Nineteenth Dis- 
trict of Pennsylvania. He was one of 
the incorporators of the Washington Loan 
& Trust Company, and was chosen second 
vice-president, and shortly after was ele- 
vated to his present position. He married 
first, Emma C. Wirt, of Hanover, Pa., and 
second, Blanche Mitchell. Residence: 1312 
N street, n.w. Office: Washington Loan 
& Trust Building. 

SWORMSTEDT, JOHN S., general 
agent The U. S. Fidelity & Guaranty Com- 
pany, and president of the Equitable In- 
dustrial Life Insurance Company. Resi- 
dence: 1347 Kenesaw avenue, n.w. Of- 
fice: 1423 New York avenue. 

SYLVESTER, RICHARD, Major and Su- 
perintendent, Metropolitan Police, was born 
in Iowa City, Iowa, August 14, 1858, son 
of Major Richard H. and Martha (Woods) 
Sylvester. He was educated in the public 
schools and attended Washington Univer- 
sity (St. Louis, Mo.) for one year (1873- 
74); subsequently he read law and then 
entered journalisttic work as a reporter 
on the staff of a St. Louis newspaper. He 
later established and became editor of the 
West Point (Nebraska) Progress; was ed- 
itor on the Parmington (Missouri) Times; 
in 1878 became Washington correspond- 
ent for the St. Louis Times, Post-Dis- 
patch and Kansas City Journal. In 1882 
he was appointed disbursing officer of the 
Ute Indian Commission, and as such spent 
a year among the Utes In tne State of 
Utah. In March, 1883, he became chief 
clerk of the Metropolitan Police Depart- 



ment; In 1898 he was appointed Major and 
Superintendent. Major Sylvester has for 
the past six years been president of the 
International Police Association, wh ch ho 
organized; he found -^d the National Bu- 
reau of Criminal Identification at Wash- 
ington; was awarded a gold medal and 
diploma for his services in tnis conriection. 
and by reason of the exhibit of the Bu- 
reau at the St. Louis Exposition. He is 
the author of Police History of the Dis- 
trict of Columbia; Police Manual and In- 
ternaitional Police Reports; a book on the 
Potomac bass entitled Me and My Boy. 
He is a vestryman of St. Stephens (Epis- 
copal) Church; a Mason; president of the 
Ross Memorial Association; vioe-presi- 
dent of the Audubon Society of ths Dis- 
trict; member of the executive commit- 
tee of the Revolver Association of the 
District; Washington Board of Tra^le and 
Business Men's Association; president of 
the Police Relief Association, and a mem- 
ber and officer of numerous hunting, fish- 
ing, police and other organi^.iri )ns. He 
is the inventor of the "rogue's cabinet;" 
of the police signal system, and :>t the ca- 
ble device for holding crowds la chock 
during parades, etc.; he has served as 
chairman of the Committee on Public Or- 
der for several presidential 'Inaugura- 
tions and public demonstrations; he in- 
stituted the system of police surveillance 
and protection of the President during hi? 
trips throughout the country. On Feb- 
ruary 17, 1885, h; married Laura V. Mc- 
Fall. Residence: 1223 Euclid street, n.w. 
Office: Police Headquarters. 

SYME, CONRAD HUNT, lawyer, was 
born in Lewisburg. W. Va., on January 1'.'., 
1868, son of Samuel A. M. and Mary M. 
Syme. His earliest ancestor to settle in 
America was Col. John Syme, of Virginia, 
who was a member of the House of Bur- 
gesses. After obtaining his prepar.atory 
education in the schools of his home town 
and the high schools of Washingtjn, D. 
C, he studied law at the Georgetown Uni- 
versity Daw Scho'ol. An honorary M. LL. 
degree has been conferred upon him by 
the National University of Washington. 
He has been engaged in the general prac- 
tice of law in the city of Washington for 
a number of years; general counsel Busi- 
ness Men's Association until it was 
merged with the Chamber of Commerce; 
general counsel of Hotel Men's Associa- 
tion and other corporations. He obtained 
the largest verdict ever rendered against 
a street railway company In Washington 
in the accident case of Poling versus Cap- 
ital Traction Company; served as attor- 
ney for Machen in the famous postof- 
flce case. He is a professor in the law 
department of the National University, 
and is the author of numerous afticles 
on legal subjects which have appeared in 
magazines. He was a delegate from the 
District of Columbia to the Atlanta Ex- 
position; member of the Univer.sity Club. 
On November 11, 1896, he married Vevie 
Forsythe, of Harrodsburg. Ky., to which 
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whom are living. Residence: 2443 Eight- 
eenth street, n.w. Office: Fendall Build- 
ing. 

SYMONDS, FREDERICK MARTIN, 

Rear- Admiral, U. S. N. (retired), was born 
at Watertown, N. Y., May 16, 1847. son 
of Charles F. and Louise Symonds. He 
was graduated from the United States 
Naval Academy in 1867; was attached to 
the U. S. Flagship Delaware, Atlantic sta- 
tion, from 1867 to 1870; advanced to En- 
sign in 1869; made Master in 1870; served 
•on the Tuscaropa from 1872 to 1875; pro- 
moted to Lieutenant in 1871; attached to 
the Minnesota from 1875 to 1878; on the 
Jamestown from 1879 to 1881; on the New 
Hampshire from 1882 to 1885; on Mohi- 
can from 1885 to 1888; on Michigan from 
1889 to 1892; commissioned Lieutenant- 
Commander in 1890; stationed with the 
Pinta from 1896 to 1897; on the Marietta 
from 1897 to 1899; wtas promoted to Cap- 
tain in 1902, and in the same year retired 
as a Rear-Admiral. In 1871 he married 
Annie C. Parker. Address: Ogdensburg, 
N. Y., or Navy Department. 

SYMONS, THOMAS WILLIAM, Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel. U. S. A., was born at 
KeesviMe, Essex County, N. Y., February 
7, 1849. son of Thomas and Tyrena (Ea- 
ton) Symons. He was educated in the 
common schools, Michigan Agricultural 
College, and was graduated from the Unit- 
ed States Military Academy in 1874. He 
entered the Engineer Corps of the army 



and has risen through successive grades 
to the rank of Lieutenant- Colonel. While 
a Lieutenant he was superintending en- 
gineer in charge of building the dam 
across the Potomac River, the new res- 
ervoir near Howard University and the 
tunnel connecting this reservoir with ttie 
old reservoir above Georgetown, all works 
for improving the water supply of Wasn- 
ington. For nearly Ave years he was as- 
sistant engineer commissioner of the Dis- 
trict of Columbia. He took a very active 
part in bringing about the project for se- 
curing Rock Creek Park to the District 
of Columbia. Col. Symons was a director 
of the Pan-American Exposition; he was 
superintendent of public buildings and 
grounds of Washington; and was recently 
made a member of the Advisory Board 
of Consulting Engineers for the New York 
State Canals. For a number of years he 
was military aide to the President; he 
was assistant chairman at the inaugura- 
tion of President Roosevelt. He is the 
author of On the Columbia River, and 
Canals from the Great Lakes to thf Sea; 
member of the Metropolitan and Chevy 
Chase Clubs of Washington; Fort Orango 
Club (Albany. N. Y.); honorary member 
of the Buffalo, Ellicott aid Yacht Clubs, 
of Buffalo; Erie Yacht Club; member of 
the American Geographic Society; Ameri- 
can Society of Civil Engineers, etc. His 
religious connection is wun the Episcopal 
Church. On October 8, 1884, he married 
Letitia V. Robinson. Residence: 20 La- 
fayette Square. 



TABER, ALVA S., of the Contest Di- 
vision, General Land Office, was born in 
Cayuga County, N. Y., in 1844. Served 
during the Civil War as Sergeant- Major 
in the Nineteenth U. S. Infantry for three 
years, participating in nearly all the en- 
gagements of Sherman's Army, and dur- 
ing the reconstruction period of 1867 in 
Louisiana. In 1872 he entered the Adju- 
tant-General's office; was promoted to the 
Quartermaster-General's office, was sub- 
sequently transferred to the Quartermas- 
ter's Department, and was on duty as 
Chief Clerk at Fortress Monroe, Va., and 
San Antonio, Tex.; resigned and accepted 
appointment in the Surgeon-General's of- 
fice; served until 1879, when he was pro- 
moted to the Pension Bureau, and there 
remained until December 31, 1881, when he 
became confidential clerk to George E. 
Lemon, and so served until the latter's 
death in December 1896. He then estab- 
lished the firm of' Taber-Whitman Com- 
pany and practiced before the Depart- 
ments until 1902, when he entered the 
General Land Office. On August 25, 1872, 
he married Frances Augusta McConihe. 
Residence: 1529 O street, n.w. 

TAFF, JOSEPH ALEXANDER, geolo- 
gist, was born in Ten Mile, Tenn., on No- 



vember 20, 1862, and was educated at the 
University of Arkansas and the Univer- 
sity of Texas, graduating from the latter 
institution in 1894. From 1888-1894 he 
was a member of the Arkansas and Texas 
geological surveys, and since 1894 he has 
been a geologist in the U. S. Geological 
Survey. He is the author of several bul- 
letins and monographs on different sur- 
veys he has been interested in. He is a 
member of the Geological Society of 
America; the Geological Society of Wash- 
ington, etc. On December 24, 1891, he 
married Mary M. Leverett at Austin, Tex. 
Residence: 309 First street, s.e. Office: 
U. S. Geological Survey. 

TAFT, WILLIAM HOWARD, Secretary 
of War was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, on 
September 15, 1857, son of Alphonzo and 
Louise M. (Torrey) Taft. His father was 
Judge of the Superior Court of Cincin- 
nati, 1865-71; Secretary of Waf, 1875-76; 
Attorney-General, 1876-77; U. S. Minister 
to Austria, 1883-85, and U. S. Minister to 
Russia, 1885-87. Wm. H. was graduated 
flrom Yale University in 1878; second salu- 
tatorian in a class of 121, and elected class 
orator by the class; was graduated from 
Cincinnati College Law School in 1880, di- 
viding first prize. Admitted to the bar 



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of the Supreme Court of Ohio, May, 1880; 
assistant prosecuting attorney, January, 
1881, and Collector of Internal Revenue 
for the First District of Ohio, by appoint- 
ment of President Arthur, March, 1882. 
Appointed by Governor Foraker, March, 
1887, Judge of the Superior Court of Cin- 
cinnati, and elected April, 1888, to succeed 
himself for five years; appointed Solic- 
itor-General of the United States by Pres- 
ident Harrison, February, 1890, and U. S. 
Circuit Judge for the Sixth Judicial Cir- 
cuit; resigned Mafch. 1892. He received 
the degree of LL. D. from Yale Univer- 
city (1903), University of Pennsylvania 
(1902), Harvard (1905), and Miami (1905). 
He became Dean of the Law Department 
of the University of Cincinnati in 1896; 
appointed by President McKinlev, March, 
1900, President of the U. S. Philippine 
Commission and Governof of the Philip- 
pine Islands. He went to Rome by order 
of President Roosevelt to confer with Pope 
Leo XIII. concerning the purchase of ag- 
ricultural lands of religious orders in the 
Philippines, and reached a general basis 
of agreement. In November and Decem- 
ber, 1904, visited Panama to confer with 
Panama authorities, by order of the Pres- 
ident, on quesitions larisin^ with reference 
to the gove-nment of the Canal Zone, and 
July to September, 1905, went on a tour of 
inspection to the Philippine Islands with 
a party of Senators and Representatives. 
He was married, June 19, 1886. to Helen 
Herron, daughter of Hon. John W. Her- 
ron, of Cincinnati, Ohio, to which union 
three child en have been born. Residence: 
1603 K street, n.w. Office: War Depart- 
ment. 

TAGGART, HUGH T., lawyer, was born 
in Baltimore County, Md., on August 15, 
1844, son of Hugh T. and Elizabeth (Fair- 
greave) Taggart. When a small child, he 
removed with his parents to Georgetown, 
D. C, and after residing there a f-^w years, 
he removed to the State of Georgia, where 
he lived on a farm with his parents near 
Dalton. He was educated in the country 
schools, schools of Baltimo-e, and was 
graduated from the high school in that 
city in 1863, soon after taking up the 
study of law in the Columbian ("now George 
Washington) Law School in Washington, 
and was admitted to the bar in the Dis- 
trict of Columbia in November, 1869. On 
January 13, 1874, he established the Wash- 
ington Law Reporter, which publication he 
conducted for several years. On October 
12, 1881, he was appointed Assistant U. 
S. Attorney by Col. Corkhill, and prepared 
the case of Guiteau, the assassin of Pres- 
ident Garfield, for trial. In 1886 he was 
appointed a special assistant to the Dis- 
trict Attorney, to take charge of the suit 
which was instituted against all persons 
and corporations who held or pretended to 
hold any right, title, claim or interest in 
any psrt of the land or water in the Dis- 
trict of Columbia known as the Potomac 
Flats, under the Act of Congress entitled 
"An Act to provide for the protection of 
the interests of the United States in the 



Potomac River Flats in the District 'Of 
Columbia." Among the defendants in this 
case were the heirs of such well-known 
people as James Marshall, Chief Justice 
John Marshall, Henry Harford, John L. 
Kidwell, Robert Peter, etc. For many 
years he has been one 'Of the regular as- 
sistants of the District Attorney, taking 
charge of ithe grand jury business and the 
preparation of indictments. In 1887 he 
married Annie M. Jackson, a daughter of 
Richard F. Jackson, of Fairfax County, 
Va., to which union have been born ten 
children. Residence: 3249 N street, n.w. 
Office: 400 Fifth street, n.w. 

TAIT, J. SELWYN, manager of the 
Washington Branch, International Bank- 
ing Corporation, was born in Great Brit- 
ain. He received the first part of his bank- 
ing education in the Britis - Linen Company 
Bank of Scotland, and after this he had a 
long experience in London as a bank man- 
ager. He has been for many years a res- 
ident of this country, and is the author 
of several articles on a variety of business 
subjects. He was elected many years ago 
a fellow of the Royal Society 'Of Litera- 
tue in London. Residence: 1722 P street, 
n.w. Office: 1415 G sitreet, n.w. 

TALBOTT, «OSHUA FREDERICK C, 

lawyer. Congressman, was born near Lu- 
therville, Baltimore County, Md., on July 
29, 1843, and was educated in the public 
schools, after which he took up the study 
of law. In 1864 he joined the Confed- 
erate Army, serving as a private in the 
Second Maryland Caval y until the close 
of the wJr. On September 6, 1866, he was 
admitted to the bar. and in 1871 was elect- 
ed prosecuting attorney for Baltimore 
County for a term of four years. He was 
a delegate to the National Democratic 
Convention at St. Louis in 1876 and 1904. 
He served as a member of the Forty-sixth, 
Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth Congress- 
es, and in October, 1889, was appointed In- 
surance Commissioner of the State of 
Maryland, serving until January, 1903, 
when he resigned. In 1893, he was elect- 
ed to the Fifty-thi:d Congress on the 
Democratic ticket from the Second Mary- 
land District, and was again elected to 
the Fifty-eighth and re-elected to the Fif- 
ty-ninth and Sixtieth Congresses. On 
February 3, 1869, he married Laura B. 
Cockey, of Lutherville, Md. Legal resi- 
dence: Lutherville, Md. Washington ad- 
dress: House of Representatives. 

TALCOTT, EDMUND M., assistant en- 
gineer in charge of street extensions, was 
born in Mexico, November 17, 1866, where 
hid father was engaged in engineering 
work on the Mexico City and Vera Cruz 
Rail oad. He began work at seventeen, 
and was for some years on different rail- 
road constructions in West Virginia and 
North Carolina; also served with the U. 
S. Coast Survey. From May, 1898, to 
January, 1890, he was inspector of elec- 
tric lighting conduits. He was, until 1897, 
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tered the surveying service as chalnman; 
became assistant surveyor in July, 1899, 
and retaining tlie same until he was pro- 
moted to his present position. Residence: 
1801 Avon Place, n.w. Office: District 
Building. 

TALIAFERRO, JAMES PIPER, U. S. 

Senator, was born in Orange, Va.. on 
September 30, 1847. He was educated at 
the William Dinwiddle School at Green- 
wood, Va.; enlisted in the Confederate 
Army in 1864, serving until the close of 
the war, when he returned to his home 
and finished his education. He soon after 
removed to Jacksonville, Fla.. where he 
has since resided, being engaged in va- 
rious businesses, mercantile, banking, etc. 
He was three years chairman of the Dem- 
ocratic State Executive Committee, and on 
April 19, 1899. was elected on the first 
ballot by the Florida State Legislature to 
the U. S. Senate to succeed Hon. Samuel 
Pasco, and was re-elected in 1905; his 
present term of office will expire on March 
3, 1911. Legal residence: Jacksonville, 
Fla. Washington address: U. S. Senate. 

TANAKA, KUNISHIGE, Military At- 
tache, Japanese Embassy. Residence: 
The Portland. 

TANIGUCHI, NAOMI, Naval Attache, 
Japanese Embassy. Residence: 1464 
Rhode Island avenue. 

TAPLIN, HORATIO N., real estate and 
insurance broker. Residence: The Lenox. 
Office: 1407 F street, n.w. 

TAPPAN, BENJAMIN, naval officer, 
was born in New Orleans, La., on April 
10, 1856, and was graduated from the U. 
S. Naval Academy on June 20, 1876. In 
1879 he W3S promoted to Ensign, Lieuten- 
ant (junior grade) in 1886, and Lieuten- 
ant in 1891. From 1881 to 1891 he was 
in the office of the Bureau of Naval In- 
telligence and afterwards served on the 
Miiintonomah at the Br-oklyn Navy Yard, 
and various other stations. He was on 
the Raleigh in 1898, took part in the bat- 
tle of Manila Bay, and, during the attack 
on Manila, commanded the gunboat Cal- 
lao (which was captured from the Span- 
iards), and took her through the break- 
ers and captured a Spanish battery. For 
this display of bravery he was advanced 
five numbers by the President. He was 
in command of the CalDo from May 12, 
1898, to December 27, 1899, during which 
time he took part in many engagements 
during the insurrection in the Philippines. 
From 1901-03 he saw service on the bat- 
tleships Iowa and Wisconsin as an aide 
to Rear-Admiral Casey, who was Com- 
mander-in-Chief of the Pacific Squadron. 
Add: ess: Navy Department. 

TAPPAN, MYRON AUGUSTUS, retired 
merchant, was born at Kmgston, N. Y., 
August 8, 1832; educated at Kingston (N. 
Y.) Academy and at the Mechanic's In- 
stitute, New York. He was * engaged in 



the dry goods business until 1861, when 
he helped to organize the Forty-seventh 
New York Regiment, after serving there- 
in three months, he entered the One Hun- 
dred and Sixty-eighth New York; left the 
army on account of illness in 1863, enter- 
ing the secret service branch of the War 
Department, under Colonel Baker. Here 
he remained until 1864, when he was ap- 
pointed to a position in the Treasury De- 
partment, where he served for twenty- 
three yars, until a change of administra- 
tion. In 1876 he became a silent partner 
with Albert Stevens in an agency for the 
Remington sewing machines, a:ms and 
ammunition in Washington, and in 1885 
he bought out his partner and removed to 
1013 Pennsylvania avenue, where he re- 
mained until 1897, when he removed to 
F street. He is a member of the Kit 
Carson Post of the G. A. R. and is a Thir- 
ty-second degree Mason of the Scottish 
Rite; life member of the Columbia Lodge 
No. 3, F. and A. M. Residence: 1327 Co- 
lumbia road, n.w. 

TASSIN, WIRT, chemist, was born in 
Fort Whipple, Va., on August 11, 1869, son 
of Col. A. G. and Mary (Tilley) Tassin. 
He was educated in the public schools 
of Washington, Wesleyan Academy at 
Wilbraham, Mass., and received his col- 
legiate education at Cornell and Harvard, 
being graduated from both institutions. 
During the World's Columbian Exposi- 
tion he was stationed there as a special 
agent of the U. S. Geological Survey, and 
since 1893 has been chemist and assistant 
cu ator in charge of the Division of Min- 
eralogy of the U. S. National Museum. 
He is the author of several papers on min- 
eral chemistry, characters of minerals, etc. 
He is a memljer of the American Chem- 
ical Society; Washington Academy of 
Science; Geological Society, etc. Resi- 
dence: The Portner. Office: U. S. Na- 
tional Museum. 

TAUSSIG, EDWARD DAVID, naval of- 
fice', was born in St. Louis on November 
20, 1847, son of Charles and Anna (Abeles) 
Taussig, and was graduated from the U. 
S. Naval Academy in 1867. In 1868 he 
was appointed an Ensign; promoted to 
Master in 1870; Lieutenant in 1872; Lieu- 
tenant-Commander in 1892, and Captain 
on November 7, 1902. For services ren- 
dered during the earthquake at Arica in 
1868, he was commended by Commander 
Gillis. He has served on the Euro^gean 
and Pacific stations and in the Coast Sur- 
vey, from August, 1898, to August, 1899, 
he was in command of the Bennington; 
took possession of Wake Island, and took 
charge of Guam on February 1, 1899. Dur- 
ing 1900 he served in the Philippines and 
No th China, and commanded the York- 
town until June, 1901, after which he was 
assigned to the Washington Navy Yard, 
where he remained until January, 1902. 
In January, 1903, he was assigned to the 
navy yard at Pensaeola, Fla. He is a 
member of the Army and Navy Clubs in 
Washington and New TorK, On Novem- 



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ber 9, 1873, he married Ellen Knefler, at 
Louisville, Ky. Address: Navy Depart- 
ment. 

TAWNEY, JAMES A., lawyer. Con- 
gressman, was born in Adams County, 
near Gettysburg, Pa., on January 3, 1855, 
and at the age of fifteen he began work 
in a blacksmith shop with his father as 
an apprentice, subsequently learning the 
trade of machinist. On January 1, 1881, 
fie commenced the study of law in ithe of- 
fices of Bentley & Vance, at Winona, 
Minn., where he had settled in August, 
1877, having previously spent much time 
studying law mornings and evenings. On 
July 10, 1883, he was admitted to the bar, 
and the following September entered the 
law department of the University of Wis- 
consin, which was the only school he at- 
tended after the age of fourteen. In 1890 
he was elected a member of the Minnesota 
State Senate, and has represented the 
First Minnesota District in all Congresses 
since the Fifty-second. Republican. Le- 
gal residence: Winona, Minn. Washing- 
ton address: House of Representatives. 

TAYLOR, ANSON S., lawyer. Commis- 
sioner of Deeds, U. S. Commissioner. 
Residence: 1209 Twenty-first street, n.w. 
Ofllce: 1405 F street, n.w. 

TAYLOR, ASHER CLAYTON, army 
officer, was born at Fredonia, New York, 
on February 21, 1842, son of Joel and 
Almira (Parish) Taylor. He received 
his early education in the public schools 
of New York and Wisconsin, until 1861, 
later from Sept. 1865, to May 1866, at- 
tended Hillsdale College, (Mich.) and 
Ripon College during the school year 
1866-67. On April 22, 1861, he enlisted 
in Company "D" of the Third Wisconsin 
Volunteer Infantry, and served as private. 
Corporal and Sergeant until April 12, 
1863, when he was appointed Sergeant- 
Major of the regiment. He re-enlisted 
as a veteran volunteer on Dec. 21, 1863, 
and was appointed a First Lieutenant of 
the Third Wisconsin Vetefan Volunteer 
Infantry, Sept. 30, 1864; was an acting 
Adjutant until April 1, 1865, when he was 
appointed an Adjutant, and on July 18, 
1865, was mustered out of the service. 
On Oct. 16, 1867, he was appointed Second 
Lieutenant in the Fifteenth U. S. In- 
fantry; promoted to First Lieutenant in 
1868, and from 1869 to 1871, was on the 
unassigned list. In 1871, he was trans- 
ferred to the Second Artillery; promoted 
to Captain in 1889; Major of the Fourth 
Artillery, in June, 1900; Lieutenant- 
Colonel of the Artillery Corps, February, 
1902; Colonel of the Artillery Corps, Au- 
gust, 1903; Brigadier-General, U. S. A, 
on Jan. 21, 1904, and was retired on Jan- 
uary 22, 1904, after 41 years' service. 
From 1861 to 1863, he served in the Army 
of the Potomac; with the Army of the 
Cumberland, 1863-64, and participated in 
the campaigns to Atlanta, Savannah and 
from ^ayannah to Washington under 



Genetal Sherman. He was engaged in 
many of the battles and campaigns of the 
Civil War; participated m the Grand Re- 
view at Washington, in 1865, and was 
mustered out of the service at Madison, 
Wis., in July, 1865. He was on recon- 
struction duty in Alabama and Texas, 
from 1867 to 1869; stationed at Sitka, 
Alaska, 1871-72, and has seen service at 
the various army posts. From 1899-1900, 
he was in the army of occupation at 
Havana; and was in command of the 
guard in charge of the Governor's palace 
from January to May, 1899. Since 1886, 
he has been a distinguished marksman, 
U. S. A. On October 30, 1872, he mar- 
ried Mary J. Branigan at San Francisco, 
California. In politics he is a Republican. 
Address: War Department. 

TAYLOR, BOYD, assistant treasurer of 
the Washington Loan & Trust Company. 
Residence: 3614 Newark street, Cleveland 
Park, D. C. Office: Washington Loan & 
Trust Building. 

TAYLOR, CHARLOTTE BRYSON 

(Miss), author, was born in Washington, 
D. C, on March 7, 1880, daughter of John 
Y. and Sabella (Barr Bryson) Taylor, and 
was educated In the private schools of 
Washington and in other Northern cities. 
Her earliest ancestor to settle in America 
was the Rev. William Leveridge, who 
came to America in 1633, and was a resi- 
dent of Oyster Bay, L. I. Col. Timothy 
Walker, of Massachusetts, who served in 
the Continental Army, was another ances- 
tor, and Thomas Arnold was a member of 
the House of Deputies of Rhode Island in 
1599. She is the author of many articles 
that have appeared in magazines. More 
prominent among her works may be men- 
tioned: In the Dwellings of the Wilder- 
ness; Nicanor; The Wooing of Ah. Te. 
(magazine serial), etc. She Is a member 
of the National Society of Colonial Dames 
of America; National Society of Archaeo- 
logical Institute of America; National Ge- 
ological Society; Hellenic Travelers' Club, 
etc. Residence: 1727 Q street, n.w. 

TAYLOR, DAVID WATSON, naval con- 
structor, was born in Louisa County, Va., 
in 1864, son of Henry L. and Mary W. 
Taylor. In 1885 he was graduated from 
the U. S. Naval Academy at the head of 
his class, and excelled the highest record 
ever made at the institution. In 1885 he 
was sent to Greenwich, and in 1888 te- 
ceived the highest honors at the Royial 
College, where he again established the 
highest record of any student up to that 
time. He was awarded a gold medal by 
the British Institution of Naval Architects 
for the best original paper on Ship-shape 
Stream Forms, being the first so honored. 
In 1899 he constructed the first experi- 
mental tank to be built In the United 
States, and has since had charge of it. 
He Is the author of many papers on the 
subject of naval construction, among his 
more prominent literary contributions 
being Resistance of Ships and Screw Pro- 



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pulsion (1893). In 1892 he married Emo- 
gene Maury Morris. Residence: Navy 
Yard. Office: Navy Department. 

TAYLOR, EDWARD LIVINGSTON, 
JR., lawyer, Congressman, was born on 
August 10, 1869, and educated in the pub- 
lic schools of Columbus, O., graduating 
from the high school of that city. He 
began the study 'Of law, was admitted to 
the bar in 1891, and on November 4, 1899, 
was elected prosecuting attorney of 
Franklin County, O., and was re-elected 
to the same office on November 6, 1902. 
In 1904, he was elected to the Fiftv-ninth 
Congress from the Twelfth Ohiio District, 
and re-elected to the Sixtieth. Republi- 
can. Legal residence: Oolumbus, O. 
Washington address: House of Represent- 
atives. 

TAYLOR, GEORGE WASHINGTON, 

lawyer, Congressman, was born in Mont- 
gomery, Ala., on January 16, 1849, son of 
Edward Fisher and Anne Sewell (Treze- 
vant) Taylor. He was educated in the 
private schools of his home city, the Co- 
lum'bia (S. C.) Male Academy and South 
Carolina University. He was g'-aduated 
from the latter institution in 1867, after 
which he took up the study of law. In 
1878 he served as a member of the Ala- 
bama. State Legislature and was two terms 
attorney for the First Judicial Circuit of 
Alabama, serving from 1880 to 1892, de- 
clining a third term. He has represented 
the First Alabama District in all Con- 
gresses since the Fifty-fourth Congress. 
He is a member of the Episcopal Church, 
a Mason, a Knight of Pythias, an Elk, and 
in politics a Democrat. On January 13, 
1881, he married Margaretta Van Tuyl Met- 
calf, daughter of E. H. Metcalf, of Mont- 
gomery, Ala., to which union have been 
born eight children, five of whom are liv- 
ing Legal re.?idence: Demopolis, Ala. 
Washington residence: House of Repre- 
sentatives. 

TAYLOR, HAN N IS, lawyer, was born 
at New Berne, N. C, on September 12, 
1851, and received his collegiate education 
at the University of North Carolina, and 
has been honored with the degree of LL. 
D. by seven universities, including the 
University of Dublin. He took up the 
study of law and was admitted to the bar 
in 1870, and from that time until 1892 he 
practiced at Mobile, Ala. From 1893-97 
he was U. S. Minister to Spain; in 1892 
he was appointed special consul of the 
government for the Spanish Treaty Claims 
Commission, and in 1903 he was selected 
by the Secretary 'ofj State as Consul of the 
U. S. Government before the Alaska 
Boundary Commission. He is the author 
of several books, among them being: The 
Origin of Growth of the English Consti- 
tution; International Public Law, etc. On 
May 8, 1878, he married Leonora Le Baron, 
of Mobile, Ala. For several years he has 
been professor of constitutional and in- 
ternational law at George Washington 
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University (formerly Columbian Universi- 
ty). Address: 1411 H street. 

TAYLOR, HENRY CLAY, naval oflicef, 
was born in Washington on March 4, 1845, 
and was graduated from the Naval Acad- 
emy in 1863. In 1863 he was promoted 
to Ensign; Master in 1865; Lieutenant in 
1866; ' Lieutenant-Commander in 1868; 
Commander in 1879; Captain and Rear- 
Admiral in 1894. During the Civil War 
he served on the Shenandoah, taking part 
in the actions off Wilmington, and was 
afterwards on the Iroquois to relieve the 
Kearsarge in the English Channel, after- 
wards searching for Confederate cruisers 
in the East Indies. He was president of 
the Naval War College at Newport, R. I., 
from 1893-96, and in 1898 commanded the 
battleship Indiana in the Spanish War, 
and took part in the destruction of 
Cervera's fleet. On April 26, 1902, he was 
made chief of the Bureau of Navigation. 
Address: Navy Department. 

TAYLOR, HORACE A., government of- 
ficial, was born in Norfolk, N. Y., on May 
24, 1837, and was educated at Falls River, 
Wis., where he removed in 1847. In 1857 
he founded ^the Journal at Falls River, 
Wis., and for many years was extensively 
engaged in the printing, ibanking, lumber, 
and real estate businesses, being lumber 
agent for Wisconsin for six years. From 
1881-84 he served as U. S. Consul to 
France, and has served two terms in the 
Wisconsin State Senate, and from 1889-93 
was U. S. Commissioner of Railroads. 
Since 1897 he has been Assistant Secre- 
tary of the U. S. Treasury. He has been 
twice married — first, to Eliza Madden, on 
November 12, 1860, and second, to Harriet 
E. Dunnell, on September 2, 1896. Resi- 
dence: 2007 Massachusetts avenue, n.w. 
Office: U. S. Treasury Department. 

TAYLOR, JAMES KNOX, government 
official, was born in Knoxville, 111., on Oc- 
tober 11, 1857, son of H. Knox and Mary 
(Young) Taylor. He was educated in the 
public schools of St. Paul, Minn., and took 
a special course in architecture at the 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
from 1877-79, after which he spent three 
years and a half in the ofllce of Bruce 
Price, architect, of New York. Prom 
1882-92 he practiced architecture in St. 
Paul, Minn., and from 1892-95 practiced 
at Philadelphia. In 1895 he became a 
senior draftsman in the U. S. Architect's 
oflfice, soon after being promoted to prin- 
cipal draftsman, which position he filled 
until 1897, when he was appointed super- 
vising architect, after a civil service ex- 
amination, in which he stood second out 
of the forty examined. He is now the su- 
pervising architect of the U. S. Treasury 
Department. He is a Fellow of the Amer- 
ican Institute of Architects, a member of 
the Geographical Society of Washington, 
the Cosmos and Chevy Chase Clubs. On 
February 3, 1887, he married Adele Cham- 
bers, at Philadelphia, Pa. Residence: 



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The Hig-hlands. Office: U. S. Treasury 
Department. 

TAYLOR, J. MURRAY, Disciples of 
Christ clerg-yman, pastor of the Third 
Christian Church. Residence: 207 Twelfth 
street, s.w. 

TAYLOR, JOHN RODGERS MEIGS, 

army officer, was b^'rn in Washington, D. 
C, on January 13, 1865, son of Joseph H 
and Mary (Meigs) Taylor. Richard Tay- 
lor, his ea'-liest ancestor, settled in Vir- 
ginia in 1638, and John Rodgers, another 
ancestor, was a Commodore in the U. S. 
Navy and took part in the War of 1812. 
He was educated in the schools of Wash- 
ington, after which he attended the U. S. 
Military Academy, grsduating in 1889. 
From 1898-1901, he was In the Philippines, 
and in 1900 saw service in China. He i« 
secretary of the Army and Navy Club, and 
a member of the Chevy Chase Club. He 
is unmarried. Address: Army and Navy 
Club. 

TAYLOR, MARY IMLAY (Miss), au- 
thor, has writf^n many b"oks of fiction, 
among them being: An Impe"ial Lover; 
On the Red Stair Case; A Yankee Vol- 
u-^t^er (1898); T'^e House of the Wizard 
(18^*^); The Cardirrals MuscUeer (1900); 
The Cobbler of Nimes (1900); Anni Scar- 
lett (1901); Little Mi^t-ess G-od Hope 
(1902); My Lady Clancarthy (1905); The 
Impersonator (1906), etc. Residence: 1166 
Nineteenth street, n.w. 

TAYLOR, ROBERT LOVE, lawyer, U. 
S. Senator, was born in Happy Valley, 
Carter Cou-ty, Tenn., July 31, 1850. His 
education was received at Pennington, N. 
J., and he was admitted to the bar in 1878. 
From 1879 to 1881 he was a member of 
Congress; elector-at-large on the Cleve- 
land ticket in 1884, and a pension agent 
at Knoxvi'le from 1885 to 1887. In 1S86 
he was elected Governor of Tennessee and 
served from 1887 to 1891, Alfred A. Tay- 
lor, his brother, having been his opponent 
in the election. He practiced law at Chat- 
tano: ga from 1891 to 1896; was a presi- 
dential elector on the Cleveland ticket in 
1892, and again served as Governor of 
Tennessee from 1897 to 1899. On March 
4. 1907, he took his seat in the U. S. Sen- 
ate, succeeding Edward Ward Carmack. 
His term of office will expire March 3, 
1913. In politics he is a Democrat. Le- 
gal residence: Nashville, Tenn. Wash- 
ington address: U. S. Senate. 

TAYLOR, STARK B., bailiff of the 
Court of Cliims, was born in King's Coun- 
ty, Va., on September 9, 1820, and came 
to Washington when twenty-five years 
old. He served in the Mexican War, be- 
came an expert in ordnance and gunnery, 
and participated in all the battles under 
General Scctt from the bombardment of 
Vera Cruz to the capture of Mexico. On 
May 15, 1855, at the request of Jefferson 
Davis, then Secretary of War, he was ap- 
pointed bailiff of the Court of Claims, 



which office he still retains. He was mar- 
ried May 15, 1851, and has five sons and 
one daughter. Residence: 1504 S street, 
n.w. 

TAYLOR, THOMAS, scientist, physi- 
cian, was born in Perth, Scotland, on 
April 22, 1820, son of Thomas and Anne 
(Kennedy) Taylor. He was educated in 
Scotland, taking a scientific course in the 
Andersonian University at Glasgow from 
1835-38, and made a special study in 
chemistry, frictional electricity and gal- 
vanism, etc. In 1841, he invented the first 
interleaved electrical condenser as an Im- 
provement on Leyden Jar, and in 1850 in- 
vented a pneumatic battery for igniting 
explosives for mining and blasting. 
Among his more recent inventions are: A 
safety lamp for coal mines; a rotary gal- 
vanic battery; and in 1851 he demonstrat- 
ed that electricity could be transmitted 
a'^ross t^e sea to a certain point without 
wires. He came to the United States in 
1851, and became connected with the Ord- 
nance Department of the U. S. Army, and 
had charge of the Rifle Shell Branch of 
f^e Washington Arsenal during the Civil 
War, at which time e invented and im- 
proved rifle projectiles. He later became 
a sreoialist on fungoid diseases of plants. 
From 1871-95 he was chef of the Division 
of Microscopy of the United States De- 
partment of Agriculture; in 1882 he was 
graduated f'om the Medical Department 
of Georg frwn University. He is a Fel- 
low of the Am'^rican Association for the 
Adva'"c°men'^ of S'^'ence, and a member 
of m^ny of th? leading s ientific societies 
in this country and abr">ad. He is the au- 
thor of a numb<=^r of books, among them 
being: A Student's Hsn-^book of Mush- 
rooms of America; The Diseases of 
Prnts; The Dffc^entiation of the Fatty 
Crystals of Butter and Oleomarsrarine; 
The Common House Fly as a Carrier of 
Poisons, etc. Residence: 238 Massachu- 
setts avenue, n.e. 

TAYLOR, WILLIAM ALTON, pomolo- 
gist, was b^rn in Chelsea, Mich., on June 
23, 1863, son of the late Rev. James F 
and Mary (Porter) Taylor. He was edu- 
cated in the public schools of Saugatuck 
and Douglas, Mich., and received his col- 
legiate e'^ucation at the Michigan Agri- 
cultural College, graduating in 1888. Dur- 
ing his boyhood he lived on a fruit farm, 
and from 1888-91 managed a fruit farm 
and nursery at Douglas, Mich. In 1891 
he was appointed a?sistant pomolcgist in 
ahe U. S. Department of Agriculture, and 
since 1901 has been Pomologist in charge 
of Field Investigations in the Bureau of 
Plant Industry of the Department. In 
1890 he was sec^retarv of the West Mich- 
igan Fruit Grower-' S:c:ety. From 1897 
to 1901 he was secreta"y of the American 
Pomological Socie.y; is vice president of 
the Botanical Society of Washington, 1907, 
and president of the Society for Horti- 
cultural Science, 1907-08. On December 
15, 1891, he married Helen Gumming Pat- 
terson, of Chicago. Residence: 55 Q street. 



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n.e. Office: U. S. Department of Agricul- 
ture. 

TEELE, RAY PALMER, editor, was 
toorn in Fillmore County, Minn., on Octo- 
ber 22, 1868. son of Edwin and Sarah 
(Dearborn) Teele, and received his colle- 
giate education at the University of Ne- 
braska, being graduated in 1897, and A 
M., 1899. Since June 16, 1899, he has been 
an editor in the U. S. Department of Ag- 
riculture. He i.s the author of a number 
of bulletins that have been issued by the 
Agricultural Department, and has contrib- 
uted articles to many magazines and 
newspapers on the subject of irrigation. 
Among his contributions have been: Irri- 
gation from Interstate Streams (1905); 
The State Engineer and His Relation to 
Irrigation (1906); Irrigation from Jordan 
River, Utah (1903); translation of Italian 
Laws on Irrigation and Drainage )1907), 
etc. In 1897 he married Marv D. Hazard, 
at C-uncil Bluffs, la. Resid'ence: Chew 
Chase, Md. Office: U. S. Department of 
Agriculture. 

TELLER, HENRY MOORE, lawyer, U. 
S. Senator, was born in Brangpr, AJlegany 
County. X. Y., on May 23, 1830. He was 
educated in the common schools, Rush- 
ford Academy, and received his collegiate 
education at Alfrpd University, after 
which he taught school for several years 
ard .-tudied law at An?elico, N. Y. He 
was adrritted to pracMce at Einghamton, 
N. Y.' The degree of LL. D. was conferred 
upon him by Alfred University in 1886 
and Colorado State Un'versity in 1903. 
In 1858 he removed to Illinois, where he 
practiced law until April, 1861, when he 
removed to Colorado to practice his pro- 
fession; never held any public office until 
he was elected to the U. S. Senate from 
Colorado on the admittance of that State. 
He took his .*eat in the Senate on De- 
cember 4, 1876, and d'ew the term ending 
March 3, 1877, but was r^-elected on De- 
cember 11 for the full te-m, serving until 
Ap il 17, 1882, when he resigned to enter 
the cabinet of President Arthur as Sec- 
retary of the Inte'-ior, and served until 
March 3, 1885. In 1885, he was re-elected 
to the Senate for the term beginning on 
Marnh 4, 1885, and re-elected in 1891. In 
politics he had always bepn a Republican 
until he withdrew from the National Re- 
publican Convention at St. Iy:uis in 1896 
on account of the financial plank of the 
platform. In 1897 he was re-elected to 
the U. S. Senate as an Independent Silver 
Republl-an, when he received 94 votes out 
of a total of 100, and in 1903 was re-elect- 
ed as a Demcrat. His present term of 
office will expire on Ma^-ch 3, 1909. Legal 
residen-e: Central City, Colo. Washing- 
ton address: The Cairo. 

TEMPLE, EDWARD LOWE, autlaor, 
educator and ex- treasurer Mable Savings 
Rank at Rutland. Vt. (1883-1904), wa<' 
born at Fort Winnebago, Wis., on May 
12, 1844, son of Charles and Margare*^ 
j[Foulke) Temple. His ancestrv is direct- 



ly traceable to Lady Godiva, of Coventry, 
before the Norman conquest, and his ear- 
liest ancestor in America was Rev. Dr. 
Thomas Temple, about 1650, and his great- 
grandfather was William Temple, whose 
brother was Sir John Temple, the first 
British Consul-General to the United 
States after the Revolution. One uncle, 
Robert Emmet Temple, served in the Mex- 
ican War, and was later Adjutant-General 
of the State of New York; another, Wil- 
liam Grenville Temple, served in the Mex- 
ican and Civil Wars, and was retired as 
Rear-Admiral in 1689. An aunt married 
Sir John Rose, of Great Britain, who was 
made Baronet for his eminent services in 
furthering the Treaty of Washington. He 
was educated at Rutland " (Vt.) High 
School, graduating in 1861, and the M. A. 
degree was conferred upon him, causa 
honoris, by the University of Vermont and 
Middlebury (Vt.) College in 1884. From 
188'^-93 he was City Superintendent of 
Public Schools of Rutland Va.; from 1886- 
90, county examiner of teache s in Rut- 
land County; and from 1883-1903, he was 
treasurer of the Episcopal Diocese of Ver- 
mont and deputy to the Episcopal General 
Conventions, 1886-1900. He is the author 
of The Church in the Prayer Book (1893); 
Old World Memories (2 vols., 1898); 
Shakespeare: The Man and His Art, and 
One Hundred Years of Church Life in 
Rutland, Vt. He is a member of the 
Episcopal Church, the National Geo- 
graphic Society, and in politics a Repub- 
lican. On September 29, 1869. he married 
Lucy Graves, to which uni:n have been 
born four chidren, two of whom are liv- 
ing. In January, 1907, he was elected 
president of the Vermont State Associa- 
tion of the District of Columbia. Resi- 
dence: 1439 Rhode Island avenue. 

TERRELL, ROBERT HEBERTON, 

Justice of the Peace, was born at Glen 
Cave, Orange County, Va., on November 
25, 1857, son of Harrison and Louisa (Cole- 
man) Terrell. The subject of this sketch 
was brought to Washington when he was 
very young. He attended the public 
schools of this district umtil he finishea 
the high school. He was further pre- 
pared for college at Lawrence Academy, 
Groton, Mass., where he was graduated in 
1880. In the fall of the same year he en- ' 
tered the freshman class cf Harvard Uni- 
versity, and was graduated with the de- 
gree of A. B. cum laude from that insti- 
tution in the sprirg of 1884. He was one 
of the six honor men to represent his class 
as a commencement orator. He taught 
school in Washington for the first five 
years followirg his graduation. In 1889 
he was appointed a chief of division in 
the United States Treasury. In the mean- 
time he studied law at the Howard Uni- 
versity Law School, and was graduated at 
the he d of his class in 1889, later taking 
the degree of LL. M. In 1893 he formed 
a partnership with John R. Lynch, and 
the firm practiced law in Washington un- 
der the name of Lynch & Terrell. In 1899 
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local hisrh schools, a position which he 
held until January, 1902, when he resig'ned 
to enter upon the duties as Justice of one 
of the Magistrates' Courts of the District 
of Columbia, to which he had been ap- 
pointed by President Roosevelt; re-ap- 
pointed in 1P05 to the same ofRce. He is 
in charge of the Justice Court in Sub- 
district No. 6. He is a member of the 
Board of Trade, and is prominent in the 
Mason'c orders, having served five years 
as Grand Master. He is president of the 
PoaT-d of Trustees of Lincoln Consn'ega- 
tional Temple. In 1900 Howard Univer- 
sity conferred upon him the honorary de- 
gree of A. M. On Or-tober 28, 1891, he 
married Mary Eliza Church, of Memphis, 
Tenn. Of this marri'^ge, three children 
have been born, one of whom, Phyllis by 
name, is living. Residence: 326 T street, 
n.w. Office: 911 G street, n.w. 

TERRY, SILAS WRIGHT, naval officer, 
was born in Kentucky on December 28, 
1842. He was appoinited an Acting Mid- 
shipman in the Naval Academy in 1858; 
promoted to an Ensiarn, 1862; Lieutenant 
in 1864; Lieutenant-Commander in 1866; 
Captain in 1893 and Re3r-Admiral on 
March 29, 1900. From 1861-63 he was 
engaged in the blockading service on the 
Atlantic coasit, and during 1863-64 was in 
the Mississippi squadron, and was on the 
Red River expedition, and for display of 
gallantry at this time was advanced five 
numbers in the service. He was with 
Admiral Fisher during the naval opera- 
tions against Ports Fisher and Anderson, 
and the capture of Wilmington in 1865. 
He was present at the fall of Richmond, 
and accompanied President Lincoln when 
he entered that city. In January. 1882, 
he rescued the crew of the 'T'rinity. which 
had been wrecked in October, 1880, on 
Heard Island, in the Indian Ocean while 
in command of the Marion. The same 
year, while at Cape Town, he hauled the 
English ship, Poonah, off the beach, sav- 
ing her from total loss, for which deed 
he received the thanks of Cape Colony and 
English governments. In 1899 he was as- 
signed a member of the Naval Examining 
Board, and on March 24. 1900, was as- 
signed to command the Washington Navy 
Yard. In October, 1873, he married Lou- 
isa Mason, a daughter of the late Judge 
John Thompson Ma.=:on. of the Maryland 
Court of Appeals. Address: Navy De- 
partment. 

THIRKIELD, WILBUR PATTERSON, 

educator, was born at Franklin, O., Sep- 
tember 25, 1854, the son of E. B. and 
Amanda (Balentine) Thirkield. He was 
educated at the Ohio Wesleyan University, 
graduating in 1876; took a post-graduate 
course at Boston University School of 
Theology, with degree of S. T. B. He 
was a pastor in Cincinnati, and later the 
first president of Gammon Theological 
Seminary, Atlanta, Georgia (1883-1899). 
and secured for it an endowment of more 
than half a million dollars and an equip- 
ment of over $100,000. In 1899 he was 



elected General Secretary of the Epworth 
League of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
and in 1900 corresponding secretary of the 
Freedmen's Aid and Southern Education 
Society, (1900-1906), and elected President 
of Howard University, in 1906. He is an 
Independent Republican. He bears the 
honorary degrees of D. D. from Emory 
College, Oxford, Ga., and LL. D. from the 
Ohio Wesleyan University. On October 
27, 1881, he married Mary Michelle Haven, 
•and has five living children. Address: 
Howard University. 

THOBY, PERCEVAL, Secretary and 
Charge d'Affaires, Haitian Embassy. Ad- 
dress: 1429 Rhode Island Avenue, N. W. 

THOMAS, AMMI AMERY, lawyer, was 
born in Alexander, Genesee county. N. Y. 
on August 29, 1844, and was educated in 
the Middlebury Academy, (N. Y.), St. 
John's Academy at Nashotah, Wis., and 
later studied law at Milwaukee, and was 
admitted to the bar in 1872. During 1870- 
71, he served as U. S. Marshall for Wis- 
consin, removing to the state of Kansas 
in 1872, where he practiced his profes- 
sion. The same year, he was appointed 
register of the U. S. Land Office at Cawker 
City, and later at Klrwin in Kansas, 
where he continued until 1877, when he 
removed to Washington, D. C, where he 
has since resided, and practiced as an at- 
torney before the departments, confining 
himself for several years principally to 
business connected with the General Land 
Office. He has prosecuted many impor- 
tant land contest cases, involving vast 
tracts of the public domain. He gradually 
relinquished practice before the Land Of- 
fice, owing to general business falling off 
in that bureau, turning his attention to 
investing in business enterprises, soon be- 
coming a president of the U. S. Electric 
Company; director in the Metropolitan 
Railway Company; Second National 
Bank; American Security & Trust Com- 
pany, etc. On August 8, 1869. he mar- 
ried Elizabeth Parks of Oconomowoc, 
Wis. Residence 1314 Twelfth street, n. w. 
Office: Atlantic Building. 

THOMAS, CHARLES MITCHELL, 

naval officer, was born in Philadelphia 
on October. 1, 1846, son of Joseph P. and 
Belinda J. Thomas and was graduated 
from the U. S. Naval Academy in 1865. 
In 1866, he was promoted to ensign; 
Master in 1868; Lieutenant in 1869; Lieu- 
tenant-Commander in 1880; Commander 
in 1890 and captain in 1899. He has 
served on various duties and stations, and 
commanded the Brooklyn in 1900, and 
the Oregon in 1901-02, and in March 1902 
he was commanding the Franklin in the 
Revenue Service. On November 3, 1874, 
he married Ruth Simpson, a daughter of 
Rear-Admiral Edward Simpson at New- 
port, R. I. Address: Navy Department. 

THOMAS, CHARLES RANDOLPH, 

lawyer, congressman, was born at Beau- 



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fort, N. C. on August 21, 1861, son of the 
late Judge Charles R. Thomas, who serv- 
ed as a member of the 42d and 43d Con- 
gresses. He was educated at the New- 
bern, S. C. Academy, the Emerson Insti- 
tute in Washington, D. C, and the 
University of North Carolina, being 
graduated from the latter institution in 
1881. He began the study of law, with 
his father, and later attended the law 
school of Judges R. P. Dick and John H. 
Dillard at Greensboro, N. C. and was ad- 
mitted to the bar in October, 1882. since 
when he has been actively engaged in the 
practice of his profession. In 1887, he 
was a member of the North Carolina State 
Legislature and was attorney for Craven 
county, N. C, from 1890-96, and in 1893, 
was elected by the state legislature a 
trustee of the University of Nol-th 
Carolina. He was a Democratic presi- 
dential elector in 1896, and has represent- 
ed the 3d North Carolina district in the 
56th, 57th, 58th, 59th and 60th Congresses. 
In politics he has always been a Democrat. 
He married Mary Ruffln, a daughter of 
Judge Thomas Ruffin of North Carolina. 
Legal Residence: New Berne, N. C. 
Washington Address: House of Repre- 
sentatives. 

THOMAS, CYRUS, ethnologist, ento- 
mologist, was born in Kingsport, Tenn., 
on July 27, 1825, son of Steven and Maria 
(Rogan) Thomas. He was engaged in the 
practice of law until 1865, in the meantime 
having served as county clerk for Jack- 
son County. 111., from 1850-53, and from 
1865-69 was a minister in the Evangelical 
Lutheran church. From 1869-73 he was 
an assistant on the U. S. Geological and 
Geographical surveys of the territories 
under Ferdinand V. Hayden, and in 1873 
was professor of natural sciences in 
Southern Illinois Normal University. In 
1876 he was State Entomologist of Illinois, 
the following year a member of the U. S. 
Entomological Commission, and in 1882 
ai-chaeologist to the U. S. Bureau of Eth- 
nology. He is the author of many bulle- 
tins on expeditions that he has been in- 
terested in, and many articles of a scien- 
tific nature, among them being: Noxious 
and Beneficial Insects of Illinois (five vols. 
of Reports as State Entomologist); Notes 
on Certain Maya and Mexican Manu- 
scripts; Burial Mounds of the Northern 
Section of the United States; The Cher- 
okees and Shawnees in Pre-Columbian 
Time: Mound Explorations of the Bureau of 
Ethnology; Prehistoric Works East of the 
Rocky Mountains; The Mayan Calendar 
System; Prehistoric North America — In- 
dians in Historic Times; Numeral Sys- 
tems, etc. He has been twice married — 
first, to Dorothy Logan, a sister of Gen. 
John A. Logan, and second, to V. L. Davis. 
Residence: 1507 Park road, n.w. Ofllce: 
Bureau of Ethnology. 

THOMAS, EDWARD H., Corporation 
Counsel for the District of Columbia, was 
born in Washington, November 21, 1856. 



He was graduated from the Georgetown 
University Law School, and has practiced 
law since May, 1877. He was made as- 
sistant U. S. Attorney by A. S. Worthing- 
ton in 1884, and served two years, and on 
October 30, 1901, was appointed first as- 
sistant corporation counsel and continued 
in that office until his present promotion. 
He has lectured at the Howard University 
and at the National University Law 
School, and has tried practically all the 
court cases for the district since his ap- 
pointment. Residence: 926 S street, n.w. 
Office: 916 F street, n.w. 

THOMAS, JOHN B. (M. D.), President 
Clinical Society of Washington. Resi- 
dence: 1603 Nineteenth street, n.w. 

THOMAS, WILLIAM AUBREY, Con- 
gressman, was born in Wales on June 7, 
1866, and was educated in the public 
schools of Niles, O.; Mt. Union College, 
Alliance. O., and the Rensselaer Polytech- ^ 
nic Institute at Troy, N. Y., where he ^ 
made a specialty of chemistry and met---'" 
allurgy. His father, John R. Thomas, was 
a pioneer iron manufacturer of Mahon- 
ing Valley. For several years he served 
as manager of the Thomas Furnace at 
Niles, O., and later became interested in 
many other leading business enterprises. 
In May, 1904, he was nominated to fill the 
vacancy in the Fifty-eighth Congress 
caused by the Hon. Charles Dick resign- 
ing, and was elected to the Fifty-ninth 
and re-elected to the Sixtieth Congress 
from the Nineteenth Ohio District, on the 
Republican ticket. Legal residence: Niles, 
O. Washington address: House of Rep- 
resentatives. 

THOMPSON, ALMON HARRIS, geog- 
rapher, was born in Stodard, N. H., on 
September 24, 1839, son of Lucas and Mary 
(Sawyer) Thompson. He was educated 
at Southboro, Mass., and at Wheaten (111.) 
College, taking a scientific course at the 
latter institution. At the outbreak of the 
Civil War, he enlisted as First Lieutenant 
in the One Hundred and Twenty-ninth 
Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and after the 
war, was engaged as a school superintend- 
ent at Lacon, 111., 1865-67, and at Bloom- 
ington. 111., during 1867-68. During 1869- 
70 he was acting curator of the Illinois 
Natural History Society, and since 1870 he 
has been engaged as a topographical engi- 
neer, and since 1882 has toeen a geographer 
in the U. S. Geological Survey. From 
1870-78 he was associated with Maj. J. W. 
Powell in the exploration of the ColoTado 
River. From 1884-95 he was in charge of 
the geographic work of the Geological Sur- 
vey for the territory west of the Missis- 
sippi River. On July 8. 1862, he married 
Ellen L. Powell at Wheaton, 111. Resi- 
dence: 1729 Twelfth street, n.w. Office: 
Geological Survey. 

THOMPSON, BERENICE KELLEY, 

music teacher and writer, was born atWal- 
lingford, Vt., on August 27, 1877, dauffh- 



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ter of William and Mary (Adair) Kelley, 
later Mrs. Morrow, an early American 
■ancestor being David O'Kellia, a Quaker 
from North Ireland, who took the oath 
of fidelity in Rh' de Island in 1657. She 
attended the Girls' High and Training 
School for Teachers, Brooklyn, N. Y., and 
was graduated, 1889-1893, respectively, 
studying meantime at the Groschel Con- 
servatory of Music, Brooklyn, and pursued 
a three years' course at Columbia Univer- 
sity (N. Y.), under Edward A. McDowell, 
graduating in 1899. Since then she has 
been a newspaper writer, general and spe- 
cial teacher of music in Brooklyn public 
schools; correspondent of the Musical 
Courier, Musical Leader and Concert 
Goer; member of the staff of the Amer- 
ican Spectator and Post, Washington, D. 
C, and teacher of harmony in the Venth 
Conservatory of Music, Brooklyn, and 
elsewhere. In 1898, passed New York City 
examination for Assistant Supervisor of 
Music in the New York public schools, 
with the highest percentage attained by 
any one in the city, the examinations 
being given by Frank Damrosch. She has 
been a member of the Plymouth Church, 
Brooklyn, and of the Board of Directors 
of the Choral Society (Washington). Her 
musical compositions include Three Songs 
from Some Verses, words by Helen Hay 
Whitney (1900); and Bubbles, with words 
by her husband. On February 1, 1896, she 
was married to Charles Willis Thompson, 
and one child has been born to them. 
Residence: 2501 Pennsylvania avenue, n.w. 

THOMPSON, CHARLES WILLIS, 

newspaper correspondent, was born at 
Kalamazoo. Mich., March 15, 1871, son of 
Charles A. 'and Emily (Logie) Thompson. 
He was educated in the public schools of 
Brooklyn, N. Y., and at the New York 
University Law School, from which he 
was graduated in 1892. He has been a 
reporter for the New York World, Trib- 
une and Times, and chief of the Washing- 
ton Bureau of the New York Times and 
Philadelphia Public Ledger; now chief of 
the Washington Bureau of the New York 
World. He wrote Party Leaders of the 
Time (1906), and is a member of the Grid- 
iron Club. On February 1, 1896, he married 
Berenice Morrow, and one child has been 
born to them. Residence: 2501 Pennsyl- 
vania avenue, n.w. Office: Wyatt Build- 
ing. 

THOMPSON, ENOCH MAGRUDER, 

Episcopal clergyman, was "born near Gai- 
thersburg, Md., on July 25, 1873, son of 
Joseph and Roberta Bowie (Magruder) 
Thompson. He was educated in the coun- 
try schools; Andrew Small Academy 
(Md.); Rockville (Md.) Academy, and St. 
John's College at Annapolis, Md., after 
which he spent three years at the General 
Theological Seminary, where he was grad- 
uated in 1898. Immediately he was or- 
dained a deacon of the Episcopal Church, 
and a priest the following year. From 
October, 1898, to February, 1906, he served 



as an assistant at St. Paul's Church in 
Washington, in the meantime being in 
charge of the Chapel of The Nativity, 
which he founded in 1903. Carrying on 
the work of The Nativity, he became cu- 
rate at the Pro-Cathedral Church of the 
Ascension February 1, 1906, where he re- 
mained until June 1, 1907, after which his 
entire energy was given to the new church 
of The Nativity near Lincoln Park. On 
June 12, 1902, he married Louisa Georgia 
McCalla. Residence: 820 Seventeenth 
street, n.w. 

THOMPSON, GILBERT, topographer, 
was born in Blackstone, Mass., on March 
21, 1839, son of William Venner and Har- 
riet (Gilbert) Thompson, and after obtain, 
ing his education in the public schools, 
worked at the printing trade. On Novem- 
ber 22, 1861, he enlisted in the U. S. En- 
gineer Battalion, and served until Novem- 
ber 21, 1864. During 1864-65 he was an 
assistant engineer at the headquarters of 
the Army of the Potomac, and was later 
on western explorations, surveys, etc. 
During 1890-98, he was Major command- 
ing the Engineer Battalion of the D. C. 
Militia. Since 1880, has been employed 
in the U. S. Geological Survey in geo- 
graphical work. He is the historian of 
the Veteran U. S. Engineers' Association; 
a member of the Society of Colonial Wars; 
Oldest Inhabitants' Association; G. A. R., 
etc. On September 28, 1869, he married 
Mary Frances Reed McNeil. Residence: 
1713 De Sales street. Ofl[ice: U. S. Geo- 
logical Survey. 

THOMPSON, H. OWEN, assistant 
cashier of the Trader's National Bank. 
Residence: 3008 Dent Place, n.w. Office: 
Trader's National Bank. 

THOMPSON, JAMES DAN/ID, chief of 
Division of Documents, Library of Con- 
gress since 1905, was born in Bishop 
Auckland, England, on March 15, 1873, son 
of John and Margaret (I'Anson) Thomp- 
son. He was graduated from the Victoria 
University of Manchester, England, in 
1892, and attended Trinity College, of 
Cambridge University, from 1892-96, being 
sixteenth wrangler in the Mathematical 
Tripos in 1895, and obtaining honors in 
the Natural Sciences Tripos, Part II., in 
1896. From 1896-98 he was instructor in 
physics at the University of Sheffield, En- 
gland; lecturer on applied mathematics. 
University of Chicago, 1898; assistant 
professor of mathematics. West Virginia 
University, 1899-1901. In 1901 he was ap- 
pointed to take charge of the science sec- 
tion in the Library of Congress, and in 
March, 1905, became chief of the Division 
of Documents. He edited the Handbook 
of Learned Societies and Institutions, pub- 
lished by the Carnegie Institution in 1907, 
and has contributed occasional articlea to 
scientific journals. On September 25, 1902, 
he married Lucy Celeste Daniels. Res- 
idence: Chevy Chase, Md. Office: Libra- 
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THOMPSON, JOHN G., lawyer, was 
born in Rossville, 111., on January 12, 1861, 
son of Lewis M. and Judilh A. Thomp- 
son. He received his preliminary educa- 
tion in the common schools of his native 
town, after which he entered the law de- 
partment of the University of Michigan, 
gradu:iting in 1882. He began the prac- 
tice of law at Danville, 111., in 1882, and 
from 1888-90 was the States attorney for 
Vermillion County, 111., and served as 
Judge in the same county from 1890 to 
1897, when he resigned to become Assist- 
ant Attorney-General of the United 
States. Residence: The Cairo. Office: 
Department of Justice. 

THOMPSON, JOHN MILTON, retired 
army officer, was born at Lebanon, N. 
H., August 1, 1842, son of Ira W. and 
Cynthia Wheeler (Spalding) Thompson. 
He enlisted as Second Lieutenant of Thir- 
ty-third U. S. C. Infantry, January 15, 1863, 
and was promoted to Captain on Novem- 
ber 7, 1863, so serving throughout the 
war. Was commissioned Captain of 
Twenty-fourth Infantry, December 23, 
1878; promoted Colonel Twenty-third In- 
fantry, April 22, 1901; Brigadier-General, 
August 9, 1903, and retired. He was 
brevetted First Lieutenant March 2, 1867, 
for gallant and meritorious service at 
James Island, S. C; member Military Or- 
der cf Loyil Legion, Grand Army of the 
Republic; honorary member Langdon 
(Lebanon, N. H.), and Quinnipiack (New 
Haven, Conn.) clubs. Was married at 
Leoanon, N. H., March 5, 1871, to Mary 
Elizabeth Walcott. Address: War De- 
partment. 

THOMPSON, MILLS, artist, decorator, 
was born in Washington, D. C, February 
3, 1875, sjn of John Barker and Ida (Me- 
Ckry) Thompson. He was educated at 
the Corcor-n School of Art and the Art 
Student s League, Washington, D. C, and 
the Arc Stude.it s League, New York. He 
worked on the decoration of the Library 
of Congress in 1896, and during 1900 was 
art euLor of the Saturday Evening Post, 
and decorated the Slam Library at St. 
Louis Expoiiiion in 1904. Member of 
Sons of the American Revolution; secre- 
tary of Washington Artists; member of 
the Art Club of Philadelphia; Saimagundl 
Club of New York; and Cosmos Club, of 
Washington, D. C. Residence: 1756 Cor- 
coran street, n.w. 

THOMPSON, W. TALIAFERRO, cler- 
gyman, pastor of the Eckington Presby- 
terian Church. Residence: 114 S street, 
n.w. 

THORON, WARD, auditor. American 
Security & Trust Company. ' Residence: 
1741 K street, n.w. Office: Fifteenth 
street and Pennsylvania avenue, n.w. 

THORP, ERWIN H., Superintendent of 
City Mail Delivery, U. S. Postoffice De- 
partment. Residence: 138 B street, n.e. 
Office: Postoffice Department. 



THURSTON, ERNEST LAWTON, ed- 
ucator, was born in Fall River, Mass., on 
February 13, 1873, and was graduated 
from Columbian (new Geo.ge Washing- 
ton) University, C. E. in 1893. For several 
years he has IJeen professor of graphics 
in George Washington University and the 
head of the department of mathematics in 
the Washington Business High School. 
He is a member of the National Geo- 
graphic Society, etc. He is the author 
of Mental Commercial Arithmetic and 
Practical Tests in Commercial and High- 
er Arithmetic. Residence: 1449 Kenesaw 
avenue, n.w. 

THURSTON, IDA T., MRS. (MARION 

THORNE), is the author of a number of 
books of fiction, among them being: A 
Bachelor Maid and Her Brother (1898); 
Bishop's Shadow (1899); Boys of the Cen- 
tral; The Captain of the Cadets (1899); 
A Frontier Hero (1898); Next-Door 
Neighbors; A Village Contest (1899); Cit- 
izen Dan, of the Junior Republic (1901), 
etc. Residence: 1449 Kenesaw avenue. 

THURSTON, JOHN MELLEN, lawyer. 
ex-U. S. Senator from Nebraska, was born 
at Montpelier, Vt., on August 21, 1847, 
son of Daniel S. and Ruth (Mellen) 
Thurston, his ancestors being Puritans, 
and their settlement in this country dat- 
ing back to 1636. His grandfather and 
great-grandfather were both soldiers in 
the revolutionary war, and his father died 
while in the service of the First Wiscon- 
sin Cavalry in the spring of 1863. He 
was educated at Wayland University, 
Beaver Dam, Wis., and admitted to the 
bar May 21, 1869, and in October follow- 
ing located at Omaha, Nebraska. He was 
city attoiney of Omaha in 1874, and a 
member of the Nebraska Legislature in 
18 15. He was a delegate cu the Repub- 
lican National Convention of 1881, and 
temporary chairman of tne Republican 
National Convention of 1888. He was the 
president of the Republican League of the 
United States, 1889-91, and permanent 
chairman of the Republican National Con- 
vention at St. Louis in 1896. He was as- 
sistant attorney of the Union Pacific Rail- 
way in 1877, and in 1888 was general so- 
licitor of the Union Pacific System. On 
January 15, 1895, he was elected by the 
Nebraska Legislature to the U. S. Stnate, 
and in 1901 was appointed U. S. Commis- 
sioner to the St. Louis Exposition. FkCS- 
idence: 2132 Wyoming avenue. Office: 
Bond Building. 

TIERNEY, MICHAEL V., lawyer, was 
born in 1853, his parents both dying when 
he was quite young. He is a graduate 
of the law department of Georgetown Uni- 
t^ersity, and is now engaged in prosecut- 
ing claims against the United States 
through the Pension Bureau. He was the 
first xVlayor of Hyattsville, Md., in 1900, 
and was largely instrumental in install- 
ing a waterworks system, and erecting a 
new schoolhouse there. He is now chief 



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of ordnance of the District of Columbia 
Militia, having received a Major's com- 
mission from President McKinley. He 
was Republican candidate, in 1904, for the 
State Senate from Prince George County, 
Md. He married Ellen, youngest daugh- 
ter of the late Capt. R. S. Widdecombe, 
of Prince George County, Md. Residence: 
Hyattsville, Md. Office: 606 Fifth street, 
n.w. 

TILFORD, JOSEPH G., army officer, 
was born at Beorgetown, Ky., on Novem- 
ber 26, 1829, son of Col. Alexander and 
Agnes Tilford. He was graduated from 
the U. S. Military Academy in 1851, and 
on July 1 of thes ame year was brevetted 
a Second Lieutenant of Mounted Rifle- 
men; was apopinted a Second Lieuten- 
ant on January 27, 1853, and served main- 
ly on frontier duty until the outbreak of 
the Civil War. In 1858 he was on the 
Utah Expedition; was promoted to a First 
Lieutenant on June 14, 1858; was on the 
Navajo expedition in 1860, and advanced 
to the rank of Captain of the Third Cav- 
alry on July 31, 1861. During the Civil 
War he was engaged in the defense of 
Fort Craig, from January to February, 
1862; at the battle of Valverde, on Feb- 
ruary 21, 1862; in the skirmish before 
Albuquerque, participated in the actions 
at Peralto in April, 1862; Parugo, from 
May to July, 1862, and numerous other 
operations in New Mexico. For gallantry 
displayed at Valverde, he was brevetted 
a Major on February 21, 1862, and served 
with Sherman's Expedition to Chatta- 
nooga, October to Novembel", 1863. He 
was engaged in the actions at Cherokee, 
Ala., Octobei- 24, 1863; Tuscumbia, Octo- 
ber 27, 1863; Lookout Mountain and Mis- 
sionary Ridge, November 23-25, 1863, and 
other engagements. From June to July, 
1865, he was acting Assistant Inspector- 
General of the Cavalry Division of the 
Seventh Army Corps; was brevetted a 
Lieutenant-Colonel in 1865 for faithful 
service during the war; was promoted to 
Major of the Seventh Cavalry, 1867; Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel, 1883; Colonel of the Ninth 
Cavalry, 1889, and on July 1, 1891, he was 
retired as a Colonel, at his own request, 
after forty years' service; and on April 
23, 1904, he was promoted to a Brigadier- 
General, U. S. A., retired. After the Civil 
War the greatest part of his service was 
on the frontier. He married Conelia Van 
Ness Dean, at St. Louis, Mo., in 1864. Ad- 
dress: War Department. 

TILLEY, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, na- 
val officer, was born at Bristol, R. I., on 
March 29, 1848, son of Benjamin Rogers 
and Susan W. (Easterbrookes) Tilley. 
He obtained his education in the public 
schools of Bristol, R. I., later attending 
the U. S. Naval Academy, graduating In 
1867, as honor man of his class. From 
1867-68 he served as midshipman on the 
Franklin, the flagship of the European 
fleet, and on the steamer Frolic, 1868-69. 
In 1868 he was promoted to Ensign; Mas- 
ter in 1870; was commissioned a Lieuten- 



ant in 1871; Lieutenant-Commander, 
1887; Commander, 1896, and Captain in 
1901. During the Spanish-American War 
he commanded the U. S. S. Newport, 1897- 
98. He captured a numbei- of prizes, and 
was on blockade duty off Havana and 
other ports; was Commandant of the 
Navy Yard, Norfolk, Va., from 1898 to 
1899; was commanding the Abarenda, and 
was Commandant of the Naval Station 
at Tutuiia, Samoa, 1899-1901; was the 
first Naval Governor of Samoa, and served 
as Captain of the Navy Yard at Mare 
Island, in 1902. At the present time he 
is commanding the battleship Iowa, of 
the North Atlantic squadron. He is a 
member of the Sons of the Revolution; 
Grand Army of the Republic; the Army 
and Navy (Washington), and University 
Clubs (New York). On June 6, 1878, he 
married Emily Edelin Williamson, at 
Portsmouth, Va. Address: Navy Depart- 
ment. 

TILLMAN, BENJAMIN RYAN, U. S. 

Senator, was born in Edgefield County, 
S. C, on August 11, 1847. He received 
his education under the instruction of 
George Galphin at Betheny, in his home 
county. In July, 1864, he enlisted in the 
Confederate army, and was soon after 
stricken with a serious illness, which 
caused the loss of his left eye. He has 
always followed farming as a pursuit, and 
had never taken any active part in poli- 
tics until 1886, when he began the agita- 
tion for industrial and tecnnical educa- 
tion. His campaign led to the establish- 
ment of the Clemson Mechanical and Ag- 
ricultural College at Calhoun's old home 
at Fort Hill, S. C. Soon after the estab- 
lishment of the above institution, the ed- 
ucational reform broadened into a de- 
mand, and he was urged, as a candidate 
for Governor in 1890, by the farmers of 
South Carolina, and, after an exciting can- 
vass, received the nomination at the Dem, 
ocratic convention by a vote of 270 to 50, 
and in the November following was elect- 
ed to his first political office; was re- 
elected in 1892 by an overwhelming vote. 
During his term as Governor the dispen- 
sary law, for the control of the liquor 
traffic iby the State, was passed, and an- 
other State educational institution was 
established — the Winthrop Normal and 
Industrial College for Women, at Rock 
Hill. In 1894 he entered the race for the 
United States Senate against General 
Butler, when both canvassed the State 
thoroughly. He was elected by the Gen- 
eral Assembly to the office oy a vote of 
131 to 21, and was re-elected in 1901 and 
1907. Legal residence: Trenton, S. C. 
Washington address: U. S. Senate. 

TIMME, ERNST G., government official, 
was born in Werden, Prussia, on June 21, 
1843, and immigrated to the United States 
in 1847 and settled in Kenosha County, 
Wis., where he was educated In the pub- 
lic schools and in a commercial college. 
In July, 1861, he enlisted in the First 
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arm in the battle of Chickamauga, was 
honorably discharged in May, 1864. For 
a number of years he was engaged as a 
fafmer, town clerk and justice of the 
peace of Wheatland, Wis. From 1867-82 
he was county clerk; secretary of state 
of Wisconsin from 1882-91; and from July, 
1892, to March, 1893, he was Fifth Auditor 
of the U. S. Treasury Department. From 
1894-97 he was a membei* of the Wiscon- 
sin State Senate, and since 1897 has been 
an auditor for the U, S. Department of 
State and other departments. Residence: 
2212 F street, n.w. 

TINDALL, WILLIAM, secretaly to the 
Board of Commissioners of the District 
of Columbia. Residence: 2047 California 
street, n.w. Office: District Building. 

TIRRELL, CHARLES QUINCY, lawyer. 
Congressman, was born in Sharon, Nor- 
folk County, Mass., on December 10, 1844. 
He was graduated fr^ni Dartmouth Col- 
lege with the class of 1866, after which 
he took up the study of law and was aa- 
mitted to the bar in 1870 at Boston. In 
1872 he was elected to the general court 
of Massachusetts from Waymouth ana 
served two terms in the Massachusetts 
State Senate — 1881-82. In 1888 he was a 
Republican presidential elector. In addi- 
tion to his law practice he is interested 
extensively in business enterprises. He 
has represented the Fourth Massachusetts 
District in the Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, 
Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Congresses. In 
politics he has always been a Republican. 
He is a member of the Episcopal church, 
and a past grand master of the I. O. O. F. 
On February 13, 1873, he married Mary E. 
Holtis, to which union has been born one 
child. Legal residence: Natick, Mass. 
Washington address: House of Represen- 
tatives. 

TITCOMB, JOHN WHEELOCK, gov- 
ernment official, was born at Farmingt on 
in Strafford County, N. H., on Feoruary 
24, 1860, son of George Alfred and Mary 
(Lancaster) Titcomb. Col. John TMeomn, 
an ancestor, was a Colonel in the Colonial 
War. His early education was obtained 
in the common schools and the rh'Ulp.s- 
Exeter Academy, from which lattq.' insti- 
tution he was graduated and passed ex- 
amination for Harvard, but did not enter. 
From 1880-93 he was with the Howe Scale 
Company at Rutland, Vt., serving as as- 
sistant superintendent «r that cinipanv 
from 1890-93. He early showed i keen 
interest in fish culture, and was a.lway3 
a staunch protector of fish and game. 
From 1891 to 1902 he was chairman of 
tho Vermont Fish and Game Commission, 
and from 1902 to 1903 he was superin- 
tendent of the U. S. Fish Commission at 
St. Johnsbury, Vt., and since 1902 lias 
been in charge of the Division of Fish 
Culture in the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. 
From September, 1903, to June, 1904, he 
was employed by the Argentine Govern- 
ment as an expert to explore the waters 
of that country, and built the first fish 



hatchery in South America and success- 
fully introduced to South American wa- 
ters many new species. He organized the 
Vermont Fish and Game League, and 
served as its president from 1891 to 1902, 
and is an ex-president and an honorary 
member of the North American Fish and 
Game Protective Association. He is a 
member of the Biological Society, Geo- 
graphical Society, the Cosmos Club and 
the American Fishery Society, being an 
ex-president of the latter society. In pol- 
itics he is a Republican, and claims St. 
Johnsbury, Vt., as his legal residence. On 
December 22, 1897, he married Martha 
Ross, to which union have been born two 
children. Residence: 1605 Irving street. 
Office: U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. 

TITCOMB, WILLIAM PARSONS, gov- 
ernment official, was born in Newbury- 
port, Essex County, Mass., on July 28, 
1839 son of Silas and Hannah Moody 
(Sawyer) Titcomb, and was educated at 
the Lewiston Falls Academy at Lewiston, 
Me. He served in the Union Army from 
1861 to 1864, since when he has been in 
the government service in some capacity. 
From 1875-85 he was Deputy Register and 
Assistant Register of the U. S. Treasury, 
and at the present time is a special dis- 
tributing agent of the Bureau of Fisheries. 
He is a member of the Episcopal Church, 
and a vestryman and treasurei- of the 
Church of Epiphany; in politics he is a 
Republican. On July 2, 1867, he married 
Alice Pepperman. Residence: 2237 Q 
street, n.w. Office: U. S. Bureau of Fish- 
eries. 

TITTMANN, OTTO HILGARD, geode- 
sist, was born in Belleville, 111., on August 
20, 1850, son of Edwai-d and Rosa (Hil- 
ga'rd) Tittmann. He was educated in the 
public schools of his native town and at 
St. Louis, Mo. Since 1867, he has been 
connected with the U. S. Coast and Geo- 
detic Survey, and has been in charge of 
many important expeditions, and has been 
delegated to several international confer- 
ences. In 1874 he was assistant astron- 
omer on the transit of Venus expedition 
to Japan; from 1889-93 was in charge of 
weight.^! and measures; in 1900 was sent 
to Paris to iDring to this country the 
standard metre, and to inspect weights 
and measures offices in London, Paris and 
Berlin. He was a United States delegate 
to the International Geodetic Conference, 
held at Berlin in 1895, and from 1895-99 
was assistant in charge of the Coast and 
Geodetic Survey Office, and, Assistant Su- 
perintendent in 1899-1900. Since Decem- 
ber, 1900, he has been Superintendent of 
the U. S, Coast and Geodetic Survey. He 
represented the United States in the de- 
markation of the Alaskan and Canadian 
boundary under modus Vivendi of Octo- 
ber, 1899. He is the author of many ar- 
ticles that have appeared in leading sci- 
entific magazines. He is a Fellow of the 
American Association for the Advance- 
ment of Science, and a member of many 
leading scientific societies. In 1880 he 



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married Kate Trowbridge Wilkins at De- 
troit, Mich. Residence: 1617 Riggs Place. 
Office: U. S. Coast and Geodetic Sur- 
vey. 

TODD, HENRY DAVIS, U. S. N., di- 
rector of the Nautical Almanac, 1899 to 
1902, was born in Cambridge, Mass., on 
August 25, 1838, son of John M. Todd. 
He was educated at the Nyack (N. Y.) 
Academy, and was graduated from the 
U. S. Naval Academy in 1857. In 1860 
he was promoted to Past Midshipman, 
Master in the same year. Lieutenant in 
1861, and Lieutenant-Commander in 1863. 
At the outbreak of the Civil War he was 
on the Cumberland, at the burning of the 
Norfolk navy yard, after which he took 
part in eleven battles with heavy bat- 
teries and sharpshooters, and was slight- 
ly wounded in a gunboat attack on Ap- 
pomattox River in 1862. During 1862 and 
1863 he was Flag Lieutenant under Ad- 
miral Wilkes, and during the remainder 
of the war was on the Sacramento. Dur- 
ing 1865 and 1866 he was an instructor of 
mathematics at the U. S. Naval Academy, 
and was head of the department of phys- 
ics and chemistry from 1879 to 1887. He 
was on duty at the Nautical Almanac 
office from 1887 to 1902. He was retired 
from active service on August 25, 1900, 
on account of age. On September 28, 
1865, he married Flora Johnson, of Clav- 
erack, Columbia County, N. Y. Resi- 
dence: 1519 Twentieth street, n.w. 

TOMPKINS, CHARLES H., retired 
army offlctr, was born In Fort Monroe, 
Va., on September 12, 1830, and was ed- 
ucated at Kingsley's School and at the 
U. S. iMilitary Academy, but resigned from 
the latter institution before graduation. 
In 1856, he enlisted in the dragoons, 
where he passed through the principal 
non-commissioned grades, and was pro- 
moted to Second Lieutenant in the Sec- 
ond U. S. Cavalry on March 23, and First 
Lieutenant in April, 1861. He served with 
distinction and was promoted to Quarter- 
master, Colonel and Quartermaster of the 
U. S. Army, and brevetted Brigadier- 
General. After the war he served as Di- 
vision Quartermaster, advancing to actual 
rank of Colonel. Address: care The Ad- 
jutant-General, U. S. A. 

TOPHAM, JAMES S., merchant, was 
born June 18, 1832, in Wilmington, Del. 
He served an apprenticeship with William 
S. Hansen & Sons, of Philadelphia, 1848 
to 1852, and began his business career in 
Washington as a leather goods manufac- 
turer and merchant on September 20, 1855. 
During the Civil and Spanish-American 
Wars he did a large business with the 
Army and Navy Department; has sup- 
plied all the Presidents since Lincoln with 
leather goods, and made the first trunk 
for General Grant when he was appointed 
to the command of the Army of West 
Virginia as well as furnishing him with 
his traveling outfit for his tour around 
the world. He is associated in business 



with his sons. Residence: 2220 First 
street, n.w. Business address: 1219 F 
street, n.w. 

TORBERT, JOHN BRYANT, topo- 
graphic and geologic draughtsman and 
geographer, was born in Washington, D. 

C, May 8, 1867, son of John Peyton and 
Elizabeth C. (Bryant) Torbert. Three 
generations from both grandfathers and 
grandmothers through his mother and fa- 
ther, including John Bryant Torbert, have 
been life-long residents of Washington, 

D. C, and, therefore can be very properly 
counted as one of the oldest inhabitants 
of the Capital City. He was educated in 
the public and high schools of Washing- 
ton after which he was graduated from 
the Columbian University Law School in 
1888, M. L. in 1889, and was admitted 
to the Supreme Court of the District of 
Columbia in the same year. He became 
a draughtsman, and from January, 1886, 
to August, 1893, was connected with the 
U. S. Geological Survey, since when he 
has been in the Topographer's Office of 
the U. S. Postoffice Department. He was 
Historical Cartographer of the Jamestown 
Exposition, 1907. He has contributed 
many articles, maps and drawings to tho 
leading magazine and scientific publica- 
tions. He is a member of the Sons of 
the American Revolution; the Nationai 
G?ographic, Anthropological and Geolog- 
ical Societies of Washington. Was prom- 
inently identified with the Eighth Interna- 
tional Geographic Congress, held in 
Washington, D. C, in September, 1904. 
On November 19, 1890 he married Flor- 
ence Kalbfus. Residence: 111 C street, 
s.e. Office: Postoffice Department, 

TOUVILLE, WILLIAM E., Congress- 
man. He was elected a member of the 
Sixtieth Congress from the Fourth Ohii 
Congressional District in Novcmbt;", 1906. 
In politics he is a Democrat. Legal res- 
idence: Celina, O. Washington address: 
House of Representativts. 

TOWNE, CHARLES ARNETTE, law- 
yer. Congressman, was born at Oakland 
County, Mich, on November 21, 1858, son 
of Charles Judson and Laura (Fars,'o) 
Towne. He was educated in the common 
schools and at the University of Michi- 
gan where he was graduated in 1881, with 
the degree of Ph. B., aft r which tie took 
up the study of law, and was admi:tid 
to the bar in 1885. In 1890 he removed 
to Duluth, Minn., and was ele-tei to 
Congress in 1894 as a Republican, but 
withdrew from that party in 1896, and 
was defeated for Congress on the Dem- 
ocratic ticket in 1896 and 1898. From 
1897-1900 he was chairman of the Silver 
Republican National Committee, and la 
1900 declined the nominations for vice- 
president by the Populists and Silver 
Republican parti s. On December 5, 1^00, 
he was appointed by Governor Lind, of 
Wisconsin, to fill the vacancy in the U. 
S. Senate caused by the death ol the 
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January 28, 1901. In June, 1901, he re- 
moved to New York City, where he has 
since tesided, and was elected to the luZ- 
ty-ninth Congress from the Fourcecrth 
New York District on the Demo'^ratic 
ticket, and was defeated for reelection in 
1906. In 1887 he married Maude Irene 
Wiley at Lansing, Mich. Legal residence: 
New York, N. Y. Washington address: 
House of Representatives. 

TOWNSEND, CHARLES E., lawyer. 
Congressman, was born in Concord, Jack- 
son County, Mich., on August 15, 1856, 
and was educated in the common sch': ols 
of his native town and in Jackson, of the 
same state, and in 1877 he entered the 
University of Michigan, whiere he re- 
mained one year, taking a literary course. 
In 1895 he was admitted to the bar at 
Jackson, Mich., where he has .?ince re- 
sided and practiced his profession. He 
was elected to the Fifty-eightli, Fifty- 
ninlh and Sixtieth Congresses from the 
Second Michigan Dist-ict on ine Repub- 
lican ticket. Legai residence; Jackson, 
M^ich. Washingion address: House of 
Representatives- 

TOWNSEND, CHARLES O., in charge 
of sugar bset investigations of the Bu- 
reau of Plant Industry, U. S. Department 
of Agriculture. Residence: Takoma Park, 
D. C. Office: Department of Agriculture. 

TOWNSEND, CURTIS McDONALD, 

army officer, was born in Brooklyn, N. 
Y., March 22, 1856, son of M. L. and A. S. 
(McDonald) Townsend. He was gradu- 
ated from the College of the Ciiy jf New 
York in 1875, and from the U. S. Military 
Academy in 1879; Major Corps of Engi- 
neers, U. S. A.. He has been conj-ected 
with river and harbor improvements on 
the eastern shore of Lake Michigan, and 
on the Mississippi River near Rock Is- 
land, 111. Now in charge of battaiion of 
engineer troops in Philippines and on 
works of harbor improvement at Manila. 
Address: War Department. 

TOWNSEND, EDWIN F., Brigadier- 
General, U. S. A., retired. R:;sidence: 
2021 Kaloramo avenue, n.w. 

TOWNSEND, GEORGE ALFRED 

("Gath"), journalist, author, was born 
in Georgetown, Del., on January 30, 1841, 
son of Rev. Stephen Townsend, and was 
educated in the Philadelphia hign scliools, 
graduating in 1860. In 1860 he enlered 
the profession of journalism on the Phil- 
adelphia Inquirer and Press, and the fol- 
lowing year was local agent for tlie New 
York Herald in Philadelphia; in 1862 he 
was war correspondent for the Herald, 
and later in the same year went to Eng- 
land, where he wrote for English and 
American periodicals and lecture! on the 
war. During 1864-65 he was war corre- 
spondent for the New York W^rld, when 
he established quite a reputation as a de- 
scriptive writer, and in 1866 reported the 
Austro- Prussian war for the World. Be- 



ginning in 1867, he wrote a daily letter of 
from two to four columns for the Chicago 
Tribune, Cincinnati Enquirer, and many 
other papers over his pen name, "Gath" 
for several years. He owns an estate on 
the battlefield of Crampton's Gap at South 
Mountain, Md., whei-e a village now exi.=ts 
which he calls "Gapland." More prom- 
inent among his literary works rn-.ty be 
mentioned: The Bohemians (1862), a play; 
Campaigns of a Non-Combatant (1865); 
Real Life of Abraham Lincoln (1867); 
The New World Compared with the Old 
(1868); Washington, Outside and Inside 
(1871); Mormon Trials at Salt Lake 
(1872); Washington Rebuilded (1873); 
President Cromwell (1885), a drama; 
Life of Levi P. Morton (1888): Tales of 
Gapland; Mrs. Reynolds and Hamilton 
(1887); Columbus in Love (1892), etc. 
Summer residence: "Gapland," Md. Win- 
ter residence: 229 First street, n.e. 

TRACEWELL, ROBERT J., govern- 
ment official, was born in Warren Coun'y, 
Va., on May 7. 1852, son of W. N. and L. 
B. Tracewell, and received his collegiate 
education at Hanover College in Indiana, 
being graduated in 1874 (A. M. in 1883); 
LL. D. He took up the study of law 
and was admitted to the bar in 1876, .xnd 
practiced at Corydon, Ind., until 1894. He 
served as a member of Congress from 
1895-97, and was defeated for the Fl-'ty- 
fifth Congress. In politics he has always 
been a Republican. Since July 26, 1897, 
he has been Comptroller in the U. S. 
Treasury. In 1873 he married Grace G. 
Btan. Residence: 1841 Sixteenth streit, 
n.w. Office: Treasury Department. 

TRACY, WILLIAM W., Superintendent 
of Testing Garden of the Bureau of Plant 
Industry, U. S. Department of Agricul- 
ture. Residence: The Cecil. Office: U. 
S. Department of Agricultura 

TRAIN, CHARLES J., naval officer, was 
born in Massachusetts, and was appoint- 
ed to the navy from that State on No- 
vember 26, 1861; was at the U. S. Naval 
Acad- my from 1861 to 1864, and was pro- 
moted to Master on December 1, 1866. In 
1868 he was promoted to Lieutenant; 
Lieutenant-Commander in 1869; Com- 
mander, 1886; Captain, 1898, and Rear- 
Admiral on September 12, 1894. He has 
s.en service on many stations and du- 
ties; was naval officer of the Atlanta Ex- 
position, 1894-1896; commanded the U. 
S. S. Prairie, the auxiliary cruiser in the 
North Atlantic Patrol squadron from 
March to November, 1898; was Com- 
mander of the Puritan and later the 
Massachusetts. From 1901 to 1904 he 
was president of the Board of Inspection 
and Survey, and has served on the Asiat- 
ic Station. Address: Navy Department. 

TRAVERS, ARTHUR M., Chief Clerk 
to the Third Assistant Postmaster-Gen- 
eral, was born in Michigan. He was 
graduated from a law school in 1897, and 
admitted to the bar in Wayne County, 



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Mich. He came to Washington as pri- 
vate secretary to Assistant Superintend- 
ent of the Registry System, and Chief 
Cleric of the Third Assistant Postmaster- 
General the following year. Residence: 
The Mendota. Office: Postoffice Depart- 
ment. 

TREAT, CHARLES H., Treasurer of 
the United States, was born at PYank- 
fort. Me., son of Henry and Abigail Treat. 
He was educated at Bates College, Me., 
and Dartmouth College. Removed in 1877 
to Delaware, and engaged in business; 
delegate -at- large from Delaware to the 
National Republican Convention of 1888, 
and seconded nomination of Levi P. Mor- 
ton for Vice-President. Conducted Re- 
publican campaign in Delaware in 1888, 
resulting in Republican majority in Leg- 
islature for the first time in the history 
of the State, and election of first Re- 
publican Senator. He took a prominent 
part in the work of the Republican Club 
of New York City, and was Collector of 
Internal Revenue for the Second District 
of New York in 1897-1905, and has been 
Treasurer of the United States since June 
30, 1905. After the Spanish War he or- 
ganized the Manila Navigation Company, 
of which he is president; also president 
of Fentress Coal & Coke Company; the 
Knoxville Power Company; American Pe- 
troleum and Separating Company; trustee 
of Grant Monument Association, of New 
York. Member Order of Descendants of 
Colonial Governors, and of the Union 
League. Address: Treasury Department. 

TRIMBLE, SOUTH, Congressman, was 
born in Wolfe County, Ky., on August 13, 
1864, and was educated in the public 
schools of Frankfort, Ky., and the Excel- 
sior Institute, near the same city. He 
has followed farming as an occupation, 
and in 1898 was elected to the Kentucky 
State Legislature, and was re-elected in 
1900, being Speaker the last year, serving 
in that capacity during the Goebel con- 
test. He has served as a member of the 
Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth and Fifty- 
ninth Congresses from the Seventh Ken- 
tucky District; in politics he has always 
been a Democrat. On November 24, 1885, 
he married Carrie Bell Allan, of Galves- 
ton, Texas. Legal residence: Frankfort, 
Ky. Washington address: House of Rep- 
resentatives. 

TRINKAUS, CHARLES J., Catholic 
clergyman, assistant rector of the Church 
of St. Mary, Mother of God. Residence: 
727 Fifth street, n.w. 

TRUE, ALFRED CHARLES, govern- 
ment official, was born at Middletown, 
Conn., on June 5, 1853, son of the Rev. 
Dr. Charles Kittredge and Elizabeth 
(Hyde) True. He was educated in the 
Boston Latin School, graduating in 1869 
with high honors; Wesleyan University, 
graduating in 1873, standing third in his 
class. From 1882-84 he took a post-grad- 
uate course at Harvard University and 



received the degree of Ph. D. from Ers- 
kine College (S. C.) in 1887, and Sc. D. 
from Wesleyan University in 1906. From 
1873-75 he served as a high school prin- 
cipal at Essey, N. Y.; 1875-82, instructor 
in the State Normal School at Westfield, 
Mass., and from 1884-88, was an instruc- 
tor in Wesleyan University, after which 
he became an editor in the Office of Ex- 
periment Stations in the U. S. Depart- 
ment of Agriculture, when it was estab- 
lished in 1888. In 1891, he was promoted 
to assistant director in the office of Ex- 
periment Stations, and since 1893 has 
been director of that office. He was ap- 
pointed dean of the First Graduate School 
of Agriculture held in this country in 
1902, at the Ohio State University, and 
was re-appointed for the session held at 
the University of Illinois in 1906, and at 
Cornell University in 1908. He is the 
author of many monographs and reports 
on agricultural education, and for ten 
years was editor-in-chief of the Experi- 
ment Station Record; was agricultural 
editor of Webster's International Diction- 
ary and the International Encyclopedia. 
He is a member of the American Asso- 
ciation for the Advancement of Science; 
the Cosmos Club, and has heen bibliogra- 
pher and chairman of the standing com- 
mittee on agricultural education for sev- 
eral years in the Association of American 
Agricultural Colleges and Experiment 
Stations, etc. On November 19, 1875, he 
married Emma Fortune, to which union 
have been born two children. Residence: 
1604 Seventeenth street, n.w. Office: De- 
partment of Agriculture. 

TRUE, FREDERICK WILLIAM, zoolo- 
gist, was born in Middletown, Conn., on 
July 8, 1858, son of Rev. Charles K. and 
Elizabeth Bassett (Hyde) True. He re- 
ceived his collegiate education at the New 
York University, being graduated in 1878 
(M. S., LL. D.). In 1878 he entered the 
government service, and in 1879 was an 
expert special agent on fisheries in the 
tenth census, and in 1880 was in charge 
of the U. S. Fish Commission Exhibit at 
th* Berlin Fisheries Exposition. From 
1881 to 1892 he was curator of the De- 
partment of Mammals in the U. S. Na- 
tional Museum, and was executive cura- 
tor from 1892 to 1899. He represented the 
Smithsonian Institution and the National 
Museum at the Nashville Exposition in 

1897, and the expositions at Omaha in 

1898, Buffalo in 1901, St. Louis in 1904, 
and Portland in 1905. Since 1897 he has 
been the head curator of the Department 
of Biology in the U. S. National Museum. 
He is a member of the American Philo- 
sophical Society; Washington Academy 
of Sciences; is a corresponding member 
of the Zoological Society of London, the 
Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- 
delphia, and a Fellow of the American 
Association for the Advancement of 
Science, etc. He is the author of numer- 
ous zoological papers, chiefly on cetaceans 
and other mammals, among them being: 
Rieview of the Family Delphinidae (or the 



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Dolphins, Bulletin 36, U. S. National Mu- 
seum. 1889) ; Whalebone Whales of the 
Western North Atlantic, etc. Residence: 
1320 Fairmont street, n.w. Office: U. S. 
National Museum. 

TRUE, RODNEY HOWARD, botanist, 
physiologist, was born at Greenfield, Wis., 
October 14, 1866, son of John M. and Mary 
Ann (Beede) True. He was graduated 
from the University of Wisconsin in 1890, 
M. S. in 1892, and was a student of 
botany at Leipzig-, Ph. D., 1895; principal 
Wisconsin Academy, Madison, Wis., 1895- 
96; lectured at Harvard, 1899-1901. He 
has been physiologist in the U. S. Depart- 
ment of Agriculture since 1901, in charge 
of tea cultut-e, drug and poison plant in- 
vestigations. Fellow of the American As- 
sociation for the Advancement of Sci- 
ence; memb'er of Botanical Society of 
America; and Botanical and Philosophical 
Societies of Washington, D. C. Was mar- 
ried at Windsor, Mo., July 1, 1896, to 
Katherine McAssey. Residence: 1412 
Staughton street. Office: Department of 
Agriculture. 

TRUE, THEODORE EDMOND, army 
officer, was born in Coles County, 111., on 
December 24, 1842, son of Edmond White 
and Mary Blackburn (Jones) True. He 
obtained his education in the schools and 
academies of Illinois, and is a graduate 
of the U. S. Infantry and Cavalry School, 
Fort LeavenwoTth, Kans. His military 
service began on April 25, 1861, when he 
was appointed a Corporal in Company B, 
of the Seventh Illinois Infantry; was pro- 
moted to Sergeant of Company D, Forty- 
first Illinois Infantry, on July 30, 1861; 
Seconl Lieutenant of the FoVty-first Illi- 
nois Infantry, for meritorious services at 
the batte of Fort Donelson, Tenn., where 
he was twice wounded, February 15, 1862; 
Captain of the Sixth United States (Col- 
ored) Artillerj-, November, 1863; Second 
Lieutenant of the Fourth U. S. Infantry, 
July, 1866; and First Lieutenant of the 
Fourth U. S. Infantry, February, 1876. 
On October 23, 1889, he was made Cap- 
tain and Assistant Quartermaster, U. S. 
A.; promoted to Major and Quartermaster 
in 1898; Lieutenant-Colonel and Deputy 
Quartermaster-General, U. S. A., 1903, 
and Brigadier-Beneral, U. S. A., and re- 
tired on January 23, 1904. During the 
Civil War he participated in many bat- 
tles, including the capture of Fort Henry, 
Tenn.; battle of Fort Donelson, Tenn.; 
Big Hatchie River, Tenn.; attack on the 
transport fleet near Island 82, Mississip- 
pi River; seige of Vicksburg, etc. In 
1869 and 1870 he was in skirmishes with 
hostile Indians in Wyoming. He is a 
Companion of the Loyal Legion, a mem- 
ber of the Botoloph Club (Boston), and 
the Baptist Church. In politics he is a 
Republican, and on November 29, 1864, 
he married Cynthia L. Bowman, at Mat- 
toon, 111. Address: The Military Secre- 
tary, U. S. A. 

TRUESDELL, GEORGE, civil engineer, 
was born in New York, and was educated 



as a civil engineer at the University of 
Michigan. At the outbreak of the Civil 
War he enlisted as a private in the 
Twelfth New York Volunteers, and was 
promoted Lieutenant and Captain in 1862, 
and was badly wounded at the battles 
of Gain°s Mills, Va., and was a prisoner 
in Libby Prison. WTien his regiment was 
mustered out of service in 1863 he was 
appointed a Major and Paymaster in the 
regular army, and 'served until 1869. For 
meritorious services, he was brevetted 
Lieutenant-Colonel. Two years after the 
war he practiced his profession in New 
Jersey, and removed to Washington in 
1872, where he has since resided. In 1888 
he organized the Ecklngton and Soldiers' 
Home Railwav Company, which company 
he was president of for five years, and 
was appointed a commissioner of the Dis- 
trict of Columbia in 1894, serving until 
1897. He served as president of the 
Washington Traction and Electric Com- 
pany during the period of reconstruction, 
and is a director in many other leading 
enteroTlses of the city, among them being 
the Columbia National Bank; the Wash- 
ington Loan & Trust Company; the 
Washington Railway & Electric Com- 
pany, etc. He is a trustee of the Protest- 
ant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation; a 
member of the G. A. R.; Loyal Legion; 
Army and Navy and Ch'evy Chase Clubs. 
Residence: Nineteenth street and Colum- 
bia road. Office: Wyatt Building. 

TRUITT, BENJAMIN P., clergyman, 
pastor of the First Methodist Protestant 
Church. Residence: 518 Fourth streeit, s.e. 

TSZCHI, CHOW, First Secretary and 
Charge d' Affaires,. Chinese Embassy. Ad- 
dress: 2001 Nineteenth street, n.w. 

TUCKER, CHARLES COWLES, law- 
yer, was born in Washington, D. C, on 
March 3, 1869, son of Charlies C. and Mary 
(Cowles) Tucker. He received his edu- 
cation in the public schools of Washing- 
ton, Corcoran Scientific School, and the 
Columbian University Law School, from 
which latter Institution he was graduated 
LL. B. in 1889 and LL. M. in 1890. Since 
being admitted to the "bar he has always 
been engaged in the private practice of 
his profession in Washington, and since 
1897 has been a lecturer on practical torts 
and admiralty law in the National Univer- 
sity Law School. Since the organization of 
the District of Columbia Court of Appeals 
he has been court reporter, and his reports 
of cases adjudged in that court have been 
published in twenty-five volumes by the 
Lawyers' Co-operative Publishing Com- 
pany, of Rochester, N. Y. He is a mem- 
ber of the Bar Association of the District 
of Columbia; Lawyers' Association of 
the District of Columbia; Geographic So- 
ciety; Columbian Historical Society; the 
Chevy Chase Club, and is a vestryman in 
All Saints' Church at Chevy Chase, Md. 
On April 28, 1898, he married Helen Miller 
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have been born. Residence: Chevy Chase, 
Md. Office: Colorado Building. 

TUCKER, EVAN H., president of the 
Northeast Washington Citizen's Associa- 
tion, was born in Washington, D. C, on 
October 3, 1864, son of Samuel W. Tucker. 
At seventeen he entered business with his 
brother under the name of P. W. Tucker 
& Brother, at first entirely without cap- 
ital, and built up a successful business, 
which they conducted for twenty-two 
years, till the railways absorbed his prop- 
erty and that of his customers in the 
neighborhood, and he then abandoned it 
and turned his attention to real estate. 
He was one of the strongest advocates 
of the establishment of the Eastern High 
School, for the abolition of grade cross- 
ing?, the reclamation of the Anacostia 
flats, and the widening of streets. He 
was a member of the general committee 
of the National Peace Jubilee, of the 
finance committee of the National Capi- 
tal Centennial Celebration, and of sev- 
eral of the inaugural committc^-s, and has 
been mentioned for Commissioner and As- 
sessor and a member of the Board of 
Education. Address: 720 A street, n.e. 



TUPPER, J A IVIES B. T., lawyer, gov- 
ernment official, was born in East Long 
Meadow, Hampden County, Mass., on No- 
vember 8, 1839, son of the Rev. Martvn 
and Persis L. (Peck) Tupper. His ear- 
liest ancestor in America was Thomas 
Tupper, who was one of thp founders of 
Sandwich, Mass., in 1637; his earliest an- 
cestor on his mother's side (William 
P°ck) was one of the founders of New 
Haven Colony in 1638. In 18.58 h<= entp>-ed 
Princeton College; after remaining there 
one year, he entered Williams College, 
graduating with the class of 1861. At 
the outbreak of the Civil War he enli=ted 
with the Thirty-first Massachusetts Reg- 
iment, and partirloated in the capture 
of New Orleans under Farragut and But- 
ler. After the war he studied law, and 
later accepted a position in the Internal 
Revenue Office, where he has filled va- 
rious positions, being for a while chief 
of the Sugar Bounty Division. Secretarv 
Gage appointed him chief of the Tobacco 
Division of the Internal Revenue Bureau, 
and at the present time he is chief of 
the Law Divi-ion of thU bureau. He is 
a member of the All Souls' Unitarian 
Church; trustee of the Industrial Home 
School of the Dist'lct of Columbia; a 
member of the Board of Children's Guar- 
dians (an ex-president); Society of Co- 
lonial Wars; G. A. R., and Cosmos Club. 
On October 20, 1875, he married S rah J. 
Alden, of Waltham, Mass. Residence: 
1316 Nineteenth street, n.w. Office: In- 
ternal Revenue Bureau. 



TURNER, WILLIAiVI R., clergvman, 
rector of St. Michael's and All Angels' 
Episcopal Church. Residence: The Wy- 
oming. 



TWEEDY, FRANK, topographic engi- 
neer, was born in New York on June 12, 
1864, son of Oliver Burr and Maria (Lord) 
Tweedy. He received his collegiate edu- 
cation at Union ColVege, Schenectady, 
N. Y., and was graduated with the degree 
of C. E. in 1875. From 1875-79 he was 
an engineer on the N. Y. State Adiron- 
dack Survey, and during 1880-81 was san- 
itary engineer under George E. Waring, 
Jr., at Newport, R. I. In 1882-83 he was 
Assistant Topographer on the Northern 
transcontinental survey, and since 1884 
has been Topographer in the U. S. Geo- 
logical Survey. He is the author of Flora 
of the Yellowstone. Member of the So- 
ciety of Colonial Wars; Washington Acad- 
emy of Sciences; National Geographic 
Society, etc. On December 20, 1888, he 
married Emma Adelaide Haydon. Res- 
idence: 3416 Thirteenth street. Office: 
U. S. Geological Survey. 

TWOHEY, JOHN THEODORE, super- 
intenrlent of the Washington Stre°t 
Cleaning Department, was born in Bur- 
lington, Vt.. on November 18, 1868. He 
was graduated from the University )f 
Michigan; from George Washington Uni- 
versity in 1902, later bing admitted to 
the District bar. On July 1, 1902, he wa.-- 
made ch'ef clerk of the Street Cleaning 
D^^partment, and a^s'stmt superintendent, 
and later, superintendent. Residence: 
Stmford Hotel. Office: District Build- 
ing. 

TYLER, RICHARD WOLSEY, army of- 
ficer, was born in Wayne County, Mich., 
on January 1, 1842, son of Heman and 
Mary Knickerbocker Tyler. On Decem- 
ber 26, 1861, he en'isted in Berdan's First 
Rfgim">nt, U. S. Sharpshooters, and was 
First Li<^utenant August 4, 1864. He re- 
signed on account of wou"d^ on Njv'«5m- 
ber 9, 1864; was brevetted Captai'i of 
Volunteers March 13, 1865, for gall^"t and 
mcitori-^us servios during the war, a;uJ 
f tired with the rank or Captain Dt-cem- 
ber 15. 1S79, with the lo.ss of his left arm. 
At the close of the war he w^s promoted 
to a hiffher gr de in the regular army 
for brilliant military record, by General 
Grrnt. He was in charge of a corps of 
men to gather up the unknown Un!.->n 
dead, who now lie in the Arlington Na- 
tional Cemetery; was on sp-'cial duty f'vr 
the apprehension and arrest of J. Wilkes 
Booth, the murderer of President Lincoln, 
and afterwards was officer of the day <it 
the trial of the assassins. In Februar\. 
1867, he married El?anor, daughter of 
John F. and M'rgaret (Trotter) Leavy, 
of Lexington, Ky., and he has three chil- 
dren. Residence: 1803 Nineteenth street. 

TYNDALL, WILLIAM THOMAS, law- 
yer. Congressman, was born in Christian 
County, Mo., on January 16, 1862. Ho 
was rearfd on a farm and received an ac- 
ademic education. After teaching .school 
for twelve years he began the s^udj- of 
law, and was admitted to the bar in 1393. 
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under Presidents Harrison and MrKinley, 

and was elected to tlie Fifty-ninth Con- 
greFs from the Fourteenth Missouri Dis- 
trict on the Republican ticket. In 1891 he 
married, and is the father of fou.' chil- 
dren. Legal residence: Springfield, Mo. 

TYSON, GEORGE EMORY, whaler, 
was born in Red Bank, N. J., on Decem- 
ber 15, 1829, son of Peter and Claric^ 
Tyson and was educated in the schools 
of New York. In 1850 he began as a 
whaler and spent twelve years In che Arc- 
tic; was two years with the Hall Expedi- 



tion in the polar seas as assistant navi- 
gator, and was left on the ice witli nine- 
teen others drifting for one hundred and 
ninety-'six days, from October 15, 1872, 
to April 30, 1873, and was rescued by 
Capt. Eartlett, of the steamer Tigress, 
after having difted f'Om latitude 78 to 
latitude 54 south. In 1877 he commanded 
the Howgate preliminary expedition, aad 
in 1855 pi?ked up the ship Resolute, that 
was abandoned by Sir Edward Belcher's 
order. He marrird Mrs. Helen (McEl- 
roy) Myers. Residence: 35 Eighth streo:, 
n.w. 



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UHLER, GEORGE, Supervising Inspec- 
tor-General of the Steamboat Inspection 
Service, U. S. Department of Commf;rce 
and Labor. Residence: 1433 Euclid street, 
n.w. Office: 721 Thirteenth street, n.w. 

ULKE, TITUS, metallurgist, was born 
in Washington, D. C, on October 17, 
1866, son of Prof. Henry and Veronica 
(Schulze) Ulke. He was graduated from 
Columbian (now George Washington) Uni- 
versity in 1885, and from the Royal Acad- 
emy of Mines, Freiberg, Saxony, in 1889; 
speci'lized in mining engineering and 
metallurgy. During 1890-91 he was chem- 
ist for the Harn y Peak Tin Company, 
and assayer U. S. Smelting Company, 
1891-92: metallu-gist Department Mines 
and Mining, Columbian Exposition, 1893; 
trinnguiator U. S. Geological Survey, 
1897; assistant inspector ordnance, U. S. 
A., 1898-1900; metallurg'st. Lake Superior 
Power Company, 1900-03; now assistant 
examiner U. S. Pat nt Office. Member 
Anglo-American Club, Freiberg, Saxony, 
and member American Electro-Chemical 
Society; author Modern Electrolytic Cop- 
per Refining (1903), and German edition 
of sam^, Hille. Residence: 411 Fifteenth 
street. Office: Patent Office. 

UNDERWOOD, OSCAR W., lawyer. 
Congressman, was born in Loui.sville, Ky., 
on May 6, 1862, and was educated at the 
Rugby School in Louisville, Ky., and at 
the University of Virginia, after which he 
took up the study of law and was admit- 
ted to the bar at Birmingham, Ala., in 
September, 1884, where he has since prac- 
ticed his profession. In 1892 he was the 
chairman of the Democratic Executive 
Committee in the Ninth Alabama Dis- 
trict, and has represented the same dis- 
trict in the Fifty-fourtli, Fifty-fifth, Fif- 
ty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, Fif- 
ty-ninth and Sixtieth Congresses. Dem- 
ocrat. Legal r sidence: Birmingham, 
Ala. Wa.= hington address: House of 
Representatives. 



the University of Wisconsin, where he 
was graduated B. S. and B. C. E. in 1884 
and M. S. in 1886. During the summer 
vacations of 1882-83 he was with the U. 
S. Coast and Geodetic Survey in Wis- 
consin, and from 1884-87 was assistant 
astronomer of the Washburn Observatory, 
University of Wisconsin. From 1887-90 he 
was astromono S-^gundo Observatorio Na- 
cional at Cordoba, Argentine Republic, 
and professor of astronomy at the Uni- 
versity of Missouri from 1890-99. Since 
June, 1899, he has been professor of math- 
ematics in the U. S. Navy; now on tem- 
porary duty at Annapolis, Md. He is a 
Fellow of the American Association for 
the Advanc ment of Science and a mem- 
ber of the University Club of Washing- 
ton and many of the leading scientific 
societies in this country and Europe. Mr. 
Updegraff is the author of many articles 
on astronomical subjects. On September 
8, 1887, h^ married Alice M. Lamb at 
Madison, Wis. Address: U. S. Naval 
Academy, Annapolis, Md. 

UPSHUR, JOHN HENRY, retired na- 
val officer, was born in Northampton 
County, Va., December 5, 1823, son of 
John Nottingham and Elizabeth (Parker) 
Upshur. He was graduated from the U. 
S. Naval Academy in 184^, and was pres- 
ent at the si ge and capture of Vera Cruz; 
he served with Commodore Perry in open- 
ing Japan to commerce in 1857-59; was 
instructor at the Naval Academy at the 
outbreak of the Civil War; present at 
capture of Fort Hatteras and Port Royal, 
S. C; commanded flagship in North At- 
lantic fleet, 1864, and was present at final 
capture of Fort Fisher, January, 1865, 
He was promoted Ciptain January 31, 
1872, and Rear-Admiral October, 1884: 
Commandant Navy Yard, New York, in 
1882-84, and ordered to command naval 
forces in the Pacific when promot d Rear- 
Admiral. Retired on his own application, 
after forty-four years' service. Address: 
Metropolitan Club. 



UPDEGRAFF, MILTON, astronomer, 
was born in Decorah, la., on February 
20, 1861, son of William B. Updegraff. He 
was educated in his home town and at 



URELL, MICHAEL EMMET, army of- 
ficer, was born at Henagh, Ireland, No- 
vember 8, 1844, son of James T. and Mary 
Urell, Served with the Eighty-second 



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New York Volunteers during the Civil 
War; engaged in toattles of Bull Run, 
Balls Bluff, Fair Oaks and Seven Days' 
Peninsula Campaign, 1882. He was cap- 
tured at the battle of Malvern Hill, 1862; 
at Antietam, Gettysburg and the Wild€ir- 
ness; severely wounded at Bt-istow Sta- 
tion, and left on the field for dead. Was 
awarded congressional medal of honor for 
conspicuous gallantry there. Brevetted 
Major for gallant and meritorious serv- 
ices at Fair Oaks, Bristow Station and 
the Wilderness. In civil service since Au- 
gust, 1864; Major First Battalion, D. C, 



Infantry, U. S. Volunteers in Spanish 
War; took part in battle of Santiago in 
July, 1898, and was commandant of guard 
of Spanish prisoners after the surrender. 
Now Colonel Third Regiment, District of 
Columbia National Guard, and Command- 
er-in-Chief National Army and Navy 
Spanish War Veterans; Past Department 
Commander, Grand Army of the Repub- 
lic; Medal of Honor Legion; Past Exalted 
Ruler, B. P. Q. Elks. Was onarried at 
Brooklyn, N. Y., to Isabel Helen Walton, 
who died May 7, 1902. Address: War De- 
partment. 



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VALE, JOSIAH M., lawyer, was born 
in York, Pa., on February 16, 1843. He 
was educated in the common schools of 
his native town, Whithall Academy, and 
later was graduated from the law depart- 
ment of Columbian (now George Wash- 
ington) University in Washington. He 
practiced law in Iowa, but for many years 
has been located permanently in Wash- 
ington, and was the first citizen of the 
United States to be admitted to the bar 
of the Supreme Court of the Philippine 
Islands. He was once in the government 
service as chief of a division in the U. 
S. Treasury Department, which career 
ended at "the beginning of President 
Cleveland's first admmistration. During 
the Civil War he served as Second Lieu- 
tenant in Company P of the Forty-sev- 
enth Iowa Infantry. He is a Mason and 
a member of the Loyal Legion, etc. Res- 
idence: The Portner. Office: Bond Build- 
ing. 

VANCE, WILLIAM REYNOLDS, law- 
yer, educator, was born at Middletown, 
Jefferson County, Ky., on May 9, 1870, son 
of Robert G. and Fanny (Stowe) Vance. 
He was educated in the private school.? 
of Shelbyville, Ky., Washington and Lee 
University, A. B. 1892, A. M. 1893, Ph. D. 
in 1895, LL. B. 1897. During 1888-89 he 
was a teacher of Latin and Mathematics 
in the West Georgia Agricultural and Me- 
chanical College and from 1892-95 was in- 
structor in English at Washington and 
Lee University. In 1897 he was admitted 
to the bar at Louisville, Ky., the same 
year was elected professor of law in 
Washington and Lee University, and dean 
of the law faculty in the same institu- 
tion in 1902. He became professor of law 
in George Washington University in 1903, 
and in September, 1905, was made dean 
of the law department. He has written 
many articles for law journals, and is 
the author of History of Slavery in Ken- 
tucky (1895); Vance on Insurance (1904), 
etc. He is a member of the Presbyterian 
Church, the Phi Kappa Psi college fra- 
ternity. Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity, a 
member of the Virginia State Bar Asso- 
ciation, American Bar Association, the 
Co-smos Club, and in politics is a Dem- 
ocrat. On September 24, 1902, at Chapel 



Hill, N. C, he was married to Anne Wil- 
mer Hume. Residence: The Cumberland. 

VAN DEMAN, HENRY ELIAS, pomoi- 
ogist, was born in Ross County, Ohio, on 
November 3, 1845, son of Joseph and Eliz- 
abeth Sylvia (Case) Van Deman. He 
was educated in the public schools and 
at the South Salem Academy. In 1863 he 
enlisted as a private in the First Ohio 
Volunteers and served until 1865. Dur- 
ing 1878-79 he was professor of bof-inv 
and practical horticulture at the Kansas 
State Agricultural College; from 1886-93 
was founder and chief of the Division of 
Pomology in the Division of Pomology of 
the U. S. Department of Agriculture. He 
has served as assistant editor for several 
magazines, among them being: Vick s 
Magazine and Green's Fruit Grower, b )th 
at Rochester, N. Y., and the Southern 
Fruit Grower, at Chattanooga, Tcnn. He 
has contributed to the American Cyc.'c- 
pedia of Horticulture and several maga- 
zines, and is the author of Tropical and 
Semi-Tropical Fruits in America, which 
was issued in 1887. On December 28, 
1876, he married Anna McCormick at 
Piqua, Kans. Residence: 3630 Thirteenth 
street, n.w. Office; Department of Agri- 
culture. 

VANDERBILT, GEORGE WASHING- 
TON, was born at New Dorp, Staten Is- 
land, November 14, 1862, son ot 'Vl'iiriam 
Henry and Maria Louisa (Kis.^am) Van- 
derbilt. He was educated at schools near 
New York, and traveled extensively and 
studied. Gave to New York City the 
Thirteenth Street Branch of the Free Cir- 
culating Library, which he founded, pro- 
vided with suitable buildings and appoint- 
ments, also New York College for train- 
ing of teachers, its site in Morningside 
Heights, adjoining Columbia College; pre- 
sented American Fine Arts Society the 
room in their building known as the Van- 
derbilt Gallery. Trustee New York Col- 
lege for the training of teachers; member 
Century Association, and Sons of Amer- 
ican Revolution. Laid out vast park of 
100,000 acres near Ashville, N. C, on 
the French Broad River, and erected there- 
on a large mansion. Residence: 1707 N. 



District of Columbia. 



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H, avenue, Washington. Country resi- 
dence: Blltmore, N. C. 

VAN DEVANTER, WILLIS, U. S. Cir- 
cuit Judge Eighth Circuit, was born in 
Marion, Ind., April 17, 1859, and was ed- 
ucated at De Pauw University and at the 
law school of Cincinnati College. He first 
practiced law in his home town in 1881, 
locating at Cheyenne, Wyo., three years 
later, where he served as city attorney 
and a member of the territorial Legisla- 
ture and was a Commissioner to revise 
Wyoming's statute laws. President Har- 
rison appointed him Chief Justice of the 
Territorial Supreme Court In Wyoming, 
and at the first State election he was 
elected to the same ofl^ce by the people, 
but soon after resigned. He subsequently 
served as chairman of the Wyoming State 
Republican Committee, and was a dele- 
gate to the National Republican Conven- 
tion in 1896, and a member of the Na- 
tional Republican Committee. On March 
23, 1897, President McKinley appointed 
him Assistant Attorney-General in the 
Department of the Interior, in which ca- 
pacity he had charge of many important 
government cases in the courts of the 
District of Columbia, and the Supreme 
Court of the United States. He was a 
professor of equity jurisprudence, and of 
equity pleading and practice in George 
Washington University. On February 18, 
1903, President Roosevelt appointed him 
U. S. Circuit Judge. Eighth Circuit. Res- 
idence: Cheyenne, Wyo. 

VAN DUZER, CLARENCE DUNN, 

min-^r, lawyer. Congressman, was born In 
Mountain City, Nev., on May 4, 1866, and 
educated In the public schools of Nevada, 
and was graduated from the State Uni- 
versity of Nevada in 1889, after which he 
entered the Georgetown University Law 
School, and was graduated LL. B. in 1893, 
LL. M., 1894. In 1892 the Governor of Ne- 
vada appointed him State land agent In 
Washington; was admitted to the bar of 
the Supreme Court of the District of 
Columbia in 1893, and for five years 
served as secretary to Senator P. G. New- 
lands, of Nevada. In 1898 he was elected 
District Attorney of Humboldt County, 
N-^v., and was elected to the State Leg- 
islature in 1900, during which session he 
was elected Speaker of that body. He rep- 
resented the State of Nevada In the Fifty- 
eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses, and Is 
now engaged in mining. Democrat. On 
November 18, 1896, he married Nelle Dane 
Webster, of Synthia, Ky. Legal resi- 
dence: Tonopah, Nev. 

VAN DUZER, LEWIS SAYRE, naval 
officer, was born in Elmira, N. Y., June 
29, 1861, son of William Henry and Susan 
Rachael (Sayre) Van Duzer. He was 
graduated from the U. S. Naval Academy 
June 10, 1880; served on coast survey 
duty, and on U. S. S. Omaha; Asiatic 
Station; hydrographic ofl!lce, Washington, 
1889-92; officer U. S. S. Iowa, and was 
present at the battle of Santiago and de- 
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struction of Cervera's fleet, 1898, and at 
attack on San Juan. Served In Charles- 
ton and Petrel in Philippine Insurrection, 
1898-1900; wrecked in Charleston, No- 
vember, 1899. He went to China at the 
outbreak of Boxer Rebellion; executive 
officer, U. S S. Marietta and Newport; 
executive officer, flagship Olympla, 1903- 
05. Member American Society Naval Ar- 
chitects and Marine Engineers; ex-sec- 
retary Naval Institute. Received medal 
for services in Spanish War and made 
member of Order of Bolivar by President 
Castro, of Venezuela. Editor, Army and 
Navy Year Book, 1895-96; nautical and 
naval editor, New International Encyclo- 
pedia. Member of Army and Navy Club, 
Washington, and New York Yacht, New 
York Athletic and Lambs Clubs, of New 
York. Was married at Elmira, N. Y., 
December 19, 1883, to Alice Louisa Aver- 
ill. Address: Navy Department. 

VAN DYKE, EDMUND W., lawyer. 
secretary and director Red Dragon Seltzer 
Company, was born in New York City on 
November 20, 1869, son of Howard Butler 
and Mary Elizabeth (Weston) Van Dyke. 
Since 1872 he has been a resident of 
Washington; was educated In the Wash- 
ington public schools, Emerson Institute 
of Washington, after which he entered 
the law department of Columbian (now 
George Washington) University, from 
which he was graduated in 1893 and ad- 
mitted to the bar of the District of Co- 
lumbia the same year. In 1889 he was 
secretary to the chairman of the Com- 
mittee on Military Affairs of the House 
of Representatives, and in 1890 entered 
the law offices of Hon. Samuel Shellabar- 
ger and Hon. Jeremiah M. Wllklns to 
study law, remaining there until 1898, 
when he was appointed a Justice of the 
Peace in the District of Columbia. After 
serving in the latter capacity two years 
he resigned, in order to accept the position 
of attorney in charge of the legal depart- 
ment of the Chesapeake & Potomac Tele- 
phone Company. After serving In this 
office for four years he resigned to again 
resume the general practice of law. On 
July 23, 1906, he married Susan Norvell 
Cotterill, of Detroit, Mich. Residence: 
1348 Fairmont street, n.w. Office: Bond 
Building. 

VAN DYNE, FREDERICK, lawyer, law 
writer, American Consul at Kingston, Ja- 
maica since March 11, 1907, was born in 
Palmyra, Wayne County, N. Y., on No- 
vember 24, 1861, son of Charles H. and 
Carrie Esther (Brown) Van Dyne. He 
obtained his preparatory education In the 
schools of his native town, after which 
he taught school, read law with Hon. H. 
R. Durfee, and entered the Georgetown 
University Law School, from which he 
was graduated LL. B. In 1890 and LL. M., 
1891. From 1883 to 1888 he served as a 
stenographer and typewriter to the Law- 
yers' Co-operative Publishing Company, 
In Washington and Rochester; clerk In 
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ment of State, 1891-1900; assistant solic- 
itor Department of St:te, 1900-07. He is 
the author of Citizenship of the United 
States (1904); Van Dyne on Naturaliza- 
tion (1907). He is a memb r of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church, and in poli- 
tics a Rppublican. On April 15, 1885, Jie 
married ClsLva M. Hutchins, to which un- 
ion h;ve been born five children. Ad- 
dress: State Department. 

VAN HORNE, WILLIAM M., army of- 
ficer, was born in Ohio, August 22, 1842. 
He enlisted as a private in the Second 
Ohio Regiment, 1861; Captain, One Hun- 
dred and Ninety-Fifth Ohio, March 17, 
1865; First Lieutenant, Seventeenth Unit- 
ed States Infantry, February 23, 1866; 
Major Twenty-second Infantry, March 23, 
1896; Colonel Twenty-ninth Infantry, 
February 2, 1901, and was retired Octo- 
ber 6, 1901, as Brigadier-CJeneral for dis- 
ability incurred in line of duty. Address: 
War Department. 

VAN NESS, EUGENE MONTGOM- 
ERY, builder, was born in Warsaw. Rich- 
mond County, Va., on July 19, 1872, son 
of William E. and Eveline Van Ness, and 
was educated in the public schools of 
Washington. He is engaged as superin- 
tendent of construction for George W. 
Corbett, of Washington, and has had 
charge of the erecting of many promi- 
nent buildings in Washington and else- 
where. He is a member of the Meth- 
odist Church, and in politics a Republi- 
can. On January 26, 1893, he married 
Kate Harrison, to which union have been 
born three children, two of whom are 
living. Residence: 1252 Girard street, n.e. 
Office: 625 P street, n.w. 

VAN ORSDEL, JOSIAH A., lawyer. As- 
sistant Attorney-General of the United 
States, was born at New Bedford, Pa., 
on November 17, 1860. He was gradu- 
ated from Westminster College (Pa.) with 
the class of 1885, later reading law in the 
offices of Dana & Long, New Castle, Pa., 
and in 1891 settled in Cheyenne, Wyo. In 
1892 he was elected prosecuting attorney 
of Laramie County, Wyo.; elected to the 
State Legislature of the same State in 
1894; appointed chairman of the commis- 
sion to compile, revise and codify the laws 
of Wyoming in 1895; and, from 1897 to 
1905, held the office of Attorney-General 
of the State of Wyoming. On April 15, 
1905, he was appointed Associate Justice 
of the Supreme Court of Wyoming, and 
Assistant Attorney-General of the United 
States, February 1, 1906 He was chair- 
man of the Republican State Central 
Committee of Wyoming, and conducted 
the campaigns of 1898, 1900, 1902 and 1904. 
On July 28, 1891, he married Kate Bar- 
num, of Blue Springs, Nebr. Residence: 
2500 Ontario Road. Office: Department 
of Justice. 

VAN REYPEN, WILLIAM KNICKER- 
BOCKER, Surgeon-General, U. S. N., was 



born in Bergen, N. J., on November 14, 
1840. He was educated in the University 
of New York, and was graduated from 
the medical department of the same in- 
stitution in 1862. On December 25, 1861, 
he was appointed from New Je'-s'^v a>-- 
sistant Surgeon in the Navy, and during 
1862, served at the Naval Hospital in 
New York, and was on the frigate St. 
Lawrence in the East Gulf Blockading 
Squadron during 1863-64. In May, 1865, 
he was promoted to Past Assistant Sur- 
geon, and served at the Naval Hospital 
in Chelsea, Mass.; was advanced to the 
rank of Surgeon in 1868; Medical Inspec- 
tor in 1887; and Medical Director on 
March 30, 1865. He served as a delegate 
for the Medical Department of the U. 
S. Navy at the Twelfth International 
Medical Congress, held in Moscow in 1897. 
During the Spanish War he designed the 
ambulance ship Solace, being the first 
ever used in naval warfare, and in 1902 
was a delegate to the Red Cross Confer- 
ence, held in St. Petersburg. On Jan- 
uary 25, 1902, he was retired after forty 
years of active service, with the rank 
of Senior Rear- Admiral. From 1897-1902, 
he was Chief of the Bureau of Medicine 
and Surgery. Residence: 1021 Fifteenth 
street, n.w. 

VAN SCHAICK, JOHN JR., clergyman, 

wais born at Cobleskill, N. Y., November 
18, 1873, and was graduated in 1894 from 
Union College, Schenectady, N. Y. He 
occupied the chair of history and litera- 
ture at Emporia College, Kans., and re- 
moved, in 1898, to New York City, where 
he was assistant pastor at the Church 
of the Divine Paternity. In 1900, he came 
to Washington, to become the pastor of 
the Church of Our Father, with which 
he has identified himself greatly with the 
philanthropic movements in the city. He 
is an officer of the Associated Charities, 
and of the Committees for Prevention of 
Tuberculosis and for summer outings for 
children. He is unmarried. Residence: 
1314 Vermont avenue. 

VAN WICKLE, WILLIAM P., vice- 
president and manager of the F. G. Smith 
Piano Company, was born in Lyons, 
Wayne County, N. Y., and was educated 
at the Palmyra (N. Y.) Classical School 
and the Troy (N. Y.) Academy. In 1876 
he removed to New York City, where he 
entered the Bradbury Piano Factory as 
shipping clerk, advancing to a high posi- 
tion in the general offices of that com- 
pany; in 1878, he opened a branch piano 
warehouse in Brooklyn, and one in Jersey 
City the following year. He removed to 
Washington to take charge of the Brad- 
bury warerooms, which were purchased 
by F. G. Smith from Sanders & Stayman 
in the 70's. In addition to his connec- 
tions with the F. G. Smith Piano Com- 
pany, he is prominently identified with 
other leading business enterprises of 
Washington. He is a member of the 
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Society; the National Geographic Society, 
etc. Residence: The Sherman. Office: 
1225 Pennsylvania 'avenue, n.w. 

VAN WINKLE, MARSHALL, lawyer, 
Congressman, was born in Jersey City, N. 
J., in 1869, and was educated in the pub- 
lic and high schools of his native city, 
after which he tool< up the study of law, 
and was admitted to the bar when twen- 
ty-one years of age. He served as coun- 
sel on the county tax board; was assist- 
ant prosecutor of pleas of Hudson County, 
N. J., resigning after three years' serv- 
ice (January 1, 1901) to form a partner- 
ship with James B. Vredenburgh and 
Albert C. Wall for the general practice 
of law in Jersey City. He was defeated 
for Congress in 1900, but was elected to 
the Fifty-ninth Congress from the Ninth 
New Jersey District on the Republican 
ticitet. Legal residence: Jersey City, N. 
J. Washington address: House of Rep- 
resentatives. 

VARADHARA, PHYA AKHARAJ, En- 
voy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipo- 
tentiary from Siam to the United States. 
Address: The Arlington. 

VAUGHAN, GEORGE TULLY, sur- 
geon, formerly Assistant Surgeon-General 
of the United States Public H-^alth and 
Marine Hospital Service, was born in Ar- 
rirgton, Nelson County, Va., on June 27, 
1859, son of Washington L. and Frances 
Ellen (Shields) Vaughan. He was edu- 
cated in the private schools of Virginia 
and the Kenmore University high school 
at Amherst, Va.; the University of Vir- 
ginia, was graduated M. D., 1879; Belle- 
vue Hospital Medical College (N. Y.), M. 
D., 1880; and took a post-graduate course 
at the New York Polyclinic Hospital, the 
Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia, 
and the University of Berlin, Germany. 
In 1897 he was appointed professor of siir, 
gery and head of the surgical department 
of Georgetown University, which position 
he still holds, and is chief surgeon of the 
Georgetown University Hospital; surgeon 
in the Emergency Hospital, and consult- 
ing surgeon to St. Elizabeth's Hospital. 
In 1888, he was appointed an assistant 
surgeon in the U. S. Marine Hospital 
Service; was promoted to Passed Assist- 
ant Surgeon in 1892; Surgeon in 1900, and 
Assistant Surgeon-General in 1902. In 
1905 he resigned his commission in the 
U. S. iservice in order to give his entire 
time to the practice and teaching of sur- 
gery. In 1898, during the Spanish War, 
he served in the army as Brigade Surgeon 
with the rank of Major. He is the author 
of The Principles and Practice of Sur- 
gery, and of numerous papers on surgery; 
a Fellow of the American Surgicai As- 
sociation; vice-president of the Associa- 
tion of Military Surgeons, and is a cor- 
responding member of the Society of 
French Military Medicine and of the lead- 
ing medical ^societies of Washington and 
elsewhere. He is a member of the 



Sons of Colonial Wars; Sons of the Amer- 
ican Revolution; the University Club of 
Philadelphia; the University and Cosmos 
Clubs, of Washington; and is a member 
of the Episcopal Church, and in politics, 
a Democrat. On June 27, 1883, he mar- 
ried Miss May Townsend Venable, to 
which union have been born two children. 
Residence: 1718 I street. 

VAUGHAN, THOMAS WAYLAND, 

geologist, was born in Jonesville, Tex., on 
September 20, 1870, son of Dr. Samuel 
Floyd and Annie R. (Hope) Vaughan. He 
received his collegiate education at Tulane 
University, graduating in 1889; Harvard 
in 1893 (A. M. in 1894, Ph. D. in 1903), 
and studied in several of the museums in 
Europe. He is engaged in geologic a nil 
paleontologic researches, and is now geol- 
ogist and paleontologist in the U. S. Ge- 
ological Survey; a specialist on tertiary 
geology and fossil and recent corals; cus- 
todian of Madrepovaria, U. S. National 
Museum, and Special Palaeontological As- 
sistant of the New York State Museum. 
He is the author of many papers on geol- 
ogy, zoology and palaeontology, among 
which are: The Eocene and Lower Oloi- 
gocene Coral Faunas of the United 
States; Stony Corals of the Porto Rican 
Waters, and Recent Madrepovaria of tli'^ 
Hawaiian Islands and Layson. He is a 
Fellow of the Geological Society of Amer- 
ica; Fellow of the American Association 
for the Advancement of Science; Secre- 
tary of the National Society of Fine Arts; 
Fellow of the Washington Academy of 
Science; member of the Washington Har- 
vard Club; Washington Biologists' Field 
Club; University and the Cosmos Clubs, 
of Washington, etc. Social address: Cos- 
mo's Club. Office: Smithsonian Institu- 
tion. 

VEDITZ, CHARLES WILLIAM AU- 
GUSTUS, educator, sociologist, was born 
in Philadelphia on November 18, 1872, son 
of William and Augusta (Tramm) Veditz. 
Educated in the public schools of Phila- 
delphia; entered the University of Penn- 
sylvania, Wharton School of Finance and 
Economy, in 1889, and was graduated in 
1891, not yet nineteen years of age. Re- 
ceived from this university the degree of 
Ph. B.; took post-graduate courses as a 
regularly matriculated student in the Uni- 
versities of Halle, Berlin and Leipzig 
(Germany), Vienna (Austria), and Paris 
(France), studying abroad in these coun- 
tries and in Italy and Switzerland for ten 
years, specializing in sociology, political 
science and economics. Received at Halle 
University the degrees of M. A. and Ph. 
D., magna cum laude. Received in Paris 
the degree of licencie en droit. Studied 
six years in France at the Paris School of 
Anthropology, School of Political Sciences, 
the Sorbonne, the Ecole des Hautes 
Etudes, the Law School, the Ecole de.i 
Sciences sociales, and the School of Hyp- 
notism. In 1901, upon his return to Amer- 
ica, was appointed Fellow in Sociology 
at the University of Pennsylvania, and 



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soon thereafter professor of history and 
economics at Bates College, Lewiston, Me , 
1901-05. While in Maine organized the 
University Extension Society of Maine, 
two years its secretary and one of its stafil 
lecturers; a director of the Lewiston So- 
cial Settlement; lecturer on sociology :n 
Cobb Divinity School, Lewiston; lecturer 
on sociology in the Bangor Theolog'cal 
Seminary, Bangor, Me.; founder and first 
chairman of the history teachers' divi- 
'sion of the Maine Association of Cohege 
and School Teachers. Member of the 
American Economic Association; the 
American Sociological Society (which he 
founded and of which he Is secretary); 
the Internationale Vereinigung fuer vergl. 
Rechtswissenschaft; the Ecmomic S; cie- 
ty of Washington; the National Council 
of the Economic Leg,gue; the Internation- 
al Institute of Sociology. Editor-in-chief 
of the Economic Bulletin, and member of 
the editorial staff of the Revue German- 
ique (Paris); and the Archiv fuer Recht- 
sphilosophie (Berlin); member Cosmos 
Club. Author of: The Philadelphia Gas 
Works (1891); The Recent Development of 
American Pottery (1891); The American 
Revolution (1904); editor of the American 
edition and translation of Gide's Political 
Economy, and numerous articles in socio- 
logical and economic periodcals. Since 
1905. professor of economics in the George 
Washington Univet-sity, and since 1906 
acting dean of the College of the Political 
Sciences. Residence: Manor House. 

VEITCH, FLETCHER P., chemist, in 
charge of leather and paper laboratory 
of the Bureau of Chemistry, U. S. Depart- 
ment of Agriculture. Residence: College 
Park, Md. Office: Department of Agri- 
culture. 

VERA, DON VIRGILIO MORENO, Na- 
val Attache, Argentine Republic Embassy, 
Residence: 1315 N street. 

VERBRYCKE, J. RUSSELL, clergy- 
man, was born in New Brunswick, N. J., 
on November 5, 1860, son of John and 
Hannah E. (Smith) Verbrycke. He was 
educated in Mrs. Beaver's Select School, 
Rutgers College Grammar School, and 
Rutgers College, graduating B. A. and 
M. A., aftei* which he entered the New 
Brunswick Theological Seminary, from 
which institution he was graduated in 
1884. From 1884-87 he was pastor of a 
Reform Church at Preakness, N. J., 1887- 
93, pastor of a church at Piermont, N. 
J., since when he has been pastor of the 
Gurley Memorial Presbyterian Church in 
Washington. He is a Mason; assistant 
chaplain of the Grand Lodge of the Dis- 
trict of Columbia; prelate of the Grand 
CommanderJ^ Knights Templar, of the 
District of Columbia and a member of 
the Zeta Psi college fraternity, etc. On 
June 5, 1884, he married Lizzie S. D. Eas- 
ton, a daughter of Rev. Dr. Thomas C. 
Easton. Residence: 2307 First street, n.w. 

VERMILYA, JAIVIES H., president the 
American Home Life Insurance Company, 



of Washington. Residence: 624 H street, 
n.w. Office: Fifth and G streets, n.w. 

VERNON, LEROY TUDOR, journalist, 
was born at Wilmington, O., February 11, 
1878, son of James Mercer Vernon and 
Helena. Bertha (Tudor) Vernon. He was 
graduated from the Fort Payne (Ala.) 
Academy in 1891; the Everett (Wash.) 
High School, scientific course, in 1894; the 
University High School, Chicago, 111., 
classical course, in 1896, and the Univer- 
sity of Chicago. 1900. Reporter of the 
Chicago Inter-Ocean, 1898-1902; political 
editor and legislative correspondent The 
Chicago Daily News, 1902-03; Washington 
correspondent The Chicago Daily News 
since October, 1903. Member Press Club, 
of Chicago. Was married, December 22, 
J 904, in Camden, N. J., to Georgia Mary 
Wheeler. Residence: The Victoria. Of- 
fice: 22 Wyatt Building. 

VERNON, WILLIAM T., Register of 
the United States Treasury, was born on 
July 11, 1871, near Lebanon, Mo., his par- 
ents being slaves. At the age of about 
eight years he was put to work dragging 
hay for twenty-five cents a day, with 
which money he aided in the support of 
his family and purchased his school books, 
attending school in Lebanon when he was 
not compelled to work. At the age of 
fifteen he entered the Lincoln Institute, 
a state school for negroes, located 'at 
Jefferson City, Mo., from which he was 
graduated at the age of nineteen. He 
taught school at Bonne Terre, Mo., for 
two years, and then took charge of the 
isingle school for negroes at Lebanon, Mo. 
He carried on his work at Lebanon for 
four years with success, going to the 
Western University, at Quindara, Kans., 
in 1896. After ten years of labor and con- 
structive work at Quindara, he left the 
presidency of Western University to as- 
sume the duties of the Register of the 
Treasury on June 12, 1906. He has been 
a delegate to the General Conferences of 
the A. M. E. Church for the past two 
quadrennial sessions, and is a member of 
the Afro-American Council and the Ne- 
gro Business League. He possesses the 
degrees of A. M., D. D., and LL. D., and 
has delivered addresses on educational, 
religious and political subjects for the past 
twelve years in various parts of the Unit- 
ed States. Residence: 1532 Fifteenth 
street. Office: Treasury Department. 

VINCENT, THOMAS McCURDY, re- 
tired army officer, was born in Cadiz, O., 
on November 15, 1832, and was graduated 
from West Point in 1853. He has served 
as Lieutenant of artillery in Indian cam- 
paigns in Florida and elsewhere, and from 
1859-61 he was principal assistant pro- 
fessor of chemistry at West Point. In 
1861 he was promoted to Assistant Ad- 
jutant-General, and Captain and Major 
in 1862. He served throughout the Civil 
War, taking part in many important bat- 
tles, after which he served in the Adju- 
tant-General's office in Washington, hav- 
ing charge of the organization and mis- 



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cellaneous business of the volunteer army. 
He was brevetted several times for gal- 
lantry in service. He is the author of: 
The Military Power of the United States; 
During the War of the Rebellion, etc. He 
was retired from active seTvice in 1896, 
with the rank of Colonel. Address: 1219 
N street, n.w. 

VOGEL, LEO, Envoy Extraordinary 
and Minister Plenipotentiary from Swit- 
zerland to the United States. Address: 
2013 Hillyer Place. 

VOLSTEAD, ANDREW J., lawyer, Con- 
gressman, was born in Goodhue County, 
Minn., in 1860, and was educated in the 
public schools, St. Olaf's College and the 
Decorah Institute, after which he began 
the study of law, and was admitted to the 
bar in 1884. He has served as president 
of the Board of Education, city attorney 
and Mayor of Granite Palls, Minn., and 
as county attorney of Yellow Medicine 
County fourteen years. In 1902 he was 
elected to the Fifty-eighth Congress from 
the Seventh Minnesota District, on the 
Republican ticket, and was re-elected to 
tbe Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Congresses. 
In 1894, he married Nellie Gilruth. Legal 
residence: Granite Falls, Minn. Wash- 
ington address: House of Representatives. 

VOSE, WILLIAM PRESTON, retired 
army officer, was born at Orrington, Me., 
July 19, 1839, son of William and Mary 
Wooderson (Phillips) Vose. He was grad- 
uated from the U. S. Military Academy 
in 1864; Second Lieutenant Second U. S. 
Artillery, June 13, 1864; Captain Second 
Artillery, October 2, 1883. Major in 1898, 
organized Sixth Artillery for service, in 
Philippine Islands; Colonel, December 20, 
1902; Brigadier-General, April 23, 1904; 
retired for age, 1903. Took part in at- 
tacks on Petersburg, Five Forks and Ap- 
pomattox. W'as in command of Battery 

B, Fourth Artillery, during Appomattox 
campaign, until after the general review 
in Washington. Served in nearly every 
state and territory of United States, Ha- 
waii, and nearly three years in the Phil- 
ippines. Member Association Graduates, 
Military Academy, and of National Geo- 
graphic Society, and Companion of Loyal 
Legion. Was married at Washington, D. 

C, October 22, 1874, to Bettiea May Wil- 
liams. Residence: 1341 New Hampshire 
avenue. 

VERY, SAMUEL WILLIAMS, naval of- 
ficer, was born at Liverpool, England, on 
April 23, 1846, son of Samuel Jr., and 
Sarah Williams (McKey), Very. He ob- 
tained his education in the private schools 



at Salem, Mass., and Havre, France, and 
the public schools at Salem, Cambridge, 
Melrose, Maiden and Chelsea, Mass., and 
San Francisco. Later he attended the U. 
S. Naval Academies at Newport, R. I., 
and Annapolis, Md., 1863-66. On March 
12, 1868, he was commissioned an En- 
sign; promoted to Master in 1869; Lieuten- 
ant, 1870; Lieutenant-Commander, 1886; 
Commander, 1895, and Captain on Feb- 
Tuary 19, 1901. He has seen service on 
various vessels of the navy; at several 
naval stations, and from 1880 to 1881 he 
was engaged in magnetic investigations 
on the part of the Coast Survey, and had 
charge of the Transit of Venus expediton 
to Patagonia, 1882-83. In 1898 he com- 
manded the steamers Saturn and Cassius, 
engaged in operations around Cuba, and 
the gunboat Castine, from 1899 to 1900. 
in Philippine and Chinese waters, and 
while in command of the same conquered 
and received the surrender of Zamboangi, 
Mindanao, P. I., with results that were 
highly commended in the report of Rear- 
Admiral J. C. Watson. From November, 
1903, to December 31, 1904, he command- 
ed the U. S. S. San Francisco, Mediter- 
ranean and Asiatic stations. On June 14, 
1883, he married Martha Bourne Sim- 
monds, at Warehouse Point, Conn. Mem- 
ber of the New York Yacht Club. Resi- 
dence: Newton Center, Mass. Address: 
Navy Department. 

VREELAND, EDWARD BUTTER- 
FIELD, banker. Congressman, was born 
in Cuba, Allegany County, N. Y., in 1857, 
and after receiving an -academic education, 
was engaged as superintendent of schools 
at Salamanca from 1877 to 1882. In 1881 
he was admitted to the bar, but since 1891 
has been president of the Salamanca 
Trust Company, and is engaged exten- 
sively in banking and oil businesses. He 
has represented the Thirty-seventh New 
York District in the Fifty-sixth, Fifty- 
seventh, Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth and 
Sixtieth Congresses. Republican. He 
married Myra S. Price, of Friendship, Al- 
legany County, N. Y. Legal residence: 
Salamanca, N. Y. Washington address: 
House of Representatives. 

VROOMAN, CHARLES E., chief cierk. 
Solicitor of the Treasury, was born in 
Ohio. He was graduated from the Uni- 
versity of Michigan in 1870; admitted to 
the bar in Illinois, and has practiced 
in three states. He lost everything in the 
great fire in Chicago, then went to Mis- 
souri; was elected Mayor, City Attorney, 
and State's Attorney; member of the Mis- 
souri Legislature, and edited a county 
newspaper. Residence: Hyattsville, Md. 
Office: Treasury Department. 



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WACHTER, FRANK CHARLES, Con- 
gressman, was born in Baltimore on No- 
vember 16, 1861, and after being educated 
in the private schools, learned the trade 



of clothing cutter, after which he engaged 
in business, which he now conducts, of 
sponging and refinishing woolens, etc. In 
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Baltimore a membef of the jail board of 
the city, in which capacity he served for 
two years, and was a candidate for po- 
lice commissioner in 1898. when he suc- 
ceeded in beingr nominated by the Repub- 
lican caucus, but was defeated in the 
election on account of fourteen members 
combining with the Democrats. He rep- 
resented the Third Maryland District in 
the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty- 
eigrhth and Fifty-ninth Congresses. Legal 
residence: Baltimore, Md. Waishington 
address: House of Representatives. 

WADE, JAMES F., army officer, was 
born in Ohio on April 14, 1843, son of 
ex-United States Senator Benjamin F. 
Wade. In 1861 he enlisted as First Lieu- 
tenant in the Sixth Minnesota Cavalry; 
was promoted to Major, and brevetted 
Colonel and Brigadier-General of volun- 
teers in 1865. In 1866 he was made a 
Major in the Ninth U. S. Cavalry; was 
promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel in 1879; 
Colonel in 1891, and Brigadier-General 
May 21, 1897. During the Spanish War 
he served as Major-General of U. S. Vol- 
unteers, and was at the head of the Cuban 
Evacuation Commission. In January, 
1899, he became Military Governor of 
Cuba, and during 1902-03 was stationed 
at Manila, P. I. Address: War Depart- 
ment. 

WADE, MARGARET, journalist, liter- 
ateur, was born in Elizabethtovvn, Lan- 
caster County, Pa., daughter of Henry A. 
and Maria Josephine Wade, and great- 
granddaughter of Charles Ignatius Wade. 
Her father was a lawyer and country gen- 
tleman of scholarly attainments, and she 
is descended from a line of ancestors who 
were identified with the early settlement 
of Pennsylvania. She was educated 
largely by private instructors at Lancas- 
ter, Pa., and in 1891 entered the govern- 
ment service in a clerical capacity, con- 
tinuing until 1895. In the latter year she 
began writing for the Philadelphii Press 
and other papers; from November, 1897, 
to July, 1905, held a permanent position 
on the editorial staff of the Washington 
Post; and since that date has acted as 
social secretary to Mrs. Charles W. Fair- 
banks, wife of the Vice-President of the 
United States. She has been a careful 
student and writer on social economy; 
made two trips to Europe, during which 
she studied social conditions in England 
with particular reference to the women 
workers of London; has traveled exten- 
sively throughout the United States on 
similar missions; wrote a series of travel 
letters, and .served as secretary of Group 
137, Jury of Awards in Social Economy, 
Louisiana Purchase Exposition in 1904. 
Washington address: The Cordova, Twen- 
tieth street and Florida avenue. 

WADSWORTH, HERBERT, was born 
in Geneseo, Livingston County, N. Y., on 
November 2 1851, son of William Walcott 
and Emeline (Austin) Wadsworth. He 
married Martha E. Blow, of St. Louis. 
Address: Avon, Livingston County, N. Y. 



WADSWORTH, JAMES WALCOTT, 

soldier, farmer, Congressman, was born 
in Philadelphia. Pa.. October 12, 1846, son 
of Gen. Samuel W. and Mary (Wharton) 
Wadsworth. He was educated in the pub- 
lic schools and prepared for entrance to 
Yale College at Hopkins Grammar School, 
New Haven, Conn., but left in 1864 to 
enter the federal army. He served until 
the close of the war on the staff of Major- 
General G. K. Warren, commanding the 
Fifth Corps, Army of the Potomac. For 
distinguished service in the battle of Five 
Porks, he was brevetted Major, U. S. A. 
After the war he took up his residence 
in Geneseo, N. Y.. where, during the years 
1875, 1876 and 1877, he was superintend- 
ent of the town. The following year he 
was elected to the N. Y. State Assembly, 
in which he was continued two terms, and 
from 1880 to 1888 he was Comptroller of 
the State of New York. In the latter year' 
he was elected to Congress on the Repub- 
lican ticket from the Geneseo district, to 
fill the unexpired term of E. G. Lapham, 
and was re-elected to all subsequent Con- 
gresses, including the Fifty-ninth. He 
was chairman of the important House 
Committee on Agriculture, and a member 
of the Committee on District of Columbia. 
In politics he has always been a Repub- 
lican. On September 14, 1876, he married 
Louise, daughter of William R. and Lou- 
isa (Johnson) Travers, of New York. Le- 
gal residence: Geneseo, N. Y. Washing- 
ton address: 1733 K street. 



WAINWRIGHT, DALLAS BACHE, as- 
sistant U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, 
was born in Washington. D. C, on De- 
cember 12, 1852, son of Comm^ander Rich- 
ard Wainvvright. He was graduated from 
the Emerson Institute in Washington, aft- 
er which he made a specialty of technical 
subjects and civil engineering. Since 1877 
he has been connected with the U. S. 
Coast and Geodetic Survey, and has had 
charge of many expeditions. He is a 
member of the National Geographic So- 
ciety, etc. In 1880 he married Rosa G. 
Kendig, of Washington. Residence: 1839 
Corcoran street. Office: Coast and Geo- 
detic Survey. 

WAINWRIGHT, RICHARD, naval of- 
ficer, was born in Washington, D. C, on 
December 17, 1849, sun of Commander 
Richard Wainwright, who died near New 
Orleans in 1862, while commanding Far- 
ragut's flagship, Hartford. He was grad- 
uated from the United States Naval Acad- 
emy in 1868; promoted to Ensign in 1869; 
Master in 1870; Lieutenant in 1873; Lieu- 
tenant-Commander in 1884, and Com- 
mander in 1899. He was executive of- 
ficer of the battleship Maine when it was 
blown up in Havana harbor in 1898, and 
commanded the Gloucester in the Span- 
ish War, taking part In the destructio-^ of 
Cervera's fleet. After the Spanish War 
he was in command of the ships at the 
U. S. Naval Academy, and from 1900 to 
1902 was superintend nt of the Naval 
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the U. S. S. Newark. Address: Navy De- 
partment. 

WAITE, MERTON BENWAY, patholo- 
gist, was born in Oregon, 111., January 23, 
1865, son of E. J. and Elizabeth (Benway) 
Waite, and was graduated from the Uni- 
versity of Illinois B. S. in 1887. Since 
soon after graduating from college, he 
has been connected with the U. S. De- 
partment of Agriculture as plant pathol- 
ogist. He is the author of a number of 
bulletins that have been issued by the 
Department of Agriculture of a scientific 
nature among them being: Pollenation of 
Pear Flowers; Pear Blight and Its Rem- 
edy, etc. Residence: 1353 Corcoran 
street. Office: U. S. Department of Ag- 
riculture. 

WALCOTT, CHARLES DOOLITTLE, 

secretary Smithsonian Institution, was 
born at New York Mills, N. Y., March 
31, 1850, son of Charles D. and Mary Lane 
Walcott. He was educated in the public 
schools of Utica, N. Y.; LL. D. Hamil- 
ton College, 1897; University of Chicago, 
1901; Johns Hopkins, 1902, and Univer- 
sity of Pennsylvania, 1903. He was as- 
sistant of the New York State Survey in 
1876; assistant geologist, U. S. Gfological 
Survey, 1879; paleontologist in charge in- 
vertebrate paleontology, 1888-1903, and 
from 1894 to 1907 directof of the U. S. 
Geological Survey. Janu'-iry. 1897, to July, 
1898, at head of National Museum, and as- 
sistant secretary Smithsonian Institution; 
secretary Carnegie Institution, 1902-05; 
secretary Smithsonian Institution, Janu- 
ary, 1907. Author of The Cambrian Fau- 
nas of North America, and many geolog- 
ical works. Was married June 22, 1888, 
to Helena B. Stevens, of Rochester, N. 
Y. Residence: 1743 Twenty-second street, 
n.w. Office: Smithsonian Institution. 

WALDO, GEORGE E., lawyer. Con- 
gressman, was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., 
on January 11, 1851. He was educated in 
the public schools and at Cornell Univer- 
sity (class of 1872), after which he took 
up the study of law in New York City 
and was admitted to the bar at Pough- 
keepsie, N. Y., in 1876. From 1876-83 he 
was engaged in the practice of his profes- 
sion in New York City, when he re- 
moved to Ulysses, Nebr., where he prac- 
ticed until 1889, when he again returned 
to New York City, where he has since 
been actively engaged In the practice of 
his profession. He is a member of the 
bar of the Nebraska Supreme Court, the 
United States Circuit and District Courts 
of Nebraska, and of the Southern and 
Eastern Districts of New York, and of the 
United States Supreme Court. For sev- 
eral years, he was village attorney of 
Ulysses, Nebr., and for four years was a 
member of the board of trustees and a 
school director in the same town. In 1893 
he was the Republican and Citizens' 
League c:^ndidate for Supervisor of Flat- 
bush, N. Y., but was defeated by forty- 
four votes. He was a member of the New 
York Assembly in 1896; Commissioner of 



Records of King's County N. Y., from 
1899-1904; and was a delegate to the Re- 
publican National Convention in 1900. In 
1904 he was elected to the Fifty-ninth 
Congress from the Fifth New York Dis- 
trict on the Republican ticket, and' was 
re-elected to the Sixtieth Congress. On 
May 11, 1896, he married Flora A. Hen- 
derson, eldest daughter of Col. John A. 
Henderson, of Tallahassee, Fla., to which 
union have been born three children. Le- 
gal residence: Flatbush, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Washington address: House of Represen- 
tatives. 

WALES, GEORGE RUSSELL, former 
U. S. Civil Service Commissioner, was 
born in Middlebury, Vt., on November 
22, 1862, son of Russell and Lucy (Sum- 
ner) Wales. He received his collegiate 
education -at Middlebury (Vt.) College; 
was graduated 1887, A. M., 1890, and was 
graduated from the National University 
Law School in 1891. and LL. M. in 1892; 
admitted to the bar in 1896; he is un- 
married. Residence: The Bancroft. Of- 
fice: U. S. Civil Service Commission. 

WALKER, ASA,, naval officer, was born 
at Portsmouth, N. H., on November 13, 
1845, son of Asa T. and Louisa Walker, 
and was graduated from the U. S. Naval 
Academy in 1866. In 1868 he was pro- 
moted to Ensign; Master in 1869; Lieu- 
tenant in 1870; Lieutenant-Commander in 
1884; Commander in 1894, and Captain in 
1899. He has served on many stations; 
was several years on duty at the U. S. 
Naval Academy, and on May 23, 1897, took 
command of the U. S. S. Concord, and 
took part in the battle of Manila Bay on 
May 1, 1898. During 1899-1900 he was 
on duty at the Naval War College. New- 
port, R. I., 'and was a member of the 
Naval Examining Board during 1900-01. 
On January 2, 1903, he took command of 
the San Francisco. Address: Navy De- 
partment. 

WALKER, CORNELIUS, clergyman, 
was born at Richmond. Va., June 12, 1819, 
son of William Woodson and Mary 
(Busher) Walker. He was educated at 
the Episcopal High School, Fairfax 
County, Va.; ordained a Priest in the 
Episcopal Church, September 23, 1846; 
minister in Amherst County, Va., 1845-47; 
rector Emmanuel Church, Henrico Coun- 
ty. Va., 1862-66; dean Virginia. Theolog- 
ical Seminary, and retired 1898. Author 
of: Sorrowing Not Without Hope (1897); 
Outlines of Theology (1894); Lectures on 
Christian Ethics (1896). He was mar- 
ried, December, 1847, to Margaret J. Fish- 
er. Residence: 1513 Twenty-eighth street, 
n.w. 

WALKER, JOHN GRIMES, retired na- 
val officer, was born at Hillsboro, N. H., 
March 20, 1835, son of Alden and Susan 
(Grimes) Walker. He was graduated 
from the U. S. Naval Academy in 1856, 
and promoted to Lieutenant January 23, 
1858. In blockading service and Missis- 
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War; Captain June 25, 1877; Commodore 
February, 1889; Rear- Admiral January, 
1894, and retired at the age limit, 1897. 
Participated in capture of New Orleans 
and at siege of Vicksburg and capture 
of Wilmington. N. C. Specially promoted, 
1866, for war service; chief bureau of 
navigation, 1881-89. From 1889 to 1893 
he commanded the squadron of evolution 
and the European, North Atlantic and 
South Atlantic Stations. In 1894 com- 
manded Pacific Station; later chairman 
Lighthouse Board (1895-96), and 1896-97 
was chairman of commission for location 
of deep-water harbor on coast of South- 
ern California. President Nicaragua Ca- 
nal Commission, 1897-99, and of the Isth- 
mian Canal Commission. 1899-1905. Mem- 
ber of the Metropolitan Club, Washington, 
and of University Club, N. Y. Was mar- 
ried at Boston, September 12, 1866, to Re- 
becca W. Pickering. Residence: 1202 
Eighteenth street, n.w. 

WALKER, JOHN T., builder, was bol-n 
in Bridgenorth, Shropshire, England, on 
October 29. 1852, son of David and Eliz- 
abeth (Bladen) Walker. He was educat- 
ed in the private schools of South Eng- 
land until fifteen years of age, when he 
began the carpenter and joiner trade as 
an apprentice. In 1885 he emigrated to 
America, settling in Florida, where he en- 
gaged in orange growing, later following 
the building business in that state until 
1887, when he located in Washington, 
where, for two years, he served as fore- 
man for Jerome Sanner, a builder, after 
which he embarked into the same busi- 
ness independently. More prominent 
among the many buildings he has erected 
in this city may be mentioned the follow- 
ing: WasJiington Home for Incurable: 
Henry Cabot Lodge residence; W. R. 
Young residence, etc. He is a Knight 
Templar; a member of the Master Build- 
ers' Association; Business Men's Associa- 
tion, etc. He married Eliza Hinkley at 
Tun bridge Wells, England, to which union 
five children have been born. Residence: 
1820 Thirteenth street, n.w. Office: 1920 
N street, n.w. 

WALKER, PERCY HARGRAVES, 

chemist, chief contracts laboratory, Bu- 
reau of Chemistry, U. S. Department of 
Agriculture, was born at Huntsville, Mad- 
ison County, Alabama, July 6, 1867, son of 
Richard W. and Mary A. (Simpson) 
Walker. His father was a judge and a 
member of the Confederate Congress. 
From 1885 to 1887, and 1889 to 1890, he at- 
tended the University of Virginia, and 
Heidelberg, Berlin, in 1896-97. He has 
been instructor and professor at the Uni- 
versities of Iowa and Arkansas respect- 
ively. From 1904 to 1906 he was an as- 
sayer in the Bureau of Chemistry, U. S. 
Department of Agriculture, and since the 
latter date, ihas been chief contracts lab- 
oratory. Bureau of Chemistry, in the same 
department. He is a member of the Chi 
Phi college fraternity; American Chemical 
Society; American Society for Testing 
Materials, and the Cosmos Club. On De- 



cember 27. 1893, he married Marion C. 
Glassell, who died in 1905. Residence: 
2133 P street, n.w. OflSce: Bureau of 
Chemistry, Department of Agriculture. 

WALKER, RICHARD ALFRED, bank- 
er, was born in Washington, D. C, on 
June 20, 1839, son of William Bradley 
and Maria (Martin) Walker. He was ed- 
ucated in the public schools of Washing- 
ton, after which he worked at the trade 
of a painter for four years, later engag- 
ing in the grocery business for himself. 
At the present time he still conducts a 
large store in Washington, in addition to 
being vice-president of the Lincoln Na- 
tional Bank; director and vice-president 
of the Commercial Fire Insurance Com- 
pany, etc. In 1865 he married Miss Allen, 
of Washington, to which union have been 
born eleven children. Residence: 1101 P 
street, n.w. Office: Lincoln National 
Bank. 

WALKER, SAMUEL H., real estate, 
was born in Washington, D. C, on June 
7, 1844, son of Johnathan T. and Amelia 
(iSenson) Walker, and was educated at 
Richard's School in Washington, later Co- 
lumbian (now George Washington) Uni- 
versity. In 1861 he entered the clerk's 
office in the city hall, in charge of land 
records, after which he engaged in the 
real estate and insurance business, which 
pursuit he has since followed. He has 
been connected with many building move- 
ments in the city, notably among them 
being The National Capital Investment 
Company, which he formed and was made 
its president. He has been a director in 
the National Capitol Bank for a number 
of years and was the organizer of the 
Capital CJity Benefit Society, etc. In 1886. 
he was Major and Superintendent of the 
Police Department of the District of Co- 
lumbia. He is a Mason, a member of 
the Sigma Chi college fraternity, etc. On 
February 22, 1872, he married Sallie L. 
Brady, of Bennings, D. C, to which union 
have been born nine children. Residence: 
Fifth and B street, n.e. Office: 458 Louis- 
iana avenue, n.w. 

WALKER-MARTINEZ DON JOA- 
QUIN, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister 
Plenipotentiary from Chile to the United 
States. Address: The Rochambeau. 

WALLACE, ROBERT MINOR, lawyer. 
Congressman, was born in New London, 
Union County, Ark., on August 6, 1857, 
son of William J. and Susan Ann (Wil- 
liams) Wallace. He was educated in the 
common schools and at Arizona (La.) Col- 
lege, being graduated from the latter 
institution in 1876, after whicli he took 
up the study of law and was admitted to 
the bar in 1879. He has served as U. S. 
Assistant District Attorney; State Dis- 
trict Attorney; was a member of the 
Arkansas State Legislature in 1881, and 
postofflce inspector, 1887-89. In 1902 he 
was elected to the Fifty-eighth Congress 
from the Seventh Arkansas District on 
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to the Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Congrress- 
es. He is a Mason and a member of the 
M. E. Church. Legal residence: Magno- 
lia. Ark. Washington address: House of 
Representatives. 

WALLACE, RUSH R., retired naval of- 
ficer, was born in Tennesee on November 
7, 1835, and was graduated from the U. 
S. Naval Academy in 1856. In 1859 he 
was promoted to Master; Lieutenant in 
1861; Lieutenant-Commander in 1862; 
Commander in 1870; Captain in 1882, and 
Commodore November 11, 1894. From 
1863-65 he was on the Shenandoah in the 
North Atlantic blockading squadron, and 
took part in the two attacks on Fort Fish- 
er. After the Civil War he served at va- 
rious stations, and in 1903 was a member 
of the Board of Awards. In September, 
1897, he was retired from active service. 
Address: Navy Department. 

WALLACE, WILLIAM M., Brigadier- 
General, U. S. A. (retired), was born in 
Wisconsin, January 9, 1844, son of Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel G. W. Wallace, U. S. A. 
He is descended of distinguished Penn- 
sylvania ancestry, being a great-grand- 
son of William Brooks, who was Captain 
of the Fourth Company in the Third Bat- 
talion of the Pennsylvania Militia in 1777, 
and was advanced to the rank of Major, 
Fourth Battalion, in 1779, and served in 
the Sixth Battalion in 1780, with the same 
rank. Major Brooks was one of the com- 
missioners appointed in Chester County 
to seize the personal effects of traitors. 
General Walace is a great-great-gnand- 
son of Elijah Weed, who served as Cap- 
tain in the Second Regiment of Fort Phil- 
adelphia Brigade, and a grandson of 
Thomas Kiters, for a time Civil Commis- 
sioner of Philadelphia. General Wallace 
entered the Union Army as First Lieu- 
tenant. Thirteenth New York Artillery, on 
May 29, 1864; Second Lieutenant, Eighth 
Infantry, October 2, 1866; Captain, Sixth 
Cavalry, May 17, 1876; Colonel, Fifteenth 
Cavalry, May 1. 1901, to October 2, 1907, 
when he was retired from active service, 
with the rank of Brigadier-General. He 
commanded the Sulu Archipelago, Philip- 
pine Islands, from January, 1902, to Au- 
gustj 1903, maintaining strict discipline 
under the Bates agreement over the Sul- 
tan of Sulu, his datoes and one hundred 
thousand Moros. An epidemic of cholera 
prevailed in 1902 which carried off ten per 
cent, of the Moro inhabitants; neverthe- 
less, so thorough was the police of Jolo 
that not one case of cholera occurred in 
the town or military camp. Major-Gen- 
erals George W. Davis and Samuel S. 
Sumner, who in turn commanded the De- 
partment of Mindanao, P. I., reported in 
most complimentary terms of the excep- 
tionally able and satisfactory manner of 
the handling of the Sulu Moros by this 
officer. Address: War Department. 

WALSH, JOHN EDGAR, physician, 
was born in Washington, D. C, on March 
16. 1865, son of John J. and Elizabeth 
Walsh, and was educated in the public 



schools of Washington, St. John's College, 
at Annapolis, Md., and in Columbian (now 
George Washington) University, from 
which he was graduated in 1890. In 1895 
he was physician-surgeon to the Perry 
Relief Expedition, and is now engaged in 
the general practice of his profession in 
Washington. He was attending physi- 
cian to the St. Ann Infant Asylum; house 
surgeon of the Washington Asylum Hos- 
pital, and is medical sanitary inspector 
and bacteriologist to the Health Depart- 
ment of the District of Columbia. A lock 
system for mail boxes, and a safety watch 
guard device were invented by him. He 
is a thirty-second degree Mason, a mem- 
ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
and a member of many leading medical 
societies of Washington and elsewhere. 
On November 4, 1897, he married Flor- 
ence Butler, to which union two children 
have been born. Residence: 202 East 
Capital street, 

WALSH, THOMAS A., clergyman, as- 
sistant rector of St. Paul's Catholic 
Church. Residence: 1425 V street, n.w. 

WALSH, THOMAS F., mining engi- 
neer, capitalist, was born in 1851, on a 
farm in Baptist Grange, near Fethard, 
County of Tipperary, Ireland, son of 
Thomas and Bridget (Scully) Walsh. He 
was educated in the public schools, 
learned the millwright and carpenter 
trade and came to the United States in 
1870, "locating at Worcester, Mass. From 
- there he went to Colorado in 1872, where 
he engaged in mining, and at the same 
time made a close practical study of geol- 
ogy, mineralogy and metallurgy. He in- 
troduced new methods in the treatment of 
ores, and subsequently became an exten- 
sive operator of mines in many of the 
mining states and territories of the West, 
including the celebrated Camp Bird 
Mines and Mills, at Ouray, Colo., of which 
he was sole owner. He is now one of 
the richest mine owners of the United 
States a director in a number of finan- 
cial and other institutions, and a large 
owner of real estate in Washington, D. 
C where he now resides. In 1894, he 
was a delegate-at-large from Colorado 
to the Republican National Convention, 
at Chicago; was one of the National Com- 
missioners to the Paris Exposition of 
1900; and is the president of the National 
Irrigation Association. He is a member 
of the American Academy for the Ad- 
vancement of Science; Washington Acad- 
emy of Science; National Geological So- 
ciety; American Association of Mining 
Engineers; Washington Board of Trade; 
American Chamber of Commerce, Paris, 
France; American Chamber of Commerce, 
Naples, Italy; New York Chamber of 
Commerce; Hellenic Travelers Club, of 
London; and the American Political Sci- 
ence Association. He is also a member 
of the following clubs: Metropolitan and 
Cosmos, of Washington; Metropolitan, of 
New York; Denver Club, Denver; El Paso 
Club, Colorado Springs; Automobile Club 



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of America; life member of the Automo- 
bile Club of France; the Pilgrims' Club, 
of London, and others. In October, 1879, 
he married Carrie Belle Reed, of Lead- 
ville. Colo. Washington address: 2021 
Massachusetts avenue, n.w. Summer 
residence: Newport, R. I. 

WALSON, GEORGE O., treasurer of 
the Union Savings Bank. Residence: 166 
Maple avenue, Anacostia, D. C. Office: 
Union Savings Bank. 

WALTER, GEORGE WILLIAM, organ- 
ist and expert in organ construction, was 
born in New York City on December 16. 

1851. In 1869, he removed to Washing- 
ton, where he has since resided. As an 
organist, he is noted for registration and 
extemporaneous work. Address: 1730 
New York avenue, n.w. 

WALTERS, HARRIS AMES, general 
manager Washington Hydraulic Press 
Brick Company, was born in Corning, 
Adams County, Iowa, on May 6, 1875, son 
of the Rev. Luther M. and Martha 
(Childs) Walters. He was educated in 
the common schools of Chicago and 
Brooklyn, and Passaic (N. J.) High 
School, after which he entered the law 
department of Georgetown Universitj', 
from which institution he was graduated 
in 1899, taking a special course in law 
the following year in George Washington 
University. Residence: New Willard Ho- 
tel. Office: 607 Colorado Building. 

WALTON, CLIFFORD STEVENS, law- 
yer, was born at Chardon, Ohio. March 
2, 1861, son of Andrew J. and Caroline 
(Griswold) Walton. He was educated at 
the U. S. Military Academy; University 
of Havana, Cuba, and the National Law 
University, Washington, D. C, 1889. Has 
served for or against the United States 
on several international law commissions, 
including controversies between the Unit- 
ed States and Chile, Peru, Salvador, etc. 
He was Major U. S. Volunteers, 1898-99, 
on staffs of Generals Brooke and Ludlow, 
in Porto Rico and Cuba. Member of 
Military Order of Foreign Wars; National 
Geographic Society; Army and Navy, 
University and Chevy Chase Clubs. Au- 
thor of The Civil Law in Spain and Span- 
ish America. Was married at W'asbing- 
ton April 9, 1890, to Anne, daughter of 
Col. Wheelock G. Veazey. late Interstate 
Commerce Commissioner. Residence: 
1731 P street, n.w. Office: Bond Build- 
ing. 

WANGER, IRVING PRICE, lawyer. 
Congressman, was born in North Cov- 
entry, Chester County, Pa., on March 5, 

1852. After receiving his preliminary ed- 
ucation, he began the study of law at 
Norristown, Pa., where he was admitted 
to the bar on December 18, 1875. In 1878 
ne was elected burgess of Norristown; 
was elected district attorney of Mont- 
gomery County in 1880, and was re-elect- 
ed in 1886; in 1880 he was a delegate to 



the Republican National Convention. Jle 
has represented the present Eighth Penn- 
sylvania District in all Congresses since 
the Fifty-second Congress. In politics he 
is a Republican. Legal residence: Nor- 
ristown, Pa. Washington residence: 1217 
Vermont avenue, n.w. 

WARD, HENRY CLAY, army officer, 
was born at W^orcester, Mass., on Sep- 
tember 10, 1843, son of Artemus II. and 
Huldah (Reed) Ward. He was educated 
in the army service schools; Second Lieu- 
fnant. Fifteenth Massachusetts Regi- 
ment, April 9, 1863; promoted to Captain, 
Fifty-seventh Massachusetts Regiment, 
July 31, 1864; Captain, Sixteenth U. S. 
Infantry, February 8, 1890, and Colonel 
Fifteenth U. S. Infantry since January 
31, 1902. He served throughout the Civil 
War wLth the Army of the Potomac and 
the Ninth Army Corps, taking part in the 
battles of Bull's Bluff, siege of Yorktown, 
Fair Oaks, Malvern Hill (wounded at 
Antietum), Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, 
Wilderness, Spottsylvania (again wound- 
ed). Fort Steedman, Va., where he was 
taken prisoner before General Gordon and 
confined in Llbby Prison, March 25, 1865, 
until the oapture of Richmond. Was bre- 
vetited Captain for 'bravery at Fort Steed- 
man; served in Inrlian campaigns under 
General Shafter, 1880; Pine Ridge cam- 
paign of the Sioux, 1891-92; and was in 
numerous engagements in the Philippines, 
1899-1902, being wounded in la fight at 
Lenoa, Luzon, March 1, 1900. He was in 
charge of the U. S. Government exhibits 
at the Nashville and Omaha expositions. 
Was married, December 6, 1876, at Nash- 
ville, Tenn., to Frances Crutcher Maney. 
Address: Wiar Department. 

WARDER, ROBERT BOWNE, educa- 
tor, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on 
March 28, 1848, son of John A. and Eliz- 
abeth (Bowne) Warder. He was grad- 
uated from Earlham College at Rich- 
mond, Ind., in 1866 (A. M., 1873); the 
Lawrence Scientific Schooi of Harvard 
University, B. S. (in chemistr;) in 187t, 
and also took post-graduate courses Jn 
Germany, University of Cincinnati, Hav- 
erford College, and Purdue University 
from 1883-87, at which time he also 
served as state chem st of Indiana. Sinc'? 
1887 he has been professor of physics and 
chemistry in Howard University. He is 
a Fellow of the American Association for 
the Advancement 'of Science; a member 
of the American Chemical Society; Ger- 
man Chemical Society, etc He is the 
author of many monographs and papers 
on physical chemistry, etc. On March 
25, 1884, he married Gulielma M. Dorland 
at Wellington, Ontario. Address: How- 
ard University. 

WARMAN, FREDERICK CONOVER, 

civil and military engineer, was born at 
Rutherford Park, Bergen County, N. J., 
January 7, 1872, son of Lr. Williiam H. 
H. and Ida Davison (Conover) Warman. 



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His father is a physician, served as vol- 
uin.teer soldier in the Civil War, and 
medical examiner, Burelau of Pensions, 
1876-1907. He was educated in the pri- 
vate and public schools of Washington, 
D. C, and at Lehigh University, from 
which he was graduated in 1893 with the 
degree of C. E. In the same year he 
entered 'the Engineer Department, U. S. 
A., and during the greater part of the 
peri'od since that time has been principal 
U. S. Assisitant Engineer engaged on the 
plans and construction of the defenses of 
Washington, river and ' harbor works, 
bridges and rem'oval of wrecks in the 
vicinity of Wiaishington, under officers of 
the Corps of Engineers. He is a member 
of the following organizations c.nd socie- 
ties: American Society of Civil Engi- 
neers; American Society of Mechanical 
Engineers; American Institute of .Elec- 
trical Engineers; American Society for 
Testing Materials; International Associa- 
tion for Testing Materials; Initernational 
Association of Navigation Congresses; 
Washington Society of Engineers; Wash- 
ington Board of Trade; Niational Geo- 
graphical Society; Religious Education 
Association; Presbyiterian Alliance; Tau 
Beta Pi Society; and 'of various Masonic 
bodies. Unmarried. Address: 3343 Sev- 
enteenth street, n.w. 

WARMAN, PHILIP CREVELING, ed- 
itor, bibliograp'ber, was born on _. farm 
in Warren County, N. J., July 27, 1859, 
son of Thomas and Mary Ann- (Crevel- 
ing) Warman. He was educated in the 
public schools of Broadway, N. J., and 
the Centenary Collegiate Institute at 
liackettstown, N. J.; was graduated from 
the Georgetown Law School in 1880, ani 
the Columbian (now George Washing- 
ton) University Law School, LL. M., in 
1881. From 1875-78 he served as a 
teacher in the i ublic schools of Warren 
Coumty, N. J., and, during part of 1878, 
was editor of the Washington Star, of 
Washington, N. J. During 1878-79, he 
read law in the office of Oscar Jeffery at 
Washington, N. J., after which he re- 
moved to Washington, D. C, and from 
1882-94 was secretary to Major J. M. 
Powell, who was then 'director of the 
U. S. Geological Survey. Since 1834, he 
has been editor of the U. S. Geological 
Surv. y publications. He is the author of 
several bulletins that hiave b:en issued 
by the above department, among them 
being: Bibliography and Index of the 
Publications of the U. S. Geological Sur- 
vey; Catalogue and Index of Publications 
of the U. S. Geological Survey, etc. On 
December 29, 1880, he married Ml3ry Eliz- 
abeth Rymond at Broadway, N. J. Res- 
idence: 3345 Sixteenth street, n.w. Of- 
fice: U. S. Geological Survey. 

WARNER, BRAINARD H., financier, 
was born n Gr :at Bend Village Susque- 
hanna County, Pa., on May 20, 1847. In 
April, 1863, he removed to Washington, 
D. C, to laccept a position in the Judi- 
ciary Square Hospital, and in August of 



the same year he was promoted to a po- 
sition in the War Department and enlist- 
ed in the general service of the U. S. 
Army for five years. After serving in 
the army until 1866, he accepted a. posi- 
tion in the Treasury Department in 1867, 
and was appointed Deputy Colleator of 
Internal Revenue for the Ninth District 
of Pennsylvania, with headquarters at 
Lancaster. In the meantime he had com- 
menced the study of law, and was grad- 
uated from the Columbian (now George 
Washington) University Law School in 
1872, and later entered the real estajte 
business as a member of the firm of 
Joshua Whitney & Co., when there were 
only three real estate firm:s in the city 
of Washington. In 1871, when Mr. Whit- 
ney died, he succeeded to the business, 
and in 1876 erected the Warner Build- 
ing, 'Where he established offices During 
his career he has erected, or been inter- 
ested in the erection of more than one 
thousand houses, and has organized many 
companies and syindicates, among them 
being such companies as: The Washing- 
ton Loan & Trust Company; Columbia 
National Blank; Second National Bank; 
The Central National Bank, etc. For a 
number of years he was president of the 
Washington Loan & Trutst Company, and 
the Columbia Naitional B'ank. He was 
one of the projectors of the Belt Line 
Railroad and Eckington Railroad, and 
has been a director in the Washington 
Market Company; National Siafe Deposit 
& Trust Company; Metropolitan Nation- 
al Bank, etc. For ten years he was 
chairman of the Jury Commission of the 
District of Columbia; twice a member 
of the Scho'ol Bo'ard, and president of it 
for a number of years, and for fourteen 
years was president of the Central Dis- 
pensary and Emergency Hospital. About 
fifte':n years ago he organized the town 
of Kensington, Md., at which place he 
has since miaintained a residence. He is 
a trustee of the Church of 'the Covenant 
and president of the Presbyterian Alliance 
of the District of Columbia, and is a 
member 'of -many of the leading societies 
of Washington. He has been twice mar- 
ried, and is the flaither of nine children, 
his second son, S. P. Warner, now being 
U. S. Consul to Leipzig. Residence: 2100 
Massachusetts avenue, n.w. Office: 916 
F street, n.w. 

WARNER, VESPASIAN, Commissioner 
of Pensions, was born at Mt. Pleasant, 
111., April 23. 1842, son of John and Cyn- 
thia Ann (Gardiner) Warner. He was 
educated at Lombard University, Gales- 
'burg. 111., and studied law at Clinton, 111. 
He was commissioned Second Lieutenant, 
Twentieth Illinois Regiment, February 5, 
1862, was wounded at Shiloh, brevetted 
Major May 10, 1866, and campaigned 
against the Indians in 1865-66. He was 
graduated from the Harvard Law SchoMl 
in 1868. Was Colonel and Judge Advo- 
cate General of the Illinois National 
Guard, 1883-92; presidential elector on 
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Republican representative from the Thir- 
teenth Illinois District in the Fifty-founh 
and Fifty- seventh Congresses, and from 
the new Nineteenth District in the Fifty- 
eighth Congress. He first married, March 
26, 1868, Winifred Moore, of Clinton 111 
who died June 8, 1894; second, June 2-i! 
1898, Miinnie M. Bishop, of the same city 
Residence: The Portland, Office: Pen 
sion Office: 

in^h^'^ffl^'^'.^J'-^'^''^ •=■•' ^h*^^ Clerk 
in the office of the Treasurer of the Unit- 
ed States, was born in Newarl:, Ohio, in 
1851 He was graduated from the Na- 
tional University Law School in 1884 
going thence to be clerk of the United 
States Court in Georgia. He began work 
in the Treasury Department on a low 
salary and was promoted until he reached 
the chief clerkship in 1897. He is an 
amhority on the origin and history of 
the government departments, and espe- 
cially that of the Treasury. Residence: 

par^tme°nt':° ^^'^^ ^^ ^- ^^^^"'•y ^^- 

WARNER, WILLIAM, lawyer, U. S 
Senator, was born in Lafayette County, 
Wis on June 11, 1840, and was educated 
in the common schools. In 1862, he en- 
Sfl*" *^^ Thirty-third Wisconsin In- 
fantry, and served throughout the war 
being mustered out of the service with 
the rank of Major. In 1888 he was elect- 
ed Commander-in-Chief of the G. A R 
He removed to Kansas City in 1865, where 
ne has since been engaged in -the gen- 
eral practice of law. In 1867 he was 
11%%^^ ^'ty attorney; carcuit attorney in 
1868. and in 1884 was elected a member 
ot Congress, and re-elected in 1886. He 
,^^15 00^"^^^^^^" candidate for Governor 
in 1892, and was appointed U. S. District 
Attorney for the Western District of 
Missouri in 1870. 1882, 1898 and 1902 
During 1884-85 he was chairman of the 
Republican state Committee, and has 
been a delegare to several National Re 
publican Conventions. In 1905 the Uni- 
versity of Michigan conferred upon him 
the degree of LL. D.. and on March 18, 
1905. he was elected to the U. S. Senate 
to succeed the Hon. Francis Marion 
VoJfr: 'V^-' t^^'"S his seat on December 4, 
1905; his 'term of service will expire on 
March 3, 1911. Republican. Legal resi- 
dence: Kansas City, Mo. Washington ad- 
dress: U. S. Senate. 

WARREN, FRANCIS EMROY, U. S. 

. benator, was born in Hinsdale, Mass. on 
June 20, 1844, and received a common 
school and academic education. In 1862, 
he enlisted in the Forty-ninth Massachu- 
setts Infantry, and served as a private 
and non-commissioned officer until mus- 
tered out of the service; received a Con- 
gressional medal of honor for gallantry 
on the battlefield at Pont Hudson He 
engaged in farming and stock-raising in 
his native state until 1868, when he re- 
moved to Wyoming, where he is at the 



present time extensively interested in 
stock-raising, real estate and 'Other busi- 
nesses. During 1873-74 he was president 
of the Senate of the Wyoming State Leg- 
islature, and again a member during 
1883-84; served as a member of the 
Council and as Mayor of Cheyenne, Wyo. 
Por three terms he served as Treasurer 
of Wyoming, and in 1885 he was appoint- 
ed Governor of Wyoming by President 
Arthur, serving until November, 1886, 
when he was removed by President 
Cleveland, but was again appodnted to Hiq 
office by President Harrison in March, 
1889, serving until the territory was ad- 
mitted aiS a State, when he was elected 
its first Governor. He has been a dele- 
gate to several National Republican Con- 
venitdons, being chairman of the Wyoming 
delegation at the Philadelphia convention 
in 1900, and the Chicago convention in 
1904. On November 18, 1890, he was 
elected to the U. S. Senate, taking his 
seat on December 1 of ithe same year, 
serving until March 3, 1893, and was 
again elected in 1895, 1901 and 1907. His 
present term of office will expire on 
March 3, 1913. Legal residence: Chey- 
enne, Wyo. Washington address: The 
New Willard. 

WARREN, GEORGE A., chief clerk of 
the Signal Office, War Department, was 
born in 1875 at Washingion, D. C. He 
iis a graduate of the Philadelphia Law 
School, and a member of the bar of 
Philadelphia and tlie District of Colum- 
bia. He was graduated from the George 
Washington University Law School In 
1900, and from the School of Diplomacy 
and Jurisprudence the following year. He 
became clerk in the Navy Bureau of Sup- 
plies and Accounts, after a civil service 
examination, and entered the Statistical 
Bureau of the Agricultural Department in 
1899, and was promoted until he reached 
his present position. He studied statis- 
tics and social economics under such au- 
thorities as Oarroll D. Wright and O. P. 
Austin. Residence: Takoma Park, D. C. 
Office: War Department. 

WASHBURN, CHARLES GRENFILL, 

lawyer, manufacturer, Congressman, was 
born in Worcester, Mass., on January 2S, 
1857. son of Charles Francis and Mary 
Eliza'beth Washburn. He was graduated 
from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute 
in 1875 and from Harvard in 1880, after 
which he studied law and was admitted 
to the bar of Suffolk County in 1887. For 
several years he served las an executive 
officer in the Washburn & Moen Man- 
ufacturing Company, of Worcester, and 
has been connected with numerous other 
manufacturing enterprises in that city. 
During 1897-98, member of the Massa- 
chusetts House; member of the State 
Senate, 1899-1900; member of the com- 
mittee to revise the corporation laws of 
Massachusetts in 1902; delegate to the 
Republican National Oonvenition in Chi- 
cago in 1904, and was the Massachusetts 



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member of the committee to notify Theo- 
dore Roosevelt of his nomination. In No- 
vember, 1906, he was elected ito the Six- 
tieth Congress from the Third Massachu- 
setts District, and on December 18 of the 
same year he wiais elected to fill out the 
unexpired term of Hon. Rockwood Hoar 
(deceased), in the Fifty-ninth Congress. 
On April 25, 1889, he married Caroline 
Vinton Slater, daughter of the late Ho- 
raitio N. Slater, of Webster, Mass., to 
which union have been born five chil- 
dren. Legal residence: Worcester. Mass. 
Washington address: House of Repre- 
'sentatives. 

..WATERS, CAMPBELL EASTER, 

chemist, botanist, was born in Baltimore 
County, Md., September 12, 1872, son of 
Charles E. and Anne M. (Easter) Waters. 
He was graduated from Johnr Hopkins 
University in 1895, Ph. D. 1899, and was 
professor of chemistry and physics at 
the Connecticut Agricultuml College in 
1900-01; assistant in chemistry in J'ohns 
Hopkins University, 1901-04; and since 
October 1, 1904, he has been an assist- 
ant in chemistry in the Bureau of Stand- 
ards. He has contri'buted to the Amer- 
ican Chemical Journal and Journal of the 
American Chemical Society, and is a 
member of the latter, as well as the 
Botanical and Biological Societies of 
Washington, National Geographic Society, 
Wild Flower Preservation Society of 
America, and the American Association 
for the Advancement of Science. He 'a 
the author of Ferns (1903); Analytical 
Key for Local Ferns (1895); and Ferns 
of the Northeastern States (1902). Res- 
idence: The Columbia. Office: Bureau 
of Standards. 

WATERS, JOSEPH G., president the 
Potomac Savings Bank of Georgetown, 
and J. G. Waters & Son (builders' sup- 
plies). Residence: 1411 Thirty-fouPlh 
street, n.w. Office: 1045 Thirty-second 
street, n.w. 

WATKINS, JOHN ELFRETH, maga- 
zine writer, journalist, was bom at Vin- 
centown, N. J., February 12, 1875, son of 
Dr. John Elfreth and Helen (Bryan) Wat- 
kins. He is descended through a well- 
estiablished line of English and French 
Huguenot ancestors, the former being 
mostly Quaker colonists. Among his di- 
rect ancestors were: Dr. John Woodson, 
Devonshire, England, who, as Surgeon of 
British troops, accompanied Sir John 
Harvey to Virginia Colony in 1623. Su- 
sanna Rochette ("Little Night Cap"), a 
French Huguenot heroine who, after the 
revocation of the edict of Nantes by Louis 
XIV. (1685) was smuggled aboard ship 
inside a hogshead, and who, after thu.s 
escaping into Holland, emigrated to Vir- 
ginia, and married Abraham Michea.ux 
(1672-1717) another French Hugguenot, of 
Candent, France. Thomas Budd, Quaker 
martyr, of Martock, Somersetshire, En- 
gland, established preacher of the na- 



itional church who, becoming converted 
to the Quaker religion, renounced his 
benefice and became ai Quaker preacher 
without pay and who, because his new 
religion forbade his taking the "oath of 
obedience" prescribed by James I. for the 
discovery of papist recusants, was, al- 
though professing loyalty, cast into pris- 
on at Ilchester, where he died in 1670. 
Timothy Matlock, 'the fighting Quaker," 
of Revolutionary fame, the founder of the 
sect of Free Quakers, wh'ose first meet- 
ings were held in his house in Philadel- 
phia; secretary of the Committee of 
Safety appointed to protect the city from 
the British; Colonel of the "Associators," 
city of Philadelphia, 1775; Colonel of Mi- 
litia, in active service against the Brit- 
ish during the Revolution, and for this 
was expelled from the established Quaker 
meeting, whereupon he founded the sect 
of Free Quakers; Member of Continental 
Congress, 1780-87. John Reading, presi- 
dent of Provincial Council and Colonial 
Governor of New Jersey. Richard Stock- 
ton, great-grandfather of Richard Stock- 
ton, signer of the Declaration of Inde- 
pendence, first Settler of Princeiton, N. J., 
and who came to America from England 
in 1694. John Elfreth, born 1788, mem- 
ber of the Philadelphia "First City 
Troop," in which he fought during the 
War of 1812, when it was atitached to 
the Advance Light Brigfade. John El- 
freth Watklns, the subject of this sketch, 
was graduated from the Cemtral High 
School, Washington, D. C, 1892. When 
sixteen years of age he was elected ed- 
itor-in-chief of The Review, the organ of 
four high schools of Washington; feature 
writer on the Washington Star since 1834. 
He regularly contributes a weekly illus- 
trated letter on popular science topics 
and national questions ito the Sunday New 
York Tribu^ne and leading Sunday papers 
in each other large city of the United 
States. In charge of the press bureau 
of the National Capital Centennial In 
1900. Editor of the department, "What 
Uncle Sam Is Doing," Ladies' Home 
Journal, 1906-07; contributor of many ar- 
ticles to same; also to Cosmopolitan; 
Reader Magazine; American Magiazine, 
Success; Scrap Book; Technical World; 
Woman; Saturday Evening Post, etc 
He has been a regular correspondent of 
Munsey's Railroad Man's Magazine since 
1906. Member of the National Geograph- 
ic Society; Unitarian; Independent Re- 
publican. On June 1, 1899, he married 
Corinne C, daughter of Courtland C. and 
Ella (Grose) Clements, of Waishington. 
Address: Hammond Court. 

WATKINS, JOHN THOMAS, lawyer. 

Congressman, was born In Minden, La., 
on January 15, 1854, son of John Dyre 
and Flora (Morrow) Watkins. He was 
educated in the public schools of his na- 
tive town and at Cumberland University 
at Lebanon, Tenn., 'buit was compelled to 
leave the latter institution six weeks be- 
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began the study 'of law and was admitted 
to the bar in Ju'y, 1878, since when he 
has been engaged in the rractice of his 
profession in his home town. In 1892 he 
w^as elected district judge, and was re- 
elecf^d to the sam-^" office in 18<)6-1900, 
and was ex ■ofR'^i'o judge of the Court of 
Appeals f^om 1900-1904. when he was 
elected to the Fifty-ninth Congress from 
the Fourth Louisian? District; he was re- 
elected to the Sixtieth Congress. In pol- 
itics he has always b-en a Democrat, and 
is a member of thp Pantist c'lu'^ch. On 
January 15, 1879, he married Lizzie R. 
Murrell, to which union have been born 
five children, four of wh'om are living. 
L^gal residence: Minden, L<3. Washing- 
ton address: House of Representatives. 

WATIVOUGH, JAMES HC^ATIO, 

retired Paymaster-General, U. S. N., was 
born i9t Whiitemarsh, Pa., July 30, 1822, 
son of John G. and Ellrn (Ooxe) Wat- 
mough. H° was appointed Paymaster on 
December 12, 1844, and served in the 
Mexican War, was at the capture of Cal- 
ifornia and lat the bombardment and cap- 
ture of Guaymas. He was Commandant 
at Santa Clara and Don Jose, and fleet 
paymiaster of the South Atlantic Squad- 
ron in 1864-65, serving in actions on Stone 
River, and on James and John Islands, 
later general pay inspector, and Pay- 
master-General 1873-77. Member of the 
Military Order of the Loyal Legion, Na- 
val Wars of the United States, and the 
Society of Colonial Wars. Was married 
October 19, 1848, 'to Emmeline Sheaff. 
Residence: 1711 I street, n.w. 

WATSON, EUGENE WINSLOW, na- 
val officer, was born in Northampton, 
Mlass., in 1843. son 'of Adolphus Eugene 
and Elisa Hovey Melen Watson, and was 
educated in the P. E. Academy at Phil- 
adelphia, Pa. In 1859, he was appointei 
Master's Mate on boiard ithe Lancaster, 
where he served until Octoiber, 1861, when 
he was transferred to the Rhode Island, 
serving until 1863; appointed Acting En- 
sign on September 8, 1863. On Marcn 
12, 1868, he was commissioned an Ensign 
in the regular service; was promated to 
Master the same year; Lieutenant in 
1870; Lieutenant-Commander in 1883; 
Commander in 1893; Captain in 1899, and 
Rear- Admiral on June 2, 1902. He is now 
retired from active service on account of 
age. Address: Army and Navy Club. 

WATSON, JAMES ELI, lawyer. Con- 
gressman, was born in Winchester, Ran- 
diolph County, Ind., November 2, 1864. Ha 
entered the Winchester High School, from 
which institution he was graduated in 
1881, the same year entering De Pauw 
University, where he remained until 1885. 
Upon leaving De Pauw University he re- 
\turned to his home town, where he began 
the study of law in the loffice of Watson 
& Engle, being admitted to the bar in 
1886, since which date he has been en- 
gaged in the active practice of his pro- 



fession. In 1892 he was a candidate on 
the Republican ticket for presidential 
elector. He removed to Rushville, Ind., 
in 1893, and in 1894 was among the can- 
didates for the nomination of Secretary 
•of SCaite. In 1904 h^ served as temporary 
and permanent chairman of the Repub- 
lican State Convention, and has served 
in the Fiftv-fourth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty- 
sevenith. Fifty-eighth, and Fifty-ninth 
Congresses from the Sixth Indiana Dis- 
trict; ro-elected to the Sixtieth Congress. 
He is a member 'of the Knights of Pyth- 
ias, having b'C'i grmd rhancfllor of the 
order, an 3 in 1892 and 1893 he was elect- 
ed presiident of the St'^te Epworth League 
of th<^ Methodist Episcopal Church. Re- 
publican. Legal residence: Rushville, Ind. 
Wash'rgton address. House of Represen- 
tatives. 

WATSON, JOHN CRITTENDEN, navAl 

officer, was born in Frankfort, Kv.. on 
August 24, 1842, son of Dr. Edward Ho at-? 
ancj Sarah Lee (Crittenden) Watson. He 
wai? graduated from the Unit°d Stiates 
Naval Acad" my ir. 1860; was promoted to 
Masiter in 1861; Lieutenant, 1862; Lieu- 
tenant-Commander, 1866: Commands, 
1874; Commodore, 1887; and Rear-Admi- 
ral on March 3, 1899. During the Civil 
War he took part in the bombardment 
of several forts, among them b-ing: Forts 
Jackson, St. Philip, Chalmette, Vicksburg, 
Port Hudson, Grand Gulf and the battle 
of Mobile Pay, etc. After the war he' was 
in various commands at sea, and on shore 
duty, and from 1895-98 wias governor "f 
the United States Naval Home. During 
the Spanish War he was in command jf 
the blockading isquadron on the North 
Cuban coast, from May 6 until June, and 
was appointed Commander-in-Chief of 
the Eastern Squadron on June 27, being 
transferred to the United States steamer 
Oregon on July 4. From October 9, 1898. 
to May 5, 1899, he was commandant of 
Mare I-land Navy Yard and Station, and 
was Commander-in-Chief at the Asiatic 
Station from June 15, 1899, to April, 1909. 
He has served as president of the Naval 
Examining Board and the Naval Exam- 
ing and Retiring Board. He is a mem- 
ber of the Loyal Legion, Military Order 
of Foreign Wars, Society of American 
Wars, S. A. R., Veterans of Farragut's 
Fleet, Aztec Club, etc. On May 29. 1873, 
he married Elizabeth Anderson Thorn- 
ton ,a daughter of Judge James Dabney 
Thornton, of San Francisco, Cal. Resi- 
dence: 1222 New Hampshire avenue, n.w, 

WEAD, CHARLES KASSON, United 
States Patent Office examiner since 1892, 
was born in Malone, N. Y., on September 
1, 1848, son of Samuel and Mary E. 
(Kasson) Wead. He was graduated from 
the University of Vermont in 1871 and 
studied at Berlin during 1875-76, and from 
1877-85 was professor of physics in the 
University of Michigan. From 1887-99 
he was in the electrical business at Hart- 
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a scientific nature, amon? them being: 
"Notes on Scund and Light" (1879); 
"Aims and Methods of the Teaching of 
Physics" (188"?), r-'tc. and h?s cont-ibut d 
antirl s to thp Bulletin of the United 
Statpj^ National Museum and to scientific 
journ3is. He is a fellow of the American 
Association for the Advancement of Sci- 
ence; 3 memb'r of the Washington Phil- 
c^ooViical Sooi(>ty; W^'^hington Arad'~mv 
of Science: Co?mos Clnb.. etc. In 1870 
he married Sarah W. Pease. Residence: 
1714 T «tr'-et, n.vv. Office: United States 
Patent Office. 

WEAVER, AARON WARD, retired 

ni3val officer, was born in the District of 
Columbia July 1, 1832. He was graduate! 
from the United States Nav3l Academy 
i' IS'^4 an-l crui<^ed on the sloop Mar'oa. 
ISSS-.tS, and came home in command of 
the p^iz-^ sliver Ardennes. He servrfl 
throughout the Civil "War, taking part in 
mi3ny naval bombardments. Was pr3- 
moted to the rank of Commander July 25, 
1866, and after the war had important 
commands, becoming Captain August 8, 
1876; Commodore October 7, 1886, and 
Rear-Admiral June 27, 1893. Residence: 
2823 N street, n.w. 

WEBB, EDWIN YATES, lawyer. Con- 
gressman, was born in Shf^'by, Cleveland 
County N. C, on May 23. 1872, son of the 
Rev. G. M. 'and Priscilli J. (Blanton) 
Web'b. He was educated in the Shelby 
Military Institute: graduatpd from Wake 
Forest College in 1893; took up the study 
of law in the University of North Caro- 
lina Daw School, and was graduated in 
1894; in 1896 took a post-graduate law 
course at the University of Virginia, 
after having been admitted ito practice in 
18''4. In 1894 he formed a partnership 
with his brother, J. Li. Webb, for the 
general practice of law, which existe'l 
until December, 1904, when it was dis- 
solved, his brother having accepted an 
appointment a^ Judge of the Superior 
Court. In 1900 he was elected State 
Senaitor, and was temporary chairman of 
the State Democratic Convention the 
same year; from 1898-1902 he was chair- 
man of the County Democratic Executive 
Committee. In 1902 he was elected to the 
Fifty-eight Congress from the Ninth 
North Carolina District on the Democratic 
ticket, and was re-elected to the Fifty- 
ninth and Sixtieth Congresses. He is a 
trustee of Wake Forest College and 
the North Carolina Agricultural and 
Mechanical College; member of the 
Baptist Church and the Kappa Alpha 
college fraternity. On November 15, 
1894, he married Willie Simmons, ot 
Wake Forest, N. C, to which union have 
been born four children, three of whom 
are living. Legal residence: Shelby, 
N. C. Washington address: House of 
Representatives. 

WEBBER, AiVIOS RICHARD, lawyer, 
congressman, was born in Hinckley, 



Medina County, Ohio, on January 21, 
1852, and was educated in the public 
schools of his home town and at Baldwin 
University, at Berea, Ohio, working his 
wav through the latter institution. After 
graduaiting from college he took up the 
study of law with Judge Lewis, of Medina, 
ard was admitted to the bar ir 1876, at 
the same time taking up his residence at 
Elyria, Ohio, where he has since resid3i 
and pracfced his profession. He h'^ld 
the office of prosecuting attorn'^y for two 
year", and in 1900 was elected Judge of 
the Court of Common Pleas. On Novem- 
ber 8, 1904, he was elected to fill the 
vacancy in the Fifty-eighth Congresss 
caus'^d by the death of Hon. W. W. 
Skiles, and was re-e'ected to the Fifty- 
ninth Congress from the Fourteenth Ohio 
District on the Republican ticket. For 
several years he has been a trustee jf 
Baldwin Universl^'y, his alma mater. 
Legal residence: Elyria, Ohio. 

WEBBER, HERBERT JOHN, botanist. 
was born in Lawton, Casis County, Mich , 
on December 27, 1865, son of John M. and 
Rebecca A. (Bradt) Webber. He was 
educated in the public schools of Iowa; 
University of Nebraska; graduated B. 
S. C. in 1889, and M. A. and Ph. D., 
Washington University, St. Louis. Dur- 
ing 1889-90 he was assistant botanist at 
the Univensity of Nebraska, and fr.)m 
1890-92 was an a-sistamt at Washington 
University. In 1893 he entered the United 
States Department of Agriculture as path. 
ologist, and in 1899 he was put in charge 
of the Plant Breeding Laboratory of that 
department, which position he retained 
until April, 1907, when he resigned to 
accept position as Professor of Experi- 
mental Plant Biology in Cornell Univer- 
sity, at Ithiaca, N.Y. He represented the 
United States Department of Agriculture 
at the International Hybridization Con- 
ference held in London in 1899, and is 
responsible for the production of new 
frost-proof oranges and new cotton varie- 
ties. He is ithe author of many bulletins 
that have 'been issued by the Agricultural 
Department and monographs on plant 
breeding. He is a fellow of the American 
Asisociation for the Advancement of Sci- 
ence and a member of other leading scien- 
tific societies. On September 8, 1890, he 
married Lucene Hardin, to which union 
have been born four children. Address: 
216 N. Geneva street, Ithaca, N. Y. 

WEBER, GEORGE W., real estate and 
stock broker, was born in Washington, 
D. C, and received his education at the 
Rittenhouse Academy, and was graduated 
with honors' from the Columbian (no»w 
George Washington) University Law 
School, and was admitted to the District 
bar in 1882. He ^then became law clerk in 
the Trea;sury Department, and was trans- 
ferred four years later to the Pension 
Department as a principal examiner.. 
After serving several years he entered' 
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came a member of the Stock Exchange, 
being one of the largest local holders >t 
Mergenthaler stock. Residence: Florence 
Court. Office: 1335 F street, n.w. 

WEBSTER, FRANCIS MARION, ento- 
mologist, wais born at Lebanon, ■ N. H., 
August 8, 1849, son of J. S. and Betsy A. 
(Riddle) Webster, and was made Master 
of Science by the University of Ohio, 
1893. He was Assistant State Entomolo- 
gist of Illinois, 1882-84, a^id Entomologist 
of the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Sta- 
tion, 1892-02. From 1884 to 1892 he was 
connected with the United States Depart- 
ment of Agriculture; was sent to Mel- 
bourne, Australia International Exposi- 
tion, 1888, and visited other portions of 
Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand in 
the interest of agriculture. He was en- 
gaged, during part of the years 1886-90 
in solution of the problem of suppressing 
buffalo gnats in the valley of the lower 
Mississippi; now in charge of Cereal and 
Forage Plant Insect Investigations in the 
United States Department of Agriculture. 
He is a fellow of the American Associa- 
tion for the Advancement of Science; Fel- 
low of the Entomological Society of Amer- 
ica; member of the Washington Academy 
of Science, ex-president of the Ohio Acad- 
emy of Science and of the Association of 
Economic Entomologists; a member of 
the Entomological and Biological Socie- 
ties of Washington, National Geographic 
Society, American Society of Naturalists, 
Society for the promotion of Agricultural 
Science, Geological and Asiatic Society 
of Iowa, honorary member of the Ento- 
mological Society of Ontario, and corre- 
sponding member of the Cambridge 
(Mass.) Entomological Club and of the 
.New York Entomological Society and the 
Cosmos Club. He was married August 
20, 1870, to Maria A. Potter. Residence; 
Kensington, Md. Office: Department of 
Agriculture. 

WEED, WALTER HARVEY, geologist, 
was born in St. Louis, Mo., on May 1, 
1862, son of Samuel Richards and Nellis 
S. (Jones) Weed. He was educated in 
Dellecks School, Norwalk, Conn., the 
public schools of St. Louis and Brooklyn, 
and was graduated from the Columbia 
University School of Mines (NewYork), 
E. M., in 1883. From 1883 to 1889 he was 
in the Geological Survey of the Yellow- 
stone Park, and discovered, that colors 
abouit hot springs and geyser deposits are 
due to algae living in hot waters, and 
found Death Gulch, with its fatal gases. 
While engaged in geological exploration 
in Montana from 1889 to 1898 he made 
valuable scientific discoveries, including 
two nev^ rocks, and has devoted much of 
his time in recent years to visiting mining 
centers in this country, Canada, Cuba, 
Central America, Hayti and Mexico. He 
was the first to publish the theory of 
secondary enrichments of ore deposits, 
which appeared in 1899. In 1904 he was 
special commissioner and expert In copper 
for the Louisiana Purchase Expoisition, 



and has served as a geologist in the 
North Carolina Geological Survey. From 
1883 to 1906 he was connected with the 
United States Geological Sur/ey as geolo- 
gist. He was special editorial correspond- 
ent for the Engineering and Mining 
Journal of New York, and is the author 
of Nature of Ore Deposits (1906), The 
Copper Mines of the World (2 volumes, 
1907), and monographs and papers on 
geological subjects. He is now geological 
engineer for the General Development 
Company of New York, doing examining 
and consulting work in economic geology. 
He is a fellow of the Geological Society 
of America and the American Association 
for the Advancement of Science; and a 
member of the American InstitU'te of 
Mining Engineers; Institution of Engi- 
neers of Great Britain; Institution of 
Mining and Metallurgy (Great Britain) ; 
Cosmos and Chevy Chase Clubs; Engi- 
neers' Club (New York) ; honor society 
Sigma Xi and the Alpha Delta Phi. Oa 
December 16, 1896, he married Helena C. 
Hill, of Norwalk, Conn. Residence: 1730 
Columbia Road. Office: United States 
Geological Survey. 

WEEKS, GEORGE H., retired army 
officer, was born in Gifford, N. H., on 
February 3, 1834, son of Levi R. and 
Lydia (Sleeper) Weeks. He was gradu- 
ated from the United States Military 
Academy in 1857, and wais Immediately 
commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the 
First Artillery. In 1859 he was appointed 
second Lieutenant in the Fourth Artil- 
lery, promoted to Fir&t Lieutenant In 
1861; Captain and Assistant Quartermas- 
ter in 1862; Major an^I^Quartermaster in 
1876; Lieutenant-Colonel in the Depart- 
ment of the Quartermaster-General In 
1888; Colonel and Assistant Quartermas- 
ter-General In 1895, and Brigadier-Gen- 
eral and Quartermaster-General on Feb- 
ruary 16, 1897, with which rank he was 
retired from active service on February 
3, 1898. For meritorious services rendered 
in the Quartermaster's Department during 
the Civil War he was brevetted a Major 
and a Lieutenant-Colonel. In May, 1859, 
he married Laura Babbitt, a daughter of 
Gen. E. B. Babbitt, in the West Point 
chapel. Residence: 2215 Washington Cir- 
cle, n.w. 

WEEKS, JOHN WINGATE, banker, 
congressman, was born In Lancaster, 
N. H., on April 11, 1860, and was gradu- 
ated from the United States Naval Acad- 
emy in 1881, and served in the navy as a 
midshipman until 1883, and was a member 
of the Massachusetts Naval Brigade from 
1890-1900, the last six years being com- 
manding officer of the organization. Dur- 
ing the Spanish-American War he served 
as a Lieutenant in ithe volunteer navy, 
commanding the second division of the 
Auxiliary Navy, and was a member of 
Governor Walcott's Military Advisory 
Board. For three years he served as 
alderman and two years as Mayor of the 
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tion for a third term as Mayor. He Is a 
membpr ^^ the firm 'of Hornblower & 
Weeks, bankers and brokers, bavins' 
offices both in Boston 'and New York, and 
is vice-president of the Firs«t National 
Bank 'Of Boston, and president of the 
Newtonvilie Trust Company at Newton, 
Mass. In 1904 he wai? elected to the Fifty, 
ninth Congress from the Twelfth Massa- 
chusetts District on the Republican ticket 
and' was re-elected to the Sixtieth Con- 
gress. Legal residence: Newton, Mass. 
Washington addresi?': House of Represen- 
tatives. 

WEEiVIS, CAPELL L.. lawver, con- 
gressman, was born in Whisrville. Noble 
Countv, Ohio, on July 7, 1860. He re- 
ceived a common school and academ'c 
education, after which he taught and 
'superin'tended schools until he took up 
the practice of law in Caldwell, Ohio, in 
the sprirg of 1883. In 1884 he was elected) 
prosecuting attornpv of Noble County; 
was elected to the Ohio State Legislature, 
where he served on the .iudiciary commit- 
ter and the joint committee 'of the two 
houses which prepared the constitutional 
amendments submitted to the people of 
Ohio in 1889. In 1890 he took up his resi- 
dence in Belmont Countv. in the same 
State, where he was elected prosecuting 
attornev for the county in 1893. and was 
re-elected in 1896. On November 3, 1903, 
he was elected to the Fifty-eight Con- 
gre.=!i?' to fill the vacancy caused by the 
resienation of Hon. J. J. Gill, and was 
re-elected to the Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth 
Congresses from the Sixteenth Ohio Dis- 
(trict, on the Republican ticket. In 1883 
he married Mary B. Nay, 'Of Caldwell. 
Ohio, who died on September 14, 1904. 
Legal residence: St. Clair.sville, Ohio. 
Washington address: House of Represen- 
tatives. 

WEIGHTMAN, RICHARD COXE, jour- 
nalist, was born in Washington, D. C, on 
October 25, 1845. son of Richard Hanson 
Weightman, and was educated at St. 
Timothy's Hall, Catonsville, Md. He 
served in the Confederate army from 
September, 1861, to June. 1865, when he 
was paroled at Shreveport, La. After the 
war he took up journalism, and was with 
the New Orleans Times for several years. 
For several years past he has been edi- 
torial writer on the Washington Post. 
President McKinley appointed him secre- 
tary of the War Investigation Committee 
during 1898-99. In December, 1878, hs 
married Laura Jurey at New Orleans, La. 
Residence: Metropolitan Club. Office: 
Washington Post building. 

WEISSE, CHARLES H., manufacturer, 
congressman, was born in Sheboygan 
Falls, Wis., on October 24. 1866. He was 
educated in the public schools, after which 
he engaged in the tanning business, and 
is at the present >time largely engaged in 
the manufacture of leather. In 1902 he 
was elected to the Fifty-eighth Congress 
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from the Sixth Wisconsin Dls'trlct on the 
Democratic ticket and has been re-elected 
ito the Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Congresses. 
He married Lena Kullenburg. Legal resi- 
dence: Sheboygan Falls. Wis. Washing- 
ton address: House of Representatives. 

WELBORN. JOHN, lawyer, congress- 
man, wajc born on November 20. 1857. and 
was educated in the public schools at 
W'arrensbnrg. Mo., after which he to'Ok 
UP 'the study of I'^w and was admitted t> 
tVie bar. In 1904 he was elected to the 
Fifty-ninth Congress from t>ie Seventh 
Missouri District on th° Republican ticket. 
Leeal residence: Lexington. Mo. Wash- 
ington address: Hou^e of Representatives. 

WELLER. CHARLES FREDERICK, 

General Secretary of the Washington 
dissociated Charit5e=!. W9s 'born in Chicago, 
ni.. August 19 1870, sori 'of Dr. Fivette 
Mon'trose and Philena (Huntoon) Weller. 
He was graduated from the TTniversity of 
Michigan in 1894, a^d traveled for eleven 
months in France, Italv. Spain and 'other 
European countries. Since then he was 
been a clerk in th ePureau of Lahor Sta- 
tistics. Sprirsrfield, 111.: District .=!unerin- 
tendent of Chicago Bureau of Charities, 
Fnsrlewood Distr'ct, 1896-98: West Side 
District, 1897-1901. and General Sec- 
retarv of the Washington Associated 
Charities since April. 1901. Under his 
leadership the volunteer workers have 
increased from 24 to 758 in five years. 
The social .settlement work ha'^ been in- 
augurated, and "Neighborhood House," 
where Mr. and Mrs. Weller make their 
home and volunteer services, has grown 
to occupy four buildines and include fifty 
clubs and classes weekly. He is a Free- 
mason. Unitarian, and a member of the 
University Club. On September 18. 1901, 
he married Eugenia Winston. Residence: 
456 N istreet, s.w. 

WELLER. EUGENIA WINSTON (Mrs.) 

charity worker, was born in Forreston, 
Ogle County. 111., on December 20. 1871, 
daughter of Thomas and Caroline (Mum- 
ford) Winston. Her early education was 
received under the tutel'Sge of her mother, 
after which she attended the University 
of Wisconsin (1886-90'), and spent throe 
years at the University of Chicago, and 
wais graduated with the degree of A. M. 
For several years she taught Greek and 
Latin in the Chicago and Minneapolis 
high schools and in normal schools in 
Pennsylvania and Minnesota. Since her 
marriage to Charles Frederick Weller, 
who is General Secretary of the Wash- 
ington Associated Charities, on September 
18, 1901, she h'ais been head resident of 
the Neighborhood Home. She is a mem- 
ber of the Unitarian Church; Association 
of Collegiate Alumnae; Twentieth Cen- 
tury Club, etc. Residence: 456 N street, 
s.w. 

WELLER, FRANCIS REPETTI, civil 
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& Weller, civil and hydraulic engineers, 
was born in Washington, D. C, on Febru- 
ary 16, 1880, ,son of Michael Ignatius an-i 
Rita Weller. His father was a former 
real estate broker and prominent in public 
affairs in Washington for many years, 
and has accumulated the largest library 
on District of Columbia history. Francis 
R. Weller, after attending the private 
schools of Washington, entered Mt. St. 
Mary's College, at Emmebtsburg, Md., 
where he pursued a general classical 
course for two years, after which he en- 
tered Columbian (now George Washing- 
ton) University, being graduated C. E., 
1899, and took a post-graduate course the 
following year. Since 1899 he ha.? prac- 
ticed civil engineering. After four years 
with the District of Columbia Engineer- 
ing Department he became (the junior 
member of the firm of Pressey & Miller. 
In 1900 he m^de an investigation of bridge 
construction in Europe for the District 
of Columbia Engineering Department; is 
the author of numerous papers on engi- 
neering subjects. During 1898-99 he 
served as a member of the National Guard 
of the District of Columbia; member 
Otwo years president) Chain land Sprocket 
fraternity; Knights of Columbus; Engi- 
neers' Club of Washington; American 
Society of Civil Engineers; Analostan 
Boat and University Clubs. Catholic. 
Unmarried. Residence: 408 Seward 
Square. Office: 1416 F street, n.w. 

WELLER, JOSEPH IGNATIUS, real 
estate, was born in Washington, D. C, 
October 26, 1873, s'on of Michael I. and 
Rita (Repetti) Weller. He was graduated 
from Georgetown University in 1893 and 
read law with Edwards and Barnard, 
graduating from the law department of 
that university in 1895, and immediately 
began practice. He later entered the field 
of real estate and has carried on many 
transactions of importance in Washing- 
ton. He is a member of 'the Knights of 
Columbus and the Columbia Golf Club, 
land a director of the District Title ani 
Insurance Company. He married Char- 
lotte L. McCarthy of Prescotr, Ontario, 
and they have two children. Residence: 
2002 R "street, n.w. Office: 602 F street, 
n.w. 

WELLER, MICHAEL IGNATIUS, real 

estate, was born in London, England, on 
June 10. 1846. son of Samuel and Mary 
(O'Brien) Wel'er. He was educated in 
tl-e City of London School, at Boulogne, 
France, and Vienna, Austria, and removed 
to New York on March 8. 1867. In De- 
cember. 1872, he settled in Wa.shington, 
•and since 1885 has been engaged in the 
real estate business. He has b^en a great 
collector of Americana, especially Wasn- 
ingtoniana, owning probably the largest 
private collection of publications relating 
to the District of Columbia. He is con- 
sidered an authority on local history "t 
the District of Columbia, Virginia and 
Jklaryland. He is a member of the Colum- 



bia Hisitorical Society; Washington Acad- 
emy of Science, etc., and wrote for the 
Columbia Historical Society, "The Cap- 
ture of Washington in 1814." On June 
13, 1871, he married Rita Rep°tti in 
Wasliington. Residence: 408 Seward 
square, s.e. Office: 602 P street, n.w. 

WELLMAN, WALTER, journalist, ex- 
plorer, was born at Mentor, Ohio, Novem- 
ber 3, 1858, son of Alonzo ani' Minerva 
(Graves) Wellman. He was educated in 
the district schools of Michigan, and at 
the age of fourteen established a weekly 
newspaper at SultO'nv Nebr. At the age of 
twenty-one he established the Cincinnati 
Evening Post, and since 1884 has been 
political and Washington correspondent 
for the Chicago Herald and Record-Her- 
ald. In 1892 he located the landing place 
of Columbus on Waiting (San Salvador) 
Island, Bahamas, and marked the spot 
with a monument; in 1894 led expedition 
to the Arctic regi'ons, northeast from 
Spitzbergen; in 1898-99 led expedition to 
Franz Joseph Land, discovering matiy 
new islands and reaching latitude 82 
degrees north. He has been a contributor 
to Cenitury and McClure's Magazines and 
to the Review of Reviews, sus well as to 
geographic publications on Arctic, polit- 
ical and general topics. He has addressed 
the British Association for the Advance- 
ment of Science, National Geographic 
Society, etc. He has been correspondent 
of the National Capital Press Club. Was 
married at Couton, Ohio, December 24, 
1878, to Laura W. McCann. Address: 
1413 G street, n.w. 

WELLS, ALMOND B. retired army 
officer, wai? born in New York June 16, 
1842. He entered the Union Army with the 
first battalion, Nevada Cavalry, July 13, 
1863, and was promoted to Captain May 
1, 1864. On July 28, 1866, he was ap- 
pointed Second Lieutenant in the Eighth 
United States Cavalry and was advanced 
to the rank of Colonel of the First Cav- 
alry February 2. 1901, and retired as a 
Brigadier-General. 1903, after forty years' 
iservice. Address: War Department. 

WELLS, WALTER AUGUSTUS, physi- 
cian, was born at Bladensburg, Md., March 
6, 1870, s'on of Charles A. and Mary Lu- 
cretia (Hyatt) Well-^ He was graduated 
from George Washington University and 
the medical department of Georgetown 
University in 1891, and to'ok a post-grad- 
uate medical course at the Chicago Poly- 
clinic in 1892-93, and the Univer=ity of 
Vienna in 1894-95; resident student Wash- 
ington Asylum, 1891. He was an interne 
at the Marine Hospi'tal, Chxago, 1892-93. 
and began the practice of medicine in 
Washington in 1895. He is now professor 
of laryngology and otology, Georgetown 
Medical College; surgeon in charge of 
the Ear and Throat Department, Garfield 
Ho'^pital, and p<5e^cin*p at^endinsr physi- 
cian of the Episcopal Eye, Ear and 
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slty Hospital. Editor Journal, Eye, Ear 
and Throat Diseases, and Baltimore and 
Washing-ton Medical Annals. He is tlie 
author 'of Thesaurus of Medical Words 
and Phrases (1903). He was married in 
Washington, D. C, June 19, 1899. to 
France^- M. Gibson. Residence and office: 
The Rochambeau. 

WERBER. GUSTAVUS, phvsician, was 
born in Neberry, S. C, on December 18, 
1864, son 'Of Frederick and Louisa Wer- 
bfr. He received! his education in^ the 
Newberry Male Academy, and his colle- 
grlate education at Newberry College and 
George Washington University, graduat- 
ing from the latter institu'tion in 1894, 
since when he has been engaged in the 
practice 'of medicine in Washington. On 
April 30. 1902, he married Catharine 
Moses. Residence: 1353 Q street, n.w. 

WESSELLS, HENRY WALTON, JR., 

army officer, was born at Sackett'is Har- 
bor, N. Y.. December 24, 1846, son of 
Henry W. (U. S. A.) and Hannah (Cooper) 
Wessells. He was educated at the D:er 
Hill Institute, Danbury, Conn. Served in 
the Seventh United States Infantry, 1865; 
Captain, Third Cavalry, December 20, 
1872; Colonel, May 8, 1899; and was re- 
ti'ed for disability February 2, 1901; pro- 
moted to Brigadier-General (retired), 
April 23, 1904. Served in Indian wars, 
Spanish-American War and the Philip- 
pines. He was married at Tallahassee, 
Fla., March 24, 1869, to Eliza Lane Me- 
guinis. Residence: 2453 Eighteenth street, 
n.w. 

WEST. HENRY LITCHFIELD, Com- 
missioner of the District of Columbia, was 
born at Factoryville, St? ten Island, N. Y., 
August 20, 1859. son of Robert .Athon and 
Elizabeth (C'ook) West, both parents 
having been born in England, his father 
being a journalist. He began work on 
the Georgeto'wn Courier when only thir- 
teen years old, and was later a retvorter 
and managing edi'tor of the Washingtoa 
Post. Appointed Commissioner of the 
District of Columbia October 13, 1905, and 
represented the District of Columbia at 
the Nashville Exposition. He has been a 
contributor to the North American Re- 
view, the Porum and o-ther magazines; 
writes the articlf^s on American politics 
in the Forum. He is a member of the 
Gridiron Club and the Columbia Golf 
Club, and has served as president of both 
organizations. He was married July 25, 
1882, to Mary Hope White, and three 
children have been born to them. Resi- 
dence: 1364 Harvard street. Office: Dis- 
trict building. 

WEST, MAX, special examiner in the 
United States Bureau of Corporation-^, 
was born in St. Cloud, Minn., on Novem- 
ber 11, 1870, third son of J. E. and A. 
Frances! (Mason) West. He received his 
collegiate education at the University of 
Minnesota, B. S., 1890; Columbia Univer- 



sity, A. M., 1892, Ph. D., 1893 and Chi- 
cago University. During 1890-91 he was 
a reporter on the Minneapolis Tribune. 
He resided at Hull Houte, 1893; the Uni- 
versity of Chicago Settlement, 1894; and 
Chicago Commons, 1895. He was a d'ocent 
in the University of Chicago in 1894-95; 
a lecturer in Columbia University during 
1895-96 and 1902. and associate professor 
of economic?' in Columbian (now George 
Washington) University, 1901-02. F^om 
1896 to 1900 he was m the Division of 
Statistics United States Department of 
Agriculture; 1900-02, expert agent United 
States Industrial Commission; 1902, As- 
sistant Registrar of Records in the Tene- 
ment House Department of the citv of 
NeiW York. During 1903-04 he was Chief 
of the Bureau 'of Internal Revenue of 
Porto Rico, and in 1904 he was appointed 
a special agent in the United States 
Bureau of Corporations. He is the auth'or 
of The Inheritance Tax (1893, second 
edition, 1907), and a contributor to lead- 
ing magazines and reviews. He is a 
member of the Delta Tau Delta college 
fraternity; American Economic Associa- 
tion; American Statis'tical Association; 
American Political Science Association; 
American Sociological Society; Washing- 
ton Economic Society, and is secretary of 
the Civic Center of Washington, and a 
member of the Board of Trustees of the 
Neighborhood House. On October 6, 1894. 
he married Mary Mills. Residence: 1839 
Summit Place. Office: Department of 
Commerce and Labor. 

..WESTGATE, JOHN MINTON, botan- 
ist, was born in Kingston, N. Y.. on Febru- 
ary 17, 1878, ision of Hollis Smith and^ 
Clara (Minton) Westgate. In 1883 he 
removed with his parents to the State of 
Kansas, where he was educated in the 
district sch'ools and the Kansas State Agri- 
cultural College from which he was grad- 
uated B. S. in 1897 and M. S. in 1899, and 
to'ok 'a pos't-graduaite course in botany, 
geology, etc., at the University of Chicago 
during 1901-02-03. Prom 1899-1901 he 
was assistant botanist at the Kansas 
State Experiment Station, and at the 
same time was as=^isitah't in botany at th? 
Kansas Agricultural College. From 1903-05 
he was scientific assistant in the United 
States Department of Agriculture, and 
s'nce 1905 has been Assistant Agrostolo- 
gist in the same department. He has 
done much in the way of reclaiming the 
sand-dune areas on the sea coast and 
Great Lakes and in the way of extension 
of alfalfa production in this country. He 
is the auth'or of several bulletins anl 
monographs that have been issued by 
the United States Department of Agri- 
culture, among them being. Reclamation 
of Cape Cod Sand-Dunes, and The Appli- 
cation of Vegetative Propagation to Legu- 
minous Forage Plants. He is a member 
of the Baptist church, and in politics is 
a Republican. On July 20, 1905, he mar- 
ried Inez Wheeler. Retsidence: Lanham, 
Md. Office: United States Department o' 
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WESTINGHOUSE, GEORGE, inventor, 
manufacturer, was born in Central Bridge, 
Schoharie County, N. T., on October 6, 
1846, and removed to Schenectady, N. Y., 
in 1856, where he received his early edu- 
cation in the pu'blic and high schools. 
During the Civil War he served with the 
Twelfth New York National Guard and 
Sixtpenth New York Cavalry, and from 
December, 1864, to August, 1865, he was 
aj=pistant engineer in the United States 
Navy. After the war he entered Union 
College, where he remained until s'opho- 
more ypar (Ph. D., 1890). During his 
early life he spent much time in his 
father's machine shop, and when^ but 
fifteen years of age invented a rotary 
engine, and in 1865 invented a device for 
renlacing railroad cars on the itrack. In 
1868 he invented the We.?tinghouse air- 
brake, which ho has since improved great- 
ly, and h3'S invented many other railway 
eauinments, such as isignals, electric 
machinery, steam turbnes, gas engines, 
etc. He was the fir?t to introduce alter- 
nating current machinery in Amprica, 
which has made pos.^ible the grea.t devel- 
opment of w^tpr powers for Tong distance 
elpctric transmis-^ion. and built at Niagara 
Falls the great generators, and also tho33 
for the plectric railway and rapid transit 
system in New York. He ha= constructed 
large works in spver-sl foreign countries, 
in addi'tion to his numerous oneis here, 
for the manufacture of 'air-brakes, steam 
and electrical machinpry. He is president 
of a numbe" of corporations, which emnloy 
several thousandis of people, with a capi- 
'tali'^^tion of more than one hundred 
million dollars. He has received many 
foreign decors tions, notablv among them: 
Leg'on d'Horneur of France: Royal 
Crown of Italy; Order of Loonold, etc., 
and is an honorqrv memb'^r of the Amer- 
ican Sociptv of Mechanical Engineers, and 
is o'Pe 'Of the two living honorary members 
of the American Association for the 
Advanc°mpnt of Science. Residence: 
Dupont Circle. 

WESTON. JOHN FRANCIS, army 
officer, was born in Kentucky and servo I 
in the Fourth Kentucky Voluntper Cavalry 
from November, 1861, to August 21, 1865. 
On August 9, 1867, he was commissioned 
a Second Liiputenant in the Seventh United 
Sitat-^s Cavalry: was promoted to Firdt 
Lieutenant in 1869: Captain in 1875; and 
was later promoted to Major, Lieutenan*- 
Colonel and Colonel in the Commissary 
Department. In 1898. at the outbreak cf 
thp Spanish War. he wss appointed Brig- 
adier-Gpneral of Volunteprs, pnd in 1S99 
succeeded General E'^gan as Commissary 
General. Address: War Department. 

WETMORE. GEORGE PEABODY, of 

Newport, Rhode Mand, was born during 
a^ visit of his parents abroad, at London, 
Engl9nd, August 2, 1846; was graduated 
from Yale College in 1867, receiving the 
degree of A. B. and that of A. M. in 1871; 
s'tudied law at Columbia -^ollege Law 
Scho'ol ,and was graduated in 1869, re- 



ceiving the degree of LL. B.; was admitted 
to the bar of Rhode Island and of NeiW 
York in 1869; is a trustee of the Pea;body 
Museum 'of Natural History In Yale Uni- 
versity, and was nominated a fellow of 
the university in 1888, but declined; is a 
trustee of the Peabody education fund, 
and a director of other associations; was 
first presidential elector of Rhode Island 
in 1880 and in 1884; was a member of th-^ 
State committee to receive the represen- 
tatives of France on the occasion of their 
visit to Rhode Island in 1881; wais Gov- 
ernor of Rhode Island in 1885-86, 1886-87, 
and was defeated for a third term in 1887, 
receiving, however, a greater number of 
votes than at either of the two preceding 
elections, wh^n successful; was a member 
of the commission t'o build the new Rhode 
Island state house; was elected to the 
United State<= Senate June 13. 1894, to 
succeed Nathan F. Dixon, recpiving the 
(unanimous vote 'of the General Assembly 
in the Spnate, House and joint assembly, 
and was re-elected in 1907 and 190S. 
Washington residence: 1609 K street, n. 
w. 

WETMORE, JAMES A., Junior Past 
Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of the 
District 'of Columbia, was born at Bath, 
N. Y., November 10, 1863. He studied law 
with his father, became 'stenographic re- 
porter of the County Court, and was later 
sent to Europ-^ to buy cattle for a promi- 
nent New York banker. He was engaged 
in the investigation of chi'd labor in fac- 
tories by the Bureau of Labor Statistics 
in New York, and in 1885 was appointed 
a clerk in the United States Treasury 
Department, and was soon promoted to 
be Chief of the Law and Records Division 
in the office of the Supervising Architect, 
and later Chief Clerk of the Treasury 
Department. Rendence: 1311 Columbia 
Road. Office: Treasury Department. 

WEYL, MAX, artist, was born at Muh- 
len, Germ'sny, December 1, 1837, son of 
W. H. and Mariam (Getz) Wyel. He was 
educated in the public scho'ols. Profes- 
isionally engaged as landscape artist since 
1878, selling two paintings to the Corcoran 
Gallery of Art in Washington. Residence: 
1810 R street, n.w. 

WHARTON, CHARLES S., la^^Ter, con- 
gressman, was born in Aledo, 111., on April 
22, 1876, and when three years of age 
removed with his parents to Chicago, 
where he has since resided. His early 
education 'was obtained in the public and 
high schools of Chicago, after which he 
entered! the law department of the Uni- 
versity of Michigan, from which he was 
graduated in 1896, and was admitted to 
the bar on June 10 of the same year, isince 
when he has been actively engaged in the 
general practice 'of law. During 1899- 
1900 he was attorney for the town of 
Dake Chicago, and in May, 1903, was 
appointed Assistant City Attorney of 
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elected! to Congress. In 1904 he was 
elected to the Fifty-ninth Congress from 
the Fourth Illinois District on the Repub- 
lican ticket. Legal residence: Chicago, 
111. Washington address: House of Rep- 
resentatives. 

WHEELAN, JAMES NICHOLAS, re- 
tired army officer, was born in Pennsyl- 
vania December 6, 1837, and entered the 
Union Army July 18, 1861; served in the 
First New York Mounted Rifles, andi was 
prom'o'ted to Captain, February 7, 1862, 
and brevetted Colonel March 13, 1865, for 
gallant and meritorious services. He was 
promoted to Major of the Eighth U. S. 
Cavalry March 7, 1893; Colonel, June 9, 
1899, and retired October 26, 1901. He 
was promoted to Brigadier-General Ap:il 
23, 1904, and was brevetted Major Febru- 
ary 27, 1890, for gallant and meritorious 
services in actio'n^ against the Indians on 
the Rosebud Mountains, May 7, 1877. Ad- 
dress: War Department. 

WHEELER, NELSON P., congressman. 
He was elected to the Sixtieth Congress 
in November, 1906, from the Twenty- 
eighth Pennsylvania Congressional Dis- 
trict 'on the Republican ticket. Legal 
residence: Endeavor, Pa.; Washington 
address: House of Representatives; 

WHELPLEY, JAMES bAVENPORT, 

journalist, w^as born in Boston, Mass., 
June 24, 1863, son 'of James Davenport 
and Mary L. (Breed) Whelpley. He was 
educated in the public and private schools, 
and was for a ishort time at Cornell Uni- 
versity. Began newspaper wo;k before 
he was twenty-one; has served in nearly 
every capacity in that business, but more 
especially as traveling correspondent. Fur 
ten years he traveled ithroughout the 
North and South American continents, 
making ispecial studies of national and 
international politics and of economic 
conditions. During the past ten years ha 
has extended his travels to include prac- 
tically every country in the world, this 
travel being of late for the purpose of 
expert investigation as to the workings 
of the various news services' which feed 
•the daily press the world over. He has 
contributed many articles to magazine.* 
and reviews, both at home and broad, on 
economic and political subjects, and is 
the author of The Problem of the Immi- 
grant, etc. In 1906 he played an impor- 
tant part in the financial reorganization 
of the London Tribune, and is now part 
owner ard foreign director of that papt^r 
He is a member of the Cosmos CluD, 
Washington, D. C; the Republican Club, 
New York, and the Pilgrims of London. 
Ofl September 3, 1888, he married Wini- 
fred R. Page, of Georgetown, Ontario, and 
has three daughters. Address: Cosmos 
Club. 

WHELPLEY, JAMES W., treasurer 
American Security & Trust Company. 
Residence: 800 East Capitol street. Of- 
fice: 15th street and New York avenue. 



WHERRY, WILLIAM M., retired army 
ofiicer, was born in St. Louis, Mo., on Sep- 
tember 13, 1836, son of Joseph A. anJ 
Amelia (Horner) Wherry, and was edu- 
cated in the public schools of his home 
city, and the University of Missouri, 
after which he studied law. At the out- 
break of the Civil War he enlisted a;)d 
served throughout the war; has 'taken 
part in frontier engagements with the 
Indians, and saw service in the Spanish 
War. During July and August, 1861, he 
was aide-de-camp to General Nathaniel 
Lyon; from 1862-66 and 1867-85 to Gen- 
eral Schofield; and was military secretary 
from February to May, 1895. In 1865 he 
accompanied General Schofield on a spe- 
cial missio'n^ to France. During the CiVil 
War he took part in the battles of Nash- 
ville, Fort Anderson, Atlanta, Jonesboro, 
capture of Wilmington, Kingston, etc., and 
duri^ig the Spanish War participated in 
the battles of San Juan Hill, and in the 
capture of Santiago. He holds a con- 
gressional medal of honor and is a mem- 
ber of the Military Service Institution, 
Loyal Legion, etc. Among his literary 
works are: Battle of Wilson's Creek; Mis- 
souri, Northwestern; Death of General 
Lyon; Battles and Leaders of the Civil 
War; Lyon's Comma^id in Missouri, etc. 
On June 10, 1868, he married Alice W. 
Grammer (now deceased), of Baltimore, 
Md. Address: Care the Adjutant General, 
U. S. A. 

WHITAKER, JESSE HADLEY, patent 

aittorney, was born in Fulton County, N. 
Y., on December 5, 1842, son of Ira and 
Hannah Gover (Hadley) Whitaker. He 
was educated in the common schools ;)ear 
his home, at the Middlebury Academy, m 
Wyoming County, N. Y., and later was 
graduated from the Columbia (N. Y.) 
College Law School. In 1864 he removed 
to Washington, where he served as first 
assistant 'to the reporters engaged in 
reporting the proceedings of the United 
States Senate for one year, after which 
he was in the employ of the New York 
State Age;icy in Washington, providing 
for the care of the state soldiers during 
the war, after which he was engaged in 
the practice of law in New York City. Re- 
turning to Washington he was in the 
employ of the postofflce department until 
1877, when he entered the patent otRce 
in a clerical capacity. In 1867 he was 
made Third Assistant Examiner; Second 
Assista^lt Examiner in 1879; I'irst As- 
sistant Examiner in 1880, and Principal 
Examiner November, 1881, which position 
he held for five years. Leaving the pat- 
ent office, he associated himself with G. 
A. Prevost, forming the law firm of Whit- 
aker and Prevost, doing business in 
Washington. On June 16, 1868, he mar- 
ried Eleanor Prevost. Reside;)ce: 142J 
P. street, n.w. Office: 610 F street, n.w. 

WHITAKER, LOUIS PREVOST, law- 
yer, was born in Washington on May 13, 
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CPrevost) Whitakpr. He was educated in 
the public and hish schools of Washi'ng- 
ton, after which he attended the Colum- 
bian University Law School, from which 
institutio;i he wa.s graduated with the 
degrees of LL. B. and LL. M. He asso- 
ciated himself in 1886 with the firm of 
Whitaker & Prevost in the practice of 
patent law, and was admitted to the firm 
in 1892. He Is a member of 'the bar of 
Appeals of the District of Columbia, of the 
supreme court of the United States and of 
the United States circuit court of ap- 
peals in numerous circui'ts. Is also a 
member of the Cosmos Club. In 1892 he 
married Mis.'; Nellie S. Salmon, of Wash- 
ington. Residence: 171 'WiUard Place. 
Office: 610 F street, n.w. 

WHITE, CHARLES ABIATHAR, phy- 
sician, was born at North Dighton, Mass., 
January 26. 1826. son 'Of Abiathar and 
Nancy (Corey) White. For tnany years 
he has been a scientific associate of the 
Smithsonian Institute. His great-grand- 
father, Cornelius White, was captain of 
militia during 'the revolution, and a mem- 
ber of the committee of safety, and his 
grandfather was a minute-man a;7d a cap- 
tain of Massachusetts state militia. 
Charles A. was graduated from thf Ru.=:h 
Medical College, Chicago, in 1865, and 
made LL. D. by the Iowa State University, 
and an honora: y member of many scientif- 
ic societies in America and Furope, most 
important of the latter being toreigp 
membership in the Geological Society of 
London, which provides for only forty 
living persons in the world. His highest 
American honor is membership in the 
National Academy of Sciences, ito which 
he was elected in 1889. He entered the 
U. S. Geological Survey in 1874, and re- 
moved to Washington ifl 1876, where he 
has since resided. His published writings 
number 236 titles, bearing mostly on ge- 
ology, palaentology and biology. On Sep- 
tember 28, 1848, he married Charlotte R. 
Pilkington, ^!\'ho died July 16, 1902. Resi- 
dence: 1908 13ith street, n.w. 

WHITE, CHARLES E., cashier and a 
member of the board of directors of the 
National Bank of Washington. Resi- 
dence: 621 Third street, n.w. Office: Na- 
tional Bank of Washington. 

WHITE, DAVID, geologist was born in 
Palmyra, N. Y., on July 1, 1862, son of 
Asa Kendrick WTiite, and was graduated 
from Cor;iell University, B. S., in 1886. 
For several years he has been geologist 
in 'the U. S. Geological Survey and honor- 
ary custodian of palaeozoic fossil plants in 
the Smithsonian Institute. He is the au- 
thor of a number of monographs and pa- 
pers of a scientific nature and has con- 
tributed to scientific publications. He is 
now e;igaged in geological work in the 
west. He is a member of the Biological, 
Geological, Geographical and Botanical 
Societies of Washington; of the Washing- 
ton Academy of Sciences and the Cosmos 



Club. On February 2, 1888, he married 
Mary Elizabeth Houghton at Worcester, 
Mass. Residence: 1459 Girard street. Of- 
fice: Smithsonian Institute. 

WHITE, EDWARD DOUGLASS, Asno- 
ciate Justice U. S. Supreme Court. \i'as 
born in the Parish of La Fonrrhe, La., on 
November 3, 1845. He was educated in Mt. 
St. Mary's College, near Fmmittsburg. 
Md.: Jesuit College, New Orlean.s. La., and 
Georgetown University. He served in the 
Confederate Army during the Civil War, 
and was admitted to the Louisiana State 
bar in December, 1868. In 1874 he was 
State Senator; Associate Justice of the 
Supreme Court of Louisiana, 1878; and 
U. S. Senator from 1891 until February 
19, 1894. when he was appointed to the 
bench of the U. S. Supreme Court. 
Address: 1717 Rhode Island avenue, n.w. 

WHITE, GEORGE HENRY, lawyer, 
was born in Rosindale, Bladen County, 
N. C, on December IS. 18.52. son of Wiley 
F. White. He was educated in the pub- 
lic schools; was graduated from Howard 
University in 1877 (LL. D., Livingston 
College; LL. D., Biddle University; Ph. 
D fjom A. & M. College of Ala.), and 
took up the study of law and was ad- 
mitted to the bar of North Carolina in 
1879, and has si^ce been admitted to the 
U. S. Supreme Court and the courts of 
'the District of Colum.bia. He .served a.s 
pri'ncipal of state normal and other 
ischools in North Carolina, and was a 
member of the North Carolina State Leg- 
islature in 1881, and the State Senate in 
1885. From 1886 to 1894 ne was solicitor 
and prosecuting attorney for 'the Second 
Judicial District of North Carolina and 
was a delegate to the Nati'^-al Republican 
Conventions in 1896 and 1900. In 1894 
he was nominated for Congress, but with- 
drew from the 'ticket in interest of party 
harmony, but from 1897 to 1901 repre- 
sented the Second North Carolina district 
in Congres.s. Since 1901 he has been lo- 
cated i;i Washington, where he has been 
engaged in the practice of his profession. 
Since the above sketch was prepared he 
has removed to 1428 Lombard street, 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

WHITE, GEORGE W., cashier of the 
Commercial National Bank. Residence: 
The Albemarle. Office: 1401 G street, n.w. 

WHITE, OSCAR WILLIAMS, real es- 
tate, was born in Carlisle. Pa., on Decem- 
ber 1, 1856. son of Thomas J and Marian 
E. White, and was educated in his native 
town and Washington, D. C. In 1865 he 
removed to Washington, and was ap- 
pointed to a government position in 1874, 
serving u;7til 1877, when he resigned. He 
removed to California and Arizona where 
he was in the employ of the government 
and private business until 1881, when he 
again returned to Washington. He then 
took up the study of law and accepted a 
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ing until February, 1901, when he re'^igncd 
to engage in the real estate business, in 
which he continues at the present time. 
He is a Mason; a Knight Temp ar; a 
member of the Board of Trade; Columbia 
Historical Society; American Academy of 
Political and Social Science of Philadsl- 
phia; American Association for the Ad- 
vancement of Science; National Geo- 
graphic Society, etc. He Is a member of 
the Episcopal church, and in politics a 
Republican. On June 4, 1883, he married 
Agnes Louisa Greene, to which union 
have been born two children. Reside;ice: 
The Oakland. Office: 1114 F street, n.w. 

WHITE, WILLIAM ALANSON, physi- 
cian, superintendent of the Government 
Hospital for the Insane, was born in 
Brooklyn N. Y., January 24, 1870. son of 
Alanso;) and Harriet Augusta (Hawley) 
White. After finishing his preparatory 
education in the public and high school? 
of Brooklvn. he entered <;^orn('ll Un.ver- 
sity in 1885, where he was a student until 
1889, when he entered the L.nns Island 
College Hospital Medical College, from 
which he was graduated with the degree 
of M. D. in 1891. Subsequently received 
medical trai^iing as resident physician ar 
The Easte.n District Hospital, Brooklyn; 
house and ambulance surgeon, Alms and 
Workhouse Hospital, Blackwell's Island, 
N. Y., and as house physician at the Long 
Island College Hospital in Brooklyn. In 
1892 he became a member of the medical 
staff of the Binghamton (N. Y.) State 
Hospital, where he remained until 1903, 
when he resig;ied from the position of 
first assistant physician to accept an ap- 
pointment as superintendent of the U. S. 
Government Hospital for the Insane, as- 
suming charge of that institution October 
1 of the same year. His public life has 
been entirely in connection with his posi- 
tion at the Binghamton (N. Y.) State Hos- 
pital and the position which he now holds. 
He is professor of nervous and mental 
diseases ifi the Georgetown University 
Medical School, and professor of mental 
diseases in George Washington Univer- 
sity Medical School, and a lecturer on in- 
sanity at the U. S. Army Medical School. 
He is the author of numerous books on 
nervous and mental diseases, and has con- 
tributed many articles to leading medical 
jourTjals. Among his publications are: 
Mental Dissociation in Functional Psy- 
choses; Mental Dissociation in Alcoholic 
Amnesia; Alcoholic and Drug Intoxication 
and Haibituation; Mental Dissociation in 
Psychic Epilepsy; Psychic Treatment of 
Nervous Disorders (translation!) ; Diseases 
of the Mind, etc. He is a member of the 
American Medical Association, American 
Medico-Psychological Association, Wash- 
ington Academy of Science, National Ge- 
ographic Society, District of Columbia 
Medical Society, and the Cosmos Club. 
He is associated with the advisory boaid 
of editors of the Journal of Nervous and 
Mental Diseases, New York City. Ad- 
dress: Government Hospital for the In- 
sane. 



WHITING, WILLIAM HENRY, naval 
officer, was bor;i in New York on July 8, 
1843, son of William Henry and Mary Jane 
(Christian) Whiting and was appointed 
to th'^ navy from Wisconsin on Septem- 
ber 21, 1860. After attending the U. S. 
Naval Academy until 1863. he was pro- 
moted to the ra,nk of Ensign.; Master in 
1866; Lieutenant in 1867; Lieutenant- 
Commander in 1868; Commander in 1882. 
and Captain in 1897. During the Civil 
War he was on the flagship Hartford in 
the w st gulf squadron f.-om 1863-65. He 
was honorably mentio;ied by Admiral 
Farragut for gallant services in the burn- 
ing of the blockade runner Ivanhoe be- 
fore Fort Morgan, in 1864. He took part 
in the battle of Mobile Bay; was at the 
surrender of Fort Gaines, and hauled 
down the Co,Tfederate and hoisted the U. 
S. flag on August 24, 1864; he took part 
in the bombardment of Fort Morgan ani 
afterwards served at various stations. Tn 
1898 he commanded the Monadnock in the 
voyage from San Francisco to Manila, and 
was ifi command of the Charleston at the 
time of the F.lipino insurrection in 1S99 
when he took part in the troubles north 
and south of Manila. In February, 1900, 
he was ordered to the navy yard at Mayer 
Island to command the Indt-pendeni-e. 
and in 1902 ordered to the U. S. navai 
station at Hawaii. He is a member of the 
Loyal Legion; Military Order of Foreign 
Wars; Naval Order of U. S., etc. Ad_ 
dress: Navy Department. 

WHITNEY, FRED BROWN, lawyer, 
was born in Waukegan, Lake County, Il- 
linois, on September 18, 1874, son' of 
Charles apd Lodima (Brown) Whitney. 
He was graduated from the Lake Forest 
University Academy in 1893; Williams 
College, A. B., 1897; Northwestern Uni- 
versity Law School, LL. B., 1899; George 
Washington University Law School, M. 
P. L., 1904; and the National University 
Law School, LL. M., 1904. From 1899- 
1902 he was managing editor of the Wau- 
kegan Daily Gazette and president of the 
company; vice president National Repub- 
lican League of U. S., 1900; campaign 
manager of the American Republican Col- 
lege League in 1896 and 1900; president 
of the New England Inter-Collegiate Re- 
publican League in 1896; and served as 
secretary of the Committee on Naval Af- 
fairs of the House of Representatives 
from 1899-1904. He was admitted to the 
bar in the State of Illinois in 189S; U. S. 
Supreme Court in 1904, afld the Supreme 
Court of the District of Columbia the 
same year. In addition to his law prac- 
tice, he holds office in a number of leading 
corporations, among them president jf 
the International Consolidated Corpora- 
tions; president Double Four Cycle En- 
s.ne Company; president Bearock-Goid 
Submarine Machinery Company; vice 
president Lake Submarine Company, 
president May-Oatway Automatic Fire 
Alarm Co.; secretary Lake Heat Engine 
Company. He is a thirty-second degree 
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Phi (legal) and Delta Upsilon college fra- 
ternities; Wauliegan (111) Cou;)try Club; 
University and Columbia Golf clubs of 
Washington. Unmarried. London ad- 
dress: 57-62 Carlton House, 11 Regent 
street. Berlin address: Universitats 
Strasse, 3B. Washington address: 310 
Munsey Building. 

WHITNEY, HENRY HOWARD, U. S. 

Army officer, Coast Artillery Corps, was 
born in Gle;j Hope, Clearfield County, Pa., 
on December 25, 1866, son of the Rev. 
Walter R. and Eliza Kegerieis Whitney. 
He was graduated with honors from Dick- 
inson's Seminary, at Williamsport, Pa., 
A. B., 1884, and the U. S. Military Acad- 
emy in 1892, and was commissioned a 
lieutenant in the Fourth U. S. Artillery, 
and from 1896 to 1898 was on special duty 
ip the Military Information Bureau, the 
War Department, after which he was de- 
tailed as military attache to the U. S. 
Legation at Buenos Ayres, Argentine Re- 
puiblic. In May, 1898, under orders of tho 
Secretary of War, after visiting Cuba, in- 
cognito, made military reconnoisance of 
Porto Rico disguised as an English sailor, 
and furnished information ofi which the 
Porto Rico campaign was based. He 
served on General Miles' staff as Assist- 
ant Adjutant-General in the Spanish War, 
and accompanied the General on his tour 
around the world during 1902-1903, as 
Lieutenant-Colonel and senior aide-de- 
camp. He is a member of the Loyal L*-- 
gion; Society of American Wars; Metro- 
politan and Chevy Chase clubs. On Feb- 
ruary 25, 1897, he married Ellen Wads- 
worth Closson, a daughter of Brigadier- 
General Henry Whitney Closson, U. S. A. 
(retired). Residence: 1359 Columbia 
road, n.w. 

WHITNEY, JOSEPH N., Chief Clerk of 
the Bureau of Statistics, Department of 
Commerce and Labor, was born at Ray- 
mond, Maine. He was a Lieute^jant in 
the Second Rhode Island Infantry during 
the Civil War, and was captured and held 
in various Confederate prisons till the 
close of the war. After the war he ac- 
cepted a clerkship in the Third Auditor's 
office in June, 1865, and was transferred 
to the Bureau of Statistics in 1878. He 
has done much statistical work, a^d is 
equally well qualified in legal matters, 
having spent two years at Bowdoin Col- 
lege before entering the army, and in 1865 
was given a diploma; was graduated from 
George Washington University Law 
School in 1870. He is a member of the 
Military Order of the Loyal Legion, and 
of the University Club. Residence: 1619 
Seventeej^th street, n.w. Office: Bureau 
of Statistics. 

WHITNEY, MILTON, government of- 
ficial, was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on 
August 2, 1860. He was educated in the 
common schools, after which he took three 
years' special course in chemistry at 
Johns Hopkins University. In 1883 he 
was assistanit chemist in the Connecticut 



Agricultural Experiment Station: from 
1886-88 he was superintendent of the ex- 
periment farm of the North Carolina ex- 
periment station. He was professor of 
agriculture in the University of South 
Carolina from 1888-91, and vice director 
of the South Carolina experiment station 
from 1888-91. From 1891-94 he was soil 
specialist at the Maryland experiment sta- 
tion, and si;ice 1894 has been chief of the 
Bureau of Soils in the U. S. Department 
of Agriculture. He is the author of many 
bulletins and monographs that have been 
issued by the Agricultural Department. 
On June 30, 1891, he married Annie C. 
Langdon, at Providence, R. I. Residene-?: 
Takoma Park, D. C. Office: Department 
of Agriculture. 

WHITSIDE, SAMUEL MARMADUKE, 

retired army officer, was horf} in Toronto, 
Canada, on January 9, 1839, son of the 
Hon. W. H. Whiteside, U. S. Consul. He 
was educated in the normal school of To- 
ronto, Can.; Careyville (N. Y.) Academy; 
and at San Antonio, Texas. He entered 
the U. S. Army in 1858 and served with 
the Sixth U. S. Cavalry throughout the 
Civil War, and for more than twenty-five 
years served on the Western frontier, tak- 
ing part in the Indian wars. In December, 
1900, he captured Big Foot with his four 
hundred Sioux warriors, and commanded 
his regiment in 'the battle of Wounded 
Knee, where 195 Indians were killed, a^d 
all others were either captured or wound- 
ed. He was in command of Fort Riley; 
Fort Meyer; Jefferson Barracks, and Fort 
Sam Houston previous to the Spanish 
War, when he commanded the Fifth U. 
S. Cavalry, later commanding the Tenth 
Cavalry. He was in command of the De- 
partment of Sa;jtiago and Puerto Principe 
auring 1900-02; in 1901 he was made a 
Brigadier-General of U. S. Volunteers, 
and on May 29, 1902, Brigadier-General 
U. S. A., and was retired from active serv- 
ice with that rank on June 9, 1902. On 
November 24, 1868, he married Carrie 
McDowell McGavock, of Nashville, Tenn. 
Address: War Department. 

WHITTLESEY, ELIPHALET. secretary 
Board of Indian Commissioners of the 
U. S. si;)ce 1874, was born in New Britain, 
Connecticut, on May 14, 1821, son of David 
and Rebecca W. Whittlesey. He was 
graduated from Yale in 1842; the honor- 
ary degrees of A. M. and D. D. have been 
conferred upon him by Howard Univer- 
sity and LL. D. by Yale. From 1861-65 he 
was a professor at Bowdoin College; 
served in the army under Gen. Howard, 
and from 1867-74 he was a professor in 
Howard University. Residejjce: 8 Iowa 
circle. Office: Corcoran building. 

WHITWELL, SANFORD N., broker, 

was in the employ of the government until 
1887, when he resigned to accept a posi- 
tion with" the Washington Gas Light Com- 
pany, now being Assistant Secretary of 
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the Washing-ton Stock Exchange in 1899. 
Residence: 1847 Mintwood Place. Office: 
Washington Gas Light Company. 

WHYTE, WILLIAM PINKNEY, lawyer, 
U. S. Senator, was born in Baltimore, 
Md., on August 9, 1824, grandson of Dr. 
John Campbell White, a native of Ireland, 
who emigrated to America in 1800, and 
his matevfial grandfather was William 
Pinkney, of Maryland, who died while 
U. S. Senator in 1822. He was educated 
under M. R. McNally, who had been sec- 
retary to the first Napoleon. From 1842- 
44 he was engaged in the mercantile busi- 
ness with Peabody, Riggs & Company, of 
Baltimore, after which he studied law, fin- 
ishing his course at Harvard University 
in 1844-45; admitted to practice in Bal- 
timore ifl 1846, and served as judge-ad- 
vocate of a court maitial at the Naval 
Acaaemy in 1848. In 1847-48 he represent- 
ed the city of Baltimore in the State Leg- 
islature; 1853-55 was comptroller of the 
treasury of Maryland, aeciining re-elec- 
tion. In 1857 he was a candidate for 
Congress against the "Know-Nothings," 
when the seat of the member was contest- 
ed on account of fraud and violence at 
the election, when the committee on elec- 
tions declared the seat vacant. He was 
a delegate to the Democratic National 
Convention in 1868, when Horatio Sey- 
mour was nominated for President, and 
the same year he was appointed to the 
U. S. Senate to fill the vacajicy caused oy 
the appointment of Reverdy Johnson ci,s 
Minister to Great Britain. He was elect- 
ed governor of the State of Maryland in 
1871, but resigned in 1874, when he was 
elected lo the U. S. Senate for a full term 
from 1875-81. When he retired from the 
Senate in 1881 he was elected mayor of 
Baltimore, without opposition, and ijj 1887 
elected attorney-general of Maryland, In 
which office he served until 1891, when he 
was appointed by President Harrison a 
delegate to the Congress of the South 
American Republics, but declined, owing 
Lu p.wtosiunai engagements. During 1897 
-98 he was chairmap of the commission to 
establish for the city of Baltimore a new 
charter, and during the boundary dispute 
between Maryland and Virginia in 1874 
he was appomted by the governor coun- 
sel for the State to appear before the ir- 
bitration board. The degree of L,Lj. D. 
has been conferred upon him by the Uni- 
versity of Maryland and St. Jolyj's Col- 
lege, at Annapolis, Md. In 1900 he was 
appointed city solicitor of Baltimore, serv- 
ing until 1903, when he resigned; on 
June 8, 1906, he was appointed by the gov- 
erj^or of Maryland to the U. S. Senate to 
fill the vacancy caused by the death of 
Hon. Arthur Pue Gorman, taking his seat 
on June 11. 1906, to serve until the Mary- 
land Legislature elected a successor to 
fill out the unexpired term, ending on 
March 3, 1909. Legal residence: Balti- 
more, Md. Washington address: U. S. 
Senate. 



WILBUR, WILLIAM ALLEN, educator, 
was iborn at Mystic, Conn., August 15, 
1864, son of John Palmer and Elizabeth 
Jones (Gallup) Wilbur. He was gradu- 
ated from Brown University, A. B., 1888; 
A. M., 1894; was dean of Columbian Acad- 
emy 1895-97, and has beei^) professor ot 
English at The George Washington Uni- 
versity since 1902; acting dean of Co- 
lumbian College 1904-05: dean since 
1905; member of the Phi Beta Kappa So- 
ciety. He was married December 18, 
1889, at Newark, N. J., to Hannah Knapp, 
daughter of Rev. Samuel J. Knapp. Res- 
idence: 1808 Belmont road. Office: The 
George Washington U;)iversity. 

WILCOX, EARLEY VERNON, associ- 
ate editor, was born in Bustl, Chautau- 
qua County, N. Y., on February 16, 1869, 
son of Abram Frank and Sally Maria 
(Mead) Wilcox. He was educated at Ot- 
terbein University and Harvard Universi- 
ty, and has served as assistant entomolo- 
gist at the Ohio agricultural experiment 
station; was professor of biology at the 
Montana State College. He is at the pres- 
ent time associate editor of the Experi- 
ment Station Record in the U. S. Depart- 
ment of Agriculture. In addition to his 
contributions to the above publication, he 
is the author of Farmers' Cyclopedia Of 
Agriculture; Handbook of Meat Inspec- 
tion, etc. In politics he is a Republican, 
and' is a member of many of the leading 
sciejitific societies. On June 30, 1897, he 
married Mabel Ruth Owens, to which 
union has been born one child. Resi- 
dence: Takoma Park, D. C. Office: U. S. 
Department of Agriculture. 

WILCOX, TIMOTHY E., retired army 
officer, was born in New York, N. Y., 
April 26, 1840, son of Rodney and Emily 
Wilcox. He was graduated from Union 
College, Schenectady, N. Y., A. B., 1864, 
and M. D., Albany Medical College, 1865. 
He was promoted 'to Captai,n asd Assist- 
ant Surgeon, U. S. Army, November 10, 
1879; Colonel and Assistant Surgeon Gen- 
eral September 22, 1903, and retired April 
26, 1904, with the rank of Brigadier-Gen- 
eral. He was married at Bridgewater, 
Conn., January 29, 1867, to Clara B, 
Brown. Residence: 1841 California ave- 
nue. 

WILCOX, WALTER DWIGHT, author, 

was born is Chicago, 111., ofi September 
24, 1869, son of Sextus N. and Sarah 
(Adams) Wilcox. He was educated in 
'the Racine College Grammar School, 
Park Institute, Phillips-Andoyer Academy 
and Yale (1889-93). He has traveled ex- 
tensively and written much on scientific 
investigations in the Hawaiian Island.-}, 
Ca;iadian Rockies, etc. Prominent among 
his books are: Camping in the Canadian 
Rockies; Picturesque Landscapes in the 
Canadian Rockies; The Rockies of Cana- 
da, etc. He is a member of the Royal Ge- 
ographical Society; Alpha Delta Phi col- 
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politan clubs, and in politics a Republican, 
On November 27, 1901, he married Nanna 
"White Lawso;). Address: Metropolitan 
Club. 



WILDE, GEORGE FRANCIS FAXON, 

naval officer, was born in Braintree, 
Mass.. on i^'ebruary 23, 1845, anu was 
graduated from the U. S. Naval Academy 
in 1864. He was promoted to Master in 
1866; Lieutenant in 1868; Lieutenant- 
Commander in December. iSo8; Com- 
mander 1885; SLfid Captain in 1898. From 
1864-67 he served on the flagship Sus- 
quenanna, later served on tu<^ Albany, 
Tennessee and Wabash, and was Com- 
mander of the U. S. Monitor Canonicus 
from 1873-74. He was Commander of 
the U. S. S. Dolphin from 1885-88, when 
he made a cruise around the world Ifi 
this ship, it then being the first steel 
vessel of the navy 'to circumnavigate the 
globe. From 1894-98 he was secretary 
of the Lighthouse Board, and introduced 
gas-buoys on the Great Lakes; estab- 
lished an electric light vessel oi£ Diamond 
Shoal, Cape Hatte.as, and introduced tele- 
phone to light vessels from the siiore. From 
March to September, 1898, he commanded 
the U. S. Ram, Katahdin, in Cuban waters, 
a;)d in November, 1898, landed the first 
marines in China, when they were sent 
to Peking to guard the Legation. On 
February 11, 1899, he captured and oc- 
cupied the city of Iloilo, and Vigan Feb- 
ruary 18, 1900. He was in command of 
the battleship Oregon from May 29, 1899, 
to January 11, 1901, when she was ground- 
ed ofi a sunken unchartered ledge in the 
Pi-chili gulf. During 1901-02 he was 
Commander of the Portsmouth (N. H.) 
Navy Yard, and in 1903 was at the Bos- 
ton Navy Yard. Address: Navy Depart- 
ment. 



WILEY, ARIOSTO APPLING, lawyer. 
Congressman, was born in Barbour Coun- 
ty, Ala., and was graduated from Emory 
& Henry College, in Virginia, in 1871. In 
1872 he removed to Mo;)tgomery, Ala., 
where he began the study ot law and has 
since been actively engaged in the prac- 
tice of the profession. For eighteen years 
he served as a member of the Alabama 
State Legislature, serving in both the 
House and Senate, and was chairman of 
the judiciary committee of both bodies. In 
1898 he was commissioned Lieutenant- 
Colo;jel of the Fifth Regiment U. S. Vol- 
unteer Infantry, one of the ten regiments 
organized by a special act of Congress, 
and served for several months at Santiago 
de Cuba; the greater part of the time he 
was General Lawton's chief of staff, and 
civil governor of the Eastern Province. 
He has represented the Second Alabama 
District ifi the Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth 
and Fifty-ninth Congresses, and has been 
re-elected to the Sixtieth on the Demo- 
cratic ticket. Legal residence: Montgom- 
ery, Ala. Washington address: House of 
Representatives. 



WILEY, HARVEY WASHINGTON, 

Chief of the Bureau of Chemistry, U. S. 
Department of Agriculture, since 1883, 
was born in Kent, Ind., on October 18, 
1844. so,n of Preston and Lucinda Weir 
(Maxwell) Wiley. He was graduated 
from Hanover College in 1867 (Ph. D., LL. 
D.), and Harvard 1873. From 1874-83 he 
was professor of chemistry in Purdue 
University; state chemist of Indiana from 
1881-83, and since 1895 has been profes- 
sor of agricultural chemistry in Colum- 
bian (now George Washington) Univer- 
sity. He is the author of Principles and 
Practice of Agricultural Chemistry (3 
volumes, 1894-97); Food and Food Adul- 
tera,nts (1907); Songs of Agriculturil 
Chemists" (1892), and many government 
bulletins and magazine article?. He is 
unmarried. Residence: 1314 Tenth street, 
n.w. Office: Department of Agriculture. 

WILEY, WILLIAM HALSTED, Con- 
gressman, was born in New York City on 
July 10, 1842, and was graduated from the 
College of the City of New Yock, A.. Li., in 
1861, after which he e;:)tered the Union 
Army, enlisting with the New \ork State 
Volunteers, se.ving until 1864, vvnen his 
regiment was mustered out of the service 
In the fall of 1864 he matriculated at the 
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy, 
N. Y., taking the advanced course; was 
graduated with a civil engineer's degree in 
1866, which profession he followed for 
several years, after 'which he tooK a spe- 
cial course in mi;)ing at the Columbia 
College School of Mines. For several 
years ne was superintendent uu a mine, 
until 1876, when he entered his father'^ 
business as a partner. In 1897 he was 
president of one of the juries, and a mem- 
. ber of the superior jury, of the Interna- 
tional Exposition at Brussels, ior wnich 
he received the decoration of the Order 
•of Leopold from the Kifig, and was ap- 
pointed a member of the commission far 
the Louisiana Purchase Exposition dv the 
Governor of New Jersey. In 1902 he was 
elected to the Fifty-eighth Congress from 
the Eighth New Jersey district, and was 
re-elected to the Fifty-ninth Congress on 
the Republican ticket. In 1870 he mar- 
ried Joanna King Clark. Legal residence: 
East Orange, N. J. 

WILKENS, HENRY E., publisher, was 
bor;) in Baltimore, Md., December 24, 
1868, son of Julius C. and Babetta A. Wil- 
kens. He was educated at the Baltimore 
City College, and entered the employ of 
the general agents of the Nord Deutscher 
Lloyd Steamship Company, going later 
with his father into the tohacco urm of 
J. C. Wilkens & Son, until the former's 
death. In 1898 he began the publication 
of the Patent Record, forming a company, 
of which he became preside;it. In April, 
1900, he established thu Patent Record 
Printing Company, later known as the 
Henry E. Wilkens Printing Comuany. He 
was captain of the Maryland Athletic Club 
of Baltimore for three terms; has been a 



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director of the Dime Saving's Bank of 
Baltimore; member of a number of Ma- 
sonic bodies. 0;i February 13, 1894, ne 
married Lena, daugliter of Jolin H. and 
Johanna Von der Horst, and they have 
six children. Residence: 1810 Kaloramo 
avenue. Business address: 11th and E 
streets, n.w. 

WILKIE, JOHN ELBERT, Chief of the 
U. S. Secret Service, was born in Elgin, 
111., on April 27, 1860, sofi of Franc B. and 
Ellen (Morse) Wilkie, and was educated 
at the Chicago High Scliool. in i877 ne 
began newspaper work on the Chicago 
Times, and was twice representative for 
that paper abroad, and in 1881 joined the 
force of the Chicago Tribune as a re- 
porter, later filling the positions of assist- 
ant city editor, city editor and commercial 
editor until 1893, whefi he removed to 
London to engage in banking and the 
steamship business. In 1896 he returned 
to the United States and atrain touK up 
newspaper work in Chiicago, making a 
specialty of criminal investigatio;:)s. In 
February, 1898, he was selected by Sec- 
retary Gage as Chief of tne Secret Serv- 
ice, and he immediately organized a spe- 
cial force of men to checkmate Spanish 
spies du;ing the war, at which time he 
succeeded In driving from this country 
the chief emisaries, and arresting the 
best Spanish spies. On April 27, 1882, 
he married Janet Ormsbee. Residence: 
3340 Sixteenth street, n.w. Office: Treas- 
ury Department. 

WILKINS, BERIAH, editor publisher 
Bifid former owner of the Washington 
Post, was born in Union County, OhiD, 
July 10, 1846, and was chosen president 
of the principal bank in Ulricnsville, Oiiio, 
before he was of age. He served in the 
Union Army during the closing period of 
the Civil War; in 1879 was elected to the 
Ohio State Senate, and became a member 
of the Democratic State Ce,ntral Commit- 
tee. In 1883 he was elected to Congress, 
served three terms, being chairman of the 
committee on banking and currency, and, 
though a Democrat, was a firm champion 
of a protective tariff. In January, 189i», 
he acquired a majority of the stock in the 
Washington Post. He was a director jf 
the Traders' National Bank; a trustee 
of the Historical Society of the District of 
Columbia; treasurer of the Citizens' Re- 
lief Committee, afid served on important 
committees in connection witn inaugural 
ceremonies, and 'the celebration of the 
Capital Centennial. He was married in 
Marysville, Ohio, October 18, 1870, to 
Emily J. Robinson, and died June 7, 1905. 

WILKINS, JOHN F., secretary-treas- 
urer of the Washington Post Company. 
Resid nee: 1824 Massachusetts aveiiue.n. 
vv. Office: Washington Post Building. 

WILKINSON, ERNEST, patent law- 
yer, was burn on I\lyrtle Grove planta- 
tion, in Plaquemine Parish, La., in 1859, 



son of Joseph Biddle Wilkinson, who was 
one of the signers of the articles of se- 
L-essioii for the State or Louisiana, in 
1861. He was graduated from the U. o. 
Naval Academy i;i 1880, and served in the 
navy for ten years after graduation, dur- 
ing which time he cruised in all parts 
of the world, and was two years on tha 
scientific staff of the Smithsonian Insti- 
tute, and was stationed two years at the 
U. S. Naval Academy as an instructor. 
While in the service he stuaied law and 
was admitted to the bar, resigning his 
commission in July. 1890. to enter into 
partnership with Charles S. Whitman for 
the general practice of patent law, which 
firm existed until 1896, when Mr. Whit- 
man, the senior member, died. In 1897 he 
formed a partnership with Samuel T. 
Fisher, who was then assistant commis- 
sione; ol patents, and formed the firm of 
tain. ng to ordnance and 'vvar material gen- 
larged in 1907 by taki;ig in Mr. Thomas 
A. Witherspoon, a principal examiner in 
the U. S. Patent Office. He has confined 
his attentions almost entirely to patent 
law, making a specialty of matters per- 
taising to ordnance and war material gen- 
erallv. and has been employed in many 
important cases relating to ordnance, no- 
tably the Sir William Armstrong, Whit- 
worth & Co. of London vs. Admiral O'Neil, 
Chief of Bureau of Ordnance, in which case 
he was employed by the Attorney-General 
of tile United States to defend the Gov- 
ernment officials who were being sued, 
etc. He is a member of the Metropolitan, 
Army and Navy, and Chevy Chase clubs; 
Washington Board of Trade; Sons of 
the American Revolution, etc. In Janu- 
ary, 1888, he married Gulielma Bostick, 
a daughter of Capt. Edward Bostick, of 
South Carolina, to which union has been 
born one child, now Midshipman Theodore 
S. Wilkinson, U. S. N. Residence: 2000 
R street, n.w. Office: Ouray Building. 

WILKINSON, OSCAR, oculist, aurist, 
was born in Raleigh, Smith County, Miss., 
on August 31, 1870, son of Duncan A. and 
Jane Floyd Wilkinso^. He was educated 
at the French Camp Academy, the "Uni- 
versity of Mississippi (Ph. B.), Tulane 
University (M. D., 1896), Columbian Uni- 
versity (A. M., 1903), and took a post- 
graduate course at the University of Vi- 
enna. He is the author of Astigmatic Ac- 
commodation, and is a Mason, a Knight 
of Pythias, and in politics a Democrat. 
He is a member of the Central Presbyte- 
rian Cliu:ch; the American Medical As- 
sociation; District Medical Soci«^ty and 
Association; District Therapeutic Socie- 
ty, and Fairfax County Medical Society. 
On December 22, 1897, he married Lew- 
ers Stevenson, to which union havf> been 
born two children. Residence: 1404 L. 
street n.w. 

WILLARD, HENRY A., banker, was 

born at Westminster, Vt., May 14, 1822, 
son of Joseph a;id Susan Dorr (Clapp) 
Willard, and a great grandson of Joseph 
Dorr, one of the famous Boston "Tea 



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Party," He came to Washington and as- 
sumed the management of the old City 
Hotel, on the site of the new Willard 
Hotel, ito which name he soon changed it 
and laid the foundation of prosperity. Ifl 
1853 he bought the property and elect- 
ed a large addition, leasing it later to oth- 
er parties and selHng a half interest to 
his brother, the late Joseph C. Willard. 
In 1867 he organized what is now the Na- 
tional Safe Deposit, Savings and Trust 
Company, and was its preside^jt for many 
years, and also for a like period of the 
National Metropolitan Bank. He was 
made by President Grant a member of the 
Board of Public Works, and on the ap- 
pointment of Alexander R. Shepherd as 
governor of the District, he succeeded him 
as vice president of the Board of Public 
Works. He has been a member of the 
Board of Public Health, president of the 
Columbia Railway Company, and for 
eleven years of the Columbia Fire Insur- 
ance Company. He was one of the or- 
ganizers of the Garfield Memorial Hospi- 
tal, and is now vice president. For many 
years he was a member of the board of 
trustees for the reform school, and chair- 
man of the board of trustees of All Souls' 
Church, which he personally superintend- 
ed. He is a director of the American Se- 
curity and Trust Company; the National 
Safe Deposit, Savings & Trust Company; 
the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone 
Company; the Columbian Historical So- 
ciety, and the Vermont State Association 
of Washington. On November 6, 1855, he 
married Sarah Bradley Kellogg, of West- 
minster, Vt., daughter of Daniel Kellogg, 
a;)d granddaughter of William C. Brad- 
ley, Congressman f.om Vermont in 1814- 
1826. Residtnce: 1333 K street. Office: 
1416 F street, n.w. 

WILLBANKS, ALEXANDER A. (D. 
D.), pastor of the Friendship Baptist 
Cnurcn. Residence: 305 Nmth street, n.e. 

WILLCOX, WALTER FRANolS, edu- 
cator, statistician, was born in Reading, 
Middlesex County, Mass., on March 22, 
1861, son of Rev. William H. and An^ie 
Holmes (.Goodenow) Willcox. His earliest 
ancestor in America was William Wilcox- 
son, vvno settled at Stratford, Conn., in 
1639, and several of his other ancestors 
were prominent in upbuilding the coun- 
try; Governor William Bradford, of Mas- 
sachusetts; Thomas Stanto^, the Indian 
interpreter; and Senator John Holmes, of 
Maine. He was graduated from the Read- 
i'ng High School in 1877; Philips-Andover 
Academy, 1880; Amherst College (A. B., 
1884, A. M. 1888, L.L. D. 1906); Columbia 
University Law School (LL. B. 1887); 
School of Political Science of the same in- 
stitution (Ph. D. 1891). Since 1902 iia 
has been professor of political economy 
and statistics at Cornell University, a/)d 
dean of the College of Arts and Sciences; 
chief statistician in the Twelfth Census 
of the U. S., 1899-1902; and statistical ex- 
pert for the War Department upon cen- 



suses of Cuba and Porto Rico, 1899-1900. 
He was a delegate representing the 
United States at the International sta- 
tistical gatheiings at Brussels (1903), 
Berlin (1903), and London (1905-. He is 
the author of The Supplementary Analy- 
.sis of the Twelfth Census (1906), and 
Censuses of Cuba and Porto Rico (1899). 
He is a member of the Internatonal Sta- 
tistical Institute; American Eco,Domlc As- 
sociation (Secretary, 1896-1899): Ameri- 
can Statistical Association; Fellow of the 
American Association for the Advance- 
ment of Science; and the Royal Statis- 
tical Society. He is a member of the 
Century Association; City Club of New 
York, and the Cosmos Club of Washing- 
ton. On March 30, 1892, he married Alica 
E. Work, to which union tliere nave been 
born three children. Address: Ithaca, N. 
Y. 

WILLETT, WILLIAM, Jr., Congressman. 
In November, 1906, he was elected from 
the Fourteenth Congressional district of 
New York, to the Sixtieth Congress, on 
the Democratic ticket. Legal Residence: 
Far Roclvaway, N. Y. Washington ad- 
dress: House of Representatives. 

WILLIAMS, C. ARTHUR, journalist, 
was born at Newton, Kansas, October 19, 
1876, so;j of Charles Clinton and Sarah 
Emma (Macartney) Williams. He was 
a student at the Newton High School 
three years, and since 1890 has been en- 
gaged in newspaper work; with the Hous- 
ton Post since 1897. He has filled, tem- 
porarily and otherwise, every position on 
editorial staff. Attached to the Seventh 
Army Corps as correspondent during tha 
Spanish-American War; was in charge of 
Houston Post's Bureau at Galveston, 
Texas, immediately after 'the storm 3f 
September 9, 1900; now connected with 
the Washington Herald. Contributor to 
Collier's Weekly, Success and The World 
To-Day. He is a member of thrB National 
Geographic Society. He was married in 
Houston, Texas, August 4, 1902, to Frances 
B. Hite. Residence: The Wyoming. Of- 
fice: Washington Herald. 

WILLIAMS, CHARLES P., ba;)ker and 
member of the Washington Stock Ex- 
change, entered the Riggs Bank in 1875. 
and graduated to accept the post of cash- 
ier of the West End Bank, serving there 
for ten years, when he resigned to become 
manager of the Washington Railway & 
Electric Company. He is now the o^jly 
member, with the exception of Charles C 
Glover, of the original seventeen who or- 
ganized the Washmgton Stock Exchange, 
in 1902 becoming its president. In 1904 
he bought the interest of Louis J. Davis 
in the banking firm of Lewis Joli;ison & 
Company. Residence: 1675 Thirty-flrst 
street. Office: 1319 F street, n.w. 

WILLIAMS, CONSTANT, army officer. 
was born at Pittsburg, Pa., on May 25, 
1843, son of W. H. and Ellen Pope (Bar- 
clay) Williams. He wa.9 educated at 



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Griggs & McDonald's Academy, Pitts- 
burg; "Western University of Pennsylva- 
nia; Kenwood School, New Brlghto^, Pa.; 
and served a-s a non-commissioned ofBcer 
and private in the Eighty-second Penn- 
sylvania Volunteers in the Civil War: 
as a private, Ssecond Lieutenant and 
Fir?t Lieutenant in the Seventh In- 
fantry. U. S. A.; was promoted to 
Captain of the Seventh Infantry In 
1873, and Major in 1897. On Febru- 
ary 23. 1897. he was transferred to the 
Seventeenth Infa,ntry; October 21, 1898, to 
the Nineteenth Infantry: was promoted 
to Lieutenant-Colonel of the Fifteenth In- 
fantry in Januarv, 1899: Colonel of the 
Twentv-sixth Infantry. February, 1901; 
Brieadier-General, U. S. A., July 12, 1904, 
and pince October 1 of the latter year he 
hqs b'^en rnmmanding the Department of 
the Columbia. From 1899 to 1900 he 
served in Cuba: 1900-1903, in the Philip- 
pines, ^nd was brpvetted a Major for gal- 
lant .=eT-vices displaved while in action 
aeainst the India^ps nt the Bis: Hole, Mon- 
tana. Au2ru?t 9. 1877, at which place he 
WR' twice wounded. In relieion he is an 
Eniscopqlian. and on September 7. 1865, 
he married Corneliq P'^ake (De Camp) 
"Williams, at Saratoga Springs. N. T. Ad- 
(jrpoc; "Vancouver Barracks, "Washington, 
or "War Department. 

WILLIAMS. F. S., clersryman, assistant 
rector nf St. Mfirsraret's Eniscopal Chii^ch 
Be=id",rcf: Connecticut avenue and Ban- 
croft Place. 

WILLIAMS. GARDNER FREDERICK, 

mining ensrineer, was born in Saginaw, 
Mif'h., on March 14, 1842. ."^on of Alph^us 
Fuller and Ann Keyes (Simpson) "Wil- 
liams. His earliest ancestor in America 
wa:'=< Robert "Williams. :brother of Rog:?r 
"WilM'^ms, wh'O settled at Roxbury, Mass., 
in 1638. After obtaining his preparatory 
educatinji in the public schools at Pon- 
tine. Mich.: private .schools at Lodi, 
Mich., and Oakland. Calif., he entered thp 
Collearo of California (now the University 
of California), from which he was gradu- 
ated in 1865. and spent three years in 
study at Freiberg, Saxony, Mining Acad- 
emy (1865-1868). The degree of M. A. 
was conferred upon him by the University 
of California. He served as ma^iager of 
mines in California., Nevada and Uta"o, 
and in the Transvaal (1884-85); engineer 
in South Africa to The Exploration Co., 
Ltd.. London (1886-87); general manager 
of the De Beers Mining Compa;iy and 
De Beers Consolidated Mines. Ltd., at 
Kimberley, Cape Colony, South Africa, 
from May 1, 1887, to December 31, 1905; 
during hi? residence in Kimberley was as- 
sociated with the late Cecil Rhodes, who 
was life governor and chai:man board of 
directors of the De Beers Consolidated 
Mines, Ltd.; in 1870 he was assistant 
assayer in the U. S. Mint at San Fra;i- 
cisco, and was United States consular 
agent at Kimberley, South Africa, for six- 
teen years. "While in South Africa he 
served as chairman of the board of mana- 



gers of the South Africa School of Mines 
for many years, and was o;ie of its organ- 
izers; member Kimberley Public School 
Board during the greater part of his time 
there. He is the author of The Diamond 
Mines of South Africa (1902); The Gene- 
sis of Diamonds (Smithsonian Institute 
report, 1905); Science in South Africa 
(1905), etc. In 1905 he received the silver 
medal of the Royal Academy of Science 
of Sweden; president of the South Afri- 
can Association for the Advaricement of 
Science (1905-06): a member of tho Brit- 
ish Association for the Advancement of 
Science American Institute of Mining En- 
gineer,=!: Lonr?on Instittition of Mini^ig and 
Metallurgy; South "Wales Institute of En- 
gineers: North of England Institute of 
Engineers; South African Asociation 3f 
Engineers; National Geographic Society. 
Washington, D. C; and many other lead- 
ing scieintific societies in the United States. 
He is a member of the Pacific-TT^nion Club 
(San Francisco); Civil Service Club (Cape 
Town): Kimb-^rley Club (Kimberley); 
Metropolitan; Cosmos; University, apd 
Chew Chase clubs of Wasliinsrton. On 
October 23. 1871, he married Fannie Mar- 
tin Locke, to which union have been born 
seven children, four of whom are living. 
Residence: 2201 R street, n.w. 

WILLIAMS. GEORGE BURCHELL, 

fi,nancial expert, was born in Lockport, N. 
Y., on December 5. 1842, and was educatr>d 
at the Lockport Union Academy. In lSo8 
he removed to Lafayette, Ind.; 1867-68. 
was Supervisor of Internal Revenue for 
the State of Indiana, and Deputy Com- 
missioner of Internal Revenue in "Wash- 
i,ngton 1869-70. He was selected, in 1871, 
by the Emperor of Japan as Financial 
Advi<^or of the Japanese government, and 
in 1872, and again in 1876. he was Jan^n'.'; 
Special Commissioner to Europe in finan ■ 
cial matters. He has been decorated b.v 
the Mikado with the Order of the Rising 
Sur), and by the Sultan of Turkey with 
the Ordfr of the Osmanli In 1884 he was 
a delegate to the Republican National 
Convention, held in Chicago; is a mem- 
ber of the Metropolitan and Chevy Chase 
clubs. In 1873 he married Cornplia S. 
Upson, daughter of Gen. Lauren Upsoji, of 
California, at Paris, France. Residence: 
2121 Bancroft Place. 

WILLIAMS. HENRY E., assistant chief 
of the U. S. Weather Bureau. Residence: 
The Windsor. Office: Twenty-fourth and 
M streets, n.w. 

WILLIAMS, JAMES MONROE, retired 
army officer, was born in Lowville, N, Y., 
on September 12, 1833, son of Absalom 
a;id Fannie Williams, and removed to 
Wisconsin in 1844. He was educated In 
the public schools of New York and Wis- 
consin, and the Janesville (Wis.) Acad- 
emy, after which he took up the study of 
law, being admitted to the bar at Janes- 
ville, Wis., in 1856, and practiced at Leav- 
enworth, Kans. In 1861 he was commjs- 



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sioned Captai;i in the Fifth Kansas Cav- 
alry, serving with that regiment until 
September, 1862. when he was promotpd 
to Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel of the 
First Kansas (afterwards 79th U. S.) 
colored troops, serving until May, 1864. 
He was wounded four times in engage- 
ments with the Co;ifederates at Elk Creek, 
Indian Territory, on July 17, 1863. From 
May, 1864, until October, 1865, he was in 
command of a brigade and was brevetted 
a Brigadier-General of U. S. V. He was 
appointed Captain of the Eighth U. 3. 
Cavalry in 1867; was brevetted a Major 
for gallantry in Indian engageme^its on 
the Verde, in Yampa Valley, and near 
Music Mountain, Ariz., at which time he 
was seriously wounded. After two years 
in the hospital, he returned to his regi- 
ment, but resigned in 1871, and ofl Janu- 
ary 1, 1891, he was retired by a special 
act of Congress as Captain of Cavalry. 
On January 30, 1868, he married Mary E. 
Brawner, at Washington. Residence: 
1313 T street, n.w. 

WILLIAMS, JOHN SHARP, lawyer, 
Corjgressman, was born in Memphii, 
Tenn., on July 30, 1854. His mother died 
when he was very young, and his father 
was killed at Shiloh when Colonel of the 
Twenty-seventh Tennessee Volunteers of 
the Confederate Army. When the Federal 
Army threatened to capture Memphis, nls 
family removed to his mother's parent's 
home if) Yazoo County, Miss. He was ed- 
ucated in 'the private schools; Kentucky 
Military Institute at Frankfort, Ky.; the 
University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn.; 
University of Virginia; the University of 
Heidelberg, Germany: and subsequently 
studied law at the University of Virginia 
and \fl the offices of Harris, McKisick & 
Turley, in Memphis, and was admitted to 
the bar in Shelby County, Tvnn., in 1877. 
In December, 1878, he removed to Yazoo 
City, Miss., where he has since resided, 
and been engaged in tlve prict:.;e of )iis 
profession and as a dtron i)la;iti-'r. He 
was a delegate to the Chicago Conven- 
tion Which nominated Cleveland and Ste- 
venson, and has represented the Eighth 
Mississippi district in the Fifty-third and 
subsequent Corjgresses. He was his par- 
ty's candidate for the office of Speaker in 
the Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth 
Congresses, and has served as l^^ader of 
the Democratic party on the floor of the 
House 'during the Fifty-^iinth and Sixtieth 
Congresses. Legal residence: Yazoo City. 
Miss. Washington address: House of 
Representatives. • 

WILLIAMS, LOUIS S., wood engraver, 
was born in Bridgeton, N. J.> in 1865, son 
of Charles C. and Jemima M. (Sheppard) 
W'lliams and 'w^as educated in the private 
schools of Camden, N. J. He first took up 
wood engraving under his brother, George 
P. Williams; later worked under Jens'- 
Rea, and was with the Golden Days Pub- 
lishing House for three years. For four 
years he was in Hermann Simon's studio, 
doing engraving and piinting, and re- 



moved to Washington in 1890. Since 1890 
he has been connected with the United 
States Department of Agriculture as a 
wood engraver, and from 1895-99 ddd 
painting and drawing under Howard 
Helminck. On May 28, 1901, he married 
Katherine V. Jones, at Greenwich, N. J. 
Residence: 2304 First street, n.w. 

WILLIAMS, RICHARD P., clergyman, 
has been rector of Trinity Church in 
Washington since 1897. He has deliv- 
ered many illustrated lectures on church 
history, and has been 'one of the Bish- 
op's advisors; full of missionary activities, 
and is the archdeacon of the Diocese of 
Washington. Residence: 219 C street, 
n.w. 

WILLIAMS, THOMAS D., assistant 

rector of St. Steph°n's Catholic Church. 
Residence: 2436 Pennsylvania avenue, 
n V 

WILLIAMSON, JOHN NEWTON, Co;)- 
gressman. was born \f) D^ne County, Ore- 
gon, on November 8, 1855. He was edu- 
cated in Williamette University, at Salem, 
Oregon, but wa.s forced to leave three 
mo^lths before graduation on account of 
illness. He removed to the eastern part of 
Oregon, where he has since lived and been 
engaged in stock raising. He first en- 
tered public service In 1886, when he was 
■elected sheriff of Crook County, serving 
until 18.S8, when he was elected to the 
Lower House of the State Legislature, 
with which body he served for ten years, 
and was elected to the State Senate In 
1900. In 1902 he was elected to the Fifty- 
eighth Congress from the Second Orea^jn 
tlistrict. and was re-elected to the Fifty- 
r)inth Congress on the Republican ticket. 
In January, 1886, he married Viletha For- 
f-sc, tC' which union three children have 
been born, all of whom are girls. Legal 
residence: Prineville, Oregon. Washing- 
ton address: House of Representatives. 

WILLIAMSON, LANDON CABELL, 

lawyer, was born at Charlottesville, Va., 
October 12, 1853, son of Samuel D. and 
Marion Rodford (Preston) Williams);!. 
He was graduated in law from the Na- 
tional Univer.'^ity and admitted to prac- 
'tice before the Supreme Courts of the 
District and; of the United States. He is 
an elder in the Assembly's Presbyterian 
Church, and long superintendent of the 
Sunday School. For four years he was 
president of the Younig Men's Christian 
Association, and is a memb-^r of Masonic 
bodies. He was married on March 3, 1880, 
to Almeria Shipherd. daughter of Wil- 
liam and Elizabeth Van Vleck, of New 
York. Residence: 216 Indiana avenue, n. 
w. Office: 458 Louisiana avenue, n.w. 

WILLIAMSON, THOM, Rear Admiral, 
U. S. N., was born in Edento;), N. C, on 
August 5, 1833, son of William Price and 
Penelope Benbury (McDonald) William- 
son. His father served as Chief Engineer. 
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In-Chief in the Confederate Navy, and 
was prominent in remodeling the Merrl- 
mac. Many of his ancestors and fhmily 
were prominent in the upbuilding of the 
Tiarion; Rieh'^rd Lee wa? -pcre'ary '~f the 
Colony of Virginia in 1641; Sir George 
Teardley was lyiighted ard made the Co- 
lonial Gov rnor of Virginia in 1619 ^•nd 
summoned the first Legislative Assembly 
ever held in America; Miles Gary, a great 
Indian fighter, was a Justice of the Peace 
i^i Virginia in 1652, a member of the coun- 
cil, and killed in action with the Dutch in 
1667; Thomas Benbury, one of the sign- 
ers of the Declaration of Independence, 
of St. Paul's Parish, N. C, was a member 
of the North Carolina Provincial Congress 
in 1773; John Williamson and William 
McDonald served in the Revolution; Col. 
Duncan McDonald commanded troops at 
Norfolk, Va., in 1812; Henry Watson Wil- 
liamson W3s a captain of volunteers n 
the Mexican War. Thorn Williamson was 
educated at 'the Norfolk (Va.) Military 
Academy and at St. Mary's College, Bal- 
timore, Md. At the outbreak of the Civil 
War all the members of his family an.i 
those of his wife went South and became 
officers in the Corjfederate service, he be- 
ing the only one in his family to stand 
by 'the Union. He has seen service in the 
navy in almost all parts of the world, and 
was one of the landing force which cap- 
tured the filibuster Walker on the Islli- 
mus of Panama. He has served as Thiri, 
Second and First Assistant Engineer an 1 
Chief Engineer in the U. S. Navy, and 
was retired on account of age in 1895. 
He aittained the rank of Rear Admiral en 
June 29, 1906. During the Civil War he 
served as Chief Engineer of Admiral Far- 
ragut's flagship, the Hartford, in opera- 
tions in Mobile Bay, During the war with 
Spain he served on the board to examine 
plans for coaling ships at sea, a^d is 
now on duty in the Navy Department. In 
1900 he was awarded a medal and diploma 
by the Paris Exposition for collaboration, 
and a diploma from the Pan-American 
Exposition in 1901 for distinguished serv- 
ices. He is a member of the Military 
Order of the Loyal Legion; the Society of 
the Ci/icinnati, and the Chevy Chase Club. 
On December 2, 1861, he married Juiia 
Price, to which union have been born sev- 
en children, six of whom are living. Mem- 
ber Prot-'stant Episcopal church. Resi- 
dence: 2006 R street, n.w. Office: Na/y 
Department. 



WILLIGE, J. LOUIS, real estate, was 
graduated from Georgetown and Colum- 
bian (now George Wa=hi;igton) Lavv 
Schools in 1890 and 1892, respectively, 
and was admitted to the bar of the Dis- 
tri?t in 1893, aftr studying und r Col. 
Enoch Totten. He is the senior member 
of the firm of Willige, Gibbs & Daniel 
real estate brokers, and is a member of 
the Board of Trade. Member of the Con- 
cordia Lutheran Church; a Knight Tem- 
plar, and stands high i;i Masonic circles. 
Residence: 1123 Eleventh street, n.w. 



Business address: 603-605 Thirteenth 
street, n.w. 

WILLIS, BAILEY, geologist, was bort) 
in Idlewild-on-the-Hudson, N. Y., op May 
31. 1857, =on of Nathaniel Parker and Ctr- 
relia (Grlnnell) Willi?'. He was graduated 
from the Columbia School of Mines (M. 
E.) in 1878 and (C. E.) in 1879. From 1879 
-81 he was engaged as a mining engineer, 
geologist, editor a;id special expert in 
Iron ores for the T^^nth Census. He was 
geologist for the Northern Transconti- 
nental Survey Exploration for the North-, 
ern Pacific and other companies from 1881 
-84, since when he has been connecte>l 
with the U. S. Geological Survey as a g-^- 
ologlst. He has had charge of the Appa- 
lachian Divisio;!, Cascade Range and Pu- 
get Sound Division, and been editor of 
the Geologic Atlas of the U. S. From 
1897-1902 h° was assistant to the director 
of the IT. S. Geological Survey, and from 
1900 to 1906 had charg^^ of the Division Jf 
Areal and Stratlgranhic Geology. In 1903- 
04 carried out geological explorations in 
China under the Carnegie Institution of 
Washlngto;). Address: U. S. Geological 
Survey. 

WILLIS, H. PARKER, journalist, edu- 
cator, was born in 1874, of New Englan-l 
parentage, his boyhood being spent In 
Wisconsin, receiving his early collega 
training at the Western Reserve Univer- 
sity, Cleveland, Ohio. He was graduated 
from the U^iiversity of Chicago in 1894. 
with honors, and the appointment of 
"scholar." Later he was made Fellow in 
political economy, and In 1896 was giv=>n 
the first traveling Fellowship In economics 
ever granted by the University of Chi- 
cago. As the "Armour-Crane traveling 
Fellow" he engaged in special investiga- 
tion in Paris, where he produced a mono- 
graph entitled A History of the Latin 
Monetary Union, which has been de- 
scribed by the director of the French mint 
as the most thorough work on the topic 
of which it treats. He further pursuoi 
work at the Universities of Berlin and 
Vienna, where he collected material for 
a brief study of the Russian financial sys- 
tem. On his return to the United States 
he was made Ph. D. by the University ct 
Chicago, and made Secretary of the In- 
dianapolis Monetary Commission. Early 
in 1898 he was invited to Washi^igton and 
Lee University, to establish a Department 
of Economics. In 1901 he joined the edi- 
torial staff of the New York Evening Post 
and Nation, and later came to Washing- 
ton as special correspondent of the New 
York Journal of Commerce and the 
Springfield Republican. In Washington 
he wrote and published a comprehensive 
work called Reciprocity; later b came 
again connected with Washington and Lee 
University, and in 1904 traveled as a spe- 
cial correspondent through Japan, parts of 
Chi;ia and the Philippines, where he col- 
lected material for his work, Our Philip- 
pine Problem. Before his departure he 
accepted the editorship of the Sound Cur- 



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rericy Magazine, which he edited from 
Manila. During' 'the recent International 
Railway Congress he was in charge of 
fthe French section of the official gazette 
of the proceedings. Residence: The Ken- 
sington. Office: Corcoran Building. 

WILLISTON, EDWARD BANCROFT, 

retired army officer, was borri in Ver- 
mont; was appointed Second Lieutenant 
in the Second Artillery on August 5, 1861, 
from California. He was gradually pro- 
moted through the grades to the rank of 
Colonel on March 8, 1868. and was brevei- 
ted several times for display of gallantry 
in battles of the Civil War. On May 4, 1898. 
he Was appointed a Brigadier-General 
of U. S. Volunteers, and commanded the 
First Brigade i,n the Second Division, and 
the Second Division of the Seventh Army 
Corps in Florida, Georgia and Cuba. Dur- 
ing 1899-1900 h^ was Provost Marshal- 
General of Manila, P. I., and was retired 
from active service on July 15, 1900. H-? 
was awarded the Con°rres"^ional medal of 
honor for dLstinguished gallantry at Treil- 
lion Station, Va. He is at the present 
time deputy gover^ior of the IT. S. Soldiers' 
Home. Address: Soldiers' Home, D. C. 



newly created technologic branch of the 
Geological Survey. He has lectured on ir- 
rigatioTi, drainage and geography, etc., at 
colleges and before geographic and engi- 
neering societies. He is the author ot 
Manual of Irrigation Engineering (1893); 
Topographic Surveying (1899); and has 
contributed articles of a scientific nature 
to the leading magazines. Address: U. S. 
Geological Survey. 

WILSON, HUNTINGTON, Third As- 
sistant Secretary of State, wa,s born 'n 
Chicago, 111., o;i December 15, 1875, son 
of Benjamin Mairs and Frances (Hunt- 
ington) Wilson. He was graduated from 
Yale with the class of 1897; appoint=;d 
second secretary of the Lpgation at To- 
kio March 4, 1897; secretary of the Le- 
gation October 10, 1900; charge d'affaires 
from January until June. 1901, from Feb- 
ruary 24 until June 2. 1903, and from No- 
vember 19, 1905, until May, 1906; secre- 
tary of the embassy May 26, 1906; ap- 
pointed Third Assista;it Secretary of State 
June 22„ 1906. On May 30, 1904. he mar- 
ried Lucy Wortham James of St. Jame3. 
Mo. Residence: 1155 Sixteenth street, 
n.w. Office: State Department. 



WILSON, ALBERT A., real estate brok- 
er, president Firemen's Insurance Com- 
pany of Washington and Georgetown. 
Residence: 2000 G street. Office: 306 Sev- 
enth street, n.w. 

WILSON, CHARLES IRVING, retired 
army officer, was born in Washi^igton, D 
C, May 3, 1837, on of William and Haldah 
Wilson, and was educated at the Univer- 
sity of Virginia. Was anoointed A'^sistant 
Surgeon, U. S. A., May 28, 1861; promoted 
to Captain Sixteenth Infantry, January 

22, 1867; Lieutenant-Colonel and Deputy 
Paymaster-General, June 10, 1898; Colo- 
nel, Assistant Paymaster-General, July 12, 
1899; Brigadier-General and retired, April 

23, 1904. He was brevetted Major for 
meritorious and distinguished services at 
Yellow Tavern, Va., and in Shenandoah 
Valley; remained in Medical Department 
until 1867. as hospitail surgeon and Sur- 
geon-in-Chief of defe^ise of Washington. 
Was married at Washi^igton, in 1866. to 
Gertrude L. Houston. Address: War De- 
partment. 

WILSON, GEORGE P. (D. D.), clergy- 
man, pastor of Assembly's Presbyterian 
Church. Residence: 516 M street, n.w. 

WILSON. HERBERT MICHAEL, geog- 
rapher, engineer, was born in Glasgow, 
Scotland, on August 23, 1860, and was edu- 
cated at Plainfleld, N. J.; Cooper Union, 
N. Y., a;nd was graduated from the Colum- 
bia School of Mines (N. Y.) in 1881. Dur- 
ing 1881-82 he was engaged as a railroad 
engineer in Mexico .after which he jomed 
the U. S. Geological Survey; served as a 
topographer until 1888; irrigation engineer 
1889-92; and geographer from 1892-1906. 
At present he is chief engineer of the 



WILSON, JAMES, Secretary of Agricul- 
ture, was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, 
August 16, 1835. and came to America with 
his' parents in 1852, settling in Connecti- 
cut, and in 1855 he went to Iowa, where 
he e^igaged in farming in 1861. He was 
elected to the legislature, and served three 
terms, being speaker one term. He was 
elected to Congress in 1872, and served in 
the Forty-third, Forty-fourth and Forty- 
eighth Congresses; in the interim between 
the Forty-fourth and Forty-eighth serv- 
ing as a member of the Railway Commis- 
sion of Iowa. From 1870 to 1874 he was 
regent of the State University of Iowa, 
and for six years thereafter was director 
of the Agricultviral Experiment Station 
and professor of agriculture at the Iowa 
Agricultural College. On March 5, 1897, 
he became U. S. Secretary of Agricultur.-*. 
Residence: The Portland. Office: U. S. 
Department of Agriculture. 

WILSON, JAMES ORMOND, lawyer, 
educator, was born at Royalston, Mass., 
April 2, 1825. son of James and Chloe 
(Thurston) Wilson. He was graduated 
(A. M.) from Dartmouth College In 1850, 
and was in the U. S. Treasury from 1850 
■to 1868. Admitted to the bar of the Dis- 
trict of Columbia in 1853; superintendent 
of public schools. District of Columbia, 
1870-85; president National Educatior)al 
Association, and since 1892 has been sec- 
retary 'Of the American Colonization So- 
ciety. Residence: 1439 Massachusetts av- 
enue. 

WILSON, JESSE B., president of the 
Lincoln National Bank, was born in Prince 
George County, Md., arjd when but a 
small boy his parents removed to Howard 
County, Md., where after a brief residence 



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both died, leaving him an orphan at th3 
age of ten. He inamediately struck out 
for his own salvation, and walked to 
Washington, a distance of more than thir- 
ty miles, where he received work in a 
grocery store. His close application to 
business and integrity were soo;:) recog- 
nized, and in 1872 he formed the grocery 
firm of Morsell & Wilson, afterwards buy- 
ing his partner's interest, and conductei 
the business alone. He was for seventeen 
years president of the Mutual Fire In- 
surance Company, apd is interested in 
many 'other business enterprises of the 
city, notable among them being: The 
Northern Market Company; The Wash- 
ington National Building Loan Associa- 
tion, etc. He married Annie Scrive^ier, of 
Washingto;), to which union have been 
born eight children. Residence: 1823 
Phelps Place, n.w. Office: Lincoln Na- 
tional Bank. 

WILSON, JESSE E., Assistant Secre- 
tary of the Department of the Interior. 
Residence: 1417 Belmont s^treet, n.w. Of- 
fice: Department of the Interior. 

WILSON, JESSE HENRY, lawyer, was 
born in Georgetown, D. C, on January 3, 
1855, son of John Henry and Marcelina 
v. Wilson, and was gradtiated from Co- 
lumbian (now George Washington) Uni- 
versity in 1874, and the law school of the 
same institution in 1876. From 1872-1876 
he was employed as tutor i;^ the above 
institution, since when he has been active- 
ly engaged in the practice of law in Wash- 
ington. He has served several terms as a 
director of the Bar Association, and is at 
the present time one of the examiners of 
candidates for admission to the bar of the 
Supreme Court of D. C. From 1893-1901 
he was a member of the board of trustees 
of the public schools, and served sev- 
eral years as chairman of the Committee 
on Ways a,nd Means and of the High and 
Normal Schools committee. He is one of 
the directors of the Potomac Insurance 
Company; trustee of the Peabody Libra- 
ry; The Dumbarton Street Methodist 
Episcopal Church; a member of the Co- 
lumbia Historical Society, etc. On De- 
cember 19, 1877, he married Lizzie Wood- 
ward, to which union have been born five 
children. Residence: Somerset Heights, 
Md. Office: 319 John Marshall Place. 

WILSON, JOHN MOULDER, Brigadier- 
General, Corps of Engineers, U. S. A., (re- 
tired), president Washington Board of 
Trade, was horfi in Washington, D. C, 
October 8, 1837. He was graduated from 
the West Point Military Academy in 1860, 
and the degree of LL. D. was conferred 
upon him by Columbian (now George 
Washington) University in 1890. In 1861 
he was promoted to Second' Lieutenant, 
Second Artillery; Captain, Corps of Engi- 
neers, 1863; Lieutena;it-Colonel, Staff, U. 
S. v., 1864-1865; Major, Corps of Engi- 
neers, 1867; Lieutenant-Colonel, Corps of 
Engineers, 1884; Colonel, Corps of Engi- 
neers, 1895; Brigadier-General, Chief ^f. 
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Engineers, U. S. A., from 1897 until 1901, 
when he was retired. He served through - 
out the Civil War, having been brevetted 
several times for gallant a;)d meritorious 
services in action. Congress awarded him 
a Congressional medal of honor for gallant 
services rendered at Malvern Hill, Va. 
From March to June, 1863, he was Assist- 
ant Professor of Spanish at the Military 
Academy, and superintendent of the same 
from August 17, 1889 to March 31, 1893. 
From 1862 to 1886 he was assistant to the 
Chief of Engineers at Washi;igton, D. C. 
He has served on many public works in 
Washington, among them being the build- 
ing of the Army Medical Museum, 1886- 
1889; completion of the Washington Mon- 
ument, 1888-1889; and erection of flsh- 
ways at the Great Falls of the Potomac. 
From 1893 to 1897 he was a member of 
the Light House Board, and from Octo- 
ber, 1898, to April 30, 1899, he was a mem- 
ber of the commission to investigate the 
co;iduct of the War Department during 
the war with Spain; member of the fed- 
eral commission to investigate the dis- 
aster of the steamer Gen. Slocum in 1904; 
member and president of the Board of 
Visitors, West Point Military Academy, 
June, 1904; member of the federal com- 
mission in connection with the sale of 
Choctaw-Chickasaw coal lands, 1904-1905. 
He was a Commander, Loyal Legion, Dis- 
trict of Columbia. 1899-1900; president 
of Columbia Hospital for W'omen, 1902- 
1907, afid the Training School for Nurses. 
He is a member of the board of director's 
of the following: Reform School for Girls, 
1900-1903; National Geographic Society; 
Corcoran Art Gallery; member and presi- 
dent of the Washington Board^ of Trade; 
member Executive Committee, Citizens* 
Relief Association of the District of Co- 
lumbia, 1903-1905; Anthracite Coal Strike 
Commission, 1902-1903; vice president for 
the District of Columbia of the Thomas 
Jefferson Memorial As,sociation, and a 
member of the Washington Monument 
Association. Residence: 1773 Massachu- 
setts avenue. 

WILSON, NATHANIEL, lawyer, was 
born in Zanesville, Ohio, on August 9, 
1836, son of Charles B. and Harriet (Ab- 
bot) Wilson. He was educated in the 
public schools of his home 'City, after 
which ihe was graduated from Shurtliff 
(111.) College, with high honors. Soon 
after graduating from college he removed 
to Washington, where he has since re- 
sided'. He was admitted to the bar of the 
District of Columbia in 1861. Residence: 
912 Seventeenth street, ;).w. Office: Pa- 
cific Building. 

WILSON, WILLIAM BAUCHOP, farm- 
er, Congressman, was born at Blantyre, 
Scotland, April 2, 1862. He came to Amer- 
ica with his parents and settled at Arnot, 
Tioga County, Pa., in 1870, and one year 
later began working in the coal mines. 
In November, 1873, he became a half 
member of the Mi;je Workers' Union, 
and has since taken an active part in 



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trade union affairs. He is International 
Secretary-Treasurer of the United Mine 
Workers of America, having been elected 
each year without opposition since 1900. 
At Blossburg, Pa., he has been engaged 
in the pursuit of farming for several 
years. I^ November, 1906, he was elected 
to the Sixtieth Congress as a Democrat. 
He is married and the father of ten chil- 
dren, six boys and four girls. Legal Res- 
idence: Blossburg, Pa. Washington ad- 
dress: House of Representatives. 

WILSON, WILLIAM WARFIELD, law- 
yer. Congressman, was born in Ohio, Bu- 
reau County, 111., on March 2, 1869, son 
of Joseph G. and Sarah Ann Wilson. H? 
was (educated in the public and high 
schools, after which he attended the Chi- 
cago Kent College of Law, from which in- 
stitution he was graduated in 1893, with 
the degree of LL. B., and was admitted 
to the bar the same year. He has repre- 
sented the Third Illinois District in tha 
Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth 
Congresses; in politics he is a Republican. 
He is a member of the Methodist church, 
a Mason; an Odd' Fellow, and a Knight 
of Pythias. On October 11, 1892, he mar- 
ried Sarah M. Moore, to which upion has 
been born one child, Stephen Askew Wil- 
son . Legal Residence: Chicago, 111. Wash- 
ington address: The Dewey. 

WIMER, JAMES B., real estate, wa3 
born in Philadelphia, Pa., on March 6, 
1845, son of James Wimer, who was for- 
merly a newspaper man in Washington, 
being one of the proprietors of the Ameri- 
can Telegraph, started ofi March 25, 1851, 
which afterwards resulted in the founda- 
tion of the Evening Star. He was edu- 
cated in Gonzaga College and at Colum- 
bian (now George Washington) Universi- 
ty, and entered the governme;it service 
in 1869, remaining until 1883, when he re- 
signed to embark into the real estate busi- 
ness. In addition to his real estate busi- 
ness, he is prominently ide,ntified with 
many other business enterprises in th*> 
city, beine a director of 'the National Met- 
ropolitan Bank; District Title Insurance 
Company; National Union Fire Insurance 
Company, etc. He is a member of the 
Board of Trade, the Real Estate Ex- 
chapige, and' is one of the founders of St. 
Margaret's Episcopal Church, etc. Resi- 
dence: 2119 Bancroft Place, n.w. Office: 
1201 G street, n.w. 

WINBIGLER, CHARLES FREMONT, 

Baptist clergyman, was born near Mid- 
dletown, Frederick County, Md., on Janu- 
ary 9, 1857, son of Rev. William P. and 
Frances O. (Smith) Winbigler. He was 
educated in the Millersville (Pa.) State 
Normal School, Mt. Union College, at Al- 
liance, Ohio, and the Oberlin Theologi- 
cal Seminary; is a post-graduate student 
in medicine and' oisteopathy. He is now 
pastor of the First Baptist Church in 
Washington. Among his literary contri- 
butions are: Christian Science and Kin- 
dred Subjects; This Age and the Young 



People for It; Baptism; The Law of Sug- 
gestiofi, etc He is a Mason, and in poli- 
tics a Republican. On December 22, 1881, 
he married Delia Oliver, to which union 
have been born three children. Resi- 
dence: The Alabama, Eleventh and N 
streets, n.w. 

WINSTON, ISAAC, assistant, U. S. 
Coast and Geodetic Survey, was born in 
Tuscumbia, Colbert County, Ala., on Sep- 
tember 7, 1853, son of Isaac and Olivia 
Bland (Michie) Winsto;}. He was educat- 
ed in private schools and was graduated 
from the Virginia Military Institute in 
1873. From 1873-75 he engaged in farm- 
ing; from 1876-78 he was rodman and ce- 
ment inspector on canal construction 
work under the Corps of Engineers, U. 
S. Army. Si/)ce 1878 he has been a mem- 
ber of the normal force of the U. S. 
Coa,st and Geodetic Survey, and since 
1901 has been editor of publications in 
that branch of the government service. 
In 1900 he was the delegate of the United 
States to the general conference of the 
International Geodetic Associaition, held 
in Paris, Fra,nce. He is a member of the 
National Geographic Society; the Philo- 
sophical Society of Washington; th? 
Washington Society of Engineers and 
the Cosmos Club; in politics he is a Dem- 
ocrat. On September 19, 1882, he married 
Anna Maria Otis, to which union has 
been iborn one child. Residence: The 
Portner. Office: U. S. Coast and Geo- 
d'etic Survey. 

WINSTON, NANCIE OTIS, was born 
at Richmond, Va., July 9, 1853, the daugh- 
ter of George Alexander and Pauline 
Clarke (Baury) Otis. Her father was the 
author of The Surgical History of the 
War of the Rebellion, and served through 
the Civil War and in the regular army 
until his death, in 1881, being Curator of 
the Army Medical Museum i for many 
years. Early ancestors were John Alden 
and Richard Warren, of the Mayflower, 
and Joseph Jenckes, who came over in 
1642 and established at Sangus, Mass., the 
first iron works on the continent. Sho 
was educated at the Convent of the Sa- 
cred Heart, Manhattanville, New York, 
and has filled several offices in the Army 
and Navy Chapter of the Daughters of 
the American Revolution. On September 
19, 1882, she married Isaac Winston, '.f 
the U. S. Coast Survey, and one son has 
been born to this u;iion, namely, George 
Otis Winston. Residence; The Portner. 

WINT, THEODORE JONATHAN, army 

officer, was born in Pennsylvania on 
March 6, 1845, son of Jonathan R. and 
Euphemia (Johnston) Wint, and was edu- 
cated at the Providence (R. I.) high 
schools. He served from private to First 
Lieutena,nt of Company F, Sixth Penn- 
sylvania Cavalry, from 1861-64, and in 
1865 was a private in the general mounted 
service. On November 24, 1865, he was 
appointed a Second Lieutenant in the reg- 
ular army; promoted to First Lieutenant 



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in 1866; Captain in 1872; Major in 1892; 
Lieutenapt-Colonel in 1899; Colonel in 

1901, and Brigadier-General on June 9, 

1902. In 1880 he married Lydia Porter 
Bullis, at Macedon, N. Y. Address: War 
Department. 

WINTER, M. A., president of The M. A 
Winter Company (patent medicines), was 
born in Onarga, 111., on September 20, 
1863, son of Rev. Alpheus Winter. After 
receiving his education in New England, 
he engaged in business at the age of eigh- 
teen, and was in the subscription book 
publishing business for several years, dur- 
ing which time he perfected a system of 
handling agent's, and at the present time 
has more than eighty thousand agents 
under his co/jtrol. The M. A. Winter 
Company is engaged extensively in the 
manufacture of family medicines which 
are handled 'by agents, in all parts of the 
world. He is a member of the National 
Geographic Society; the Association for 
the Advancement of Science; Washington 
Acad'emy of Science, etc. He has been 
twice married; first to Jessie Townse;id 
Peters, of Hartford, Conn., to which union 
was born one child; second to Erminie 
Lois Tanner, of Lynchburg, Va., and re- 
moved to Washington in 1895. Residence: 
1317 R street, n.w. Office: Armory Build- 
ing. 

WINTHROP, BEEKMAN, Assistant 
Secretary of the U. S. Treasury, was bor,) 
at Orange, N. J., September 18, 1874, son 
of Robert and Kate W. (Taylor) Win- 
'throp. He was graduated from the Har- 
vard Law School in 1900; was private sec- 
retary to Governor Taft, November, 1900; 
acting executive secretary, Philippine Isl- 
ands, 1901-03; judge court of first instance 
there, 1903, and governor of Porto Rico, 
1904-07. He was appointed Assistant Sec- 
retary of the Treasury in 1907. Was 
married October 7, 1903. to Melza Riggs 
Wood, of New York. Address: Treasury 
Department. 

WISE, JOHN C, medical director of the 
Naval Medical School. Residence: The 
Highlands. Office: Twenty-third a;jd E 
streets, n.w. 

WISE. WILLIAM CLINTON, retired 
naval officer, was born at Lewisburg, Va., 
November 8, 1842, son of James and Vir- 
ginia (Caldwell) Wise. He was graduated 
from the U. S. Naval Academy in 1863; 
A. M., Yale, 1899. He was promoted to 
the rank of Captain, November 19, 1864, 
and Rear Admiral, June 14, 1902. Served 
in various attacks on Charleston and 
Jacksonville expeditions; in both attacks 
ofi Fort Fisher; commanded Malvern on 
James river against Richmond, and' with 
Preside;it Lincoln on board, was first ves- 
sel to reach the city; commanded auxil- 
iary cruiser Yale In war of 1898; Com- 
mander-in-Chief Atlantic Training Squad- 
ron; retired November 8, 1904. On special 
duty Navy Department, 1905. Represent- 
ed United States at Purchase Celebra- 



tion, New Orleajjs, December, 1903. On 
duty at San Domingo in revolution of 
1903-04; member of General Board of 
Navy 1901-03; member Loyal Legiin; 
Naval Order of U. S.; Society of Foreign 
Wars; Grand Army of the Republic; Na- 
tionajl Geographic Society. Wa's married 
May 18, 1875, to Nellie Humphreys. Ad- 
dress: Navy Department. 

WISEMAN, DANIEL E., clergyman, pas- 
tor of 'the Lutheran Church of our Re- 
deemer. Residence: 330 Pomeroy street, 
n.w. 

WISSER, JOHN PHILIP, army officer, 
was born in St. Louis on July 19, 1852, 
and is a so;) of Philip and Barbara (Web- 
er) Wisser. He was educated in the pri- 
vate, public and high schools of his home 
city, and was graduated from the high 
school in 1870, when he entered the U. S. 
Military Academy, from which institutl'in 
he wa's graduated in 1874, after which he 
took special courses at Fort Monroe, Va., 
and the Royal School of Mines, at Frie- 
berg, Germany, making a special study rf 
mi;)eralogy, chemical anajlysis, metallur- 
gy, etc. In 1874 he was promoted to Sec- 
ond Lieutenant; First Lieutenant in 1874; 
Captain in 1898; Major in 1901; Lieuteiji- 
ant-Colonel in 1906; and Colonel in 1907. 
In 1884 he was designated to represent 
the U;7ited States at the Grand Maneu- 
vers in France, and during 1885-86 was 
aide-de-camp to Gen. John Gibban when 
he visited (officially) the military schools 
of Europe. In 1904 he was detailed In- 
spector-General, which position he held 
until 1906, when he was sent to Berlin, 
Germany, as military attache. He haa 
served at many posts; been an l^istructor 
at West Point, and has written several 
books, among them being: Gun Cotton 
(Van Nostrand, 1886) ; Practical Problems 
in Minor Tactics and Strategy (1888) ; Ex- 
plosive Materials (1898, new edition 1907); 
The Second Boer War (1901); Tactics of 
Coast' Defe;)se (1902); Practical Field Ex- 
ercises in Tactics and Strategy (1903); 
and has contributed articles to the Inter- 
natio^jal Encyclopedia on strategy, tactics, 
army organization, etc., and was editor of 
the Journal of the U. S. Artillery from 
1896 to 1902. On June 15, 1893, he mar- 
ried Georgiana Hollister, to which union 
have bee;i born two children. Address: 
Care the Adjutant-General, U. S. A. 

WOLF, HARRY B., Congressman. In 
November, 1906, he was elected to thJ 
Sixtieth Congress from the Third Con- 
gressional District of Maryland, as a Dem- 
ocrat. Legal residence: Baltimore, Md. 
Washington address: House of Represen- 
tatives. 

WOLF, SIMON, lawyer, was born in 
Hinzweiler, Bavaria, on October 28, 1836, 
son of Levi and Amalla Wolf. He was 
graduated from the Ohio Law College in 
Clevela;jd, Ohio, in 1861. From 1869 to 
1878 he was Recorder of Deeds for the 
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Egypt during 1881-82. He is the founder 
of the Hebrew Orphan Home at Atlanta, 
Ga., and since 1900 has heen a member of 
the Board of Charities. He is: president 
of the Ruppert Home for the Aged and In- 
digent, and a member of the executive 
committee of the Order of B'nai B'rith. 
He is the author of .several books, among 
them being: The American Jew as a Pa- 
triot, Soldier and Citizen (1896); Biogra- 
phy of M. M. Noah (1898); Biography of 
Commodore U. P. Levy, etc. Residence: 
1756 Q street, n.w. Office: Fourteenin 
and G streets, n.w. 

WOOD, CHARLES E., real estate, was 
born in Lebanon, Ohio, in 1851, son o? 
William and Aseneath Wood. He was 
educated in his native town, after which 
he was engaged in several businesses until 
he fi;ially embarked in the real estate 
business, which has since been his vo- 
cation. In 1887 he formed a partnership 
with Messrs. W. E. and C. E. Harmon, in 
Cincinnati, under the firm name of Wood, 
Harmon & Company, real estate brokers, 
since when the business has expanded lo 
ejjormous proportions, now doing business 
in about thirty of the largest Eastern 
cities. The firm has been interested in 
the development of suburban towns, par- 
ticularly in the cities 'Of New York, Phil- 
adelphia. Baltimore, Buffalo, Pittsburg and 
Wa,shington. For several years he has 
been in charge of the Washington ofTice 
of the firm, and in addition to being the 
se;iior member of the above firm, he is 
president of the Wood-Harmon Bond 
Company; first vice president of the 
United Cities Realty Corporation; and is 
a director in the Greater New York De- 
velopment Company; Brooklyn Develop- 
ment Company, etc. He is a Mason and 
a member of many of the leading clubs 
and societies. He married Eurnie I. Cum- 
i;ig, of Franklin, Ohio. Residence: 2031 
Florida avenue. Office: 525 Thirteenth 
street, n.w. 

WOOD, COURT FOSTER, founder of 
Wood's Commercial School, in 1885, was 
born at Addison, N. Y., August 28, 1857. 
In 1869 he removed with hLs family to Big 
Rapids, Mich., where he attended the vil- 
lage school. After a year he went to Lo- 
gansport, Ind., and took a course irt 
Smithson College, and was later princi- 
pal of the village school at Hespena, 
Mich., soofi after declining the town su- 
perintendency of schools because under 
age. After reaching his majority he was 
made town clerk and also school princi- 
pal, and was recommended by the Rep- 
resentative of his district for appointment 
to the Postofflce Department. While he 
was in the Postoffice Department he stud- 
ied at Columbian (now George Washing- 
ton) University; was made LL. M. in 1885, 
and admitted to the bar of the District of 
Columbia. He has, however, never prac- 
ticed his profession, but given his entire 
time to his school. He was graduated 
from the Chautauqua Literary and Sci- 
entific Circle in 1882, and is a Pa&t Com- 



mander of De Molay Mounted Command- 
ery No. 4, Knights Templar; and is a 
member of the Mithras Lodge of Perfec- 
tion, Scottish Rite, and of Almas Temple; 
is Past High Priest of Washington Naval 
Chapter No. 6; is a member of Naval 
Lodge No. 4, and of Martha Chapter No. 
4, O. E. S. Residence: 311 East Capitol 
street. 

WOOD, EDITH ELMER (.MRS.), au- 
thor, was born in Portsmouth, N. H., on 
September 24, 1871, daughter of Com- 
mander Horace and Adele (Wiley) Elmer, 
and was graduated from Smith College 
in 1890. Since her graduation from col- 
lege she has been engaged as a. writer of 
fiction and travel stories for the lead- 
ing daily papers and magazines. She is 
the author of Her Provincial Cousin 
(1893); Shoulder Straps and Sun Bon- 
;iets (1901), etc. On June 24, 1893, she 
was married to Lieutenant-Commander 
Albert Norton Wood, at the New York 
Navy Yard. Address: Care Lieutenant- 
Commander A. N. Wood, Navy Depart- 
ment. 

WOOD, ERNEST E., lawyer, was born 
in Chico, California, August 24, 1875. He 
was educated in the public schools, and 
was graduated in 1891 from the Stockton 
High School, whence he was appointed 
cadet to the U. S. Military Academy. 
After remainlTjig there two years, he be- 
gan the study of flaw, and was admitted 
to the bar at St. Louis. Mo. He is unmar- 
ried. Address: Stoneleigh Court. 

WOOD, HENny CLAY, retired army 
officer, was born at Winthrop, Maine, May 
26, 1832, son of General Samuel and Flo- 
rena (Sweet) Wood. He was graduated 
from Bowdoin College 1854 (A. M.), and 
from Norwich (Vt.) University 1874. 
Read' medicine, studied law and was ad- 
mitted to the bar at Augusta, Maine, 
August 19, 1856. He was appointed Major 
and aide-de-camp to Major-General Sam- 
uel Wood, his father, March 28, 1856; 
Major First U. S. Infa;)try, June 24, 1864; 
Colonel, November 6, 1893; retired May 
26, 1896, and advanced to Brigadier-Gen- 
eral, retired. April 23, 1904. Brevetted 
Lieutenant-Colonel for gallant and merito- 
rious services at battle of Wilso'n's Creek, 
Mo., August 10, 1861, and brevetted Colo- 
neil and received Congressional medal of 
hoTjor for distinguished gallantry in the 
same battle. Companion Military Order 
of the Loyal Legion, and member of the 
Society of Mayflower Descendants. Ad- 
dress: War Department. 

WOOD, IRA W., lawyer, Congressman, 
was born in Wilkesbarre, Pa., and after 
being graduated from IPrinceton Uni- 
versity he began the study of law, since 
when he has practiced in the State of 
New Jersey. He has beep a member of 
the board of education and the city coun- 
cil of Trenton, N. J.; was president of the 
Board of Trade, and a member of the New 
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Governor Murphy appointed him a com- 
missioner to the Louisiana Purchase Ex- 
position from New Jersey. He was elect- 
ed to the Fifty-eighth Congress to nil the 
vacancy caused by the appointment of 
Hon. William M. Lan;iing as district judg.j 
of the district of New Jersey, and also 
for the full term of the Fifty-ninth Con- 
gress from the Fourth New Jersey Dis- 
trict on the Republican ticket, and was re- 
elected to the Sixtieth Congress. . Legal 
residence: Trenton, N. J. Washington ad- 
dress: The Normandie. 

WOOD, JAMES HARVEY, lawyer, was 
born on a farm in Scott County, Va., ofl 
February 22, 1842, son of James Osborne 
and Ann Elizabeth (Godsey) Wood. After 
obtaining his preparatory e'ducation in the 
local schools he entered' Virginia Military 
Institute, at Lexington, Va., from which 
he was graduated in 1861, and was ordered 
with the corps of cadets to Richmorjd, Va., 
in April of the same year, to drill and 
prepare troops for service in the Con- 
federate Army. After performing this 
service with proficiency until August, he 
entered the Confederate Army, serving 
with the Thirty-seventh Virginia Infan- 
try regiment, under Stonewall Jackson, 
until his death, and with his successor 
urjtil the end of the war. He served as 
Lieutenant, Adjutant, and was later pro- 
moted ito Captain, and was at times <.n 
command of his regiment; for some time 
was in command of a. battalion of sharp- 
shooters. He was engaged in the battles 
of the Army of Northern Virginia, except 
when disabled or in prison; was twice 
Wounded, a;id was captured at the Bloody 
Angle with Johnson's Division in May, 
1864, and was a prisoner of war at Fort 
Delaware from that tim,e until the end of 
the war. While in prison he studied' law, 
and after his release was admitted to the 
bar in March, 1867. He located at Bristol, 
Va.-Tenn., where he soon attained hign 
raT)k and lucrative success in his pro- 
fession, confining his attention mainly to 
corporation law practice. On occasion, he 
presided on the bench. He was one of 
the organizers and builders of the South 
Atlantic and Ohio (now Virginia & South- 
western) Railroad, afid served as its coun- 
sel, and as a director; was principal own- 
er and president of the Bristol Gas and 
Electric Company, which he and associ- 
ates purchased and reorganized in 1895 
and successfully operated until 1901, at 
which time he and his associates sold 
their interests. He was president of tho 
Bristol Investment Company; director afii 
counsel of Bristol Iron and Steel Compa- 
ny; Bailey Construction Company, and the 
Bristol Land Company. Since May, 1901, 
he has resided in Washington, where he 
is engaged in the general practice of 
law. H(i is a member of the University 
Club of Washington. On July 15, 1869, 
he married Miss Laura L. James, who 
died November 22, 1891, and on October 
3, 1893, he married Mrs. Virginia E. 
Holmes. Residence: The Kenesaw. Of- 
fice: Colorado Building. 



WOOD, JAMES PERRY, lawyer, mem- 
ber of the Spanish Treaty Claims Com- 
mission, was born at Rio Grande, Ohio, 
on April 21, 1854, son of James Perry and 
Rebecca (Mauck) Wood. He was edu- 
cated at the Cheshire Academy and Hills- 
dale (Mich.) College, after which he took 
up the .study of law and was admitted to 
the bar in May, 1878. He served two 
terms as mayor of Athens, Ohio, from 1880 
to 1884; prosecuti;ig attorney of Athens 
County from 1891 to 1897; and since 
March, 1901, he has been a member of 
the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission. 
He is a trustee of Ohio University, which 
is located at Atihens. On November 14, 
1876, he married Florence Ellen Vorhees, 
of Altaa;iy, Ohio. Legal residence: Athens, 
Ohio. Washington address: The Dewey. 
Office: 1415 H street, n.w. 

WOOD, LEONARD, army officer, was 
born in Winrhi .'^.ter, N. H., on October 'J, 
1860, son of Charles Jewett and Caroline 
(Hagar) Wlood. He was educated at 
Pierce Academy, at Middleboro, Mass., and 
was graduated from the Harvard Medical 
School in io)84. il;o aegree of LL. D. was 
conferred upon him by Harvard in 1899; 
Williams, in 1902; and the University oi: 
Pennsylva;iia in 1903. On January 5, 1886, 
he was appointed a First Lieutenant and 
Assistant Surgeon in the U. S. Army, and 
was promoted to Captain and Surgeon in 
1891. In 1886 he was medical and line 
officer in the Geronimo Expedition, and 
received a medal of honor for gallanl 
services in this campaign. In 1898 he re- 
cruited the First U. S. Volunteer Cavalry 
(Rough Riders), and was appointed Colo- 
nel on May 8, and after gallant services 
with this regiment in the Cuban campaign, 
he was promoted to Brigadier-General, U 
S. v., July 8 ,1898. Ofl July 19, 1898, he 
was appointed Military Governor of San- 
tiago, and on December 8 of the same year 
was 'promoted to Major-General of Vol- 
unteers, and from December 13, 1899, 15 
May 22, 1902, was Military Governor of 
Cuba. On April 13, 1899, he was honor.i- 
bly discharged from the volunteer service; 
was appointed Brigadier-General, U. S. A., 
in 1901, and Major-General on August i, 
1903. On November 18, 1890, he married 
Louise A. Condit Smith, i;a Washington, 
D. C. Addriof.- War Department. 

WOOD, SPENCER SHEPARD, naval 

officer, was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., Aug- 
ust 7, 1861, son of John Wardell and Mary 
Garrisor) (Shepard) Wood. He was edu- 
cated at Flushing (N. Y.) Institute, and 
the U. S. Naval Academy; graduated from 
the latter in 1882. He served in the Span- 
ish War, in command of the U. S. tor- 
pedo boat Du Pont, and is now aide to 
the Admiral of the Navy. He is an Epis- 
copalian and a member of the Army and 
Navy Club of Washington; the New York 
Yacht Club; the Cosmos Club of San 
Francisco; the Society of Colo;iial War^s, 
and the Society of Foreign Wars. On 
June 12, 1895, he was married to Mary 



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Margaretta Fryer. Residence: 1618 Twen- 
ty-second street, n.w. 

WOODARD, HENRY F., lawyer, junior 
member of tlie Arm of Birney & Wood- 
ard, was born in Wasliington, D. C, on 
October 30, 1864, son of Henry and Euge- 
nia Woodard. He was graduated from 
Columibian (now George Washingto-O 
University, and continued in practice 
alone from June, 1891, to August 31, 1897, 
when he became associated with A. A. 
Birney. He is the counsel, and a director, 
of the Business Men's Association; vice 
president of the Washington Savings 
Bapk; secretary of the Columbian Marble 
Quarrying Company, of Rutland, Vt. He 
was marrieid October 20, 1886, to Lillias 
M., daughter of Charles Scott,' of Wash- 
ington, D. C, to which union two chil- 
dren have been born. Residence: 1934 
Seventeenth street. Office: Eleventh and 
P streets, n.w. 

WOODBURY, ELLEN CAROLINA DE 
QUINCY, authoress, was born in Ports- 
mouth N. H., daughter of Judge Levi 
Wood'bury, who was judge of the U. S. 
Supreme Court, Gover;)or of New Hamp- 
shire, U. iS. Senator, etc., a;)d was 
educated at the Academy in her native 
town. She is the author of Dorothy Quin- 
cy, Wifeof John Hancock, with Events of 
Her Time (1902), etc. She is vice presi- 
dent of the National Society of Colonial 
Dames of the District of Columbia; a 
member of the Society of Daughters of 
Holland, etc. Address: Hotel Bancroft. 

WOODBURY, LEVI, president of the 
Norfolk & Washington Steamboat Com- 
pany, was born in Salem, Rockingham 
County, N. H., in 1834, son of Israel Wood- 
bury, Jr., and Eliza J. (Graham) Wooi- 
bury, and was educated i;) his home town. 
Soon after leaving school he was appoint- 
ed station master and telegraph operator 
at Windham, N. H., for the Concord & 
Boston Railroad, after which he engaged 
in the lumber business untM he took up 
his residence in Washington. After serv- 
ing two years as steward at the St. James 
Hotel, he leased the hotel and still ow;)s 
and operates it. He was one of the organ- 
izers of the Norfolk & Washington Steam- 
boat Company and has been its president 
for a number of years, and in addition to 
this successful enterprise he is a director 
of the Central National Bank, and ma,i)y 
other business enterprises in Washingtoi. 
Residence: 11 Iowa Circle. 

WOODRUFF, BENJAMIN, Washingtoa 
manager for Post & Flagg, bankers and 
brokers, was born in Cumberland County, 
Va., ifi 1874, and came to Washington as 
a telegraph operator for the Associated 
Press. He then served with a stock brok- 
erage house, and during part of the Span- 
ish War was an expert operator in the 
War Department. In the Spring of 1903 
he was made manager for Post & Flagg, 
and in 1904 became a member of the 
Washington Stock Exchange. He is a 



member of the Columbia G-olf Club. Resi- 
dence: 2433 Wisconsin avenue, ;3.w. Of- 
fice: 1331 F street, n.w. 

WOODS, ALBERT FREDERICK, path- 
ologist and physiologist, U. S. Department 
of Agriculture, .since 1903, and now also 
Assistant Chief of the Bureau of Plant 
Industry, was born in Belvedere, Brown 
County, 111., December 25, 1866, son of Fred 
Moffat and Eliza Olivia Woods. He was 
educated in the schools near his home, 
and later attended the University of Ne- 
braska, where he was graduated (B. S.) in 
1890 and (A. M.) in 1892; and from 1890 
to 1894 he was assistant botanist in the 
.same institution. In June, 1905, he rep- 
resented the U. S. Government at the In- 
ternational CoT)ference in Rome, Italy, for 
the establishing of an international in- 
stitute of agriculture, and in the same 
year he represented the U. S. Govern- 
ment at the International Botanical Con- 
ference held at Vie^ina. He is the author 
of numerous reports and monographs on 
botany, pathology and generail agriculture 
that have been issued by the Department 
of Agriculture. He is a member of the 
First Congregational Church; Sigma Chi 
college fraternity; Botanical Society of 
America; American Association for the 
Adva;3cement of Science; Botanical So- 
ciety of Germany; Cosmos Club; and in 
politics a Republican. In June, 1898, he 
married Bertha Gerneaux Davis. Resi- 
dence: Takoma Park, D. C. Office: U. 
S. Department of Agriculture. 

WOODS, BERTHA GERNEAUX DAV- 
IS (MRS.), authoress, was born in Penn 
Yan, N. Y., a daughter of Charles ' W. 
and Harriet (Winton) Davis, and was 
educated in the public and high schools 
of Washington, D. C, graduating from 
Washington Central High School in 1893. 
She is a contributor of poems and' short 
.stories to the Sunday School Times; Bos- 
ton Congregationalist; Independent; Da- 
vid C. Cook's publication's; Cosmopolitan; 
and Scribner's Magazine. A collection 
of her poems were published in book form 
in 1903, under the title, Verses. On June 
1, 1898, she married Albert Fred Woods. 
Address: Takoma Park, D. C. 

WOODS, ELLIOTT, superintendent of 
the Capitol, was born near Manchester, 
England, in 1864, during a visit of his par- 
ents to that cou;)try, and shortly after his 
birth his family settled in southern Illi- 
nois. After six years' residence in Illinois 
he removed to Indianapolis, Ind., with his 
parents, where he received his early edu- 
cation, and at the age of thirteen entered 
a large manufactory to learn the profes- 
sion of wood carving; while engaged there 
with the co^jtractors he assisted in the 
wood carving in the English opera house. 
When twenty years of age he removed to 
Washington, where he entered the gov- 
ernment service under Edward Cilark, in 
1885, who was then architect of the Capi- 
tol. On account of his former experience, 
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rapidly, and during the later years of Mr. 
Clark's life, when he was unable to get 
about the Capitol building, carried for- 
ward the work. When Mr. Clark died, he 
was promoted to superintendent 'Of the 
Capitol, at which time Congress changed 
the title of the office from architect to 
that of superintendent, in order that he 
might be appointed to the position. Resi- 
dence: Stoneleigh Court. Office: The 
Capitol. 

WOODWARD, GEORGE A., retired 

army officer, was born at Wilkesbarre, 
Pa., February 14, 1835, .son of former Chief 
Justice George and Sarah Elizabeth 
(Trott) "Woodward. He was graduated 
from Wyoming Seminary, Ki/jgston, Pa., 
and Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., in 
1885, and (M. A.) 1895. Studied law, and 
was city attorney of Milwaukee, 1858-39, 
and ilater practiced at Philadelphia. He 
entered the military service May 27, 1861, 
as Captain, and was promoted to Colonel, 
with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in 
the regular army, i^ 1866. Participated 
in campaigns of 1861-63 with the Army of 
the Potomac; wounded and taken prisoner 
at battle of Glendale, Va., June 30, 1862; 
commanded regiment at Gettysburg, July, 
1863. After entering regular service, 
served in Kentucky, Tennessee, Dakota, 
Wyoming, Nebraska and Utah. Retired 
for disability resulting from wounds i;^ 
1879; advanced to Brigadier-General, re- 
tired, April 23, 1904. He was a member of 
a Philadelphia firm publishing military 
and naval books, 1879-87. and editor of 
the United Service Magazine during the 
same period. Member of District of Co- 
ilumbia Commandery Loyal Legion, and of 
Chevy Chase Club. In 1895-96, president 
of the Army and Navy Club. He was 
married at Columbus, Ohio, February 14, 
1867, to Charlotte Treat Chittenden. Resi- 
dence: 2110 Massachusetts ave^jue. 

WOODWARD, ROBERT SIMPSON, 

educator, civil engineer, was born at 
Rochester, Mich., July 21, 1849, son of Ly- 
sander and Peninah A. (Simpson) Wood- 
ward. He was graduated from the Uni- 
versity of Michigan (C. E.) 1872, (Ph. D.) 
1892; has received the honorary degrees of 
LL. D. from University of Wisconsin 
(1904) and Sc. D. from Columbia Univer- 
sity and the University of Pennsylvania 
(1905). Was assistant engineer U. S. 
Lake Survey, 1872-1882; assistant astron- 
omer U. S. Transit of Venus Commission, 
1882-84; assistant astronomer, geogra- 
pher (and Chief Geographer of the 
U. S. Geological Survey, 1884-1890, 
and assistant U. S. Coast and Geodetic 
Survey, 1890-1893. He was professor 
of mechanics and mathematical phys- 
ics 1893-1905, afid dean of the School of 
Pure Science 1895-1905 at Columbia Uni- 
versity. Since 1905 he has been president 
of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. 
Author of Smithsonian Geographical 
Tables (1894); Higher Mathematics 
(1896); and many memoirs and addresses 



on subjects in astronomy, geodesy, math- 
ematical physics and education. Was 
president of the America;) Mathematical 
Association for the Advancement of 
Science, 1900-1901; of American Mathe- 
matical Society, 1898-1900; and of NevV 
York Academy of Sciences, 1900-1902. 
Member of the Cosmos Olub of Washing- 
ton; of National Academy of Sciences, 
and of the Century As.s'ociation of New 
York. He was married in 1876 to Martha 
Gretton Bond. Residence: 1513 Sixteenth 
street, fi.w. Office: Bond Building. 

WOODWARD, SAMUEL WALTER, 

merchant, was born in Massachusetts. In 
1880, with Alvin Lothrop, he established 
a dry goods store in Washington, which 
has since grown to be one of the largest 
department stores in the United States. 
In addition to his departme,nt -store he 
is associated with many ether leading 
business enterprises in the city, among 
them being: The National Metropolitan 
Bank; president of the Columbian Realty 
and Appraisal Company, etc. He is deep- 
ly interested in charity work. He is pres- 
ident of the Y. M. C. A.; Board of Chan- 
ties- a trustee of George Washington Uni- 
versity and a member of the Board cf 
Managers of the public library. He has 
contributed large sums of money, includ- 
ing $100,000 to the building fund of the 
Y M C. A., and $100,000 toward the en- 
larging the work of the Calvary Baptist 
Church. Residence: 2015 Wyomi;ig ave- 
nue. Office: Eleventh and F streets, n.w. 

WOODWARD, SHERMAN MELVILLE, 

irrigation engineer, U. S. Department of 
Agriculture, was born in Richfield, Minn . 
May 11 1871, son of Emerson Jewett and 
Amelia '(Wilson) Woodward. He attend- 
ed the St. Louis Manual Training School 
and the School of Engineering and Archi- 
tecture of Washington University, St. 
Louis Mo., and was graduated from the 
latter' institution in 1893 with the degree 
of Master of Science. He taught in Rayen 
High School, Youngstown, Ohio, 1893-95, 
attended the Harvard Graduate Sohool, 
1895-96 takijig courses m mathematics 
and Dh'ysics and receiving the degree of 
Master of Arts. From 1896 to 1904 he was 
professor of mathematics and mechanics 
in the University of Arizona, Tucson, 
Ariz ■ 1904-05, professor of steam engi- 
neering at the State University of Iowa, 
Iowa City, Iowa; and since the latter date 
has occupied his present position. He has 
been engaged at various times on prac- 
tical engineering work, including electric 
railway construction, water supply a^d 
hydraulic power development, engine test- 
ing and design. On March 17, 1897, he 
married Gertrude B. Hughes. Address: 
Department of Agriculture. 

WOODWARD, THOMAS PURSELL, 

lawyer, vice president and title officer, 
Washington Title Insurance Company and 
the District Title Insurance Company, was 
born in Washington, D. C, on August 5, 



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1865, eldest son of Mark Rittenhouse and 
Martha J. Woodward. Was educated in 
the public school? of Washington). Served 
an apprenticeship as compositor in the 
government printing office, where he was 
employed until September, 1886. He stud- 
ied law in the offices of William R. Wood- 
ward and in the Law School of George- 
town University. Upon the organization 
of the Washington Title Insurance Com- 
pany, in 1889, he was appointed examining 
attorney, in which capacity he acted until 
1893, when he resigned to enter into gen- 
eral practice with Hon. Ashley M. Gould 
and the late William Redin Woodward. In 

1898 he was elected vice president, and ij) 

1899 succeeded Judge Gould as president 
of the Washington Title Insurance Com- 
pany. Upon the consolidation of the 
Washington and the District Title Insur- 
ance Companies, in 1906, he was elected 
vice president and title officer of ?aid 
companies. He is lecturer on the law of 
real property in the Law School of How- 
ard University. He is a member of the 
Methodist Episcopal church, and' in poli- 
tics a Republican. On November 20, 1895, 
he married Annie Virginia Appleman, of 
Washington. Residence: Takoma Park, 
D. C. Office: 610 Thirteenth street, n.w. 

WOODWARD. WILLIAM CREIGH- 
TON, physician, was born in Washington, 
D. C, on December 11, 1867, son of Mark 
Rittenhouse and Martha Jane Woodward. 
He was graduated from the Washington 
High School in 1885, and Georgetown Uni- 
versity (M. D.) in 1889 and (LL. M.) in 
1900. In 1892 he was appointed resident 
physician of the Central and Emergency 
Hospital; and physician to the poor the 
same year. On July 20, 1893, he was ap- 
pointed coroner of the District of Colum- 
bia. On August 1, 1894, he was appointed 
health officer of the District of Columbia, 
and was reappointed in 1897 and 1900. 
He is professor of medicine and medical 
jurisprudence in the Medical Department 
of Georgetown University; also professor 
of medical jurisprudence in the medical 
schools of the George Washington Univer- 
sity and Howard University. Is a mem- 
ber of the American Medical Association; 
the American Puhlic Health Association; 
the Medical Society of the District of Co- 
lumbia; and the Medical Association) of 
the District of Columbia. On February 14, 
1895, he married Ray Elliott, in Washing- 
ton. Address: 508 I street, n.w. 

WOODYARD, HARRY CHAPMAN, 

merchant. Congressman, was born in 
Spencer, W. Va., on November 12, 1857, 
And was educated' in the common schools, 
after which he engaged in the wholesale 
grocery and lumber business. I;) 1898 he 
was elected to tlie State Senate, during 
which time he served as chairman of the 
committee on railroads and on the judi- 
ciary committee; in 1900 was a candidate 
for the nomination for Congress, but was 
defeated' in the convention by Hon. James 
A. Hughes. In 1902 he was elected ;o 
the Fifty-eighth Congress from the Fourth 



West Vdrginia District, and was re-elected 
to the Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Congresses 
on the Republican ticket. He married 
Emma Douglass Kelley. Legal residence: 
Spencer, West Virginia. Washington ad- 
dress: House of Representatives. 

WORTHINGTON, AUGUSTUS S., law- 
yer, was born in Fallston, Pa., on August 
14, 1843, son of Be^ijamin B. and Eliza 
Worthington, and obtained his early edu- 
cation at Steubenville, Ohio. He served 
from 1862-65 as private in Company D nf 
the Ninety-eighth Ohio Voilunteer Infaii- 
try, and lost a leg in the battle of Ken'> 
saw Mountain on June 27, 1864. I;) 1868 
he was graduated from Columbian (now 
George Washington) University Law 
School, and was admited to the 'bar in 
June of the same year, but did not begia 
practice until August 1, 1870. From 1884- 
88 he served as U. S. District Attorney of 
the District of Columbia. He is a memo-sr 
of the Metropolitan, Cosmos, and Chevy 
Chase clubs. On January 25, 1872, li- 
married Louise Starr, at Medi;)a, N. Y. 
Residence: 2015 Massachusetts avenue. 
Office: Columbian Building. 

WRIGHT, ABNER KING, Baptist cler- 
gyman, was horn at Cox's Creek, Nelson 
County, Ky.. on October 23, 1875, s'on of 
Quinton James and Elmira L. Wright, 
He received his collegiate education at 
Georgetown (Ky.) College, 1897-1902, and 
the Southern Baptist Theological Semina- 
ry, in Louisville, Ky., from 1902-04. Dur- 
ing his college career he won the Ken- 
tucky intercollegiate oratorical contest 
medal and the Chautauqua oratorical 
contest medal. During the spring of 1904 
he made a tour of Palestine, Egypt and 
Southern Europe. He has held pastorates 
in Butler, Cornith and Farmdale, in Ken- 
tucky, and since October 1, 1904, has been 
pastor of the Centennial Baptist Church 
of Washington. He is unmarried. Resi- 
dence: 720 Fifth street, n.e. 

WRIGHT, DANIEL THEW, jurist, 
was born at Riverside, Ohio, September 
24, 1864, son of D. Thew and Juliet 
Prances (Rogers) TVright. He was gradu- 
ated from the Hughes High School, Cin- 
cinnati, Ohio, in 1885, and the Cincinnati 
Law School, 1887, and was admitted to the 
bar the same year. He practiced law at 
CiT)cinnati, and specialized as a trial law- 
yer; was mayor of Riverside, O., 1890-93. 
From 1890 to 1893 he was First Assist- 
ant Prosecuting Attorney and Judge Court 
of Common Pleas of Hamilton County. 
Since November 6, 1903, he has heen a 
justice of the Supreme Court of District 
of Columbia. Was married at Riverside, 
Ohio, October 26, 1887, to Alice Williams. 
Residence: 1832 Sixteenth street, n.w. 

WRIGHT, JOHN ALLEN COLLIER, 

lawyer, was born in Binghamton, N. Y , 
August 7, 1859, son of Thomas Davis and 
Helen Stuyvesant (Collier) Wright, his 
father being one of the young Irelanders 
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and a reward of 500 pounds set upon his 
head; though the leader, Smith O'Brien, 
was apprehended at his home, he escaped, 
disguised as a milkmaid, to the coast, 
and rowed in' safety to an Atlantic liner, 
and became partner of Daniel S. Dick- 
inson. His grandfather, John A. Collier, 
was a leading lawyer of Ne'w York State; 
Comptroller; offered Lieutenant-Govern- 
orship; member of Congress and appoint- 
ed Minister to Ecquador. Mr. Wright, 
the subject of this sketch, was educated 
at St. John's Academy, Manlius, N. Y., 
and was graduated from Harvard in 1881; 
formed the first Harvard Chess Club, and 
was secretary of the St. Paul Society. 
Studied law with W. F. Cogswell, at 
Rochester, N. Y., and practiced in State 
courts. His principal service has been in 
revolutionizing century-old/ methods of 
highways in New York, inherited from 
England, and highway legislation there, 
practically his, including a $50,000,000 ref- 
erendum just carried, for State co-opera- 
tion with counties and towns, insuring 
its administrative entity and homogeneity 
with a perfected county road and engi- 
neer act, and of public highways (both 
roads and waterways), hitherto neglected 
throughout the States and for nation, 
and taxation — the adjustment of ways 
and means of commonwealth. He has 
served a number of years as secretary 
of the New York League for Good Roads, 
and of the State Farmers' Congress; ap- 
pointed delegate by Governor Morton to 
National Farmers' Congress; vice presi- 
dent National Roads Parliament; vice 
president (for New York) International 
Deep Waterways Association. He is the 
author of numerous addresses, editorials, 
pamphlets, etc.. on political and econom- 
ical subjects. Member University and 
(vice president) Harvard clubs, and Gen- 
esee Valley and Country clubs of Roches- 
ter. He was married November 22, 1900, 
to Emily Rowland, daughter of Thomas 
Hyde. Reside;)ce: 2727 Q street, n.w., 
tWashington, D. C. Office: Elwood Build- 
ing, Rochester, N. Y. 

WRIGHT, JOHN R., was born in Alex- 
andria, Va., February 22, 1831, and be- 
gan to learn the trade of cabinet making 
when quite young. In 1873 he came to 
Washington and went into the business 
of undertaking, and is now associated 
therein with two nephews. He has been 
for many years a preacher in the Ham- 
line Methodist Church; president of the 
Taylor University in Indiana; has been 
for many years on the executive board 
of the Deacons' Home. He is a thirty- 
third degree Mason; a member of the 
Scottish Rite; the board of trade, and 
the Oldest Inhabitants' Association. Resi- 
dence: 1335 Tenth street, n.w. 

WRIGHT JOHN VINES, lawyer, was 
born in Purdy, McNairy County, Tenn., on 
June 23, 1828, son of Captain Benjamin 
Wright, U. S. A. He was educated in his 
native town and at the University of 
Kentucky, later studying medical juris- 



prudence preparatory for a law course, 
and finished a medical course at Louis- 
ville. In 1852 he was admitted to the bar, 
and was defeated the following year for 
the State legislature by one vote; from 
1855-61 he was a member of Congress, 
when he entered the Thirteenth Tennes- 
see Regiment in the Confederate Army, 
later being elected Captain of his com- 
pany, and Colonel of the regiment, and 
was in battle at Belmont, and served in 
the army until elected to the Confederate 
Congress, where he served until the sur- 
render of the Confederacy. After the 
close of the war, he was Judge of the 
Circuit Court, and Chancellor and Judge 
of the Supreme Court of Tennessee. From 
1886-90, he was chairman of the North- 
west Indian Commission, when he made 
more treaties with the Indians than any 
other man. He was also a member of 
the Commission of the Great Sioux Na- 
tion. In 1880 he was nominated for gov- 
ernor of Tennessee, but owing to a split 
in the Democratic party he was defeated 
by the Republican candidate. On No- 
vember 23, 1858, he married Georgia Hays, 
of Eutaw, Ala. Address: The Portner. 

WRIGHT, MARCUS JOSEPH, lawyer, 
was born in Purdy, McNairy County, 
Tenn., on June 5, 1831, son of Benjamin 
and Martha Ann Hicks (Harwell) Wright, 
and was educated in the ooimmon and 
high schools of his native town, after 
which he took up the study of law. From 
1852-60 he was clerk of common law and 
chancery court of Memphis, Tenn.. and 
during 1876-77 was sheriff of Shelby 
County. During the Civil War he served 
as a Brigadier-General in the Confederate 
Army; has been president of the South- 
ern Historical Association. Among his 
literary works are A Life of General Win- 
field Scott; Life of General William 
Blount; History of McNairy County, 
Tenn.; Biographies of Confederate Gener- 
als, etc. He is a member of the Episco- 
pal Church; Sons of the American Revo- 
lution; and the United Confederate Vet- 
erans. He was originally a member of 
the old Whig party, but is now a Demo- 
crat in politics. Was agent of the U. 3. 
War Department for collection of Con- 
federate records from 1878 to 1906. He 
has been twice married; first to Martha 
Spencer Elcan; second to Pauline Wor- 
nack. He is the father of seven chlldran, 
four of whom are living. Residence: 1743 
Corcoran street, n.w. 

WRIGHT, ROBERT L., clergyman, pas- 
tor of the Ryland Methodist Episcopal 
Church. Reside;;ce: 927 Massachusetts 
avenue, n.w. 

WRIGHTSON, SIDNEY LLOYD, mu- 
sical director and president of the Wash- 
ington College of Music, was born in 
London, England, August 4, 1869. son of 
William C. and Isabel (Harris) Wrightson, 
the former Commissioner to the Crown. 
He is the first member of his family to 
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St. Paul's Cathedral Choir School, Lon- 
don, England, 1877-85, a pupil of Sir John 
Stainer, James Matthews and William 
Shakespeare. He traveled abroad for 
three years, most of the time in Austra- 
lia, and in 1897, at Chicago, was musical 
director of the Chicago Choral Union; 
Master of Music in the Chicago Univer- 
sity School, and director of the Episco- 
pal Church Choir Diocesan Festival As- 
sociation, conducting a chorus of 1,500 
voices in the Auditorium. In 1902 he was 
called to the Choir of Music at the State 
University of West Virginia, and was 
Dean of the School of Music for two 
years. In June, 1904. he resigned from 
the West Virginia University and came 
to Washington to organize the Washing- 
ton College of Music. He was appointed 
Honorary Musical Director of the James- 
town Exposition at Norfolk. Was one of 
three men who financed the deficit of 
the Washington Symphony Orchestra, of 
which he was the manager; and is the 
conductor of the Washington Choral So- 
ciety and the Washington Concert Choir. 
In the spring of 1907 he resigned as a 
director of the Washington Choral Socie- 
ty and organized the Washington Oratorio 
Society. Residence: 3030 Newark street. 
Cleveland Park, D. C. Office: 1218 F 
street, n.w. 



fore the Supreme Court of the United 
States. Several years ago he removed 
to Washington in order to pursue post- 
graduate courses in law and diplomacy 
in Columbian (now George Washington) 
University, from which institution he has 
received the degrees of LL. M. and D. C. 
L. For two years he was president of 
Lambda Chapter of the Phi Sigma Kappa 
Greek letter fraternity at Columbian Uni- 
versity. In 1903 he became law clerk to 
the Solicitor of the Department of Com- 
merce and Labor, and in 1905 was ap- 
pointed Chief of the Division of Corre- 
spondence of the Postofflce Department, 
where he was in charge of the work of 
construing the postal laws and regula- 
tions for postmasters throughout the 
country. In 1907 he was appointed Su- 
perintendent of the Division of Postmas- 
ters' Appointments, an office created by an 
act of Congress which consolidated the 
Divisions of Appointments, Bonds and 
Commissions and Correspondence, and 
imposed the 'duties heretofore performed 
by three chiefs of divisions upon a single 
officer. July 23, 1902, Mr. Wyman mar- 
ried Miss Carrie Bradford McCrellis, 
daughter of the late James Bradford Mc- 
Crellis, a prominent attorney of Wash- 
ington. Residence: 1800 Wyoming ave- 
nue. Office: Postofflce Department. 



WYLIE, ANDREW, jurist, was born in 
Washington County, Pa., February 25, 
1814. He was graduated from the Uni- 
versity of Indiana in 1832, and studied 
law at the Transylvania University, Lex- 
ington, Ky., 1835-36, afterward with Hon. 
Walter Forward, of Pittsburg Pa. Ad- 
mitted to the 'bar in 1837, and practiced 
at Pittsburg, 1837-48. He removed to 
Alex'andria, Va., and openied an offi'ce 
at Washington in 1848, and gave the only 
vote for Lincoln in 1860 that was given 
at Alexandria. Justice of the Supreme 
Court of the District of Columbia, 1863- 
85, and retired on account of age. Wa.s 
married in 1845 to Mary C. Bryan, of 
Virginia. Residence: 1205 Thomas Circle. 

WYMAN, BAYARD, government offi- 
cial, was born in Salem, Neb., Septem- 
ber 30, 1873, son of Lloyd and Mary Eliz- 
abeth (Tisdel) Wyman. When he was 
very young his parents returned to their 
former home in the Western Reserve of 
Ohio, where he was educated in the com- 
mon and high schools and by private tu- 
tors. At the age of eighteen he accepted 
a position as principal of one of the larg- 
est public schools in Joliet, 111., and after 
remaining there three years declined a 
reappointment at an advanced salary, in 
order to take up the study of law at 
the University of Michigan. He v/as 
graduated with the degree of LL. B., and 
was admitted to the bar of the Supreme 
Court of Michigan in 1897, passing the 
State bar examination at the head of 
his class. For several years he prac- 
ticed his profession at Saginaw, Mich., 
and in 1901 was admitted to practice be- 



WYMAN, HOWARD S., Collector of 
the Port, Custom House. U. S. Treasury 
Department. Residence: 1406 Twenty- 
first street, n.w. Office: Treasury De- 
partment. 

WYMAN, WALTER, Surgeon- General 
of the U. S. Public Health and Marine 
Hospital Service, was "born in St. Louis, 
Mo., on August 17, 1848, son of Edward 
and Elizabeth Frances (Hadley) Wyman. 
He was educated in the City University 
of St. Louis (prep.) ; Amherst College, 
A. B., 1870; St. Louis Medical College, M. 
D., 1873; and took post-graduate courses 
in New York and Vienna; in 1897 the de- 
gree of LL. D. was conferred upon him 
by the Western University of Pennsylva- 
nia, and May 31, 1907, by the University 
of Maryland. From 1873-75 he was as- 
sistant-surgeon of the St. Louis Hospital; 
1876-91, officer of the Marine Hospital 
Service, and has been in charge of Marine 
Hospitals in many parts of the country 
and by the act of July 1, 1902. he was 
made Surgeon-General of the service. He 
is a member of the Board of Visitors of 
the Government Hospital for the Insane; 
a member of the Medical Board of Provi- 
dence Hospital; and was a member of 
the committee appointed by President 
Roosevelt for the investigation and pre- 
vention of tuberculosis in government 
buildings and workshops. He was presi- 
dent of the first and second International 
Sanitary Conventions of American Re- 
publics, and chairman of the Inter;)ational 
Sanitary Bureau. He is a member of the 
Alpha Delta Phi college fraternity; Met- 
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leading medical and scientific societies. 
He is unmarried. Residence: Stoneleiffh 
Court. 

WYNNE. ROBERT J., journalist, U. S. 
Consul-General to London since 1905, was 
l>orn in New York on November 18, 1851, 
son of John and Mary Wynne. He was 
educated in the public schools and by 
private tutors. From 1870 to 1880 he was 
a telegrapher; Washington correspondent 



Cincinnati Gazette 1880-92; private secre- 
tary to the Secretary of the Treasury 
1892-96; and correspondent New York 
Press 1896-1902. He was First Assistant 
Postmaster-General 1902-04; Postmaster- 
General 1904-05; and was appointed U. S. 
Consul-General to London in 1905. Mem- 
ber of Military Order of Loyal Legion (by 
inheritance) and Army and Navy Club, 
and ex-president of the Gridiron Club. 
Address: .State Department. 



YANES, FRANCISCO J., Secretary of 
the International Bureau of American Re- 
publics. Residence: The Oakland. Of- 
fice: 2 Jackson Place. 

YARROW, HARRY CRECY, physician, 
was born in Philadelphia, Pa., on Novem- 
ber 19, 1840, and was educated at Phila- 
delphia and at Geneva. Switzerland, and 
was graduated from the Medical Depart- 
ment of the University of Pennsylvania 
in 1861. During the Civil War he was a 
Surgeon in the Fifth Pennsylvania Cav- 
alry, and was later surgeon and natural- 
ist on the expedition for the exploration 
of the territory west of the one hundredth 
meridian, and was an Acting Assistant 
Surgeon in the U. S. Army for thirty 
years. For several years he has been a 
member of the medical faculty of Colum- 
bian (now George Washington) Univer- 
sity, and curator in the Department of 
Reptiles in the U. S. National Museum. 
He is the author of several monographs 
of a scientific nature, among them bei;ig: 
An Introduction to the Study of Mortu- 
ary Customs Among North American 
Indians, etc. He was one of the founders 
of the Cosmos Club. He married Anna 
Provand Drj-*burgh. Address: 814 Seven- 
teenth street, n.w. 

YELLOTT, ROBERT EDWARD LEE, 

lawyer, vice president and secretary F. 
H. Thomas Company, was born in Lex- 
ington, Rockbridge County, Va., on Aug- 
ust 2, 1868, son of Captain Coleman and 
Mary (Virginia) Yellott. His father was 
at one time a member of the Virginia 
State Senate, and Captain John Coleman, 
of Virginia, who was his great-grandfath- 
er, served with distinction in the Revo- 
lutio;)ary War. After completing his pre- 
paratory education at Waterford (Va.) 
Academy, he began the study of law at 
Columbian (now George Washington) 
University, from which he was graduated 
LL. B. In addition to practicing law in 
Washington, he has been manager of an 
insurance company, and extensively in- 
terested in real estate, and is a direc- 
tor of the American National Bank. He 
is a member of the Episcopal church; 
Kappa Alpha college fraternity; F. A. A. 
M.; Sons of the American Revolution; 
Chevy Chase; University, and Dumbar- 
ton clubs, and in politics a Democrat. He 



has served as secreitary, vice president 
and president of the Virginia Democratic 
Association of the District of Columbia. 
On May 26, 1906, he married Lillian 
Wright, of Columbia, Tenn., to which 
union has been born a son. Residence: 
The Ontario. Office: 717 Fourteenth 
street, n.w. 

YEOMANS, JAMES D., member of U. 
S. Interstate Commerce Commission, was 
born in Wyoming County, N. Y., on April 
21. 1845. He entered the railway serv- 
ice becoming general superintendent of 
the Buffalo, New York & Philadelphia 
Railway, New York Railway, and the 
Clean, Bradford & Warren Railway, and 
was later engaged in railway building in 
Pennsylvania, New York and Michigan. 
Residence: The Cumberland. OflJice: 
American National Bank Building. 

YERKES, JOHN W., lawyer, was born 
in Lexington, Ky., on April 1, 1854, son 
of Rev. Dr. Stephen Yerkes. He was 
graduated from Centre College of Dan- 
ville, Ky., in 1873; A. M. 1876; and the 
law ' department of the University of 
Michigan in 1877 (LL. B.. LL. D., Cen- 
tral University. June, 1902). In 1878 he 
was Register in Bankruptcy; from 1872 
to 1892 Master in Chancery; and was 
chairman of the Republican State Cen- 
tral Committee from 1881 to 1886. He was 
a commissioner to the World's Columbian 
Exposition in 1893; the Atlanta Exposi- 
tion in 1895; became a professor in the 
law department of Centre College in 1894; 
and since 1896 has been a member of 
the Republican National Committee. He 
was commissioner of the State Deaf and 
DumlD Institution; has been attorney for 
the Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pa- 
cific Railway since 1892; in 1897 he was 
U S Collector of Internal Revenue; and 
in 1900 was the Republican nominee for 
governor of Kentucky. From December 
20 1900, to June 1, 1907, he was Com- 
missioner of Internal Revenue. In Oc- 
tober 1879, he married Elizabeth Owsley 
Anderson. Residence: The Highlands. 

YOACHAM, DON ALBERTO, First 
Secretary and Charge d'Affaires, Chilean 
Legation. Address: The Rochambeau. 

YOUNG, H. OLIN, lawyer. Congress- 
man, was born in New Albion, Cattarau- 



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g-us County, N. Y., on August 4, 1850, and 
after receiving his academic education, 
took up the study of law. He served as 
a member of the Michigan State legis- 
lature in 1879, and from 1886-1896 was 
prosecuting attorney of Marquette Coun- 
ty, Mich. He has represented the Twelfth 
Michigan District in the Fifty-eighth and 
Fifty-ninth Congresses and has been re- 
elected to the Sixtieth Congress on the 
Republican ticket. On March 20, 1876, he 
married Mary J. Marsh. Legal Resi- 
dence: Ishpeming, Mich. Washington ad- 
dress: House of Representatives. 

YOUNG, JAMES RANKIN, superin- 
tendent of the Dead Letter Office, Post- 
'office Department, was born in Philadel- 
phia, Pa., March 10, 1847, and educated 
in the Philadelphia public schools. He 
served with the Thirty-second Pennsyl- 
vania Regiment in the Gettysburg cam- 
paign. Made tour of the Southern States 
at close of war for New York Tribune, 
and was its chief Washington correspond- 
ent from 1866-70; chief executive clerk, 
U. S. Senate 1873-79 and 1883-92, and 
chief clerk. Department of Justice, 1881- 
83. One of the founders of the Phila- 
delphia Evening Star, and its Washing- 
ton correspondent for thirty years. Mem- 
ber of Congress from the Fourth Penn- 
sylvania District, 1897-1903. Member of 
the Gridiron Club of Washington, and 
Pen and Pencil Club of Philadelphia. He 
was married, in 1874, to Mary Barclay, of 
Washington, D. C. Residence: 1001 New 
Hampshire avenue. Office: Postoffice De- 
partment. 

YOUNG, LUCIEN, naval officer, was 
born in Lexington, Ky., on March 31, 
1852, son of Richard B. and Jane E. 
Young, a.nd obtained his early education 
in the public schools, and entered the 
U. S. Naval Academy in 1869, being grad- 
uated in 1873. He has served on various 
duties and stations, and now holds the 
rank of Lieutenant-Commander. He has 
served as Captain of the Port at Havana, 
Cuba. He married Belle Parker, of Iowa, 
in Washington. Address: Navy Depart- 
ment. 



YOUNG.SAMUEL BALDWIN MARKS, 

army officer, was born in Pittsburg, Pa., 
■on June 9, 1840, and entered the Union 
Army as a private with Company K of 
the Twelfth Pennsylvania "Volunteers on 
April 25, 1861, and was discharged op. 
August 5 of the same year. On Septem- 
ber 6, 1861, he was appointed Captain of 
the Fourth Pennsylvania Cavalry; was 
promoted to Major in 1862; Lieutenant- 
Colonel in 1864; Colonel the same year; 
and was brevetted a Brigadier-General in 
1865 for gallant services in the campaign 
which resulted in the surrender of Gen. 
R. E. Lee. He was honorably mustered 
out of the service on July 1, 1865, and 
on May 11, 1866, entered the regular army 
as Second Lieutenant of the Twelfth In- 
fantry, and was promoted to Captain two 
months later; Major in 1883; Lieutenant- 
Colonel in 1892; Colonel in 1897; and Brig- 
adier-General of Volunteers in 1898. Dur- 
ing the Spanish War he commanded the 
Second Brigade of the Cavalry Division 
in the Fifth Army Corps (Shatter's) in 
Cuba, and was promoted to Major-Gener- 
al of Volunteers on July 8 of the same 
year. He commanded the First Division 
of the Second Army Corps; later the Sec- 
ond Army Corps, until it was disbanded, 
when he was honorably discharged as 
Major-General of Volunteers. He was 
appointed Brigadier-General, U. S. A., 
on January 2, 1900, and Major-General on 
February 2, 1901, and served in the Phil- 
ippines from July 24. 1899, to March 1, 
1901, during which time he commanded 
the Third Brigade of the First Division; 
the Providence Brigade of the First Di- 
vision; Cavalry Brigade of the First Di- 
vision; and Separate Brigade of the 
Eighth Corps. He was military governor 
of Northwestern Luzon, and commanded 
the First District in the Department of 
Northern Luzon, and was in command of 
the Department of California until March 
15, 1902, when he was detailed president 
of the War College Board. He was pro- 
moted to Lieutenant-General on August 
8. 1903, and was General Commanding, 
U. S. A., on August 8-15. 1903. Address: 
War Department. 



ZAHM, ALBERT FRANCIS, professor 
of mechanics in the Catholic University 
of America, 'was born in New Lexington, 
Ohio, son of J. M. and Mary E. (Brad- 
dock) Zahm. He obtained his prepara- 
tory education in the public schools, and 
was graduated (M. S.) from Notre Dame 
University, 1890; Cornell University (M. 
E.), 1892, and received the degree of Ph. 
D. for work in physics at Johns Hopkins 
University in 1898. He was general sec- 
retary and organizer with Cha^iute of 
the International Conference on Aerial 
Navigation of 1893; official American dele- 
gate to the Aeronautical Congress at 
Paris, and general secretary of the James- 
town International Aeronautic Congress 



of 1907. In 1901 he designed and had 
erected an aerodynamic laboratory, 
equipped with a wind tunnel and appa- 
ratus for measuring the flow and resist- 
ance of air. His investigations and scien- 
tific papers have been mainly in theoreti- 
cal and experimental mechanics, physics 
and engineering. He was the first to dis- 
cover the law of atmospheric friction on 
even surfaces and to apply it in aerial 
navigation. He invented a ballistic crono- 
graph, which measures time truly to one- 
five-hundred-thousandth of a second. A 
pressure tube anemometer that measures 
the impactual pressure of the wind truly 
to one-millionth of an antosmophore has 
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was awarded a research assistantship by 
the Carnegie Institution, and in 1904 he 
received a similar award from the Smith- 
sonian Institution. He is a member of the 
Washington Academy of Sciences, "Wash- 
ington Philosophical Society, Aero Club 
of America, and the Cosmos Club of 
Washington. Address: Catholic Univer- 
sity. 

ZALLES, DON JORGE E., First Sec- 
retary, Bolivian Embassy. Address: 1633 
Sixteenth street, n.w. 

ZAVALIA, DON CARLOS E., First 

Secretary, Argentine Republic Embassy. 

Residence: The Bachelor, 1737 H street, 
n.w. 

ZENOR, WILLIAM T., lawyer. Con- 
gressman, was born in Harrison Countj', 



Ind., and was educated in the common 
schools, and at the seminary of Profes- 
sor James G. May, after which he began 
the study of law under Judge D. W. La 
Follette, at New Albany, Ind. In 1870 
he was admitted to the bar and formed a 
law partnership with Judge Fred Mathes, 
at Corydon, Ind., and in 1871 removed to 
Leavenworth, Crawford County, Ind., 
where he established a law practice. He 
was appointed prosecuting attorney for 
his district by Governor Williams:, which 
office he held until 1882. In 1883 was ad- 
mitted as a member of the bar of the 
Supreme Court of the State; in 1884 was 
elected judge of the judicial circuit with- 
out opposition, and was re-elected in 1890. 
He has represented the Third Indiana Dis- 
trict in the Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth. Fifty- 
seventh, Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth 
Congresses. In politics he is a Democrat. 
Legal residence: Corydon, Ind. 



ADDENDA 



ABBOT, FREDERICK VAUGHAN, 

soldier, was born in Massachusetts in 
185 — . In 1875 he was appointed to West 
Point from New York, graduating from 
the same in 1879, first in his class. On 
June 13, 1879, he was appointed Second 
Lieutenant of Engineers; First Lieuten- 
ant, 1881; Captain, 1888; and Major, 1898. 
During 1890 he was in charge of various 
works, river and harbor improvements in 
North Carolina and Nova Scotia; torpedo 
material, Charleston, S. C, 1890-97. From 
1895 to 1897 he was engineer of the Sixth 
U. S. Lighthouse District; 1897 to 1900 
was in charge of river improvements in 
Wisconsin and Minnesota; 1894 to 1896 
was a member of the mixed civil and mili- 
tary board on Brunswick Harbor, Ga. 
Since 1900 he has been Assistant Chief 
of Engineers, U. S. A. He is a member 
of the American Society of Civil Engi- 
neers. Residence: 2013 Kalorama avenue. 
Office: War Department. 

ABBOT, WILLIS J., author, journalist, 
was born in New Haven, Conn., in 1863, 
grandson of J. S. C. Abbot, historian. In 
1884 he was graduated from the University 
of Michigan with the degree of LL. B.; 
from 1893-95 he was editor of the Chi- 
cago Times; from 1895 to 1906 was writing 
editor for Hearst newspapers, and was 
manager of the Press Bureau of the Dem- 
ocratic National Committee in 1900. He is 
fhe author of several books, among 
them being: Blue Jackets of '76; Blue 
Jackets of 1812; Blue Jackets of '61; Blue 
Jackets of 1898; Life of Carter Henry 
Harrison; American Merchant Ships and 
Sailors. He has contributed to the Re- 
view of Reviews, Munsey's, Appleton's, 
Arena, etc., and is now Washington corre- 
spondent for a number of Democratic 
newspapers. Residence: The Congres- 
sional. Office: Munsey Building. 



ALEXANDER, CHARLES T., soldier, 
was born in Indian Territory, on May 3, 
1833. He received his appointment to the 
army from Arkansas (civil life) as Assist- 
ant Surgeon, U. S. A., October 1, 1856; 
promoted to Captain and Assistant Sur- 
geon, 1861; Major and Sergeon, 1863; 
Lieutenant-Colonel and Surgeon, 1886; 
Colonel and Chief Medical Purveyor, 
1891, and was retired as Colonel, 
May 3, 1891. On April 23, 1904, he 
was advanced to the rank of Brigadier- 
General, U. S. A. He was brevetted a 
Lieutenant-Colonel on March 13, 1865 for 
faithful and meritorious services during 
the Civil War, and in 1890 brevetted Col- 
onel for gallant services against the In- 
dians at Clearwater, Idaho, July 11-12, 
1877. During the greater part of the 
Civil War he was engaged as medical pur- 
veyor in the General Hospital service at 
St. Louis. Address: War Department. 

ANTHONY, DANIEL READ, JR., jour- 
nalist. Congressman, was born at Leav- 
enworth, Kans., August 22, 1870, son of 
Daniel Read, Sr., and Anna Osborn An- 
thony. He was educated in the public 
schools, subsequently attending the Mich- 
igan Military Academy and the Univer- 
sity of Michigan. He holds a degree in 
law, and has been admitted to the bar, 
but has been engaged in practical news- 
paper work all his life. From 1903 to 
1905 he was mayor of Leavenworth. Upon 
the death of his father. Col. D. R. An- 
thony, in 1904, he succeeded to the man- 
agement of the Leavenworth Daily Times. 
He was elected to the Sixtieth Congress 
by a special election, held on May 23, 
1907, from the First District of Kansas, 
to fill the vacancy caused by the election 
of Hon. Charles Curtis to the U. S. Sen- 
ate. He is a Republican in politics. In 
1897 he married Elizabeth Havens. L.e- 



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gal residence: Leavenworth, Kansas. 
Washington address: House of Repre- 
sentatives. 

BARNITZ, ALBERT, Brevet Colonel, U. 
S. A. (retired), was born at Everett, Pa., 
on March 10, 1835, son of Dr. Martin Eich- 
elburger and Martha (McClentic) Barnitz. 
He received his early education in the 
public schools, after which he entered 
Kenyon College, and later was admitted 
to the bar in Ohio. He served through- 
out the Civil War and afterwards until 
retired as brevet Colonel. He is a mem- 
ber of the Military Order of the Loyal 
Legion, and is the author of a volume of 
poems (1857) ; also poems and prose arti- 
cles, which appear in various collections. 
On February 11, 1867, he married Jennie 
Piatt, at Cleveland, Ohio. Address: War 
Department. 

BENEDICT, JAMES EVERARD, natur- 
alist, was born in Norwalk, Conn., Janu- 
ary 5, 1854, son of James Benedict. He 
attended Union College, graduating in 1880 
(A. M., Ph. D.). From 1883 to 1886 he 
was resident naturalist on the U. S. Fish 
Commission steamer Albatross, during its 
stay on the Atlantic, and subsequently 
assistant curator of the Division of Ma- 
rine Invertebrates in the U. S. National 
Museum. He has contributed many pa- 
pers on natural history subjects to pub- 
lications of the Fish Commission, U. S. 
National Museum, Biological Society, 
Washington, and the Philadelphia Acad- 
emy. On November 23, 1883, he married 
Elizabeth M. Junlien, at Washington. 
Residence: Woodside, Montgomery Coun_ 
ty, Md. Office: U. S. National Museum. 

BERRY, ROBERT MALLORY, naval 
officer, was borni in Henry County, Ky., on 
January 28, 1846, son of Edmund T. and 
S. F. Berry, and graduated from the 
U. S. Naval Academy in 1866. In April, 
1868, he was promoted to Ensign; Mas- 
ter, 1869; Lieutenant, 1870; Lieutenant- 
Commander, 1886; and Captain, 1901. He 
has served on numerous vessels and sta- 
tions; 1896-99 was Commander of the U. 
S. S. Castine; Naval Home, 1899-1901; 
commanding the Dixie In 1901, and Com- 
mandant of the Navy Yard at Charleston, 
S. C. and Sixth Naval District, Septem- 
ber, 1904-May, 1905. Since May 20, 1905, 
he has been Commandant of the Navy 
Yard at Pensacola. He married Mary A. 
Brady at Detroit in 1895. Address: Navy 
Department. 

BOLTON, BENJAMIN MEADE, physi- 
cian, bacteriologist, was born at Richmond, 
Va., April 7, 1857, son of James (M. D.) 
and Anna Maria (Harrison) Bolton. His 
preliminary education was received in the 
primary schools at Richmond, Va. ; at- 
tended the Charlottesville (Va.) Institute, 
1871-1875; University of Virginia 1875- 
79; M. D. 1879; South Carolina College, 
1882-83; University of Heidelberg, Ger- 
many, 1883-84; University of Gottingen, 
1884-86; and the University of Berlin, 



1886. From 1886-88 he was assistant, and 
from 1892-95 associate in Johns Hopkins 
University; professor at South Carolina 
College, 1888-89, and director of the Bac- 
teriological Department at Hoagland Lab- 
oratory, 1889-92. He has been director 
of the Laboratory of the Board of Health, 
Philadelphia, and was professor at the 
University of Missouri, 1896-97. At tne 
present time he is expert in therapeutics, 
Bureau of Animal Industry, Washington, 
and has been actively engaged in re- 
searches in bacteriology and experimental 
medicine since 1883. He is a member of 
the Association of American Physicians, 
and is an extensive contributor of arti- 
cles on bacteriology to the medical maga- 
zines. He hag been twice married; first, 
in 1886, at Brunswick, Germany, to Jo- 
hanna Heriette Louise Liebau; second, 
at Columbia, Mo., in 1898, to Laetitia Todd. 
Residence: 102 Hammond Court. Office: 
Bureau of Animal Industry, U. S. De- 
partment of Agriculture. 

BRISTOW, JOSEPH LITTLE, formerly 
Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General, 
April 1, 1897-January 20, 1905, was born 
in Wolfe County, Ky., July 22, 1861, son 
of William and Savannah Bristow. He 
attended Baker University, Kansas, grad- 
uating with the class of 1886. From 
1886 to 1890 he was clerk of the District 
Court of Douglass County, Kansas; 1890- 
95, owned and edited the Salina (Kansas) 
Dally Republican, and in the latter year 
bought the Ottawa (Kansas) Herald; 
1895-97 was private secretary to Governor 
Morrill, of Kansas; secretary to the Re- 
publican State Committee of Kansas, 
1894-98. In 1900 he had charge of the in- 
vestigation of the Cuban postal frauds 
and reorganization of Cuban postal serv- 
ice. On February 1, 1903, he again pur- 
chased the Salina Daily Republican- 
Journal. He was appointed by the Presi- 
dent, in 1905, as special Panama Railroad 
Commissioner. On November 11, 1879, he 
married Margaret A. Hendrix, in Flem- 
ing County, Ky. In politics he is a Re- 
publican. Residence: 1123 Roanoke 
street, n.w. 

BRYAN, WILLIAM JAMES, lawyer, 
U. S. Senator, was born in Orange Coun- 
ty, Fla., on October 10, 1876. He ob- 
tained his preliminary education in the 
public schools, subsequently attending 
Emory College, Oxford, Ga., from which 
institution he was graduated (A. B.) in 
1896. Three years later he was gradu- 
ated (LL. B.) from Washington and Lee 
University, and immediately thereafter 
began the practice of his profession at 
Jacksonville, Fla. He was elected solici- 
tor of the Duval County Criminal Court 
of Record in 1902, which position he filled 
until 1907. On December 26, 1907, Gov- 
ernor Napoleon B. Broward appointed 
him U. S. Senator to fill the vacancy 
caused by the death of Hon. Stephen R. 
Mallory, and took his seat on January 
9, 1908. Mr. Bryan married Janet Allan, 
of Lexington, Va, Democrat. Legal res- 



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idence: Jacksonville, Fla. Washing'ton ad- 
dress: U. S. Senate. 

BURNETT, SWA.. MOSES, physician, 
was born at Newmarket, Tenn., on March 
16, 1847. He was graduated from the 
Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1870, 
and began his practice in Knoxville, Tenn., 
later removing to Washington. He has 
been professor of ophthalmology and otol. 
ogy in Georgetown University since 1879, 
and also in the Washington Post-Grad- 
uate Medical School. He is president of 
the attending staff at the Central Dispen- 
sary and Emergency (Hospitals, and a 
member of the staffs at the Children's 
and Providence Hospitals. He is a mem- 
ber of the Washington Academy of Sci- 
ences, Philosophical and Anthropologica' 
Societies, American Ophthalmological So- 
ciety, and the Cosmos Club. He is the 
author of several books, among them be- 
ing: Treatise on Astigmatism; Treatise 
on Refraction of the Human Eye; also 
chapters in text-books on the eye and ear, 
and numerous articles in scientific and 
literary magazines. Address: 916 Farra- 
gut square, n.w. 

CARLIN, CHARLES CREIGHTON, 

lawyer. Congressman, was born in Alex- 
andria, Va., on April 8, 1866, and obtained 
his education in the public schools and 
at the National Law University, of wbicb 
latter institution -he is a graduate. He 
served four years as postmaster, and was 
a presidential elector on the Democratic 
ticket in 1904. On November 5, 1907, he 
was elected a member of the Sixtieth 
Congress from the Eighth Congressional 
District of Virginia, on the Democratic 
ticket, to fill the vacancy caused by the 
death 'Of Hon. John F. Rixey. Legal res- 
idence: Alexandria, Va. Washington ad- 
dress: House of Representatives. 

CARTER, CHARLES D., Congressman, 
was born near Boggy Depot, an old fort 
in the Choctaw Nation, on August 16, 1869, 
son of Benjamin Wisner, a Captain m the 
Confederate Army, and Sereno J. (Guy) 
Carter. His mother was one-fourth Chick- 
asaw, a sister of Governor William M. 
Guy, chief of the Chickasaws. One of his 
ancestors, Nathan Carter, Sr., was cap- 
tured when a small boy by Shawnee In- 
dians at the Lackawanna Valley massacre, 
when all the other members of the fam- 
ily, except a sister, were killed, and was 
later traded to the Cherokees, marrying 
a fuU-'blooded Cherokee woman. In 1876 
Charles I>- removed with his father to Mill 
Creek, on the western frontier of the 
Chickasaw Nation, and in 1890 he began 
attending a subscription school near Mill 
Creek, where he attended two terms, later 
entering the Chickasaw M'anual Labor 
Academy, Tishomingo, in 1882, graduating 
in 1887. He worked on his father's ranch 
as a farm hand, cowboy and broncho- 
buster, and in June of 1887 became a cow 
puncher for Col. Perry Proman at the Dia- 
mond Z ranch, where the city of Sulphur 
now stands, continuing in this capacity 



until 1889, when he accepted a position 
in the store of Munzesheimer & Daube, at 
Ardmore. He served as a clerk, book- 
keeper, cotton buyer and cotton weigher 
until 1892, when he was appointed to the 
position of auditor of public accounts of 
the Chickasaw Nation, serving two years. 
He was 'a member of the Chickasaw Coun_ 
cil for the term of 1895; was superin- 
tendent of schools of the Chickasaw Na- 
tion in 1897, and in November, 1900, Pres- 
ident McKinley appointed him mining 
trustee of Indian "Territory, serving four 
years. In January, 1905, he began writing 
fire insurance, and was secretary of the 
first Democratic Executive Committee of 
the proposed State of Oklahoma, June- 
December, 1906. On December 29, 1891, 
he married Gertrude Wilson -who died on 
January 30, 1901. On September 17, 1907, 
he was elected a member of the Sixtieth 
Congress from the Fourth District of Ok- 
lahoma, on the Democratic ticket. Legal 
residence: Ardmore, Okla. Washington 
address: House of Representatives. 

CLEVELAND, TREADWELL, JR., edi- 
tor, was born at Plainfield, N. J., May 19, 
1872, son of Treadwell and E. S. (Mcin- 
tosh) Cleveland. He attended Harvard 
University, 1892-94; traveling abroad and 
teaching, 1894-95; graduated from Wil- 
liams College (A. B.) in 1897; did post- 
graduate work in philosophy, Columbia 
University (A. M.), 1898, and was a Pel- 
low in psychology in Clark University, 
1900-1901. Prom 1899 to 1900 he was as- 
sistant in the Division of Forestry (now 
Forest Service), U. S. Department of Ag- 
riculture, and was a member of the edi- 
torial staff of the New York Evening 
World from May, 1903, to June, 1905. So- 
cialist. He Is the author of A Night with 
Alessajidro (1904). He married Margaret 
T. Boulger, at Washington!, on November 
1, 1899. Residence: Hyattsville, Mary- 
land. Address: Forest Service, U. S. De- 
partment of Agriculture. 

COOK, HENRY C, soldier, was born in 
Massachusetts, on September 29, 1837. He 
entered the military service as a Second 
Lieutenant in the Rhode Island Infantry, 
June 5, 1861. and was mustered out of 
the service on August 7, 1861, having been 
appointed a First Lieutenant of the Six- 
teenth U. S. Infantry on August 5, 1861, 
and promoted to Captain on September 24. 
1864. On April 17, 1869, he was trans- 
ferred to the Second Infantry; Major, 
Thirteenth Infantry, 1887; Lieutenant- 
Colonel, Fourth Infantry, 1892; Colonel of 
the Fifth Infantry, 1897; and on June 30, 
1898, was retired for disability incurred in 
line of duty. By the act of April 23. 1904, 
he was advanced to Brigadier-General, U. 
S. A. On September 1, 1864, he was brev- 
etted Captain for gallant and meritorious 
service during the Atlanta campaign, and 
in the battle of Jonesboro, Ga. Address: 
War Department. 

COOK, JOEL, journalist. Congressman, 
was born in Philadelphia, Pa., on March 



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20, 1842. He was educated in the public 
schools and graduated (B. A.) from the 
Central High School of Philadelphia in 
1859; subsequently studied law and was 
admitted to the bar in 1893, but later 
entered the journalistic field. During the 
War of the Rebellion he was correspond- 
ent with the Army of the Potomac, and 
Washington correspondent; from 1865 
was on the editorial staff of the Phila- 
delphia Public Ledger, and from 1883 to 
1907, the date of his retirement from act- 
ive work, he was financial editor of th'^ 
same paper. During the thirty years fol- 
lowing 1865 he was American correspond- 
ent of the London Times; was President 
of the board of wardens for the port of 
Philadelphia, 1891-1907. From 1897 to 
1907 he was a member of the Board of 
Public Education of Philadelphia; direc- 
tor, vice-president and president of the 
City National Bank of Philadelphia until 
its merger with the Philadelphia National 
Bank; is vice-president and treasurer of 
the United Security Life Insurance and 
Trust Company of Philadelphia, and 
president of the Philadelphia Board of 
Trade. He has traveled quite extensively, 
and is the author of several books on 
American and foreign travel. He is a 
member of the Union League of Phila- 
delphia; the American Philosophical So- 
ciety; Historical Society of Pennsylva- 
mia. and various other Pennsylvania as- 
sociations. In politics he is a Republi- 
can, and in 1865 he married Mary J. Ed- 
munds, of Philadelphia, and they have 
two children, a son and a daughter. On 
November 5, 1907, he was elected a mem- 
ber of the Sixtieth Congress from the 
Second Pennsylvania Congressional Dis- 
trict, to fill the vacancy caused by the 
•resignation of Hon. J. E. Reyburn. Le- 
gal residence: Philadelphia, Pa. Wash- 
ington address: House of Representa- 
tives 

COOPER, CHARLES LAWRENCE, sol- 
dier, was born in New York on March 6, 
1845, son of James G. and Mary E. (Brad- 
ford) Cooper. His education was obtained 
in the public and private schools of New 
York. On May 27, 1862, he enlisted in the 
Seventy-first New York State Militia, and 
has since served continuously in the serv- 
ice, with the exception of a brief period 
after the Civil War, having taken part in 
many battles against the Indians on the 
plains, and in the Porto Rico campaign in 
the Spanish-American War. During the 
Civil War he served as enlisted man and 
officer in the U. S. Volunteers, and was 
apointed a Second Lieutenant in the regu- 
lar service on July 28, 1866, and promoted 
successively, reaching the rank of Colo- 
nel of the Fifth U. S. Cavalry. On Aug- 
ust 16, 1903, he was appointed a Brigadier- 
General, U. S. A., and one day later was 
retired. Since June 30, 1904, he has been 
on duty with the National Guard of Colo- 
rado, 'by the order of the President. He 
is a member of the Loyal Legion; G. A. 
R.; Sons of the Revolution, and the So- 
ciety of Foreign Wars. In religion he is 



an Episcopalian, and in politics 'a Repub- 
lican. On December 20, 1865, he married 
Flora Green, at Philadelphia, Pa. Ad- 
dress: War Department. 

CRAIG, JOSEPH EDGAR, naval offi- 
cer, was born in New York, and was ap- 
pointed an Acting Midshipm'an at the 
Naval Academy on November 29, 1861; 
title changed to Midshipman in 1862. He 
was graduated from the U. S. Naval Acad- 
emy in 1865; appointed an Ensign, 1866; 
Master, 1868; Lieutenant, 1869; Lieuten- 
ant-Commander. 1885; Commander, 1890; 
Captain, 1899; and reached the rank of 
Rear-Admiral on Decemher 28, 1905. He 
has served at sea in the various stations, 
stationed at the Naval Academy several 
times, and was astronomer on the North 
Pacific Survey during 1874 and 1875. From 
April, 1897, to January, 1900, he was chief 
of the Hydrographic Office, and from Jan- 
uary to May, 1900, he was on duty in 
connection with the U. S. S. Albany, built 
and armed in England at Elswick Worlcs 
(Lord Armstrong's), Newcastle-on-Tyne, 
and accepted the vessel for the U. S. Gov. 
ernment, commissioned her, and in com- 
mand until relieved, October 21, 1902, at 
Genoa, Italy. This vessel has never vis- 
ited a port of the United States, but has 
served in the Philippines and on the 
European station. He was Commander- 
in-Chief of the European Squadron from 
February 10 to May 18, 1902; Captain of 
the Yard, U. S. Naval Yard, Norfolk, Va., 
February 2. 1903, to December 30, 1905, 
and has been on special duty in the Bu- 
reau of Navigation since January 5, 1905. 
He is the author of Azimuth (1887); Neg- 
ative-Reciprocal Equations (1893); also a 
monograph on The Use of "Shall" and 
"Will" (1891). Address: Navy Dep'art- 
ment. 

DAVENPORT, JAMES SANFORD, 

lawyer. Congressman, was born on a farm 
near Gaylesville, Cherokee County, Ala., 
on September 21, 1864, and removed with 
his father's family to Conway, Faulkner 
County, Ark., when fifteen years of age, 
where he worked on 'a farm for several 
years. He obtained his education in the 
public schools and the academy at Green- 
brier, Ark.; he worked his way through 
the high school, and taught during the 
summer months. He read law with Col. 
G. N. Bruce, Conway, Ark., being admit- 
ted to the Faulkner County bar in 1890. 
In October of the latter year he removed 
to Indian Territory, taking up his resi- 
dence at Muskogee, and in 1893 removed 
to Vinita, where he has since resided and 
practiced his profession. From 1897 to 
1901 he served two terms in the lower 
house of the Cherokee legislature; elected 
Speaker in the latter term, and is the only 
intermarried white man who has ever held 
the position. In November, 1899, he was 
selected one of the attorneys of the Chero- 
kee Nation, holding the position until 
March 4, 1907. He was twice elected 
mayor of Vinita. for the terms of 1903 
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second term voluntarily retired; was one 
of the first executive committeemen of 
Oklahoma Territory. He has been twice 
married; first, in 1892, to Gulielma Ross, 
who died in 1898; and second, to Byrd 
Ironside, on June 15, 1907 — botii citizens 
by blood of the Cherokee Nation. On Sep- 
tember 17, 1907, he was elected a member 
of the Sixtieth Congress, from the Third 
District of Oklahoma as a Democrat. 
Legal residence: Vinita, Okla. Washing, 
ton address: House of Representatives. 

DENNETT, FREDERICK, Commission- 
er of the General Land Office, was born in 
1863. He was graduated from the law 
department of George Washington Uni- 
versity (LL. M.), and the degree of Doc- 
toratus Juris was conferred upon him by 
the Catholic University of America. For 
eight years Mr. Dennett served as clerk 
of the Committee on Public Lands in the 
U. S. Senate; in January, 1908, he was 
promoted from Assistant Commissioner 
to Commissioner of the General Land Of- 
fice, to take effect on March 4, 1908, suc- 
ceeding Richard A. Ballinger, who re- 
signed. Legal residence: Milton, S. D. 
Washington residence: The Normandie. 
Office: General Land Office. 

DINWIDDIE, EDWIN COURTLAND, 

clergyman, temperance advocate, was born 
at Springfield, Ohio, on September 29, 1867, 
son of John Andrew and Edith Jane 
(Brelsford) Dinwiddie. His early educa- 
tion was obtained in the public schools, 
later attending Wittenberg College, 
Springfield, Ohio, and Grove City (Pa.) 
College (A. M. 1899). In 1894 he was or- 
dained a minister in the Evangelical Lu- 
theran Churc'h. From 1899 to 1903 he was 
secretary of the Permanent Committee on 
Temperance, General Synod, Evangelical 
Lutheran Church, and since 1903 has been 
chairman of the same. He was president 
of the Ohio Young Men's Prohibition 
League from 1888 to 1889; was secretary 
of the Ohio Prohibition Executive Com- 
mittee, 1890-92; and was active in the 
work of the Prohibition party until about 
1896, since which time he has been an In- 
dependent Republican. Was legislative 
superintendent of the Ohio Anti-Saloon 
League from 1904 to 1906; State Superin- 
tendent of the Pennsylvania Anti- Saloon 
League from 1897 to 1899, and since 1899 
has been national legislative superintend- 
ent of the American Anti-Saloon League. 
He had charge of the successful effort to 
prohibit the army canteen for the sale 
of intoxicating liquors, and proposed and 
secured appropriations by Congress of 
nearly $2,000,000 for buildings at the army 
posts for recreative and social purposes 
for enlisted men; and has made many 
temperance addresses in all parts of the 
United States. He is prominent in the 
Independent Order of Good Templars; 
Grand Counselor, 1893-94; Electoral Su- 
perintendent, 1894-96, of the Ohio I. O. 
G. T.; represented the Ohio Grand Lodge 
at the International Supreme Lodge, at 
Des Moines, in 1893, and the D. C. Grand 
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Lodge at the International Supreme Lodge, 
Stockholm, Sweden, 1902, and Belfast, Ire- 
land, in 1905. He is a member of the 
American Academy of Political and So- 
cial Science; National Municipal League; 
and the Beta Theta Pi. On November 8, 
1894. he married Olive Hannah Smith, at 
Kansas City, Mo. Residence: Springfield, 
Ohio. Office: Bliss Building, Washington. 

FERRIS, SCOTT, lawyer, Congress- 
man, was born at Neosho, Newton Coun- 
ty, Mo., on November 7, 1877. He was 
graduated from the Newton County High 
School in 1897, and later atte^ided the 
Kansas City School 'of Law, graduating 
in 1901. Since his graduation, in 1901 he 
has been engaged continuously in the 
active practice of his profession in Law- 
ton, Okla. In June, 1906, he married 
Grace Hubbert, of Neosho, Mo. He is a 
Democrat in politics; in 1904 he repre- 
sented the Twenty-second District in the 
Oklahoma legislature, and 'on September 
17, 1907, he was elected to the Sixteenth 
Congress from the Fifth Congressional 
District of Oklahoma. Legal residence: 
Lawton, Okla. Washington address: 
House of Representatives. 

FLOWER, FRANK ABIAL, author, was 
born at Cottage, Cattaraugus County, N. 
Y., on May 11, 1854, son of Lothrop T. 
and Sarah M. (Titus) Flower. His edu- 
cation was obtained in the grammar 
schools of his native town, and the New 
York State Nofmal School at Fredonia. 
He took up the study of law and was ad- 
mitted to the bar, but only practiced about 
a year, renouncing it for journalism. In 
1874, he removed to Wisconsin, where for 
many years he published daily newspa- 
pers at Superior and Milwaukee; was 
State Commissioner of Statistics for six 
years, and latef fiscal agent for the city 
of Superior, Wis. For some time he was 
president of the International Traffic As- 
sociati'on, and is executive secretary and 
a membef of the executive board of the 
International Deep Waterways Asso- 
ciation. During the Twelfth Census, he 
was an expert editor and interpreter. 
Among the books he has written, in ad- 
dition to many on the subject 'of a ship 
channel from the Great Lakes to the At- 
lantic, are a number of a historical and 
statistical nature; also History of the Re- 
pulslican Party; Outline History of Wis- 
consin; Eye of the Northwest; Reminis- 
cences of Gen. Herman Haupt; Old Abe; 
Life of Edwin McMasters Stanton; Life 
of Matt. H. Carpenter; Suppressed Colo- 
nial and Revolutionary History, etc. On 
May 15, 1892, he married Mabel Claire 
Powers, of La Crosse, Wis. Children: 
Helen Marie Flower and Sarah Harriet 
Flower. Residence: 330 A street, s.e. 

FULTON, ELMER LINCOLN, lawyer. 
Congressman, was born at Magnolia, Har. 
rison County, Iowa, on April 22, 1863. In 
1870 he removed with his parents to Paw- 
nee City, Neb., at which place he obtained 



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his early education in the public schools; 
later attended Tabor College, Tabor, Iowa. 
He continued his residence at Pawnee City 
until 1900, when he removed to Oklahoma. 
He is married and in November, 1906, was 
elected a member of the Sixtieth Con- 
gress from the Second Oklahoma District 
as a Democrat. Legal residence: Okla- 
homa City, Okla. Washington address: 
H'ouse of Representatives. 

GORE, THOMAS PRYOR, lawyer, U. 
S. Senator, was born in Webster County, 
Miss., December 10, 1870. He attended 
a local school at Walthall, Miss., and, in 
1892, he was graduated from the law de- 
partment of Cumberland University, Leb- 
anon, Tenn. In 1896 he moved to 
Texas, amd in 1901 to Oklahoma, where 
he served one term in the Territorial 
Senate. On June 8, 1907, he was nomi- 
nated for the U. S. Senate, in State pri- 
mary; was appointed Senator by the gov- 
ernor 'on November 16; elected by the 
legislature on December 11, and took his 
seat in the Senate on December 16, 1907. 
In politics he is a Democrat. On Decem- 
ber 27, 1900, he married Nina Kay. His 
term of service will expire on March 3, 
1909. Legal residence. Lawton, Okla. 
Washington address: U. S. Senate. 

OWEN, ROBERT LATHAM, Jr., lawyer, 
U. S. Senator, was born at Lynchburg, 
Va., on. February 2, 1856, son of Robert L. 
and Narcissa (Chisholm) Owen. His 
father was formerly president of the Vir- 
ginia & Tennessee Railroad, and his 
mother was of the Cherokee Nation. Rob- 
ert L., Jr., obtained his education in pri- 
vate schools at Lynchburg, Va., and Bal- 
timore, Md., and in 1877 he received an 
A. M. degree from Washington and Lee 



University, Lexington, Va. He has served 
in various capacities as a teacher, editor, 
lawyer, banker and business man. From 
1892 to 1896 he was a member of the 
Democratic National Committee; was a 
member of the sub-committee which 
drew the Democratic platform in 1896, 
and in 1906 was vice-chairman of the 
Democratic campaign committee in Okla- 
homa. On December 11, 1907, he was 
elected by the legislature of Oklahoma 
U. S. Senator, and took his seat on De- 
cember 16, 1907. His term of office will 
expire on Mardh 3, 1913. In politics he 
is a Democrat; .member of the Episcopal 
Church; a thirty-second degree Mason, 
and life-member of the Elks. Legal res- 
idence: Muskogee, Okla. Washington ad- 
dress: U. S. Senate. 

SLEMP, CAMPBELL BASCOM, Con- 
gressman, was born in Lee County, Va., 
on September 4, 1870. He was raised on 
a farm; from 1881-1882 was a page in 
the House of Representatives of Virgin- 
ia, and at the age of sixteen entered the 
Virginia Military Institute, from which 
institution he was graduated at the age 
of twenty years. For one year he served 
as a Commandant of Cadets at the Marion 
Military Institute; subsequently adjunct 
professor in mathematics, Virginia Mili- 
tary Institute. In 1901 he resigned the 
latter position to enter professional and 
business life. He was elected chairman 
of the Republican State Committee in 
1905, and on December 17, 1907, was elect- 
ed a member of the Sixtieth Congress 
from the Ninth Virginia Congressional 
District, on the Republican ticket, to fill 
■the vacancy caused by the death of his 
father, Hon. Campbell Slemp. Legal res- 
idence: Big Stone Gap, Va. Washington 
address: House of Representatives. 



THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 

ITS ORIGIN AND POEM OP GOVERNMENT 

The District of Columbia was established under the authority and direction of 
Acts of Congress aipproved July 16, 1790, and March 3, 1791, which were passed to 
give effect to a clause in the eighth section of the first article of the Constitution of 
the United States, giving Congress the power — 

"To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever over such district (not 
exceeding ten miles square) a® may, by cession of particular States and the accept-- 
ance of Congress, become the seat of the Government of the United States, and to 
exercise like authority over 'all places purchased, by the consent of the legislature of 
the State in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, 
dockyards and other needful buildings." 

The local government of the District of Columbia is a municipal corporation 
having jurisdiction over the territory which "was ceded by the State of Maryland to 
the Congress of the United States for the permanent seat of the Government of the 
United States." 

This government is administered by a board of three Commissioners having in 
general equal powers and duties. j, u t^- 

Two of these Commissioners, who must have been actual residents of the Dis- 
trict for three years next before their appointment and have during that period 
claimed residence nowhere else, are appoiinted from civil life by the President of the 
United States and confirmed by the Senate of the United States for a term of three 
years each, and until their successors are appointed and qualified. 

The other Commissioner is detailed from time to time by the President of the 
United States from the Engineer Corps of the United States Army, and shall not be 
required to perform any other duty. This Commissioner shall be selected from among 
the captains or officers of higher grade having served at least fifteen years in the Corps 
of Engineers of the Army of the United States. •, . •, j 

Three officers of the same corps, junior to said Commissioner, may be detailed 
to assist him by the President of the United States. 

The senior officer of the Corps of Enginers of the Army who shall for the time 
being be detailed to act as assistant (and In case of Ms absence from the District or 
disability, the jumior officer so detailed) shall, in the event of the absence from the 
District or disability of the Commissioner who shall for the time being be detailed 
from the Corps of Engineers, perform all the duties imposed by law upon said Com- 
missioner. 

The salary of each of the Commissioners is $5,000 per annum. 

One of said Commissioners shaiU be chosen president of the Board of Commis- 
sioners at their first meeting, and annually and whenever a vaoamcy shall occur 

The (Commissioners are in a general way vested with jurisdiction covering all the 
ordinary features of municipal government. ^ , v. .,j- 

Congress has by sundry statutes empowered the Commissioners to make building 
regulatioms; plumbing regulations; to make and enforce all such reasonable and usual 
police regulations as they may deem necessary for the protection of lives, limbs, 
health, comfort and quiet of all persons, and the protection of all property within the 
District, and other regulations of a municipal nature. 



LEADING OFFICIALS OF 
The District of Columbia Government 

(Offices, 464 Louisiana avenne. Phone, Main 257.) 
Commissioner.— Henry B. F. iMacfarland, president of the Board, Woodley Inn. 

Private Secretary. — Waldo C. Hibbs, 1715 Newton street. 
Commissioner.— Henry L. West, 1364 Harvard street. 

Private Secretary.— Ralph B. Pratt. 1444 V street. 



532 AMERICAN BIOGRAPHIOAIi DIRiEJCTORY 

Engineer Commissioner. — Capt. Jay J. Morrow, 1930 Calvert street. 

Chief Clerk. — Daniel E. Garges, 50 U. street. 
Assistant to Engineer Commissioner. — Capt. Wm. Kelly, The Westmoreland. 
Secretary to the Board. — William Tindall. 

DISTRICT OFFICERS. 

Assessor. — E. W. W. Griffin, 1721 First street. 

Assistant Assessors. — J. T. Petty, 3331 O street; Louis C. Wilson, 1501 Park road. 
Board of Assistant Assessors of Real Estate. — S. T. Kalbfus, 25 Fifth street, S.E.; 
Alexander McKenz'ie, 1446 Harvard street; Matthew Triimble, 1320 Rhode Island 
avenue. 
Board of Assistant Assessors of Personal Property. — Francis Nye, 1507 Park road; 
Albert A. Wilson, 2000 G street. 
Auditor. — Alonzo Tweedale, 2825 Fourteenth street. 

Deputy. — Daniel Donovan, 602 Third street, N.W. 
Boards: 
Charities. — John Joy Edson, president; Geo. S. Wilson, secretary. Oak Grove. 
Children's Guardians (472 Louisiana avenue). — B. Pickman Mann, president; Miss 

Ella Moore, secretary. 
Control, Rock Creek Park. — ^^The Commissioners of the District of Columbia, the 

Chief of Engineers, U. S. A.; secretary, . 

Dental Examiners. — A. D. Weakley, president, 1339 K street; Wm. B. Daly, secre- 
tary, 1340 New York avenue. 
Education (Thirteenth and K streets). — jQnv.es F. Oyster, president; Wm. E. Chan- 
cellor, superintendent of schools. 
Excise. — Matthew Trimble, 1320 Rhode Is'land avemue; S. T. Kalbfus, 25 Fifth street, 
S.E.; Alexander McKenzie, . 1446 Harvard street; chief clerk, Roger Williams, IS 
Third street, N.E.; special assessment clerk, John W. Daniel, 1622 Riggs place. 
Medical Examiners: 

Allopathic. — George C. Ober, president, 210 B street, S.E. 
Eclectic. — Elbert C. Penson, president. 824 Fifth street, N.E. 

Homeopathic. — J. B. G. Custis, president, 912 Fifteenth street, N.W. 
Pharmaceutical Examiners. — Frank C. Henry, president, 703 Fifteenth street. 
Trustees of Industrial Home School. — J. Ormond Wilson, president; C. W. Skinner, 

superintendent. 
Trustees Public Library (Ninth and K streets). — Theo. W. Noyes, president; Geo. 

F. Bowerman, librarian. 
Trustees of Reform School for Boys. — Crosby S. Noyes, president; G. E. Darnall, 

superintendent. 
Trustees of Reform School for Girls. — Chapin Brown, president; Eliza A. Whitney, 
superintendent. 
Chemist and Inspector of Asphalt and Cement. — J. O. Hargrove, 1603 O street. 
Collector of Taxes. — E. G. Davis, 2211 R street. 

Deputy. — C. W. Collins, 52 C street, N.E. 
Coroner, — Dr. Ramsey Nevitt, 1820 Calvert street. 
Corporation Counsel. — Edw. H. Thomas, 926 S street. 

Assistants. — Henry P. Blair, 416 Fifth street; Francis H. Stephens, 1819 Belmo-nt 
road; James L. Pugh, jr., 3300 Seventeenth street. 
Disbursing Officer. — Charles C. Rogers, 1745 Park road. 

Deputy. — C. M. Lewis, 3319 Seventeenth street. 
District Building Commission. — The Secretary of the Treasury, the Co'mmissioners of 
the District of Columbia. 
Executive Officer. — ^Capt. Jay J. Morrow, U. S. A., District Building. 
Supervisor of Construction. — Capt. Wm. Kelly, U. S. A. 
Engineer Department. — Chief clerk, Daniel Garges, 50 U street. 
Electrical Engineer. — Walter C. Allen, 3307 Newark street. 
Engineer of Bridges. — W. J Douglas, 1855 Calvert street. 
Engineer of Highways. — C. B. Hunt, 1815 M street. 
In Charge of Street Extension. — E. M. Talcott, 1801 Avon place. 
Inspectors of— 

Boilers. — E. F. "Vermillion, 123 Thirteenth street, N.E. 
Buildings. — Snowden Ashford, 1508 Twenty-first street. 
Fuel. — John C. Howard, 1149 New Hampshire avenue. 
Gas and Meters. — Elmer G. Runyan, 300 R street, N.E. 
Plumbing. — H. B. Davis, 1339 Fairmont street. 
Permit Clerk. — H. M. Woodward, Brookland. 

Physicians to the Poor. — L. J. Battle, 306 E street; A. W. Boswell, 609 Ninth street, 
N.E.; G. C. Clark, 321 East Capitol street; James C. Dowling, 2008 Eighth street; 
Abbe Trueman, 2017 I street, N.W.; C. E. Ferguson, 1648 North Capitol street; 
Howard Fisher, The Mendota; John P. Gunion, 927 O street; A. J. Hall, 928 I street; 
P. C. Hunt, 1819 M street; H. S. Medford, 151 C street, N.E.; Jesse Ramsburg, The 
Portner; F, P. Repetti, 149 B street, S.E,; James Stuart, 937 R street; W. G. Suter, 



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13 H street; J. R. Tubman, 1222 Eleventh street; J. A. Watswn, 201 Monroe street, 

Anaco.stia. Homeopathic. — J. D. Rogers, 721 Eighth street, N.W.; I. W. Dennison, 

1312 Li street; V. B. Jackson, The Brunswick; E. S. Lothrop, 807 East Capitol street; 

P. A. Swartwout, 12 Iowa circle. 
Property Clerk. — M. C. Hargrove, 1603 O street. 

Sealer of Weights and Measures. — William C. Haskell, The Cumberland. 
Superintendents of — 

Home for Aged and Infirm. — P. G. Smith, Blue Plains. 

Insurance. — Thomas E. Drake, 1515 Rhode Island avenue. 

Municipal Lodging House. — A. H. Tyson, 312 Twelfth street. 

Parking. — Trueman Lanham, Brightwood avenue and Upshur street, D. C. 

Roads. — L. R. Grabill, Takoma, Md. 

Sewers. — David E. McComb, The Plaza. 

Streets. — H. N. Moss, 1790 Danier place. 

Street Cleaning. — John T. Twohey, The Stratford. 
Washington Asylum (Nineteenth and C streets, S.E.). — Lrouis P. Zinkham, superin- 
tendent; visiting physician, D. Percy Hickling, 1304 Rhode Island avenue. 
Water Department. — W. A. McFarland, The Westover. 
Surveyor. — W. P. Richards, 137 S street. 
Veterinary Surgeon. — C. B. Robinson, 222 C street. 
Water Registrar. — G. W. Wallace, The Portner. 

FIRE DEPARTMENT. 

Chief Engineer. — ^William T. Belt, 233 North Capitol street. 
Deputy. — Frank J. Wagner, 1910 Eighth street. 
Battalion Chief Engineers. — Andrew J. Sullivan, 1506 Thirty-second street; James 

Keliher, 733 North Capitol street; Samuel R. Henry, 212 Fifth street, N.E. 
Fire Marshal. — Philip W. Nicholson, 1619 New Jersey avenue. 

HEALTH DEPARTMENT. 

Health Officer. — William C. Woodward, 508 I street. 

Deputy and Chief Clerk. — Barry Clay McLean, 1373 Irving street. 

Deputy and Chief Inspector. — C. R. Holman, 211 A street, S.E. 

Inspector in Charge of Contagious Disease Service. — William C. Fowler, 1812 First 

street. 
Chemist. — R. L. Lynch, 2930 Fourteenth street. 

Medical Sanitary Inspector. — John E. Walsh, 202 East Capitol street. 
Poundmaster. — Samuel Einstein, 3406 N street. 

METROPOLITAN POLICE. 

Major and Superintendent. — Richard Sylvester, 1223 Euclid street. 
Chief, also Property, Clerk. — E. B. Hesse, 506 A street, S.E. 
Police Surgeons. — Dr. Edmund Barry, Dr. J. S. Wall, Dr. Alfred Richards. 
Harbor Master. — Lieut. J. R. Sutton, S25 R street. 
Sanitary Officer. — Robert Sroufe, 523 Twelfth street, N.E. 
Hack Inspector. — G. S. Catts, 2143 L street. 
Inspector of Pharmacy. — 

Detective Headquarters. — Inspector R. H. Boardman, 1218 M street, N.E. 
Inspectors. — F. E. Cross, 319 Ninth street, S.E.; Harry L. Gessford, 416 Fourth street, 
S.E.; John A. Swindells, 3313 R street. 



PLACES OF INTEREST AND HOURS OF VISITING 

Agricultural Department. — 9 a.m to 4 p.m Engraving and Printing Bureau. — 9 a.m. to 

Army Medical Museum. — 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. 2:30 p.m. 

Capitol. — Open 9 i..n. Executive Mansion. — 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. 

City POstofflce. — Open all hours. The Dead Fish Commission. — 3 a m. to 4 p.m. 

Letter Office is ir the city postofEice. Government Printing Office". — 10 a.m. to 2 

Congressional Library. — 9 a.m. to 10 p.m., p.m. 

secular days; 2 p.m. to 10 p.m Sundays National Bontanic Gardens.— 8 a.m. to 5 

and certain holiday.s. National Museum.-9 a.m. to 4 p.m. (to- 

Corcoran Art Gallery .-9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., ^j^^j holidays.) 

wmter; 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., summer. Sun- Ngyy yard.— 9 a.m. to 4 p.m 

days— 1:30 a.m. to i p.m., except midsum- Patent Office.— 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. 

mer. Free Tuesdays.. Thursdays, Satur- pension Bureau. — 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. 

days, Sundays; other days 25 cents. Postofflce Depprtment. — 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. 



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AMEIillCAN BIOGIIAFHIICAL DiRJElCtORY 



Public Library. — 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., winter; 
3 a.m. to 9 p.m., summer; holidays, usual 
hours; Sundays, 2 (. > 10 p.m. 

Smithsonian Institution. — 9 a.m. to 4 p.m 
(Including holidays.) 

State, War and Navy Departments — 9 a.m. 
to 2 p.m. (The orig'nal Declaration of In- 
dependence is in the Library lof the Statv 
Department.) 

Treasury Department. — 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. 

Washington IVlonument. — (555i4 feet In 
height.) Open 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. (Ele- 
vator does not run after 4:30 p.m.) 

Arlington National Cemetery. — Open all day. 

Cabin John Bridge. 

IVIt. Vernon, the Home and Tomb of Wash- 
ington. — Open 11 a.»n. to 4 p.m. 

Naval Observatory. — 9. a.m. to 3 p.m. 

Reck Creek Bridge and Park. 

soldiers' Home. — 9 a.m. to sunset. 

Zoological Park. — Open all day. 

HOSPITALS, HOMES AND ASYLUMS. 



Home.— 1223 



Thirty-second 
-915 B street. 



Aged Women's 

street, N.W. 
Aid Association for the Blind. 

N.W. 
Baptist Home.— 324S V street, N.W. 
Bell Home, The. — Franklin street, Anacos- 

tia. (A home for homeless children.) 
The Bruen Home.— Incorporated November 
10, 1896; 436 M r,t., N.W. (A home lor 
destitute women nwd children.) 
Casualty Hospital and Eastern Dispensary. — 

708 Massachusetts Ave., N.E. 
Children's Country Home. — Grant Road. 
Children's Hospital.— W St., near Thir- 
teenth St., N.W. 
Children's Temporary Home and Industrial 

School. — 607 Howard Ave., N.W. 
Christian and Missionary Alliance Home. — 

24 Grand Place, N.W. 
Church Orphanage Association, The. — St. 
John's Parish, F cur. Twentieth St., N.W. 
Cclumbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in 
Asylum. — Twenty-fifth St. and Pennsylva- 
nia Ave., N.W. 
Emergency Hospital. — Fifteenth St., cor D, 
N.W. (In connection with the Central 
Dispensary; lopen at all hours of the day 
and night, for the reception and treatment 
of all accidents and cases requiring Im- 
mediate attention.) 
Epiphany Church Hone for Aged Women. — 

1319 H St., N.W. 
Episcopal Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital.— 

1147 Fifteenth St., N.W. 
Female Alms House of the District of Co- 
lumbia. — Shepherd Road. 
Florence Crittenden Hope and Help IVIIs- 
slon.— 218 Third St., N.W. (A home for 
unfortunate and betrayed women and 
girls; also a refuge for friendless women, 
where sisterly help is offered, and self- 
respect regained through Christ.) Under 
National Florence Crittenden Mission. 
Franciscan Sisters' ChiJdren's Home. — 12a9 

Twenty-third St., N W. 
Freedmen's Hospital. — Pdmeroy, cor. Fifth 
St., N.W. (Supported by the general gov- 
ernment; all cla.=!ses of patients, except 
chronic amd contagious icases, received 
without distinction of sex or color.) 
Garfield Memorial Hospital. — Florida Ave., 

lopp. Tenth St., N.W. 
George Maulsby Memorial Home. — 230 C 

St., N.W. 
Georgetown University Hospital. — N. cor. 

Thirty-flfth St., N.W. 
George Washington University Hospital. — 

1335 H St., N.W. 
German Orphan Asylum. — Good Hope Road. 



Government Hospit.il for tne Insane. — St. 

Elizabeth, Nicholas Ave., beyond Anacos- 
tia. (A national institution for the treat- 
rnent of the insane of the army, navy, ma- 
rine corps, revenue cutter and marine 
hospital services, mcluding insane persons, 
also the indigent insane of the District of 
Columbia, who ar*? admitted upon the or- 
der of the Secretaries of War, of the 
Navy, and the Treasury, and the Commis- 
sioners of the District of Columbia, re- 
spectively. U. S. convicts becoming in- 
sane are also sent to this hospital, upon 
the order of the Secretary of the Interior, 
at the request of the Attorney-General. 
Visiting days — Wednesdays between 2 p.m. 
and 4:30 p.m. Visits of relatives of pa- 
tients are not resiiv ted to particular days 
of the week.) 
Home for Friendless Colored Girls. — Erie, 
between Seventeenth and Eighteenth Sts., 
N.W. 
Heme for the Aged, of the Little Sisters of 
the Poor.— H, cor. Third Sts., N.E. In- 
corporated 1873; reincorporated 1884. 
Homeward Bound Industrial Home. — 119 

Pennsylvania Ave., N.W. 
House of Good Shepherd. — Reservoir, cor. 

Thirty-sixth St.. y.W. 
Hcuse of Mercy.— 2403 K St., N.W. 
Industrial Home Scnool. — 2526-2600 Wiscon- 
sin Av. 
Ladies' Commonwealth. — 1437 Kenesaw Ave., 

N.W. 
Lenthall Home for Widows. — Nineteenth, 

cor. G, N.W. Inr.orporated 1883. 
Lcuise Home. — Massaciusetts Ave., cor Fif- 
teenth St., N.W. 
Lutheran Eye, Ear and Throat Infirmary.-— 
Fourteenth and N Sts., N.W. (Open daily, 
except Sunday, 1 !\m. 
IViethodist Home ^or Aged People. — 601 M 

St., N.W. 
National Association for the Relief of Des- 
titute Colored Women and Children.^ 
Eighth and Grant Ave., N.W. 
National Homeopathic Hospital. — N, cor. 

Second St., N.W. 
National Lutheran Home for the Aged of 
the General Synod of the Evangelical Lu- 
theran Church. — Lpngdon, D. C. 
Working Boys' Home ana Children's Aid 

Associiation.— 230 C bt., N.W. 
Providence Hospital.— Second and D Sts., S. 
E. (Established I'Gl; under charge of 
the Sisters of Charity.) 
Reform School. — Bl.idensburg Road, 3% ml- 

northeast of city. 
Reform School for Girls. — Loughboro Road, 

cor. Conduit Road. 
Rescue Home Mission. — 305 Missouri Ave., 

N.W. 
Ruppert Home, The — Good Hope Road, An- 

acostla. 
St. Agnes' Industrial Home.— 3017 O St., N. 
W. (Under care of the Sisters of Epiph- 
any.) 
St. Ann's Infant Asylum.— 2300 K St., N. 
W. (Founded 1860; under care of the Sis- 
ters of Charity. Lymg-in hospital at- 
tached; open to ine public Thursdays 2 to 
4 p.m.) 
St. Catherine's Home. — 101 North Carolina 
Ave., S.B. (Home for self-supporting 
women, conducted by the Sisters of 
Mercy.) 
St. Joseph's Male Orphan Asylum. — H, near 
Tenth St., N.W. (Incorporated 1855; un- 
der the care of the Sisters of the Holy 
Cross.) 
St. Rose's Industrial School.— 2023 G St., Is. 
W. (Founded 1868; branch of St. Vin- 
cent's Female Orphan Asylum.) 



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St.. Vincent's Female Orphan Asylum. — 

Edgewood. (Under charge of Sisters or 
Charity.) 

Sibley Memorial Hospital.— North Capitol, 
cor. Pierce St., N.W. 

Soldiers' Home. — Rook Creek Church Road, 
at intersection of Harewood Road. 
(Founded in 1851, under act of Congress 
as a "militarj asylum;" designation 
changed to "Soldisfs' Home" by act of 
Congress, approv.*d March 3, 1859. Its 
object is to furnish a permanent and com- 
fortable home for old and disabled soldiers 
of the regular U. S. Army. Members of 
the Home are soldiers of the regular army 
who have served taithfully twenty years, 
or who have been disabled in the service 
and in the line of luty so as to disqualify 
them for further military service.) 

Sojourner Truth Home for Working Women 
and Girls.— 2007 Vermont Ave., N.W. 

Washington City Orphan Asylum. — Four- 
teenth, cor. S St., N.W. 

Washington Home for Incurables. — North of 
road between Thitty-first and Thirty -sec- 
ond, N.W. 

Washington Hospital for Foundlings. — 1715 
Fifteenth St., N.W. 

Women's Commonwealth, The — 1437 Kene- 
saw Ave., N.W. 

Women's Christian Association Home. — 1719 
Thirteenth St., N.W. 

Women's Clinic— 1S33 Fourteenth St., N.W. 

Working Boys' Home and Children's Aid 
Association.— 230 G St., N. W. 

Young Women's Christian Home.— 311 C St., 
N.W. 

DENTAL aOCIETIES. 

Beard of Dental Eximlners of the District 
of Columbia. — iMeets the second Tuesday 
of each quarter, at ^29 Fifteenth, N.W. 

District of Columbia Denta( Society. — Meets 
third Tuesday of each month, except July 
and August, at O'^orge Washington Uni- 
versity. 

Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospita*. 
— Fifteenth, cor. D, N.W. Open daily, ex- 
cept Sunday, noon to 4 p.m. 

National Capital Dental Society. — Meets the 
first Saturday in each month at Loyal Le- 
gion Hall, ,419 Tenth, N.W. 

Eastern Dispensary and Casualty Hospital 
— 708 Massachusetto Ave., N.E. Organ- 
ized February 13, 1S88; open daily, except 
Sundays; clinic hours from 1 to 3 p.m. 
This institution treats only those who are 
unable to pay for .nedicine and medical 
advice. 



CHARITABLE, BENEVOLENT AND 

REFORM. 

The American National Red Cross. — Incor- 
porated 1881; reinoorporarea 1893, and, 
by special act of Congress, reincorporated 
January 5, 1905. For the relief of suffering 
by war, pestilence, famine, flood, fires and 
other calamities of sufficient magnitude to 
be deemed national in extent. The or- 
ganization operates under the Geneva 
Treaty, the provisions of which were 
made in internatior.al convention at Gen- 
eva, Switzerland, August 22, 1864, and 
since signed by nearly all civilized nations, 
including the United States, which gave 
Its adhesion by act of Congress, March. 1, 
1882. Ratified by Congress of Berne, June 
9, 1882. Proclaimed by President Arthur 
July 26, 1882. National headquarters 
Washington, D. C. President, Hon. vvfil- 
11am H. Taft; treasurer, Hon. Charles Fal- 
1am Keep; counselor, Hon. Louis A. Pradt; 



secretary, Charles L. Magee; chairman, 
William K. Van Reypin, surgeon-general 
U. S. N. (retired); executive committee, 
Hon. Francis B. Loomis, Brigadier-Gen- 
eral George D. Davis, U. S. A.; Hon. 
Louis A. Pradt, Medical Director John U. 
Boyd, U. S. N.; Hon. Hilary A. Herbert, 
Hon. James R. Garfield, Miss Mabel T. 
Boardman. 
American Colonization Society. — 450 Penn- 
sylvania Ave., N.W. President, Rev. Jud- 
son Smith. 
American AntiSaloon League. — Office of 
president, Chattanooga, Tenn. ; office of 
legislative superintendent, 35 B, N.W. 
Association for Works of Mercy. — 2408 K, 
N.W. President, Ri. Rev. Henry Y. Sat- 
terlee. 
Associated Charities.— 811 G, N.W. Open 
daily, except Sunday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. 
President, Justice David J. Brewer, treas- 
urer, John Joy Edson; general secretary, 
Charles F. Weller. 

Board of Children's Guardians. — 472 Louisi- 
ana Ave., N.W. President, S. PlcKman 
Mann; vice-president, John F. Cook; sec- 
retary, Mrs. J. W. Babson. 

Citizens' Relief Association.— 811 G, N.W. 
General relief so.;iety using offices and 
agents of the Associated Charities. Pres- 
ident, Gen. George M. Stemnerg; secre- 
tary, Charles F. Weiler. 

Industrial Educational League. — 1330 Mas- 
sachusetts Ave., N.W., The Valois. Pres- 
ident, Mrs. Fannie W. Graham; vice-presi- 
dents, Mrs. Wm. F. Holtzman, Mrs. Helen 
G. Sparhawk; secr^iary. Miss Frances M. 
Anderson. 

Iristructive Visiting Nurse Society. — 1710 
Pennsylvania Ave., N W., and 811 G, N.W. 
President, Mrs. Lndge; vice-president. 
Miss Tuckerman; secretary, Miss Mary 
Hopkins; superintendent. Miss L. E. W. 
Jefferson. Nurses' Home, 2001 I, N.W. 

Navy Mutual Aid Association. — Room 100% 
Navy Department. Secretary- treasure^. 
Thom Williamson; clerk. Ogle Steele. 

N E. Citizens' Association. — Northeast Tem- 
ple. President, Evan H. Tucker; secre- 
tary, S. Sowerbutts. 

St. Barnabas Guild Nurses' Directory. — 
2016 G, N.W. Se.-^retary, Mary Mason, 
treasurer, Mary B. Foe. 

St. Joseph's German Society. — President. 
Charles Specht; secretary, William Huhn. 

Sccieta Vittorio Emanueie II, Re d'ltalla.— 
President, G. P. Zerega; secretary, G. 
Zaniel. Meets Jouith Sunday in the 
month at 600 G, N.W. 

Swiss Benevolent Association. — President, 
Theodore J. Mayer; secretary, Emil Wel- 
lauer. 

Temperance Alliance. — Washington Loan 
and Trust Building. President, H. B. 
Moulton; secretary, Dr. C. N. Whitney. 

Unione Fratellanza Italiana. — 902 Pennsyl- 
vania Ave., N.W. T resident, M. Lauren- 
zi; secretary, G. Costa. 

Verein Bayern, of Washington, D. C. — Co- 
lumbia Section No. 1.-922 Pennsylvania 
Ave., N.W. President, W. Ruckdaeschel; 
secretary, Theo A. Leckert. 

Veteran Volunteer Fireman's Association.— 
H, cor. Nineteenth, N.W. 

Washington Boys' Club Association. — 3230 
N, N.W. Presiden'. J. W. Chickering, 
secretary, A. N. Prentiss. 

Washington Gruetii Verein. — Swiss Mutual 
Benevolent Socioiv. — Sixth, N.W. Presi- 
dent, F. A. Imler; ^-ecretary, R. A. Keppe- 
ler. 

Washington Railway Relief Association.—' 
914 E, N.W. President, George H. Har- 
ries; secretary, J. C Sheets. 



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Washington Humane Society for Children 
and Animals. — OflLiee, Warder Building. 
President, Chestei- A. Snow; secretary , 
John P. Heap. 

LIBRARIES. 

Carroll Institute Library.— 912-920 Tenth 
St., N.W. 

Library of Congress. — First ana B Sts., S.E. 

Library and Reading Room of the Society 
for the Home Study of Holy Scripture and 
Church History.— 2022 F St., N.W. 

Masonic Library. — Masonic Temple, Ninth 
and F Sts., N.W. 

Odd Fellows' Library Association. — Odd Fel- 
lows' Hall, Seventii St., N.W. 

Peabody Library.— .>2;i3 O St., N.W. 

Pi blic Library of the District of Columbia.— 
Mt. Vernon Square and K, between Sev- 
enth and Ninth Sts., N.W. 

Supreme Council Thirty-third Degree Libra- 
ry.— Third and E Sts., N.W. 

MEDICAL SOCIETIES. 

Clinical Society of Wdsnington, D. C. 

Eclectic Medical Society of the District oi 
Columbia.— 1204 G ^.t., N.W. 

Medical and Surgical Society of the District 
of Columbia. 

Medical Association of the District of Co- 
lumbia. 

Medical Society of the District of Columbia. 

Washington Obstetrical and Gynecological 
Society. 

MUSICAL ir"'JCIETIES. 

Amphion Glee CIud — 29 American Bank 
Building. 

Arion Singing Society.- 430 Eighth St., N.W. 

Bureau of Musical Information of the Cho- 
ral Society. — 1505 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W. 

Choral Society. — 150.'^ F'ennsylvania Ave., N. 
W. 

Germania Maennerchor. — 922 Pennsylvania 
Ave., N.W. 

Washington Saengerbund.— 314 C St., N.W. 

PATRIOTIC SOCIETIES. 

The Army and Navy Union, U. S. A. 
Army of the Tennessee Association. 
Association of the Thirteenth Army Corp«. 
Association of the Oldest Inhabitants of D. 

C. — Corcoran Building 
Confederate Veterans' Association. — 431 

Eleventh St., N.W. 
D. C. Society of Mayflower Descendants. 
District Woman Suffrage Association (Inc.). 

—1319 New York Ave., N.W. 
Union Veterans' Union, Division of the Po- 
tomac— 906 G St., V.W. 
Dorcas, No. 4, D. of R. — Northeast Temple. 
George Washington Memorial Association. 
Grand Army of the Republic— 344 D !3i. 

N.W. 
Jr.ckson Democratic Association. — 501 F St., 

N.W. 
Ladies' Auxiliary, Union Veteran Legion, 

No. 32.— Pythian Temple, 1012 Ninth St., 

N.W. 
Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic 

—344 D St., N.W. 
Lrdies' Union Veteran Legion. — 721 Eighth 

St., N.W. 
Maine State Association.— 522 Sixth St., N. 

W. 
Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the 

United States.— 33 Kellogg Building. 
National Society of the Children of the 

American Revolution. 



National Society of the Daughters of the 
American Revolution, Continental Hall. 

Patriotic Order of Americans. 

Regular Army and Navy Union. — 1012 Ninth 
St., N.W. 

Society of Colonial W^rs. — Bond Building. 

Society of the War of 1812.— 727 Nineteenth 
St., N.W. 

Sens of the American Revolution. — 617 Four- 
teenth St., N.W. 

Sons of Veterans, U. S. A. 

Union Veterans' Union. 

United Daughters of the Confederacy. 

united Spanish War Veterans. — 719 Sixth 
St., N.W. 

United States Army and Navy Historical As- 
sociation.— 344 C St., N.W. 

Washington National Monument Society. 

Washington Society of the Massachusetts 
Institute of Technology. 

RELIGIOUS tiOCIETIES. 

American Society of Religious Education. — 

Washington Savings Bank Building. 
Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions. — 941 F 

St., N.W. 
Central Union Mission.— 622 Louisiana Ave., 

N.W. 
Churchman's League, The. 
Georgetown Visitation Convent. — 1500 Thir- 
ty-fifth St., N.W. 
Christian Endeavor Union of the District of 

Columbia. — Bond Building. 
General Conference of Seventh Day Ad- 

ventists. — Takoma Park. 
Loyal Followers of Christ. — 700 Fifteenth St., 

N.E. 
Marist Society of D. C. 
National Spiritualists' Association. — 600 

Pennsylvania Ave., S.E. 
Notre Dame. — North Capitol and K Sts. 
Secular League. — Pyth.an Temple, 1012 Ninth 

St., N.W. 
Sunday School Association of the District 

of Columbia. 
Theosophical Society.— 1110 F St. 
Washington City Bible Society. 
Washington District kipworth League. 
Young Men's Christian Association. — 1736 G 

St., N.W. 
Voung Women's Christian Association. — 

Thirteenth and F Sts., N.W. 

SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 

American Forestry Association. — 1311 G St., 

N.W. 
Anthropological Society.— Cosmos Club, 

1520 H St., N.W. 
Biological Society. — Cosmos Club, 1520 H 

St., N.W. 
Chemical Society. — Cosmos Club- 
Entomological Society. 
Geological Society of Washington. — Cosmos 

Club. 
National Georgraphic Society. — Hubbard 

Memorial Hall, Sixteenth and M Sts., N.W. 
Philosophical Society. — Cosmos Club. 
Records of the Past Exploration Society. — 

215 Third St., S.E. 
Society for Philosopihical Inquiry. 
Washington Philatelc Society. 

TEMPERANCE AND REFORM SOCIETIES. 

American Anti-Saloon League. — 35 B St.. 
N.W. 

Anti-Saloon League of the D. C. — Washing- 
ton Loan & Trust Building. 

international Reform Bureau. — 206 Penn- 
sylvania Ave., S.E. 



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CT^UBS. 

Alibi Club.— 1806 I St., N.W. 

Analostan Boat Club. — New Hampshire Ave. 

and Twenty-seventh St., N.W. (Organ- 
ized June 30, 1868 ) 
Army and Navy Club.— 1622 I St., N.W. 
Bartenders' Union Club.— 905 E St., N.W. 
Brightwood Driving Club. — Fourteenth St., 

N.W. 
Burnt Cork Club. — 61S Massachusetts Ave., 

N.W. 
Caledonian Club.— 719 Sixth St., N.W. 

(Meets first and thirJ Wednesdays in each 

month.) 
Capital Bicycle Club.— 409 Fifteenth St., N. 

W. 
Capital Camera Club.— 1008 F St., N.W. 

(Meets first Saturday oi eacli month, at 

8 p.m.) 
Catholic Aquinus Club.— 206 Third St., S.E. 
Century Club. — S15 v^ermont Ave., N.W. 
Columbia Golf Club, The. — Brightwood Ave. 
Columbia Quartette Club. — Tenth and G 

Sts., N.W. 
Corinthian Yacht Cli,b — Foot of F St., N.W., 

or 607 Seventh St., N.W. 
Cosmos Club.— 1520 H St., N.W. (Meets 

second Monday in oach month, except 

July, August and September.) 
Country Club. — Nebraska Ave., N.W. 
Dumbarton Club. — Wisconsin Ave. and R St. 
Evening Star Club. — Star Building. 
Garrick Club. — 1347 I'cr nsylvania Ave., N.W. 
Gridiron Club. — 1410 I ennsylvania Ave,, N. 

W. 
Home Club.— 1006 E St., N.W. 
Ircquois Club, The. — 1347 Pennsylvania Ave., 

N.W. 
Jelly Fat Men's Club.— 933 D St., N.W. 
Kindergarten Club.— 1426 Q St., N.W. 
Lotus Club, The.— 1406 H St., N.W. 
IV!etropolitan Club.— 1700 H St., N.W. 
Pathfinder Dramatic Club.— 628 M St., S.E. 



Postal Photographic Club.— 1006 P St., N. 
W. (Organized ?S38.) 

Potomac Boat Club.— Foot Thirty-flrst St., 
N.W. (Organized 1S69.) 

Shakespeare Club, The.— organized 1869. 
(Meets at houses of members.) 

Soldiers, Sailors and Marines Club. — 317 U 
St., N.W. 

Sophocles Club.— 1522 Q St., N.W. (Meets 
every other Tuesday from October to May.) 

south WasI ington Business Men's -Club. — 
902 Four and One-Half St., S.W. 

Squash Club.— 1712 H St., N.W. 

Takoma Park and Library, The.— Takoma 
Parle. 

University Club. — 930 Sixteenth St., N.W. 

Villa Flora Club.— Brightwood Ave., N.W. 

Washington Architectural Club.— New York 
Ave., cor. Eighteen t)i, N.W. (Meets every 
third Saturday, from October to June, ai 
Octagon House. 

Washington Canoe Club.— Above Aqueduct 
Bridge. 

Washington Chapter American Institute of 
Architects. — Octagon House, New York 
Ave., cor. Eighteenth St., N.W. (Regu- 
lar meeting, first Friday of each 
except July and August.) 

Washinton Chess Club.— 614 Twelfth 
W. 

Washington Club.— 1710 I St., N.W. 

Washington Dental Club, The.— Meets 
Saturdays. 

The Fencers' Club. 

Washington Golf Club.— 1408 New York Ave., 
N.W. 

Washington Harvard Club.— Meets first Tues- 
day in each month. 

Washington Jockey Club. — Bennings. 

Wimodaughsis.— 1005 H St., N.W. 

Wine View Club. — Brentwood Road. 

Woodmont Rod and Gun Club. — Clubhouse 
and grounds, Woodmont, Washington 
County, Md. 



month, 
St., N. 

first 



CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES 

Preamble We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more per- 

fect Union, to establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for 
the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the bless- 
ings of liberty to ourselves and o-ur posterity, do ordain and establish 
this CONSTITUTION for the United States of America. 



ARTICLE I. 

Section I. All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of 
the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives. 

Section ii. 1. The House of Representatives shall be composed of members 
chosen every second year by the people of the several iStates, and the electors in ea/ch 
State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch 
of the State Legislature. 

2. No person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the age 
of twenty-five years, and been seven years la citizen of the United States, and who 
siiall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that State in which he snail be chosen. 

3. Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several 
States which may be included within this Union according to their respective num- 
bers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, in- 
cluding those bound to service for a term of years, and excluding Indians not taxed, 
three-fifths of all other persons. The actual enumeration shall be made within three 
years after the first meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every 
subsequent term of ten years, in such manner as they shall hy law direct. The num- 
ber of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty thousand, but each State 
shall have at least ome Representative; and until such enumeration shall be made, the 



S3S amelMcan biographical directory 

state of New Hampshire shall be entitled to choose 3; Massachusetts, 8; Rhode Island 
and Providence Plantation, 1; Connecticut, 5; New York, 6; New Jersey, 4; Pennsyl- 
vania, 8; Delaware, 1; Maryland, 6; Virginia, 10; North Oarolina, 5; South Carolina, 5; 
and Georg-ia, 3.* 

4. When vacancies happen in the representation from any State, the Executive 
Authority thereof shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies. 

5. The House of Representatives shall choose their Speaker and other officers, 
and shall have the sole power of impeachment. 

Section III. 1. The Senate of the United States shall he composed of two Sena- 
tors from each iState, chosen "by the Legislature thereof, for six years; and each Sena- 
tor shall have 'one vote. 

2. Immediately after they shall be assembled in consequence of the first election, 
they shall be divided as equally as may be into three classes. The seats of the Sena- 
tors of the first class shall be vacated at the expiration of the second year, of the 
second class at the expiration of the fourth year, and 'of the third class at the expi- 
ration of the sixth year, so that one- third may be chosen every second year; and if 
vacancies happen by resignation, or otherwise, during the recess of the Legislature 
■ot any State, the executive thereof may make temporary appointment until the next 
meeting of the Legislature, which shall then fill siuch vacancies. 

3. No person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the age of thirty 
years, and been nine years a citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when 
elected, be an inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen. 

4. The Vice-President of the United States shall be President of the Seniate, but 
siiiall have no vote unless they be equally divided. 

5. The Senate shall choose their other officers, and also a President pro tempore, 
In the absence of the Vice-President, or when be shall exercise the office of President 
of the United States. 

6. The Senate shall have the sole power to try all impeachments. When sitting 
for that purpose they shall be on oath or affirmation. When the President of the 
United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside; and no person shall be con- 
victed without the concurrence of two-thirds of the members present. 

7. Judgment in cases of impeachment shall not extend further than to removal 
from office and disqualification to bold and enjoy any office of honor, trust or profit 
under the United States; but the party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and sub- 
ject to indictment, trial, judgment and punishment, according to law. 

Section IV. 1. The times, places and manner of holding elections for Senators 
and Representatives shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but 
the Congress may at any time by law make or alter such regulations, except as to 
places of choosing Senators. 

2. The Congress sball assemble at least once in every year, and such meeting 
shall be on the first Monday in December, unless they shall by law appoint a differ- 
ent day. 

Section V. 1. Each House shall be the judge of the elections, returns and quali- 
fications of its own members, and a majority of each shall constitute a quorum to do 
business; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized 
to compel the attendance of absent members in such manner and under such penal- 
ties as each House may provide. 

2. Each House may determine the rules of its proceedings, punish its members 
for disorderly behavior, and with the concurrence of two-thirds expel a member. 

3. Each House shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and from time to time 
publish the same, excepting such parts as may in their judgment require secrecy; 
and the yeas and nays of the members of either House on any question shall, at the 
desire of one-fifth of those present, be entered on the journal. 

4. Neither House, during the session of Congress, shall, without the consent of 
the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other place than that in which 
the two Houses shall be sitting. 

Section VI. 1. The Senators and Representatives shall receive a compensation 
for their services, to be ascertained by law, and paid out of the Treasury of the 
United States. They shall, in all cases, except treason, felony and breach of the 
peace, be privileged from arrest during their attendance at the session of their re- 
spective Houses, and in going to and returning from the siame; and for any speech 
or deb_ate in either House they shall not be questioned in any other place. 

2. No Senator or Representative shall, during the time for which he was elected, 
be appointed to any civil office under the anthority of the United States which shall 
have been created or the emoluments whereof shall have been inrceased during such 
time; and no person holding any office under the United States shall be a member 
of either House during his continuance in office. 

Section VII. 1. All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of 
Representatives, but the Senate may propose or concur with amendments, as on other 
bills. 

2. Every bill Which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the 
Senate shall, before it become a law. be presented to the President of the United 

See Article XIV., Amendments. 



OlSTTllCT OF OOLUM&IA m 



States; if he approve he shall sign it, but if not, he shall return it, with his objec- 
tions, to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the objections 
at large on their journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If after such reconsideration 
two-thirds of that House shall agree to pass the bill, it shall be sent, together with 
the objections, to the other House, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered; and if 
approved by two-'thirds of that House it shall become a law. But in all such cases 
the votes of both Houses shall be determined by yeas and nays, and the names of the 
persons voting for and agiainst the bill shall be entered on the journal 'of each House 
respectively. If any bill shall not be returned by the President withia ten days 
(Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the same shall be a 
law in like manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress by their adjournment 
prevent its return; in which case it shall not be a law. 

3. Every order, resolution, or vote to which the concurrence of the Senate and 
House of Representatives may be necessary (except on a question •of adjournment) 
shall be presented to the President of the United States; and before the same shall 
take effect shall be approved by him, or being disapproved by him, shall be repassed 
by two- thirds of the Senate and the House of Representatives, according to the rules 
and limitations prescribed in the case of a bill. 

Section VIII. 1. The Congress shall have power 

To lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises, to pay the debts and provide 
for the common defence and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, 
imposts, and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States. 

2. To borrow 'money on the credit of the United States. 

3. To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several States, and 
with the Indian tribes. 

4. To establish an uniform rule of naturalization and uniform laws on the subject 
of bankruptcies throughout the United States. 

5. To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and flx the 
standard of weights and measures. 

6. To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin 
of the United States. 

7. To establish postoffices and post-roads. 

8. To promote the progress of science and useful arts by securing for limited 
times to authors and inventors the exclusive rights to their respective writings and 
discoveries. 

9. To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court. 

10. To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and 
offences against the law of nations. 

11. To declare war, grant letters of marque and (reprisal, and make rules con- 
cerning captures on land and water. 

12. To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall 
be for a longer term than two years. 

13. To provide and maintain a navy. 

14. To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces. 

15. To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Union, 
suppress insurrections, and repel invasions. 

16. To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the militia, and for gov- 
erning such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, 
reserving to the States respectively the appointment of the offlcers, and the authority 
of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress. 

17. To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever over such district (not 
exceeding ten mile's square) as may, by cession of particular States and the accept- 
ance of Congress, become the seat of Government of the United States, and to exercise 
like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the Legislature of the State 
in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dry docks, 
and other needful buildings. 

18. To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into exe- 
cution the foregoing powers and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the 
Government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof. 

Section IX.. 1. The migration or importation of such persons as any of the 
States now existing shall think proper to admit shall not be prohibited by the Con- 
gress prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a tax or duty may 
be Imposed on such importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each person. 

2. The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when 
in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it. 

3. No bill of attainder or ex post facto law shall be passed. 

4. No capitation or other direct tax shall be laid, unless in proportion to the 
census or enumeration hereinbefore directed to be taken. 

5. No tax or duty shall be laid on articles exported from any State. 

6. No preference shall be given by any regulation of commerce or revenue to the 
ports of one State over those of another, nor shall vessels bound to or from one State 
be obliged to enter, clear, or pay duties In another. 

7. No money shall be drawn from the Treasury but In consequence of appropria- 



540 AMERICAN BIOGRAPHUCAL DIRBOTORY 

tions made t>y law, and a reg-ular statement and account of the receipts and expendi- 
tures of all public money shall be published from time to time. 

8. No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States. And no person hold- 
ing: any office of profit or trust under them shall, w^ithout the consent of the Congress, 
accept of any present, emolument, office, or title of any kind whatever from any king, 
prince, or foreign state. 

Section X. 1. No Slate shall enter into any treaty, alliance, or confederation, 
grant letters of marque and reprisal, coin money, emit bills of credit, make anything 
but gold and silver coin, a tender in payment of debts, pass amy bill of attainder, ex 
post facto law, or law Impairing the obligation of contracts, or grant any title of no- 
bility. 

2. No State shall, without the consent o>t the Congress, lay any impost ar duties 
on imports or exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing its in- 
spection laws, and the net produce of all duties and imposts laid by any State on 
imports or exports, shall be for the use of the Treasury of the United States; and all 
such laws shall be subject to the revision and control of the Congress. 

3. No State shall, without the consent of Congress, lay any duty of tonnage, keep 
troops or ships of war in time of peace, enter into any agreement or compact with an- 
other State, or with a foreign power, or engage in war, unless actually invaded or in 
such imminent danger as will not admit of delay. 

ARTICLE II. 

Section I. 1. The Executive power shall be vested in a President of the United 
States of America. He shall hold his office during the term of four years, and to- 
gether with the Vice-President, chosen for the same term, be elected as follows: 

2. Each State shall appoint, in such manner as the Legislature thereof may 
direct, a number of electors, equal to the whole number of Senators and Representa- 
tives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress, but no Senator or Repre- 
sentative or person holding an office of trust or profit under the United States shall 
be appointed an elector. 

3. The electors shall meet in their respective States and vote by ballot for two 
persons, of whom one at least shall not be an inhabitant of the same State with them- 
selves. And they shall make a list of all the persons voted for, and of the number of 
votes for each, which list the^,' shall sign and certify and transmit, sealed, to the seat 
of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate. The 
President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representa- 
tives, open all the certificates, and the votes shall then be counted. The person having 
the greatest number of votes shall be the President, if such number be a majority of 
the whole number of electors appointed, and if there be more than one who have such 
majority, and have an equal number of votes, then the House of Representatives shall 
Immediately choose oy Dalioi one of them for President; and if no person have a ma- 
jority, then from the five highest on the list the said House shall in like manner choose 
the President. But in choosing the President the vote shall be taken by States, the 
representation from each State having one vote. A quorum for this purpose shall 
consist of a member or members from two-thirds of the States, and a majority of 
all the States shall be necessary to a choice. In every case, after the choice of the 
President, the person having the greatest number of votes of the electors shall be the 
Vice-President. But if there should remain two or more who have equal votes, the 
Senate shall choose from them by ballot the Vice-President.* 

4. The Congress may determine the time of choosing the electors and the day on 
which they shall give their votes, which day shall be the same throughout the United 
States. 

5. No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States at 
the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of Presi- 
dent; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to 
the age of thirty-five years and been fourteen years a resident within the United 
States. 

6. In case of the removal of the President from office, or of his death, resigna- 
tion, or inability to discharge the powers and duties of the said office, the same shall 
devolve upon the Vice-President, and the Congress may, by law, provide for the 
case of removal, death, resignation or inability, both of the President and Vice- 
President, declaring what officer shall then act as President, and such officer shall 
act accordingly until the disability be removed or a President shall be elected. 

7. The President shall, at stated times, receive for his services a compensation 
which shall neither be increased nor diminished during the period for which he shall 
have been elected, and he shall not receive within that period any other emolument 
from the United States, or any of them. 

S. Before he enter on the execution of his office he shall take the following oath 
or affirmation: 

"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully 'execute the office of Presi- 



*This clause is superseded by Article XII., Amendments. 



DISTRICT OF CaLUMBIA 541 



dent of the United States, and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and 
defend the Constitution of the United States." 

Section II. 1. The President sliall be Commander-in-Chief of the Army and 
Navy of the United States, and of the mllltla of the several States when called into 
the actual service of the United States, he may require the opinion, In writing', of the 
principal officer in each of the executive departments upon any subject relating to the 
duties of their respective offices, and ho shall have power to grant reprieves and par- 
dons for offences against the United States, except In cases of Impeachment. 

2. He shall have power, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to 
make treaties, provided two-thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall 
nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate shall appoint ambas- 
sadors, other public ministers and consuls, judges of the Supreme Court, and all other 
officers of the United States whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, 
and which shall be established by law; but the Congress may by law vest the appoint- 
ment of such Inferior officers as they think proper in the President alone, In the 
courts of law, or In the heads of departments. 

3. The President shall have power to fill up all vacancies that may happen dur- 
ing the recess of the Senate by g^ranting commissions, which shall expire at the end 
of their next session. , 

Section III. He shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the 
state of the Union, and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall 
judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary occasions, convene both 
Houses, or either of them, and in case of disagreement between them with respect to 
the time of adjournment, he may adjourn them to such time as he shall think 
proper; he shall receive ambassadors and other public ministers; he shall take care 
that the laws be faithfully executed, and shall commission all the officers of the United 
States. 

Section IV. The President, Vice-President, ana all civil officers of the United 
States shall be removed from office or Impeachment for and conviction of treason, 
bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors. 

ARTICLE III. 

Section I. The judicial power of the United States shall be vested in one Su- 
preme Court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time 
ordain and establish. The judges, both of the Supreme and inferior courts, shall 
hold their offices during good behavior, and shall at stated times receive for their 
services a compensation which shall not be diminished during their continuance in 
office. 

Section II. 1. The judicial power sball extend to all cases In law and equity 
arising under this Constitution, the laws of the United States, and treaties made, or 
which shall be made, under their authority; to all cases affecting ambassadors, other 
public ministers and consuls; to all cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction; to 
controversies to which the United States shall be a party; to controversies between 
two or more States; between a State and citizens of another State, between citizens 
of different States, between citizens of the same State claiming lands under grants of 
different State.s, and between a State, or the citizens thereof, and foreign States, 
citizens, or subjects. 

2. In all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers, and consuls, and 
those in which a State shall be party, the Supreme Court shall have original Juris- 
diction. In all the other cases before-mentioned the Supreme Court shall have ap- 
pellate jurisdiction both as to law and fact, with such exceptions and under such regu- 
lations as the Congress shall make. 

3. The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury, and 
such trial shall be held in the State where the said crimes shall have been committed; 
but when not committed within any State the trial shall be at such place or places 
as the Congress may by law have directed. 

Section III. 1. Treason against the United States shall consist only In levying 
war ag-ainst them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No 
person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the 
same overt act, or on confession in open court. 

2. The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason, but no 
attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood or forfeiture except during the 
life of the person attained. 

ARTICLE IV. 

Section I. Full faith a'nd credit shall be given in each State to the public acts, 
records and judicial proceedings of every other State. And the Congress may by 
general laws prescribe the manner in which such acts, records,^ and proceedings shall 
be proved, and the effect thereof. 

Section II. 1. The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all privileges and 
immunities of citizens in the several States, 



542 AMiERilCAN BICXmAPeiCAL. DIRECITOHY 

2. A person charged iti any State with treason, felony, or other crime, who shall 
flee from justice, and he found in another State, shall, on demand of the Executive 
authority of the State from which he fled, he delivered up, to be removed to the State 
having: jurisdiction of the crime. 

3. No person held to service or lahor in one State, under the laws thereof, es- 
caping into another shall:, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be dis- 
charged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered up on claim of the party 
to whom such service or labor may be due. 

Section III. 1. New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; 
but no new State shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of 'any other State, 
nor any State be formed by the junction 'of two or more States, or parts of States, 
without the consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned, as well as of the 
Congress. 

2. The Congress shall have power to disp'ose of and make all needful rules and 
regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States; 
and nothing in this Constitutiori shall he so construed as to prejudice any claims of 
the United States, or of any particular State. 

Section IV. The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a 
republican form of government, and 'Shall protect each of them against invasion, and, 
on application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot 
be convened), against domestic violence. 

ARTICLE V. 

The Congress, whenever two-thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall 
propose amendments to this Constitution, or, on the application of the Legislatures of 
two-thirds of the several States, shall call' a convention for proposing amendments, 
which, in either case, shall be valid to all intejits and purposes, as part of this Consti- 
tution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three-fourths of the several States, or by 
convention in three-fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may 
be proposed by the Congress; provided that no amendment which may be made prior 
to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any manner affect the first 
and fourth clauses in the Ninth Section of the First Article; and that no State, with- 
out its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate. 

ARTICLE VI. 

1. All debts contracted and engagements entered into before the adoption of 
this Constitution shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution 
as under the Confederation. 

2. This Constitution and the laws of the United States which shall he made in pur' 
suance thereof, and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority 
of the United States, shall he the Supreme law of the land, and the judges in every 
State shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to 
the contrary notwithstanding. 

3. The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the ^members of the 
several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial officers, both of the United 
States and of the severaj States, shall be bound hy oath or affirmation to support 
tho Constitution; but no religious tes<^ shall ever be required as a qualification to 
any office or public trust under the United States. 

ARTICLE VII. 

The ratification of the Conventions of nine States shall be sufficient for the es- 
tablishment of this Constitution between the States so ratifying the same. 

AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION 

ARTICLE I. 

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibit- 
ing the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech or of 'the press; or 
the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a 
redress of grievances. 

ARTICLE II. 

A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right 
of the people to keep ^nd heg,r arjps shall not bp infringed. 



DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 543 



ARTICLE 111. 

No s'oWier shall, in time of peace, be quartered in any house without the consent 
of the owner, nor in time of war but in a manner to be prescribed by law. 

ARTICLE IV. 

The right of the people to toe secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, 
against unrea.sonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants 
shall issue but upon probably cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particu- 
larly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to toe seized. 

ARTICLE V. 

No person shall be held to answer for a capital or other infamous crime unless 
on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases aris'ing in the land 
or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service, in time of war or public 
danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to toe twice put in 
jeopardy of life or Hmto; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness 
against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of 
law; nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation. 

ARTICLE VI. 

In all criminal prosecutions the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and 
public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall 
have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, 
and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with 
the witnesses against him to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his 
favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defence. 

ARTICLE Vli. 

In suits at comimon law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dol- 
lars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury shall 
be otherwise re-examined in any court of the United States than according to the 
rules of the common law. 

ARTICLE VIII. 

Excessive bail shall not toe required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and 
unusual punishments inflicted. 

ARTICLE IX. 

The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not toe construed to 
deny or disparage others retained by the people. 

ARTICLE X. 

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited 
by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. 

ARTICLE XI. 

The judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any 
suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States, by 
citizens of another State, or by citizens or subjects of any foreign State. 

ARTICLE XII. 

The electors shall meet in their respective States, and vote by toallot for Presi- 
dent and Vice-President, one of whom at least shall not be an inhabitant of the same 
State with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as Presi- 
dent, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President; and they shall 
piake distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and of all persons voted tor 



544 A'MEBICAN BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY 

as Vice-President, and of the number of votes for each, which list they shall sign and 
certify, and transmit, sealed, to the seat of the Government of the United States, di- 
rected to the President of the Senate; the President 'of the Senate shall, in the pres- 
ence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates, and tha 
votes shall then be counted; the person having the greatest number of votes for Presi- 
dent shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of 
electors appointed; and if no person have such majority, then from the persons hav- 
ing the highest numbers, not exceeding three, on the list of those voted for as Presi- 
dent, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President. 
But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by States, the representation 
from each State having one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a mem- 
ber of members from two-thirds of the States, and a majority of all the States shall 
be necessary to a choice. And if the House of Representatives shall not choose a 
President, whenever the right of choice shall devolve upon them, before the fourth 
day of March next following, then the Vice-President shall act as President, as In 
the case of the death or 'Other constitutional disability of the President. The person 
having the greatest number of votes as Vice-President shall be the Vice-President, 
if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed, and if no 
person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list the Senate shall 
choose the Vice-President; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-thirds 
of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be neces- 
sary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the ofRce of President 
shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States. 

ARTICLE XIII. 

1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime 
whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United 
States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. 

2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by suitable legislation. 

ARTICLE XIV. 

1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the juris- 
diction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. 
N'O State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or im- 
munities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of 
life, liberty, or property without due process of law, nor deny to any person within 
its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. 

2. Representatives shall be apportioned ^mong the several States according to 
their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, ex- 
cluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any electron for the choice 
of electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, Representatives in 
Congress, the executive and judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legis- 
lature thereof, is denied to any of the male rmembers of such State, being of twenty- 
one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except 
for participation in rebellion or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall 
be reduced in the proportion in which the number of such male citzens =hall boa'- 
to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State. 

3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of 
President and Vice-President, or holding any office, civil or military, under the 
United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a mem- 
ber of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State 
Legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Consti- 
tution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against 
the same, or given aid and comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may, by a 
vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability. 

4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, in- 
cluding debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppress- 
ing insurrection and rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States 
nor any State shall assume to pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrec- 
tion or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation 
of any slave; but all such debts, obligations, and claims shall toe held to be illegal 
and void. 

5. The Congress shall have power to enforce by appropriate legislation the pro- 
visions of this article. 

ARTICLE XV. 

1. The right of the citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or 
abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous 
condition of servitude. 

2. The Congress shall have power to enforce the provisions of this article by ap- 
propria-te legislation. 



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RATIFICATION OF THE CONSTITUTION. 

Th^ Constitution was ratified by the thirteen original States. In the following 
order: 

Delaware, December 7. 1787, unanimously. Maryland. April 28, 1788 vote 63 to 12. 

Pennsylvania, December 12, 1787, vote 46 South Carolina, May 23, 1788, vote 149 

to 23. to 73. 

New Jersey. December 18, 1787. unani- New Hampshire, June 21, 1788, vote 57 to 

mously. 4g. 

Georgia, January 2, 1788, unanimously. Virginia. June 25. 1788, vote 89 to 79. 

Connecticut, January 9, 1788. vote 128 to New York, July 26. 1788. vote 30 to 28. 

^'^- North Carolina, November 21 1789, vote 

Massachusetts, February 6, 1788, vote 187 193 to 75. 

to 168. Rhode Island, May 29. 1790, vote 34 to 32. 

RATIFICATION OF THE AMENDMENTS. 

I. to X., inclusive, were declared in force December 15. 1791. 

XI. was declared in force January 8, 1798. 

XII., regulating elections, was ratified by all the States except Connecticut, Dela- 
ware. Massachusetts and New Hampshire, which rejected it. It was declared in 
force September 28, 1804. 

XIII., the emancipation amendment, was ratified by 31 of the 36 States; rejected by 
Delaware, and Kentucky, not acted on by Texas; conditionally ratified by Alabama 
and Mississippi. Proclaimed December 18, 1865. 

XIV., reconstruction amendment, was ratified by 23 Northern States; rejected by 
Delaware, Kentucky. Maryland, and 10 Southern States, and not acted on by Cali- 
fornia. The 10 Southern States subsequently ratified under pressure. Proclaimed 
July 28, 1868. 

XV., Negro citizenship amendment, was not acted on by Tennessee, rejected by Cali- 
fornia, Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, New Jersey, and Oregon; ratified by the 
remaining 30 States. New York rescinded its ratification January 5, 1870. Pro- 
claimed March 30, 1870. 



DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE 

IN CONGRESS JULY 4. 1776. 

The unanimous declaration of the thirteen United States of America. When in 
the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the politi- 
cal bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers 
of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Na- 
ture's God entitles them, a decent respect to the 'opinions of mankind requires that 
they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. 

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they 
are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are 
Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments 
are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the gov- 
erned. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it 
Is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it. and to institute new Government, 
laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to 
them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed,' 
will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and 
transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, chat mankind are not 
more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abol- 
ishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and 
usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a design to reduce them 
under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such G-overn- 
ment. and to provide new Guards for their future security. Such has been the patient 
sufferance of these Colonies: and such is now the necessity which constrains them to 
alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great 
Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object 
the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facta 
be submitted to a candid world. 

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the 
public good. 

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressilng impor- 
tance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and 
when so suspended he has utterly neglected to attend to them. 

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546 AMERICAN BIOGRAPHICAL DIRBIOTORY 

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of 
people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legis- 
lature, a right inestimable to them, and formidable to tyrants only. 

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and 
distant from the depository 'of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing 
them into compliance with his measures. 

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with m'aniy firm- 
ness his invasions on the rights of the people. 

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be 
elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapaible of Annihilation, have returned to 
the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the meantime exposed 
to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within. 

He has endeavored to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose 
obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to 
encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriation 
of Lands. 

He has obsitructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws 
for establishing Judiciary Powers. 

He Was made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, 
and the amount and payment of their salaries. 

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers 
to harass our people and eat out their substance. 

He has kept among us, in times of peace. Standing Anrnias without the Consent 
of our legislature. 

He has affected to render the Military indeipendent of aind superior to the Civil 
power. 

He has combined with others to 'subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our con- 
stitution, and unacknowledged by our laws, giving his Asjsent to their Acts of pre- 
tended Legislation: 

For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: 

For protecting them, toy a mock Trial, from punishment for a.ny Murders which 
• they should com'mit on the Inhabitants of these States: 
' For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: 

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: 

For depriving us, in miany cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury: 

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences: 

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighboring Province, es- 
tablishing therein an Arbitrary government, amd enlarging its Boundaries so as to 
render it at once an example and Jit instrument for introducing tihe same absolute 
rule into these Colonies: 

For takimg away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Law®, and altering 
fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: 

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with 
power to legislate for us in all cases whatso'ever. 

He has abdicated G-overnment here, by declaring us out of his Protection and 
waging War against us. 

He has plundered our seia®, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed 
the lives of our people. 

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat 
the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of 
Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, 'and totally un- 
worthy the Head of a civilized nation. 

He has constrained our fellow-Citizens taken captive on the high Seas, to bear 
Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, 
or to fall themselves by their Hands. 

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavored to bring 
on the inhabitants of our frontiers the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule 
of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions. 

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress In the most 
humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. 
A Primce, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, 
is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. 

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have 
warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwar- 
rantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our 
emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and mag- 
nanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disa- 
vow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and corre- 
spondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice amd of consanguinity. 
We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and 
hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind. Enemies in War, in Peace Friends. 

WE, THEREFORE, the REPRESENTATIVES of the UNITED STATES OF 
AMERICA, IN GENERAL CONGRESS Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge 
of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, aind by authority 



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547 



of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly PUBLISH and DECLARE That 
these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be FREE AND INDE- 
PENDENT States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, 
and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is 
and ought to be totally dissolved: and that as FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES, 
thev have full Power to levy War. conclude Peace, contract Alliiances, establish com- 
merce and to do all other Acts and Things which INDEPENDENT STATES may of 
right do And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the pro- 
tection of Divine Providence, We mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our i-or- 
tunes, and our sacred Honor. j, „ a oi-rr,^^ hv 

(The foregoing declaration was, by order of Congress, «nS''^''°''^"^' ^"?L„^if "^ °^ 
the following members:) JOHN HANCOCK.. 

New Hampshire— Josiah Bartlett, Wm. Whipple, Matthew Thornton. 

Massachusetts Bay— Saml. Adams, John Adams, Robt. Treat Pame, Elbridge 
Gerry. 

Rhode Islia-nd, etc. — Step. Hopkins, William Ellery. 

Connecticut— Roger Sherman, Sam'el. Huntington, Wm. Williams, Oliver Wolcott. 

New Yorlv — Wm. Ployd, Phil. Livingston, Frans. Lewis, Lewis Morris. 

New Jersey — Richd. Stockton, Jno. Witherspoon, Fras. Hopkinson, John Hart, 

Pennsylvania — Robt. Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benja. Franklin, John Morton, Geo. 
Clymer, Jas. Smith, Geo. Taylor, James Wilson, Geo. Ross. 

Delaware — Caesar Rodney, Geo. Read, Theo. M'Kean. 

Maryland — Samuel Chase, Wm. Paca, Thos. Stone, Charles Carroll of CarroUton. 

Virginia — George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Th. Jefferson, Benja. Harrison, 
Thos. Nelson, jr., Francis Lig-htfoot Lee, Carter Braxton. 

North Carolina — Wm. Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn. 

South Carolina — Edward Rutledge, Thos. Heyward, junr., Thomas Lynch, junr., 
Arthur Middleton. 

Georgia — Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, Geo. Walton. 



The Thirteen Original States and Present States 
of the Union and When Admitted. 



states. 



Delaware 



2 Pennsylvania ■ 
New Jersey.. 

Georgia 

Connecticut 

Massachusetts. 
Maryland 



States. 



Vermont. . . 
Kentucky. . 
Tennessee. 

Ohio 

Louisiana. . 
Indiana. . . . 
Mississippi. 

Illinois 

Alabama. . . 

Maine 

Missouri. . . 
Arkansas. . 
Michigan. . 

Florida 

Texas 

Iowa 



THE THIRTEEN ORIGINAL STATES. 



Ratified the 
Constitution. 



1787, December 7. 
1787, December 12. 

1787, December 18. 

1788, January 2. 
1788, January 9. 
1788, February 6. 
1788, April 28. 



States. 



South Carolina. . 
New Hampshire. 

Virginia 

New York 

North Carolina.. 
Rhode Island.... 



STATES ADMITTED TO THE UNION. 



Admitted. 



1791, March 4. 

1792, June 1. 
1796, June 1. 
1?03, February 19. 
m2, April 30. 

1816, December 11. 

1817, December 10. 
1S18, December 3. 
1819, December 14. 
1S20, March 15. 
1821, August 10. 
li:36, June 15. 
1S37, January 26. 
lf,45, March 3. 

1845, December 29. 

1846. December 28. 



St-dces. 



17 I Wisconsin 

IS California 

13 JMlnnesota 

20 jOregon 

21 IKansas 

22 IWest Virginia. 

2"! Nevada 

24 INebraska 

2C> jcolorado 

2'j INorth Dakota. 
27 I South Dakota. 

2^ IMontana 

2(» I Washington. .. 
iO Idaho 

31 jWyomlng 

32 lUtah 



Ratified the 
Constitution. 



1788, May 23. 

1788, June 21. 

1788, June 26. 

1788, July 26. 

17 89, November 21. 

1790, May 29. 



Admitted. 



lSi48, May 29. 
1850, September 9. 

1858, May 11. 

1859, February 14. 
uei, January 29. 
1S63. June 19. 
1864. October 31. 
l}-67, March 1. 
1876, August 1. 

1889, November 2. 
1F89, November 2. 

1589, November S. 
1^89, November 11. 

1890, July 3. 

1590, July 11. 
If96, January 4. 



Under an enabling act by Congress the people of Oklahoma ^f.^^itory and the Indian 
Territorv have vot^d ; t statehood, and the State as Oklahoma wili be admitted to the 
L-S by p?oclamation J the President after a State Constitution .las been adopted by 
popular vote (see "Slat, hood of Oklahoma"). 



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AMERICAN BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY 



The Territories. 



Territories. 


Organiaed. 


Territories. 


Organized. 


New Mexico 

Arizona 


September 9, 1850 
February 24, 1863 
June 30, 1834. 
May 2. 1S90 


District of Columbia 

District of Alaska 

Hawaii 


July 16, 1790 
March 3, 1791 


In<!Iian 


July 27. 186S 
June 14, 1900 


01<Iah)oma •. 



NEW POSSESSIONS.— A government for Porto Rico was established by the Fifty- 
sixth Congress. The ;-'Jiilippines are under a provisional civil government; Guam and Tu- 
tuila under Governors, and the Isthmian caral Zone under a CoT.mission, all appointed 
b/ the President. 



The Monroe Doctrine 

"The Monroe Doctrine," was enunciated In the follo'wing words in President Mon- 
roe's message to Congress December 2, 1823: 

"In the discussions to which this interest has given rire, and in the arrangements 
by which they may terminate, the occasion has been deemed proper for asserting, as 
a principle in which rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the 
American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have as- 
sumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colo- 
nization by any European power. . . . We owe it, therefore, to candor and to the 
amicable relations existing between the United States and those powers to declare 
that we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any por- 
tion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety. With the existing colo- 
nies or dependencies of any European power we have not interfered and shall not 
interfere. But with the governments v.'ho have declared their independence and main- 
tain it, and whose independence we have, on great consideration and on juat prin- 
ciples, acknowledged, we could not view any interposition for the purpose of oppress- 
ing them or controlling in any other mamner their destiny by any European power in 
any other light than as the manifestation of an unfriendly disposition toward the United 
States." 

Secretary of State Olney, in his dispatch of July 20, 1895, on the Venezuelan 
Boundary Dispute, said: 

"It (the Monroe Doctrine) does not establish any general protectorate by the 
United States over other American States. It does not relieve any American Ptate 
from its obligations as fixed by international law, nor prevent any European power 
directly interested from enforcing such obligations or from inflicting merited pun- 
ishment for the breach of them." 

President Roosevelt, in a speech In 1902, upon the results of the Spanish-Ameri- 
can War, said: 

"The Monroe Doctrine Is simply a statement of our very firm belief that the 
nations now existing on this continent must be left to work out their own destlniea 
among themselves, and that this continent Is no longer to be regarded as the colo- 
nizing ground of any European power. The one power on the continent that can 
make the power effective Is, of course, ourselves; for in the world as it is, a nation 
which advances a given doctrine, likely to Interfere In any way with other nations, 
must possess the power to back it up, if It wishes the doctrine to "be respected." 



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AMERICAN BICKJRAPHiICAL. DIRECTORY 



Vice Presidents of the United States 



Name. 



jJohn Adams 

(Thomas JefteMon .... 

|Aaron Burr 

IGeorge Clinton 

Elbridge Ger-y 

Daniel D. Tompkins. . 

John C. Caih <un 

Martin Van nu.-en.... 

Richard M. Johnson.. 

John Tyler 

George M. Dallas 

Millard Fillmon^ 

wmiam R. King 

John C. Breckinridge. 
Hannibal Hamlin 

Andrew Johnsoa 

Schuyler Colfax 

IHenry Wilson 

IWilliam A. Wheeler.. 
(Chester A. Arthur 

Thos. A. Hendricks... 

[Levi P. Morton 

JAdlai E. Stevenson 

IGarret A. Hwbart 

ITheodore Roosevelt.... 
ICharles W. Fairbanks. 



Birthplace. 



Quincy, Mass 

Sbadwell, Va 

Newark, N. J 

Clster Co., N. Y 

Marblehead, Mass. . .1. . 

Scarsdale, N. Y 

Abbeville, S. C 

Kinderhook, N. Y 

Lrouisville, Ky 

Greenway, Va 

Philadelphia, Pa 

Sbmmerhill, N. Y 

Sampson Co., N. C... 

Lexington, Ky 

Parns, Me 

Raleigh, N. C 

New York City, N. Y 

FarmingtoHs N. H 

Malone, N. Y 

Fairfield, Vt 

Muskingum Co., O.... 

Shoreham, Vt 

Christian Co., Ky 

I.cng Branch, N. I.... 
New York City, N. Y 
Unionville Center, C. 



Paternal 
Ancestry. 



1735|English 

1743|Welsh 

IToGlEnglish 

1'.39 English 

1744|English 

1774(English 

1782 Scotch-Irish.. 

1782 Dutch 

1780 English 

1790 English 

l';92 English 

1^00 English 

1786 English 

li;21 ScH.tch 

1809 English 

1808| English iTenn. 

1823|English Ind. . 

1812 English I Mass. 

l&]9|English jN. Y, 

1830|Scotch-Irish ,.In. Y. 
18]9|Scotch-Irish. ..Ilnd. 

li24|Scotch In. Y, 

lg35jScotch-Irish... 111. ■• 

1844|Engli6h |N. J., 

li'58 Dutch N. Y. 

l?52|Engl:8h.. Ind. . 




Speakers of the U. S. House of Representatives 



Congress. 



1 

2 

3 

4. 5 

6 

7-9 

10, 11 

12, 13 

13 

14-16 

16 

17 

18 

19 

20-23 

23 

24, 25 

26 

27 

28 

29 

30 

31 

32, 33 

34 

35 

36 

37 

38-40 

41-43 

44 
44-46 

47 
48-50 
51 
52, 53 
54, 55 
56, 57 
68. 59 



Years. 



1789-91 
1791-93 
179.1-95 
1795-J9 

1799 -ISOl 
1801-17 
1807 -il 
1811-14 
1814-15 
1815-20 
1820-?1 
1821-.3 
1823-J5 
1825-27 
1827-;S4 
1834-o5 
1835 09 
1839-41 
1841-43 
1843-15 
1845-47 
1847-19 
1849-51 
1851-5,-. 
1855-57 
1857 -.59 
1859-61 
1861-63 
1863-69 
1869-75 
1875-76 
1876-Sl 
1881-^3 
1883-89 
1889-91 
1891-95 
1895 -t9 

1899-1003 
1903- 



Name. 



State. Born. 



F. A. Muhlenburg. . . 
Jonathan Trumbull 
F. A. Muhlenburg . . 
Jc'nathan Dayton 
IhCKj. Sedgwick 
Nathaniel Macon 
Joseph B. Varnum . 

Henry Clay 

Langdon Cheves . . . 

Henry Clay 

John W. Taylor . . . 
Philip P .Barbour . 

Henry Clay 

John W. Taylor 

Andrew Stevenson . 

John Bell 

James K. Polk 

R. M. T. Huntc-r .. 

John White 

John W. Jones 

John W. Davis .... 
Robert C. Winthrop 

Hcwell Cobb 

Linn Boyd . 

Nathaniel P. Banks 

James L. Orr 

Wm. Pennington. 
Galusha A. Grow . . . 
Schuyler Colfax 
James G. Blaine . . 
Michael C. Kerr 
Samuel J. Randall . 

John W. Keifer 

John G. Carlisle 

Thomas B. Reed 

Charles F. Crisp 
Thomas B. Reed . . . 
David B. Henderson 
Joseph G. Cannon . , 



Pa. . 
Conn. 
Pa. . 
N. J. 

Mass. 
N. C. 
Mass. 
|Ky. 
3. C 
iKy. 
N. Y. 
Va. . 
Ky. 

N. y. 

Va. . 
Penn. 
renn. 
Va. . 
Ky. . 
Va. . 
Ind. . 
Mass. 
3a. . 
Ky. . 



Mass. 
S. C. 
N. J. 
Pa. 
Ind. 
Me. . 
. Ind. 
Pa. 
Ohio 
Ky. 
Me. 
13a. 
Me. . 
la. .. 
Cll. . 



1750 
1740 
1750 
1760 
1746 
1757 
1750 
1777 
1776 
1777 
1784 
1783 
1777 
1784 
1784 
1797 
1795 
1809 
1805 
1805 
I 1799 
I 1809 
I 1815 
I 1800 
I 1816 
I 1822 
I 1796 
I 1823 
I 1823 
I 1830 
I 1827 
I 1828 
I 1836 
I 1835 
t 1839 
I 1845 
I 1839 
I 1840 
) 1836 



Died. 



1801 
180!« 
1801 
1824 
1813 
1837 
1821 
1852 
1867 
1852 
18o4 
1841 
1852 
1854 
1857 
1869 
1849 
1887 
1845 
1848 
1850 
1894 
1868 
1859 
1894 
1873 
1862 

isss 

1893 
1876 
1890 



1902 
1896 
1902 
1906 



DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 



551 



Governors of the States and Territories. 



states and 
Territories. 



States. 



Alabama 

Arkansas 

California 

Colorado 

Connecticut 

Delaware 

Florida 

Georgia 

Idaiio 

Illinois 

Indiana 

Iowa 

Kansas 

Kentucky 

Louisiana 

Maine 

Maryland 

Massachusetts. . . 

Michigan 

Minnesota 

Mississippi 

Missouri 

Montana 

Nebraska 

Nevada 

New Hampshire. 

New Jersey 

New York 

North Carolina. . 
North Dakota... 

Ohio 

Oregon 

Pennsylvania 

Rhode Island 

South Carolina.. 
South Dakota. . . 

Tennessee 

Texas 

Utah 

Vermont 

Virginia 

Washington 

West Virginia. . . 

Wisconsin 

Wyoming 

Territories. 

Alaska , 

Arizona , 

Hawaii 

New Mexico. ... 

Oklahoma 

Porto Rico 



Capitals. 



Governors. 



term 
of serv- 
ice. 



Expiration of 
term. 



Salary. 



Montgomery 

t.ittle Rock 

Sacramento 

Denver 

Hartford 

Dover 

Tallahassee 

Atlanta 

Boise 

-jpringfleld 

Ii'dianapolis 

Df s Moines 

Topeka 

Frankfort 

Batcn Rouge 

Augusta 

Annapolis 

Boston 

Lansing 

St. Paul 

Jackson 

Jefferson City 

Helena 

Lincoln 

Carson City 

Concord 

Trenton 

Albany 

Raleigh 

Bismarck 

Columbus 

Salem 

Harrisburg 

Providence 

Columbia 

Pierre 

Nashville 

Austin 

Salt Lake City.. 

Montpelier 

Richmond 

Olympia 

Charleston 

Madison 

Cheyenne 



Braxton B. Comer 

John S. Little 

Jimes N. Gillette... . 

Henry A Buchtel 

R^ollin S. Woodruff... 

Preston Lea 

Napoleon B. Broward 

Hoke Smith 

FVank R. Gooding 

Charles S. Denten... 

J Frank Hanly 

Albert B. Cummins. . . . 

Edward W. Hoch 

J. C. W. Beckham.. 
Newton C. Blanchard. . 

William T. Cobb 

Edward Warfield 

Curtis Guild, jr 

Fred M. Warner 

John A. Johnson 

James. K. Vardaman. 

Joseph W. Folk 

Joseph K. Toole 

George. L. Sheldon 

John Sparks 

Charles M. Floyd 

Edwin C. Stckes 

Chas. E. Hughes 

Robert B. Glenn 

John Burke 

A. L. Harris 

Geo. E. Chamberlain. . . 

Edwin S. Stuart 

James H. Higglns 

Martin F. Ansel 

Coe I. Crawford 

M R. Patterson 

Thos. M. Campbell 

John C. Cutler 

Fletcher Proctor 

Claude M. Swanson 

A. E. Mead 

W. M. O. Dawson 

Jas. O. Davidson 

Bryant B. Brooks 



Sitka Wilford B. Hoggatt.. 

Phoenix Joseph H. Kibbey . . 

rionolulu (.cw.ge K. Carter 

5anta Fe Herbert J. Hagerman . 

Guthrie Frank Frantz 

San Juan Biekman Winthrop.. 



Years. 

4 
2 
4 
2 
2 
4 
4 
2 
2 
4 
4 
2 
2 
4 
4 
2 
4 
1 
2 
2 
4 
4 
4 
2 
4 
2 
3 
2 
4 
2 
2 
4 
4 
1 
2 
2 



Tan., 
.Ian., 
J^n., 
; Jan., 
I Jan., 
Jan., 
Jan., 
Oct., 
J^n., 
Jan., 
Jan., 
Jan., 
Jan., 
Dec, 
May, 
Jan., 
I Jan., 
Jan., 
.Ian., 
Jan., 
Tan., 
Jan., 
Jan., 
.^an., 
Jan., 
Jan., 
Jan., 
Jan., 
Jan., 
I Jan., 
I .Ian., 
Jan., 
Jan., 
Jan., 
Dec, 
I Jiin., 
I Jan.. 

I .'an., 
I Oft., 
I Feb., 
i Jan., 
I Mar., 
I Jan., 



1911. 
1909. 
1911. 
1909. 
1909. 
1909. 
1909. 
1908. 
1909. 
1909. 
1909. 
1909. 
1909. 
1907. 
1908. 
1909. 
1908. 
1908. 
1909. 
1909. 
1908. 
1909. 
1909. 
lt»09. 
1911. 
1909. 
1909. 
1909. 
1909. 
1909. 
1908. 
1909. 
1911. 
1908. 
1908. 
1909. 
1909. 
1909. 
1909. 
1908. 
1910. 
1909. 
1909. 
1909. 



4 I Jan., 
4 I Mar. 
4 I Feb. 
4 I Ncv. 
4 I Jan. 
4 I Jan. 



1911 

21, 1910., 

1909., 

1907. 

1910. 

1910., 



$5,000 
3,500 
6,000 
5,000 
4,000 
2,000 
3,600 
3,000 
5.000 
6,000 
5,000 
3,000 
3,000 
6,000 
5,000 
2,000 
4,500 
8,000 
4,000 
6,000 
3,50C 
6,000 
5,000 
2,600 
4,000 
2,000 

10,000 

10,000 
4,000 
3,000 
8,000 
1,500 

10,000 
3,000 
3,500 
3,000 
4,000 
4,000 
4,000 
1,500 
6,00t. 
4,000 
2,700 
6.000 



2,500 
5,000 
3,00n 
5,000 
3,000 
3,000 



552 



AMERICAN BIOGRAPHICAL, DIRECTORY 



THE LJNIXED STATES SENATE 

SIXTIETH CONGRESS 



HON. CHARLES W. FAIRBANKS, Vice-President and President of the Senate. 

HON. WILLIAIM P. FRYE, Prcsioent of tlie Senate pro tempore. 

CHARLES G. BENNETT, Secretary. DANIEL IVI. RANSDELL, Sergeant-at-Arms. 

HENRY iVI. ROSE, As&istant Secretary. REV. EDWARD EVERETT HALE, Chaplain. 



Name and Residence. 

Nelson W. Aldrich, I'rovidence, R. I 

William B. Allison, Imbuque, Iowa 

Levi Ankeny, Walla Walla, Wash 

Augustus O. Bacon. Macon, Ga 

Joseph W. Bailey, Gai lesville, Texas 

John H. Bankhead, Fayette, Ala 

Albert J. Beveridga. Indianapolis, Ind 

William E. Borah, Pri-e, Idaho 

Jonathan Bourne, Jr., j-'ortland. Ore 

Frank B. Brandegee, New London, Conn 

Frank O. Briggs, Trent n, N. J 

Norris Brown, Kearney, Neb 

William James Bryan, Jacksonille, Fla 

Morgan G. Belkcley, jjartford, Conn 

Elmer J. Burkett, Ll.icoln, Neb 

Henry E. Burnham, Manchester, N. H 

Julius C. Burrows, Kn'.amazoo, Mich 

Thomas H. Carter, Helena, Mont 

Moses E. Clapp, Sa'nt Paul, Minn; 

Clarence D. Clark, I'^vanston, Wyo 

James P. Clarke, Liccle Rock, Ark 

Alexander S. Clay, Marietta, Ga 

Winthrop Murray Cr.'ine, Dalton, Mass 

Charles A. Culberson, Pallas, Texas 

Shelby M. CuUcm, Springfield, 111 

Charles Curtis, Tnpeki, Kans 

John W. Daniel, Lyiio:iburg, Va 

Jtfferson Davis, Little Rock, Ark 

Chauncey M, Dcpew, New \ork City, N. T.. 

Charles Dick, Akron, Ohio 

William P. Dillingh^am, Waterbury, Vt 

Joseph M. Dixon, ^Il£^oula, Mont 

Jonathan P. Dolliver, Fort Doage, Iowa....! 

Henry A. Du Pont, \Vilmingtcn, Del 

Stephen B. Elkins, E!.>.'ns, W. Va 

Frank P. Flint, Los Angeles, Cal 

Joseph B. Foraker, C'minnatl, Ohio 

Murphy J. Foster, Franklin, La 

jLimes B. Frazier, C.iat'anooga, Tonn 

William P. Frye, Lcwls-ton, Me 

Charles W. Fulton, Astoria, Ore 

Jacob H. Gallinger, Concord, N. H 

Robert J. Gamble. Yjnkton, S. Dak 

Tom P. Gore, Oklahoma, 

Simon Guggenheim, Ue.iver, Col 

Eugene Hale, Ellswovrh, Me 

Henry C. Hansbrough, Devils i-iake, N. Dak. 

James A. Hemenway, Boonville, Ind 

Weldon B. Heyburn, Wallace, Idaho 

Albert J. Hopkins, ftu.ora. 111 

Jcseph F. Johnsto"^!. Birmingham, Ala 

John Kean, Elizabeth, N. J 

A. B. Kittredge, Sioux 7alls, S. Dak 

Philander Chase Ktiox, Pittsburg, Pa 

Robert M. La Follett-J, Madison, Wis... 

Asbury C. Latimer, iielton, S. C 

Henry Cabot Lodge, Nahant, Mass 

Chester I. Long, Me-ilcine Lodge, Kans 

James B. McCreary, Richmond, Ky 

Porter J. McCumber, Wahpeton, N. Dak 

Samuel D. McEnery, Nfw Orleans, La 

Anselm J. McLaurin, Frandon, Miss 

Thomas S. Martin, Scottsville, Va 

H. D. Money, Cai roll'on, Miss 

Knute Nelson, Alexandria, Minn 

Francis G. Newlands, Reno, Nev 

George S. Nixon, Wiur.cmucca, Nev 

Lee S. Overman, Stih.-;bury, N. C 







Service- 








Oct. 


5, 


1881 


March 


3 


1911 


Mar. 


4, 


1873 


March 


3 


1909 


Mar. 


4, 


1903 


March 


3 


1909 


Mar. 


4, 


1895 


March 


3 


1913 


Mar. 


4. 


1901 


March 


3 


1913 


Jnne 


18 


, 1907 


March 


3 


1913 


Mar. 


4, 


1899 


March 


3 


1911 


Mar. 


4, 


1907 


March 


3 


1913 


Mar. 


4, 


1907 


March 


3 


1913 


May 


9, 


1905 


March 


3 


1909 


Mar. 


4, 


1907 


March 


3 


1913 


Mar. 


4, 


1907 


March 


3 


1913 


Jan. 


23 


1908 


March 


3 


1909 


Mar. 


4, 


1905 


March 


3 


1911 


Mar. 


4, 


1905 


March 


3 


1911 


Mar. 


4, 


1901 


March 


3 


1913 


Jan. 


23 


1895 


March 


3 


1911 


Mar. 


4, 


1905 


March 


3 


1911 


Jan. 


23 


1901 


March 


3 


1911 


Feb. 


6, 


1895 


March 


3 


1911 


Mar. 


4, 


1903 


March 


3 


1909 


Mar. 


4, 


1897 


March 


3 


1909 


Oct. 


12 


1904 


March 


3 


1913 


Mar. 


4, 


1899 


March 


3 


1911 


Mar. 


4, 


1883 


March 


3 


1913 


Jan. 


22 


1907 


March 


3 


1913 


Mar. 


4. 


1887 


March 


3 


1911 


Mar. 


4, 


1907 


March 


3 


1913 


Mar. 


4, 


1899 


March 


3 


1911 


Mar. 


2, 


1904 


March 


3 


1911 


Oct. 


19, 


1900 


March 


3 


1909 


Mar. 


4, 


1907 


March 


3 


191S 


Aug. 


23 


1900 


March 


3 


1913 


June 


13 


1906 


March 


3 


1911 


Mar. 


4. 


1895 


March 


3 


1913 


Mar. 


4, 


1905 


March 


3 


1911 


Mar. 


4, 


1897 


March 


3 


1909 


Mar. 


4, 


1901 


March 


3 


1913 


Mar. 


21 


1905 


March 


3 


1911 


Mar. 


8, 


1881 


March 


3 


1913 


Mar. 


4, 


1903 


March 


3 


1909 


Mar. 


4, 


1891 


March 


3 


1909 


Mar. 


4, 


1901 


March 


3 


1913 


Dec. 


1, 


190S 


March 3: 


. 1912 


Mar. 


4, 


1907 


March 


3 


1913 


Mar. 


4, 


1881 


March 


3 


1911 


Mar. 


4, 


1891 


March 


3 


1909 


Mar. 


4, 


1905 


March 


3 


1909 


Mar. 


4, 


1903 


March 


3 


1909 


Mar. 


4, 


1903 


March 


3 


1909 


Aug. 


7, 


1907 


March 


3 


1915 


Mar. 


4, 


1899 


March 


3 


1911 


July 11, 


1901 


March 


3 


1909 


June 


10 


1904 


March 


3 


1911 


Mar. 


4, 


1905 


March 


3 


1911 


Mar. 


4, 


1903 


March 


3 


1909 


Mar. 


4, 


1893 


March 


3 


1911 


Mar. 


4, 


1903 


March 


3 


1909 


Mar. 


4, 


1903 


March 


3 


1909 


Mar. 


4, 


1899 


March 


3 


1911 


Mar. 


4. 


1897 


March 


3 


1909 


Mar. 


4, 


1901 


March 


3 


1913 


Mar. 


4, 


1895 


March 


3 


1913 


Dec. 


7, 


1897 


March 


3 


1911 


Mar. 


4, 


1895 


March 


3 


1913 


Mar. 


4, 


1903 


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3 


1909 


Mar. 


4, 


1905 


March 


3 


1911 


Mar. 


4, 


1903 


March 3 


1909 



DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 



55S 



UNITED STATES SENATE— SIXTIETH CONGRESS— Continued) 

Name and Residence. Service 

Robert L. Owen, Oklahoma Dec. 1, 1908 March 3, 1912 

T H. Paynter, FranKfort, Ky Mar. 4, 1907 March 3, 1913 

boles Penrose, Philadolphia, Pa Mar. 4, 1897 March 3. 1909 

George C. Perkins, Oak'and, Cal June 22, 1893 March 3, 1909 

Samuel H. Piles, S';it-le, Wash Mar. 4, 1905 March 3, 1911 

Thomas C. Piatt, Oaw.'g-o, N. Y Mar. 4, 1907 March 3, 1909 

Redfleld Proctor, Proctor, Vt Nov. 1, 1891 March 3, 1911 

Isidor Rayner, Baltli.iore, Md Mar. 4, 190B March 3, 1911 

Harry H. Richardson. Dover, Del Mar. 4, 1907 March 3, 1913 

Nathan B. Scott, Wheelmg. W. Va Mar. 4, 1899 March 3, 1911 

rurnifold McL. Simm.ns, Raleigh, N. C Mar. 4, 1901 March 3, 1913 

William Alden Smitii, (Irand Rapids, Mich.... Feb. 6, 1907 March 3, 1913 

Rted Smoot, Provo, IjtJh Mar. 4, 1903 March 3, 1909 

Isaac Stephenson, Mitinette, Wis May 17, 1907 March 3, 1909 

William J. Stone, 3t. Louis, Mo Mar. 4, 1903 March 3, 1909 

George Sutherland, Salt Dake City, Utah Mar. 4, 1905 March 3, 1911 

James P. Taliaferro, Jacksonville, Fla Apr. 20, 1899 March 3, 1911 

Robert L. Taylor, Nashville, Tenn Mar. 4, 1907 March 3, 1913 

Henry M. Teller, Cen:.rMl City, Cot Mar. 4, 1885 March 3, 1909 

Benjamin R Tillman. Trenton, S. C Mar. 4, 1895 March 3, 1913 

William Warner, Kan^.as City, Mo Mar. 18, 1905 March 3, 1911 

Francis E. Warron, Cheyenne, Wyo Mar. 4, 1895 March 3, 1913 

George Peabody Wetmcre, Newport, R, I Dec. 1, 1907 March 3, 1912 

William P. Whyte, Ealtimore, Md June 8, 1906 



Members of The 



House of Representatives of the United States 



And Their Places of Residence. 



Sixtietln Congress. 



[Republicans, 219; Democrats, 163. Those marked * served in the Fifty-ninth Con- 
gress. Those marked ! served in previous House. Democrats marked tD). Repub- 
licans marked (R). 



ALABAMA. 

George W. Taylor (D)* •• DemopoUa 

Ariosto A. Wiley (D)* •• Montgomery 

Henry D. Clayton (D)* Eufaula 

William B. Craig (D) • • Selma 

J. Thomas Heflin (D)* Lafayette 

Richmond P. Hioibson (D)* Fayette 

John L. Burnett (D)* Gadsden 

William Richardson (D)* Huntsville 

Oscar W. Underwojd (.D) * Birmingham 

ARKANSAS. 

Robert Bruce Macon (D)* Helena 

Stephen Brundidge, jr. (D)* Searcy 

John C. Floyd (D)* Yellville 

Ben Cravens (D) Fort Smith 

Charles C. Reid (D) * Morrillton 

Joseph T. Robinson (D) * Lonoke 

Robert M. Wallace (D)* . , Magnolia 

CALIFORNIA. 

W. F. Enplebright (R )* Nevada City 

Duncan E. McKinlay (R)* Santa Rosa 

Joseph R. Knowland (R) * Alameda 

Julius Kahn (R)* San Francisco 

Everis A. Hayes (R) * San Jose 

James C. Needham (R)* Modesta 

James McLachla n (R) * Pasadena 

Sylvester C. Smith (R)* ...".. .Bakersfleld 



554 AMERICAN BIOGRAPHUCAL DIRECTORY 

COLORADO. 

(At large.) 
Geo-rge W. Cook Denver 

1. Robert W. Bonynge (R) ♦ Denver 

2. Warren A. Haggott (R) Idaho Springs 

CONNECTICUT. 

(At large.) 

George L>. Lllley (R) * Waterbury 

1. E. Stevens Henry (R)* Rockvllbe 

2. Nehemiah D. Sperry (R)* New Haven 

3. Edwin W. Higgins (R)* Norwich 

4. Ebenezer J. Hill (R)* Norwalk 

DELAWARE. 
(At large.) 
Hiram R. Burton (R) • Lewes 

FLORIDA. 

1. Stephen M. Sparkman (T>)* Tampa 

2. Frank Clark (D)* Lake City 

3. William B. Lamar (D) * Tallahassee 

GEORGIA. 

1. Charles G. Edwards (D) Savannah 

2. James M. Griggs (D) * Dawson 

3. Elijah B. Lewis (D) ♦ Montezuma 

4. William C. Adamson (D)* CarroUton 

5. Iveonidas F. Liv-nsrston (D)* Covington 

6. Charles L. Bartlett (D)* Macon 

7. Gordon Lee (D)* Chickamauga 

8. William M. Howard (D) • Lexington 

9. Thomas M. Bell (D) * Gainesville 

10. Thomas W. Hardwick (D)* Sandersville 

11. William G. Brantley (D) * Brunswick 

IDAHO. 
Burton L. French (R) * Moscow 

ILLINOIS. 

1. Martin B. Madden (R) ♦ Chicago 

2. James R. Mann (R)* Chicago 

3. William W. Wilson (R) * Chicago 

4. James T. McDermott (D) Chicago 

5. Adolph J. Sabath (D) Chicago 

6. William Lorimer (R)* Chicago 

7. Philip Knopf (K)* Chicago 

8. Charles McGavin (R) * Chicago 

9. Henry S. Boutell (R) • Chicago 

10. George Edmund Fos^s (R) * Chicago 

11. Howard M. Snapp (R) * Joliet 

12. Charles E. Fuller (R)* Belvidere 

13. Frank O. Lowden (R)* Oregon 

14. James McKinney (R)* Aledo 

15. George W. Prince (R)* Gale«burg 

16. Joseph V. Graff (R)* Peoria 

17. John A. Sterling (R) * Bloomington 

18. Joseph G. Cannon (R) * Danville 

19. William B. McKinley (R)* Champaign 

20. Henry T. Rainey (D) * CarroUton 

21. Ben F. Caldwell (D) ! Chatham 

22. Wm. A. Rodenberg (R)* Elast St. Loui-a 

23. Martin D. Foster (D) Olney 

24. Pleasant T. Chapman (R) ♦ Vienna 

25. George W. Smith (R) * Murphysbor 



DISTRICT OP COLUMBIA 655 

INDIANA. 

1. John H. Foster (R)« Evansville 

2. John C. Chaney (R)* Sullivan 

3. William E. Cox (D) Jasper 

4. Lincoln Dixon (D)* North Vernon 

5. Ellas S. Holliday (R)* Brazil 

«. James E. Watson (R)* Rushville 

7. Jesse Overstreet (R)* • Indianapolis 

8. John A. M. Adair (D) Portland 

9. Charles B. Landis (R)* Delphi 

10. Edgar D. Crumpacker (R) * Valparaiso 

11. George W. Rauch (D) Marlon 

12. Clarence C. Gilhams (R)* La Grange 

13. Abraham L. Brick (R) * South Bend 

IOWA 

1. Charles A. Kennedy (R) Montrose 

2. Albert F. Dawson (R) * Preston 

3. Benjamin P. Birdsall (R) • Clarion 

4. Gilbert N. Haugen (R)* Northwrood 

5. Robert G. Cousins (R)* Tipton 

«. David W. Hamilton (D) Sigourney 

7. John A. T. Hull (R)* Des Moines 

8. William P. Hepburn (R) • Clarinda 

9. Walter I. Smith (R)* Council Bluffs 

10. James P. Conner (R)* Denison 

11. Elbert H. Hubbard (R)* Sioux City 

KANSAS. 

1. David R. Anthony, Jr Leavenworth 

2. Charles F. Scott (R)* lola 

3. PhilLp P. Campbell (R)» Pittsburg 

4. James M. Miller (R)* ._ Council Grove 

5. William A. Calderhead (R)* .; Marysville 

6. William A. Reeder (R)* Logan 

7. E. H. Madison (R) Dodge City 

8. Victor Murdock (R) • Wichita 

KENTUCKY. 

OlMe M. James (D) * ." Marion 

Augustus O. Stanley (D)* Henderson 

A. D. James (R) Penrod 

Ben John.son (D) Bardstown 

Swagar Sherley (D)* Louisville 

Joseph L. Rhinock (D) * Covington 

W. P. Kimball (D) Lexington 

Harvey Helm (D) Stanford 

Joseph B. Bennett (R)* Greenup 

John W. Langley (R) Prestonburg 

Don C. Edwards (R) * London 

LOUISIANA. 

Adolph Meyer (D) * ^ New Orleans 

Robert C. Davey (D) * New Orleans 

Robert F. Broussard (D) * New Iberia 

John T. Watkins (D)* Minden 

Joseph E. Ransdell (D) * Lake Providence 

George K. Favrot (D) Baton Rouge 

Arsene P. Pu Jo (D) * L/ake Charles 

MAINE. 

Amos L. Allen (R) * Alfred 

Charles E. Llttlefleld (R)» Rockland 

Edwin C. Burleigh (R)* Augusta 

Llewellyn Powers (R) * Houlton 



556 AMIEBICAN BIOGRAPHICAL DIRBOTORY 

MARYLAND. 

1. William H. Jackson (R) ! Salisibury 

2. Joshua F. C. Talbott (D)* LutherVille 

3. Harry B. Wolf (D) Baltimore 

4. John Gill, jr. (D)* Baltimore 

6. Sydney E. Mudd (R)* La Plata 

6. George A. Pearre (R) * Cumberland 

MASSACHUSETTS. 

1. George P. Lawrence (R) • North Adams 

2. Frederick H. Gillett (R) • Springfield 

3. Charles G. Washburn (R) * Worcester 

4. Charles Q. Tirrell (R)* Natick 

5. Butler Ames (R)* Lowell 

6. Augustus P. Gardner (R)* Hamilton 

7. Ernest W. Roberts (R)* Chelsea 

8. Samuel W. McCall (R)* Winchester 

9. John A Keliher (D) * Boston 

10. Joseph F. O'Connell (D) Boston 

11. Andrew J. Peters (D) Boston 

12. John W. Weeks (R)* Newton 

13. William S. Greene (R) * Fall River 

14. William C. Levering (R)* Taunton 

MICHIGAN 

1. Edwin Denby (R) • Detroit 

2. Charles E. Towns«nd (R) * Jackson 

3. Washington Gardner (R)* Albion 

4. Edward L. Hamilton (R) * NUes 

5. Gerrit J. Diekema (R) Holland 

6. Samuel W. Smith (R)* Pontiac 

7. Henry McMorran (R)* Port Huron 

8. Joseph W. Fordney (R) ♦ Saginaw 

9. James C. McLaughlin (R) Muskegon 

10. George A. Loud (R) * Au Sable 

11. Archibald B. DarragOi (R)* St. Louis 

12. H. Olin Young (R)* -' Ishpeming 

MINNESOTA. 

1. James A. Tawney (R)* Winona 

2. W. S. Hammond (D) St. James 

3. Charles R. Davis (R)* St. Peter 

4. Frederick C. Stevens (R)* St. Paul 

5. Frank M. Nye Minneapolis 

6. Charles A. Lindbergh (R) Little Falls 

7. Andrew J. Volstead (R)* Granite Falls 

8. J. Adam Bede (R)* Pine City 

9. Halvor Steenerson (R) ♦ Crookston 

MISSISSIPPI. 

1. Ezekiel S. Candler, Jr. (D)* Corinth 

2. Thomas Spight (D) ♦ Ripley 

3. Benjamin G. Humphreys (D)* Greenville 

4. Wilson S. Hill (D)* Winona 

5. Adam iM. Byrd (D)* Philadelphia 

6. Eaton J. Bowers (D)* Bay St. Louis 

7. Frank A McLain (D)* Gloster 

8. John S. Williams (D)* , Yazoo City 

MISSOURI. 

1. James T. Lloyd (D) • Shelbyville 

2. William W. Rucker (D)* Keytesville 

3. Joshua W. Alexander (D) Gallatin 

4. Charles F. Booher (D) Savannah 

5. Edgar C. Ellis (D)* Kansas City 

6. David A. De Armond (D) * Butler 

7. Courtney W. Hamlin (D) ! Springfield 

8. Dorsey W. Shackleford (D)* Jefferson City 

9. Champ Clark (D)* Bowling Green 



DISTRICT OP COLUMBIA 557 



10. Richard Bartholdt (R)* St LkjuI's 

11. Henry S. C-aulfleld (R) St. Louis 

12. Harry M. Ooudrey (R)* St. Loula 

J3. Madison R. Smith (D) Farmlngton 

14. Joseph J. Russell (D) Charleston 

15. Thomas Hackney (D) Carthage 

16. Robert Lamar (R) ! Houston 

MONTANA. 
(At large.) 
Charles N. Pray (R) Fort Benton 

NEBRASKA 

1. Ernest M. Pollard (R)* Nehawka 

2. Gilbert M. Hitchcock (R)! Omaha 

3. J. F. Boyd (R) Nellgh 

4. Edmund H. Hinshaw (R)* Falrbury 

5. George W. Norris (R) * McCook 

€. Moses P. Kinkaid (R)* O'Neill 

NEVADA. 
(At large.) 
George A. Bartlett (D) Tonopa h 

NEW HAMPSHIRE. 

1. Cyrus A. Sulloway (R)* Manchester 

2. Frank D. Currier (R) * Canaan 

NEW JERSEY. 

1. Henry C. Loudenslager (R) • Paulsboro 

2. John J Gardner (R)* Atlantic City 

3. Benjamin F. Howell (R)* New Brunswick 

4. Ira W. Wood (R)* Trenton 

5. Charles N. Fowler (R)* Elizabeth 

6. William Hughes (D) ! Paterson 

7. Richard Wayne Parker (R)* Newark 

8. Le. Gage Pratt (D) East Orange 

9. Eugene W. Leake (D) Jersey City 

10. Jamas A. Hamill (D) Jersey City 

NEW YORK. 

1. William W. Cocks (R)* Old Westljury 

2. George H. Lindsay (R) * Brooklyn 

3. Charles T. Dunwell (R)* Brooklyn 

4. Charles B. Law (R) * Brooklyn 

5. George E. Waldo (R)* Brooklyn 

6. William M. Calder (R)* Brooklyn 

7. John J. Fitzgerald (D)* Brooklyn 

8. Daniel J. Riordan (D) ♦ New York 

9. Henry M. Goldfogle (D)* New York 

10. William Sulzer (D)* New York 

11. Charles V. Fornes New York 

12. William Bourke Cockran (D)* New York 

13. Herbert Parsons (R)* New York 

14. William Willett, jr. (D) Far Rockaway 

15. J. Van Vechten Olcott (R)* New York 

16. Francis B. Harrison (D) ! New York 

17. William S. Bennett (R)* New York 

18. Joseph A. Goulden (D)* New York 

19. John E. Andrus (R)* Yonkers 

20. Thomas W. Bradley (R)* Walden 

21. Samuel McMillan (R) Lake Mahopac 

22. William H. Draper (R)* Troy 

23. George N. Southwick (R)* Albany 

24. George W. Falrchild (R) Oneonta 

25. Cyrus Durey (R) Johnstown 

26. George R. Malby (R) Ogdensburg 

27. James S. Sherman (R)« Utica 



558 AMERICAN BIOGRAPHICAL, DlRJEOTOiRY 

28. Charles L. Knapp (R) • LiOwevill& 

29. Michael E. Driscoll (R)* Syracuse 

30. John W. Dwight (R)* Dryden 

31. Sereno E. Payne (R)* Auburn 

32. James Breck Perkins (R) • Rochester 

33. J. Sloat Fassett (R)* Elmira 

34. Peter A. Porter (D) Niagara Falls 

35. William H. Ryan (D)* Buffalo 

36. De Alva S. Alexander (R) * Buffalo 

37. Edward B. Vreeland (R)* Salamanca 

NORTH CAROLINA. 

1. John H. Small (D)* Washington 

2. Claude KItchin (D)* Scotland Neck 

3. Charles R. Thomas (D)* Newbern 

4. Edward W. Pou (D)* Smithfield 

5. William W. Kitchin (D)* Roxboro 

6. Hannibal L. Godwin (D) Dunn 

7. Robert N. Page (D) * Biscoe 

8. Richard N. Hackett (D) Wilkesboro 

9. Edwin Y. Webb (D)» ..Shelby 

10. William T. Crawford (D) ! Waynesville 

NORTH DAKOTA • 
(At large.) 

Thomas P. Marshall (R) * Oakes 

Asle J. Gronna (R) * Lakota 

OHIO. 

1. Nicholas Longworth (R)* Cincinnati 

2. Herman P. Goebel (R) • Cincinnati 

3. J. Eugene Harding (R) Middletown 

4. William E. Tou Velle Celina 

5. Timothy T. Ansberry . (D) Defiance 

6. iMatt R. Denver (D) Wilmington 

7. J. Warren Keifer (R) * Springfield 

8. Ralph D. Cole (R)* Findlay 

9. Isaac R. Sherwood (D) ! Toledo 

10. Henry T. Bannon (R)* Portsmouth 

11. Albert Douglas (R) Chillicothe 

12. Edward L. Taylor, jr. (R) * Columbus 

13. Grant E. Mouser (R) * Marion 

14. J. Ford Laning (R) Norwalk 

15. Beman G. Dawes (R)* Marietta 

16. Capell L. Weems (R)* St. Clairsville 

17. William A. Ashbrook (D) Johnstown 

18. James Kennedy (R) * Youngstown 

19. W. Aubrey Thomas (R) * Niles 

20. Paul Howland (R) Cleveland 

21. Theodore E. Burton (R) ♦ Cleveland 

OREGON. 

1. Willis C. Hawley (R) Salem 

2. W.R.Ellis (R)! Pendleton 

OKLAHOMA. 

1. Bird S. McGuire (R) Pawnee 

2. Elmer L. Fulton (D) Oklahoma City 

3. James S. Davenport (D) Vinita 

4. Charles D. Carter (D) Ardmore 

5. Scott Ferris (D) Lawton 

PENNSYLVANIA. 

1. Henry H. Bingham (R)» Philadelphia 

2. Joel Cook (R) Philadelphia 

3. J. Hampton Moore (R) * Philadelphia 

4. Reuben O. Moon (R)* Philadelphia 

5. W. W. Foulkrod (R) Philadelphia 

6. George D. McCreary (R)* Philadelphia 

7. Thomas S. Butler (R)* West Chester 

8. Irving P. Wanger (R)* Norristown 



DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 55» 



9. H. Burd Cassell (R)* Marietta 

10. T. D. Nicholls (D) Scranton 

11. John T. Lenahan (D) Wilkesbarre 

12. Charies N. Brumm (R)* Mlnersville 

13. John H. Rothermel (D) Reading 

14. George W. Kipp (D) Towanda 

15. William B. Wilson (D) Blossburg 

16. John G. McHenry (D) Benton 

17. Benjamin K. Focht (R) Lewisburg- 

18. Martin E. Olmsted (R) * Harrisburg 

19. John M. Reynolds (R) * Bedford 

20. Daniel F. Laf ean (R) * York 

21. Charles F. Barclay (R) Sinnemahoning 

22. George F. Huff (R)* Greensburg 

23. Allen F. Cooper (R)* Uniontown 

24. Ernest F. Acheson (R)* Washington 

25. Arthur L. Bates (R) * Meadville 

26. J. Davis Brodhead (D) South Bethlehem 

27. Joseph G. Beale Leechburg 

28. Nelson P. Wheeler (R) Endeavor 

29. William H. Graham (R)* Allegheny 

30. John Dalzell (R)* Pittsburg 

31. James Francis Burke (R)* Pittsburg 

32. Andrew J. Barchf eld (R) ♦ Pittsburg- 

RHODE ISLAND 

1. Daniel L. D. Granger (D)* Providence 

2. Adin B. Capron (R)* Smithfield 

SOUTH CAROLINA. 

1. George S. Legare (D) * Charle^iton 

2. James O. Patterson (D) * Barnwell 

3. Wyatt Aiken (D)* Abbeville 

4. Joseph T. Johnson (D) * Spartanburg 

5. David E. Finley (D) * Yorkville 

6. J. Edwin Ellerbe (D)* , Sellers 

7. Asbury F. Lever (D)* Lexington 

SOUTH DAKOTA. 

(At large.) 

Philo Hall (R) Brookings 

William H. Parker (R) Deadwood 

TENNESSEE. 

1. Walter P. Brownlow (R)* Jonesboro 

2. Nathan W. Hale (R)* Knoxville 

3. John A. Moon (D) * Chattanooga 

4. Cordell Hull (D) Crossville 

5. William C. Houston (D) • Woodbury 

6. John Wesley Gaines (D) * Nashville 

7. Lemuel P. Padgett (D) • Columbi i 

8. Thetus W. Sims (D) * Linden 

9. Finis J. Garrett (D) • Dresden 

10. George W. Gordan (D) Memphis 

TEXAS. 

1. Morris Sheppard (D) * Texarkana 

2. Sam B. Cooper (D) ! Beaumont 

3. Gordon Russell (D)* Tyler 

4. Choice B. Randall (D)* Sherman 

5. Jack Beall (D)* Waxahachie 

6. Rufus Hardy (D) Corsicana 

7. Alexaaider W. Gregg (D)« Palestine 

8. John M. Moore (D)* Richmond 

9. George F. Burgess (D)* Gonzales 

10. Albert S. Burleson (D)* Austin 

11. Robert L. Henry (D)* Waco 

12. Oscar W. Gillespie (D)* Fort Worth 

13. John H. Stephens (D) • Vernon 

14. James L. Slayden (D)* San Antonio 



560 AMERiICAN BlOGRAPmCAL DIRfEJCTORY 

15. John N. Garner (D)* Uvalde 

16. William R. Smith (D)* Colorado 

UTAH. 
(At large.) 
Jcvseph Howell (R)* Wellsville 

VERMONT. 

1. David J. Foster (R)* Burlington 

2. Kittredge Haskins (R) * Brattleboro 

VIRGINIA. 

1. William A. Jones {D)» Warsaw 

2. Harry L. Maynard (D)* Portsmouth 

3. John L-amb (D)* Richmond 

4. Francis R. Lassiter (D) ! Petersburg 

5 E. W. Saunders (D)* .Rockymount 

6-. Carter Glass (D)* Lynchburg 

7. James Hay (D)* Madison 

8. Charles C. C^rlin (D) Alexandria 

9. Campbell Slemp (R)* Big Stone Gap 

10, Henry D Flood (D)* West Appomattox 

WASHINGTON. 
(At large.) 

Wesley L. Jones (R)* North Yakima 

Francis W. Cushman (R)* Tacoma 

William E. Humphrey (R)* Seattle 

WEST VIRGINIA. 

1. William P. Hubbard (R) Wheeling 

2. George C. Sturgiss (R) Morgantown 

3. Jo.seph Holt Gaines (R)* . Charleston 

4. Harry C. Woodyard (R) ♦ Spencer 

5. Jameu=> A. Hughes (R)* Huntington 

WISCONSIN. 

1. Henry A. Cooper (R)* Racine 

2. John M. Nelson (R) ♦ Madison 

3. James W. Murphy (R) Plattville 

4; William J. Cary (R)* Milwaukee 

5. William H. Stafford (R)* ' Milwaukee 

6. Charles H. Weisse (D) * Sheboygan Falls 

7. John J. Esch (R) * La Crosse 

8. James H. Davidson (R) * Oshkosh 

9. Gusta V Kuestermann (R) Green Bay 

10. E. A. Morse (R) Antigo 

11. John J. Jenkins (R)* Chippewa Falls 

WYOMING. 

Frank W. Mondell (R)* Newcastle 

ALASKA. 
Thomas Cale (R) Fairbanks 

ARIZONA. 
Marcus A. Smith (D)* Tucson 

NETW MEXICO. 
William H. Andrews (R) • Albuquerque 

HAWAII. 
Jonah K. Kalanianaole (D)* - Honolulu 

PORTO RICO. 

(Resident Commissioner.) 

Tullo Liarriaa«ra (R)« San Juan 



DISTRICT OF COLirMBIA 



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6 
2 
6 
9 


19 

13 
9 
3 

JO 
6 
b 
6 

11 
9 
3 
6 

13 


25 










13 










11 


Kansas 















8 







2 


6 


10 
1 
7 
9 

13 


12 
3 
7 
9 

13 


13 
3 

8 

8 

12 

1 


10 
4 
7 
6 

10 
3 


10 
4 
6 
6 

11 
4 
2 
5 
7 


11 






7 










4 


Maryland 

Massachusetts . . . 


i; 

3 


8 
14 


9 
17 


6 

14 
12 
















9 











1 


1 

1 


2 
2 


4 
5 


8 


Missouri 











16 












1 





















1 
1 

5 
31 

7 


\ 

3 

7 

:3 

8 


6 




L 














1 


New Hampshire.. 

New Jersey 

New York 

North Carolina... 


3 

4 
6 
3 


> 4 
1 5 
1 10 
1 10 


5 

6 

17 

12 


6 
6 

27 
13 




\ 

34 
13 


5 

6 

40 

13 


4 

5 

34 

9 


3 
5 

33 
8 


2 
10 
37 
10 

2 


Ohio 


1 


1 


6 


14 

1 . . 


19 


21 


21 


19 
1 


1 20 
1 


21 






1 ^ 


















1 

25 

2 

6 

1 


1 

24 

2 

4 


1 

27 

1 2 

1 5 




1 

28 

2 

7 

2 

10 

11 


1 2 
30 

1 2 

1 7 
2 

1 10 

13 

I 1 

2 

10 

2 

4 

10 

1 


2 


Pennsylvania 

Rhode Island 

South Carolina 

South Dakota 


8 
5 


13 

2 
1 6 

1 


18 

2 

8 

1 


23 
2 
9 


20 
2 
9 


28 
2 
9 


24 

2 
7 


2 

7 






i 1 
1 


1 3 
1 


6 


9 


13 




11 

2 


' 10 

2 


8 
4 


1 10 
1 6 
1. . .. 


10 






16 












1 






1 2 
1 19 

1 


..... 

22 


6 
23 


5 

1 22 

I 


5 

21 


4 
15 


3 
13 


3 
11 


3 
9 


2 
10 
1 
4 
9 
1 


2 




10 


10 




3 




1 














3 

8 
1 


b 













2 


3 


6 


11 


Wyoming 


1 




!•••• 




1 


Total 


1 i;5 


1 106 


1 142 


186 


213 


242 


232 


237 


243 


1 203 


332 


357 


1 391 



36 



562 AjMERJCAN BIOGRAPHICAL DIRElOTORY 

United States Government Officials 

With Amount of Their Salaries 

President Theodore Roosevelt, of New York Salary $50,000 

Vice-President. . .Charles Warren Fair'uanks, of Indiana. . .Salary 12,000. 

Speaker of House of Representatives. .Joseph G. Cannon, of 111. Salary 12,000 

THE CABINET. 

Secretary of State — Elihu Root, of New York 
Secretary of the Treasury — George B. Cortel^ou. of New York. 
Secretary of War — William H. Taft, of Ohio. 
Attorney -Genera I — Charles J. Bonaparte, of Maryland. 
Postmaster-General — George von L. Meyer, o." Massachusetts. 
Secretary of the Navy — Victor H. Metcalf, oi California. 
Secretary of the Intericr — James R. Garfield, of Ohio. 
Secretary of Agriculture — James Wilson, of Iowa. 
Secretary of Commerce and Labor — Oscar S. Straus, of New York. 
Salaries of the Cabinet officers are $12,00 each. 
Salaries of Senators and Representatives are $7,500 each. 

THE DEPARTMENTS. 

STATE DEPARTMENT. 

Assistant Secretary — Robert Bacon, New Yor ; $ 4,500 

Second Assistant Secretary — A. A. Adee, District of Columbia 4,600 

Third Assistant Secretary — Huntington Wilson. Illinois 4,500 

Chief Clerk — Charles ."^cnby 3,500 

Assistant Solicitors — J'ishua R. Clark, Jr., Utah; William C. Dennis, Indiana; each 3,000 

Chief Diplomatic Bureau — S. Y. Smith, District of Columbia 2,100 

Chief Consular Bureau — Wilbur J. Carr, District of Columbia 2,100 

Chief Indexes and Archives — John R. Buck 2,100 

Chief Bureau Accounts — Thi^ mas Morrison, New York 2,100 

Chief Bureau Rolls and Library — William McXair 2,100 

Chief Bureau Trade Relations — John B. Osborne 2,100 

Chief Bureau Appolitments — Charles R. Dean 2,100 

Chief Bureau Passports — Gaillard Hunt, District of Columbia ... 2,100 

TREASURY DEPARTMENT. 

Assistant Secretary — Charles H. Keep, New York ,. $ 4,&00 

Assistant Secretary — Tames B. Reynolds, Massachusetts 4,500 

Assistant Secretary — John H. Edwards, Ohio 4,500 

Chief Clerk— Walter W. Ludlow, Minnesota 3,000 

Chief Appointment Division — Charles Lyman, Connecticut 2,750 

Chief Bookkeeping Division — W. F. McLennan, New York 3,50u 

Chief Public Moneys D'vision — E. B. Daskam. Connecticut 2,500 

Chief Customs Division — James L. Gerry, Illinoia 2,750 

Chief Loans and Currency Division — A. T. Huntington, Massachusetts 3,000 

Chief Stationery and Printing Division — G. Simmcns. District of Columbia 2,500 

Chief Mails and Files Division — S. M. Gaines, Kentucky 2,500 

Chief Revenue Cutter Service — Worth G. Ross 

Director of Mint — Geoige B. Roberts, Iowa 4,500 

Government Actuary —Joseph S. McCoy, New Jersey 1,800 

Supervising Surgeon-General — Walter Wyman, Missouri 4,000 

Chief Bureau of Engraving and Printing — T. J. Sullivan. District of Columbia 4,500 

Si'pervising Architeci— James K. Taylor, Pennsylvania 4.50O 

Comptroller of Treasury — Robert J. Tracewell, Indiana 5,500 

Auditor for Treasury — William E. Andrews, Nebraska 4,000 

Auditor for War Department — Benj. F. Harper, Indiana 4,000 

Auditor for Int. Department — R. S. Person, SoiUh Dakota 4,00(v 

Auditor for Navy Department — W. W. Brown, Pennsylvania 4,00o 

Auditor for State, Etc. — Caleb R. Layton, Delaware 4,000 

Auditor for P. O. Department — Ernst G. Timme, Wisconsin 4,000 

Treasurer of United States — Charles H. Treat, New York 6,000 

Assistant Treasurer — James F. Meline, Ohio. a,60i» 

Register Treasury — William T. Vernon, Kansas 4,000 

Deputy Register — Cyiv.s F. Adams, Illinois 2,250 

Comptroller of Currency — Wm. B. Ridgely, Illinois 5,000 

Commissioner Internal Revenue — John ^\'. Yerkes, Kentucky 6,000 

Deputy Commissioner Internal Revenue — R. Williams, Jr., Louisiana 4,000 

Deputy Commissioner Internal Revenue — J. C. Wheeler, Michigan 3,600 

Solicitor Internal Revenue — Arthur B. Haye?, Utah 4,500 

Solicitor of Treasury — M. D. O'Connell, Iowa 4,500 

Chief Secret Service — John E. Wilkie, Illinois 4,0uu 



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WAR DEPARTMENT. 

Assistant Secretary — Robert Shaw Oliver, New York $ 4,aOO 

Chief Clerk — John C. .-.rhofleld, Georgia 3,000 

Chief of Staff — Brigadier-General J. F. Beil 5,500 

Chief Clerk — Nathani.-! Ilershler, Illinois 2,000 

Vilitary Secretary — Major-General F. C. AInswcrth 7,500 

Chief Clerk — Jacob F^rcoh, District of Columbia 'l,0*)n 

Inspector-General — Brii,'adier-General E. A. G.irlington 5,501 

Chief Clerk — Warren II. Orcutt, Maine 1,800 

Ji.dge-Advocate-Gencral — Brigadier-General Gtorge B. Davis 5,uvO 

Chief Clerk — L. W. Oa'l. Kansas 2,000 

Quartermaster-Gener.il— Brigadier-General C. F. Humphrey 5,500 

Chief Clerk — Henry D. Saxton, Massachusetts 2,000 

Commissary-General — Brigadier-General H. G. Sharpe -r 5,500 

Chief Clerk — Emmett H;imllton, Minnesota 2,000 

Surgeon-General — Brigadier-General R. M. O'Reilly 5,500 

Chief Clerk — George A. Jones, New York z,000 

Paymaster-General — Brigadier-General C. C. Sniffen 5,b0n 

Chief Clerk — William Manley, California 2,000 

Chief of Engineers — Brigadier-General Alex. Mackenzie 5,500 

Chief Clerk — Phineas J. Dempsey, Virginia 2,000 

Chief of Ordnance — Brigadier-General Wm. Crozier 5,500 

Chief Clerk — ^John J Cook, District of Coianbia 2,400 

Cliief Signal Officer — Brigadier-General James Allen 5,500 

Chief Clerk — E. W. Hutchinson, Georgia 2,000 

Chief Bureau of lnter«ial Affairs — Brigadier-General C. R. Edwards 5,500 

Chief Clerk— A. D. Wi cox, Pennsylvania 2,000 

Officer Charge Public Buildings — Col. C. S. Bromwcll 3,500 

Chief Clerk— E. F. ^^oncklin. New York 24,000 

Landscape Gardener — vieorge H. Brown, District of Columbia 2,000 

NAVY DEPARTMENT. 

Assistant Secretary — Truman H. Newberry. Michigan $ 4,500 

Chief Clerk — Benj. F. Peters, Pennsylvania 3,000 

President General Board — Admiral George Dewey 13,500 

Chief Yards and Docks — Civil Engineer M. T Endicott 5,500 

Chief Ordnance — Rear- Admiral N. E. Mason 5,500 

Chief Supplies and Accounts — Paymaster-Gensra' B. B. Rogers 5.500 

Chief Meditfine — Surgeon-General Presley M. Rixey 5,500 

Chief Equipment — Rear-Admiral W. S. Cowles 5,500 

Chief Construction — Naval Constructor Wasnington iL. Capps 5,500 

Chief Navigation — Rear-Admiral G. A. Converse 7,500 

Engineer- in-Chief — Rear-Admiral Charles W. Rae 5,500 

Judge-Advccate-Gencral — Capt. W. S. Diehl.. 4.500 

President Naval Examining Board — Rear-Admiral Charles H. Stockton 6,375 

President Naval Retiring Board — Rear-Admiral Charles H. Stockton 6,375 

Chief Intelligence Office — Captain Raymond P. Rodgers 4,165 

Superintendent Naval Observation — Rear-Ad niral Asa Walker 4,165 

Director Nautical Almanac — Prof. W. S. Harshman 2,700 

Hydrographer — Commander C. C. Rogers 3,a70 

Commandant Marine Corps — Brigadier-General G. F. Elliott 5,500 

POSTOFFICE DEPARTMENT. 

Chief Clerk— Merritt O. Chance, Illinois J 2,500 

First Assistant Postmaster-General — F. H. Hitchcock, Massachusetts 5,000 

Second Assistant Postmaster-General — James T. McCleary, Minnesota 4,500 

Third Assistant Postmaster-General — Abraham Lincoln Lawshe 4,500 

Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General — P. V. PeGraw, Pennsylvania 4,500 

Assistant Attorney-General — Russell P. Goodwm 4,500 

Purchasing Agent — W. S. Cochran, Colorado 2,000 

Appointment Clerk— George S. Paull, Ohio 2,000 

Superintendent Division of Foreign Mails — N. M. Brooks, Virginia 3,000 

Superintendent Division of Money Orders — E. F. Kimball, Massachusetts 3,000 

General Superintendent of Railway Mail Service — Jas. E. White, Illinois 3,500 

Superintendent Division of Dead Letters — James R. Young, Pennsylvania 2,500 

Chief Inspector— William J. Vickery, Indiana 3,000 

Disbursing Clerk — W. M. Mooney, Ohio 2,250 

INTERIOR DEPARTMENT. 

First Assistant Secretary — Thomas Ryan, Kansas $ 6,000 

Assistant Secretary — Jesse E. Wilson, Indiana 4,500 

Chief Clerk — Edward M. Dawson, Maryland 3,000 

Assistant Attorney-General — Frank L. Campbell, District of Columbia 5,000 

Commissioner Land Office — Richard A. Ballinger, Washington 5,ouo 

Commissioner Pensions — Vespaaian Warner, Illirois • 5,000 

First Deputy Commissioner ji Pensions — Jamer, L. Davenport, New Hampshire 3,600 

Second Deputy Commissioner of Pensions — L.overett M. Kelley, Illinois 3,b00 

Commissioner of Education — E. E. Brown, California 3,50'' 

Commissioner Indian Affairs — Francis E. Leupp, District of Columbia 4,uOo 



564 AIMBRICAN BIOGRAPHICAL, DIRECTORY 



Assistant Commissioner — Charles F. Larrabee, Maine $ 3,000 

Commissioner of Patents — Frederick I. Allen, New York B,00« 

Assistant Commissioner — Edward B. Moore, Michigan 3,009 

Director Geoiogical Survey 6,000 

Chief Clerk Geological Survey— H. C. Rizer, Kansas 2,t>00 

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. 

Solicitor-General — Henry M. Hoyt. Pennsylvania $ 7,501 

Assistant to Attorney Seneral — Milton D. Purdy, Minnesota 7,000 

Assistant Attorney-General — John G. Thompson, Illinois 5,000 

Assistant Attorney-General — Joslah A. Van Orsdel, Wyoming .. 5,000 

Assistant Attorney-Gonerai — Chas. W. Russill. West Virginia 6,000 

Assistant Attorney-General — Jas. C. McReyrtolds, Tennessee 5,000 

Assistant Attomey-Gene'-al — William E. Fuller 5,000 

Assistant Attorney-General — Alford W. Cooley, New York 6,000 

Solicitor State Department — Jas. B. Scott, California 4,000 

Chief Clerk— O. J. Field. Kansas 2,750 

General Agent — Cecil Cay, West Virginia 4,000 

Appointment Clerk — Chas. B. Sornborger, Vermont 2.000 

Attorney for Pardons — Peyton Gordon, Maryland 2,400 

Disbursing Clerk— Alex. C. Calne, Ohio 2,V50 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 

Assistant Secretary — Willett H. Hayes, Minnesota I 4,50» 

Chief Clerk— S. R. Burcn, Kansas 2,500 

Appointment Clerk — Joaoph B. Bennett, Wisconsin 2,000 

Chief Weather Bureau— Willis L. Moore, Illinois 5,000 

Chief Bureau of Aniir.al Industry — Dr. A. D. Melvin, Illinois 4,500 

Director Experiment Stations — A. C. True, Connecticut 3,500 

Chief Division Publiotions— Geo. Wm. Hill, Minnesota 2,500 

Chief Division Accounts — A. Zappone, District of Columbia 2,500 

Chief Bureau of Soils — Milton Whitney, Maryland 3,500 

Chief Forest Service — Gifford Plnchot, New York 3,500 

Statistician— W. H. O'mstead, North Carolina 3,000 

Entomologist — L. O. Howard, New York 2,750 

Chemist— H. W. Wiley, Indiana 3,500 

Chief Division Biological Survey — C. H. Merriam, New York 2,750 

Director Road Inquiry— Prof L. W. Page, Mj»ssachusetts 2,750 

Chief Division Foreign Markets — G. K. Holmes, District of Columtiia 2,500 

Chief Bureau of Plant Industry — B. T. Gairoway, Missouri 4,000 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR. 

Chief Clerk — Frank H. Bowen, Massachusetts $ 3,000 

Disbursing Clerk — Wm. E. Soleau, Maryland 2,500 

Commissioner of Corporations — Herbert Knox Smith 5,000 

Commissioner of Labor — C. P. Neill, District of Columbia 5,000 

Director of Census — S. N. D. North, Massachusetts 6,000 

Superintendent of Coast and Geodetic Survey— O. H. Tittmann, MisPiyUri 5,000 

Chief Bureau of Statistics — Oscar P. Austin, District cf Columbia 4,000 

Superintendent Inspector-General Steamboat Service — Geo. Uhier, Pennsylvania 3,500 

Commissioner Fisheries — G. M. Bowers, West Virginia 5,000 

Commissioner Navigation — iS. T. Chamberlain. New York 4,000 

Commissioner-General Immigration — E. P. Sirgent, Illinois 5,000 

Director Bureau Standards — S. W. Stratton, Clhnois 6.000 



Civil Service Commissioner — John C. Black. Tliinois $ 3,500 

Civil Service Commissioner — John A. Mcllheny 3,500 

Civil Service Commissi )ner — H. F. Greene, Minnesota 3,500 

Chief Examiner Civil Service — F. M. Kigglns, Tennessee 3,000 

Secretary Civil Service — John T. Doyle, New York 2,250 

Government Printer— Charles A. Stillings 4,000 

Librarian of Congress —Herbert Putnam. Massachusetts 6,000 

Assistant Librarian — A. R. Spoffcrd, Ohio 4,000 

Director Bureau of American Republics — John Barrett 5,000 

Chief Clerk Bureau American Republics — WUham C. Wells 2,500 

Secretary — Francisco J. Tanes 3,000 

Secretary Smithsonian Institute— Chas. D. Walcott, New York 3,000 

Director Bureau of American Ethnology — W. H. Holmes 

Reciprocity Commissioner — John A. Kasson, towa 

INTERSTATE COMMMERCE COMMISSION 

Martin A. Kmapp, New York, Chairman <• ?10,000 

Judson C. Clements, Georgia 10,000 

Francis M. Cockrell, Missouri 10,000 

Charles A. Prouty, Vermont 10,000 

Franklin Lane, California 10.000 

E T. Clark, Iowa ' 10,000 

J. S. Harlan, Illinois 10,000 



DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 565 



Edward A. Moseley, Alissachusetts, Secretarj' $ 3,500 

Martin S. Decker, New YorK, Assistant Secretary 3.000 

SPANISH-AMERICAN CLAIMS COMMISSION. 

William E. Chandler, ?7ew Hampsnire $ 5,000 

Gerrit J. Dickema, Mtol.igan 5,000 

James Perry Wood, Dh'o ; 5,000 

"VSilliam A. Maury, Du->ir!ct of Columbia 6,000 

William L. Chambers, Alabama b,000 

BOARD OF INDIAN COMMISSIONERS. 

(Serve without salary.) 
Chairman — Darwin U. James, N. Y. Secretary — Merrill E. Gates, D. C. 

Albert K. Smiley. N. r. E. Whittlesey, D. C. 

William D. Walker, N. Y. Joseph T. Jacobs, Mich. 

F. M. Eagan, D. C. Patrick J. Ryan. Pa. 

Andrew S. Draper, i'l. 

COMMISSION TO CODIFY THE PENAL. LAWS, 

Chairman — John T. Lott, Ohio $ 5,000 David K. Watson, Ohio % 5,000 

William D. Bynum. Intiiana 5,000 

UNITED STATES PENSION AGENTS. 

(Salary, $4,000.) 

Augusta, Maine Seldon Connor Knoxville, Tenn Wm. Ruia 

Boston, Mass Augustus J. Hoitt Milwaukee. Wis Edwin D. Coe 

Buffalo, N Y Charles A. Orr New York City, N. Y Michael Kerwln 

Chicago, 111 Charles Bent Pniladelphia, Pa i<t. Clair A. Mulholland 

Columbus, Ohio W. R. Warnock Pittsburg, Pa Daniel Ashworth 

Concord, N. H C. A. Curtice San Francisco, Cal Jesse B. Fuller 

Des Moines, Iowa William V. Willcox Topeka, Kans Wilder S. Metcalf 

Detroit, Mich Oscar A. Janes Washington, D. C... John R. King 

Indianapolis, Ind Albert O. Marsh 



COURTS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 

COURT OF IMPEACHMENT. 

The United States Senate has sat as a Court of Impeachment in the cases of the 
following accused officials, with the result stated, and for the periods named: 

William Blount, a Senator of the United States from Georgia; charges dismissed 
for want of jurisdiction; Monday, December 17, 1798, to Monday, Januarv 14, 1799. 

John Pickering, judge of the United States district court for the district of New 
Hampshire; removed from office; Thursday, March 3, 1803, to Monday, March 12, 
1804. 

Samuel Chase, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States; ac- 
quitted; Friday, November 30, 1804, to March 1, 1805. 

James H. Peck, judge of the United States district court for the district of Mis- 
souri; acquitted; Monday, April 26, 1830, to Monday, January 31, 1831. 

We»t H. Humphreys, judge of the United States district court for the middle, 
eastern and western districts of Tennessee; removed from office; Wednesday, May 
7, 1862, to Thursday, June 26, 1862. 

Andrew Johnson, President of the United States; acquitted; Tuesday, February 
25, 1868, to Tuesday. May 26, 1868. 

William W. Belknap, Secretary of War; acquitted; Friday, March 3, 1876, to Tues- 
day, August 1, 1876. 

Charles Swayne, judge of the United States district court for the northern district 
of Florida; acquitted; Wednesday, December 14, 1904, to Monday, February 27, 1905. 

UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT. 

Chief Justice Fuller, 1801 F street. 

Justice Harlan, Fourteenth and Euclid streets. 

Justice Brewer, 1923 Sixteenth street. 

Justice White, 1717 Rhode Island avenue. 

Justice Peckham, 1217 Connecticut avenue. 

Justice McKenna, The Connecticut. 

Justice Holmes, 1720 I street. 

Justice Day. 1301 Clifton street. 

Justice Moody, The Connecticut 



566 AiMOEMCAN BIOGRAPHICAL DIRlBOTORY 

Retired. 

Justice Shiras, Stoneleigh Court. 
Justice Brown. 

Officers of the Supreme Court, 

Clerk. — James H. McKenney, 1523 Rhode Island avenue. 
Deputy. — diaries B. Beall, 1224 Fourteenth street. 
Marshal. — J. M. Wright, Metropolitan Club. 
Reporter. — Charles Henry Butler, 1535 I street. 

CIRCUIT COURTS OF THE UNITED STATES. 

First Judicial Circuit. — Mr. Justice Holmes. Districts of Maine, New Hampshire, 
Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. 
Circuit Judges. — Le Baron B. Colt, Providence, R. I.; Williaim L. Putnam, Port- 
land, Me.; Francis C. Lowell, Boston, Mass. 

Second Judicial Circuii:. — Mr. Justice Peckham. Districts of Vermont, Connecticut, 
Northern New York, Southern New York, Eastern New York, and Western New 
York. 
Circuit Judges. — Henry G. Ward, New York City, N. Y.; Henry Lacombe, New York, 
N. Y.; Walter C. Noyes, New London, Conn.; Alfred C. Coxe, Utica, N. Y. 

Third Judicial Circuit. — Mr. Justice Moody. Districts of New Jersey, Eastern Penn- 
sylvania, Middle Pennsylvania, Western Pennsylvania, and Delaware. 
Circuit Judges. — George M. Dallas, Philadelphia, Pa.; George Gray, Wilmington, 
Del.; Joseph Buffington, Pittsburg, Pa. 

Fourth Judicial Circuit.— -Mr. Chief Justice Fuller. Districts of M-arylmd, Northern 
West Virginia, Southern West Virginia, Eaistern Virginia, Western Virginia, East- 
ern North Carolina, Western North Carolina, and South Carolina. 
Circuit Judges. — Nathan Goff, Clarkstourg, W. Va.; Jeter C. Pritchard, Asheville, 
N. C. 

Fifth Judicial Circuit. — Mr. Justice White. Districts of Northern Georgia, Southern 
Georgia, Northern Florida, Southern Florida, Northern Alabama. Middle Ala- 
bama, Southern Alabaima, Northern Mississippi, Southern Mississippi, Eastern 
Louisiana, Western Louisiana, Northern Texas, iSouthern Texas, Eastern Texas, 
and Western Texas. 
Circuit Judges. — Don A. Pardee, Atlanta, Ga. ; Andrew P. McOormick, Dallas; Texas; 
David D. Shelby, Hunt-sville, Ala, 

Sixth Judicial Circuit. — Mr. Justice Harlan. Districts of Northern Ohio, Southern 
Ohio, Eastern Michigan, Western Michigan, Eastern Kentucky, Western Ken- 
tucky, Eastern Tennessee, Middle Tennessee, and Western Tennessee. 
Circuit Judges. — Horace H. Lurton, Nashville, Tenn.; Henry F. Severens, Kala- 
mazoo, Mich.; John K. Richards, Cincinnati, Ohio. 

Seventh Judicial Circuit. — Mr. Justice Day. Districts of Indiana, Northern Illinois, 
Eastern Illinois, Southern Illinois, Eastern Wisconsin, and Western Wisconsin. 
Circuit Judges. — Peter S. Grosscup, Chicago, 111.; Francis E. Baker, Indianapolis, 
Ind.; William H. Seamam, Sheboygan, Wis.; Christian C. Kohlsat, Chicago. 111. 

Eighth Judicial Circuit. — Mr. Justice Brewer. Districts of Minnesota, Northern Iowa, 
Southern Iowa, Eastern Missouri, Western Missouri, Eastern Arkansas, West- 
em Arkansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Kansas/, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyo- 
ming and Utah; Indian Territory, Northern; Indian Territory, Western; Indian 
Territory, Central; Indian Territory, "Southern; and Territories of New Mexico 
and Oklahoma. 
Circuit Judges. — Walter H. Sanborn, St. Paul, Minn.; Willis Van Devanter, Chey- 
enne, Wyo. ; William C. Hook, Leavenworth, Kans.; Elmer B. Adams, St. Louis, 
Mo. 

Ninth' Judicial Circuit. — Mr. Justice McKennia. Districts of Northern California, 
Southern California, Oregon, Nevada, Montana, Eastern Washington, Western 
Washington, Idaho, and Territories of Alaska, Arizona and Hawaii. 
Circuit Judges. — William B. Gilbert, Portland, Ore.; Erskine M. Ross, Los Angeles, 
Cal.; William W. Morrow, San Francisco, Cal. 

UNITED STATES COURT OF CLAIMS. 

(Pennsylvania avenue and Seventeenth street.) 
Chief Justice. — 'Stanton J. Peelle, The Concord. 

Judge Charles B. Howry, 1728 I street. 

Judge Fenton W. Booth, 2115 Bancroft place. 

Judge Samuel S. Barney, The Hamilton. 

Judge GeorgeW. Atkinson, 1600 Thirteenth street. 
Chief Clerk.— Archibald Hopkins, 1826 Massachusetts avenue. 
Assistant. — John Randolph, 28 I street. 
Bailiff. — Stark B. Taylor, 1504 S street. 






DISTRICT OF COLUMBM 567 



COURT OF APPEALS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 

('United States courthouse, Judiciary siquare.) 

Chief Justice. — Seth Shepard, 1447 Massachusetts avenue. 

Associate Justices. — Charles H. Roblj, The Rochambeau. 

Retired Justice. — iMartin P. Morris, 1314 Massachusetts avenue. 

Clerk.— H. W. Hodges, 2208 Q street. 

Assistant Clerk. — Moncure Burke, 1802 Wyoming avenue. 

SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 

(United States courthouse.) 

Chief Justice. — Harry M. Clabaugh, 1842 Mintwood place. 

Associate Justices. — Job Barnard, 1306 Rhode Island avenue; Thomas H. Anderson, 
1531 New Hamp.sihire avenue; Ashley M. Gould, 1931 Sixteenth street; Daniel Thew 
Wright, 2032 Sixteenth street; Wendell P. Stafford, 1603 Irving street. 

Rehired Justices. — Edward F. Bingham, The Grafton; Alexander B. Hagner. 1818 H 
street. 

Clerk. — John R. Young, 1522 R street. 

Justices of the Peace of the District of Columbia. 

Charles S. Bundy, 416 Fifth street. 

Thomas H. Callan, 617 P street. 

Samuel C. Mills. 1205 G street. 

George C. Ankam, 456 D street. 

Luke C. Strider, D street and John Marshall place. 

Robert H. Terrell, 911 G street. 

POLICE COURT. 

(Sixth amd D sitreets.) 

Judges. — A. R. Mullowny, 1411 V street; I. G. Kimball, 620 North Carolina avenue, S.E. 

Clerk. — Joseph Y. Potts, 200 Indiana avenue. 

Deputy and Financial Clerk. — F. A. Sebring, 1209 Kenyon street. 

UNITED STATES ATTORNEY'S OFFICE. 

(United States courthouse.) 

United States Attorney. — Daniel W. Baker, 1533 T street. 

Assistants. — Ralph Given. 218 B street, S.E.; Jesse C. Adkins, 2321 First street; Stuart 

McNamara, 2409 Eighteentli street; Charles H. Turner, 1322 Twelfth street; James 

M. Proctor, Kensington, Md. 

UNITED STATES MARSHAL'S OFFICE. 

(United States courthouse.) 

United States Marshal. — Aulick Palmer, 1401 Belmont street. 
Chief Office Deputy. — William B. Robinson, The Gladstone. 

REGISTER OF WILLS AND CLERKS OF THE PROBATE COURT OF THE DIS- 
TRICT OF COLUMBIA. 

(United States courthouse.) 

Register and Clerk. — ^James Tanner, 1416 N street. 

Deputies.— W. C. Taylor, 1400 Twenty-first street; Michael J. Griffifh. 1629 P street. 

RECORDER OF DEEDS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 

(United States courthouM.) 

Recorder of Deeds. — John C Dancy. 2139 L street. 
Deputy. — Robert W. Dutton, 3033 Fifteenth istr««t. 



568 



AjMIERICAN biographical DIRiElOTORY 



Justices of the United States Supreme Court 



(Names of the Chief Justices In Bold Face., 



Name. 



Set vice. 



Born. 



Died. 



Jchn Jay, New York 

Jolin Rutledge, South Carolina 

William Gushing, Massachusetts 

James Wilson, Pennsylvania. 

John Blair, Virginia 

Robert H. Harrison, Maryland 

James Iredell, North Carolina 

Thomas Johnson, Maryiand 

William Paterson, Nciv Jersey , 

Join Rutledge, South Carolina 

Samuel Chase, Marylar.d 

Oliver Ellsworth, Connecticut 

Bushrod Washington, Virginia 

Alfred Moore, North Carolina , 

John Marshall, Virgmia 

William Johnson, South Carolina , 

Brock, Livingston, New York , 

Thomas Todd, Kentucky 

Joseph Story, Massa'j'iusetts 

Gabriel Duval, Maryland 

Smith Thompson, Niv.v York 

Robert Trimble, Kentucky 

John McLean, Ohio 

Henry Baldwin, Pennsylvania 

James M. Wayne, Georgia 

Roger B. Taney, Maryl.ind 

Philip P. Barbour, Vir.smia 

John Catron, Tenneyst-c 

John McKinley, Alabama 

Peter V. Daniel, Virgm.ia 

Samuel Nelson, New York 

Levi Woodbury, New liampshire 

Robert C. Grier, Pennsy.vania 

Benj. R. Curtis, Mas.^ar'husetts 

Jchn A. Campbell, Alabama ^ 

Nathan Clifford, Maine '. 

Noah H. Swayne, Giro 

Samuel F. Miller, Towa 

David Davis, Illinois 

Stephen J. Field, California '.. 

Salmon P. Chase, Ohio 

William Strong, Pennsylvania ] 

Joseph P. Bradley, NHw Jersey 

^^'ard Hunt, New Y Dnc 

Morrison R. Waite, Jh.o _ 

John M. Harlan, Kentucky ' 

William B. Woods, Gco:gia ^ 

Stanley Matthews, Ohir. ~ 

Horace Gray, Massacnusetts 

Samuel Blatchford, New York 

Lucius Q. C. Lamar, Miasissippt 

Melville W. Fuller, THinois '. 

David J. Brewer, Kansas 

Henry B. Brown, Allohigan 

George Shiras, Jr., Pennsylvania ". 

Howell E. Jackson, "cnnessee 

Edward D. White, J^ou'siana ', 

Rufus W. Peckham, Now York , 

Joseph McKenna, California 

Oliver W. Ho'.mes, Massachusetts 

William R. Day, Ohio 

William H. Moody, Massachusetts !....... .'| 



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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 569 



Koreign Embassies and 

Legations in Washington 

Argentine Republic. 

Address: 2108 Sixteenth Street. 

Senor Don Epifanio Portela, E. E. and M. P. 

Dr. Alberto Palacios Costa, First Secretary of Legation. 

Commander Don Virgilio Moreno Vera, Naval Attache. 

Senor Don Julian Portela, Second Secretary. 

Lieutenant Don Manuel A. Portela, Attache. 

Austria- Hungary. 

Address: 1304 Eighteenth street. 

Baron Hengelmuller von Hengervar, Privy Councilor, Ambassador E. and P. 

Baron Louis Ambrozy, Counselor of Legation and Charge dAffaires. 

Baron F. Haymerle, Secretary. 

Mr. Moriz von Szent-Ivany, Secretary. 

Belgium. 

Address: 1710 H Street. 

Baron, Moncheur, E. E. and M. P. 

Mr. B. Havenith, Counselor of Legation and Charge d' Affaires. 

Bolivia. 

Address: 1633 Sixteenth Street. 

Senor Don Ignacio Calderon, E. E. and M. P. 

Senor Don Jorge E. Zalles, First Secretary. 

' Brazil. 

Address: 1710 H street. 

Mr. Joaquin Nabuco. Ambassador E. and P. 

Mr. Sylvino Gurgel do Amaral, Counselor of Embassy and Charge d' Affaires. 

Mr. E. L. Chermont, Second Secretary, Acting First Secretary. 

Lieutenant-Colonel A. V. de Pederneiras, Military Attache. 

Lieutenant-Commander Radler de Aquino, Naval Attache. 

Mr. A. de Velloso, Second Secretary, 

Chile. 

Address: The Burlington. 

Senor Don Anibal Cruz Diaz, E. E. and M. P 

Senor Don Alberto Yoacham, First Secretary of Legation and Charge d' Affaires, 

Senor Don Manuel Salinas F., Second Secretary. 

Colonel Vincente del Solar, Military Attache. 

China. 

Address: 2001 Nineteenth Street. 

Sir Chentung Liang-Cheng, K. C. M. G., E. E. and M. P. 

Mr. Chow Tszchi, First Secretary and Charge dAffaires. 

Mr. Yung Kwai, First Secretary. 

Mr. Chang Chuan, Second Secretary. 

Mr. Wu Chang, Attache. 

Mr. Tong Yu-nin, Commercial Attache. 

Colombia. 

Address: 1728 N Street. 

Senor Don Enrique Cortes, E. E. and M. P. 

Senor Don Pomponio Guzman, First Secretary of Legation. 

Senor Don Jose Maria Pasos, Counselor of Legation and Charge d' Affaires. 

Costa Rica. 

Address: 1329 Eighteenth Street. 

Senor Don Joaquin Bernardo Calvo, E. E. and M. P. 

Cuba. 
Address: The Wyoming. 

Senor Don Gonzalo de Quesada, E. E. and M. P. 
Senor Don Arturo Padro y Almeida, First Secretary and Charge d' Affaires. 



570 AMiERICAN BIOGRAPMICAL DIRiEIOTORY 

Senor Don Antonio Montero, Second Secretary. 
Senor Don Jose F. Campillo, Chancellor. 
Senor Don Rogelio M. Bombalier, Chancellor. 
Senor Don Antonio Ruiz y Olivares, Attache. 

Denmark. 

Address: 1521 Twentieth Street. 

Mr. Constantin Brun, E. E. and M. P. 

Dominican Republic. 

Address: The Shoreham. 

Senor Don Emilio C. Joubert, Minister Resident. 

Senor Don Arturo L. Fiallo, Secretary of Leg-ation. 

Ecuador. 

Address: 1302 Connecticut Avenue. 

Senor Don Luis Felipe Carbo, E. E. and M. P. 

Senor Ingeniero Don Luis Alberto Carbo, Secretary of Legation. 

Senor Don Esteban Felipe Carbo, Attache in charge of Legation. 

France. 

Address: 1640 Rhode Island Avenue. 

Mr. J. J. Jusserand, Ambassad'or E. and P. 

Mr. des Fortes de la Fosse, Counselor of Embassy and Charge d' Affaires. 

Major Fournier, Artillery Corps, Military Attache. 

Lieutenant-Commander de Blanpre, Naval Attache. 

Viscount Charles de Chambrun, Secretary. 

Viscount de Martel, Third Secretary. 

Mr. Velten, Commercial Attache (New York). 

Germany. 

Address: 1435 Massachusetts Avenue. 
Freiherr Speck von Sternburg, Ambassador E. and P. 

Count Hermann von Hatzfeldt-Wildenburg, Counselor of Embassy, First Secretary 
of Embassy. 

Captain Hebbinghaus, Naval Attache. 
Capt. Von Livonius, Military Attache. 
'Mr. W. von Radowitz, Second Secretary. 
H. S. H. Prince zu Lynar, Third Secretary. 
Mr. C. von Schubert, Attache. 

Great Britain. 

Address: 1300 Connecticut Avenue. 

Right Honorable James Bryce, O. M., Ambassador E. and P- 

Mr. Esme Howard, C. V. O., C. M. G., Counselor of Embassy. 

The Honorable Horace Hood, R. N.. M. V. O., D. S. O., Naval Attache. 

Lieutenant- Colonel B. R. James, Military Attache. 

Mr. G. Young, Second Secretary. 

Mr. W. H. Kemiaxd, Second Secretary. 

Mr. H. A. Grant Watson, Third Secretary. 

Guatemala. 
Address: The Highlands. 

Senor Dr. Don Luis Toledo Herrarte, E. E. ajid M. P. 
Senor Dr. Ramon Bengoechea, Secretary of Legation. 

Hayti. 

Address: 1429 Rhode Island Avenue. 

Mr. J. N. Leger, E. E. and M. P. 

Mr. Perceval Thoby, Secretary and Charge d'Affaires. 

Honduras. 

Address: The New WlUard. 

Doctor Angrel Ugarte, E. E. and M. P. 

Dr. Manuel Ugarte H., Secretary of Legation. 



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Italy. 

Address: 1400 New Hampshire Avenue. 

Baron Edmondo Mayor de? Planches, Ambassador E. and P. 

Signor Giulio Cesare Montagna, Counselor and Charge d'Affaires. 

Signor Roberto Centaro, Attache. 

Signer Giuliano Cora, Attache. 

Lieutenant Carlo Pflster, Naval Attache. 

Professor Antonio Ravaioli, Commercial Delegate. 

Japan. 

Address: 1310 N Street. 

Baron Kogoro Takahira, Ambassador E. and P. 

Mr. Tsunejiro Miyioka, Counselor of Embassy. 

Mr. Masanao Hanihara, Second Secretary. 

Mr. Matsuzo Nagai, Third Secretary. 

Mr. Isaburo Y'oshida, Attache. 

Major Kunishige Tanakai, I. J. A., iMilitary Attache. 

Commander Naomi Taniguchi, I. J. N., Naval Attache. 

Mexico. 

Address: 1415 I Street. 

Senor Don Enrique C. Creel, Ambassador E. and P. 

Senor Don Jose P. God'oy, Minister Plenipotentiary and Charge d'Affaires. 

'Senor Don Luis Ricoy, Second Secretary. 

Senor Don Victoriano Salado Alvarez, Second Secretary. 

Senor r>on Eduardo de Beistegui, Third Secretary. 

Senor Don Julio W. Baz, Third Secretary. 

Major Don Portino M. Davila, Military Attache. 

Netherlands. 
Address: 1738 M Street. 

Jonkheer R. de Marees van Swinderen, E. E. and M. P. 
'Mr. W. A. Royaards, Counselor of Legation. 
J'onkheer I. L. van den Berch van Heemstede, Attache. 

Nicaragua. 

Address: 2003 O Street. 

Senor Don Luis P. Corea, E. E. and M. P. 

Norway. 

Address: 1737 H Street. 

Mr. C. Hauge, E. E. and M. P. 

Mr. O. Skybak, Secretary of Legation. 

Panama. 

Address: The Highlands. 

Senor Don J. Domingo de Obaldia, E. E. and M. P. 
Senor Don J'ose Augustin Arango, E. E. and M. P. 
Mr. C. C. Arosemena, First Secretary of Legation. 
Senor Don Arturo Amador Garcia, Attache. 

Persia. 

Address: 1800 Nineteenth Street. 
General Morteza, Khan, E. E. and M. P. 

Peru. 

Address: 1601 Twenty-second Street. 

Mr. Felipe Pardo, E. E. a.nd M. P. 

Mr. Manuel de FVeyre y Santander, First Secretary of Legation. 

Portugal. 

Address: The Shoreham. 

Viscount de Alte, E. E. and M. P. 

Mr. d' Arenas de Lima, Secretary of Legation. 

Russia. 

Address: 1634 I Street. 

Baron Rosen, Master of the Imperial Court, Ambassador E. and P. 
Mr. Kroupensky, Chamberlain to H. M. the Emperor of Russia, Counselor of 
Embassy. 



572 AiMEBICAN BIOGRAPHICAL. DIRECTORY i 

_ . I 

Prince Nicholas Koudacheff, First Secretary. 

Mr. B. von Siebert, Second Secretary. 

Mr. de Thai, Gentleman in Waiting, Imperial Court, Second Secretary. 

Colonel Raspopoff. Military Attache. 

Commander Nebolsine, Naval Attache. 

Salvador. 

Address: The Arlington. 

Senor Don Federico Mejia^ E. E. and M. P. 

Siam. 

Address: The Arlington. 

Phya Akharaj Varadhara, E. E. and M. P. 

Phra Ratanayapti, Charge d'Affaires. 

Mr. Edward H. Loftus, First Secretary of Legation. 

Nai Cheun, Attache. 

Nai Terr, Student Attache. 

Spain. 

Address: 1721 Q Street. 

Senor Don Ramon Pina, Chamberlain to his Catholic Majesty, E. E. and M. P. 

Senor Don Luis Pastor, First Secretary of Legation. 

Senor Don Manuel Walls y Merino, Second Secretary of Legation and Charge- 
d' Affaires. 

Lieutena^nt-Colonel Frederico de Monteverde, Chamberlain to his Catholic Majesty,. 
Military Attache. 

Sweden. 
Address: 1808 I Street. 

Mr. Herman de Lagercrantz, E. E. and M. P. 
Mr. A. Ekengren, Secretary of Legation. 



Switzerland. ::rr 

Address: 2013 Hillyer Place. ■--''^■' 

Mr. Leo Vogel, E. E. and M. P. 

Mr. Henri Martin, Secretary of Legation and Charge d' Affaires 

Turkey. 

Address: Eighteenth and Calvert Streets. 
Mehmed Ali Bey. E. E. and M. P. 
Djelal Munif Bey, First Secretary. 
Sidky Bey, Second Secretary. 

Aziz Bey, Lieutenant-Colonel and Aide-de-Camp of His Imperial Majesty, Military 
Attache. 

Uruguay. 

Address: 1529 Rhode Island Avenue. 

Doctor Don Luis Melian Laftnur, E E. and M. P. 

Venezuela. 

Address: The Rochambeau. 

Senor Dr. R. Garbiras Guzman, Charge d' Affaires. 

Senor Augasto F. Pulido, First Secretary of Legation and Charge d' Affaires. 



Leading Members of United States 

Diplonnatic and Consular Service 

Aynbassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary. 

Country. Salary. ^ Country. Salary. 

$17,500 
17,500 
17,508 
17,500 
17,50© 



Austria-Hungary — Charles Francis, I Italy — Henry White, R. I 

New York $17,500 Japan— Thomas J. O'Brien, Mich. 

Brazil — Lloyd C. G.-:£com, Pa 17,500 t,«^„^,„„ t-.„„».i -c rrv.^ »^« -nt^k 

France-Robert S. McCormlck, 111... 17,500 Mexico-David E. Thompson, Neb 

Germany— Charlema'.;.<e Tower, Pa.. 17,500 I Russia— John W. Ri-ldle, Minn 

Great Britain— White! aw Reid, N. Y. 17,500 I Turkey — John G. A. Leishman, Pa. 



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Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary. 



Country Salary. 

Argentine Rep. — Arth:ir M. Beaupre, 

Illinois $12,000 

Belgium— Henry Lane Wilson, Wash. 12,000 
Bolivia— William Li. Porsby, Miss... 7,500 

Chile — John Hicks, Wis 10,000 

China— W. W. Roclchill, D. C 12,000 

Colombia— John Barrett, Ore 10,000 

Cuba— Edwin V. Morgan, N. Y 12,000 

Denmark — Maurice / rancis Egan, 

District of Columbia 7,500 

Ecuador— Geo. W. J. Lee, Md 7,500 

Greece— John B. Jackson, N. J 7,500 

<3uatemala— Leslie Combs, Ky 10,000 

Hay ti— Henry W. Furnlas, Ind 7,500 

Morocco — Samuel I!. Gummere 7,500 



Country Salary. 

Netherlands— David J. Hill, N. Y.-.$ 12,000 
Nicaragua— William L. Merry, Cal.. 10,000 
Norway — Herbert H. D. Peirce, Mass. 7,50» 
Panama — Charles E3. Magoon, Neb.. 10,000 
Paraguay and Uruguay — Edward C. 

O'Brien, Michigan 7,500 

Persia- Richard Pearson, N. C 7,500 

Peru— Irving B. Dudley, Cai 10,000 

Portugal — Charles Page, Bryan, 111. 7,500 

Servia— John W. Riddle, Mass 7,500 

Siam — Hamilton King, Mien 7,600 

Spain— William M. Collier, N. Y 12,000 

Sweden — Char'.es IE. Graves, Minn... 7,500 

Switzerland— Brutus J. Clay, Ky 7,500 

Venezuela— William W. Russell, D. C. 10,000 



Ministers Resident and Consuls-General 



Dominican Rep. — Thomas C. Daw- 
son, Iowa 



Liberia — Ernest Lyon, Md $4,000 



MILITARY DIVISIONS AND DEPARTMENTS 



Atlantic Division. — Embracing Departments of the East and the Gulf; head- 
quarters. Governor's Island, N. Y. Commander, MaJ.-Gen. James F. Wade. 

Department of the East'. — New England, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, 
Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia, West Virginia, Porto Rico, and the islands 
and keys adjacent thereto; headquarters, Governor's Island, N. Y. Comman,der, 
Maj.-Gen. Frederick D. Grant. 

Department of the Gulf. — North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, 
Florida, Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi; headquarters, Atlanta, Ga. Commander, 
Brig.-Gen. W. P. Duvall. 

Northern Division. — Embracing Departments of the Lakes, Missouri, and Da- 
kota; headquarters, Chicago, 111. Commander, Major-General A. W. Greely. 

Department of the Lakes. — Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and 
Kentucky; headquarters, Chicago, 111. Commander, Brig.-Gen. William H. Carter. 

Department of the Missouri. — Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, Wyoming (except 
Yellowstone Park), and Kansas; headcxuarters, Omaha, Neb. Commander, Maj.-Gen. 
A. W. Greely. 

Department of Dakota. — Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, and the Yellow- 
stone National Park; headquarters, St. Paul, Minn. Commander, Brig.-Gen. John 
W. Bubb. 

Division Southwestern. — Embracing Departments of Texas and Colorado; head- 
-quarters, St. Louis, Mo. Commander, Brig.-Gen. Frederick Funston. 

Department of Texas. — Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, Indian Territory, and Okla- 
homa; headquarters, San Antonio, Texas. Commander, Brig.-Gen, Wm. S. Mc- 
Caskey 

Department of the Colorado. — Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico; head- 
■quarters, Denver, Colo. Commander, Brig.-Gen. Constant Williams. 

Pacific Division. — Embracing Departments of California and the Columbia; head- 
quarters, San Franclf'co, Cal. Commander, Lieut. -Gen. Arthur MacArthur. 

Department of the Columbia. — Washington, Oregon, Idaho (excepting the Yel- 
lowstone National Park), and Alaska; headquarters, Vancouver Barracks, Wash. 
Commander, Brig.-Geh. S. P. Jocelyn. 

Philippines Division. — Embracing Departments of Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao; 
headquarters, Manila, P. I. Commander, Major-General Leonard Wood. 

Department of Luzon. — Headquarters, Manila, P. I. Commander, Maj.-Gen. J. 
P. Weston. 

Department of the Visayas. — Headquarters, Iloilo, P. I. Commander, Maj.-Gen. 
Jesse M. Lee. 

Department of Mindanao. — Headquarters, Zamboanga, P, I. Commander, Brig.- 
Gen. Tasker H. Bliss. 

Army of Cuban Pacification. — Headquarters, Havana, Cuba. Commander, Brlgf.- 
Gen. Theodore J. Wint. 

STANDING ARMY. 

The army In active service as now organized under the act of Congress of Feb- 
ruary 2, 1901, cjmtrises 15 regiments of cavalry, 750 officers and 13,020 enlisted men; 
an artillery corps, 30 batteries of field artillery and 126 companies of coast artillery, 
€51 officers and 18,166 enlisted men; 30 regiments of Infantry, 1,500 officers and 



574 



AMERIICAN BIOGRAPHICAL DIRIBOTORY 



25,649 enlisted men; 3 (battalions of engineers, 1,294 enlisted men, commanded by 
officers deiaiied from the corps of engineers; staff corps Military Academy, Indian 
scouts, recruits, etc.. 1,387 enlisted men; also a provisional force consisting of one 
regiment in Porto Rico, 31 officers and 554 native enlisted men, and 50 companies of 
native scouts in the Philippines, 116 officers and about 5,000 enlisted men. The tolai 
numb'^r of comniis.siorjed officers, staff and line, on the active list, is 3,869, and the 
total enlisted strength, staff and line, is 62,516, exclusive of the provisional force and 
the hospital corps. The act cited provides that the total enlisted strength of the army 
shall not exceed at any one time 100,000. 



THK TJNITBD ST^ATPKS ARMY 

GENERAL STAFF OF THE ARMY. 

Brigadier-General J. Franklin Bell, Chief of Staff. 
Brigadier-General Tho.nas H. Barry. Brigadier-General Arthur Murray. 



Colonels. 

Enoch H. Crowder, Judge- Advocate-Gener- 
al's Department. 

George S. Anderson, 1st Cavalry. 

Ramsey D. Potts, Artillery Corps. 

James T. Kerr, Millitary Secretary's De- 
partment. 

Lieutenant- Colonels. 

John G. D. Knight, Carps of Engineers. 
William W. Wotherspoon, 19th Infantry. 
Smith S. Leach, Corps of Engineers. 
Thaddeus "W. Jonts, ^th Cavalry. 
Albert S. Cummins. Aitillery Corps. 

Majors. 

George W. Goethals, Corps of EJngineers. 
William A. Mann, 14th Infantry. 
Millard F. Waltz. Ifilii Infantry. 
Carroll A. Devol, -Quartermaster's Depart- 
ment. 
Eben Swift, 12th Cavalry. 
Samuel Reber, Signal Corps. 
Kenry L. Ripley, 8th Cavalry. 
Erasmus M. Weaver, Artillery Corps. 



Majors — (Continued.) 

Fiancis J. Kernan, "Gti". Infantry. 
William W. Gibson, Ordnance Department, 
David Du B. Gaillard, Corps of Engineers. 
Charles Lynch, Medical Department. 

CaDt?iins. 
James K. Thompson, 15th Infantry. 
Stephen L'H. Slocum, 8th Cavalry. 
William M. Wright, lid Infantry. 
Charles H. Muir, 2d Infantry. 
James H. McRae, 'id Infantry. 
Julius A. Penn, 7th Infantry. 
Ulysses G. McAlexandnr, 13th Infantry. 
Michael J. Lenihan, 2r)th Infantry. 
Gecrge W. Read, 9th Cavalry. 
Orote Hutcheson, oth Cavalry. 
Sydney A. Cloman, ^Z<i Infantry. 
Robert E. L. Michie, 12th Cavalry. 
Cornelius De W. Wil'cox, Artillery Corps. 
Charles T. Menoher, Artillery Corps. 
Peyton C. March, Artillery Corps. 
John W. Furlong, 6th Cavalry. 
Ralph H. Van Deman, 21st Infantry. 
George H. Shelton, 11th Infantry. 
William Chamberlaine, Artillery Corps. 



GENERAL OFFICERS OF THE LINE. 

Lieut.-Gen. .Arthur MauArthur. .. .Pacific Division San Francisco, Cal. 

Maj. -Gen.. . .James F Wade Atlantic Division New York City. 

' ..Leonard Wood Philippines Division Manila. P. I. 

• ..John F. Weston Department of Luzon Manila, P. I.. 

" ..Frederick D. Grant. . .Department of the East New York City. 

" . .Adolphus W. Greely... Northern Division Chicago, 111. 

" .Jesse M. Lee Department of the Visayas. . ..Iloilo. P. I. 

Brig.-Gen...J. Franklin Bell Chief of Staff Washington, D. C. 

•' ..Frederick Funston. .. .Southwestern Division St. Louis, Mo. 

■' ..Theodore J. Wint Army of Cuban Pacification. ..Havana, Cuba. 

" .William H. Carter Department of the Lakes Chicago, 111. 

" " ..Tasker H. Bliss ..Department of Minfta;iao Zamboanga, P. I. 

" " ..Thomas H. Barry President of War College WTashington, D. C. 

' .William S. McCaskey. .Department of Tex.xs San Antonio, Tex. 

•' ..Albert L. Mills Manila, P. I. (Unasslgned) 

•• ..Constant Williams Department of the Ct lorado. . Denver, Col. 

' .Winfield S. Edgerly Wash., D. C. (Unaaaigned) 

" .William P. Duvall. .. .Department of the Gulf Atlanta, Ga. 

" ..John W. Bubb l>epartment of D.ako:a St. Paul, Minn. 

" " ..Stehen P. Jocelyn Department of the Columbia. .Vancouver B'ks, Wasn. 

■' . .Walter T. Duggan Manila, P. I. (Unassi.^ned) 

•' ..John J. Pershing Manila, P. I. (Unassie-ned) 

Chiefs of Staff Corps and Bureaus of the War Departmen*.. 

Major-Gen. .Fi-ed C. Ains worth. . .The Military Secretaiy Washington, D. C. 

Brig.-Gen.. , William P. Hall Military Secretary Washington, D. C. 

" " ..Ernest A. Garlington.. Inspector-General Washington, D. C. 

" " ..George B. Davis Judge-Advocate-Gencral Wlashington, D. C. 

" ..Charles F. Humphrey. Quartermaster-General Wlashington, D. C. 

■■ ..Henry G. Sharpe Commissioner-General Washington, D. C. 

■ ..Robert M. O'Reilly Surgeon-General Washington, D. C. 

•' ..Culver C. Sniff en Paymaster-General Wlashington, D. C. 

" ■' ..Alexander Mackenzie. .Chief of Engineers Wlashington, D. C. 

' ..William Crozier Chief of Ordnance Washington, D. C. 

" ..James Allen Chief Signal Officer Washington, D. C. 



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Army Pay TTable. 



Grade. 



Pay of Officers in Ac live 
Service. 



Yearly Pay. 



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Pay of retired officers. 



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Lieutenant-General 

Major-General , 

Brigadier-General 

Colonel 

Lieutenant-Colonel 

Major , 

Captain, mounted 

Captain, not mounted 

Ist Lieutenant, mounted.... 
1st Lieutenant, not mouinted, 

2il Lieutenant, mountod , 

2d Lieutenant, nut mounted, 



$11,000 
7,500 
5,500 
3,500 
3,000 
2,500 
2,000 
1,800 
1,600 
1,500 
1,500 
1,400 



|10 pc.i20 pc.;30 pc.140 pc. 

:1 :::;:! :::::! ;:;:: 



850|$4,200|$4,500|$4 

900| 4, 

250| 3, 

6001 2, 

340| 2, 

0801 2, 
950 



3001 
750| 
2001 
980| 
760| 
6501 
650| 
5401 



600 

,0001 
,4001 
,1601 
,9201 
,8G0| 
,8001 
,680| 



500 
OOOJI 2, 



500| 
8001 
520| 
2401 
100| 
100| 
9601 



I 
250| 
625| 
125| 
625| 
2501 
8751 
500| 
350i 
200| 
1251 
125j 
050| 



$2,887i$3,150|$3,375|?3,375 
2,4V5| 2,700| 2.925| 3,000 
2,062| 2,250| 2,4371 ^,626 
1,650| 1,800| 1,950| 2,100 
1,485| 1,6201 1,755| 1,890 
1,320| 1,440 1,560 Jl,t)80 
1,2371 1,350| 1,462 1,67& 
1,2371 1,350| 1,462 1,575 
1,1151 1,2601 1,365 1,4/0 



The pay of non-commissioned officers Is from $15 to $75 per month, and of privates 
$13 per month. Service in Philippines, China, Guam, Panama and Alaska, 10 per cent 
additional for officers ind 20 per cent for enlisted men. 



U. S. NAVAL ORGANIZATION 

. The active list of the navy comprises 1,822 commissioned and 621 warrant offlcers. 
The enlisted strength allowed by law is 37,500 men and apprentice sieamen. 



Marine Corps. 

The United States Marine Corps consists of a force of 279 officers and 6,00t 
men. Brigadier-General George P. Elliott is commandant. 

The origin of the Navy Department may be said to date from October 13, 1775, 
when Congress authorized the equipment of two cruisers, mounting respectively 1» 
and 14 guns. Before the end of that year 15 more vessels of from 20 to 36 guns were 
authorized. The affairs of the navy were at that time entrusted to a "Marine Com- 
mittee." In 1798 the present denqrtment was formally created, and Benjamin Stod- 
dart appointed the first Secretary. 



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UNIXKD SXATTKS NAVY PAY XABLB 



Rank. 



Admiral 

Rear-Admirals, first nine 

Rear-Admirals, second nine 

Brigadier-General, Commandant Marine 

Corps 

Captains 

Ccmmanders 

Lieutenant-Commanders 

Lieutenants 

Lieutenants (Junior Grade) 

Ensigns 

Chief Boatswain, Chief Gunners, Chief 

Carpenters, Chief SuHmakers 

Naval Cadets ....; 

Mates 

Medical and Pay Dlreo<-ors and Inspectors 

having the same ran-t at sea 

Fleet-Surgeons and Fleet-Paymasters 

Surgeons and Paymasters 

Chaplains 

Professors and Civil Engineers 

Naval Constructors 





On Shore 


On Leave 


At sea. 


duty. 


or Waiting 
orders. 


$13,500 


$13,500 


- 


7,500 


6,375 


.... 


5,500 


4,675 
r.,500 




3,500 


2,975 




3,000 


2,550 . 




2,500 


2,125 




1,800 


1.530 




1,500 


1,275 




1,400 


1,190 


.... 


1,400 


1,400 




500 


600 


$500 


900 


700 


500 


4,400 






4,400 





.... 


(2,800 


2,000 


$2,400 


|to 


to 


to 


(4,200 


3,000 


4,000 


(2,500 


1.600 


2,000 


|to 


to 


to 


(2,800 


1,900 


2,300 


(2,400 


1,500 


2.400 


|to 


to 


to 


(3,500 


2,600 


3.500 




(2,200 


3.200 




|to 


to 




(3,200 


4,200 



All officers paid under this table, below the rank of Rear- Admiral, are entitled 
ti> 10 per cent increase upon the full yearly pay of their grades for each and every 
period of five years' service as "longevity pay," computed upon their total actual 
service in the Navy or Marine Corps, provided tliat the total amount of such in- 
crease shall not exceed 40 per cent upon the full yearly pay of their grade. 

Officers of the line, medical and pay corps, commissioned iprior to July 1, 189$, 
are entitled to receive pay according to the then existing law whenever it is in 
excess of the pay of officers of corresponding rank in the Army. 

Officers ordered to "shore duty beyond seas" are entitled to sea pay plus 10 per 
cent increase while taking passage in a merchant vessel to their posts of duty. 

Warrant officers (boatswains, gunners, carpenters, sailmakers, pharmacists, and 
warrant machinists), are paid from $1,200 to $1,800 a year. 

Commandants' clerks and paymasters' clerks receive from $1,000 to $1,800 .i year. 

Petty officers (masters-at-arms, 'boatswains' mates, gunners' mates, giii cap- 
tains, quartermasters, machinists, hospital stewards, yeomen, bandmasters, firf'; mu- 
siciains, coxsiwains, electricians, boiler-makers, coppersmiths, blacksmiths, pluii hers, 
a-nd fitters, sailmakers' mates, carpenters' imates, oilers, printers, painters, w'ater 
tenders, and hospital apprentices, first class) receive from $360 to $840 a year. 

The pay of first-classi seamen per month is $24; seamen gunners $26; firemen, 
first class, $35; musicians, first class, $32. 

The pay of second-class seamen per nronth is: Ordinary seamen, $19; firemen, 
second class, $30; shipwrights. $25; musicians, second class, $30; apprentices, second 
class, $15. 

The pay of third-class seamen per month is: Landsmen, for training, $16; coal 
passers $22; apprentices, third class, $9. 



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LEADING OFFICERS OF THE NAVY 

ADMIRAL. 
Rank. Name. Duty. Where Stationed. 

Admiral George Dewey Senior Member General Bo^rd .Washington, D. C. 

REAR-ADMIRALS. 
Rank. Name. Duty. Where Stationed. 

Rear- Admiral. . .Robley D. Evans. .. .Comdr-in-Chief North Atlantic Fleet. 

" James H. Sands Superintendent Naval Academy Annapolis, Md. 

Charleg D. Sigsbee . .Waiting orders Washington, D. C. 

" Casper F. Goodrich. Waiting orders Fomfret, Conn. 

" Charles H. Davis Comdg. 1st Squadron AUantic Fleet.. 

" Joseph E. Craig Commandant Navy lard. ....... .i .. .League Island, Pa. 

Charles M. Thomas. Supt. Naval Training Service. ...... .Newport, R. I. 

" Albert S. Snow Commandant Navy Yard.. '...;'. .Boston. Mass. 

" George C. Reiter lVj.ember Light House Board Washington, D. C. 

" Willard H.Brownson. Comdr-in-Chief. Asiatic Fleet. .• 

William W. Mead. . .Commandant Navy Yard Portsmouth, N. H. 

" Charles H. Stockton. Pres. Naval Exam, and Ret. Board. . .Washington, D. C. 

" Asa Walker Superintendent Naval Observatory. . .Washington, D. C. 

■" Henry W. Lyon Commandant Navy Yard Mare Island, Cal. 

James H. Dayton. .. .Com'g Philippine Sq., Asiatic Fleet... 

." Charles S. Sperry. . .Special Duty Naval War College Newport, R. I. 

" William T. Burwell. .Command't Navy Yd.. Puget Sound. .Bremerton, Wash. 

" Robert M. Berry Commandant Navy Yard Norfolk. "Va. 

" Samuel W. Very. . . .Commanaant Naval Station Honolulu, H. I. 

" Wm. T. Swinburne. .Comdr-in-Chief, Pacific Squadron.... 

Joseph N. Hemphill., Prest. Bd. of Inspec.on and Survey. .Washington, D. C. 
" William H. Emory. .Waiting orders Roslyn, N. Y. 



RELATIVE RANK OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY AND NAVY. 

Generals rank with Admirals. 
LiPutenint-Generals rank with Vice-Admirala 
Major-Generals rank with first nine Rear-Admirals. 

Brigadier-Generals rank with Rear-Admirals after the first nine and Commo- 
<!ores. 

Colonels rank with Captains. 

Lieutenant-Colonels rank with Commanders. 

Majors rank with Lieutenant-Oommanders. ' ~ 

Captains rank with Lieutenants. 

First Lieutens'nts rank with Lieutenants. Junior Grade. 

Second Lieutenants rank with Ensigns. 

Cadets rank with Midshipmen. 



CIVIL SERVICE 

Th re are about 327,000 positions in the Executive Civil Service, over half of which, 
or 184 78, are subject to competitive examination. The expenditure for salaries in 
the F cecutive Civil Service is over $200,000,000 a year. The Civil Service act does not 
requ /e the classification of persons appointed by the President and confirmed by the 
Senate, or persons employed merely as laborers or workmen. Many positions are 
excepted in part from the provisions of the rules for various reasons, the largest 
single class being those of fourth-class postmasters, of which there were 650,592 on 
January 1, 1906. 

Applications. 

Persons seeking to be examined must file an application blank. The blank for 
the Departmental Service at Washington, Railway Mail Service, the Indian Schoal 
Service, and the Government Printing Service should be requested directly of the 
Civil Service Commdssion at Washington. The blank for the Customs, Postal or In- 
ternal Revenue Service should be requested of the Civil Service Board of Examiners 
at the office where service is sought. 

Applicants for examination must be citizens of the United States, and of the 
proper age. No person using intoxicating liquors to excess may be appointed. No 
discrimination is made on account of sex, color, or political or religious opinions. 
The limitati'ons of age vary with the different services, but do not apply to any per- 

37 



578 AMERICAN BIOGRAPHICAL. DIRBOTORY 

son honorably discharged from the military or naval service of the United States by- 
reason of disability resulting from wounds or sickness incurred in the line of duty. 

Examinations. 

The examinations are open to all persons qualified in respect to agev citizenship, 
legal residence, character and health. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 1906, 
96,619 persons were examined, 70,910 passed, and 28,555 were appointed. Of thos« 
appointed, 9,150 were rural letter carriers. In addition to these, mechanics and work- 
men at navy yards are appointed on registration tests of fitness given by a board of 
labor employment at each yard. During the year 20,658 applications were made; 
20,435 -were registered, an'd 10,495 were appointed. Nearly seven hundred different 
kinds of examinations were held, each one of which involved different tests. Two 
hundred 'ajid forty-eight of these examinations conta)ined educational tests, the others 
being for mechanical trades or skilled occupations, and consisting of certificates of 
employers or fellow-worlcmen. Examinations are held twice a year in each State and 
Territory, the places and dates being publicly announced. 

Appointments. 

In case of a vacancy not filled by promotion, reductJion, transfer or reinstatement, 
the highest three of the sex called for on the appropriate register are certified for 
appointment, the apportionment being considered in appointments at Washington. 
In the absence of eligibles, or when the work is of short duration, temporary appoint- 
ments, without examination, are permitted. The number of women applying for or- 
dinary clerical places is greatly in e::cess of the calls of appointing officers. The 
chances of appointment are good for teachers, matrons, seamstresses and physicians 
in the Indian Service; for male stenographers and typewriters, draughtsmen, patent 
examinetrs, civil, mechanical and electrical engineers, and for technical and scientific 
experts. 

Preference Claimants. 

Persons who served in the military or naval service of the United States, and 

eire discharged by reason of dlsabilitiies resulting from wounds or sickness incurred 

*he line of duty are, under the Civil Service rules^ given certarn preferences. They 

a reileased from all m'aximum age limitations, are eligible for appointment at a 

ie of 65, while all others are obliged to obtain a grade of 70, and are certified to 
a pointing officers before all others. Subject to the other conditions of the rules, a 
veteiran of the Rebellion, or of the war with Spain, or the widow of any such person, 
or any army nurse of either war, may be reinstated without regard t'o the length of 
time he or she has been separated from the service. 

Examinations are also held for positions in the Philippines, Porto Rico and Hawaii, 
and also for the Isthmian Canal service. 

Under an executive order, unclassified laborers are appointed after open competi- 
tive examination upon their physical condition. This action is outside the Civil Serv- 
ice act. 



PASSPORT REQULATIONS 

Rules governing the granting and issuing of passports in the United States: 

1. By Whom Issued. — No one but the Secretary of State may grant and issue pass- 
ports in the United States. — Revised Statutes, isecs. 4075, 4078. 

A person entitled to receive a passport if temporarily abroad should apply to the 
diplomatic representative of the United States in the country where he happens to 
ibe; or, in the absence of a diplomatic representative, to the consul-general of the 
United States; or, in the absence of both, to the consul of the United States. The 
necessary .stateinent may be made before the nearest consular officer of the United 
States. 

Application bj' a person in one of the insular possessions of the United States 
should be made to the Chief Executive of such possession. The evidence required 
of a persom making application abroad or in Qn insular possession of the United 
States is the same required of an applicant in the United States. 

2. To Whom issued. — ^The law forbids the granting of a passport to any person 
who is not a citizen of the United States, or who is not a loyal resident of an insular 
possession of the United States. 

A person who has only made the declaration of intention to become a citizen of 
the United States cannot receive a passport. 

3. Applications. — A person who is entitled to receive a passport, if within the 
United States, must make a written applioition in the form of an affidavit, to the 
Secretary of State. 

The affidavit must be attested by an officer authorized to administer oaths, and if 



DISTRICT OF COLUiMBIA 570 

he has an official seal it must be affixed. If he has no seal, his official character must 
be auth<.-!niticated toy certificate of the proper legal officer. 

If the applicant signs by mark, two attesting witnesses to his signature are re- 
quired. 

The applicant is required to state the date 'and place of his birth, his occupation, 
and the place of his permanent residence, and to declare that he goes abroad for 
temporary sojourn, and intends to return to the United States with the purpose of 
residing ajnd performing the duties of citizenship therein. 

The applicant must take the oath of allegiance to the Government of the United 
States. 

The application must be accoimpanied by a description of the person applying, 

and should state the following particulars, viz.: Age, years; stature, feet 

inches (Englisih measure); forehead, ; eyes, ; nose, ; mouth, ; 

chin, ; hair, ; complexion, ; face, . 

The application muist be accompanied by a certificate from at least one credible 
witness that the applicant is the person he represents himself to be, and that the facts 
stated in the affidavit are true to the best of the witness's knowledge and belief. 

4. Native Citizens. — An application containing the information indicated by Rule 
3 will be sufficient evidence in the case of native citizens. A person of the Chinese 
race, alleging birtlh in the Unit-ed States, must accompany hisi application with sup- 
porting affidavits from at least two credible witnesses, preferably not of the Chinese 
race, having personal knowledge of the applioiant's birth in the United States. 

5. A Person Born Abroad, Whose Fatlier Was a Native Citizen of the United 
States. — In additiom to the statements required by Rule 3, his application must show 
that hi.= father was born in the United States, has resided therein, and was a citizen 
at the time of the applicant's birth. The Department may require that this affidavit 
be supported by that of one other citizen acquainted with the facts. 

6. Naturalized Citizens. — In addition to the statements required toy Rule 3, a 
naturalized citizen must transmit his certificate of naturalization, or a duly certi- 
fied copy with the court record thereof, with his application. It will be returned to 
him after inspection. He must state in his affidavit when and from what port he 
emigrated to this country, what ship he sailed in, where he ha,s lived since his arrival 
in the United States, when and before What court he was naturalized, and that he is 
the identical person described in the certificate of naturalization. The signature *c 
the application should conform in orthography to the appliomt's name ao writt^ in 
his certificate of naturalization, or an explanation of the difference should b'' sub- 
mitted. ', ^ 

7. Woman's Application. — If she is unmarried, in addition to the statement!,^ re- 
quired by Rule 3, she should state that she hafi never been married. If she is the 
wife or widow of a native citizen of the United States the fact should be made to 
appear in her appliication. If she is the wife or widow of a naturalized citizen, in ad- 
dition to the statements required by Rule 3, she must transmit for inspection her hus- 
band's certificate of naturalization, must state that she is the wife (or widow) of the 
perso'U described therein, and must set forth the fact of his emigration, naturaliza- 
tion, and residence, as required in the rule governing the application of a naturalize-i 
citizen. A married woiman's citizenship follows that of her husband, so far as her 
international status is concerned. It is essential, therefore, that a woman's .narital 
relations be indicated in her application for a passport, and that in the case of a 
married woman her husband's citizenship be established. 

8. The Child of a Naturalized Citizen Claiming Citizenship Through the Natu- 
ralization of the Parent. — In addition to the srtatements required by Rule 3, the appli- 
cant must 'State that he or she is the son or daughter, as the case may be, of the 
person described in the certificate of naturalization, which must be submitted for in- 
spection, and must set forth the fact.s of emigration, naturalization, and residence, 
as required in the rule governing the application of a maturalized citizen. 

9. A Resident of an Insular Possession of the United States Who Owes Alle- 
giance to the United States.— In addition to the statements required by Rule 3, he 
must state that he owes allegiance to the United States, and that he does not ac- 
knowledge allegiance to any other government, and must submit affidavits from at 
le^st two credible witnesses having good means of knowledge in substantiation of his 
statements of birth, residence, and loyalty. 

10. Expiration of Passport. — A passport expires two years from the date of its 
issuiance. A new one will be issued upon a new application, and if the applicant toe 
a naturalized citizen, the old passport will be accepted in lieu of a certificate of natu- 
ralization, if the application upon which it was issued is found to contain sufficient 
information as to the maturalization of the applicant. V 

11. Wife, Minor Children and Servants. — When the applicant is aiccotnpanied by 
his wife, minor children or servant, who would be entitled to receive a passport, it 
will be sufficient to state the fact, giving the respective ages of the children and the 
allegiance of the servant, when ome passport will suffice for all. For any other per- 
son in the party a separate passport will be required. A woman's passport may in- 
clude her minor children and servant under the above-named conditions. The term 
servant does not include a governess, tutor, pupil, companion, or person holding like 
relations to the applicant for a passport. 



580 AIMERICAN BrOGRAPHICAL, DIREIOTORY 

12. Professional Titles. — ^^They will not iDe inserted in passports. 

13. Fee. — By act of Congress approved March 23, 1888, zi fee of one dollar is 
required to be collected for every citizen's passport. That amount in currency or 
postal money order should accompany each application made by a citizen of the 
United States. Orders should be made payable to the Disbursing Clerk of the Depart- 
ment of State. Drafts or checks will not be accepted. 

14. Blank Forms of Application. — They will be furnished by the Department to 
persons who desire to apply for passports, but are not furnished, except as samples, to 
those who make a business of procuring passports. 

15. Address. — Communications should be addressed to the Department of State, 
Passport Bureau, and each commumication should give the postoffice address of the 
person to whom the answer is to be directed. 

16. Rejection of Application. — The Secretary of State has the right in his dis- 
cretion to refuse to issue a passport, and will exercise the right toward any one whom 
he has reason to believe desires a passport to further an unlawful or improper pur- 
pose. 



Section 4075 of the Revised Statutes of tbe United States, as amended by the act 
of Congress, approved June 14, 1902, providing that "the Secretary of State may grant 
and issue passports, and cause passports to be granted, issued 'and verified in foreign 
countries by such diplomatic or consular officers of the United States, and by such 
chief or other executive officer of the insular possessions of the United States, and 
under such rules as the President shall designate and prescribe for and on behalf 
of the United States," the foregoing rules are hereby prescribed for the granting and 
issuing of passports in the United States. 

The Secretary of State is authorized to make regulations on the subject of issuing 
and granting passports additional to these rules and not inconsistent with them. 

THEODORE ROOSEVELT. 

Oyster Bay. New York, September 12, 1903. 



NATURAIvIZAXION LAWS 

The conditions under which an alien may become a citizen of the United States 
are prescribed by Sections 2, 165-74 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as 
amended by Chapter 3591 ■of the Acts of the First Session of the Fifty-ninth Congress. 

Declaration. 

The alien must declare upon oath before a circuit or district court of the United 
States, or a district or isupreme court of the Territories, or a court of record of any 
of the States having common law jurisdiction and a seal and clerk, of which he is a 
resident, two years at least prior to hi.s admission, that it is, bona fide, his intention 
to become a citizen of the TJnited States, and to renounce forever all allegiance and 
fidelity to any foreign prince or State, and particularly to the one of which he md-jr 
be at the time a citizen or subject. 

ApplicatioR for Admission. 

At the time of his application for admission, which must be not less than two 
years, nor more than seven years after such declaration of intention, he shall make 
and file a petition in writing, signed by himself (and duly verified by the affidavits 
of two credible witnesses who .are citizens of the United States, and who shall state 
that they have personally known him to be a resident of the United States at least 
five years continuously, and of the State or district at least one year previously), in 
one of the courts above specified, that it is his intention to become a citizen and 
reside permanently in the United States, that he is not a disbeliever in organized 
government or a believer in polygamy, and that he absolutely and forever renounces 
all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign country of which he may at the time of fllinif 
his petition be a citizen or subject. 

Conditions. 

He shall, before his final admission to citizenship, declare on oath in open court 
that he will support the Constitution of the United States, and that he absolutely 
and entirely renounces all foreign allegiance. If it shall appear to the satisfaction 
of the court that immediately preceding the date of his application he has resided 
continuously within the United States five years at least, and within the State or 
Territory where such court is held 'one year at least, and that during that time he 
has behaved as a man of good moral character, attached to the principles of the Con- 
stitution of the United States, and well disposed to the good order and happiness 
of the same, he imay be admitted to citizenship. If the applicant has borne any 



DISTRICT OP CO'LUMBIiA 581 

hereditary title or order of nobility he must make an express renunciation of th« 

same. No person who believes in or is affiliated with any organization teaching 
opposition to 'organized government, or who advocates or Reaches the duty of un- 
lawfully assaulting or killing any officer of any organized government because of 
his official character, can be naturalized. No alien shall be naturalized who cannot 
speak the English language. An alien soldier of the United States Army, of ffood 
character, may be admitted to citizenship on one year's previous residence. 

Children of Naturalized Citizens. 

The children of persons who have been duly naturalized, being under the age of 
twenty-one years at the time of the naturalization of their parents, shall, if dwelling 
in the United States, be considered as citizens thereof. 

Citizens' Children Born Abroad. 

The children of persons who now are or have been citizens of the United States 
are, though born out of the limits and jurisdiction of the United States, considered 
as citizens thereof. 

Chinese. 

The naturalization of Chinamen is expressly prohibited by Section 14, Chapter 
126, Laws of 1882. 

Inhabitants of the New Possessions. 

The inhabitants of Hawaii were declared to be citizens of the United States 
under the act of 1900 creating Hawaii a Territory. Under the United States Supreme 
Court decision in the insular cases, in May, 1901, the inhabitants of the Philippines 
and Porto Rico are entitled to full protection under the Constitution, but not to the 
privileges of United States citizenship until Congress so decrees, by admitting the 
countries as States or organizine them as Territories. 



PANAMA CANAL 

Final approval of the lock canal project across the Isthmus of Panama was given 
on June 21, 1906, when the United States Senate adopted the lock canal amendment 
offered by Senator Hopkins, of Illinois, to the bill providing for a sea-level canal, of 
which Senator Kittredge, of South Dakota, was the author. The vote substituting the 
lock canal for one of the sea-level type was 35 to 31. 

The House of Representatives had already declared itself in favor of a lock canal 
by a vote of 110 to 36 on June 15, when it provided that no part of the $25,000,000 ap- 
propriation carried in the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill should be expended in the 
construction of 'a sea-level canal. 

The President had publicly announced that he would veto the Sundry Civil Ap- 
propriation bill in the event It carried a rider providmg for a sea-level canal. It 
was largely this threat that won the Senate over to an indorsement of the lock canal. 

The engineers in charge of the work estimate that the lock canal will cost $140,000,- 
000, and will requira eight years to complete, while a sea-level canal, the engineers 
agreed, would cost not less than $272,000,000, and would require at least twelve years, 
and possibly twenty years, to construct. 

All the Democratic Senators, with the exception of Senator Patterson, of Colorado, 
and ten of the thirty-one Republicans present voted for the sea-level canal. Thirty- 
five Republicans and Senator Patterson voted for a lock canal. 

The President, in sending to Congress the report of the Board of Consulting En- 
gineers on February 19, 1906, declared himself in favor of the lock type of canal, al- 
though the Board of Consulting Engineers had decided in favor of a canal of the sea- 
level type. The President called attention to the fact that the board was divided, a 
majority of the board, eight in number, including the five foreign engineers, favoring 
a sea-level canal, and one member of the Panama Canal Commission, Admiral Endi- 
cott, taking the same position. Five o£ the American members of the Board of Con- 
sulting Engineers, and five members of the Isthmian Canal Commission, favored a 
lock canal, which' also had the approval of Chief Engineer Stevens. 

Regarding this line of the engineers and canal commissioners, "the President said: 

"It will be noticed that the American engineers on the Consulting Board, and on 
the Commission, by a more than two-to-one majority, favor the lock canal, whereas 
the foreign engineers are a unit against it. I think this is partly to be explained by 
the fact that the great traffic canal of the Old World is the Suez Canal, a sea-level 
canal, while the great traffic canal of the New World is the Sault Ste. Marie Canal, a 
lock canal. Although the latter, the Soo Canal, is closed during the winter months, 
it carries annually three times the traffic of the Suez Canal." Sun 
dent said: 



582 AiMEMCAN BrOORAPHICAL DIRIElOTORY 

"A careful study of the reports seems to estaljlish a strong probability that the 
l?oIlowing are the facts: 

"The sea-level carnal would be slightly less exposed to damage in the event of war; 
the running expense?, apart from the heavy cost of interest on the amount employed 
to build it, would be le'ss; and for small ships the time for transit would probably be 
less. On the 'other hand, the lock canal, at a level of eighty feet or thereabouts, would 
not cost much more than half as much to build, and could be built in about half the 
time, while there would be very much less risk connected with buiMing it, and for 
large ships the transit would be quicker; while taking into account 'the 'interest on the 
amount saved in building, the actual cost of maintenance would be less. 

"After being built it would be easier to enlarge the lock canal than the sea-level 
canal. Moreover, what has been actually demonstrated in making and operating the 
great lock canal, the Soo, a more important artery of traffic than the great sea-level 
canal, the Suez, goes to support the opinion of the minority of the consulting Board 
of Engineers and of the majority of the Isthmian CanaL Commission as to the superior 
safety, feasibility 'ajid desirability of building a lock canal at Panama." 



NATIONAL PAF^KS 

Our national parks were created during the period from 1872 to 1904. They havs 
a total area of about 3,654,196 acres. The more important aire the Yellowstone National 
Park, in Wyoming and Montana; Sequoia National Park. General Grant National 
Park, and Yosemite Nationai Park, in California; Mt. Ranier National Park, in 
Washington, and Crater Lake National Park, in Oregon. 

The reservation known as the Yellowstone National Park was set apart for public 
uses by an act of Congress passed in 1872. It covers an area 'of 3,312 square miles, a 
tract that is nearly the 'area of the States of Rhode Island and Delaware combined, 
and nearly half as large as the State 'of Massachusetts. The least elevation of any of 
the narrow valleys is 6,000 feet, and some of them are from 1,000 to 2,000 feet higher. 
The mountain ranges which hem in these valleys are from 10,000 to upward of 11,000 
feet in height. Electric Peak (in the northwest corner of the park, not far back of 
Mammoth Hot Spring.-^) having an elevation of 11,155 feet, and Mount Langford and 
Turret Mountain (both in the Yellowstone Range) reaching the height of 11,155 and 
11,142 feet, respectively. 



PATENT LAWS 

Every patent contains a grant to the patentee, his heirs or assigns, for the terin 
•t seventeen years, except in the case of design patents, or the exclusive right to 
make, use, and vend the invention ci^r discovery throughout the U'nited States and 
the Territories, referring to the specification for the particulars thereof. 

ApplicaMons. 

Applications for a patent must be made in writing to the Commissioner of Pat- 
ents. The applicant must also file in the Patent Office a written description of the 
Invention or discovery, and of the manner and process of making, constructiner, com- 
pounding, and using it, in such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable any 
person skilled in the "art or science to which it appertains, or with which it is most 
nearly connected, to make, construct, compound, and use the same; and in case of a 
machine, he must explain the principle thereof, and the best mode in which he has 
contemplated applying that principle, so 'as tc (li.'^.inguish it from other inventions, 
and particularly point out and distinctly claim the part, improvement, 'or combina- 
tion which he claims as his invention or discovery. The specification and claim 
must be signed by the inventor and attested by iwr* witnesses 

When the nature 'Of the case admits of drawings, the applicant must furnish a 
drawing of the required size, signed by the inventor oi his attorney in fact, and at- 
tested by two witnesses. In all cases which admit of representation by model, the 
applicant, if required by the Patent Office, shall furnish a model of convenient size 
to exhibit advantageously the several parts of h's Jnventfon or discovery. 

On the filing of the application and the payment of the fees required by law, if, 
on examination it appears that the applicant is justly entitled to a patent under 
the law, and that the same is sufficiently useful A.nd ittiportant, the Commissioner 
will issue a patent therefor. 

Every patent or any interest therein shall 15e assignable in law by an instru- 
ment in writing; and the patentee or his assigns or legal representatives may, in like 
manner, grant 'and convey an excliisLve right un-ler his patent to the whole or any 
specified part of the United States. 



DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 583 



Caveats. 

A caveat, under the patent law, is a rotire given to the 'Office of the caveator's 
claim as inventor, in order to prevent the grrant r»f a patent to another for the same 
alleged invention upon an application filed during the Aife ot a caveat without notice 
to the caveator. 

Any person who has made a new invention or discovery, rtnd desires /urther time 
to mature the same, may, on payment of a fee of ten dollars, file in the Patent Office 
a caveat setting forth the object and the disting-ii?h?ng characteristics of the in- 
vention, and praying protection of his right until he shall have matured his inven- 
tion. Such caveat shall be filed in the confidential archives of the office, and pre- 
served in secrecy, and shall be operative for the term of one year from the filing 
thereof. The caveat may be renewed, on request in writing, by the payment of a 
second fee of ten dollars, and it will continue in force for one year upon the payment 
of such second fee. 

Fees. 

Fees must be paid in advance, and are as follows: On filing each origiivdl appli- 
cation for a patent, $15. On issuing e'ch original patent, $20. In design cases: For 
three years and six months, $10; for seven years, $15; for fourteen years, $30. On 
filing each caveat, $10. On every application for the reissue of a patent, $30. On 
filing each disclaimer, $10. Fee for examining- and registering trademark. $10, 
which includes certificate. 



COPYRIGHT LAWS 

The author, inventor, designer, or proprietor of any book, map, chart, dramatic 
or musical composition, engraving, cut, print, or photograph or negative thereof, or 
of a painting, drawing, chromo, statuary, and of models or designs intended to be 
perfected as works of the fine arts, and the executors, administrators, or assigiis of 
any such person, shall, upon complying with the laws, havo the sole liberty of 
printing, reprinting, publishing, completing, copying, executing, finishing, and vend- 
ing the same; and in the case of a dramatic composition, of publicly performing or 
representing it, or causing it to be performed or represented by others. And authors 
or their assigns shall have exclusive rights to. dramatize or translate any of their 
works for which copyright shall have .been obtained under the 'aws of the United 
States 

Printed Title Required. 

A printed copy of the title of the book, map, chart, dramatic or musical compft- 
fiition, engraving, cut, print, photograph, or chromo, or a description of the paint- 
ing, drawing, statue, statuary, or model or design for ■=■> work of the fine arts, for which 
copyright is desired must be delivered to the Librarian of Congress, or deposited in 
the mail, within the United States, prepaid, addressed, 'LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS, 
WASHINGTON, D. C." This must be done on or before I'ay of paihllcation in thii 
or any foreign country. 

The printed title required may be a copy of the title-page of such publications 
as have title pages. In other cases, the title must be printed expressly for copy- 
right entry, with name of claimant of copyright. A separate title is required for 
each entry. The title of a periodical must include the date and numb'^r; and each 
number of a periodical requires a separate entry of copyright 

Fees. 

The legal fee for recording each copyright claim is 50 cents, and tor a copy of 

this record (or cerl'.ficate of copyright) under se"l of the office, an additional fee of 
50 cents is required, making $1, or $1.50 if certificate is wanted. In the case of 
publications which are the production of persons not citizen's or residents of the 
United States, but who are citizens or subjects of any country with which the United 
States h;is copyright agreement, the fee for recording the title is $1, and 50 cents 
additional for a copy of the record. 

Deposits of Copies. 

Not later than the day of publication in this country or abroad, tvro complete 
copies of the best edition of each book or other article must be delivered at the office 
of the Librarian of Congress, or deposited in the mail within the United States, ad- 
dressed, •'LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS, WASHINGTON, D. C," to ^lerfect the co»y- 
rlsht. 



584 AiMERICAN BrOGRAPIilCAL DIRBGTO'RY 

Books must be printed from type set in the United States or plates made there- 
from; photographs from negatives made in the United States; chnmos and litho- 
graphs from drawings on stone or transfers therefrom made in the United States. 
In the case of paintings, drawings, statuary, or models or designs for works of art, 
a photograph of the article is to be sent in lieu of the two copies. "Without the de- 
posit of copies required the copyright is void, and a penalty of $25 is incurred. 

Notice of Copyright. 

No person shall maintain an action for the infringement of a copyright unless 
notice is given by inserting in every copy published, on the title page or the page 
following, if it be a book; or if a map, chart, musical composition, print, cut, en- 
graving, photograph, painting, drawing, chromo, statue, statuary, or model or design 
intended to be perfected as a work of the fine arts, by inscribing upon some visible 
portion thereof, or on the substance in which the same is mounted, the) following 

words, viz.: "Entered according to act of Congress, in the year , by , in 

the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington," or at the option of the per- 
son entering the copyright, the words: "Copyright, 19 — , by ." 

The law imposes a penalty of $100 upon any person who has not 'Obtained copy- 
right who shall insert the notice, "Entered according to act of Congress," or "Copy- 
right," etc., or words of the same import, in or upon any book or other article, 
■whether such article be subject to copyright or not. 

Translations. 

The copyright law secures to authors and their assigns the exclusive right to 
translate or to dramatize any of their works. 

Duration of Copyright. 

The 'Original term of copyright runs for twenty-eight years. Within six monthw 
before the end of that time, the author or designer, or his widow or children, may 
secure a renewal for the further term of fourteen years, making forty-two in all. 

Renewals. 

Application for renewal must be accompianied by printed title and fee; and 'by 
explicit statement of ownership, in the case of the author; or of relationship, in 
the case of his widow or children, and must state definitely the date of the 'original 
copyright. Within two months from date of renewal the record thereof must be 
advertised in an American newspaper for four ^^eeks. 

Assignments. 

Copyrights are assignable by any instrument of writing. Such assignment is 
to be recorded in the ofl^ce of the Librarian of Congress within sixty days from 
execution, "in default of which it shall be void as against any subsequent purchaser 
or mortgagee for a valuable consideration, without notice." The fee for this record 
and certificate is $1, and for a certified copy 'of any record of assignment, $1. A copy 
of the record (or, duplicate certificate) of any copyright entry will be furnished, under 
seal of the office, ^t the rate of 50 cents each. 



RHODES SCHOLARSHIPS 

Cecil Rhodes, statesman, who died at Cape Town, Soutb Africa, March 26, 1902, 
directed in his will, dated July 1, 1899, that a part of his fortune, estimated at $10,000,- 
000, should be applied to the creation of a fund for the support of a certain number 
of scholarships covering a three-years' course at the University of Oxford. He di- 
rected that the selection of the recipients of this gift should be made two from each 
State and Territory of the United States, or one hundred in all, fifteen from Germany 
and from one to nine from each of the British colonies. The scholarships are awarded 
on marks only, three-tenths whereof shall be given to a candidate for his "literary and 
BcWolastic" attainments, the remainder being for his love of outdoor athletics and 
S'ports, for strong, manly qualities, such as courage, generosity and kindness, and for 
high moral character, and eispecially for ambition to serve and lead In large public 
affairs. 

The conditions regulating the award of sch'olarships in the American States pro- 
vide that the candidates shall have satisfactorily completed the work of at least two 
years in some college of liberal arts and sciences. Except under extraordinary clr- 



DISTRICT OF COLUIMBIA 585 



cumstances, the upper age limit must Ise twenty-four years at the time of entering: 
apon the scholarship at Oxford. To be eligible, the candidate must be a citizen of the 
United States, or the son of a citizen, and must be unmarried. Each student receives 
an allowance of £300 a year, which is equivalent to $1,500, payable in quarterly in- 
etalments, which is just enough to enable him to pay his college fees and necessary 
expenses. As the first instalment is not available until some time after the arrival 
of the student, he should go abroad with one or two hundred dollars in his possession. 

In most of the States the selection is made by a committee appointed by repre- 
sentatives of the colleges; in some the appointments are made in rotation by the 
leading colleges. 

At the beginning of Michaelmas term, October, 1904, there entered Oxford seventy- 
two Rhodes scholars; forty-three were Americans, twenty-four colonials and five Ger- 
mans. In 1906 the full number, 190 in all, were in residence, and thereafte'r this num- 
ber will be maintained, the vacancies being filled as men complete their three-years' 
course. There will be examinations in 1908, 1910, 1911, 1913, 1914, and so on, omitting 
every third year. The examinations are not competitive, but qualifying. Inquiries 
as to particulars by intending candidates may be addressed to any college. Informa- 
tion about Oxford, its colleges and course of studies should be addressed to F. J. 
Wylie, the Oxford agent of the Rhodes trustees, Oxford, England. 



CARNEGIE INSTITUXION 

The Carnegie Institution of Washington was founded by Mr. Andrew Carnegie, 
January 28, 1902, when he gave to a board of trustees $10,000,000 in registered bonds, 
and increased it to $12,000,000 in December, 1907, yielding 5 per cent annual interest. 
In general terms, he stated that his purpose was to "found in the City of Wa;shington 
an Institution which, with the co-operation of institutions now or hereafter established, 
there or elsewhere, shall in the broadest and most liberal manner encourage investi- 
gation, research and discovery, show the application of knowledge to the improvement 
of mankind, and provide such buildings, laboratories, booka and apparatus as may be 
needed." 

By an act of Congress, approved March 28, 1904, the institution was placed under 
the control of a board of twenty-four trustees, all of whom had been members of the 
original board referred to above. 

The trustees meet annually, and during the intervals between such meetings the 
affairs of the Institution are conducted by an Executive Committee, chosen by and 
from the Board of Trustees, acting through the President of the institution as chief 
executive officer. 

The offices of the institution are in the Bond Building, Fourteenth sitreet and 
New York avenue. 



MT. VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION 

The Washingon K.srate at IMount Vernon. Va., is under the cal^e and direction of 
the Mount Vernon Jjatiles' Associati:)n of the Union. The founder of the Association 
in 1854 wa.^ Miss Ann Pamela Cunningham, of South Carolina. She was the first 
Rogent, and her successors have been Mrs. Lily M. Berghman, 1874, and Mrs. Justine 
Van Rensselaer Townsend, 1893, the present Regent. There are Vice-Regents for 
twenty-nine States. 

The present officers are: Reg«^nt — Mrs. Justine Van Rensselaer Townsend. Sec- 
•fitary — Mrs. Jennie Meeker Ward, Ottawa, Kan. Treasurer — E. Francis RIggs, D. C. 
Resident Superintendent — Harrison H. Dodge. Assistant Superintendent — James 
Young. Advisory Committee — Lewis Cass Ledyard, N. Y. 



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Newspapers Represented in Washington 

And Correspondents Enjoying Press Gallery Privileges at the Capitol. 



Paper Represented. 



Albany Journal 

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Albuquerque Morning Journal. 

Alexandria Gazette 

Alexandria Sunday ?imes 

Anaconda Standard 

Arizona Republic 

Associated Press 



Atlanta Constitution. 

Atlanta Journal 

Baltimore American. 



Baltimore News. 
Baltimore Sun.. 



Birmingham Age-Herald. 

Bisbee Review 

Boise Statesman 

Boston Advertiser 

Boston Evening Herald. . 



Boston E\rening Transcript. 
Boston Globe 



Boston Herald. 



Brooklyn Daily Eagle 

Brooklyn Standard Un.on 

Brooklyn Times 

Buffalo Commercial 

Buffalo News 

Buffalo Times 

Charleston News and Courier. 



Charleston Post 

Charlotte Observer 

Chicago Daily News... 
Chicago Evening Post. 

Chicago Examiner 

Chicago Inter-Ocean . 

Chicago Journal 

Chicago Record-Herald. 



Chicago Tribune 

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Cmcinnati Post. 



Cincinnati Times-Star. . 

Cleveland Leader 

Cleveland Plain Dealer. 
Cleveland Press 



Cleveland News 

Columbia (S. C.) State 

Columbus Dispatch 

Dallas News 

Denver News 

Dallas Times-Herald 

Penver Post 

Ues Moines Register and Leader. 



Name. 



John E. Monk 

Irs M. Bond 

L. William Thavis. 
Hubert Snowden . . 



A . W. Greeley 

Charles P. Hunt 

C. A. Boynton, supt 

Harry A. Colman 

Edwin M. Hood 

Jackson S. Elliott 

Irving Sayford 

Arthur C. Johnson 

Charles A. Cotterill 

Elmer E. Paine 

John A. Gross 

John Corrigan 

Ralph Smith 

l.ouis Garthe 

John S. Shriver 

Edward E. Coyle ... 

John P. Miller 

Hal H. Smith 

O. H. Siewart 

^^'atterson Stealey 

Charles P. Hunt 

Harry J. Brown 

John Lorance 

Ernest G Walker 

Willard French 

James Tliomas Williams, Jr. 

A Maurice Low 

H. C. Hallam 

Ernest G. Walker 

(TGorge Rothwell Bri wn 

Harris M. Crist 

Robert Halstead 

W. W. Price 

Edwin S. Hoskins 



Office. 



C. A. Hamilton 

P. H. McGowan 

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P. H. McGowan 

H. E. C. Bryant 

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Henry C. Biggs 

C5)Ison Gardner 

Sumner M. Curtis | 

John T. Suter J 

William E. Curtis J 

i:aymond Patterson 

J. C. O'Laughlin 

Wm. C. MacBride 

S E. Johnson 

Fred Starek 

Jacob Waldeck 

Gilson Gardner 

Gus J. Karger 

Frederick C. Weimer 

W. S Couch 

Jacob Waldeck 

Gilson Gardner 

Gus J. Karger 

Zach MoGhee 

Gus J. Karger 

Alonzo Wasson .' 

Willis J. Abbott 

Otto Praeger 

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John Snure : 



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42 F St. 

1229 Pennsylvania Ave. 

Alexandria, Va. 

1-ennsylvania Ave. 

Post Building. 

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Star Building. 

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Star Building. 

Star Building. 

Star Building. 

Star Building. 

Star Building. 

Star Building. 

Star Building. 

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326 Munsey Building. 

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48 Post Building. 

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608 Fourteenth St. 

422 Munsey Building. 

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Congress Hall. 

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32 Post Building. 

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Herald Building. 

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If Post Building. 

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16 Post Building. 

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Paper Represented. 


NaTie. 


Office. 


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.Itsse L. Carmichael 


40 Post Building 






43 Wyatt Building. 
903 Colorado (Building. 




Geo. E. Miller 




Frank H Hosford 


Colorado Building. 


Duluth Times 


Chas B. Lockwood 


725 Fourteenth St. 


Duluth News-Tribune. 


F. A Johnson 


38 Post Building. 






vVvatt Builaing. 


Fort Worth Telegram 


H. W. Schulz 


1413 G St. 




L he Lithelhurst. 






45 Post Building. 


Grand Rapids Evening Press 

Greensboro Industrial News 


Wells F. Harvey 

John E. Monk 

L. William Tha vis 


903 Colorado Building. 

Hibbs Building. 

1229 Pennsylvania Ave. 




V. G. Valdes 


The Benedict. 


Hearst's Boston Amerif^an 


Charles P. Norcross 


32 Post Building. 


Hearst's Chicago American 




32 Post Building. 


Otto Praeger , 


1417 G St. 


Houston Post 


Frank H. Bushick , 


1417 G St. 




Ja.mes P. Hornaday 


44 Wyatt Building. 


Indianapolis Star 

Johnstown Democrat 


A. W. Tracy 

Louis Ludlow....: , 

Willis J. Abbott 


U Wyatt Building. 
312 Munsey Building. 
427 Munsey Building. 






n.^ Wvatt Building. 


Kansas City Post 


Robert M. McWade 


1417 G St. 


Kansas City Star . . 


R H. Lindsay 


15 Post Building. 




H. B. Nesbitt 


15 Post Building. 


Kansas City Times 


ir B. Nesbitt 


15 Post Building. 


Knoxville Sentinel . .. 


Robert H. Watkins 


327 Munsey Building. 


Little Rock Gazette 


John E. Lathrop 


421 Munsey Building. 


London Daily Mail 


Samuel G. Ely the 


408 Hibbs Building 


London Morning Post 


A. Maurice Low 

Robert P. Porter. ... 


1410 G St. 


London Times 


SOl-805 Munsey Building. 




Arthur Willert 

J. D. Phelpley 


801-805 Munsey Building. 
613 Fifteenth St. 




David S. Barry 


606-608 Hibbs Building. 




J S. Dunnigan 


32 Post Building. 


Los Angeles News. 


Edwara B Clark 


801-805 Mun.sey Building. 


Los Angeles Times 

Louisville Courier-Journal 


Jesse L Carmichael 


46 Post Building. 


O. O. Stealey 

TS'atterson Stealey 


1421 G St. 




1421 G St. 


Louisville Herald 


Fred Starek 


1517 H St. 


Louisville Times 


Walter E. Harris. 


o27 Munsey Building. 


Madrid Heraldo 


V. G. \ aides 


Tlie tenedict. 


Memphis Commercial -Appeal 

Mexican Herald 


Robert M. Gates 

Otto Praeger 


45 Post Building. 

1417 G St. 


Milwaukee Wisconsin 


Charles B. Lockwood 


T'^T Fourteenth St. 


Minneapolis Journal 


W W. Jermane 


901 Colorado Building. 


FI C Stevens 


901 Colorado Building. 




Worth C. Harder 


i2 Wvatt l;uilding. 


Mobile Register 


Robert H. Watkins 


327 Munsey Building. 


Montgomery Advertiser 


Alfred J. Stof er 


1010 'J wenty-second St. 


Nashville American 


Robert H. Watkins 


327 Munsey Building. 


Nashville Banner 


Walter Edward Harris.. 

Jesse L. Suter . . 

L. Williams Thavis 


■.jSi jViun.^e\- luilding. 


Nashville Tennessean. . . 


420 Munsey Building. 


Nebraska State Journa' 


1229 Pennsylvania Av6. 


■Newark Evening News 


Herman B. Walker 

Edwin S. Hoskins 

Corry M Stadden 


904 Colorado Building. 


New Orleans Picayun'' 


go*" Colorado Building. 
4.") Post Building. 




Norborne Robinson 


422 Munsey Building 




Charles P. Norcross 


32 Post Building. 






32 Post Building. 


New York Commercial 


Walter E. Clark 




New York Evening Journal 

New York Evening Mail 


M F. Tighe 


606-608 Hibbs Building. 


Jchn S. Shriver 

Edward G. Lowry 

T. W. Brahanv 


32 Post Building. 


New York Evening F ost 


1410 Pennsylvania Ava. 




SOl-805 Munsey Building. 


New York Evening Telegram 

New York Evening World 


Win S. Lamer 

Chas. Willis Thompson 

H. L. Dunlap 

John Snure 

H enrv Shroff Brown 


Sni-805 Munsey Building. 
20-21 Wyatt Building. 


' New York Globe 


20-21 Wyatt Building. 
1345 Pennsylvania Ave 


New York Herald 


1E02 H St. 


New York Journal of Commerce... 
New York Press 


Robert Halsey Patchim ....... 

Sherman P. Allen 

H Parker Willis 


If02 H St. 
1502 H St. 
206 Corcoran Building. 


Jackson Tinker 

Reginald Schroeder. . . 


Wyatt Building. 


New York Staats-Zeit jng. 


It Post Building. 



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NEWSPAPERS REPRESENTED, ETC.— Continued. 



Paper Represented. 



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New York Times. 



New York Tribune. 



New York World. 



Norfolk Virginian-Pilct 

Oklahoma Ciiy Oklahoman 

Oklahoma State Capital 

Omaha Bee 

Oshkosh Northwestern 

Paris, France, Herald 

Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.. 
Philadelphia Evening Te'egraph. 
Philadelphia Inquirer 



Name. 



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Philadelphia Public Ledger. 



Philadelphia Record 

Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph 

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Pittsburg Press 

Portland Oregcnian 

Providence Journal 

Providence Evening Bulletin 

Richmond Journal 

Providence Journal 

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Raleigh News and Observer. 
Richmond Times-D'spatch. . 

St. Louis Star-ChroniO'C 

St. Louis Globe-Democrat... 



SI. Louis Times.. 
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St. Paul Dispatch 

St. Paul Pioneer Press. 



St. Paul News 

Saginaw Courier-Herald ■ 

Saginaw News 

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Salt Lake Inter-Mountain Republic. 

Salt Lake Tribune 

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San Francisco Call 

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San Francisco Examiner.... 

San Francisco News 

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Savarnah Morning News 

Seattle Post-Intelligcneer. . 



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Zach McGhee 

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Richard Lee Fearn 

George Griswold Hill 

Gerald Egan 

Cbas. Willis Thompson 

Charles S. Albert 

R. W. Wooley 

V/alter E. Harris 

Willis J. Abbott 

Otto Praeger 

P.dgar C. Snyder 

H. C. Stevens 

A. H. Fox 

chn K. Stauffer 

Robert Halstead . . 

Chas. W. Campbell 

\y. B. Shaw » 

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James S. Henry 

A. O. Hay ward 

Otcar King Davis 

Henry Hall 

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Henry Hall 

Maurice Splain 

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A. E. Heiss 

Charles W. Metzgar 

Vj aurice Splain 

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David S. Barry 

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Henry E. Eland 

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T J. Pence 

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R. H. Hazard 

Jewell H. Aubere 

Charles P. Keyser 

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Fred Steckman 

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Arthur J. Dodge 

John E. Monk 

Robert M. McWade 

Edwin S. Hoskins 

Frank H. Hosford 

C. A. Hamilton 

Thomas O. Monk 

Clifford Rose 

Otto Praeger 

Otto Praeger 

F.. B. Johns 

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Isaac Greig 

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4S Post Building. 
47 Post Building. 

122 Munsey Building. 
30-1 Corcoran Building. 

13 Post Building. 

15 Post Building. 

Gie Fifteenth St. 

421 Munsey Building. 

(506-608 Hibbs Building. 

327 Munsey Building. 

606-608 Hibbs Building. 

Herald Building. 

Herald Building. 

Herald Building. 

Herald Building. 

Herald Building. 

1417 G St. 

327 Munsey Building. 

Herald Building. 

Fourteenth and P ots. 

Fourteenth and F Sts. 

S01-S05 Munsey Building, 

2?. Wyatt Building. 

23 Wyatt Building. 

38 Post Building. 

1403 F St. 

1403 P St. 

1426 New York Ave. 

218 Colorado Building. 

Colorado Building. 

72b Fourteenth St. 

Herald Building. 

720 Colorado Building 

1417 G. St. 

1417 G St. 

47 Post Building. 

4o Post Building. 

Post Building. 

Post Building. 

121 Munsey Building 

3-? Post Building. 

Herald Building. 

42 F St 

,214 Post Building. 

606-608 Hibbs Building. 

606-608 Hibbs Building. 



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NEWSPAPERS REPRESENTED, ETC.— Continued. 



Paper Represented. 



Seattle Times. 



South Bend Tribune 

Spokane Chronicle.. 

Spokane Spckesrmn-Review. . 

Springfield Republican 

Tacoma News 

Terre Haute Tribune 

Toledo Blade 

Toledo News-Bee.... 

Topeka Capital 

Toronto Globe 

Toronto News x 

Troy Times j 

United Press Associations.... 



Wall Street Journal Jt 

Washington Evening Star 4 

! 

I 
Washington Herald i 

Washington Post <; 

Washington Times 



Wheeling Register u 

Winnipeg Telegram 

Woman's National rsaily (St. Louis) 



York Dispatch ., 



Name. 



W. W. Jermane 

H. C. Stevens 

A.. W. Tracy 

G. B. Lockwood 

John E. Lathrop 

Richard Hooker 

Harry J. Brown 

A, W. Tracy 

E. B. Johns 

Jacob Waldeck 

L. William Thavis... 

Walter E. Clark 

Edgar C. Snyder 

Chas A. Hamilton... 

3. L.. Keen, mgr 

Henry E. Eland 

vV. J. Miller 

a. H. Hazard 

-A.. A. Erly 

2b.v\ D. Sheppard 

-ilmer Murphy 

\. P. Arnold 

John Boyle 

N. O. Messenger 

Donald A. Craig 

Irving C. Norwood... 
I. Harry Cunningham. 
John Chester Phillips.. 

Fustin M. Forrest.... 
Frank I. Whitehead. . 
Kdward Snell Smith.. 

G. Gould Lincoln 

r. C. Welliver 

John Snure 

James Hay, jr 

Harry J. Brown 

Edgar C. Snyder 

Robert M. McWade.. 
Arthur W. Dunn 

F. W. Connor 

Ifaac Gregg 



Oftice. 



lOl Colorado Building. 
901 Colorado Building. 
30 Wyatt Building. 
(25 Fourteenth St. 
421 Munsey Building. 
206 Corcoran Building. 
*;13 Fifteenth St. 
30 Wyatt Building. 
47 Post Building. 
Herald Building. 
1229 Pennsylvania Ave. 
606-608 Hibbs Building. 
501 Fourteenth St 
(25 Fourteenth St. 
Herald Building. 
Herald Building. 
Herald Building. 
Herald Building. 
Herald Building. 
Herald Building. 
Herald Building. 
4eraM Building. 
1420 F St. 

1101 Pennsylvania Ave. 
1101 Pennsylvania Aye. 
JuO Pennsylvania Ave. 
Herald Building, 
rfeiald Building, 
'-^pra^d 'Building. 
Post Building. 
Post Building. 
Post Building. 
Times Building. 
Times Building. 
Times Building. 
1417 G ?t. 

r Fourteenth St. 
1426 New York Ave. 
14 26 New York Ave. 
1426 New York Ave. 



